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Relatively Famous

Author : Roger Averill
Publisher : Transit Lounge
ISBN 13 : 1925760014
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (257 download)

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Download or read book Relatively Famous written by Roger Averill and published by Transit Lounge . This book was released on 2018-04-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael and Majorie Madigan refuse to be interviewed by biographer Sinclair Hughes for his new book Inside the Lion's Den: The Literary Life of Gilbert Madigan. This is not surprising as Gilbert is Marjorie's ex- husband and Michael's mostly absent father. In Roger Averill's brilliantly conceived new novel, Relatively Famous, Gilbert Madigan is Australia's first Booker Prize winner, a feted and much lauded author that the U.K. and U.S. now likes to call their own. Michael cannot escape his father's life and work, and at times his own life seems swallowed by it. His father's success is a source of undeniable pleasure but also of great turmoil. How does one live in the shadow of a famous relative who we never seem to be able to live up to? In a world increasingly obsessed with fame and celebrity, this engrossing novel subtly explores notions of success , masculinity, betrayal and loss, and ultimately what it might mean to live a good life.

The Age of Em

Author : Robin Hanson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191069655
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Age of Em written by Robin Hanson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-19 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robots may one day rule the world, but what is a robot-ruled Earth like? Many think the first truly smart robots will be brain emulations or ems. Scan a human brain, then run a model with the same connections on a fast computer, and you have a robot brain, but recognizably human. Train an em to do some job and copy it a million times: an army of workers is at your disposal. When they can be made cheaply, within perhaps a century, ems will displace humans in most jobs. In this new economic era, the world economy may double in size every few weeks. Some say we can't know the future, especially following such a disruptive new technology, but Professor Robin Hanson sets out to prove them wrong. Applying decades of expertise in physics, computer science, and economics, he uses standard theories to paint a detailed picture of a world dominated by ems. While human lives don't change greatly in the em era, em lives are as different from ours as our lives are from those of our farmer and forager ancestors. Ems make us question common assumptions of moral progress, because they reject many of the values we hold dear. Read about em mind speeds, body sizes, job training and career paths, energy use and cooling infrastructure, virtual reality, aging and retirement, death and immortality, security, wealth inequality, religion, teleportation, identity, cities, politics, law, war, status, friendship and love. This book shows you just how strange your descendants may be, though ems are no stranger than we would appear to our ancestors. To most ems, it seems good to be an em.

Visions of Glory

Author : Kathleen Diffley
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820355941
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Visions of Glory written by Kathleen Diffley and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2019-11-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Visions of Glory brings together twenty-two images and twenty-two brisk essays, each essay connecting an image to the events that unfolded during a particular year of the Civil War. The book focuses on a diverse set of images that include a depiction of former slaves whipping their erstwhile overseer distributed by an African American publisher, a census graph published in the New York Times, and a cutout of a child’s hand sent by a southern mother to her husband at the front. The essays in this collection reveal how wartime women and men created both written accounts and a visual register to make sense of this pivotal period. The collection proceeds chronologically, providing a nuanced history by highlighting the multiple meanings an assorted group of writers and readers discerned from the same set of circumstances. In so doing, this volume assembles contingent and fractured visions of the Civil War, but its differing perspectives also reveal a set of overlapping concerns. A number of essays focus in particular on African American engagements with visual culture. The collection also emphasizes the role that women played in making, disseminating, or interpreting wartime images. While every essay explores the relationship between image and word, several contributions focus on the ways in which Civil War images complicate an understanding of canonical writers such as Emerson, Melville, and Whitman.

Handbook of Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPCK) for Educators

Author : Mary C. Herring
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317639766
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPCK) for Educators written by Mary C. Herring and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-11 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published by Taylor & Francis Group for the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education This Handbook addresses the concept and implementation of technological pedagogical content knowledge -- the knowledge and skills that teachers need in order to integrate technology meaningfully into instruction in specific content areas. Recognizing, for example, that effective uses of technology in mathematics are quite different from effective uses of technology in social studies, teachers need specific preparation in using technology in each content area they will be teaching. Offering a series of chapters by scholars in different content areas who apply the technological pedagogical content knowledge framework to their individual content areas, the volume is structured around three themes: What is Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge? Integrating Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge into Specific Subject Areas Integrating Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge into Teacher Education and Professional Development The Handbook of Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge for Educators is simultaneously a mandate and a manifesto on the engagement of technology in classrooms based on consensus standards and rubrics for effectiveness. As the title of the concluding chapter declares, "It’s about time!" The American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE) is a national, voluntary association of higher education institutions and related organizations. Our mission is to promote the learning of all PK-12 students through high-quality, evidence-based preparation and continuing education for all school personnel. For more information on our publications, visit our website at: www.aacte.org.

The Assassins

Author : Jan Young
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0557952743
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (579 download)

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Download or read book The Assassins written by Jan Young and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-12-14 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forty-six historic tales of murder and mayhem on a global scale: This book contains true stories, authenticated through the use of both modern and contemporary sources. They range from the year 1337 BCE through 2006 CE, from the United States and Europe to the Mid-east and the Orient. The murderers range from incompetent to highly competent and from despicable to glorious. The victims were prominent politically and, in some cases, financially. Some deserved to die, most did not. All four assassinations of US Presidents are included, as are three attempted Presidential assassinations. Although the stories make interesting reading by themselves, the grouping of them in a single volume gives breadth and allows the reader to understand the scope of the assassination phenomenon, to see trends and to assess their value.

The Transportation Experience

Author : William L. Garrison
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199862710
Total Pages : 634 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book The Transportation Experience written by William L. Garrison and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-03 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A history of the development of transportation systems, with suggestions for further efficiency"--Provided by publisher.

