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A NATIONAL BESTSELLER A programmer, musician, and father of virtual reality technology, Jaron Lanier was a pioneer in digital media, and among the first to predict the revolutionary changes it would bring to our commerce and culture. Now, with the Web influencing virtually every aspect of our lives, he offers this provocative critique of how digital design is shaping society, for better and for worse. Informed by Lanier's experience and exp...

Noting that science fiction is characterized by an investment in the proliferation of racial difference, Isiah Lavender III argues that racial alterity is fundamental to the genre's narrative strategy. Race in American Science Fiction offers a systematic classification of ways that race appears and how it is silenced in science fiction, while developing a critical vocabulary designed to focus attention on often-overlooked racial implications. ...

How can Facebook help you promote your brand, products, and services? This book provides proven tactics that you can use right away to build your brand and engage prospective customers. With 500 million active users worldwide, Facebook offers a much larger audience than traditional media, but it's a new landscape loaded with unfamiliar challenges. The Facebook Marketing Book shows you how to make the most of the service while skirting not-so-o...

In World War II, the author's ship the USS Albuquerque PF-7 endured a fourteen month tour of duty in the Bering Sea performing unending patrols, escorts and emergency steaming to ships in distress to the point that some aboard Albuquerque feared that they had crossed the line, forgotten by the Navy and destined to roam the seas a ghost ship in company with the Flying Dutchman until Judgment Day. Author David Hendrickson, former historian f...

In this showstopper of a picture book—a follow-on to Fall's 2010 Animal Pop!—children get close to five adorable baby animals through realistic LIFE-SIZE pop-outs! A baby bunny, a sweet lamb, a wobbly pony, a family of piglets, and a line of baby ducks following their mother almost magically unfold with the turn of a page. Depicted in beautiful National Geographic photography, the babies are shown in their actual size, so children will underst...

Global warming's hidden agenda: a global socialist government The worldwide effort to combat manmade global warming is history's most far-reaching hoax. In The Global-Warming Deception, Grant R. Jeffrey documents the orchestrated campaign of political pressure, flawed science, and falsified data-all designed to sell an environmental lie and bring the West to its knees.United Nations agencies use the threat of rising ocean levels, crop failur...

In den letzten Jahren haben Halbleiter-Nanodrähte ein enormes Comeback in der weltweiten Forschung erlebt. Das häufigste beim Nanodrahtwachstum eingesetzte Metall ist Gold. Die damit erzeugten Nanodrähte können aufgrund der elektronischen Eigenschaften allerdings nicht zur Erzeugung von integrierten Schaltkreisen (IC's) genutzt werden. Unproblematisch ist in diesen Prozessen die Verwendung von Aluminium. Bei Versuchen, mit Aluminium Nanodrähte...

Beginning with the era of synchronized sound in the 1920s, music has been an integral part of motion pictures. Whether used to heighten the tension of a scene or evoke a subtle emotional response, scores have played a significant--if often unrealized--role in the viewer's enjoyment. In The Invisible Art of Film Music, Laurence MacDonald provides a comprehensive introduction for the general student, film historian, and aspiring cinematographer....

In The Heron Dance Book of Love and Gratitude, Roderick MacIver uses text and pictures to encourage readers to discover that "all-transcendent meaning" in their daily lives. This wise and comforting book celebrates the open heart and the beauty and mystery that surround us through a wide array of voices and perspectives. MacIver weaves inspirational poetry and prose with his shimmering nature watercolors to create a book that helps readers dis...

Zhiqi Chen is a professor of economics at Carleton University and co-editor of the Journal of Economics and Management Strategy. Marc Duhamel is the director of the Market Structure and Framework Policy Analysis Directorate of the Economic Research and P

A comprehensive 2006 overview and critical analysis of the Nobel Laureate's fifty-year career.

Das Buch ist den historischen Aspekten des Problems Islam und Demokratie gewidmet und versucht die Bedeutung der Aserbaidschanischen Demokratischen Republik (1918-1920) für die Klärung dieses Themas darzustellen. Dieses Staatsgebilde, nur de facto von der Entente anerkannt, entstand nach dem bolschewistischen Umsturz 1917 in Russland und am Ende (1918) des Ersten Weltkrieges. Die Republik entwickelte sich während des Bürgerkrieges im benachbar...

In order to show scientists and engineers how to apply calculus, this edition places a greater emphasis on conceptual understanding. It provides a nice balance between rigor and accessibility that will challenge them. Unique elements are integrated throughout that deepen the appreciation for calculus.

For a 16-year-old boy out in the world alone for the first time, every day's an education in the hard work and boredom of migrant labor, every day teaches him something more about friendship, or hunger, or profanity, or lust--always lust. He learns how a poker game, or hitching a ride, can turn deadly. He discovers the secret sadness and generosity to be found on a lonely farm in the middle of nowhere. Then he joins up with a carnival and beco...

A classic of Russian literature, with an introduction by leading Polish critic Stanislaw Baranczak.

Practical Font Design has built a niche for itself among graphic and Web designers who want to build their own fonts: especially with the first book. I learned a lot since I wrote that first book. This radically revised, updated, and expanded third edition combines the first two books. They are rearranged so they make a lot more sense and some brand new material is added. This is a quick introduction showing a workflow to build new fonts using...

32 poesie, tra la brughiera lombarda e la metropoli, per parlare di presente e dell'assenza di futuro. Maffezzoli torna alla poesia con un libro più maturo e malinconico che emoziona e fa pensare. Il ricavato dalle vendite verrà devoluto al progetto:

Children¿s and Families¿ Holiday Experience is the first volume to consider the active social role of children (0 ¿ 18) as well as parents in shaping the nature of the family holiday experience. It provides significant insights into the holiday desires, expectations, and experiences of children and the families¿ tourism behaviour, that offers the potential for the tourism industry to plan, develop, and market products that provide a higher qua...

Packed with figures, photographs, and tables, this book covers the technical and environmental engineering aspects of large-scale industrial composting. It covers facilities design, planning, operational issues, environmental impacts, public relations, and community concerns, as well as the utilization and economics of marketing compost. It also provides operators and managers a full understanding of the management of odors, such as neutralize...

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