Miranda Moore's Books

In Byron's Wake

By: Miranda Seymour

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

In 1815, the clever and courted Annabella Milbanke married the notorious and brilliant Lord Byron. Just one year later, she fled, taking with her their baby daughter, Ada Lovelace. Byron himself escaped into exile and died as a revolutionary hero in 1824. Brought up by a mother who became one of the most progressive reformers of Victorian England, Byron’s little girl was introduced to mathematics as a means of calming her wild spirits. As a child invalid, Ada dreamed of building a steam-driven flying horse. As an exuberant and boldly unconventional young woman, she amplified her explanations of Charles Babbage’s unbuilt calculating engine to predict the dawn of the modern computer age.During her life, Lady Byron was praised as a paragon of virtue; within ten years of her death, she was vilified as a disgrace to her sex. Well over a hundred years later, Annabella Milbanke is still perceived as a prudish wife and cruelly controlling mother. But her hidden devotion to Byron and her tender ambitions for his mercurial, brilliant daughter reveal a deeply complex but unexpectedly sympathetic personality.Drawing on fascinating new material, Seymour reveals the ways in which Byron, long after his death, continued to shape the lives and reputations both of his wife and his daughter.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

445

Publisher

Simon and Schuster

Published Date

ISBN 10

1681779366

ISBN 13

9781681779362

The Writers

A History of American Screenwriters and Their Guild

By: Miranda J. Banks

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Writers

A History of American Screenwriters and Their Guild

By: Miranda J. Banks

Screenwriters are storytellers and dream builders. They forge new worlds and beings, bringing them to life through storylines and idiosyncratic details. Yet up until now, no one has told the story of these creative and indispensable artists. The Writers is the only comprehensive qualitative analysis of the history of writers and writing in the film, television, and streaming media industries in America. Featuring in-depth interviews with over fifty writers—including Mel Brooks, Norman Lear, Carl Reiner, and Frank Pierson—The Writers delivers a compelling, behind-the-scenes look at the role and rights of writers in Hollywood and New York over the past century. Granted unprecedented access to the archives of the Writers Guild Foundation, Miranda J. Banks also mines over 100 never-before-published oral histories with legends such as Nora Ephron and Ring Lardner Jr., whose insight and humor provide a window onto the enduring priorities, policies, and practices of the Writers Guild. With an ear for the language of storytellers, Banks deftly analyzes watershed moments in the industry: the advent of sound, World War II, the blacklist, ascension of television, the American New Wave, the rise and fall of VHS and DVD, and the boom of streaming media. The Writers spans historical and contemporary moments, and draws upon American cultural history, film and television scholarship and the passionate politics of labor and management. Published on the sixtieth anniversary of the formation of the Writers Guild of America, this book tells the story of the triumphs and struggles of these vociferous and contentious hero-makers.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

345

Publisher

Rutgers University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0813571405

ISBN 13

9780813571409

Probabilistic Approaches to Robotic Perception

By: João Filipe Ferreira,Jorge Miranda Dias

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Probabilistic Approaches to Robotic Perception

By: João Filipe Ferreira,Jorge Miranda Dias

This book tries to address the following questions: How should the uncertainty and incompleteness inherent to sensing the environment be represented and modelled in a way that will increase the autonomy of a robot? How should a robotic system perceive, infer, decide and act efficiently? These are two of the challenging questions robotics community and robotic researchers have been facing. The development of robotic domain by the 1980s spurred the convergence of automation to autonomy, and the field of robotics has consequently converged towards the field of artificial intelligence (AI). Since the end of that decade, the general public’s imagination has been stimulated by high expectations on autonomy, where AI and robotics try to solve difficult cognitive problems through algorithms developed from either philosophical and anthropological conjectures or incomplete notions of cognitive reasoning. Many of these developments do not unveil even a few of the processes through which biological organisms solve these same problems with little energy and computing resources. The tangible results of this research tendency were many robotic devices demonstrating good performance, but only under well-defined and constrained environments. The adaptability to different and more complex scenarios was very limited. In this book, the application of Bayesian models and approaches are described in order to develop artificial cognitive systems that carry out complex tasks in real world environments, spurring the design of autonomous, intelligent and adaptive artificial systems, inherently dealing with uncertainty and the “irreducible incompleteness of models”.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

259

Publisher

Springer

Published Date

ISBN 10

3319020064

ISBN 13

9783319020068

Suffrage and the Arts

Visual Culture, Politics and Enterprise

By: Miranda Garrett,Zoë Thomas

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Suffrage and the Arts

Visual Culture, Politics and Enterprise

By: Miranda Garrett,Zoë Thomas

Suffrage and the Arts re-establishes the central role that artistic women and men-from jewellers, portrait painters, embroiderers, through to retailers of 'artistic' products-played in the suffrage campaign in the British Isles. As political individuals, they were foot soldiers who helped sustain the momentum of the movement and as designers, makers and sellers they spread the message of the campaign to new local, national and international audiences, mediating how suffrage activism was understood by society at large. Published to coincide with the centenary of the 1918 Representation of the People Act, which granted the vote to women over the age of thirty meeting a property qualification, this edited collection offers a range of new perspectives and readings of the outpouring of creative responses to the campaign. Contributors, who include historians, art historians, curators, museum professionals and suffrage experts, call upon the historiographical developments of the last thirty years, alongside new archival discoveries, to showcase the vibrancy of ongoing research in this area. Throughout, chapters investigate the wider socio-cultural backdrop to suffrage and the women's movement, the difficult choices that were made between professional, artistic aspirations and political commitment, and how institutional and informal networks influenced creative expression and participation in feminist politics. From shining light on the use of portraiture to bolster the cultural cachet of the militant Women's Social and Political Union, uncovering the links between Victorian interior design, enterprise and suffrage, through to questioning the supposed conservativism of women's art institutions during the campaign and in the inter-war era, Suffrage and the Arts is a timely and important collection which will contribute to a number of scholarly fields.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

