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Memoir

A History

By: Ben Yagoda

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From a critically acclaimed cultural and literary critic, a definitive history and analysis of the memoir. From Saint Augustine?s Confessions to Augusten Burroughs?s Running with Scissors, from Julius Caesar to Ulysses Grant, from Mark Twain to David Sedaris, the art of memoir has had a fascinating life, and deserves its own biography. Cultural and literary critic Ben Yagoda traces the memoir from its birth in early Christian writings and Roman generals? journals all the way up to the banner year of 2007, which saw memoirs from and about dogs, rock stars, bad dads, good dads, alternadads, waitresses, George Foreman, Iranian women, and a slew of other illustrious persons (and animals). In a time when memoir seems ubiquitous and is still highly controversial, Yagoda tackles the autobiography and memoir in all its forms and iterations. He discusses the fraudulent memoir and provides many examples from the past?and addresses the ramifications and consequences of these books. Spanning decades and nations, styles and subjects, he analyzes the hallmark memoirs of the Western tradition?Rousseau, Ben Franklin, Henry Adams, Gertrude Stein, Edward Gibbon, among others. Yagoda also describes historical trends, such as Native American captive memoirs, slave narratives, courtier dramas (where one had to pay to NOT be included in a courtesan?s memoir). Throughout, the idea of memory and truth, how we remember and how well we remember lives, is intimately explored. Yagoda's elegant examination of memoir is at once a history of literature and taste, and an absorbing glimpse into what humans find interesting--one another.

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Penguin

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1101151471

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9781101151471

Implementing Document Imaging and Capture Solutions with IBM Datacap

By: Whei-Jen Chen,Ben Antin,Kevin Bowe,Ben Davies,Jan den Hartog,Daniel Ouimet,Tom Stuart,IBM Redbooks

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Implementing Document Imaging and Capture Solutions with IBM Datacap

By: Whei-Jen Chen,Ben Antin,Kevin Bowe,Ben Davies,Jan den Hartog,Daniel Ouimet,Tom Stuart,IBM Redbooks

Organizations face many challenges in managing ever-increasing documents that they need to conduct their businesses. IBM® content management and imaging solutions can capture, store, manage, integrate, and deliver various forms of content throughout an enterprise. These tools can help reduce costs associated with content management and help organizations deliver improved customer service. The advanced document capture capabilities are provided through IBM Datacap software. This IBM Redbooks® publication focuses on Datacap components, system architecture, functions, and capabilities. It explains how Datacap works, how to design a document image capture solution, and how to implement the solution using Datacap Developer Tools, such as Datacap FastDoc (Admin). FastDoc is the development tool that designers use to create rules and rule sets, configure a document hierarchy and task profiles, and set up a verification panel for image verification. A loan application example explains the advanced technologies of IBM Datacap Version 9. This scenario shows how to develop a versatile capture solution that is able to handle both structured and unstructured documents. Information about high availability, scalability, performance, backup and recovery options, preferable practices, and suggestions for designing and implementing an imaging solution is also included. This book is intended for IT architects and professionals who are responsible for creating, improving, designing, and implementing document imaging solutions for their organizations.

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IBM Redbooks

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0738440906

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9780738440903

A World of Paper

Louis XIV, Colbert de Torcy, and the Rise of the Information State

By: John C. Rule,Ben S. Trotter

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A World of Paper

Louis XIV, Colbert de Torcy, and the Rise of the Information State

By: John C. Rule,Ben S. Trotter

Historians and social scientists have long identified bureaucracy as the modern state's foundation and the reign of France's Louis XIV as a model for its development. A World of Paper offers a fresh interpretation of bureaucracy through a close examination of the department of the Sun King's last foreign secretary, Jean-Baptiste Colbert de Torcy. Torcy, who served as foreign secretary from 1696-1715, is widely regarded as one of the most brilliant foreign ministers of the ancien regime. Building on the work of his predecessors, he fashioned a skilled team of collaborators as he managed the complex issues of war and peace during the turbulent final decades of Louis XIV's reign. John Rule and Ben Trotter examine Torcy's department to depict administrative structures as they emerged through the circulating stream of paper that connected his office with provincial administrators and diplomats abroad. They explore the collection and centralization of information during Torcy's tenure through the creation of a modern state archive, discreet intelligence gathering, and the surveillance and management of the French mails. They also study the postal carriers, couriers, household officers of the royal court, genealogists hired for research, and an informal "brain trust" of experts, and advisors who carried vital information in and out of the department every day. A remarkable reconstruction of the department of Jean-Baptiste Colbert de Torcy, A World of Paper demystifies bureaucracy and explores the ways in which the modern information state developed from his labours.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773592156

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9780773592155

The Age of Wire and String

Stories

By: Ben Marcus

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The Age of Wire and String

Stories

By: Ben Marcus

A rare, genius-struck achievement . . . filled with great beauties, high themes, enormous sorrows." Kirkus Reviews

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168

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Dalkey Archive Press

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1564781968

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9781564781963

John Ashbery and English Poetry

By: Ben Hickman

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John Ashbery and English Poetry

By: Ben Hickman

A study of how we should read one of America's most important poets. Ben Hickman argues that we must attend to Ashbery's radical conception of reading if we are to understand the originality of his writing. His study focuses on Ashbery's reading of English poets, including Andrew Marvell, John Donne, William Wordsworth, John Clare, T. S. Eliot and W. H. Auden, and examines Ashbery's writing in terms of an 'aesthetic of inattention'. Hickman critiques the Americanisation of Ashbery's work as well as common assumptions about his Romanticism, his avant-garde Modernism and his engagement with the historical present. He demonstrates that Ashbery's generosity as a writer is closely tied to his generosity, inattention and situatedness as a reader.

