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Our Dogs, Our Selves
The ubiquity of references to dogs in medieval and early modern texts and images must at some level reflect their actual presence in those worlds, yet scholarly consideration of this material is rare and scattered across diverse sources. This volume addresses that gap, bringing together fifteen essays that examine the appearance, meaning, and significance of dogs in painting, sculpture, manuscripts, literature, and legal records of the period, reaching beyond Europe to include cultural material from medieval Japan and Islam. While primarily art historical in focus, the authors approach the subject from a range of disciplines and with varying methodology that ultimately reveals as much about dogs as about the societies in which they lived. Contributors are Kathleen Ashley, Jane Carroll, Emily Cockayne, John Block Friedman, Karen M. Gerhart, Laura D. Gelfand, Craig A. Gibson, Walter S. Gibson, Nathan Hofer, Jane C. Long, Judith W. Mann, Sophie Oosterwijk, Elizabeth Carson Pastan, Donna L. Sadler, Alexa Sand, and Janet Snyder.
The Pros and Cons of Using Chatbots
Problem The world has got itself in a muddle with AI, and particularly with chatbots. There is a lot of misunderstanding and far too much focus on the supposed negative aspects: formulaic style of chatbot writing bias inherent in many chatbot answers and generated texts; lack of inclusivity educators mistaken thinking that they can intuitively tell the difference between a human-generated text and a bot generated text; and that by default a human text is always better mistaken attitudes, even among students themselves, that using chatbots is a form of cheating rather than a highly effective study and teaching aid too much faith given to AI detectors, and too little understanding of how stude...
Automating Finance
Explains how stock markets became automated through the work of invisible technologists, redefining the fabric of finance for the twenty-first century.
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Visualizing Sensuous Suffering and Affective Pain in Early Modern Europe and the Spanish Americas
Visualizing Sensuous Suffering and Affective Pain in Early Modern Europe and the Spanish Americas is a trans-cultural collection of studies on visual treatments of the phenomena of suffering and pain in early modern culture. Ranging geographically from Italy, Spain, and the Low Countries to Chile, Mexico, and the Philippines and chronologically from the fourteenth to the eighteenth centuries, these studies variously consider pain and suffering as somatic, emotional, and psychological experiences. From examination of bodies shown victimized by brutal public torture to the sublimation of physical suffering conveyed through the incised lines of Counter-Reformation engravings, the authors consider depictions of pain and suffering as conduits to the divine or as guides to social behaviour; indeed, often the two functions overlap.
Visible Exports / Imports
This interdisciplinary publication brings together new research on medieval and renaissance art, culture and the critical history by established scholars, early career academics and postgraduate students from the University of Glasgow, Queen’s University Belfast, University College Cork, the University of Aberdeen and the University of Warwick. The majority of the articles featured are based on papers given at Gloss, a postgraduate conference on medieval and renaissance art and culture, held at the University of Glasgow, 29 June 2007, organised by Emily Jane Anderson with Sandra Cardarelli and Joanne Anderson; and/or at the International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, 9–12 July ...
Hotel People
"The book also showcases some of Europe and America's most public private addresses: the Algonquin in New York, the Savoy in London, the Ritz in Paris, and even the Holiday Inn in Sarajevo. Taken between 1990 and 1993, these arresting, amusing portraits illuminate the quirky ways that both guests and staff settle into the expanses of luxury hotels, working, playing, and resting amid heavy carpets and drapes, polished lobbies, and an atmosphere of reliable impermanence."--BOOK JACKET.
