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  • Michael's Gemstone Dictionary Part 2

    by Michael North ...
    Michael's Gemstone Dictionary Part 2 is a guidebook that identifies some of the most popular (and common) gemstones and their energetic characteristics. The alphabetical layout offers easy to understand information for selecting gemstones to achieve desired results, such as intellectual clarity, emotional strength and spiritual awareness.This ebook is about the earth's oldest solid form – stones, ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Making Common Sense

    On the Construction of the Obvious from Antiquity to AI

    by Michael North ...
    Common sense is supposed to be so obvious it can go without saying. And yet, it has been hard to pin down, partly because its contents are vague and inconsistent, and partly because it has always been difficult to say what kind of sense common sense is. Making Common Sense is an historical account of attempts, from antiquity to the present, to solve this puzzle. The ambiguity began centuries ago ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Novelty

    A History of the New

    by Michael North ...
    If art and science have one thing in common, it's a hunger for the new—new ideas and innovations, new ways of seeing and depicting the world. But that desire for novelty carries with it a fundamental philosophical problem: If everything has to come from something, how can anything truly new emerge? Is novelty even possible?In Novelty, Michael North takes us on a dazzling tour of more than two ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Baltic

    A History

    by Michael North ...
    Translated by Kenneth Kronenberg ...
    In this overview of the Baltic region from the Vikings to the European Union, Michael North presents the sea and the lands that surround it as a Nordic Mediterranean, a maritime zone of shared influence, with its own distinct patterns of trade, cultural exchange, and conflict. Covering over a thousand years in a part of the world where seas have been much more connective than land, The Baltic: A ... Read more

    $22.19 USD

  • Mediating Netherlandish Art and Material Culture in Asia

    Edited by Michael North, Thomas Da Costa Kaufmann ...
    Series series Amsterdam Studies in the Dutch Golden Age
    While the socio-economic and historical aspects of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) have been extensively documented and researched, the role of the VOC in visual culture and the arts has been relatively neglected. This authoritative volume addresses various aspects of cultural exchange between the Low Countries and Asia. Increased prosperity and the flood of imported goods from Asia had a huge ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • The Dialect of Modernism

    Race, Language, and Twentieth-Century Literature

    by Michael North ...
    Series series Race and American Culture
    The Dialect of Modernism uncovers the crucial role of racial masquerade and linguistic imitation in the emergence of literary modernism. Rebelling against the standard language, and literature written in it, modernists, such as Joseph Conrad, Gertrude Stein, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, and William Carlos Williams reimagined themselves as racial aliens and mimicked the strategies of dialect speakers in ... Read more

    $59.39 USD

  • Reading 1922

    A Return to the Scene of the Modern

    by Michael North ...
    This engaging study returns to a truly remarkable year, the year in which both Ulysses and The Waste Land were published, in which The Great Gatsby was set, and during which the Fascisti took over in Italy, the Irish Free State was born, the Harlem Renaissance reached its peak, Charlie Chaplin's popularity crested, and King Tutankhamen's tomb was discovered. In short, the year which not only in ... Read more

    $51.29 USD

  • Machine-Age Comedy

    by Michael North ...
    Series series Modernist Literature and Culture
    In this latest addition to Oxford's Modernist Literature & Culture series, renowned modernist scholar Michael North poses fundamental questions about the relationship between modernity and comic form in film, animation, the visual arts, and literature. Machine-Age Comedy vividly constructs a cultural history that spans the entire twentieth century, showing how changes wrought by industrialization ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • From the North Sea to the Baltic

    Essays in Commercial, Monetary and Agrarian History, 1500-1800

    by Michael North ...
    Series series Variorum Collected Studies
    The Baltic in the early modern period has been called a 'Nordic Mediterranean'. In the studies collected here, Professor North is concerned to examine the ways in which this Baltic region became integrated into the international division of labour and the emerging world economy. The volume opens with a new introductory essay, and the first section then focuses on commodities exported to Western ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Queer Natures, Queer Mythologies

    by Sam See, Heather Love, Wendy Moffat ...
    Queer Natures, Queer Mythologies collects in two parts the scholarly work—both published and unpublished—that Sam See had completed as of his death in 2013.In Part I, in a thorough reading of Darwin, See argues that nature is constantly and aimlessly variable, and that nature itself might be considered queer. In Part II, See proposes that, understood as queer in this way, nature might be made the ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • A World History of the Seas

    From Harbour to Horizon

    by Michael North ...
    Offering an introduction to the world's seas as a platform for global exchange and connection, Michael North offers an impressive world history of the seas over more than 3,000 years. Exploring the challenges and dangers of the oceans that humans have struggled with for centuries, he also shows the possibilities and opportunities they have provided from antiquity to the modern day.Written to ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Science of Synthesis Knowledge Updates 2011 Vol. 4

    Edited by Dennis Hall, Kazuaki Ishihara, Jie Jack Li, Ilan Marek, Michael North, Ernst Schaumann, Steven M. Weinreb, Miguel Yus Astiz ...
    The Science of Synthesis Editorial Board,together with the volume editors and authors, is constantly reviewing the whole field of synthetic organic chemistry as presented in Science of Synthesis and evaluating significant developments in synthetic methodology. Four annual volumes updating content across all categories ensure that you always have access to state-of-the-art synthetic methodology ... Read more

    $3,599.99 USD