From Hu Shih, The Chinese Renaissance.
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From Hu Shih, The Chinese Renaissance.
It’s no secret, I’m working on another Thomas Pynchon paper and it has to do with entropy as a trope for anxieties about modernism. “Thomas Pynchon, Newton’s Second Law, and Entropy” came up in my googles and I’m posting it here for future reference. If you’re interested, this post is the place to begin; followed…
EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCE | Earth System Science: Overview: A Program for Global Change | The National Academies Press Earth System Science: Overview: A Program for Global Change (1986)
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