Shakespeare’s representation of weather, climate and environment : The early modern “Fated Sky”.
"While ecocritical approaches to literary texts receive more and more attention, climate-related issues remain fairly neglected, particularly in the field of Shakespeare studies. This monograph explores the importance of weather and changing skies in early modern England while acknowledging the fact that traditional representations and religious beliefs still fashioned people's relations to meteorological phenomena" (Chiari, 2019).
Necroclimatism in a spectral world (dis)order? Rain petitioning, climate and weather engineering in 21st century Africa.
"Deemed to constitute disposable bodies, disposable cultures, disposable polities, disposable societies, disposable epistemologies, disposable religions, disposable laws and disposable economies, the sacrificed are, in the age of climate catastrophism, once again reminded that they 'have duties to die', to become extinct in order to save the global spaceship that is sinking due to climate change and global warming." -- Project Muse
Variability of the sun and sun-like stars : from asteroseismology to space weather.
"However, we are still far from fully understanding what and how causes this variability. Why does the Sun continue to go on, on a rhythmic scale, the so-called solar cycle, without damping? How to better understand the complicated relationships between the Sun, the heliosphere and the many proxies of long-term solar activity?" - From Publisher
A hard rain: America in the 1960s, our decade of hope, possibility, and innocence lost.
"In the end, there is the disastrous Democratic National Convention of 1968, the driving from office of Lyndon Johnson, and the election of Richard Nixon. Gaillard quotes historian Todd Gitlin in commenting on the rise of violence and disenchantment as the decade dragged on: 'Rage was becoming the common coin of American culture (Esposito, 2018).
Rain shadow.
"Your heart traps mine as summits catch storms. Call this to calm the rain shadow. What will remain?" From poem The Same Mountain Twice.
A storm of witchcraft : The Salem trials and the American experience.
"Beginning in January 1692, Salem Village in colonial Massachusetts witnessed the largest and most lethal outbreak of witchcraft in early America. Villagers--mainly young women--suffered from unseen torments that caused them to writhe, shriek, and contort their bodies, complaining of pins stuck into their flesh and of being haunted by specters." Publisher
References
Baker, E. (2015). A storm of witchcraft : The Salem trials and the American experience. Oxford University Press.
Many of the Library's subscription databases now have a security screen that comes up to prevent users from going any further. Once the user overrides the warning, that link is added as OK.
However, for many users, the warning is frightening. We have a warning on our Databases A-Z page, but many users do not see it.
We thought this was a user side browser error, but have found we need to invest in a new level of authenticating service.
Meantime, please communicate to students it is safe to override, bypass, to go to these sites.
Google Chrome Warning
Select Advanced and proceed to the site.
Firefox Warning
Accept Risk and Continue.
Another Example
Go the SHOW DETAILS and select the link to the database.
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