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The Corn Was Green: The Inside Story of Hee Haw
John Aylesworth
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• Author(s): John Aylesworth • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - History & Criticism Reviled by critics but beloved by an extraordinarily faithful audience, Hee Haw was seen ...
View full detailsThe Thirties: A Reconsideration in the Light of the American Political Tradition
Morton Frisch, Martin Diamond, Charles Kesler
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• Author(s): Morton Frisch | Martin Diamond | Charles Kesler • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: United States - 20th CenturyWe are pleased to bring back into print The ...
View full detailsTraces in the Way: Michi and the Writings of Komparu Zenchiku
Noel J. Pinnington
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• Author(s): Noel J. Pinnington • Publisher: Cornell East Asia Series • Publisher Imprint: Cornell East Asia Series • BISAC: Asian - JapaneseTraces in the Way is simultaneously a critical interpretation of the writings of noh playwright and think...
View full detailsTotal War and Modernization
Yasushi Yamanouchi, J. Victor Koschmann, Ryuichi Narita
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• Author(s): Yasushi Yamanouchi | J. Victor Koschmann | Ryuichi Narita • Publisher: Cornell East Asia Series • Publisher Imprint: Cornell East Asia Series • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialA product of international collaborative resea...
View full detailsSelected Poems of Kim Namjo (Ceas)
Namjo Kim, David R. McCann, Hyun-Jae Yee Salee
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• Author(s): Namjo Kim | David R. McCann | Hyun-Jae Yee Salee • Publisher: Cornell East Asia Series • Publisher Imprint: Cornell East Asia Series • BISAC: Asian - JapaneseA generous selection of poems by one of Korea's most honored and highly reg...
View full detailsOskar Panizza and The Love Council: A History of the Scandalous Play on Stage and in Court, with the Complete Text in English and a Biography of the A
Peter D. G. Brown
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• Author(s): Peter D. G. Brown • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Theater - General In 1894, German society was introduced to The Love Council, a scandalous new play by the playwright Oskar ...
View full detailsDragonflies: Fiction by Chinese Women in the Twentieth Century
Shu-Ning Sciban, Fred Edwards
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• Author(s): Shu-Ning Sciban | Fred Edwards • Publisher: Cornell East Asia Series • Publisher Imprint: Cornell East Asia Series • BISAC: Asian - GeneralDragonflies is an anthology containing twelve selections ranging from short stories to novella...
View full detailsDay-Shine: Poems
Hyon-Jong Chong, Wolhee Choe, Peter Fusco
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• Author(s): Hyon-Jong Chong | Wolhee Choe | Peter Fusco • Publisher: Cornell East Asia Series • Publisher Imprint: Cornell East Asia Series • BISAC: Asia - KoreaPowerfully inventive poems of love in contemporary life by Chong Hyon-jong, one of t...
View full detailsDisarming the Allies of Imperialism: The State, Agitation, and Manipulation During China's Nationalist Revolution, 1922-1929
Michael G. Murdock
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• Author(s): Michael G. Murdock • Publisher: Cornell East Asia Series • Publisher Imprint: Cornell East Asia Series • BISAC: Asia - ChinaThis study provides a striking new explanation of how China's Nationalist Party (GMD) defeated its rivals in ...
View full detailsCapital and Countryside in Japan, 300-1180: Japanese Historians Interpreted in English
Joan R. Piggott
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• Author(s): Joan R. Piggott • Publisher: Cornell East Asia Series • Publisher Imprint: Cornell East Asia Series • BISAC: Asia - GeneralThis volume, edited by Joan Piggott (University of Southern California, Los Angeles), includes fourteen essays...
View full detailsDescription and Explanation in Korean Linguistics
Ross King
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• Author(s): Ross King • Publisher: Cornell East Asia Series • Publisher Imprint: Cornell East Asia Series • BISAC: ChineseThis volume brings together fifteen new papers on Korean linguistics originally presented at the Ninth International Confer...
View full detailsThe Ambiguous Allure of the West: Traces of the Colonial in Thailand
Rachel V. Harrison, Peter A. Jackson, Dipesh Chakrabarty
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• Author(s): Rachel V. Harrison | Peter A. Jackson | Dipesh Chakrabarty • Publisher: Southeast Asia Program Publications • Publisher Imprint: Southeast Asia Program Publications • BISAC: Asia - Southeast AsiaThe Ambiguous Allure of the West exami...