431

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing

Published Date

ISBN 10

1350011835

ISBN 13

9781350011830

Homegirls in the Public Sphere

By: Marie "Keta" Miranda

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Homegirls in the Public Sphere

By: Marie "Keta" Miranda

Girls in gangs are usually treated as objects of public criticism and rejection. Seldom are they viewed as objects worthy of understanding and even more rarely are they allowed to be active subjects who craft their own public persona—which is what makes this work unique. In this book, Marie "Keta" Miranda presents the results of an ethnographic collaboration with Chicana gang members, in which they contest popular and academic representations of Chicana/o youth and also construct their own narratives of self identity through a documentary film, It's a Homie Thang! In telling the story of her research in the Fruitvale community of Oakland, California, Miranda honestly reveals how even a sympathetic ethnographer from the same ethnic group can objectify the subjects of her study. She recounts how her project evolved into a study of representation and its effects in the public sphere as the young women spoke out about how public images of their lives rarely come close to the reality. As Miranda describes how she listened to the gang members and collaborated in the production of their documentary, she sheds new light on the politics of representation and ethnography, on how inner city adolescent Chicanas present themselves to various publics, and on how Chicana gangs actually function.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

233

Publisher

University of Texas Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0292778570

ISBN 13

9780292778573

Computer Sound Design

Synthesis techniques and programming

By: Eduardo Miranda

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Computer Sound Design

Synthesis techniques and programming

By: Eduardo Miranda

This comprehensive introduction to software synthesis techniques and programming is intended for students, researchers, musicians, sound artists and enthusiasts in the field of music technology. The art of sound synthesis is as important for the electronic musician as the art of orchestration is important for symphonic music composers. Those who wish to create their own virtual orchestra of electronic instruments and produce original sounds will find this book invaluable. It examines a variety of synthesis techniques and illustrates how to turn a personal computer into a powerful and flexible sound synthesiser. The book also discusses a number of ongoing developments that may play an important role in the future of electronic music making. Previously published as Computer Sound Synthesis for the Electronic Musician, this second edition features a foreword by Jean-Claude Risset and provides new information on: · the latest directions in digital sound representation · advances in physical modelling techniques · granular and pulsar synthesis · PSOLA technique · humanoid voice synthesis · artificial intelligence · evolutionary computing The accompanying CD-ROM contains examples, complementary tutorials and a number of synthesis systems for PC and Macintosh platforms, ranging from low level synthesis programming languages to graphic front-ends for instrument and sound design. These include fully working packages, demonstration versions of commercial software and experimental programs from top research centres in Europe, North and South America.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

283

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Published Date

ISBN 10

1136119655

ISBN 13

9781136119651

Constance of France

Womanhood and Agency in Twelfth-Century Europe

By: Myra Miranda Bom

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Constance of France

Womanhood and Agency in Twelfth-Century Europe

By: Myra Miranda Bom

Constance of France: Womanhood and Agency in Twelfth-Century Europe is a biography of Constance of France, sister of King Louis VII of France. Myra Bom recovers Constance’s life story and puts it in its medieval context by examining the historical evidence of chronicles, charters, seal imprints and letters. The countess’s long and interesting life makes for women’s history with a large geographical scope, including France, England, Toulouse and the Latin East. It touches on many aspects of life during the Middle Ages such as birth, marriage and divorce, gender roles, experience of time, and expectation for the afterlife. Bom demonstrates how and to what extent medieval women could, and did, take control of their own lives. This book is an account of the interplay of historical context and agency.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

328

Publisher

Springer Nature

Published Date

ISBN 10

3031104293

ISBN 13

9783031104299

One Must Not Go Altogether with the Tide

The Letters of Ezra Pound and Stanley Nott

By: Miranda B. Hickman

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

One Must Not Go Altogether with the Tide

The Letters of Ezra Pound and Stanley Nott

By: Miranda B. Hickman

Nott, who published Jefferson and/or Mussolini (1935), was an interested and encouraging interlocutor for a poet seeking re-invention as an economist and political commentator - someone who sustained Pound as he swam against the tide. Pound's close involvement with his publisher illuminates an important episode in literary modernism as well as for the study of print culture in the interwar period. This edition of the letters retains Pound's idiosyncratic epistolary idiom and analyzes letter-writing as a genre critical to Pound's intellectual and cultural project, capturing Pound as a collaborator at work.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

