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  • Weapons of Democracy

    Propaganda, Progressivism, and American Public Opinion

    Series series New Studies in American Intellectual and Cultural History
    How and why did public opinion—long cherished as a foundation of democratic government—become an increasing source of concern for American Progressives?Following World War I, political commentator Walter Lippmann worried that citizens increasingly held inaccurate and misinformed beliefs because of the way information was produced, circulated, and received in a mass-mediated society. Lippmann ... Leer más

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  • Dark Borders

    Film Noir and American Citizenship

    Dark Borders connects anxieties about citizenship and national belonging in midcentury America to the sense of alienation conveyed by American film noir. Jonathan Auerbach provides in-depth interpretations of more than a dozen of these dark crime thrillers, considering them in relation to U.S. national security measures enacted from the mid-1930s to the mid-1950s. The growth of a domestic ... Leer más

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  • Male Call

    Becoming Jack London

    Series series New Americanists
    When Jack London died in 1916 at age forty, he was one of the most famous writers of his time. Eighty years later he remains one of the most widely read American authors in the world. The first major critical study of London to appear in a decade, Male Call analyzes the nature of his appeal by closely examining how the struggling young writer sought to promote himself in his early work as a ... Leer más

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  • The Iron Heel

    Part science fiction, part dystopian fantasy, part radical socialist tract, Jack London's The Iron Heel offers a grim depiction of warfare between the classes in America and around the globe. Originally published nearly a hundred years ago, it anticipated many features of the past century, including the rise of fascism, the emergence of domestic terrorism, and the growth of centralized government ... Leer más

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  • Nature, Politics, and the Arts

    Essays on Romantic Culture for Carl Woodring

    This interdisciplinary book honors Columbia professor and New York intellectual Carl Woodring. Chapters on Romantic and Victorian literary culture written by leading scholars in the field join in conversation with Woodring’s teachings on literature and visual art and his commentaries on American culture. A multiple-authored chapter of postscripts on the aesthetic range of Woodring’s intellectual ... Leer más

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  • Northland Stories

    de Jack London ...
    Like the characters in the popular dime novels of the time, London's heroes display such manly virtues as courage, loyalty, and steadfastness as they conftont the merciless frozen expanses of the north. Yet London breaks free of stereotypical figures and one-dimensional plots to explore deeper psychological and social questions of self-mastery, masculinity, and racial domination. The uneasy ... Leer más

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  • The Politics of Knowledge in the Biomedical Sciences

    South/African Perspectives

    Edición de Jonathan Jansen, Jess Auerbach ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    In the wake of the decolonization movement in South Africa and around the world, this edited work presents fresh evidence and advances new arguments on the politics and economics of colonial biomedical knowledge in South Africa and other parts of the African continent. Covering a richly diverse set of fields---including human genetics, obstetrics, occupational therapy, medical photography and the ... Leer más

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  • Securing E-Business Applications and Communications

    This book walks readers through the process of setting up a secure E-commerce Web site. It includes implementation examples for Unix (Solaris and Linux), Windows NT 4.0, and Windows 2000. The authors pay particular attention to the security issues involved. They also highlight the plethora of encryption algorithms that are instrumental in securing data. Together, the authors and the reader develop ... Leer más

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  • The Scarlet Plague

    Jack London's Chilling Post-Apocalyptic Vision

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    A world once ruled by science... now silent. Published in 1912, The Scarlet Plague is Jack London's prophetic vision of a world devastated by a deadly pandemic. Set in the year 2073, decades after a mysterious plague wiped out most of humanity, the novel follows an elderly survivor as he recounts the fall of civilization to his grandchildren—now primitive and skeptical of his tales. With chilling ... Leer más

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  • The Jacket

    de Jack London ...
    The Jacket is a novel by American writer Jack London published in 1915 (published in the United States as The Star Rover). It is a story of reincarnation.A framing story is told in the first person by Darrell Standing, a university professor serving life imprisonment in San Quentin State Prison for murder. Prison officials try to break his spirit by means of a torture device called "the jacket," a ... Leer más

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  • A Daughter of the Snows

    From the Author of White Fang

    de Jack London ...
    Series Libro 26 - Jack London Collection
    A Daughter of the Snows is Jack London's first novel. Set in the Yukon In Jack London's novel, he tells the story of Frona Welse, a strong and interesting heroine, "a Stanford graduate and physical Valkyrie," who heads to the Yukon gold fields after creating a stir in her hometown by being strong and forthright and by befriending the town's prostitute. In the course of her adventures, she finds ... Leer más

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  • Night and Day

    As Katharine Hilbery, the granddaughter of a famous man of letters buried in Poets’ Corner, is helping her mother write the biography of their illustrious progenitor, she becomes engaged to William Rodney, a budding writer with an exaggerated opinion of his own poetical talent. Meanwhile, the suffragette Mary Datchet is in love with Ralph Denham, a lawyer and reviewer from a lowly background, who ... Leer más

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