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Turtledove, Harry. Homeward Bound. New York: Del Rey/Ballantine Books, 2004.

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Turtledove, Harry. Homeward Bound. New York: Random House Publishing Group, 2004.

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Turtledove, Harry. Homeward bound. New York: Ballantine Books, 2005.

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Nikova, Svetla Iordanova. Bounds for designs in infinite polynomial metric spaces. [Eindhoven]: University Press Facilities, Eindhoven University of Technology, 1998.

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Schneck, Arne. Bounds for optimization of the reflection coefficient by constrained optimization in hardy spaces. Karlsruhe: Univ.-Verl. Karlsruhe, 2009.

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Public Art Development Trust (London, England), ed. The Thames archive project: Henry Bond Angela Bulloch. London: Public Art Development Trust, 2000.

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United States. Superintendent of Documents. Explorations in space: A collection of space-related publications to interest earth-bound astronauts of all ages. Washington, DC: Supt. of Docs., 1985.

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United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration., ed. Development of a nondestructive vibration technique for bond assessment of space shuttle tiles: Final report. Orlando, Fla: Dept. of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Central Florida, 1994.

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United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Transportation and Air Quality. Bond requirements for nonroad spark-ignition engines: Frequently asked questions. Washington, D.C.]: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Transportation and Air Quality, 2009.

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Copyright Paperback Collection (Library of Congress), ed. Honor Bound: Day of Honor Book 6: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine #11. New York: Pocket Books, 1997.

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United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration., ed. Lightning tests & analyses of tunnel bond straps & shielded cables on tlhe space shuttle soild rocket booster: Final report. [Huntsville, Ala.]: United Technologies, USBI, 1993.

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United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration., ed. Lightning tests & analyses of tunnel bond straps & shielded cables on tlhe space shuttle soild rocket booster: Final report. [Huntsville, Ala.]: United Technologies, USBI, 1993.

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United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration., ed. Lightning tests & analyses of tunnel bond straps & shielded cables on tlhe space shuttle solid rocket booster: Final report. [Huntsville, Ala.]: United Technologies, USBI, 1993.

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Out of bounds: Anglo-Indian literature and the geography of displacement. Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2011.

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Committee, New Jersey Legislature General Assembly Environment. Public hearing before Assembly Environment Committee: Assembly bill no. 1151 (Open Space and Historic Preservation Bond Act of 1992, authorizes bonds for $450 million, and appropriates $5000). Trenton, N.J: The Committee, 1992.

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Wilmott, Clancy. Mobile Mapping. NL Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789462984530.

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This book argues for a theory of mobile mapping, a situated and spatial approach towards researching how everyday digital mobile media practices are bound up in global systems of knowledge and power. Drawing from literature in media studies and geography -- and the work of Michel Foucault and Doreen Massey -- it examines how geographical and historical material, social, and cultural conditions are embedded in the way in which contemporary (digital) cartographies are read, deployed, and engaged. This is explored through seventeen walking interviews in Hong Kong and Sydney, as potent discourses like cartographic reason continue to transform and weave through the world in ways that haunt mobile mapping and bring old conflicts into new media. In doing so, Mobile Mapping offers an interdisciplinary rethinking about how multiple translations of spatial knowledges between rational digital epistemologies and tacit ways of understanding space and experience might be conceptualized and researched.
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New Jersey. Legislature. General Assembly. Environment and Energy Committee. Committee meeting of Assembly Environment and Energy Committee: Assembly bill no. 70 : the Green Acres, Farmland and Historic Preservation and Blue Acres Bond Act of 1995 : authorizes issuance of $350 million in bonds, appropriates $5000 : March 29, 1995, Basking Ridge, New Jersey. Trenton, N.J: Office of Legislative Services, Public Information Office, Hearing Unit, 1995.

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New Jersey. Legislature. General Assembly. Environment and Energy Committee. Public hearing before Assembly Environment and Energy Committee: Assembly bill no. 70 (the Green Acres, Farmland and Historic Preservation, and Blue Acres Bond Act of 1995 ; authorizes issuance of $350 million in bonds ; appropriates $5000). Trenton, N.J: The Committee, 1995.

