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In the fight against zombies, our most important weapons are our brains. It's time to unleash them. Think you know a thing or two about zombies? Think again. If you’re going to keep your wits—and your brains—about you during a zombie attack, you need expert advice.
Braaaiiinnnsss!: From Academics to Zombies gathers together an irreverent group of scholars and writers to take a serious look at how zombies threaten almost every aspect of our lives. Spawned from the viral publication "When Zombies Attack!: Mathematical Modelling of an Outbreak of Zombie Infection," this multidisciplinary book draws on a variety of fields including biology, history, law, gender studies, archaeology, library science and landscape architecture.
Part homage to zombie films and fiction, part cultural study, this collection humorously explores our deep-seated fear of the undead. Engaging and accessible, Braaaiiinnnnssss! will amuse academics and zombie fans alike.
Published in English.
Robert Smith? (Editor)
Robert Smith? is associate professor of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Ottawa. (Before you ask, yes, the question mark is part of his name.) He co-authored the article "When Zombies Attack!: Mathematical Modelling of an Outbreak of Zombie Infection" that found international fame in the summer of 2009. He is also the author of Modelling Disease Ecology with Mathematics (American Institute of Mathematical Sciences, 2008) and the co-editor of two volumes of Time, Unincorporated: The Doctor Who Fanzine Archives (Mad Norwegian Press).
Stacey Smith? (Editor)
Stacey Smith? is full professor at the University of Ottawa.
No, the question mark is not a typo, but rather how Stacey Smith? distinguishes herself in a world of Google searches. Though the name is unique in itself, it is Stacey’s research that truly marks her as a creative and innovative mathematical biologist.
Professor Smith? is well known for her research in an imaginary field: zombies. “By modelling zombies, we learn about the process of dealing with unfamiliar biology,” says Stacey. She further explores the topic in her book Braaaiiinnnsss: From Academics to Zombies, and in Mathematical Modelling of Zombies, both published at the University of Ottawa Press.
Introduction
Robert Smith?
Fitting the Theory to the Facts
John Seavey
What Feminism Has to Say about World War Z
Jen Rinaldi
The Zombie Threat to Democracy
Adam Smith
Classification and Causation of Zombification, and
Guidelines for Risk Reduction and Management
Tony Contento
Zombie Instructors: A Career Made Flesh
Kate Small and Robert Smith?
Aim for the Head! The Zombie as an Intellectual Monster
Arnold T. Blumberg
Cultural Narratives of Blood
Marina Levina
Maintaining Academic Library Services during the Zombie Apocalypse
Sarah McHone-Chase and Lynne M. Thomas
Zombies on Broadway
Anthony Wilson
Reclaiming Public Spaces through Performance of
the Zombie Walk
Sasha Cocarla
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A Preliminary Report on the First Excavation Season
(1 June–15 July 2047) at Zombie Assault Site UK56,
Newport, South Wales
Melissa Beattie
Strategic Intelligence Analysis of a Zombie Attack
Harris DeLeeuw
Evolution of the Modern Zombie
Philip Munz and Philippe P. Vachon
Dawn of the Shopping Dead
Matt Bailey
And the Dead Shall Walk, but How?
Anthony Tongen, Caitlin V. Johnson and Sean M. Francis
Becoming Zombie Grrrls On and Off Screen
Natasha Patterson
American History Z
Daniel Changer
Zombies, Disability and Law
Julia Gruson-Wood
The Zombie Paradigm
Helen Kang
Diary of a Landscape Architect
Lisa MacDonald
Contributors