464

Publisher

McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published Date

ISBN 10

0773585974

ISBN 13

9780773585973

Noble Endeavours

The life of two countries, England and Germany, in many stories

By: Miranda Seymour

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Noble Endeavours

The life of two countries, England and Germany, in many stories

By: Miranda Seymour

In 1613 a beautiful Stuart princess married a handsome young German prince. This was a love match, but it was also an alliance that aimed to weld together Europe's two great Protestant powers. Before Elizabeth and Frederick left London for the court in Heidelberg, they watched a performance of The Winter's Tale. In 1943, a group of British POWS gave a performance of that same play to a group of enthusiastic Nazi guards in Bavaria. When the amateur actors suggested doing a version of The Merchant of Venice that showed Shylock as the hero, the guards brought in the costumes and helped create the sets. Nothing about the story of England and Germany, as this remarkable book demonstrates, is as simple as we might expect. A shared faith, a shared hunger for power, a shared culture (Germany never doubted that Shakespeare belonged to them, as much as to England); a shared leadership. German monarchs ruled over England for three hundred years - and only ceased to do so through a change of name. Miranda Seymour has written a rich and heart-breaking story that needs to be heard: the vibrant, extraordinary history - told through the lives of kings and painters, soldiers and sailors, sugar-bakers and bankers, charlatans and saints - of two countries so entwined that one man, asked for his allegiance in 1916, said he didn't know because it felt as though his parents had quarrelled. Thirteen years of Nazi power can never be forgotten. But should thirteen years blot out four centuries of a profound, if rivalrous, friendship? Speaking in 1984, a remarkable Jew who fought for Germany in one war and for England in the next called for an end to the years of mistrust. Quarter of a century later, that mistrust remains as strong as ever and Hitler remains Germany's most familiar face. The stories that Miranda Seymour has recovered from a wealth of unpublished material and exceptional sources, remind us, poignantly, wittily and tragically, of all that we have chosen to forget.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

663

Publisher

Simon and Schuster

Published Date

ISBN 10

1847378269

ISBN 13

9781847378262

A Bird that Flies with Two Wings

Kastom and State Justice Systems in Vanuatu

By: Miranda Forsyth

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

A Bird that Flies with Two Wings

Kastom and State Justice Systems in Vanuatu

By: Miranda Forsyth

This book investigates the problems and possibilities of plural legal orders through an in-depth study of the relationship between the state and customary justice systems in Vanuatu. It argues that there is a need to move away from the current state-centric approach to law reform in the South Pacific region, and instead include all state and non-state legal orders in development strategies and dialogue. The book also presents a typology of models of engagement between state and non-state legal systems, and describes a process for analysing which of these models would be most advantageous for any country in the South Pacific region, and beyond.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

318

Publisher

ANU E Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1921536799

ISBN 13

9781921536793

Debt to Society

Accounting for Life under Capitalism

By: Miranda Joseph

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Debt to Society

Accounting for Life under Capitalism

By: Miranda Joseph

It is commonplace to say that criminals pay their debt to society by spending time in prison, but what is a “debt to society”? How is crime understood as a debt? How has time become the equivalent for crime? And how does criminal debt relate to the kind of debt held by consumers and university students? In Debt to Society, Miranda Joseph explores modes of accounting as they are used to create, sustain, or transform social relations. Envisioning accounting broadly to include financial accounting, managerial accounting of costs and performance, and the calculation of “debts to society” owed by criminals, Joseph argues that accounting technologies have a powerful effect on social dynamics by attributing credits and debts. From sovereign bonds and securitized credit card debt to student debt and mortgages, there is no doubt that debt and accounting structure our lives. Exploring central components of neoliberalism (and neoliberalism in crisis) from incarceration to personal finance and university management, Debt to Society exposes the uneven distribution of accountability within our society. Joseph demonstrates how ubiquitous the forces of accounting have become in shaping all aspects of our lives, proposing that we appropriate accounting and offer alternative accounts to turn the present toward a more widely shared well-being.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

302

Publisher

U of Minnesota Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1452941602

ISBN 13

9781452941608

Epistemic Ambivalence

Pentecostalism and Candomblé in a Brazilian City

By: Daniel Medeiros de Freitas,Carolina Maria Soares Lima,Krzysztof Nawratek,Bernardo Miranda Pataro

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Epistemic Ambivalence

Pentecostalism and Candomblé in a Brazilian City

By: Daniel Medeiros de Freitas,Carolina Maria Soares Lima,Krzysztof Nawratek,Bernardo Miranda Pataro

This book delves into the complex relationship between religious imaginaries and the perception of space among followers of Candomblé and Pentecostal churches in Belo Horizonte, Brazil's third-largest urban agglomeration. It adopts a dual perspective, examining the broader political, economic, and social dimensions of these religious communities' urbanisation and spatial distribution and their members' individual beliefs and behaviours. Through this approach, the book aims to provide a nuanced and insider's view of these religious positions, challenging our preconceived notions of urban spaces and contributing to the larger discussion of decolonial urban theory and spatialised post-secular thought. This transdisciplinary book will appeal to a broad range of researchers, particularly those interested in urban and religious studies. Its strong spatial perspective makes it attractive to architects and urban designers. It will be of interest to those in human geography, urban planning, design, architecture, political science, religious studies, and culture studies. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 license.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