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New Jersey. Legislature. General Assembly. Committee on Conservation, Natural Resources, and Energy. Public hearing before Assembly Committee on Conservation, Natural Resources, and Energy: Assembly Bill 3540 ACS ACA : "Green Acres and Farmland Preservation Bond Act of 1989" : authorizes the issuance of bonds in the amount of $370 million, May 15, 1989, Room 410, State House Annex, Trenton, New Jersey. Trenton, N.J. (State House Annex, CN 068, Trenton 08625): The Committee, 1989.

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New Jersey. Legislature. General Assembly. Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee. Public hearing before Assembly Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee: Assembly bill no. 2143, the Green Acres, Farmland and Historic Preservation, and Lake, Stream, and Dam Restoration Bond Act of 1998 : authorizes $210 million in bonds for those purposes, and appropriates $5,000. Trenton, N.J. (PO Box 068, Trenton 08625-0068): The Unit, 1998.

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Tensors: Geometry and applications. Providence, R.I: American Mathematical Society, 2011.

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Awesome Super Nintendo Secrets 2. Lahaina, USA: Sandwich Islands Publishing, 1993.

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Shamma, Yasmine. Joe Brainard’s Collaged Spaces. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198808725.003.0003.

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Brainard was not only an illustrator and friend to many New York School poets, he was also an avid letter writer, collage artist, miniature artist, cartoonist, and serious poet. How is contemporary poetry involved in an overlooked dialogue with collage art? This chapter suggests a general tendency towards assembly across the disciplines of text and image which govern both first- and second-generation New York School aesthetics. This chapter showcases how Brainard’s work instigates and propels the collaged poetry of The New York Schools from the real and influential side-lines of their poems? This examination of Brainard’s work argues that though his work sat in the margins of New York School poetry, it informingly lined, bound, and shaped the spatial poetics of this avant-garde American school.
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Bounds of Self. Taylor & Francis Group, 2021.

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Talagrand, Michel. The Generic Chaining: Upper and Lower Bounds of Stochastic Processes. Springer, 2010.

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Lords of the Var: The Bound Prince (Book 3). New Concepts Publishing, 2006.

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Deruelle, Nathalie, and Jean-Philippe Uzan. Vector geometry. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198786399.003.0002.

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This chapter defines the mathematical spaces to which the geometrical quantities discussed in the previous chapter—scalars, vectors, and the metric—belong. Its goal is to go from the concept of a vector as an object whose components transform as Tⁱ → 𝓡ⱼ ⁱTj under a change of frame to the ‘intrinsic’ concept of a vector, T. These concepts are also generalized to ‘tensors’. The chapter also briefly remarks on how to deal with non-Cartesian coordinates. The velocity vector v is defined as a ‘free’ vector belonging to the vector space ε‎3 which subtends ε‎3. As such, it is not bound to the point P at which it is evaluated. It is, however, possible to attach it to that point and to interpret it as the tangent to the trajectory at P.
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Shadow of the Giant: Limited Edition - Leather Bound (Ender's Shadow). Tor Books, 2005.

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Day of Honor: Honor Bound (Star Trek Deep Space Nine - juv. No. 11). Tandem Library, 1999.

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Shockey, R. Matthew. Bounds of Self: An Essay on Heidegger's Being and Time. Taylor & Francis Group, 2021.

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Shockey, R. Matthew. Bounds of Self: An Essay on Heidegger's Being and Time. Taylor & Francis Group, 2021.

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Amico, Stephen. Introduction. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252038273.003.0001.

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This book explores manifestations of same-sex love and attraction in the popular music landscape of contemporary Russia by focusing on performers, songs, spectacles, and audiences that in many ways served as embodied and audible instances of both homosexuality and homoeroticism. Drawing on a combination of theory and ethnography, the book highlights the corporeality of the homosexual self in post-Soviet, Russian space. It argues that Russian homosexuality in the first decade of the twenty-first century must be understood as bound up with embodiment—a term indicating a mode of experience of one's self, located culturally, spatially, temporally, and in relation to others, as a sentient, material, corporeal being. The book also shows that, in addition to sexual liaisons, the act of socializing with other gay men, either in private or public spaces, as well as in the growing area of cyberspace, is important to Russian gay men. This introduction explains the book's methodology and scope of study and provides an overview of the chapters it contains.
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Generic Chaining: Upper and Lower Bounds of Stochastic Processes. Springer London, Limited, 2005.

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Jaëck, Frédéric. Generality and structures in functional analysis: the influence of Stefan Banach. Edited by Karine Chemla, Renaud Chorlay, and David Rabouin. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198777267.013.7.

