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Laurie Anderson's Big Science

By: S. Alexander Reed

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Shimmering in maximal minimalism, joyful bleakness, and bodiless intimacy, Laurie Anderson's Big Science diagnosed crises of meaning, scale, and identity in 1982. Decades later, the challenging and strange questions it poses loom even larger: How do we remain human when our identities are digitally distributed? Does technology bring us closer together or further apart? Can we experience the stillness of "now" when time is always moving? How do experiences become memories? This book attends closely to Anderson's artistic voice, detailing its unique capacities for ambiguity and revelation. It traces the sonic histories etched in the record's grooves, from the Cold War to a burning future, from the Manhattan skyline to the empty desert, from the opera house to the pop charts. Ultimately in Big Science, one can hear an invitation to rise above the dualities of parts and wholes, images and essences, the lone individual and the megasystem. The first and most enduring superstar of performance art, Laurie Anderson is recognized here for pioneering philosophically rich techniques within the medium, but is also taken seriously as a musician and composer. Packed with scrupulous new research, reception history, careful description, and dizzying creativity, this book is an interdisciplinary love letter to a record whose sounds, politics, and expressions of gendered identity grow more relevant each day"--

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Oxford University Press

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0190926015

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9780190926014

Lecture, Introductory to the Study of Medicine, Delivered in Anderson's University, on 2d November 1842

By: John Alexander Easton

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Lecture, Introductory to the Study of Medicine, Delivered in Anderson's University, on 2d November 1842

By: John Alexander Easton

Reprint of the original, first published in 1842.

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3368880535

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9783368880538

Alexander Anderson - Songs of the Rails: 'A Million Sparks of Fire Burst Up, and Then Fall Down Like Mimic Stars''

By: Alexander Anderson

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Alexander Anderson - Songs of the Rails: 'A Million Sparks of Fire Burst Up, and Then Fall Down Like Mimic Stars''

By: Alexander Anderson

Alexander Anderson was born on April 30th 1845 in Kirkconnel, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, the sixth and youngest son of James Anderson, a quarrier. When he was three, the family moved to Crocketford in Kirkcudbrightshire where he attended the local school. Years later Anderson would take long walks in the surrounding hills finding inspiration for his poetry from both the stunning landscape and its local reputation for martyrdom. At 16 he was back in his native village working in a quarry. Two years after that, in 1862, he switched careers to the railways becoming a surfaceman or platelayer on the Glasgow and South-western railway. He now used 'Surfaceman' as his pseudonym. Anderson is recognised as one of Scotland's leading poets and, as a young man, he spent much time learning languages such as French, German and Spanish well enough so that he could immerse himself in their poetry and better the quality of his own. By 1870 he was sending poems to 'The People's Friend' of Dundee. In 1873 his first book, 'A Song of Labour and other Poems', was published by the Dundee Advertiser in a print run of 1000. With the support of The People's Friend the run sold out within two weeks. The Rev George Gilfillan, a poetry critic in Dundee, was also effusive in his praise. He wrote to Thomas Aird saying: "You will be greatly interested in his simple manner and appearance―an unspoiled Burns is these respects and not without a little real mens divinor. Of course you know his poetry and his remarkable history". Examples of his poems were also published in the many of the time's leading periodicals Good Words, Chambers's Journal, Cassell's Magazine, Fraser's Magazine and the Contemporary Review. It was a good decade for him. Other poetry volumes were also published: 'Two Angels' (1875), 'Songs of the Rail' (1878), and 'Ballads and Sonnets' (1879). In the following year he was made assistant librarian in the University of Edinburgh, and after an interval as secretary to the Philosophical Institution, which he seemed not to enjoy, he returned as Chief Librarian to the University. Anderson would write no further volumes but would still occasionally contribute to periodicals and magazines. Alexander Anderson died at his home in Edinburgh on 11th July 1909 at age 64. He left behind a number of unpublished poems which were collected and published as 'Later Poems' in 1912

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1787801969

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9781787801967

The Dundee directory

By: Alexander Abbot

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The Dundee directory

By: Alexander Abbot

Containing, list of names - public bodies, charitable institutions - public offices, shipping.

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Рипол Классик

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5882506328

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9785882506321

The Economics of Symbolic Exchange

By: Alexander Dolgin

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The Economics of Symbolic Exchange

By: Alexander Dolgin

Alexander Dolgin’s Economics of Symbolic Exchange is in reality not one but three books, and although these semantic layers are interlinked, the reader will need to choose between the different vectors and modalities. One clearly evident dimension is research. Certain authors introduce quite new intellectual approaches into scienti?c debate. This requires a special frame of mind and a searching curiosity about social reality. Carl Gustav Jung identi?ed a p- nomenon which he called systematic blindness: when a science reaches a stage of maturity and equilibrium, it categorically refuses, from a sense of self-preservation, to note certain facts and phenomena which it ?nds inconvenient. In Alexander D- gin’s book whole complexes of such “non-canonical” material are to be found. Here are just a few examples: ?le exchange networks, through which digital works of art are spread through the Internet; bargain sales of fashionable clothing; the paradox of equal pricing of cultural goods of varying quality; and a discussion of whether - tronage or business has the more productive in?uence on creativity. Obviously, not all the issues Volginraises are totally new, but brought togetherand examinedwithin an elegant logical framework of informational economics, they pose a challenge to scienti?c thinking. Such challenges are by no means immediately or, in some cases, ever acclaimed bythescienti?cestablishment. J. K. Galbraith,forexample,agreatAmericaneco- mist, whose works are read throughout the world, who introduced a whole range of crucially important concepts, the director of John F.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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354079882X

