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  • Narrative Fiction and Death

    Dying Imagined

    Series series Routledge Studies in Literature and Health Humanities
    Narrative Fiction and Death: Dying Imagined offers a new perspective on the study of death in literature. It focuses on narrative fiction that conveys the experience of dying from the internal perspective of a dying protagonist. Writers from Victor Hugo in the early 1800s to Elif Shafak in the present day have imagined the unknowable final moments on the threshold to death. This literary study ... Read more

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  • The Russian Empire 1450-1801

    Series series Oxford History of Early Modern Europe
    Modern Russian identity and historical experience has been largely shaped by Russia's imperial past: an empire that was founded in the early modern era and endures in large part today. The Russian Empire 1450-1801 surveys how the areas that made up the empire were conquered and how they were governed. It considers the Russian empire a 'Eurasian empire', characterized by a 'politics of difference': ... Read more

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  • Visualizing Russia in Early Modern Europe

    In early modern Europe, the emergence and development of print culture proved a powerful new method for producing and disseminating knowledge of Russia through visual means. By examining the images of Russia found in travel accounts, pamphlets, maps and costume books, this study demonstrates how the visual shaped a dual understanding of these lands: Russia and Russians were portrayed as familiar, ... Read more

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  • Never Suck A Dead Man's Hand:

    by Dana Kollmann ...
    “Informative, witty . . . Kollmann delivers terse commentary and gory detail while puncturing common misconceptions about forensics.”—BooklistStep past the flashing lights into the true scene of the crime with this frank, unflinching, and unforgettable account of life as a crime scene investigator. Whether explaining rigor mortis or the art of fingerprinting a stiff corpse on the side of the road, ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

  • Crime and Punishment in Early Modern Russia

    Series series New Studies in European History
    This is a magisterial account of the day-to-day practice of Russian criminal justice in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Nancy Kollmann contrasts Russian written law with its pragmatic application by local judges, arguing that this combination of formal law and legal institutions with informal, flexible practice contributed to the country's social and political stability. She also ... Read more

    $45.09 USD

  • Navier-Stokes Turbulence

    Theory and Analysis

    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    This updated/augmented second edition retains it class-tested content and pedagogy as a core text for graduate courses in advanced fluid mechanics and applied science. The new edition adds revised sections, clarification, problems, and chapter extensions including a rewritten section on Schauder bases for turbulent pipe flow, coverage of Cantwell’s mixing length closure for turbulent pipe flow, ... Read more

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  • Audiobook

    Never Suck a Dead Man's Hand

    Curious Adventures of a CSI

    by Dana Kollmann ...
    Narrated by Kate Zane ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 43 min

    Step past the flashing lights into the true scene of the crime with this frank, unflinching, and unforgettable account of life as a crime scene investigator. Whether explaining rigor mortis or the art of fingerprinting a stiff corpse on the side of the road, Dana Kollmann details her true, unvarnished experiences as a CSI for the Baltimore County Police Department.Unlike the popular crime dramas ... Read more

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  • Spatial Modernities

    Geography, Narrative, Imaginaries

    Series series Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
    This collection of essays offers a series of reflections on the specific literary and cultural forms that can be seen as the product of modernity’s spatial transformations, which have taken on new urgency in today’s world of ever increasing mobility and global networks. The book offers a broad perspective on the narrative and poetic dimensions of the modern discourses and imaginaries that have ... Read more

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  • By Honor Bound

    State and Society in Early Modern Russia

    In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Russians from all ranks of society were bound together by a culture of honor. Here one of the foremost scholars of early modern Russia explores the intricate and highly stylized codes that made up this culture. Nancy Shields Kollmann describes how these codes were manipulated to construct identity and enforce social norms—and also to defend against ... Read more

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  • Navier-Stokes Turbulence

    Theory and Analysis

    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    The book serves as a core text for graduate courses in advanced fluid mechanics and applied science. It consists of two parts. The first provides an introduction and general theory of fully developed turbulence, where treatment of turbulence is based on the linear functional equation derived by E. Hopf governing the characteristic functional that determines the statistical properties of a ... Read more

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  • A Companion to Mario Vargas Llosa

    This companion to the work of Peruvian Nobel Laureate Mario Vargas Llosa traces his fictional and non-fictional writing throughout the different phases of a career spanning more than fifty years. His lifelong dedication to literature goes hand in hand with his commitment as a public intellectual, a role that frequently involves him in controversy. Against the backdrop of Vargas Llosa's political ... Read more

    $17.99 USD