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The Age of Analogy

Science and Literature between the Darwins

By: Devin Griffiths

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The Age of Analogy

Science and Literature between the Darwins

By: Devin Griffiths

How did literature shape nineteenth-century science? Erasmus Darwin and his grandson, Charles, were the two most important evolutionary theorists of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain. Although their ideas and methods differed, both Darwins were prolific and inventive writers: Erasmus composed several epic poems and scientific treatises, while Charles is renowned both for his collected journals (now titled The Voyage of the Beagle) and for his masterpiece, The Origin of Species. In The Age of Analogy, Devin Griffiths argues that the Darwins’ writing style was profoundly influenced by the poets, novelists, and historians of their era. The Darwins, like other scientists of the time, labored to refashion contemporary literary models into a new mode of narrative analysis that could address the contingent world disclosed by contemporary natural science. By employing vivid language and experimenting with a variety of different genres, these writers gave rise to a new relational study of antiquity, or “comparative historicism,” that emerged outside of traditional histories. It flourished instead in literary forms like the realist novel and the elegy, as well as in natural histories that explored the continuity between past and present forms of life. Nurtured by imaginative cross-disciplinary descriptions of the past—from the historical fiction of Sir Walter Scott and George Eliot to the poetry of Alfred Tennyson—this novel understanding of history fashioned new theories of natural transformation, encouraged a fresh investment in social history, and explained our intuition that environment shapes daily life. Drawing on a wide range of archival evidence and contemporary models of scientific and literary networks, The Age of Analogy explores the critical role analogies play within historical and scientific thinking. Griffiths also presents readers with a new theory of analogy that emphasizes language's power to foster insight into nature and human society. The first comparative treatment of the Darwins’ theories of history and their profound contribution to the study of both natural and human systems, this book will fascinate students and scholars of nineteenth-century British literature and the history of science.

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1421420775

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The Age of Analogy

Science and Literature between the Darwins

By: Devin Griffiths

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Virtual Ascendance

Video Games and the Remaking of Reality

By: Devin C. Griffiths

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Virtual Ascendance

Video Games and the Remaking of Reality

By: Devin C. Griffiths

Video gaming is wildly popular and getting even more so as interfaces and devices improve. This popular account of the rise of gaming offers insight into its popularity and place in our culture as well as the impact it has on our daily lives – from the doctor’s office to the family room sofa.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1442216964

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9781442216969

Tolkien

How an Obscure Oxford Professor Wrote The Hobbit and Became the Most Beloved Author of the Century

By: Devin Brown

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Tolkien

How an Obscure Oxford Professor Wrote The Hobbit and Became the Most Beloved Author of the Century

By: Devin Brown

J.R.R. Tolkien transformed his love for arcane linguistic studies into a fantastic world of Middle Earth, a world of filled with characters that readers the world over have loved and learned from for generations. Devin Brown focuses on the story behind how Tolkien became one of the best-known writers in the history of literature, a tale as fascinating and as inspiring as any of the fictional ones he would go on to write. Weaving in the major aspects of the author’s life, career, and faith, Brown shares how Tolkien’s beloved works came to be written. With a third follow-up film and the book’s release the same month, there’s a large interest in the faith values for these works. This book addresses that deep hunger to know what fuels the world and worldview of The Hobbit’s celebrated author, Tolkien.

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106

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Abingdon Press

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1426796714

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9781426796715

Strengthening Governance Globally

Forecasting the Next 50 Years

By: Barry B. Hughes,Devin K. Joshi,Jonathan D. Moyer,Timothy D. Sisk,Jose Roberto Solorzano

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Strengthening Governance Globally

Forecasting the Next 50 Years

By: Barry B. Hughes,Devin K. Joshi,Jonathan D. Moyer,Timothy D. Sisk,Jose Roberto Solorzano

Strengthening Governance Globally is the fifth volume in the series 'Patterns of Potential Human Progress'. Each volume considers one key aspect of how development unfolds globally and how better to move it in desired directions. This volume identifies the provision of security, the building of government capacity, and the broadening of inclusion of governance on which high-income countries have traditionally made long historical transitions. In contrast, many developing countries today struggle with all three governance transition dimensions simultaneously. Strengthening Governance Globally uses the growing empirical database on governance variables to understand historical change.

