A review of tunnel fire research from Edinburgh
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DOI: 10.1016/j.firesaf.2016.02.004
Abstract: The University of Edinburgh and its alumni have made significant contributions to knowledge in the field of tunnel fire safety engineering. This paper summarises the situation of tunnel fire safety in the early 1970s, when… read more here.
Keywords: tunnel; fire; tunnel fire; fire research ... See more keywords
The Origins of English Revenge Tragedy. George Oppitz-Trotman. Edinburgh Critical Studies in Renaissance Culture. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019. xiv + 258 pp. £80.
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DOI: 10.1017/rqx.2021.193
Abstract: with which human problems are usually met” (314). Spenserian Moments teaches us how to read The Faerie Queene by opening ourselves to its strangeness, by allowing its improvisation to invite us into “the poet’s open… read more here.
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“I can't see myself ever living any[w]ere else”: Variation in (HW) in Edinburgh English
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DOI: 10.1017/s0954394523000078
Abstract: Abstract Sociolinguistic research across Scotland in recent decades has documented an erosion of the phonemic contrast between /ʍ/ (as in which) and /w/ (as in witch). Based on acoustic phonetic analysis of 1,400 realizations produced… read more here.
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‘The Book of Tribulations’: The Syrian Muslim Apocalyptic Tradition. By Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād al-Marwazī, edited and translated by David Cook. pp. 520. Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2017.
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DOI: 10.1017/s1356186318000299
Abstract: Antiquity through the Islamic world (the Dahrı̄s again play a role, being the ones who first suggested that the entire idea of prophet-hood was false, as also discussed in Chapter 8, What are Prophets For?… read more here.
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Forgetting Differences: Tragedy, Historiography, and the French Wars of Religion. Andrea Frisch. Edinburgh Critical Studies in Renaissance Culture. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2015. x + 176 pp. £70.
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DOI: 10.1086/696499
Abstract: reading the complete manuscript only add to the pleasure of reading it. Dauphant’s study continues with an analysis of the Art de dictier, situating it in the history of artes poeticae and the ebb and… read more here.
Keywords: art dictier; differences tragedy; point view; edinburgh ... See more keywords