View full detailsInformal Empire in Crisis
Martyn Atkins
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• Author(s): Martyn Atkins • Publisher: Cornell East Asia Series • Publisher Imprint: Cornell East Asia Series • BISAC: Asia - ChinaThe Inspector-General of the Chinese Maritime Customs Service was, without doubt, the highest-ranking foreigner in...
View full detailsThe Great Composers Portrayed on Film, 1913 through 2002
Charles P. Mitchell
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• Author(s): Charles P. Mitchell • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General This book is a comprehensive filmography of biographical films featuring the lives of 65 great classical composers...
View full detailsOn the Trail of the D.C. Sniper: Fear and the Media
Jack R. Censer
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• Author(s): Jack R. Censer • Publisher: University of Virginia Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Virginia Press • BISAC: Media StudiesFor a month in the fall of 2002, a series of sniper attacks suddenly dominated the headlines in the nati...
View full detailsWorking for Justice: The L.A. Model of Organizing and Advocacy
Ruth Milkman, Joshua Bloom, Victor Narro
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• Author(s): Ruth Milkman | Joshua Bloom | Victor Narro • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Political AdvocacyWorking for Justice, which includes eleven case studies of recent low-wage worker organizing campaigns in Los...
View full detailsUrban America Reconsidered
David L. Imbroscio
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• Author(s): David L. Imbroscio • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: American Government - LocalThe aftermath of Hurricane Katrina laid bare the tragedy of American cities. What the storm re...
View full detailsThe Greengrocer and His TV
Paulina Bren
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• Author(s): Paulina Bren • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Eastern Europe - GeneralWinner, 2012 Council for European Studies Book AwardWinner, 2012 Center for Austrian Studies Book Prize...
View full detailsExporting the Bomb
Matthew H. Kroenig
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• Author(s): Matthew H. Kroenig • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: International Relations - Arms ControlIn a vitally important book for anyone interested in nuclear proliferation, defense...
View full detailsOlive Borden: The Life and Films of Hollywood's "Joy Girl"
Michelle Vogel
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• Author(s): Michelle Vogel • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General The all too brief career of film star Olive Borden (1906-1947) is chronicled in this definitive biography. Appre...
View full detailsWillie Morris: An Exhaustive Annotated Bibliography and a Biography
Jack Bales
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• Author(s): Jack Bales • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Literary William Weaks Morris was a writer defined in large measure by his Southern roots. A seventh generation Mississippian, he g...
View full detailsWesterns and the Trail of Tradition: A Year-by-Year History, 1929-1962
Barrie Hanfling
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• Author(s): Barrie Hanfling • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Over the past century, the western has fluctuated in popularity. By 2010 it has come to stand, ...
View full detailsTerry Southern and the American Grotesque
David Tully
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• Author(s): David Tully • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: American - General This work offers a critical biography and analysis of the varied literary output of novels, short stories, scre...
View full detailsThe Economic Naturalist's Field Guide: Common Sense Principles for Troubled Times
Robert H. Frank
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• Author(s): Robert H. Frank • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Economics - GeneralThe New York Times columnist and author of The Economic Naturalist, Robert Frank returns to show how behavioral economics can illum...
View full detailsLearning to Lead: A Workbook on Becoming a Leader
Warren G. Bennis, Joan Goldsmith
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• Author(s): Warren G. Bennis | Joan Goldsmith • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: LeadershipFrom leadership expert Warren Bennis, a workbook to help anyone reach their full potential as a leader. Warren Bennis an...
View full detailsImagery from Genesis in Holocaust Memoirs: A Critical Study
Deborah Lee Prescott
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• Author(s): Deborah Lee Prescott • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General In the life stories of Holocaust survivors, biblical imagery can be invoked to explicate the unexplainable, to ma...
View full detailsArchitect of Soviet Victory in World War II: The Life and Theories of G.S. Isserson
Richard W. Harrison
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• Author(s): Richard W. Harrison • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - World War II The Red Army's leading operational theorist in the 1930s, Georgii Samoilovich Isserson was the mas...
View full detailsThe Unfinished Enlightenment
Joanna Stalnaker
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• Author(s): Joanna Stalnaker • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: European - FrenchIn The Unfinished Enlightenment, Joanna Stalnaker offers a fresh look at the French Enlightenment by focus...
