Menke's Telegraphic Realism is the first comprehensive reading of Victorian fiction as part of an emerging world of new media technologies and information exchange. The book analyzes the connections between fictional writing, communication technologies, and developing ideas about information, from the postage stamp and electric telegraph to wireless. By placing fiction in dialo...(展开全部)

The first edition of "Geographic Information Systems and Science" has taken the GIS textbook market by storm, selling over 22,000 copies since publication. It is the most current, authoritative and comprehensive treatment of the field, that goes from fundamental principles to the big picture. "GISS, 2e" builds on the success of the first edition; completely revised with a new f...(展开全部)

The Third Edition of this bestselling textbook has been fully revised and updated to include the latest developments in the field and still retains its accessible format to appeal to a broad range of students. Now divided into five clear sections the book investigates the unique, complex and difficult problems that are posed by geographic information and together they build int...(展开全部)

Edited by Uskali Maki

The Victorian novel developed unique forms of reasoning under uncertainty-of thinking, judging, and acting in the face of partial knowledge and unclear outcome. George Eliot, Wilkie Collins, William Thackeray, Thomas Hardy, and later Joseph Conrad drew on science, mathematics, philosophy, and the law to articulate a phenomenology of uncertainty against emergent models of predic...(展开全部)

盖勒特·斯图尔特(Garrett Stewart)是美国当代优秀的文学批评家之一，美国艺术与科学院(American Academyof Arts andSciences)院士。斯图尔特1967年毕业于南加利福尼亚大学，1971年在耶鲁大学获得博士学位，研究领域为英国文学。他的博士论文《狄更斯与想象实验》(Dickensand the JP：Trials ofImagination)经修改，由哈佛大学出版社于1974年出版。斯图尔特曾先后仟教于波士顿大学、加利福尼亚大学圣芭芭拉分校，目前是爱荷华大学英语系的教授。从1993年至今，斯图尔特在爱荷华大学教授小说、电影、文本理论等课程。除本书外，他的学术论著还有《阅读声音：文学与声文本》(ReadingVoices：Literature and the Phonotext)(1990)、《阅读之貌：书、画...(展开全部)

How did the Victorians engage with the ancient world? Victorian Culture and Classical Antiquity is a brilliant exploration of how the ancient worlds of Greece and Rome influenced Victorian culture. Through Victorian art, opera, and novels, Simon Goldhill examines how sexuality and desire, the politics of culture, and the role of religion in society were considered and debated t...(展开全部)