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This document gives a short summary of the books goals. Originally, laura ran in colliers from october to november 1942 as a sevenpart serial titled ring twice for laura. Explores the reasons why the traditional humanities disciplines are resistant to digital humanities. Breaking the book by laura mandell is available in these. At least peter meyers in his two versions of breaking the page. Now that we have so much data digitized, we can use techniques and methodologies used to explore big data. Project muse recovering kate chopins her first party. Print humanities in the digital age breaking the book hardback common jan 1, 2015.