Author: Susanna Moodie
Publisher: London : R. Bentley
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 368
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Matrimonial Speculations
Author: Susanna Moodie
Publisher: London : R. Bentley
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Publisher: London : R. Bentley
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 368
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Rosabella: or, A mother's marriage, by the author of The romance of the Pyrenees
Author: Catherine Cuthbertson
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 434
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 434
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Munsey's Magazine for ...
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Category : American periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 784
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Category : American periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 784
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Voyages
Author: Susanna Moodie
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
ISBN: 0776603264
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Susanna Moodie is, of course, best known for her books Roughing It in the Bush and Life in the Clearings, which are largely comprised of short sketches that she had previously published. What is not widely known, however, is that Moodie had a long and prolific literary career in which short sketches and tales were among her favoured genres. This book offers a selection of these narratives, most of which have been unavailable in print since the 19th century. This collection will give the reader a new understanding of Susanna Moodie's work. Published in French.
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
ISBN: 0776603264
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Susanna Moodie is, of course, best known for her books Roughing It in the Bush and Life in the Clearings, which are largely comprised of short sketches that she had previously published. What is not widely known, however, is that Moodie had a long and prolific literary career in which short sketches and tales were among her favoured genres. This book offers a selection of these narratives, most of which have been unavailable in print since the 19th century. This collection will give the reader a new understanding of Susanna Moodie's work. Published in French.
Speculation
Author: Gayle Rogers
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231553498
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 157
Book Description
In the modern world, why do we still resort to speculation? Advances in scientific and statistical reasoning are supposed to have provided greater certainty in making claims about the future. Yet we constantly spin out scenarios about tomorrow, for ourselves or for entire societies, with flimsy or no evidence. Insubstantial speculations—from utopian thinking to high-risk stock gambles—often provoke fierce backlash, even when they prove prophetic for the world we come to inhabit. Why does this hypothetical way of thinking generate such controversy? In this cultural, literary, and intellectual history, Gayle Rogers traces debates over speculation from antiquity to the present. Celebrated by Boethius as the height of humanity’s mental powers but denigrated as sinful by John Calvin, speculation eventually became central to the scientific revolution’s new methods of seeing the natural world. In the nineteenth century, writers such as Jane Austen used the concept to diagnose the marriage market, redefining speculation for the purpose of social critique. Speculation fueled the development of modern capitalism, spurring booms, busts, and bubbles, and recently artificial intelligence has automated the speculation previously done by humans, with uncertain and troubling consequences. Unraveling these histories and many other disputes, Rogers argues that what has always been at stake in arguments over speculation, and why it so often appears so threatening, is the authority to produce and control knowledge about the future. Recasting centuries of contests over the power to anticipate tomorrow, this book reveals the crucial role speculation has played in how we create—and potentially destroy—the future.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231553498
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 157
Book Description
In the modern world, why do we still resort to speculation? Advances in scientific and statistical reasoning are supposed to have provided greater certainty in making claims about the future. Yet we constantly spin out scenarios about tomorrow, for ourselves or for entire societies, with flimsy or no evidence. Insubstantial speculations—from utopian thinking to high-risk stock gambles—often provoke fierce backlash, even when they prove prophetic for the world we come to inhabit. Why does this hypothetical way of thinking generate such controversy? In this cultural, literary, and intellectual history, Gayle Rogers traces debates over speculation from antiquity to the present. Celebrated by Boethius as the height of humanity’s mental powers but denigrated as sinful by John Calvin, speculation eventually became central to the scientific revolution’s new methods of seeing the natural world. In the nineteenth century, writers such as Jane Austen used the concept to diagnose the marriage market, redefining speculation for the purpose of social critique. Speculation fueled the development of modern capitalism, spurring booms, busts, and bubbles, and recently artificial intelligence has automated the speculation previously done by humans, with uncertain and troubling consequences. Unraveling these histories and many other disputes, Rogers argues that what has always been at stake in arguments over speculation, and why it so often appears so threatening, is the authority to produce and control knowledge about the future. Recasting centuries of contests over the power to anticipate tomorrow, this book reveals the crucial role speculation has played in how we create—and potentially destroy—the future.
Transactions of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science
Author: National Association for the Promotion of Social Science (Great Britain)
Publisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 999
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The volume for 1886 contains the proceedings of the "Conference on temperance legislation, London, 1886."
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 999
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The volume for 1886 contains the proceedings of the "Conference on temperance legislation, London, 1886."
Lives of the Archbishops of Canterbury: (New series, v. 1-6). Reformation period
Author: Walter Farquhar Hook
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Category : Bishops
Languages : en
Pages : 532
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Publisher:
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Category : Bishops
Languages : en
Pages : 532
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Lives of the Archbishops of Canterbury
Author: Walter Farquhar Hook
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Category : Bishops
Languages : en
Pages : 534
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Category : Bishops
Languages : en
Pages : 534
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Anglo-Saxon period
Author: Walter Farquhar Hook
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Category : Bishops
Languages : en
Pages : 532
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Publisher:
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Category : Bishops
Languages : en
Pages : 532
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The tribute; a miscellaneous volume, in prose and verse [by J. O'Leary].
Author: Joseph O'Leary
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 250
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 250
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