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Toward A Minor Architecture
A major proposal for a minor architecture, and for the making of spaces out of the already built. Architecture can no longer limit itself to the art of making buildings; it must also invent the politics of taking them apart. This is Jill Stoner's premise for a minor architecture. Her architect's eye tracks differently from most, drawn not to the lauded and iconic but to what she calls “the landscape of our constructed mistakes”—metropolitan hinterlands rife with failed and foreclosed developments, undersubscribed office parks, chain hotels, and abandoned malls. These graveyards of capital, Stoner asserts, may be stripped of their excess and become sites of strategic spatial operations....
Who was Who on TV
The information herein was accumulated of fifty some odd years. The collection process started when TV first came out and continued until today. The books are in alphabetical order and cover shows from the 1940s to 2010. The author has added a brief explanation of each show and then listed all the characters, who played the roles and for the most part, the year or years the actor or actress played that role. Also included are most of the people who created the shows, the producers, directors, and the writers of the shows. These books are a great source of trivia information and for most of the older folk will bring back some very fond memories. I know a lot of times we think back and say, "Who was the guy that played such and such a role?" Enjoy!
American Apocalyptic
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Responding to Probation and Parole Violations
Reports on a growing practice in American corrections: developing policies that guide discretionary responses to probation and parole violations. Includes topics on reason for the increasing numbers of violators and absconders, detection, changes of types of offenders on probation and parole, trends in responding to violationss, improved manaement practices, responses to absconders, efforts to locate absconders, and more. Tables.
Tibet, Lamplight Unto a Darkened World - the American Delusion a Parody of Life
Michener meets Grisham,on a mountain top in Tibet; hooked up by Hermann Hesse ;-) Chronicling the adventures of a modern-day Siddartha, this Historical 'fiction' novel is a parable with a heart.
Instrumental Community
How networked structures of collaboration and competition within a community of researchers led to the invention, spread, and commercialization of scanning probe microscopy. The scanning tunneling microscope (STM) has been hailed as the “key enabling discovery for nanotechnology,” the catalyst for a scientific field that attracts nearly $20 billion in funding each year. In Instrumental Community, Cyrus Mody argues that this technology-centric view does not explain how these microscopes helped to launch nanotechnology—and fails to acknowledge the agency of the microscopists in making the STM and its variants critically important tools. Mody tells the story of the invention, spread, and ...
Computer Pioneer of the 1960's
Computer Pioneer of the 1960’s By: Willard L. Kern Author Willard L. Kern will be 90 years old on July 11th of this year. He has been CEO of a software company since 1963, retired at 65. He was the first to develop software using algorithms in programs. To do this he had to learn how to get sleep anywhere, anytime. The CEO and Sexual predators. Note: Bill Gates was about seven years old when Kern started! Author Kern ran a four million dollar company, paid employees 20% above the going rate and provided full company paid family health insurance, including dental coverage from the early 1960’s. His companies software sold for as much as $900,000 per company die to it’s great improvement in manufacturing productivity. Kern, although not a college graduate, self educated, was awarded four awards, including the coveted annual Gold Award, from the IIE (Institute of Industrial Engineers), an Engineering Society. He developed the first on-line medical systems in the 1960’s and the first computer analyzed, multi-variant system, to measure labor.
Addressing Hate Speech through Education
Hate speech is spreading faster and further than ever before as a result of social media user growth and the rise of populism. Both online and offline, hate speech targets people and groups based on who they are. It has the potential to ignite and fuel violence, spawn violent extremist ideologies, including atrocity crimes and genocide. It discriminates and infringes on individual and collective human rights and undermines social cohesion. Education can play a central role in countering hateful narratives and the emergence of group-targeted violence. This policy guide developed by UNESCO and the United Nations' Office on Genocide Prevention and the Responsibility to Protect explores these educational responses and provides guidance and recommendations to policy-makers on how to strengthen education systems to counter hate speech.
Monster Metaphors
This book explores ways in which common metaphors can play a detrimental role in everyday life; how they can grow in outsized importance to dominate their respective terrains and push out alternative perspectives; and how forms of resistance might act to contain their dominance. The volume begins by unpacking the dynamics of metaphors, their power and influence and the ways in which they are bolstered by other rhetorical devices. Adams draws on four case studies to illustrate their destructive impact when they eclipse other points of view—the metaphor of mental illness; the metaphor of free-flowing markets; the metaphor of the mind as a mirror and the metaphor of men as naturally superior. Taken together, these examples prompt further reflection on the beneficiaries of these "monster metaphors" and how they promote such metaphors to serve their own interests but also on ways forward for challenging their dominance, strategies for preventing their rise and ways of creating space for alternatives. This book will be of interest to scholars interested in the study of metaphor, across such fields as linguistics, rhetoric and media studies.
