e-Book Collection

Transrealist Fiction
By:"Damien Broderick"
Published on 2000 by Greenwood Publishing Group

Transrealist writing treats \

This Book was ranked 35 by Google Books for keyword fiction.

University Fiction
By:"David Bevan"
Published on 1990 by Rodopi

This Book was ranked 25 by Google Books for keyword fiction.

The English Romance in Time
By:"Helen Cooper"
Published on 2004-06-17 by OUP Oxford

The English Romance in Time is a study of English romance across the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. It explores romance motifs - quests and fairy mistresses, passionate heroines and rudderless boats and missing heirs - from the first emergence of the genre in French and Anglo-Norman in the twelfth century down to the early seventeenth. This is a continuous story, since the same romances that constituted the largest and most sophisticated body of secular fiction in the Middle Ages went on to enjoy a new and vibrant popularity at all social levels in black-letter prints as the pulp fiction of the Tudor age. This embedded culture was reworked for political and Reformation propaganda and for the 'writing of England', as well as providing a generous reservoir of good stories and dramatic plots. The different ways in which the same texts were read over several centuries, or the same motifs shifted meaning as understanding and usage altered, provide a revealing and sensitive measure of historical and cultural change. The book accordingly looks at those processes of change as well as at how the motifs themselves work, to offer a historical semantics of the language of romance conventions. It also looks at how politics and romance intersect - the point where romance comes true. The historicizing of the study of literature is belatedly leading to a wider recognition that the early modern world is built on medieval foundations. This book explores both the foundations and the building. Similarly, generic theory, which previously tended to operate on transhistorical assumptions, is now acknowledging that genre interacts crucially with cultural context - with changing audiences and ideologies and means of dissemination. The generation into which Spenser and Shakespeare were born was the last to be brought up on a wide range of medieval romances in their original forms, and they could therefore exploit their generic codings in new texts aimed at both elite and popular audiences. Romance may since then have lost much of its cultural centrality, but the universal appeal of these same stories has continued to fuel later works from Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress to C.S. Lewis and Tolkien.

This Book was ranked 12 by Google Books for keyword romance.

Pulp
By:"Scott McCracken"
Published on 1998-09-15 by Manchester University Press

Bringing together chapters on the bestseller, detective fiction, popular romance, science fiction and horror, this text provides an account of the cultural theories that have informed the study of popular fiction.

This Book was ranked 21 by Google Books for keyword fiction.

Writing Science
By:"Joshua Schimel"
Published on 2012-01-26 by OUP USA

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This Book was ranked 22 by Google Books for keyword science.

Young Adult Literature
By:"Michael Cart"
Published on 2010 by American Library Association

This survey helps YA librarians who want to freshen up their readers advisory skills, teachers who use novels in the classroom, and adult services librarians who increasingly find themselves addressing the queries of teen patrons.

This Book was ranked 7 by Google Books for keyword romance.

Adventure, Mystery, and Romance
By:"John G. Cawelti"
Published on 1977-07-15 by University of Chicago Press

A study of the popular plot formulas, and chief practitioners, of the detective and crime story, western, and social melodrama, assessing their artistic and cultural significance

This Book was ranked 2 by Google Books for keyword romance.

Opening Science
By:"Sönke Bartling","Sascha Friesike"
Published on 2013-12-16 by Springer

Modern information and communication technologies, together with a cultural upheaval within the research community, have profoundly changed research in nearly every aspect. Ranging from sharing and discussing ideas in social networks for scientists to new collaborative environments and novel publication formats, knowledge creation and dissemination as we know it is experiencing a vigorous shift towards increased transparency, collaboration and accessibility. Many assume that research workflows will change more in the next 20 years than they have in the last 200. This book provides researchers, decision makers, and other scientific stakeholders with a snapshot of the basics, the tools, and the underlying visions that drive the current scientific (r)evolution, often called ‘Open Science.’

This Book was ranked 14 by Google Books for keyword science.

The Berenstain Bears' Big Book of Science and Nature
By:"Stan Berenstain","Jan Berenstain","Activity Books"
Published on 2013-01 by Courier Corporation

Introduces the seasons, weather, animals, plants, the earth, machines, matter, energy, and related topics.

This Book was ranked 12 by Google Books for keyword science.

