Jonathan Miller: 31 books
Sound Unbound
Sampling Digital Music and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2008
The role of sound and digital media in an information-based society: artists—from Steve Reich and Pierre Boulez to Chuck D and Moby—describe their work.
If Rhythm Science was about the flow of things, Sound Unbound is about the remix—how music, art, and literature have blurred the lines...
Liberalism in Neoliberal Times
Dimensions, Contradictions, Limits
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2017
An exploration of the theories, histories, practices, and contradictions of liberalism today.
What does it mean to be a liberal in neoliberal times? This collection of short essays attempts to show how liberals and the wider concept of liberalism remain relevant in what many perceive to be...
Academic Labor
The Politics of Academic Labor in Communication Studies
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
USC Annenberg Press has published The Politics of Academic Labor in Communication Studies, edited by Jonathan Stere. This collection features the work of 21 authors who raise difficult questions about academic labor in the field of communication studies. Twenty-one authors take on difficult questions...
by Andrew W. Lo, Deborah M Gordon, Jeffrey P. Bigham
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2015
Experts describe the latest research in a rapidly growing multidisciplinary field, the study of groups of individuals acting collectively in ways that seem intelligent.
Intelligence does not arise only in individual brains; it also arises in groups of individuals. This is collective intelligence:...
Mapping "Race"
Critical Approaches to Health Disparities Research
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2013
Researchers commonly ask subjects to self-identify their race from a menu of preestablished options. Yet if race is a multidimensional, multilevel social construction, this has profound methodological implications for the sciences and social sciences. Race must inform how we design large-scale data...
Apprenticeship Pilgrimage
Developing Expertise through Travel and Training
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2017
Lauren Miller Griffith and Jonathan S. Marion introduce the concept of apprenticeship pilgrimage to help explain why performers travel to places both near and far in an attempt to increase both their skill and their legitimacy within various genres of art and activity. What happens when your skill-level...
Jonathan Little's Excelling at No-Limit Hold'em
Leading poker experts discuss how to study, play and master NLHE
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Excelling at No-Limit Hold'em is a sensation in poker publishing. Renowned poker professional and author Jonathan Little brings together 17 of the greatest no-limit experts in the world to discuss all aspects of the game. These experts include superstars such as Phil Hellmuth, Chris Moneymaker, Mike...
Our Prince of Scribes
Writers Remember Pat Conroy
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018
New York Times best-selling writer Pat Conroy (1945–2016) inspired a worldwide legion of devoted fans numbering in the millions, but none are more loyal to him and more committed to sustaining his literary legacy than the many writers he nurtured over the course of his fifty-year writing life. In...
by Pat McHale, Jonathan Case, SJ Miller
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2018
Eisner Award-winning writer Jonathan Case (Before Tomorrowland) and Eisner Award-winning Over the Garden Wall artist Jim Campbell present the first Over the Garden Wall original graphic novel. When Greg and Wirt make it back home from The Unknown, they are shocked to see that Beatrice is still with...
Achieving sustainable production of milk Volume 3
Dairy herd management and welfare
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
Reviews advances in understanding and improving the welfare of dairy cattle;
Summarises current research on rumen biology, digestion and ways of optimising nutrition of dairy cattle from grazing to feed and feed supplements;
Discusses latest developments in maintaining the health of dairy cattle, including the genetics of disease resistance and dairy herd health management
by Scott Skipper, Tamara Miller, Lisa Griffiths
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2018
Contributing authors: Don Ball, Jon Chaus, Sharri Cohen, T.L. Eastwood, Carol Elek, Lisa Griffiths, Sue Maywood, Tamara Miller, Holly Scott, and Scott Skipper offer some autobiographical memories, a little historical fiction, several good creepy tales, some heartwarming stories, a couple of talking...
Mark Twain and Money
Language, Capital, and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
This groundbreaking volume explores the importance of economics and prosperity throughout Samuel Clemens’s writing and personal life.
Mark Twain and Money: Language, Capital, and Culture focuses on an overlooked feature of the story of one of America’s most celebrated writers. Investigating...
Utopic Dreams and Apocalyptic Fantasies
Critical Approaches to Researching Video Game Play
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2010
Few books have attempted to contextualize the importance of video game play with a critical social, cultural and political perspective that raises the question of the significance of work, pleasure, fantasy and play in the modern world. The study of why video game play is 'fun' has often been relegated...
by Dr. Ian G. Baird, Corey L. Bell, Dr. Stephen C. Berkwitz
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2016
This book introduces contemporary Buddhists from across Asia and from various walks of life. Eschewing traditional hagiographies, the editors have collected sixty-six profiles of individuals who would be excluded from most Buddhist histories and ethnographies. In addition to monks and nuns, readers...