137

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Published Date

ISBN 10

1000967417

ISBN 13

9781000967418

Black Tudors

The Untold Story

By: Miranda Kaufmann

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Black Tudors

The Untold Story

By: Miranda Kaufmann

A new, transformative history – in Tudor times there were Black people living and working in Britain, and they were free ‘This is history on the cutting edge of archival research, but accessibly written and alive with human details and warmth.’ David Olusoga, author of Black and British: A Forgotten History A black porter publicly whips a white Englishman in the hall of a Gloucestershire manor house. A Moroccan woman is baptised in a London church. Henry VIII dispatches a Mauritanian diver to salvage lost treasures from the Mary Rose. From long-forgotten records emerge the remarkable stories of Africans who lived free in Tudor England… They were present at some of the defining moments of the age. They were christened, married and buried by the Church. They were paid wages like any other Tudors. The untold stories of the Black Tudors, dazzlingly brought to life by Kaufmann, will transform how we see this most intriguing period of history. *** Shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize 2018 A Book of the Year for the Evening Standard and the Observer ‘That rare thing: a book about the 16th century that said something new.’ Evening Standard, Books of the Year ‘Splendid… a cracking contribution to the field.’ Dan Jones, Sunday Times ‘Consistently fascinating, historically invaluable… the narrative is pacy... Anyone reading it will never look at Tudor England in the same light again.’ Daily Mail

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

354

Publisher

Simon and Schuster

Published Date

ISBN 10

1786071851

ISBN 13

9781786071859

Carotid Treatment: Principles and Techniques

By: Christopher Miranda Loftus,Satoshi Kuroda,Naoya Kuwayama

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Carotid Treatment: Principles and Techniques

By: Christopher Miranda Loftus,Satoshi Kuroda,Naoya Kuwayama

Highly illustrated text to aid understanding of best practice in carotid treatment Reflects international best practice Useful in clinical practice and to improve patient care

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

441

Publisher

CRC Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1000428893

ISBN 13

9781000428896

Conducting Personal Network Research

A Practical Guide

By: Christopher McCarty,Miranda J. Lubbers,Raffaele Vacca,José Luis Molina

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Conducting Personal Network Research

A Practical Guide

By: Christopher McCarty,Miranda J. Lubbers,Raffaele Vacca,José Luis Molina

Written at an introductory level, and featuring engaging case examples, this book reviews the theory and practice of personal and egocentric network research. This approach offers powerful tools for capturing the impact of overlapping, changing social relationships and contexts on individuals' attitudes and behavior. The authors provide solid guidance on the formulation of research questions; research design; data collection, including decisions about survey modes and sampling frames; the measurement of network composition and structure, including the use of name generators; and statistical modeling, from basic regression techniques to more advanced multilevel and dynamic models. Ethical issues in personal network research are addressed. User-friendly features include boxes on major published studies, end-of-chapter suggestions for further reading, and an appendix describing the main software programs used in the field.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

293

Publisher

Guilford Publications

Published Date

ISBN 10

146253838X

ISBN 13

9781462538386

Farming, Fighting and Family

A Memoir of the Second World War

By: Miranda McCormick

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Farming, Fighting and Family

A Memoir of the Second World War

By: Miranda McCormick

Farmer, author and broadcaster Arthur (A.G.) Street was one of the leading voices of British agriculture during the Second World War. His daughter Pamela – herself an aspiring writer – was 18 when war broke out. David, her future husband, served with the 4th RHA in North Africa. Using their previously unpublished diaries and letters, Miranda McCormick – Pamela's daughter – tells the candid story of a Wiltshire family living and working at a time when 'a little German with a black paint-brush moustache turned [the] world upside down'. Their very different experiences of war are woven into one masterful narrative of love, duty and separation during a time of national adversity. Detailing the sudden rise of her tenant farmer father to the status of a national celebrity, Pamela's service as a VAD nurse and in the ATS, as well as her unofficial fiancé's detainment in German and Italian prison camps, this is a story told with an almost allegorical simplicity. Intimate and personal, this vivid account of 'ordinary life' during extraordinary times is also the chronicle of a generation for whom farming was the fourth line of defence.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

362

Publisher

The History Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0750965649

ISBN 13

9780750965644

Mary Shelley

By: Miranda Seymour

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Mary Shelley

By: Miranda Seymour

Mary Shelley's own life was as dramatic as her fiction. Even had she not (at the age of 19) authored Frankenstein, one of the greatest horror fables in literature, she would be crucial to the study of Romanticism, as the daughter of two of the great radical thinkers of the day, William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft (who died following Mary's birth); and as the second Mrs Percy Bysshe Shelley, her companion for that stormy stay at Byron's Geneva villa in 1816 - the 'haunted summer' that begat Frankenstein. Drawing on unexplored sources, Miranda Seymour's hugely acclaimed biography penetrates the myth to offer the fullest, richest portrait of this extraordinary woman. 'Mary Shelley is the most dazzling biography of a female writer to have come my way for an entire decade.' Financial Times 'Brilliant and enthralling, this portrait illuminates Mary's life in many unexpected ways.' Independent on Sunday 'Miranda Seymour has vivid narrative gifts and a perceptive understanding of the main personalities.' New York Times Book Review 'A thoughtfully considered and exceptionally lifelike portrait of a complex and often misunderstood character.' Los Angeles Times 'A harrowing life, wonderfully retold.' Washington Post Book World 'A splendid biography.' New Yorker