ROMANCE A NOVEL
By:"JOSEPH CONRAD AND F.M. HEUFFER "
Published on 1903 by

This Book was ranked 19 by Google Books for keyword romance.

Science and Soccer
By:"Thomas Reilly","A. Mark Williams"
Published on 2003 by Psychology Press

Science and Soccer provides a comprehensive and accessible analysis of the physiology, biomechanics and psychology behind the world's most popular sport, and offers important guidance on how science translates into practice. Fully revised and updated to include new scientific research and data, it examines every key facet of the sport, including: players' anatomy, physiology, psychology and biomechanics coaching and training nutrition injury prevention and rehabilitation soccer surfaces and equipment match analysis growth and development in youth players talent identification. Science and Soccer represents a unique resource for students and academics in sports science and physical education. It should also be essential reading for all professional support staff working in the game, including coaches at all levels, physiotherapists, club doctors and sport psychologists.

This Book was ranked 31 by Google Books for keyword science.

Jane Austen, Feminism and Fiction
By:"Margaret Kirkham"
Published on 2000-12-01 by Bloomsbury Publishing

A classic account of Jane Austen in the context of eighteenth century feminist ideas and contemporary thought.

This Book was ranked 40 by Google Books for keyword fiction.

The Science of Marijuana
By:"Leslie L. Iversen"
Published on 2001-10-25 by Oxford University Press

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This Book was ranked 35 by Google Books for keyword science.

The Rhetoric of Fiction
By:"Wayne C. Booth"
Published on 2010-05-15 by University of Chicago Press

The first edition of The Rhetoric of Fiction transformed the criticism of fiction and soon became a classic in the field. One of the most widely used texts in fiction courses, it is a standard reference point in advanced discussions of how fictional form works, how authors make novels accessible, and how readers recreate texts, and its concepts and terms—such as \

This Book was ranked 29 by Google Books for keyword fiction.

Fiction
By:"Laurie G. Kirszner","Stephen R. Mandell"
Published on 1993-09-23 by Paulinas

Includes the fiction section from Literature: Reading, Reacting, Writing 2/e with three student papers and works by women, minority, non-Western and contemporary authors.

This Book was ranked 14 by Google Books for keyword fiction.

A Companion to Medieval Popular Romance
By:"Raluca L. Radulescu","Cory James Rushton"
Published on 2011-06 by DS Brewer

A comprehensive guide to the medieval popular romance, one of the age's most important literary forms.

This Book was ranked 29 by Google Books for keyword romance.

Critical Problems in the History of Science
By:"Marshall Clagett"
Published on 1969 by Univ of Wisconsin Press

This Book was ranked 26 by Google Books for keyword science.

Science and Technology in Islam: Technology and applied sciences
By:"A. Y. Al-Hassan"
Published on 2001 by UNESCO

Part II deals with agricultural science, alchemy, chemistry and chemical technology, mining and metallurgy military technology, textiles and manufacturing industries, mechanical technology, civil engineering, navigation and ship-building, medicine and pharmacy. Historians of Islamic science tend to limit their studies to the period up to the 16tb century but, Part II of this volume also deals with the continuation of science and technology in the Ottoman Empire, India and Iran.

This Book was ranked 9 by Google Books for keyword science.

Bad Science
By:"Ben Goldacre"
Published on 2010-10-12 by McClelland & Stewart

The informative and witty expose of the \

This Book was ranked 7 by Google Books for keyword science.

On Modern British Fiction
By:"Zachary Leader"
Published on 2003 by Oxford University Press, USA

A landmark collection of newly commissioned essays on British fiction of the last fifty years by the very best contemporary novelists, critics, and academics, including contributions from Martin Amis, P. N. Furbank, Christopher Hitchens, Elizabeth Jane Howard, Ian McEwan, Hilary Mantel,Patrick Parrinder, Elaine Showalter, James Wood, and Michael Wood. Among the topics discussed are the 'Englishness' of English comic fiction, its political conservatism, fiction and exile, Scottish fiction, the comissioning and editing of modern fiction, reviewing, the adaptation of fiction to television, genre fiction ('Ladlit', science fiction, crime fiction),and fictional form. There are also original essays on individual authors, including Christopher Isherwood, Angus Wilson, Iris Murdoch, Penelope Fitzgerald, V. S. Pritchett, V. S. Naipaul, and Salman Rushdie. A fascinating collection for anyone seriously interested in modern British fiction.

