The Companion to the Twentieth-Century English Novel
The twentieth-century English novel encompasses a vast body of work, and one of the most important and most widely read genres of literature. Balancing close readings of particular novels with a comprehensive survey of the last century of published fiction, this Companion introduces readers to more than a hundred major and minor novelists.
The Lady Tasting Tea: How Statistics Revolutionized Science in the Twentieth CenturyScience is inextricably linked with mathematics. Statistician David Salsburg examines the development of ever-more-powerful statistical methods for determining scientific truth in The Lady Tasting Tea, a series of historical and biographical sketches that illuminate without alienating the mathematically timid. Salsburg, who has worked in academia and industry and has met many of the major players he writes about, shares his subjects' enthusiasm for problem solving and deep thinking.
Serious congenital malformations are a major contributor to the infant death rate worldwide. Their nonhereditary causes are multiple and complex, and include infectious and metabolic dangers, disease medication, nutritional inadequacy, medicinal products, environmental agents and pollutants, among them. The cause of many however is still unknown.
The book describes the ways in which American thinkers and artists in the first two decades of the twentieth century challenged notions that a single principle explained all relevant phenomena, opting instead for a pluralistic world in which many truths, goods, and beauties coexisted.
Fragmenting Modernism: Ford Madox Ford, the Novel and the Great War
This book is about Ford and his place in modernism. Setting Ford in his cultural and historical context, the opening chapter debates the concept of fragmentation in modernism; later chapters develop this debate in relation to the personal narrative and war writing. Ford's literary technique is analysed comparatively, and this text will be useful for anyone studying the literature of the early twentieth century, war writing, impressionism, or modernism in general terms.
