Strange Meetings

This chapter describes the meetings of shareholders and the resolutions passed during such meetings. It covers the types of general meeting; resolutions; calling a general meeting;...

This chapter describes the meetings of shareholders and the resolutions passed during such meetings. It covers the types of general meeting; resolutions; calling a general meeting;...

Singularities are lonely social groups; lonely in their relation to other singularities and so, lacking in a language shared with one another. With this isolation comes certainty a...

Abstract Teeming with creatures, both real and imagined, this encyclopedic study in cultural history illuminates the hidden web of connections between the Victorian ...

This document, "RULES REGULATIONS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN INSTITUTION," printed in Cape Town in 1830, formally establishes the rules and structure for a scientific and exploratory bod...

A lavishly illustrated guide to the magnum opus of the great seventeenth-century anatomist, master embalmer, artist, and collector of specimens. Frederik Ruysch (163...

The first in-depth study of David Bowie’s music videos across a sustained period takes on interweaving storyworlds of an iconic career. Remarkable for their capacity to conjure ela...

Why gender is strange, even when it's played straight, and how race and money are two of its most dramatic ingredients. In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Kno...