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A History of Three-Dimensional Cinema chronicles 3-D cinema from its origins in 19th-century stereoscopic photography through anaglyphic/digital stereoscopic cinema in the 20th century to the promise of Virtual Reality in the 21st century.

Using a local land reclamation project of the later eighth century, this book explores the interaction between a local culture of the southeast coast and the Sinitic culture of the north.

This volume critically examines the notion of a ‘new’ India by recognizing that India is changing remarkably and by exposing the many economic, social, and political contradictions that are integral to contemporary India.

The memoir now looms large as a pedagogical tool for multiple levels of schooling and of education. Addressed essentially to senior students in schools, students undertaking undergraduate and postgraduate teacher preparation courses in universities.

This book is a shorter, more accessible and updated follow-up to Post-Truth: Knowledge as a Power Game, which remains the only book that sheds a largely hopeful light on our post-truth condition across a wide range of intellectual fields and public affairs, including Brexit, Trump and the COVID-19 pandemic.

In this study the green hydrogen economy is depicted as successor and replacement of the fossil fuel economy in its entirety. Steps involved in building a green industrial revolution on the basis of hydrogen are outlined and the dynamics of building a technoeconomic green successor to fossil fuels are explored.

Lloyd Lewis is moving to yet another children’s home, but this one is different. It is possessed by the supernatural with poltergeists and a ghost creating havoc. Lloyd links the chaos to a nearby ravaged stone circle. But what is the link? And can Lloyd do anything to defuse this terrifying anarchy?

A reconfiguration of modern American history, showing how multiple movements at different times challenged a singularly defined modern America, and a re-representation of the modern American novel, accenting the different critical literary voices to effect a fundamental recasting of the modern Americanist paradigm.

A psychological explanation of goosebumps and tears, of the epiphanic experience of seeing something ordinary in a profoundly new way, and of the overwhelming perception of the sublime. These experiences found in life and literature involve a feeling of coming to know something deeply important but impossible to describe.

This book tells the story of the turbulent lives of Akiko Yosano (1878–1942) and Tekkan Yosano (1873–1935), two poets who sparked a revolution in the world of Japanese classical poetry.

‘A “Treatise on Abundance” (1638) and Early Modern Views of Poverty and Famine’ is an edited English translation of Carlo Tapia’s ‘Trattato dell’abondanza’.