View full detailsIslam in the World Today: A Handbook of Politics, Religion, Culture, and Society
Werner Ende, Udo Steinbach
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• Author(s): Werner Ende | Udo Steinbach • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Islam - GeneralConsidered the most authoritative single-volume reference work on Islam in the contemporary world...
View full detailsIn Search of Paradise: Middle-Class Living in a Chinese Metropolis
Li Zhang
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• Author(s): Li Zhang • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialA new revolution in homeownership and living has been sweeping the booming cities of China. Thi...
View full detailsNabokov, Perversely
Eric Naiman
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• Author(s): Eric Naiman • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: American - GeneralIn an original and provocative reading of Vladimir Nabokov's work and the pleasures and perils to which its re...
View full detailsIdylls of the King
Alfred Tennyson
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• Author(s): Alfred Tennyson • Publisher: Kessinger Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Kessinger Publishing • BISAC: ClassicsIdylls of the King is a collection of twelve narrative poems written by Alfred Lord Tennyson. The poems are loosely based on...
View full detailsScience and Technology in World History, Volume 2: Early Christianity, the Rise of Islam and the Middle Ages
David Deming
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• Author(s): David Deming • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: History Science is a living, organic activity, the meaning and understanding of which have evolved incrementally over human histo...
View full detailsThe Prism and the Rainbow: A Christian Explains Why Evolution Is Not a Threat
Joel W. Martin
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• Author(s): Joel W. Martin • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: Religion & ScienceHe urges his fellow Christians to refuse to participate in the intellectually stifling deba...
View full detailsProperty of Communists
Mark B. Smith
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• Author(s): Mark B. Smith • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Russia & the Former Soviet UnionWithin fifteen years of the end of the Second World War, many tens of ...
View full detailsMystery Movie Series of 1940s Hollywood
Ron Backer
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• Author(s): Ron Backer • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General Many of the 20th century's most celebrated fictional sleuths appeared in Hollywood movie mystery series of the forti...
View full detailsThe Heroic Ideal: Western Archetypes from the Greeks to the Present
M. Gregory Kendrick
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• Author(s): M. Gregory Kendrick • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Popular Culture - General The word "hero" seems in its present usage, an all-purpose moniker applied to everyone from Meda...
View full detailsLucky Luciano: The Rise and Fall of a Mob Boss
William Donati
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• Author(s): William Donati • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Criminals & Outlaws Charley "Lucky" Luciano was instrumental to the development of the American Mafia and supervised the at...
View full detailsA Community of Europeans?
Thomas Risse
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• Author(s): Thomas Risse • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralIn A Community of Europeans?, a thoughtful observer of the ongoing project of European integra...
View full detailsWives, Slaves, and Concubines: A History of the Female Underclass in Dutch Asia
Eric Jones
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• Author(s): Eric Jones • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Asia - Southeast AsiaWives, Slaves, and Concubines argues that Dutch colonial practices and law created a new...
View full detailsSocial Change
Jay Weinstein
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• Author(s): Jay Weinstein • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralThis introduction to social change covers the momentous and relatively recent changes...
View full detailsThe Creation of Narrative in Tabletop Role-Playing Games
Jennifer Grouling Cover
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• Author(s): Jennifer Grouling Cover • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Role Playing & Fantasy Despite the rise of computer gaming, millions of adults still play face to face role playin...
View full detailsUp from the Vault: Rare Thrillers of the 1920s and 1930s
John T. Soister
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• Author(s): John T. Soister • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Guides & Reviews A number of thrillers made in the 1920s and 1930s have become available again thanks to new techno...
View full detailsCastorland Journal: An Account of the Exploration and Settlement of New York State by French Émigrés in the Years 1793 to 1797
Simon Desjardins, Pierre Pharoux, John A. Gallucci
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• Author(s): Simon Desjardins | Pierre Pharoux | John A. Gallucci • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: United States - State & Local - Middle AtlanticThe Castorland Journal is a diary, a...
View full detailsThe Devil on Screen: Feature Films Worldwide, 1913 Through 2000
Charles P. Mitchell
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• Author(s): Charles P. Mitchell • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism The Devil has been represented in many film genres, including horror, comedy, the musical, ...