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

565

Publisher

Faber & Faber

Published Date

ISBN 10

0571279678

ISBN 13

9780571279678

The Language of the Muses

The Dialogue Between Roman and Greek Sculpture

By: Miranda Marvin

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Language of the Muses

The Dialogue Between Roman and Greek Sculpture

By: Miranda Marvin

Since the Renaissance, it has been generally accepted that almost all Roman sculptures depicting ideal figures were copies of Greek originals. This text traces the origin of this idea to the academic belief in the mythical perfection of now-lost Greek art.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

316

Publisher

Getty Publications

Published Date

ISBN 10

0892368063

ISBN 13

9780892368068

A Girl Walks into a Book

What the Brontës Taught Me about Life, Love, and Women's Work

By: Miranda K Pennington

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

A Girl Walks into a Book

What the Brontës Taught Me about Life, Love, and Women's Work

By: Miranda K Pennington

How many times have you heard readers argue about which is better, Jane Eyre or Wuthering Heights? The works of Charlotte, Emily, and Anne continue to provoke passionate fandom over a century after their deaths. Brontënthusiasts, as well as those of us who never made it further than those oft-cited classics, will devour Miranda Pennington's delightful literary memoir. Pennington, today a writer and teacher in New York, was a precocious reader. Her father gave her Jane Eyre at the age of 10, sparking what would become a lifelong devotion and multiple re-readings. She began to delve into the work and lives of the Brontë finding that the sisters were at times her lifeline, her sounding board, even her closest friends. In this charming, offbeat memoir, Pennington traces the development of the Brontëas women, as sisters, and as writers, as she recounts her own struggles to fit in as a bookish, introverted, bisexual woman. In the Brontëand their characters, Pennington finally finds the heroines she needs, and she becomes obsessed with their wisdom, courage, and fearlessness. Her obsession makes for an entirely absorbing and unique read. A Girl Walks Into a Book is a candid and emotional love affair that braids criticism, biography and literature into a quest that helps us understand the place of literature in our lives; how it affects and inspires us.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

270

Publisher

Seal Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

158005658X

ISBN 13

9781580056588

Faithful Politics

Ten Approaches to Christian Citizenship and Why It Matters

By: Miranda Zapor Cruz

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Faithful Politics

Ten Approaches to Christian Citizenship and Why It Matters

By: Miranda Zapor Cruz

Christians who share similar faith convictions can arrive at different political conclusions. In this nonpartisan overview, Miranda Zapor Cruz shares ten theological approaches Christians throughout history have used to navigate political participation, helping us form a vision of faithful citizenship in an increasingly polarized society.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

161

Publisher

InterVarsity Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1514007509

ISBN 13

9781514007501

How to Care More

Seven Skills for Personal and Social Change

By: Miranda Campbell

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

How to Care More

Seven Skills for Personal and Social Change

By: Miranda Campbell

Our contemporary moment is rife with injustices and crises: environmental disasters, climate change, racial divides, political divides, sexual misconduct, and high unemployment and debt rates, amongst other urgent challenges. While it is important to recognize these problems and call for change, we can also learn from caring initiatives that foster new ways of living, based in relationality, respect, and mutual support. How to Care More offers a definition of care based in relational action, highlighting care as an umbrella concept that can catalyze personal and social change. Each chapter provides an overview of one skill to practice caring more, including listening, consent, collaboration, and cultivating inclusion, love, and resilience that will enhance personal wellbeing and relationships with others, reducing conflict in our families, workplaces, and communities. With definitions of key terms and hands-on activities, How to Care More offers thought-provoking discussion and powerful examples of small-scale action and community building that can have a big impact, empowering readers to work towards positive social change.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

203

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield

Published Date

ISBN 10

1538145065

ISBN 13

9781538145067

The Pity of War

England and Germany, Bitter Friends, Beloved Foes

By: Miranda Seymour

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Pity of War

England and Germany, Bitter Friends, Beloved Foes

By: Miranda Seymour

In 1613, a beautiful Stuart princess married a handsome young German prince. This was a love match, but it was also an alliance that aimed to meld Europe's two great Protestant powers. Before Elizabeth and Frederick left London for the court in Heidelberg, they watched a performance of The Winter's Tale. In 1943, a group of British POWs gave a performance of that same play to a group of enthusiastic Nazi guards in Bavaria. Nothing about the story of England and Germany, as this remarkable book demonstrates, is as simple as we might expect. Miranda Seymour tells the forgotten story of England’s centuries of profound connection and increasingly rivalrous friendship with Germany, linked by a shared faith, a shared hunger for power, a shared culture (Germany never doubted that Shakespeare belonged to them, as much as to England), and a shared leadership. German monarchs ruled over England for three hundred years—and only ceased to do so through a change of name. This extraordinary and heart-breaking history—told through the lives of princes and painters, soldiers and sailors, bakers and bankers, charlatans and saints—traces two countries so entwined that one German living in England in 1915 refused to choose where his allegiance lay. It was, he said, as if his parents had quarreled. Germany’s connection to the island it loved, patronized, influenced, and fought was unique. Indeed, British soldiers went to war in 1914 against a country to which many of them—as one freely confessed the week before his death on the battlefront—felt more closely connected than to their own. Drawing on a wealth of unpublished papers and personal interviews, the author has uncovered stories that remind us—poignantly, wittily, and tragically—of the powerful bonds many have chosen to forget.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

529

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield

Published Date

ISBN 10

1442241756

ISBN 13

9781442241756

Artificial intelligence and human rights.