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9783540798828

Editor for Justice

The Life of Louis I. Jaffé

By: Alexander S. Leidholdt

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Editor for Justice

The Life of Louis I. Jaffé

By: Alexander S. Leidholdt

From his assumption of the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot's editorial helm in 1919 until his death in 1950, Louis Isaac Jaffé served as one of the South's leading and most respected liberal journalists. Prejudice he faced as a Jew created in him an abiding empathy with the downtrodden, and his World War I military service and subsequent Red Cross work deepened his sensitivity to injustice. Alexander Leidholdt's new biography maps the battlefield of intolerance and civil rights violations on which Jaffé fired his journalistic salvos and explores the complexities of a man who was poised to become a national spokesman for a better South. Jaffé worked ceaselessly to advance racial understanding, successfully lobbying locally for black parks and beaches, black police, and a black college. A high point of Leidholdt's book is the account of Jaffé's attacks on mob justice, a stirring record of one writer's response to what he saw as inexcusable moral sluggishness in civil authorities. For his campaign urging Virginia lawmakers to adopt stiff antilynching legislation, he earned the 1929 Pulitzer Prize for distinguished editorial writing. Achieving a poignant balance between Jaffé's significant professional accomplishments and the private pains he bore—including anti-Semitism, a mentally unstable wife, and an estranged son—this superb study demonstrates how Jaffé's difficulties limited him as an active liberal reformer but also fueled his prescient and impassioned warnings against Hitler's rise to power in the early thirties. Drawing extensively from primary source material, much of it previously unexamined, Editor for Justice makes an important contribution to journalism and to southern, Jewish, and black history. Readers will treasure the depiction of an extraordinary champion of human rights.

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LSU Press

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0807127515

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9780807127513

The Kondo Problem to Heavy Fermions

By: Alexander Cyril Hewson

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The Kondo Problem to Heavy Fermions

By: Alexander Cyril Hewson

The behaviour of magnetic impurities in metals has posed problems to challenge the condensed matter theorist over the past 30 years. This book deals with the concepts and techniques which have been developed to meet this challenge, and with their application to the interpretation of experiments. This book will be of interest to condensed matter physicists, particularly those interested in strong correlation problems. The detailed discussions of advanced many-body techniques should make it of interest to theoretical physicists in general.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521599474

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UFOs

Myths, Conspiracies, and Realities

By: John B. Alexander

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UFOs

Myths, Conspiracies, and Realities

By: John B. Alexander

A never-before-heard firsthand account of a government insider's experience on the cutting edge of UFO exploration; includes a new afterword "Forget everything you think you know about UFOs - this insider's account exposes the reality... Packed with top grade information, insightful analysis and fascinating anecdotes, Alexander's interesting and controversial book sets the gold standard for titles on this subject." –Nick Pope, author of Open Skies, Closed Minds "Changes the playing field for both true believers and skeptics alike. Alexander strongly warns, be careful what you wish for when asking for presidential intervention. Success could set the field of ufology back decades." --George Noory, host of Coast to Coast AM While still on active duty in the U.S. Army during the 1980s, Colonel John B. Alexander, Ph.D. created an interagency group to explore the controversial topic of UFOs. All members held Top Secret clearance. What they discovered was not at all what was expected. UFOs covers the numerous cases they saw, and answers questions like: • What was really in Hanger 18? • Did a UFO land at Holloman Air Force Base? • What happened at Roswell? • What is Majestic 12? • What is the Aviary? • What does the government know about UFOs? • What has happened with disclosure in other countries? • Has the U.S. reverse engineered a UFO? • Why don't presidents get access to UFO info? UFOs is at once a complete account of Alexander's findings, and a call to action. There are no conspiracy theories here—only hard facts—but they are merely the beginning. Foreword by Jacques F. Vallee Introduction by Burt Rutan Commentary by Tom Clancy

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Macmillan

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1429994835

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The Land Reform Deception

Political Opportunism in Zimbabwe's Land Seizure Era

By: Alexander Charles Laurie

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The Land Reform Deception

Political Opportunism in Zimbabwe's Land Seizure Era

By: Alexander Charles Laurie

This work explores what is inarguably the most socially and economically transformative event in Zimbabwe since independence in 1980-the land seizure era. It explains why Mugabe risked the social and economic well-being of Zimbabwe by targeting commercial farms, which were a vital source of commodities, a major employer, and a critical source of tax revenue. It also uncovers why the 'land redistribution program,' as Mugabe and the ruling ZANU-PF party claimed the takeovers to be, occurred 20 years after independence and in a very chaotic manner.

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Oxford University Press

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0199398291

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9780199398294

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Laurie Anderson's Big Science

Laurie Anderson's Big Science

Lecture, Introductory to the Study of Medicine, Delivered in Anderson's University, on 2d November 1842

Lecture, Introductory to the Study of Medicine, Delivered in Anderson's University, on 2d November 1842

Alexander Anderson - Songs of the Rails: 'A Million Sparks of Fire Burst Up, and Then Fall Down Like Mimic Stars''

Alexander Anderson - Songs of the Rails: 'A Million Sparks of Fire Burst Up, and Then Fall Down Like Mimic Stars''

The Dundee directory

The Dundee directory

The Economics of Symbolic Exchange

The Economics of Symbolic Exchange

Editor for Justice

Editor for Justice

The Kondo Problem to Heavy Fermions

The Kondo Problem to Heavy Fermions

UFOs

UFOs

The Land Reform Deception

The Land Reform Deception

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