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722

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Routledge

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1317251369

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9781317251361

The Christian World of The Hobbit

By: Devin Brown

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The Christian World of The Hobbit

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A fantastical story rooted in the author's faith.

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Abingdon Press

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142674949X

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9781426749490

A Life Observed

A Spiritual Biography of C. S. Lewis

By: Devin Brown

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A Life Observed

A Spiritual Biography of C. S. Lewis

By: Devin Brown

C. S. Lewis is one of the most influential Christian writers of our time. The Chronicles of Narnia has sold more than 100 million copies worldwide and all Lewis's works are estimated to sell 6 million copies annually. At the fiftieth anniversary of his death, Lewis expert Devin Brown brings the beloved author's story to life in a fresh, accessible, and moving biography through focusing on Lewis's spiritual journey. Although it was clear from the start that Lewis would be a writer, it was not always clear he would become a Christian. Drawing on Lewis's autobiographical works, books by those who knew him personally, and his apologetic and fictional writing, this book tells the inspiring story of Lewis's journey from cynical atheist to joyous Christian and challenges readers to follow their own calling. The book allows Lewis to tell his own life story in a uniquely powerful manner while shedding light on his best-known works.

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Brazos Press

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1441242864

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Detective Fiction on the Case of Community

The Mystery at the Heart of the Modern

By: Devin Fromm

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Detective Fiction on the Case of Community

The Mystery at the Heart of the Modern

By: Devin Fromm

Detective Fiction on the Case of Community uses one of the most popular forms of modern literature to examine one of modernity’s most trenchant problems. The project rests on the argument that detective fiction emerges specifically from an awareness of the stress that modernization puts on the possibilities of communal life, as industrialization and urbanism accelerate the alienation and atomization we recognize as modern conditions. Here the detective appears as an image of thinking still able to perceive the threads that link such alienated people together, and therefore able to imagine solutions along the lines of these obscured connections. Reading the genre’s journey, from its origins in Poe to its most unorthodox form in Pynchon, allows fresh perspectives on the possibilities and limits of modern community, from its endurance as part of modernization to its meaning today as a sticking point in theoretical debate and political activism.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040144535

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9781040144534

Inside Narnia

A Guide to Exploring The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

By: Devin Brown

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Inside Narnia

A Guide to Exploring The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

By: Devin Brown

Join award-winning author Devin Brown as he takes readers on a fascinating journey to the land of Narnia. Whether you’re a longtime fan of The Chronicles of Narnia or are just discovering them for the first time, you will be amazed and inspired as you undertake your very own chapter-by-chapter guided tour of C. S. Lewis’s beloved classics. Learn more about the book that started it all—The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe—and about its creator, C. S. Lewis. Discover how Professor Lewis first came to write his wonderful story about a magical land where it is always winter and never Christmas. Uncover the story-behind-the-story of how four children and a great lion named Aslan brought springtime back and rescued its inhabitants (beavers, fauns, and even centaurs) from the spell of the evil White Witch.

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Abingdon Press

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1426785550

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Virtual Ascendance

Video Games and the Remaking of Reality

By: Devin C. Griffiths

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Video Games and the Remaking of Reality

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Rowman & Littlefield

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The Age of Analogy

The Age of Analogy

The Age of Analogy

The Age of Analogy

Virtual Ascendance

Virtual Ascendance

Tolkien

Tolkien

Strengthening Governance Globally

Strengthening Governance Globally

The Christian World of The Hobbit

The Christian World of The Hobbit

A Life Observed

A Life Observed

Detective Fiction on the Case of Community

Detective Fiction on the Case of Community

Inside Narnia

Inside Narnia

Virtual Ascendance

Virtual Ascendance

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