Dead Reckoning

Dead ReckoningA poet and essayist attempt to find their bearings in a civilization lost at sea. Dead reckoning is the nautical term for calculating a ship's position using the distance and direction traveled rather than instruments or astronomical observation. For those still recovering from the atrocities of the twentieth century, however, the term has an even grimmer meaning: toting up the butcher's bill of war and genocide. As its title suggests, Dead Reckoning

David Stern

When Loveday Brooke falls from her place in London high society

the artistic achievements of Egypt span over four thousand years

The studies advance the concept of cultural production as a way of understanding the dynamics of power and identity formation underlying different forms of "education

Examines the many issues raised by TIF

Ariadne's voice frames and unframes the research context and plays alongside it

Berkhout envisioned his abstract holograms as the marriage of science

empirical data

This book argues that the modern-day complexities of the beautiful game – corruption in the international governing body and the sport’s symbiotic relationship with gambling – together with its sheer economic size require more attention from government

Disease-causing organisms need to be taken seriously in the management and promotion of pollinators and their pollination services

An acclaimed artist and activist

raise a family—but his reckless ways refuse to remain in the past