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The first cultural history of early modern cryptography, this
collection brings together scholars in history, literature, music,
the arts, mathematics, and computer science who study ciphering and
deciphering from new materialist, media studies, cognitive studies,
disability studies, and other theoretical perspectives. Essays
analyze the material forms of ciphering as windows into the
cultures of orality, manuscript, print, and publishing, revealing
that early modern ciphering, and the complex history that preceded
it in the medieval period, not only influenced political and
military history but also played a central role in the emergence of
the capitalist media state in the West, in religious reformation,
and in the scientific revolution. Ciphered communication, whether
in etched stone and bone, in musical notae, runic symbols,
polyalphabetic substitution, algebraic equations, graphic
typographies, or literary metaphors, took place in contested social
spaces and offered a means of expression during times of political,
economic, and personal upheaval. Ciphering shaped the early history
of linguistics as a discipline, and it bridged theological and
scientific rhetoric before and during the Reformation. Ciphering
was an occult art, a mathematic language, and an aesthetic that
influenced music, sculpture, painting, drama, poetry, and the early
novel. This collection addresses gaps in cryptographic history, but
more significantly, through cultural analyses of the rhetorical
situations of ciphering and actual solved and unsolved medieval and
early modern ciphers, it traces the influences of cryptographic
writing and reading on literacy broadly defined as well as the
cultures that generate, resist, and require that literacy. This
volume offers a significant contribution to the history of the
book, highlighting the broader cultural significance of textual
materialities.
The first cultural history of early modern cryptography, this
collection brings together scholars in history, literature, music,
the arts, mathematics, and computer science who study ciphering and
deciphering from new materialist, media studies, cognitive studies,
disability studies, and other theoretical perspectives. Essays
analyze the material forms of ciphering as windows into the
cultures of orality, manuscript, print, and publishing, revealing
that early modern ciphering, and the complex history that preceded
it in the medieval period, not only influenced political and
military history but also played a central role in the emergence of
the capitalist media state in the West, in religious reformation,
and in the scientific revolution. Ciphered communication, whether
in etched stone and bone, in musical notae, runic symbols,
polyalphabetic substitution, algebraic equations, graphic
typographies, or literary metaphors, took place in contested social
spaces and offered a means of expression during times of political,
economic, and personal upheaval. Ciphering shaped the early history
of linguistics as a discipline, and it bridged theological and
scientific rhetoric before and during the Reformation. Ciphering
was an occult art, a mathematic language, and an aesthetic that
influenced music, sculpture, painting, drama, poetry, and the early
novel. This collection addresses gaps in cryptographic history, but
more significantly, through cultural analyses of the rhetorical
situations of ciphering and actual solved and unsolved medieval and
early modern ciphers, it traces the influences of cryptographic
writing and reading on literacy broadly defined as well as the
cultures that generate, resist, and require that literacy. This
volume offers a significant contribution to the history of the
book, highlighting the broader cultural significance of textual
materialities.
When every moment counts, count on Poisoning & Drug Overdose
Speed is crucial when dealing with toxicologic and drug-related
emergencies. Finding answers quickly is easier than ever with this
streamlined eighth edition of Poisoning and Drug Overdose. This
instant-answer guide provides the critical information needed to
diagnose and manage drug-related emergencies and chemical
exposures. Updated with newly released drugs and new information on
existing drugs, the guide covers initial emergency management,
including treatment of coma, seizures and hypotension; physical and
laboratory diagnosis; and methods of decontamination and enhanced
elimination of poisons. Poisoning and Drug Overdose, Eighth Edition
is divided into four sections: Section I. Provides a stepwise
approach to the evaluation and treatment of coma, seizures, shock,
and other complications of poisoning and the proper use of gastric
decontamination and dialysis procedures. Section II. Lists specific
poisons and drugs, as well as the pathophysiology, toxic dose and
level, clinical presentation, diagnosis, and specific treatment
associated with each substance. Section III. Covers descriptions of
therapeutic drugs and antidotes, including pharmacology
indications, adverse effects, drug interactions, and recommended
dosage. Section IV. Describes the approach to hazardous materials
incidents; the evaluation of occupational exposures; and the toxic
effects, physical properties, and workplace limits for over 500
common industrial chemicals. Poisoning and Drug Overdose, Eighth
Edition is enhanced by numerous tables and charts, as well as a
user-friendly index. This trusted resource has consistently been
relied upon by front line professionals responding to drug-related
emergencies and chemical exposures.
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Brain Camp (Paperback)
Susan Kim, Laurence Klavan; Illustrated by Faith Erin Hicks
bundle available
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R287
R219
Discovery Miles 2 190
Save R68 (24%)
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Fans of the Divergent and Hunger Games series will love Wasteland,
the first installment of the Wasteland trilogy, by five-time Emmy
Award-nominated writer Susan Kim and Edgar Award-winning Laurence
Klavan. With heart-pounding thrills, this harrowing survival story
is alive with action and intrigue. Welcome to the Wasteland, a
post-apocalyptic U.S. where no one lives past the age of 19. But an
early death isn't the only doom waiting around the corner: Everyone
is forced to live under the looming threat of rampant disease and
brutal attacks by the variants-hermaphroditic outcasts that live on
the outskirts of Prin. Esther doesn't care that her best friend, a
variant, is considered "the enemy." She doesn't care that Levi, who
controls the Source, is the real enemy and might send his Taser
boys after her if she makes one wrong move. Then she meets Caleb,
and just possibly, she might have a chance at salvation.
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