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  • The Transmission of Knowledge in Eighteenth-Century Britain

    by John Regan ...
    Series series 21st Century Perspectives on British Literature and Society
    This book reimagines the history of knowledge in 18th-century Britain by exploring how ideas were transmitted and diffused across generations and disciplines. Drawing on innovative digital tools, it uncovers collective patterns in the language of science, philosophy and commerce, revealing how concepts such as ‘system’, ‘sensibility’ and ‘volition’ were shaped and shared by communities rather than ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Human Factors Handbook for Road Designers and Traffic Engineers

    Edited by Michael Regan, Robert Morgan, John Campbell ...
    Can roads truly be made safer? Yes, they can, and this handbook shows road designers and traffic engineers how, through a better understanding of road users – the “human factor”.Over a million people are killed every year on the world’s roads. Road user error is often concluded to be one of the main factors contributing to road crashes, and many in the road safety world believe that road user ... Read more

    $259.99 USD

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  • Semantic Change and Collective Knowledge in 18th Century Britain

    by John Regan ...
    An in-depth digital investigation of several 18th-century British corpora, this book identifies shared communities of meaning in the printed British 18th century by highlighting and analysing patterns in the distribution of lexis.There are forces of attraction between words: some are more likely to keep company than others, and how words attract and repel one another is worthy of note. Charting ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Poetry and the Idea of Progress, 1760–90

    by John Regan ...
    Poetry and the Idea of Progress, 1760–1790 explores under-examined relationships between poetry and historiography in the eighteenth century, deepening our understanding of the relationship between poetry and ideas of progress with sustained attention to aesthetic, historical, antiquarian and prosodic texts from the period. Its central contention is that the historians and theorists of the time ... Read more

    $27.39 USD

  • Poetry and the Idea of Progress, 176090

    by John Regan ...
    ‘Poetry and the Idea of Progress, 1760–1790’ explores under-examined relationships between poetry and historiography between 1760 and 1790. These were the decades of Hugh Blair’s ‘Dissertation on the Poems of Ossian, the Son of Fingal’ (1763) and ‘Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres’ (1783), Thomas Percy’s ‘Reliques of Ancient English Poetry’ (1765), Adam Ferguson’s ‘Essay on the History of ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • Poetry and the Idea of Progress, 176090

    by John Regan ...
    ‘Poetry and the Idea of Progress, 1760–1790’ explores under-examined relationships between poetry and historiography between 1760 and 1790. These were the decades of Hugh Blair’s ‘Dissertation on the Poems of Ossian, the Son of Fingal’ (1763) and ‘Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres’ (1783), Thomas Percy’s ‘Reliques of Ancient English Poetry’ (1765), Adam Ferguson’s ‘Essay on the History of ... Read more

    $21.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Myth and the Irish State

    by John M. Regan ...
    When we read a history we believe ourselves to be reading cold, hard, facts of the events that took place and how they occurred. But there is no real, truthful way to know the approach our historian has taken with the historical sources. This book deals with the uncertainty in writing history in the context of Irish history in particular. Regan argues in this book that the notion of elision, ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Travelling Languages

    Culture, Communication and Translation in a Mobile World

    Edited by John O'Regan, Jane Wilkinson, Mike Robinson ...
    Based on the commonly held assumption that we now live in a world that is ‘on the move’, with growing opportunities for both real and virtual travel and the blurring of boundaries between previously defined places, societies and cultures, the theme of this book is firmly grounded in the interdisciplinary field of ‘Mobilities’. ‘Mobilities’ deals with the movement of people, objects, capital, ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Our Peaceable Kingdom

    The Photographs of John Drysdale

    by John Drysdale, Margaret Regan ...
    A collection of gorgeous photographs depicting the loving bond between humans and various species of animals.John Drysdale's photographs are exciting, tender, hilarious, often exhilarating - but for more than the obvious reasons. Certainly it's not every day that one sees a lion that's befriended a Boston terrier. Maybe elephants don't usually go fishing, and parrots generally don't tend to ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Intercultural Dialogue

    Questions of research, theory, and practice

    Edited by Prue Holmes, Melinda Dooly, John O'Regan ...
    ‘Intercultural dialogue’, as a concept and ideology in the European Union, stimulates a rational 21st century society where people can engage in (intercultural) communication on a global scale, and can do so openly and freely in conditions of security and mutual respect. Intercultural dialogue connotes dialogic communication that is peaceful, reconciliatory, and democratic. Yet the term and its ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Driver Distraction

    Theory, Effects, and Mitigation

    Edited by Michael A. Regan, John D. Lee, Kristie Young ...
    Certain activities and events both inside and outside a vehicle can distract drivers and lead to degraded performance. New technologies- such as entertainment, communication, and driver assistance systems- play a significant role in distraction. This unique volume defines driver distraction, discusses various causes, and explains how to measure acceptable and unacceptable levels of distraction. ... Read more

    $234.99 USD

  • Education and the Discourse of Global Neoliberalism

    Edited by John Gray, John P. O'Regan, Catherine Wallace ...
    This book investigates neoliberalism in education and explains how it is a complex phenomenon which takes on local characteristics in diverse geopolitical, economic and cultural settings, while retaining a core commitment in all its manifestations to market fundamentalism.Neoliberalism - that set of beliefs and practices which has become the economic orthodoxy of global preference since the 1980s ... Read more

    $62.99 USD