By: Rubén Miranda Gonçalves

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Artificial intelligence and human rights.

By: Rubén Miranda Gonçalves

We are publishing this book as the result of a research project carried out by the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria in Spain and AFM Krakow University in Poland. Some parts of it were already announced during a scientific Conference organised remotely in Kraków in October 2020. It is now time to present the research findings in writing.The issue of Artificial Intelligence has long raised questions and interests, including those of legal science. A number of problems have not yet been widely analysed, despite the fact that the present time is undoubtedly a time of technological challenges. Therefore, in the presented publication, prepared by the international scientific community, under our scientific guidance, the authors try to analyse the areas which, in their opinion and in our opinion, required such analysis. The leitmotif of our scientific work was human rights and their relationship with Artificial Intelligence. In presenting the research results in this book, we realise that a number of issues still need to be clarified. Nevertheless, we hope that the work presented for the reader’s consideration will constitute an interesting voice in the discussion, a point of reference for all those dealing with the legal issues of new technologies and the protection of human rights.As the presented book is a collective work, the authors essentially present their own views. The whole work has been designed to address a broad spectrum of issues in Artificial Intelligence and human rights in a single collection. We are convinced that such a broad view will allow everyone interested in the discussed issues to see the essence of contemporary problems faced by the science of law in a multinational perspective.We encourage everyone to read the book!Laura Miraut MartínMariusz Zalucki

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

489

Publisher

Dykinson

Published Date

ISBN 10

8413778174

ISBN 13

9788413778174

Poison's Dark Works in Renaissance England

By: Miranda Wilson

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Poison's Dark Works in Renaissance England

By: Miranda Wilson

Poison's Dark Works in Renaissance England considers the ways sixteenth- and seventeenth-century fears of poisoning prompt new models for understanding the world even as the fictive qualities of poisoning frustrate attempts at certainty. Whether English writers invoke literal poisons, as they do in so many revenge dramas, homicide cases, and medical documents, or whether poisoning appears more metaphorically, as it does in a host of theological, legal, philosophical, popular, and literary works, this particular, “invisible” weapon easily comes to embody the darkest elements of a more general English appetite for imagining the hidden correlations between the seen and the unseen. This book is an inherently interdisciplinary project. This book works from the premise that accounts of poisons and their operations in Renaissance texts are neither incidental nor purely sensational; rather, they do moral, political, and religious work which can best be assessed when we consider poisoning as part of the texture of Renaissance culture. Placing little known or less-studied texts (medical reports, legal accounts, or anonymous pamphlets) alongside those most familiar to scholars and the larger public (such as poetry by Edmund Spenser and plays by William Shakespeare and Thomas Middleton) allows us to appreciate the almost gravitational pull exerted by the notion of poison in the Renaissance. Considering a variety of texts, written for disparate audiences, and with diverse purposes, makes apparent the ways this crime functions as both a local problem to be solved and as an apt metaphor for the complications of epistemology.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

259

Publisher

Bucknell University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1611485398

ISBN 13

9781611485394

The Geometry of Modernism

The Vorticist Idiom in Lewis, Pound, H.D., and Yeats

By: Miranda B. Hickman

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Geometry of Modernism

The Vorticist Idiom in Lewis, Pound, H.D., and Yeats

By: Miranda B. Hickman

Addressing both the literature and the visual arts of Anglo-American modernism, The Geometry of Modernism recovers a crucial development of modernism's early years that until now has received little sustained critical attention: the distinctive idiom composed of geometric forms and metaphors generated within the early modernist movement of Vorticism, formed in London in 1914. Focusing on the work of Wyndham Lewis, leader of the Vorticist movement, as well as Ezra Pound, H.D., and William Butler Yeats, Hickman examines the complex of motives out of which Lewis initially forged the geometric lexicon of Vorticism—and then how Pound, H.D., and Yeats later responded to it and the values that it encoded, enlisting both the geometric vocabulary and its attendant assumptions and ideals, in transmuted form, in their later modernist work. Placing the genesis and appropriation of the geometric idiom in historical context, Hickman explores how despite its brevity as a movement, Vorticism in fact exerted considerable impact on modernist work of the years between the wars, in that its geometric idiom enabled modernist writers to articulate their responses to both personal and political crises of the 1930s and 1940s. Informed by extensive archival research as well as treatment of several of the least-known texts of the modernist milieu, The Geometry of Modernism clarifies and enriches the legacy of this vital period.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

359

Publisher

University of Texas Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0292709439

