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Anyone reading the business section of a newspaper lately knows that the financial exchanges--stock, bonds, FX, commodities, and so forth--are undergoing tremendous transformations. Fund managers, market makers, traders, exchange professionals, marekt data providers and analyzers, investors--anyone involved with the financial exchanges needs to understand the major forces pushing this transformation in order to position themselves and their in...

Excerpt from The Real Book About Abraham LincolnSunday morning, February I 2, I 809, Thomas Lin coln had news to spread. He pushed open the leather hinged door of his one-room log cabin near Hodgen Ville, Kentucky, and stepped outside.Thomas Was too pore to have a riding horse handy in a barn and ready to saddle, but he'd gladly walk anywhere today. His Strong, stocky body usu ally moved slowly. Today he swung along quickly, two miles up the r...

Digital Russia provides a comprehensive analysis of the ways in which new media technologies have shaped language and communication in contemporary Russia. It traces the development of the Russian-language internet, explores the evolution of web-based communication practices, showing how they have both shaped and been shaped by social, political, linguistic and literary realities, and examines online features and trends that are characteristic...

Excerpt from The Real Book About Abraham Lincoln Sunday morning, February I 2, I 809, Thomas Lin coln had news to spread. He pushed open the leather hinged door of his one-room log cabin near Hodgen Ville, Kentucky, and stepped outside. Thomas Was too pore to have a riding horse handy in a barn and ready to saddle, but he'd gladly walk anywhere today. His Strong, stocky body usu ally moved slowly. Today he swung along quickly, two miles up t...

Digital Russia provides a comprehensive analysis of the ways in which new media technologies have shaped language and communication in contemporary Russia. It traces the development of the Russian-language internet, explores the evolution of web-based communication practices, showing how they have both shaped and been shaped by social, political, linguistic and literary realities, and examines online features and trends that are characteristic...

Michael S. Gorham is Associate Professor of Russian in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at the University of Florida. He is the author of Speaking in Soviet Tongues: Language Culture and the Politics of Voice in Revolutionary Russia and coeditor of Digital Russia: The Language, Culture, and Politics of New Media Communication.

Michael S. Gorham presents a cultural history of the politics of Russian language from Gorbachev and glasnost to Putin and the emergence of new generations of Web technologies.

Examining the dynamics of language development in a changing political and social order, Gorham shows how language cultures struggled to gain authority in Russia after the Revolution of 1917.