Authorship’s Wake: Writing After the Death of the Author (PDF) examines the aftermath of the 1960s critique of the author, epitomized by Roland Barthes’s essay, “The Death of the Author.” This critique has given rise to a body of writing that confounds generic distinctions separating the literary and the theoretical.
Calvin Schermerhorn’s stimulating study observes the development of modern American capitalism through the window of the nineteenth-century interstate slave trade. The Business of Slavery and the Rise of American Capitalism, 1815-1860, (PDF) follows ships and money as well as enslaved human beings to show how slavery was a national business
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Elementary Technical Mathematics 11th Edition (PDF) is written to help college students with minimal mathematics background successfully prepare for trade, allied health, technical, or Tech Prep programs. The expert authors focus on fundamental concepts in basic arithmetic including the metric system and measurement, geometry, trigonometry, algebra, and statistics, which are
General, Organic, and Biochemistry, 10th Edition, (PDF) is designed to help undergraduate health-related majors, and learners of all other majors, understand important concepts and appreciate the significant connections between health, chemistry, disease, and the treatment of disease. This ebook continues to strike a balance between theoretical and practical chemistry while