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Hanan al-Cinema
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In this book, Laura Marks examines one of the world's most impressive, and affecting, bodies of independent and experimental cinema from the last twenty-five years: film and video works from the Arabic-speaking world. Some of these works' creative strategies are shared by filmmakers around the (...)
The Aesthetic of Play
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The impulse toward play is very ancient, not only pre-cultural but pre-human; zoologists have identified play behaviors in turtles and in chimpanzees. Games have existed since antiquity; 5,000-year-old board games have been recovered from Egyptian tombs. And yet we still lack a critical language (...)
Irredeemable Premier Vol. 1
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"What s to Love: Mark Waid is not only our former editor-in-chief, but is also one of our favorite storytellers in comics, having amassed a long list of critically acclaimed hits in his 20-year career and writing such iconic characters as Superman, Captain America, Batman, The Flash, and Wonder (...)
Out of the Shadows, Into the Streets!
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For decades, social movements have vied for attention from the mainstream mass media -- newspapers, radio, and television. Today, many argue that social media power social movements, from the Egyptian revolution to Occupy Wall Street. Yet, as Sasha Costanza-Chock reports, community organizers know (...)
Traversing Digital Babel
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The computer systems of government agencies are notoriously complex. New technologies are piled on older technologies, creating layers that call to mind an archaeological dig. Obsolete programming languages and closed mainframe designs offer barriers to integration with other agency systems. (...)
The Fabric of Space
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Water lies at the intersection of landscape and infrastructure, crossing between visible and invisible domains of urban space, in the tanks and buckets of the global South and the vast subterranean technological networks of the global North. In this book, Matthew Gandy considers the cultural and (...)
The Ethics of Animal Research
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An estimated 100 million nonhuman vertebrates worldwide--including primates, dogs, cats, rabbits, hamsters, birds, rats, and mice--are bred, captured, or otherwise acquired every year for research purposes. Much of this research is seriously detrimental to the welfare of these animals, causing (...)
The Michael Moorcock Library Vol.2 - Elric: Sailor on the Seas of Fate
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Following his self-exile from Melnibone, Elric is faced with his biggest challenge ever! As he lies dying on the shores of an unknown land, he is taken aboard a mysterious ship where time and logic hold no meaning. Several other incarnations of the Eternal Champions are there, but why? What could (...)
Positive Computing
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On the eve of Google's IPO in 2004, Larry Page and Sergey Brin vowed not to be evil. Today, a growing number of technologists would go further, trying to ensure that their work actively improves people's lives. Technology, so pervasive and ubiquitous, has the capacity to increase stress and (...)
Managing Equity Portfolios
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Portfolio management is a tough business. Each day, managers face the challenges of an ever-changing and unforgiving market, where strategies and processes that worked yesterday may not work today, or tomorrow. The usual advice for improving portfolio performance -- refining your strategy, staying (...)
The Complete Adventures of Cholly & Flytrap
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SURVIVALISTS, BATTLEFIELD ENTREPRENEURS AND ALL-ROUND ANTI-HEROES!Spawned by legendary artist and writer Arthur Suydam blockbuster cover illustrator on Marvel Zombies Cholly & Flytrap are survivors on a distant planet, barely held together with catgut and scar tissue, Cholly s always there (...)
The Outsourcer
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The rise of the Indian information technology industry is a remarkable economic success story. Software and services exports from India amounted to less than $100 million in 1990, and today come close to $100 billion. But, as Dinesh Sharma explains in The Outsourcer, Indian IT's (...)
Concordancia de la Biblia Strong Concisa
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Si usted desea lo esencial de la erudición de Strong en un tamaño convenientemente compacto, esta es la concordancia que busca. La Nueva Concordancia de la Biblia Strong Concisa le ayuda a localizar las referencias que busca de una manera rápida y fácil. Una concordancia confiable que irá a su (...)
Architecting the Future Enterprise
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Every enterprise evolves continuously, driven by changing needs or new opportunities. Most often this happens gradually, with small adjustments to strategy, organization, processes, or infrastructure. But sometimes enterprises need to go beyond minor fixes and transform themselves, in response to a (...)
Blue Estate: The Graphic Novel
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FINALLY AVAILABLE IN ONE DELUXE EDITION! Catch the entire Eisner-nominated saga of a desperate starlet and a hapless private dick as they tangle with dueling crime families, a homicidal action hero--and each other--on the mean streets of L.A. in one deluxe, bonus-packed edition. "A dark, (...)
Trees of the Brain, Roots of the Mind
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The human brain is often described as the most complex object in the universe. Tens of billions of nerve cells-tiny tree-like structures -- make up a massive network with enormous computational power. In this book, Giorgio Ascoli reveals another aspect of the human brain: the stunning beauty of its (...)
CBLDF Presents: Liberty
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COMICS GREATEST CREATORS UNITE TO PROTECT THE FREEDOM TO READ!Celebrate creative freedom with the industry's top talents in LIBERTY, a collection benefitingthe Comic Book Legal Defense Fund! This deluxe edition collects LIBERTY ANNUAL2008-2012, with additional material not seen anywhere (...)
An Economist in the Real World
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In December 2009, the economist Kaushik Basu left the rarefied world of academic research for the nuts and bolts of policymaking. Appointed by the then Prime Minister of India, Manmohan Singh, to be chief economic adviser (CEA) to the Government of India, Basu -- a theorist, with special interest (...)
Minds without Meanings
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In cognitive science, conceptual content is frequently understood as the "meaning" of a mental representation. This position raises largely empirical questions about what concepts are, what form they take in mental processes, and how they connect to the world they are about. In (...)
Taxing Ourselves
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As Albert Einstein may or may not have said, "The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax." Indeed, to follow the debate over tax reform, the interested citizen is forced to choose between misleading sound bites and academic treatises. Taxing Ourselves bridges (...)