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The Nothing That Is

Kaplan, Robert / Kaplan, Ellen
The Nothing That Is
For math professor Kaplan, the history of zero is a lens for looking not only into the evolution of mathematics but into very nature of human thought. "Where did the familiar hollow circle that we use to denote zero come from? That's a story fraught with mystery, and Mr. Kaplan tells it well".--"Wall Street Journal". 38 illustrations.

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The F Word 4e

Sheidlower
The F Word 4e
Jesse Sheidlower's dictionary, now in print for over 25 years, charts the use of fuck and its many permutations, from absofuckinglutely to zipless fuck. It illustrates every sense of every entry with quotations, from the earliest that can be found to a recent example, showing exactly how the word has been used throughout history. This new edition is not just a minor update but a comprehensive revision of Sheidlower's groundbreaking text for th...

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Telling Blackness

Smalls
Telling Blackness
In Telling Blackness, I not only center young Africans and Africa in this survey of diasporic life and meaning making but also passionately refuse the lamentable dividing of African Studies and African Diaspora Studies (sometimes synonymous with African American Studies) when the fields were forming in the 1940s. My use of "Black diaspora" as a theoretical frame is meant to reference: (1) a diffuse group of people who have been marshalled into...

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