View full detailsChina's Rise in Historical Perspective
Brantly Womack
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• Author(s): Brantly Womack • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Asia - ChinaChina, with its geographical, historical, cultural, and political distance from the West, l...
View full detailsDigital Dragon: High-Technology Enterprises in China
Adam Segal
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• Author(s): Adam Segal • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Industries - Computers & Information TechnologyDuring the economic reforms of the last twenty years, China adopted a wide arr...
View full detailsEarly Black Baseball in Minnesota: The St. Paul Gophers, Minneapolis Keystones and Other Barnstorming Teams of the Deadball Era
Todd Peterson
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• Author(s): Todd Peterson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History Though they played in the years before Rube Foster formed the first Negro League, the St. Paul Gophers and th...
View full detailsCharles Ludlam and the Ridiculous Theatrical Company: Critical Analyses of 29 Plays
Rick Roemer
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• Author(s): Rick Roemer • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Theater - History & Criticism In the late 1960s, Charles Ludlam (1943-1987) brought his unique brand of theatre to New York au...
View full detailsThe Daytime Serials of Television, 1946-1960
Jim Cox
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• Author(s): Jim Cox • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - History & Criticism The popularity of soap operas on radio made them a natural for the new medium of television, wher...
View full detailsHonor and Fidelity: The 65th Infantry in Korea, 1950-1953
Gilberto N. Villahermosa, Jeffrey J. Clarke, Center of Military History
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• Author(s): Gilberto N. Villahermosa | Jeffrey J. Clarke | Center of Military History • Publisher: www.Militarybookshop.Co.UK • Publisher Imprint: www.Militarybookshop.Co.UK • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - Korean WarDiscusses the experiences of ...
View full detailsCatholic Theatre and Drama: Critical Essays
Kevin J. Wetmore
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• Author(s): Kevin J. Wetmore • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Theater - History & Criticism The relationship between the Catholic Church and theatre has a long and complicated history...
View full detailsThe Literary Angel: Essays on Influences and Traditions Reflected in the Joss Whedon Series
Amijo Comeford, Tamy Burnett
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• Author(s): Amijo Comeford | Tamy Burnett • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - History & Criticism The fictionalized Los Angeles of television's Angel is a world filled with ...
View full detailsKodiak Kreol: Communities of Empire in Early Russian America
Gwenn A. Miller
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• Author(s): Gwenn A. Miller • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: United States - 19th CenturyFrom the 1780s to the 1820s, Kodiak Island, the first capital of Imperial Russia's only overseas...
View full detailsRevisiting Keynes: Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren
Lorenzo Pecchi, Gustavo Piga
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• Author(s): Lorenzo Pecchi | Gustavo Piga • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Economic ConditionsLeading economists revisit a provocative essay by John Maynard Keynes, debating Keynes's vision of growth, inequality, wo...
View full detailsRediscovering Empathy: Agency, Folk Psychology, and the Human Sciences
Karsten Stueber
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• Author(s): Karsten Stueber • Publisher: Bradford Book • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Book • BISAC: GeneralEmpathy as epistemically central for our folk psychological understanding of other minds; a rehabilitation of the empathy thesis in light o...
View full detailsPolitical Aesthetics
Crispin Sartwell
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• Author(s): Crispin Sartwell • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Art & Politics"I suggest that although at any given place and moment the aesthetic expressions of a political system ju...
View full detailsThe Internet and American Business
William Aspray, Paul E. Ceruzzi
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• Author(s): William Aspray | Paul E. Ceruzzi • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Internet - GeneralThe effect of a commercialized Internet on American business, from the boom in e-commerce and adjustments by bricks-and...
View full detailsThe Allure of Machinic Life: Cybernetics, Artificial Life, and the New AI
John Johnston
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• Author(s): John Johnston • Publisher: Bradford Book • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Book • BISAC: RoboticsAn account of the creation of new forms of life and intelligence in cybernetics, artificial life, and artificial intelligence that analyzes ...
View full detailsInsatiable Curiosity: Innovation in a Fragile Future
Helga Nowotny, Mitch Cohen
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• Author(s): Helga Nowotny | Mitch Cohen • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Social AspectsAn influential scholar in science studies argues that innovation tames the insatiable and limitless curiosity driving science, a...
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