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Vienna in the age of uncertainty science, liberalism, and private life / by Coen, Deborah R.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : a scientific dynasty -- The mind set free : preparing a liberal society in the 1840s -- In the stream of the world : coming of age in the 1860s -- Memory images : models of reason in the liberal age -- The pigtail of the nineteenth century : determinism in the 1880s -- Afterlife : inheritance at the fin de siècle -- The education of the normal eye : visual learning circa 1900 -- Citizens of the most probable state : the politics of learning, 1908 -- Into the open : measuring uncertainty, 1900-1918 -- The irreplaceable eye : visual statistics, 1914-1926 -- Conclusion : a family's legacy -- Appendix : the Exner-Frisch family tree -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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Contemporary African American Fiction New Critical Essays /

Table of Contents: “…Mickle -- "When the women tell stories": healing in Edwidge Danticat's Breath, eyes, memory / Tara T. Green -- The coming-of-age of the contemporary African American novel: Olympia Vernon's Eden, Logic, and, A killing in this town / Dana A. …”
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Contemporary African American Fiction : New Critical Essays /

Table of Contents: “…Mickle -- "When the women tell stories": healing in Edwidge Danticat's Breath, eyes, memory / Tara T. Green -- The coming-of-age of the contemporary African American novel: Olympia Vernon's Eden, Logic, and, A killing in this town / Dana A. …”
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