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This volume includes a variety of first-hand case studies, critical analyses, action research and reflective practice in the digital humanities which ranges from digital literature, library science, online games, museum studies, information literacy to corpus linguistics in the 21st century. It informs readers of the latest developments in the digital humanities and their influence on learning and teaching. With the growing advancement of digital...

"...overview of the themes, questions, and methods that are central to current research on the history of the nineteenth- and twentieth-century humanities. Taking readers through the field's core definitions, its practical applications, and engagement with sociopolitical events..." -- page 4 of cover.

"This volume celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of the Harry Ransom Center. Staff members describe the Center's founding, the growth of its collections as part of a thoughtful and deliberate acquisition plan, and its extensive outreach to scholars, students, and the general public. They pay tribute to the leadership of Harry Ransom, who conceived the idea of a research center in the humanities that would be for the state of Texas what the Bibliotheque...

A lighthearted survey of the science of mistakes by the authors of Chances Are reveals how the human race is hard-wired to get things wrong in countless ways, citing such examples as successful racy advertisements for inferior products, our inclinations to favor dysfunctional relationship partners, and the socially unacceptable behaviors of leaders.

Ernst Cassirer, one of the foremost philosophers of this century, analyzes the basic concepts that underlie our art, our knowledge of history, and our disciplined knowledge of human nature. This philosophy of culture is a key to deeper understanding of the forms of art and aesthetic expression.

Based on the authors' practical experience as researchers and teachers and thus accessible, practical and 'how-to', this simple guide to the process of conducting research in the humanities, with special reference to media and culture, includes students' own work as examples.

Freud's influence has been as deep, and as controversial, outside psychology as within it. This book brings together original contributions by leading scholars and psychologists to assess the impact of psychoanalysis on the arts and humanities.

Drawing largely on the work of Foucault, Racevskis elucidates the philosophical and political problems at issue in the debate and the changes taking place in our ways of seeing ourselves and our relations with others. He shows how the them of enlightenment has been a central component in the conflicts that pit modernists against postmodernists, Marxists against post-Marxists, and liberals against conservatives, and he juxtaposes the arguments in such...