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Freaky science discoveries
\"Science has helped us make sense of some of the freakiest things about life on Earth, and more amazing discoveries are made every day. This book takes readers on a jaw-dropping journey through some of history's wildest scientific revelations, such as the existence of black holes, the role of mold in fighting killer diseases, and how maggots--yes, maggots!--are used to treat serious wounds.\"--Publisher's website.
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Nervous Fictions
\"The brain contains ten thousand cells,\" wrote the poet Matthew
Prior in 1718, \"in each some active fancy dwells.\" In the
seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, just as scientists began to
better understand the workings of the nerves, the nervous system
became the site for a series of elaborate fantasies. The pineal
gland is transformed into a throne for the sovereign soul. Animal
spirits march the nerves like parading soldiers. An internal
archivist searches through cerebral impressions to locate certain
memories. An anatomist discovers that the brain of a fashionable
man is stuffed full of beautiful clothes and billet-doux. A
hypochondriac worries that his own brain will be disassembled like
a watch. A sentimentalist sees the entire world as a giant nervous
system comprising sympathetic spectators.
Nervous Fictions is the first account of the
Enlightenment origins of neuroscience and the \"active fancies\" it
generated. By surveying the work of scientists (Willis, Newton,
Cheyne), philosophers (Descartes, Cavendish, Locke), satirists
(Swift, Pope), and novelists (Haywood, Fielding, Sterne), Keiser
shows how attempts to understand the brain's relationship to the
mind produced in turn new literary forms. Early brain anatomists
turned to tropes to explicate psyche and cerebrum, just as poets
and novelists found themselves exploring new kinds of mental and
physical interiority. In this respect, literary language became a
tool to aid scientific investigation, while science spurred
literary invention.
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Super smart information strategies. Get ready for a winning science project
Explores how to evaluate websites, think critically, collaborate with fellow students, and present findings in new and different ways.
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Under the Literary Microscope
\"Science in fiction,\" \"geek novels,\" \"lab-lit\"—whatever one calls them, a new generation of science novels has opened a space in which the reading public can experience and think about the powers of science to illuminate nature as well as to generate and mitigate social change and risks. Under the Literary Microscope examines the implications of the discourse taking place in and around this creative space.
Exploring works by authors as disparate as Barbara Kingsolver, Richard Powers, Ian McEwan, Ann Patchett, Margaret Atwood, and Michael Crichton, these essays address the economization of scientific institutions; ethics, risk, and gender disparity in scientific work; the reshaping of old stereotypes of scientists; science in an evolving sci-fi genre; and reader reception and potential contributions of the novels to public understandings of science.
Under the Literary Microscope illuminates the new ways in which fiction has been grappling with scientific issues—from climate change and pandemics to artificial intelligence and genomics—and makes a valuable addition to both contemporary literature and science studies courses.
In addition to the editors, the contributors include Anna Auguscik, Jay Clayton, Carol Colatrella, Sonja Fücker, Raymond Haynes, Luz María Hernández Nieto, Emanuel Herold, Karin Hoepker, Anton Kirchhofer, Antje Kley, Natalie Roxburgh, Uwe Schimank, Sherryl Vint, and Peter Weingart.
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Superhero science : kapow! comic book crime fighters put physics to the test
Describes real scientific breakthroughs and how they mirror the \"super powers\" of fictional heroes.
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Phantasmatic Shakespeare
Representations of the mind have a central place in Shakespeare's artistic imagination, as we see in Bottom struggling to articulate his dream, Macbeth reaching for a dagger that is not there, and Prospero humbling his enemies with spectacular illusions.Phantasmatic Shakespeareexamines the intersection between early modern literature and early modern understandings of the mind's ability to perceive and imagine. Suparna Roychoudhury argues that Shakespeare's portrayal of the imagination participates in sixteenth-century psychological discourse and reflects also how fields of anatomy, medicine, mathematics, and natural history jolted and reshaped conceptions of mentality. Although the new sciences did not displace the older psychology of phantasms, they inflected how Renaissance natural philosophers and physicians thought and wrote about the brain's image-making faculty. The many hallucinations, illusions, and dreams scattered throughout Shakespeare's works exploit this epistemological ferment, deriving their complexity from the ambiguities raised by early modern science.
Phantasmatic Shakespeareconsiders aspects of imagination that were destabilized during Shakespeare's period-its place in the brain; its legitimacy as a form of knowledge; its pathologies; its relation to matter, light, and nature-reading these in concert with canonical works such asKing Lear,Macbeth, andThe Tempest. Shakespeare, Roychoudhury shows, was influenced by paradigmatic epistemic shifts of his time, and he in turn demonstrated how the mysteries of cognition could be the subject of powerful art.
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\"Collaboration and communication are important 21st Century skills and key science practices. Using accessible examples, readers will discover how scientists work together, and share ideas and information. Children also learn how and why scientists record information and put this practice into action by using their own science notebook.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The German student movement and the literary imagination
Through a close reading of novels by Ulrike Kolb, Irmtraud Morgner, Emine Sevgi Ozdamar, Bernhard Schlink, Peter Schneider, and Uwe Timm, this book traces the cultural memory of the 1960s student movement in German fiction, revealing layers of remembering and forgetting that go beyond conventional boundaries of time and space. These novels engage this contestation by constructing a palimpsest of memories that reshape readers' understanding of the 1960s with respect to the end of the Cold War, the legacy of the Third Reich, and the Holocaust. Topographically, these novels refute assertions that East Germans were isolated from the political upheaval that took place in the late 1960s and 1970s. Through their aesthetic appropriations and subversions, these multicultural contributions challenge conventional understandings of German identity and at the same time lay down claims of belonging within a German society that is more openly diverse than ever before.
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The pull of politics : Steinbeck, Wright, Hemingway, and the left in the late 1930s
In the late 1930s, John Steinbeck, Richard Wright, and Ernest Hemingway wrote novels that won critical acclaim and popular success: The Grapes of Wrath, Native Son, and For Whom the Bell Tolls. All three writers were involved with the Left at the time, and that commitment informed their fiction. Milton Cohen examines their motives for involvement with the Left; their novels' political themes; and why they separated from the Left after the novels were published. These writers were deeply conflicted about their political commitments, and Cohen explores the tensions that arose between politics and art, resulting in the abandonment of a political attachment.
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