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Edinburgh University Press

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0748644768

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9780748644766

Attention Deficit Democracy

The Paradox of Civic Engagement

By: Ben Berger

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Attention Deficit Democracy

The Paradox of Civic Engagement

By: Ben Berger

The author argues that "civic engagement" has become aconfusing catchall, and that we should talk instead of political, social, and moral engagement, figuring out which kinds of engagement make democracy work better, and how we might promote them. Focusing on political engagement and taking Alexis de Tocqueville and Hannah Arendt as his guides, he identifies ways to achieve the political engagement we want and need without resorting to coercive measures such as compulsory national service or mandatory voting.

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Princeton University Press

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0691144680

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9780691144689

Alternate Histories and Nineteenth-Century Literature

Untimely Meditations in Britain, France, and America

By: Ben Carver

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Alternate Histories and Nineteenth-Century Literature

Untimely Meditations in Britain, France, and America

By: Ben Carver

This book provides the first thematic survey and analysis of nineteenth-century writing that imagined outcomes that history might have produced. Narratives of possible worlds and scenarios—referred to here as “alternate histories”—proliferated during the nineteenth century and clustered around pressing themes and emergent disciplines of knowledge. This study examines accounts of undefeated Napoleons after Waterloo, alternative genealogies of western civilization from antiquity to the (nineteenth-century) present day, the imagination of variant histories on other worlds, lost-world fictions that “discovered” improved relations between men and women, and the use of alternate history in America to reconceive the relationship between the New World and the Old. The “untimely” imagination of other histories interrogated the impact of new techniques of knowledge on the nature of history itself. This book sheds light on the history of speculative thought, and the relationship between literature and the history of ideas in the nineteenth century.

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Springer

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1137573341

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9781137573346

Bone Remodeling Process

Mechanics, Biology, and Numerical Modeling

By: Rabeb Ben Kahla,Abdelwahed Barkaoui

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Bone Remodeling Process

Mechanics, Biology, and Numerical Modeling

By: Rabeb Ben Kahla,Abdelwahed Barkaoui

Bone Remodeling Process: Mechanics, Biology, and Numerical Modeling provides a literature review. The first part of the book discusses bones in a normal physiological condition, bringing together the involved actors and factors reported over the past two decades, and the second discusses pathological conditions, highlighting the attack vectors of each bone disease. The third part is devoted to the mathematical descriptions of bone remodeling, formulated to develop models able to provide information that is not amenable to direct measurement, while the last part focuses on models using the finite element method in investigating bone biomechanics.This book creates an overall image of the complex communication network established between the diverse remodeling actors, based on overwhelming control evidence revealed over recent years, as well as visualizes the remodeling defects and possible treatments in each case. It also regroups the models allowing readers to analyze and assess bone mechanical and biological properties. This book details the cellular mechanisms allowing the bone to adapt its microarchitecture to the requirements of the human body, which is the main issue in bone biology and presents the evolution of mathematical modeling used in a bone computer simulation. - Each chapter covers a core topic in bone biomechanics - Provides a multidisciplinary view that effectively links orthopaedics, cellular biology, mechanics, and computer simulation - Draws an overall image about bone biology and cell interactions, for identifying cell populations that are crucial for the remodeling process

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Academic Press

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0323902057

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9780323902052

Multiple Globalizations: Linguistic Landscapes in World-Cities

By: Eliezer Ben-Rafael,Miriam Ben-Rafael

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Multiple Globalizations: Linguistic Landscapes in World-Cities

By: Eliezer Ben-Rafael,Miriam Ben-Rafael

This work studies aspects of the symbolic construction of public spaces by means of linguistic resources (i.e. linguistic landscapes or LLs) in a number of world-cities. The sociology of language leads us to this field and to study the intermingling impacts of globalization, the national principle and multiculturalism – each one conveying its own distinct linguistic markers: international codes, national languages and ethnic vernaculars. Eliezer and Miriam Ben-Rafael study the configurations of these influences, which they conceptualize as multiple globalization, in the LLs of downtowns, residential quarters, and marginal neighborhoods of a number of world-cities. They ask how far worldwide codes of communication gain preeminence, national languages are marginalized and ethnic vernaculars impactful. They conclude by suggesting a paradigm of multiple globalizations.

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BRILL

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9004385134

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Memoir

Memoir

Implementing Document Imaging and Capture Solutions with IBM Datacap

Implementing Document Imaging and Capture Solutions with IBM Datacap

A World of Paper

A World of Paper

The Age of Wire and String

The Age of Wire and String

John Ashbery and English Poetry

John Ashbery and English Poetry

Attention Deficit Democracy

Attention Deficit Democracy

Alternate Histories and Nineteenth-Century Literature

Alternate Histories and Nineteenth-Century Literature

Bone Remodeling Process

Bone Remodeling Process

Multiple Globalizations: Linguistic Landscapes in World-Cities

Multiple Globalizations: Linguistic Landscapes in World-Cities

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