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This article examines Stefan Banach’s contributions to the field of functional analysis based on the concept of structure and the multiply-flvored expression of generality that arises in his work on linear operations. More specifically, it discusses the two stages in the process by which Banach elaborated a new framework for functional analysis where structures were bound to play an essential role. It considers whether Banach spaces, or complete normed vector spaces, were born in Banach’s first paper, the 1922 doctoral dissertation On operations on abstract spaces and their application to integral equations. It also analyzes what appears to be the core of Banach’s 1922 article and the transformation into a general setting that it represents. The main achievements of Banach’s dissertation, as well as all the essential features that bear witness to the birth of a new theory, are concentrated in the study of linear operations.
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The Generic Chaining: Upper and Lower Bounds of Stochastic Processes (Springer Monographs in Mathematics). Springer, 2005.

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Shepherd, Laura J. The Concept and Practice of Peacebuilding at the UN and Beyond. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199982721.003.0002.

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This chapter outlines what the author thinks the United Nations thinks it thinks about peacebuilding, investigating the different ways in which peacebuilding is represented as both concept and practice in the corpus of data. The author argues that UN peacebuilding discourse functions to (re)produce a narrow construction of peacebuilding as statebuilding, which is bound by constrictive logics of both gender and space that ascribe to the (notionally sovereign) state a degree of power, authority, and legitimacy, but ultimately leave undisturbed the hierarchies operative in the international system that afford legitimacy to the “international,” as a spatial and conceptual domain.
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Collini, Stefan. The Nostalgic Imagination. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198800170.001.0001.

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This unusual book explores the historical assumptions at work in the style of literary criticism that came to dominate English studies in the twentieth century. Stefan Collini shows how the work of critics renowned for their close attention to ‘the words on the page’ was in practice bound up with claims about the nature and direction of historical change, the interpretation of the national past, and the scholarship of earlier historians. Among the major figures examined in detail are T. S. Eliot, F. R. Leavis, William Empson, and Raymond Williams, while there are also original discussions of such figures as Basil Willey, L. C. Knights, Q. D. Leavis, and Richard Hoggart. In the period between Eliot’s The Sacred Wood and Williams’s The Long Revolution, the writings of such critics came to occupy the cultural space left by academic history’s retreat into specialized, archive-bound monographs. Their work challenged the assumptions of the Whig interpretation of English history and entailed a revision of the traditional relations between ‘literary history’ and ‘general history’. Combining close textual analysis with wide-ranging intellectual history, this book both revises the standard story of the history of literary criticism and illuminates a central feature of the cultural history of twentieth-century Britain.
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Jaroszyńska-Kirchmann, Anna D. The Corner for Everybody. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252039096.003.0008.

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The “Corner for Everybody” is a section of letters from readers, which appeared in Ameryka-Echo between 1922 and 1969. This chapter focuses on the “Corner” as a section which bound the readers into a community. The “Corner” offered them a sense of belonging and provided them with a safe space to share ideas and engage in the public conversation about all they found significant in their lives. In the process, the boundaries between public and private became blurred and the readers often established among themselves relationships that were personal, emotional, and long-lasting, and sometimes even extended beyond the pages of the newspaper.
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van Es, Bart. 1. World. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/actrade/9780198723356.003.0002.

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‘World’ looks at the ‘world’ of Shakespearean comedy, isolating the distinctive way that its stories play out in space. There is something dreamlike about all Shakespeare’s comedies—whether they are set in forests, courts, or cities—and more than anything else this is a consequence of their locational elasticity, bending properties of space and time. Many Shakespearean comedies start in a court and move out to the country: they end in this wild space outside the bounds of civilization, but with the promise of a festive return. Some, however, employ a more dynamic structure, where two distinct places are put in contrapuntal dialogue, which is distinctive to Shakespeare.
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Isett, Philip. On Onsager's Conjecture. Princeton University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691174822.003.0013.

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This chapter deals with Onsager's conjecture, which would be implied by a stronger form of Lemma (10.1). It considers what could be proven assuming Conjecture (10.1) by turning to Theorem 13.1, which states that for every δ‎ > 0, there exist nontrivial weak solutions (v, p) to the Euler equations on ℝ x ³. Here the energy will increase or decrease in certain time intervals. In order to determine which Hölder norms stay under control during the iteration, the chapter observes that the bound for the spatial derivative of the corrections V and P also controls their full space-time derivative. The chapter also discusses higher regularity for the energy, written as a sum of energy increments.
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Driediger-Murphy, Lindsay G. Roman Republican Augury. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198834434.001.0001.

