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Code and Clay, Data and Dirt

Five Thousand Years of Urban Media

by Shannon Mattern
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017

For years, pundits have trumpeted the earthshattering changes that big data and smart networks will soon bring to our cities. But what if cities have long been built for intelligence, maybe for millennia? In Code and Clay, Data and Dirt Shannon Mattern advances the provocative argument that our urban...
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by Mark Jarzombek
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016

Once, humans were what they believed. Now, the modern person is determined by *data exhaust—*an invisible anthropocentric ether of ones and zeros that is a product of our digitally monitored age. Author Mark Jarzombek argues that the world has become redesigned to fuse the algorithmic with the ontological,...
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Celebrity and Power

Fame in Contemporary Culture

by P. David Marshall
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014

Simultaneously celebrated and denigrated, celebrities represent not only the embodiment of success, but also the ultimate construction of false value. Celebrity and Power questions the impulse to become embroiled with the construction and collapse of the famous, exploring the concept of the new public...
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Playing with Feelings

Video Games and Affect

by Aubrey Anable
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2018

How gaming intersects with systems like history, bodies, and code Why do we so compulsively play video games? Might it have something to do with how gaming affects our emotions? In Playing with Feelings, scholar Aubrey Anable applies affect theory to game studies, arguing that video games let...
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Academic Profiling

Latinos, Asian Americans, and the Achievement Gap

by Gilda L. Ochoa
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013

Today the achievement gap is hotly debated among pundits, politicians, and educators. In particular this conversation often focuses on the two fastest-growing demographic groups in the United States: Asian Americans and Latinos. In Academic Profiling, Gilda L. Ochoa addresses this so-called gap by going...
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by Marguerite Duras
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2014

Writing, one of Marguerite Duras’s last works, is a meditation on the process of writing and on her need for solitude in order to do it. In the five short pieces collected in this volume, she explores experiences that had an emotional impact on her and that inspired her to write. These vary from the...
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by Ellen Willis
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014

Out of the Vinyl Deeps, published in 2011, introduced a new generation to the incisive, witty, and merciless voice of Ellen Willis through her pioneering rock music criticism. In the years that followed, Willis’s daring insights went beyond popular music, taking on such issues as pornography, religion,...
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by P. David Marshall
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016

The Celebrity Persona Pandemic explores how the construction of a public persona is fetishized in contemporary culture. As social media has progressively led to a greater focus on the production of the self, so this book looks at the most visible versions of persona through figures such as Stephen Colbert,...
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So Famous and So Gay

The Fabulous Potency of Truman Capote and Gertrude Stein

by Jeff Solomon
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017

Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) and Truman Capote (1924–1984) should not have been famous. They made their names between the Oscar Wilde trial and Stonewall, when homosexuality meant criminality and perversion. And yet both Stein and Capote, openly and exclusively gay, built their outsize reputations...
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Witnessing

Beyond Recognition

by Kelly Oliver
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2001

 Challenging the fundamental tenet of the multicultural movement-that social struggles turning upon race, gender, and sexuality are struggles for recognition-this work offers a powerful critique of current conceptions of identity and subjectivity based on Hegelian notions of recognition. The author’s...
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by Mary Casanova
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014

Libby wants a horse more than anything in the world. Since she is unable to have one of her own, she’s been doing stable chores for her neighbors, the Porters, for the past three years in exchange for riding lessons from Jolene Porter. Libby forms a special bond with the Porters’ prize Appaloosa,...
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Sigurd and His Brave Companions

A Tale of Medieval Norway

by Sigrid Undset
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013

Inspired by tales of the hero Vilmund Vidutan and his fellow knights, Sigurd Jonsson and his young friends Ivar and Helge set out to reenact these exploits on their medieval Norwegian farm. They carve swords and lances and spend hours making shields. With a little imagination, a pasture becomes a battlefield,...
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by Marina Lachecki, Joseph Passineau, Ann Linnea
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2002

Teaching Kids to Love the Earth is a collection of 186 earth-caring activities designed for use with children of all ages to help them experience and appreciate the earth. This book leads you through the authors’ Sense of Wonder Circle: curiosity, exploration, discovery, sharing, and passion. Each...
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by Erik Christian Haugaard
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013

A Slave’s Tale, the sequel to Hakon of Rogen’s Saga, is told from the point of view of a slave girl, Helga, who stows away on the longship when Hakon, the young Viking chieftain, sets sail for France on a voyage to return Rark, a freed slave, to his homeland. The voyagers’ journey is perilous—they...
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