21L.705 Major Authors: Melville and Morrison (MIT)
This seminar provides intensive study of texts by two American authors (Herman Melville, 1819-1891, and Toni Morrison, 1931-) who, using lyrical, radically innovative prose, explore in different ways epic notions of American identity. Focusing on Melville's Typee (1846), Moby-Dick (1851), and The Confidence-Man (1857) and Morrison's Sula (1973), Beloved (1987), Jazz (1992), and Paradise (1998), the class will address their common concerns with issues of gender, race, language, and nationhood. Be
Revista espacio, tiempo y forma
Published since 1988, 'Espacio, Tiempo y Forma' is the annual peer-reviewed journal of the Faculty of Geography and History at the Spanish open university (UNED). It is divided in seven different series, corresponding with the departments at the faculty: Prehistory and Archaeology; Ancient History; Medieval History; Modern History; Contemporary History; Geography; and History of Art. Although the language of the publication is Spanish, most recent articles have abstracts in Spanish and English.
Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy
JRSE, published by the American Institute of Physics, is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal covering all areas of renewable and sustainable energy-related fields that apply to the physical science and engineering communities. Content is published online daily, collected into bimonthly issues (6 times a year). As an electronic-only, web-based journal with rapid publication time, JRSE is responsive to the many new developments expected in this field.
How an Organ Makes Music
Duke University Chapel has three outstanding pipe organs, each in a different style, which are used for worship services, recitals and the study of organ performance. In this video, organ curator John P. Santoianni demonstrates how one of those instruments -- the Flentrop or Benjamin N. Duke Memorial Organ -- creates its wide range of sounds. Santoianni is Duke’s Ethel Sieck Carrabina Curator of Organs and Harpsichords. To learn more about organ music at Duke Chapel visit http://chapel.duke.ed
Counting from 1 to 999 in Chinese
This video shows how the Chinese counting system is constructed from a simple logical system, which uses just 12 characters (and therefore sounds) to count from 1 to 999. It uses animation to help show the numbers and how they are drawn. Taught in English. Pronunciations of numbers in Chinese. (04:06)
Chamber of demonstrations : reconstructing the Jacobean indoor playhouse
The Chamber of Demonstrations website documents a DVD that represents a theatrical experiment in theatre research and teaching. The DVD is the culmination of the research of Martin White, Professor of Theatre at the University of Bristol, which was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, and produced with the support of PARIP, an AHRC-funded project on documenting performance as research. In a full-scale candlelit reconstruction of the interior of a Jacobean indoor playhouse, experie
Babbage: What lies beneath
Radar scans reveal an enormous site of underground stone monoliths near Stonehenge and subterranean plant seed banks could save harvests and lives in the face of climate change
Revista Epos
'Epos' is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal of philology by the Spanish Open University (UNED). Although Spanish philological studies may be more prominent, the journal also publishes articles within the fields of Classics; French; English; and comparative literary studies. Contributions are accepted in all relevant languages, but a good command of Spanish is recommended as this seems to be the main language of the publication. First published in 1984, the repository of the Spanish Open Universi
The Spanish Company - London Record Society 9
An edition of documents of the revived seventeenth-century company. It includes the Register Book for 1604-6, the charter of 1605, and the Book of Oaths, Acts and Ordinances. Published by kind permission of the London Record Society.
Massacre of Ilyintsy Jews
Liza (Elizaveta) Latman who was born in 1926 in Ilyintsy and was living there during the war years, recounts how in late May 1942 the Jews of Ilyintsy who appeared for an obligatory roll call were locked in the synagogue overnight and then, after a selection of skilled workers, were taken to pits in the Galiki area, where they were shot to death
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Social Panorama of Latin America 2006
The 2006 edition of the Social Panorama of Latin America report by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). This report examines changes in social indicators over the past few years and considers indigenous peoples' lives and changes in family structures. This Web page offers a number of options which include: accessing the abstract and full-text of the report, and ordering a printed copy. Links to other similar resources are also offered. Some resources are provided
The records of St. Bartholomew's priory & St. Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield: volume 2
The post-Reformation history of the church and parish. Includes a detailed account of the fabric of the church, its monuments and memorials, and parochial records. Also contains a chronological account of the church and its rectors. Substantial appendices detail the nineteenth-century restoration of the church building.
7 Conclusion Perhaps you are asking yourself why there are so many different imaging modalities. Is there not one that will do everything that is required? The answer, at the moment, is ‘No’. With most of the imaging te A History of the County of Cumberland: Volume 2 Chronicle of the Grey Friars of London - Camden Society old series, volume 53 A History of the County of Dorset: Volume 2 A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 3 Journal of the House of Commons: volume 8 - 1660-1667 A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 12 - Chelsea Workshop 2: Drag Races
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A part-volume, covering the history of the religious houses in the county, including the early history of Carlisle cathedral.
Describes political and religious events in London from the time of Richard I to that of Mary I, arranged by reign. The bulk of the volume is concentrated on the sixteenth century.
A part-volume covering the religious houses of the county. It includes the early history of Sherborne Abbey and Wimborne Minster.
A part volume, covering the religious houses of Wiltshire. It includes an account of Salisbury cathedral to the twentieth century.
Official minute book of the House of Commons, covering the early years of the restored monarchy of Charles II.
Chelsea was a desirable riverside residence for wealthy merchants, lawyers, and courtiers from the fifteenth century, a pleasure resort for all ranks of society from the eighteenth; and now one of the most expensive and desirable places to live in London
Forces can help put objects into motion and can also bring moving objects to a stop. In this workshop, fifth-grade students explore the physics of motion using plastic cars with strings and washers attached to provide a pulling force. The students test the speed of the vehicles and explain what forces bring the vehicles to a stop, as the cars collide with and displace ba
