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Art makes its mark upon our flesh. It ravishes our eyes, invades our ears, and stirs our viscera; it commandeers our powers of attention and unsettles our body with its strangenesses. The event of art is thus an encounter both with a sensuous object and with ourselves, exposing us as subjects strang... Read More about The Aesthetic Subject in Contemporary Continental Philosophy and Literature: Thinking the Body-Thought (Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature)

From bungalows along the coves to the magnificent Victorian houses along Bayview Avenue, Northport truly provides Images of America. Once known as Great Cow Harbor, the area that is now Northport grew from a rural farming and fishing village into an industrial hub. Shipyards dominated the harbor's ... Read More about Northport (Images of America)

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • This incredible true history of the colonization of Australia explores how the convict transportation system created the country we know today."One of the greatest non-fiction books I’ve ever read ... Hughes brings us an entire world." —Los Angeles Times Digging deep into the d... Read More about The Fatal Shore: The epic of Australia's founding

Wild salmon, trout, char, grayling, and whitefish (collectively salmonids) have been a significant local food and cultural resource for Pacific Northwest peoples for millennia. The location, size, and distribution of urban areas along streams, rivers, estuaries, and coasts directly and indirectly al... Read More about Wild Salmonids in the Urbanizing Pacific Northwest

Language technology is the study of the manner in which electronic devices or computer programs can analyze, create, alter or react to human speech and text. It is an interdisciplinary field that encompasses various subdisciplines of linguistics and computer science. It also covers natural language ... Read More about Language Technologies Handbook

This publication in three volumes originated in papers delivered at two conferences held in May 1988 at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies in Washington, DC. Like many other conferences organized that year in the United States, Europe, and t... Read More about Christianity and the Eastern Slavs, Volume II: Russian Culture in Modern Times (California Slavic Studies #17)