The Athenaeum
The Athenaeum

Author: Michael Wheeler

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2020-10-27

Total Pages: 467

ISBN-13: 0300256337

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A compelling history of the famous London club and its members’ impact on Britain’s scientific, creative, and official life When it was founded in 1824, the Athenæum broke the mold. Unlike in other preeminent clubs, its members were chosen on the basis of their achievements rather than on their background or political affiliation. Public rather than private life dominated the agenda. The club, with its tradition of hospitality to conflicting views, has attracted leading scientists, writers, artists, and intellectuals throughout its history, including Charles Darwin and Matthew Arnold, Edward Burne-Jones and Yehudi Menuhin, Winston Churchill and Gore Vidal. This book is not presented in the traditional, insular style of club histories, but devotes attention to the influence of Athenians on the scientific, creative, and official life of the nation. From the unwitting recruitment of a Cold War spy to the welcome admittance of women, this lively and original account explores the corridors and characters of the club; its wider political, intellectual, and cultural influence; and its recent reinvention.

Culture Club
Culture Club

Author: Katherine Wolff

Publisher:

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13:

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Acquired Tastes
Acquired Tastes

Author: Boston Athenaeum

Publisher: Boston Athenaeum Library

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 390

ISBN-13:

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A stunning commemoration of 200 years of collecting, study, and debate at this venerable Boston institution

The Root
The Root

Author: Na'amen Gobert Tilahun

Publisher: Night Shade

Published: 2016-06-07

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13: 9781597808637

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A dark, gritty urban fantasy debut set in modern-day San Francisco, filled with gods, sinister government agencies, and worlds of dark magic hidden just below the surface. When a secret government agency trying to enslave you isn’t the biggest problem you’re facing, you’re in trouble. Erik, a former teen star living in San Francisco, thought his life was complicated; having his ex-boyfriend in jail because of the scandal that destroyed his career seemed overwhelming. Then Erik learned he was Blooded: descended from the Gods. Struggling with a power he doesn’t understand and can barely control, Erik discovers that a secret government agency is selling off Blooded like lab rats to a rival branch of preternatural beings in ’Zebub—San Francisco’s mirror city in an alternate dimension. Lil, a timid apprentice in ’Zebub, is searching for answers to her parents’ sudden and mysterious deaths. Surrounded by those who wish her harm and view her as a lesser being, Lil delves into a forgotten history that those in power will go to dangerous lengths to keep buried. What neither Erik nor Lil realize is that a darkness is coming, something none have faced in living memory. It eats. It hunts. And it knows them. In The Root, the dark and surging urban fantasy debut from Na’amen Tilahun, two worlds must come together if even a remnant of one is to survive. Skyhorse Publishing, under our Night Shade and Talos imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of titles for readers interested in science fiction (space opera, time travel, hard SF, alien invasion, near-future dystopia), fantasy (grimdark, sword and sorcery, contemporary urban fantasy, steampunk, alternative history), and horror (zombies, vampires, and the occult and supernatural), and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller, a national bestseller, or a Hugo or Nebula award-winner, we are committed to publishing quality books from a diverse group of authors.

Collection Applied Design
Collection Applied Design

Author: Kim MacConnel

Publisher: Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780934418720

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Published on the occasion of the exhibition, Collection Applied Design: A Kim MacConnel Retrospective, in La Jolla, Calif., Oct. 9, 2010 to Jan. 23, 2011.

Katherine Mansfield and Periodical Culture
Katherine Mansfield and Periodical Culture

Author: Mourant Chris Mourant

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2019-04-10

Total Pages: 412

ISBN-13: 1474439489

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Explores Katherine Mansfield's engagement in the periodical culture of the early twentieth century This book considers Mansfield's ambivalent position as a colonial woman writer by examining her contributions to the political weekly The New Age, the avant-garde little magazine Rhythm and the literary journal The Athenaeum. Contextualising Mansfield's work against the editorial strategies and professional cultures of each periodical, the book deepens and complicates older critical assumptions about the trajectory of Mansfield's development as a writer. Key FeaturesProvides the first sustained scholarly examination of Mansfield's engagement with and relation to early twentieth-century periodical cultureForegrounds the original material contexts in which Mansfield produced the majority of her work, emphasising a dialogic or 'conversational' model for modernismInterrogates Mansfield's ambivalent self-positioning within English literary circles as a 'colonial-metropolitan modernist' and 'outsider'Integrates ideas of the recent 'transnational turn' across literary studies into the field of periodical scholarship

Katherine Mansfield and the Modernist Marketplace
Katherine Mansfield and the Modernist Marketplace

Author: J. McDonnell

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2010-08-04

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 0230282040

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Katherine Mansfield had a career-long engagement with the literary marketplace from the age of eighteen. This book examines how she developed as a writer within a range of book and periodical publishing contexts, reconsidering her writing's enactment of a commercially viable modern aesthetic in her experimentation with the short story form.

Recreating Newton
Recreating Newton

Author: Rebekah Higgitt

Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press

Published: 2016-09-12

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 0822981793

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Higgitt examines Isaac Newton's changing legacy during the nineteenth century. She focuses on 1820-1870, a period that saw the creation of the specialized and secularized role of the "scientist." At the same time, researchers gained better access to Newton's archives. These were used both by those who wished to undermine the traditional, idealised depiction of scientific genius and those who felt obliged to defend Newtonian hagiography. Higgitt shows how debates about Newton's character stimulated historical scholarship and led to the development of a new expertise in the history of science.