Seeing—perception and vision—is implicitly the fundamental building block of the literature
on rationality and cognition. Herbert Simon and Daniel Kahneman's arguments against the …

Why have societies all across the world feared witchcraft? This book delves deeply into its
context, beliefs, and origins in Europe's history The witch came to prominence--and often a …

What is social visibility? How does it affect people and public issues? How are visibility
regimes created, organized and contested? Tackling both social theory and social research …

From its inception in Greek antiquity, the science of optics was aimed primarily at explaining
sight and accounting for why things look as they do. By the end of the seventeenth century …

As early modern Europe launched its multiple projects of global empire, it simultaneously
embarked on an ambitious program of describing and picturing the world. The shapes and …

The study of early modern cancer is significant for our understanding of the period's medical
theory and practice. In many respects, cancer exemplifies the flexibility of early modern …

In today's academe, the fields of science and literature are considered unconnected, one
relying on raw data and fact, the other focusing on fiction. During the period between the …

Sight and the Ancient Senses examines the sense that greek and Roman antiquity theorized
above all others. approaching vision from a range of different thematic angles, the book …

Visualizing Law in the Age of the Digital Baroque explores the profound impact that visual
digital technologies are having on the practice and theory of law. Today, lawyers, judges …

In A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf described fictions as' grossly material things', rooted
in their physical and economic contexts. This book takes Woolf's brief hint as its starting …