The Water-Witch

The Water-WitchAn exciting tale of nautical adventure on the waters of colonial New York Harbor. Chiefly set on the waters and islands of New York Harbor in the early years of the 1700s, James Fenimore Cooper's novel The Water Witch (1830) paints a vivid picture of life in the little colonial port. It was familiar territory for Cooper, who a century later had served as a junior officer on board an eighteen gun sloop of war stationed at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. That

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with an emphasis on his notoriously difficult writing style

Christoph Menke

Presenting research from a range of settings

Hong Kong and Shanghai

harmonise and standardise non-targeted methods and the associated data interpretations

Reading Borges in relationship to Benjamin draws out ethical and political implications from Borges's works that have been largely overlooked by his critics

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Through detailed readings and interviews

Sheila Harms reflects on the role of myths of endurance in education and the more promising possibilities of an ethical turn toward personal transformation

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