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This book proposes a new way of understanding augury, a form of Roman state divination designed to consult the god Jupiter. Previous scholarly studies of augury have tended to focus either upon its legal-constitutional aspects or upon its role in maintaining and perpetuating Roman social and political structures. This book contributes to the study of Roman religion, theology, politics, and cultural history by focusing upon what augury can tell us about how Romans understood their relationship with their gods. The current scholarly consensus holds that augury, like other forms of Roman public divination, told Romans what they wanted to hear. Modern scholars speak of augury as a way of gaining control over the gods, of priests and magistrates as ‘creating’ the divine will regardless of the empirical results of augural rituals, and of Jupiter as being ‘bound’ to actualize whatever signs human beings chose to report. This book challenges this consensus, arguing that augury in both theory and practice left space for perceived expressions of divine will which contradicted human wishes. When human and divine will clashed, it was the will of Jupiter, not that of the man consulting him, which was supposed to prevail. In theory as in practice, it was the Romans, not their supreme god, who were ‘bound’ by the auguries and auspices.
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O'Donnell, Ian. Governments. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198798477.003.0006.

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By deciding whom to execute and whom to spare, the fledgling Irish state was asserting its sovereignty and flagrantly displaying its power to deflect the law from the lethal outcome it was otherwise bound to reach. The unregulated nature of executive clemency stood out against a background of bureaucratic decision-making which strove to be open, consistent, and dispassionate. This chapter examines what can be learned about how executive clemency was debated around the cabinet table, to what extent it was vulnerable to public opinion and petitions for mercy, other factors which affected the exercise of discretion (including the role of Department of Justice officials), and the relevance of the make-up of the government, in particular, the character of the Minister for Justice. (e.g. P.J. Ruttledge versus his successor Gerald Boland). The concept of groupthink in relation to government decision-making is explored.
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Suksi, Aara. Scandalous Maps in Aeschylean Tragedy. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198744771.003.0012.

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In Homeric epic, describing a map of the world, like epic song itself, is a privilege granted by the divine Muses and figured in Hephaestus’ shield-making. In two examples from Aeschylean tragedy, a defiant hero appropriates the map-making prerogative of the gods established in Homeric epic. In each case, in a bid to restructure the existing order, the hero lays claim to the divine ability to map the space of the world without invoking the Muses. In Prometheus Bound, Prometheus’ gift of a map to mortal Io is not just an altruistic favour. It is also a part of his strategy for controlling and directing the future in a way that will ultimately lead to his own liberation. In Agamemnon, Clytemnestra uses Hephaestus’ fire to map space instantaneously. Her control of the god’s technology is aligned with her scandalous power over every other aspect of the action of the play.
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Johnson, Alan G. Out of Bounds: Anglo-Indian Literature and the Geography of Displacement. University of Hawaii Press, 2011.

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Eaglestone, Robert. The Question of Evil in Post-War British Fiction. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198749394.003.0005.

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This chapter argues that Iris Murdoch’s view that the fiction of the 1950s and early 1960s could not address evil is narrow and hence incorrect. Several important writers, such as William Golding, Muriel Spark, J. R. R. Tolkien, were precisely imagining evil in a range of different ways. Indeed, it was exactly as a response to the question of evil that they chose different forms (fantasy, fable, allegory). Importantly, for each of these writers, evil was not simply an abstract thing: the abstract was bound ineluctably into the historical reality of the Holocaust. It also raises the issue of the problem of evil as the fundamental question of post-war Europe. Each of these writers thus addressed this fundamental problem in different ways.
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Prestel, Joseph Ben. Haunted Happiness. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198797562.003.0007.

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turn-of-the-century Cairo, practices of living at a distance from the city center and physical exercise were also praised as fostering rationality and producing positive emotions. While contemporaries in the Egyptian capital could draw on the same examples as their counterparts in Berlin, Arabic-language authors did not exclusively refer to “European” ideals. They also discussed specific “Egyptian” antecedents, including physical exercise among the ancient Egyptians. With the spread of suburbs and spaces for physical exercise, these arguments about emotional betterment left material traces in turn-of-the-century Cairo. Looking at these dynamics, the chapter demonstrates that practices of emotional reform in Cairo were bound to a specific class formation. The attempt at creating “rational” and emotionally controlled subjects was tied to the rising influence of the city’s Arabic-speaking, male middle class, which presented itself as the vanguard of the national movement.
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Bialasiewicz, Luiza. Spectres of Europe: Europe's Past, Present, and Future. Edited by Dan Stone. Oxford University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199560981.013.0005.