This Book was ranked 20 by Google Books for keyword fiction.

To Kill a Mockingbird (Enhanced Edition)
By:"Harper Lee"
Published on 2014-11-04 by Harper Collins

A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep South—and the heroism of one man in the face of blind and violent hatred One of the best-loved stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into more than forty languages, sold more than forty million copies worldwide, served as the basis for an enormously popular motion picture, and was voted one of the best novels of the twentieth century by librarians across the country. A gripping, heart-wrenching, and wholly remarkable tale of coming-of-age in a South poisoned by virulent prejudice, it views a world of great beauty and savage inequities through the eyes of a young girl, as her father—a crusading local lawyer—risks everything to defend a black man unjustly accused of a terrible crime.

This Book was ranked 15 by Google Books for keyword fiction.

The Oxford Handbook of Science Fiction
By:"Rob Latham"
Published on 2014 by Oxford Handbooks

The Oxford Handbook of Science Fiction attempts to descry the historical and cultural contours of SF in the wake of technoculture studies. Rather than treating the genre as an isolated aesthetic formation, it examines SF's many lines of cross-pollination with technocultural realities since itsinception in the nineteenth century, showing how SF's unique history and subcultural identity has been constructed in ongoing dialogue with popular discourses of science and technology. The volume consists of four broadly themed sections, each divided into eleven chapters. Section I, \

This Book was ranked 6 by Google Books for keyword fiction.

A Companion to Science Fiction
By:"David Seed"
Published on 2008-04-15 by John Wiley & Sons

A Companion to Science Fiction assembles essays by an international range of scholars which discuss the contexts, themes and methods used by science fiction writers. This Companion conveys the scale and variety of science fiction. Shows how science fiction has been used as a means of debating cultural issues. Essays by an international range of scholars discuss the contexts, themes and methods used by science fiction writers. Addresses general topics, such as the history and origins of the genre, its engagement with science and gender, and national variations of science fiction around the English-speaking world. Maps out connections between science fiction, television, the cinema, virtual reality technology, and other aspects of the culture. Includes a section focusing on major figures, such as H.G. Wells, Arthur C. Clarke, and Ursula Le Guin. Offers close readings of particular novels, from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein to Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale.

This Book was ranked 4 by Google Books for keyword fiction.

The romance of Jewish history, by the misses C. and M. Moss
By:"Celia Levetus","Marion Moss"
Published on 1840 by

This Book was ranked 20 by Google Books for keyword romance.

Visions of Science
By:"James A. Secord"
Published on 2015-04-03 by University of Chicago Press

The first half of the nineteenth century witnessed an extraordinary transformation in British political, literary, and intellectual life. There was widespread social unrest, and debates raged regarding education, the lives of the working class, and the new industrial, machine-governed world. At the same time, modern science emerged in Europe in more or less its current form, as new disciplines and revolutionary concepts, including evolution and the vastness of geologic time, began to take shape. In Visions of Science, James A. Secord offers a new way to capture this unique moment of change. He explores seven key books—among them Charles Babbage’s Reflections on the Decline of Science, Charles Lyell’s Principles ofGeology, Mary Somerville’s Connexion of the Physical Sciences, and Thomas Carlyle’s Sartor Resartus—and shows how literature that reflects on the wider meaning of science can be revelatory when granted the kind of close reading usually reserved for fiction and poetry. These books considered the meanings of science and its place in modern life, looking to the future, coordinating and connecting the sciences, and forging knowledge that would be appropriate for the new age. Their aim was often philosophical, but Secord shows it was just as often imaginative, projective, and practical: to suggest not only how to think about the natural world but also to indicate modes of action and potential consequences in an era of unparalleled change. Visions of Science opens our eyes to how genteel ladies, working men, and the literary elite responded to these remarkable works. It reveals the importance of understanding the physical qualities of books and the key role of printers and publishers, from factories pouring out cheap compendia to fashionable publishing houses in London’s West End. Secord’s vivid account takes us to the heart of an information revolution that was to have profound consequences for the making of the modern world.

This Book was ranked 21 by Google Books for keyword science.