ISBN 13

9780292709430

Notes for Cellists

A Guide to the Repertoire

By: Miranda Wilson

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Notes for Cellists

A Guide to the Repertoire

By: Miranda Wilson

Notes for Cellists: A Guide to the Repertoire is a collection of accessible essays about key compositions for the cello from the seventeenth century to the present. Each essay provides historical context and a brief analysis of a composition. This book will be of interest to enthusiasts of the cello and students of all levels seeking to enrich their understanding of cello music, and a much-needed reference guide for teachers and professional players.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

239

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0197623735

ISBN 13

9780197623732

English Landscapes and Identities

Investigating Landscape Change from 1500 BC to AD 1086

By: Chris Gosden,Chris Green,Anwen Cooper,Miranda Creswell,Victoria Donnelly,Tyler Franconi,Zena Kamash,Sarah Mallet

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

English Landscapes and Identities

Investigating Landscape Change from 1500 BC to AD 1086

By: Chris Gosden,Chris Green,Anwen Cooper,Miranda Creswell,Victoria Donnelly,Tyler Franconi,Zena Kamash,Sarah Mallet

The project on which the book was based synthesized all the major available sources of information on English archaeology for the period from 1500 BC to AD 1086, providing an overview of the history of the English landscape from the Bronze Age to the Norman invasion. The result is the first account of the English landscape over a crucial 2500-year period when people created many of the features still visible today. It also provides a celebration of many centuries of archaeological work, especially the intensive investigations that have taken place since the 1960s, when frequent large-scale work has transformed our understanding of England's past"--Publisher's description.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

497

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0198870620

ISBN 13

9780198870623

The Eccentric Entrepreneur

Sir Julien Cahn Businessman, Philanthropist, Magician and Cricket-Lover

By: Miranda Rijks

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Eccentric Entrepreneur

Sir Julien Cahn Businessman, Philanthropist, Magician and Cricket-Lover

By: Miranda Rijks

Sir Julien Cahn was possibly the most successful eccentric in 1930's Britain. A complex man with diverse interests, Cahn's visions influenced cricket, business, politics and medicine. Having built the largest mass-market furniture empire in England, incorporating the well-known Jays and Campbells, he used wealth to fund his extraordinary hobbies: as a cricket fanatic he established the internationally renowned Sir Julien Cahn's XI, outplaying national teams during lavish world tours; as an accomplished magician he built a magnificant art deco theatre and cinema at his home, Stanford Hall, and staged illusions so spectacular that he was invited to perform at London's Palladium Theatre. Despite being a Jew in the 1930s, Cahn managed a rapid ascent up the social ladder, and even found himself embroiled in the buying of honours scandal. Yet his largesse was legendary, supporting medicine and agriculture, and as Chairman of The National Birthday Trust Fund he was instrumental in developing the first human milk bank and introducing anaesthetics in childbirth. In this fascinating life story of Cahn, Miranda Rijks goes beyond penning a simple biography, and paints a vivid picture of life in upper-class Britain: a world of wealth and splendour that is barely conceivable today.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

220

Publisher

The History Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0752472186

ISBN 13

9780752472188

Men in Blazers Present Gods of Soccer

The Pantheon of the 100 Greatest Soccer Players (According to Us)

By: Roger Bennett,Michael Davies,Miranda Davis

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Men in Blazers Present Gods of Soccer

The Pantheon of the 100 Greatest Soccer Players (According to Us)

By: Roger Bennett,Michael Davies,Miranda Davis

From the hosts of the popular podcast and tv show Men in Blazers, comes their completely scientific, 100% definitive, defend-to-the-death list of the greatest soccer players of all time. Every fan has their own list of the 100 soccer players they consider the greatest ever to play the game. A list based on triumphs, sublime moments of skill, superhuman tenacity, and telenovela-esque backstories. To the list-maker, that 100 feels objective. Unequivocal. An absolute truth. This is one such list. Written with the same signature Men in Blazers humor found in their New York Times bestseller Encyclopedia Blazertannica, and accompanied by Nate Kitch's iconic photographic illustrations, Men in Blazers share the stories of household names like David Beckham and Alex Morgan, along with cult icons such as Garrincha, the Brazilian star of the 1960s who was born with one leg six inches shorter than the other, and Briana Scurry, a trailblazer who paved a path for young Black soccer-playing women. Page by page, you will revel in the depictions of players you adore, discover tales you have never heard, and experience vivid stories of dreams, loyalty, perseverance, creativity, and luck. Together, they form an alternative telling of the history of soccer, tracing the evolution of the men's and women's games around the globe, one unlikely, unbelievable, unforgettable career at a time. Thanks to the transcendent career arcs depicted within, Gods of Soccer is rife with tales that will make readers' hearts soar. Encourage them to dream. And then quickly rush off to make their own lists. FOR READERS OF: Complete Book of Soccer, The Baseball 100, Encyclopedia Blazertannica, and Reborn in the USA A COMPANION TO MEN IN BLAZERS PODCAST AND SHOWS: This is the perfect companion for avid fans of the Men in Blazers podcast, one of the largest soccer podcasts in the world, and their weekly NBC show. A GREAT GIFT: Surprise the soccer fans in your life or introduce someone to the sport with God's of Soccer. This will make a fantastic gift for both novice and die-hard players and soccer fans of all ages.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