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Since the late eighteenth century, the division of Europe into ‘East’ and ‘West’ bespoke not only a particular geography but also a particular temporal divide. Over the past two decades, a number of leading European thinkers have attempted to trace the ‘geo-philosophy’ of the European idea focusing on the idea of Europe as a civitas futura. This article discusses changing understandings of Europe in (and through) time, focusing on how different understandings of Europe's relation to its past, present, and future have been reflected in radically different visions for European geopolitics. After considering the myth of the Habsburg Empire, it looks at Europe after the Iraq war. The article then argues that contemporary visions of Europe's role in the world (in particular, the geographical imaginations of Europe's presumed ‘spaces of responsibility’) are inescapably bound up with certain historical shadows, but also rely in great part on distinct ‘spectres’ of a future to come.
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Bethke, Brandi, and Amanda Burtt, eds. Dogs. University Press of Florida, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5744/florida/9780813066363.001.0001.

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The relationship between humans and dogs has garnered considerable attention within archaeological research around the world. Investigations into the lived experiences of domestic dogs have proven to be an intellectually productive avenue for better understanding humanity in the past. This book examines the human-canine connection by moving beyond asking when, why, or how the dog was domesticated. While these questions are fundamental, beyond them lies a rich and textured history of humans maintaining a bond with another species through cooperation and companionship over thousands of years. Diverse techniques and theoretical approaches are used by authors in this volume to investigate the many ways dogs were conceptualized by their human counterparts in terms of both their value and social standing within a variety of human cultures across space and time. In this way, this book contributes a better understanding of the human-canine bond while also participating in broader anthropological discussions about how human interactions with domesticated animals shape their practices and worldviews.
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Westfahl, Gary. Arthur C. Clarke. University of Illinois Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252041938.001.0001.

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Despite extensive critical attention, Arthur C. Clarke’s distinctive science fiction has never been fully or properly understood. This study examines some of his lighthearted shorter works for the first time and explores how Clarke’s views regularly diverge from those of other science fiction writers. Clarke thought new inventions would likely bring more problems than benefits and suspected that human space travel would never extend beyond the solar system. He accepted that humanity would probably become extinct in the future or be transformed by evolution into unimaginable new forms. He anticipated that aliens would be genuinely alien in both their physiology and psychology. He perceived a deep bond between humanity and the oceans, perhaps stronger than any developing bond between humanity and space. Despite his lifelong atheism, he frequently pondered why humans developed religions, how they might abandon them, and why religions might endure in defiance of expectations. Finally, Clarke’s characters, often criticized as bland, actually are merely reticent, and the isolated lifestyles they adopt--remaining distant or alienated from their families and relying upon connections to broader communities and long-distance communication to ameliorate their solitude--not only reflect Clarke’s own personality, as a closeted homosexual and victim of a disability, but they also constitute his most important prediction, since increasing numbers of twenty-first-century citizens are now living in this manner.
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Bercaw Edwards, Mary K. Sailor Talk. Liverpool University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781800859654.001.0001.

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Throughout history, most people have encountered the language of sailors in ports. Such language, including nautical terminology, occupational lore, and the coterie speech that bound crews together, was a product of isolated shipborne communities at sea, but it was when sailors entered the liminal space of the port that the general public heard their speech. The language of sailors was often greeted with contempt and fear. The Boston Recorder warned in 1823 that when sailors are ashore, “Children can with difficulty enter the streets at all, without hearing the very dialect of hell.” Despite such condemnation, it was in the spoken world of sailor talk that Herman Melville, Joseph Conrad, and Jack London first became storytellers. They were all seafarers who transcribed their experiences at sea into stories, first told orally and then transformed into the written word. With their storytelling, they crossed the liminal space of the port and emerged as the great artists that they are. This book defines sailor talk, explores its inextricability from the labor of mariners, and investigates the orality of the shipboard world in which sailors worked. It then concentrates on the complex, multitudinous, and intertwining use of sailor talk in the works of Melville, Conrad, and London.
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