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    False Starts: The Rhetoric of Failure and the Making of American Modernism

    David M. Ball

    From Herman Melville’s claim that failure is the true test of greatness to Henry Adams’s self-identification with the mortifying failure in [his] long education and William Faulkner’s eagerness to be…

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    False Starts: The Rhetoric of Failure and the Making of American Modernism

    David M. Ball

    The rhetoric of failure has served as a master trope of modernist American literary expression. David Ball’s magisterial study addresses the fundamental questions of language, meaning, and authority that run…

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    The Comics of Chris Ware: Drawing Is a Way of Thinking

    Brings together contributions from established and emerging scholars about the comics of Chicago-based cartoonist Chris Ware (b. 1967). This collection addresses the range of Ware’s work from his earliest drawings…

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    Musket Ball and Small Shot Identification: A Guide

    Daniel M. Sivilich

    Battlefield archaeologist Daniel Sivilich provides readers with the tools and techniques to unlock the stories of small shot in this book, the first definitive guide to identifying musket balls, from…

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    Fundamental Contributions to the Continuum Theory of Evolving Phase Interfaces in Solids: A Collection of Reprints of 14 Seminal Papers

    To honor our friend and colleague Mort Gurtin on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday, we followed a surer path to produce a work of intrinsic and lasting scientific value…

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    Artifacts from the Cenote of Sacrifice, Chichen Itza, Yucatan: Textiles, Basketry, Stone, Bone, Shell, Ceramics, Wood, Copal, Rubber, other Organic Materials, and Mammalian Remains

    In this volume, specialists analyze the great variety of objects found in the Well of Sacrifice and debate whether they represent evidence of dateable prehistorical ritual. The collection includes the…

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