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This chapter describes the wartime application of the intuitive intelligence mode in new domains, including policing, colonial administration, and military tactics. The intelligence strategy morphed from a means of gathering knowledge to a means of acquiring political control. As agents strove to fulfill their dreams of adventure in Arabia, they strayed into the realm of warfare, applying their expertise on Arab affairs to the use and theorization of irregular warfare, deception tactics, and airpower, all of which set the Middle East campaigns apart from the war of attrition in Europe. The official construction of Arabia as a “spy-space” where the expert agent knew how to meet cunning with cunning was central in the articulation of these tactics and underwrote the adoption of an avowedly conscienceless approach to involvement in the Middle East.

This chapter examines a question, the most important of the skeptic's questions, not only in but for Marcel Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu: is poetic seeing also true seeing, and how can it be if poetic seeing is the seeing of a mirage? It analyzes Proust's use of comma in the sentence “those infrequent moments when we perceive nature as it is, poetically, were what Elstir's work was made of.” It also considers Proust's identification of Elstir's way of seeing as based on an “optical illusion” or a “mirage” and looks at signs of a mercurial and probing intelligence that are to be found almost everywhere at work in the Recherche. Finally, the chapter describes the sparring contest of intellect and impression that it argues runs deeper into a question of “truth.”

This chapter is concerned with the issue of realism about universals. In Nominalism and Realism, Armstrong carefully demolishes various nominalist responses to Plato's famous ‘One over Many’ problem but simply dismisses the Quinean response as ‘Ostrich Nominalism’. In response, the chapter argues for three theses. Firstly, Plato's problem is pseudo. So to ignore it is not to behave like an ostrich. Rather, to adopt realism because of this problem that isn't there is to be a ‘Mirage Realist’. Secondly, this problem is Armstrong's main reason for adopting realism but he is also motivated by some good reasons. So Armstrong is largely but not entirely a Mirage Realist. Thirdly, Quine does not ignore any real problem for nominalism and so he is not an ostrich nominalist.

This chapter is devoted to the propagation of X-ray wavefields in slightly deformed crystals where the deformation is small enough for the notions of dispersion surface and wavefields to be locally valid. A local reciprocal-lattice vector and local effective misorientation are defined. The trajectories of the wavefields (ray tracing) are determined using the Eikonal approximation. The case of a constant strain gradient is considered in detail and it is shown that the ray trajectories are bent, giving rise to the mirage effect; both the transmission and reflection geometries are considered. The diffracted intensities are calculated for an incident plane wave and an incident spherical wave. Shape of the Pendellösung fringes in a deformed crystal is discussed.

The observation of single atoms on a metallic surface is described and treated theoretically. Friedel oscillations of electron density in the metal surrounding an impurity are observed and treated quantitatively. The quantum corral experiment of Eigler and colleagues is treated, extended into the quantum mirage mode with an elliptical encirclement of transition metal atoms on a surface like copper. Pair breaking single adatoms of Mn and Cr on Pb are studied in topography and scanning tunneling spectroscopy. A spectroscopy of Kondo and spin-flip scattering is described in connection with naturally occurring Anderson moments at the edge of Schottky barrier junctions on Si:As. The spectroscopy of magnetic adatoms on copper and similar surfaces is described and analysed in terms of a Fano parameter. Imaging of the intensity of vibrational motions in adsorbed molecules on clean metal surfaces, such as acetylene on Cu is presented. The use of STM tips decorated with single molecules.

This chapter gives an account of the communication between Alexandria and the Nile by means of the New Canal. It also describes the boats of the Nile, which are admirably constructed for the navigation of that river. It describes the commencement of the voyage along the canal. Furthermore, it describes an extraordinary phenomenon called, by the Arabs, Sera'b, and by Europeans, mirage. It talks about the author's arrival at the Nile and gives an account of the route from Alexandria along the sea-shore to Reshee'd (or Rosetta). It describes all the ancient sites over there. It briefly describes the Canopic branch of the Nile and the similarity between an ancient and modern custom.

Meza’s archival dissolution had profound effects on his contemporaries, among them Teddy Sandoval. This chapter examines how two disparate sites, the home and public art space, conjoin in shared networks of ceramics repatriated after his death in 1995. Focusing on the custodial efforts of his partner and estate executor, Paul Polubinsaks, the chapter utilizes an archive elicitation process to unpack Sandoval’s diverse art practices and avant-garde collaborations ranging from faux finishes, renegade street graffiti, transgender fictions of self, and mail art personae. It also discusses the posthumous completion of his Gateway to Highland Park for a commuter rail station in Los Angeles and details what became LA’s first Latinx AIDS memorial.

Viviana Zelizer has helped to prompt a turn in economic sociology away from models that take a simple, naturalized conception of the market economy for granted. Through in-depth explorations of the monetary dimensions of contemporary social life, she has argued that money has necessarily different meanings in different contexts. This chapter turns to a question that Zelizer's work raises for the history of economic thought. For present purposes, it takes it as uncontested that money is diverse in the ways that Zelizer and her students and allies have argued: a social institution whose richness and complexity is belied by simple economic accounts. The chapter examines the origin of those accounts themselves. How should we understand their meaning in the broader project of meaning-making through money? It is with these questions in mind that it offers a condensed genealogy of what Zelizer calls the “mirage” that economic theory projects onto society.

This chapter analyzes the concept of “fixer” and “floater” in classifying countries during the gold standard period. These terms, though archaic, have not ceased to be relevant, and are seen still to draw similar patterns in a small number of countries. The chapter mentions the research of Obstfeld and Rogoff, “The Mirage of Fixed Exchange Rates”, and cites the existence of a significant number of stable, meaningful exchange rate regimes that go against recent research. The chapter delves deeper into the history of fixed, floating and flipping exchange rate regimes in relation to the number of exchange rate spells and questions how these spells have survived, as well as how the reformation of pegs affect stability.