The Melancholy Android Marc EisenstadtExplores the cultural significance of androids. The Melancholy Android is a psychological study of the impulses behind the creation of androids. Exploring three imaginative figures the mummy, the golem, and the automaton and their appearances in myth, religion, literature, and film, Eric G. Wilson tracks the development of android building and examines the lure of artificial doubles untroubled by awareness of self. Drawing from the works of
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Women of letters writes a new history of English women's intellectual worlds using their private letters as evidence of hidden networks of creative exchange
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this edition of The Blue Fairy Book is both modern and readable
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David Mermin for constructing a device which dramatically illustrates the genuinely puzzling phenomena of quantum mechanics
scholars in history and politics and all those interested in and concerned with the past