226

Publisher

Chronicle Books

Published Date

ISBN 10

1797208039

ISBN 13

9781797208039

I Used to Live Here Once: The Haunted Life of Jean Rhys

By: Miranda Seymour

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

I Used to Live Here Once: The Haunted Life of Jean Rhys

By: Miranda Seymour

“Enthralling.… Seymour powerfully evokes the world from which Rhys never really escaped, one of prejudice, abuse, and abuse’s shamefaced offspring, complicity.” —James Wood, The New Yorker An intimate, profoundly moving biography of Jean Rhys, acclaimed author of Wide Sargasso Sea. Jean Rhys is one of the most compelling writers of the twentieth century. Memories of her Caribbean girlhood haunt the four short and piercingly brilliant novels that Rhys wrote during her extraordinary years as an exile in 1920s Paris and later in England, a body of fiction—above all, the extraordinary Wide Sargasso Sea—that has a passionate following today. And yet her own colorful life, including her early years on the Caribbean island of Dominica, remains too little explored, until now. In I Used to Live Here Once, Miranda Seymour sheds new light on the artist whose proud and fiercely solitary life profoundly informed her writing. Rhys experienced tragedy and extreme poverty, alcohol and drug dependency, romantic and sexual turmoil, all of which contributed to the “Rhys woman” of her oeuvre. Today, readers still intuitively relate to her unforgettable characters, vulnerable, watchful, and often alarmingly disaster-prone outsiders; women with a different way of moving through the world. And yet, while her works often contain autobiographical material, Rhys herself was never a victim. The figure who emerges for Seymour is cultured, self-mocking, unpredictable—and shockingly contemporary. Based on new research in the Caribbean, a wealth of never-before-seen papers, journals, letters, and photographs, and interviews with those who knew Rhys, I Used to Live Here Once is a luminous and penetrating portrait of a fascinatingly elusive artist.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

408

Publisher

W. W. Norton & Company

Published Date

ISBN 10

1324006137

ISBN 13

9781324006138

Calculus Early Transcendentals, Multivariable

By: Michael Sullivan,Kathleen Miranda

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Calculus Early Transcendentals, Multivariable

By: Michael Sullivan,Kathleen Miranda

Michael Sullivan and Kathleen Miranda have written a contemporary calculus textbook that instructors will respect and students can use. Consistent in its use of language and notation, Sullivan/Miranda’s Calculus offers clear and precise mathematics at an appropriate level of rigor. The authors help students learn calculus conceptually, while also emphasizing computational and problem-solving skills. The book contains a wide array of problems including engaging challenge problems and applied exercises that model the physical sciences, life sciences, economics, and other disciplines. Algebra-weak students will benefit from marginal annotations that help strengthen algebraic understanding, the many references to review material, and extensive practice exercises. Strong media offerings include interactive figures and online homework. Sullivan/Miranda’s Calculus has been built with today’s instructors and students in mind.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

1826

Publisher

Macmillan Higher Education

Published Date

ISBN 10

131924288X

ISBN 13

9781319242886

The Day We Meet Again

By: Miranda Dickinson

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Day We Meet Again

By: Miranda Dickinson

Their love story started with goodbye...From the Sunday Times bestseller comes a story of what-ifs and maybes – and how one decision can change your life forever.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

395

Publisher

HarperCollins UK

Published Date

ISBN 10

0008401233

ISBN 13

9780008401238

Nomaste

The Mindful Plant-Based Kitchen

By: Miranda Moore

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Nomaste

The Mindful Plant-Based Kitchen

By: Miranda Moore

Namaste: a respectful greeting frequently used at the end of a yoga session; “I bow to the divine in you” Nom-aste: a respectful prayer of thanks for delicious, nutritious and just plain yummy food Looking after our well-being and eating tasty, nourishing food go hand in hand. This beautifully illustrated book celebrates mindful cooking and eating, teaching you how to bring the principles of yoga and mindfulness into your kitchen. From ahimsa (non-violence) and Ayurveda (food as medicine) to the art of making your own bread, you’ll learn how to give your body what it really needs in order to flourish, and how to nurture a healthy, positive attitude toward food. The 60 wholesome, plant-based recipes inside will add vitality to your daily life and leave you filled with good food and gratitude.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

326

Publisher

Summersdale

Published Date

ISBN 10

1787839206

ISBN 13

9781787839205

The Mark of the Beast; Coming Soon to a Church Near You

How Your Pastor, Like the Serpent in Eden, Will Entice You to Get What God Forbids

By: Martin Miranda

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Mark of the Beast; Coming Soon to a Church Near You

How Your Pastor, Like the Serpent in Eden, Will Entice You to Get What God Forbids

By: Martin Miranda

Since the book of Revelation was written, millions of sincere Christians have shown great interest in knowing the true interpretation of the passage registered in verses 16 to 18 of the 13th chapter of Revelation. It is said in that passage that a mark will be placed on the right hand or forehead of the inhabitants of the world. Due to erroneous interpretations, there are millions of people today that are very worried because they would not be able, according to the Scripture, to buy or sell unless they submit themselves to the authority inspired and directed by Satan.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

191

Publisher

Trafford Publishing

Published Date

ISBN 10

1490774793

ISBN 13

9781490774794

Book's by Miranda Moore

Username

Password

Password again

Birthday

Email