The Personal Life of Josiah Wedgwood, the Potter

Author : Julia Wedgwood
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The Personal Life of Josiah Wedgwood, the Potter written by Julia Wedgwood and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Musical America

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1218 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Musical America written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 1218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Handbook of Graphs and Networks in People Analytics

Author : Keith McNulty
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1000597237
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Graphs and Networks in People Analytics written by Keith McNulty and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2022-06-19 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Immediately implementable code, with extensive and varied illustrations of graph variants and layouts. Examples and exercises across a variety of real-life contexts including business, politics, education, social media and crime investigation. Dedicated chapter on graph visualization methods. Practical walkthroughs of common methodological uses: finding influential actors in groups, discovering hidden community structures, facilitating diverse interaction in organizations, detecting political alignment, determining what influences connection and attachment. Various downloadable data sets for use both in class and individual learning projects. Final chapter dedicated to individual or group project examples.

History in a Glass

Author : Ruth Reichl
Publisher : Random House Digital, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0679643125
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (796 download)

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Download or read book History in a Glass written by Ruth Reichl and published by Random House Digital, Inc.. This book was released on 2007 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Heaven, Hell, and in Between

Author : Yuko Sawa
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1483670813
Total Pages : 581 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (836 download)

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Download or read book Heaven, Hell, and in Between written by Yuko Sawa and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-08 with total page 581 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a story of a woman who is bilingual and bicultural. After college she literally bulldozed her way to higher rungs on the corporate hierarchy in a male dominated business environment of advertising in Japan. She has her stories of how she got there, giving tips on how women trying to rise higher on the corporate ladder where not just "glass" ceilings exist, but "concrete" ceilings. She also describes her observations on the cultural, political and economic differences and upheavals of the recent times as well as developments between the US and Japan, and her observations of other countries in Europe, South America, Australia, New Zealand and the Asian countries as far as India, countries where she traveled on business and her vacations with her husband. And how she is today, when she decided to become a writer after she turned sixty-five. She has shown that there is life after retirement, that there are other ways to pursue development of a "second" career. Though pessimistic at times, she always relied on her optimism to achieve fulfillment. The book is full of hope, both yet unachieved and those achieved.

Bulletin

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1566 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 1566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Doctor's Romantic Adventures

Author : Yu BuZhou
Publisher : Funstory
ISBN 13 : 1636664032
Total Pages : 924 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (366 download)

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Download or read book Doctor's Romantic Adventures written by Yu BuZhou and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-10-01 with total page 924 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tang Chuan, the heir to the imperial family, was ordered by four beautiful mothers to find the precious treasure of the Apricot Forest, the "Nine Stars Needle". At the same time, he helped his fiancée, who he had never met, dissolve her yin and yang body, but because of the misunderstanding, Tang Chuan stayed at Zhou's house.

The Theosophical Path

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 800 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Theosophical Path written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Archaeology of Political Organization

Author : Barbara L. Stark
Publisher : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
ISBN 13 : 1950446190
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (54 download)

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Download or read book The Archaeology of Political Organization written by Barbara L. Stark and published by Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press. This book was released on 2022-01-01 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, Barbara Stark examines settlement in the coastal plain of lowland Mesoamerica, which was richly endowed with fertile soil and valued tropical resources such as jaguars, cacao, avian species with bright plumage, and cotton. The book provides basic archaeological data about regional settlement from three decades of survey research in south-central Veracruz in the western lower Papaloapan basin, a region with low density urbanism. The data reveals political and social change, with consolidation of wealth by elite families during the Late Classic period. The political analysis considers archaeological evidence related to several organizational principles: collective versus autocratic, corporate versus exclusionary/network, and segmentary (unspecialized versus specialized). Many variables related to these principles used by other scholars are either suited to historically documented states, not archaeological ones, or ambiguous. Many published studies either focus on a particular city or use documents or other evidence drawn from the top of the settlement hierarchy, characterizing the whole society politically from a biased sample. This political analysis is regional in scope and attentive to variation in the settlement hierarchy, providing a guidepost to analysis of political principles with archaeological data.

Antebellum American Women's Poetry

Author : Wendy Dasler Johnson
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 0809335018
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Antebellum American Women's Poetry written by Wendy Dasler Johnson and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2016-08-10 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a time when a woman speaking before a mixed-gender audience risked acquiring the label “promiscuous,” thousands of women presented their views about social or moral issues through sentimental poetry, a blend of affect with intellect that allowed their participation in public debate. Bridging literary and rhetorical histories, traditional and semiotic interpretations, Antebellum American Women's Poetry: A Rhetoric of Sentiment explores an often overlooked, yet significant and persuasive pre–Civil War American discourse. Considering the logos, ethos, and pathos—aims, writing personae, and audience appeal—of poems by African American abolitionist Frances Watkins Harper, working-class prophet Lydia Huntley Sigourney, and feminist socialite Julia Ward Howe, Wendy Dasler Johnson demonstrates that sentimental poetry was an inportant component of antebellum social activism. She articulates the ethos of the poems of Harper, who presents herself as a properly domestic black woman, nevertheless stepping boldly into Northern pulpits to insist slavery be abolished; the poetry of Sigourney, whose speaker is a feisty, working-class, ambiguously gendered prophet; and the works of Howe, who juggles her fame as the reformist “Battle Hymn” lyricist and motherhood of five children with an erotic Continental sentimentalism. Antebellum American Women's Poetry makes a strong case for restoration of a compelling system of persuasion through poetry usually dismissed from studies of rhetoric. This remarkable book will change the way we think about women’s rhetoric in the nineteenth century, inviting readers to hear and respond to urgent, muffled appeals for justice in our own day.

The Month

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 602 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Month written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: