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Re-collection

Art, New Media, and Social Memory

By: Richard Rinehart,Jon Ippolito

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Re-collection

Art, New Media, and Social Memory

By: Richard Rinehart,Jon Ippolito

The first book on the philosophy and aesthetics of digital preservation examines the challenge posed by new media to our long-term social memory. How will our increasingly digital civilization persist beyond our lifetimes? Audio and videotapes demagnetize; CDs delaminate; Internet art links to websites that no longer exist; Amiga software doesn't run on iMacs. In Re-collection, Richard Rinehart and Jon Ippolito argue that the vulnerability of new media art illustrates a larger crisis for social memory. They describe a variable media approach to rescuing new media, distributed across producers and consumers who can choose appropriate strategies for each endangered work. New media art poses novel preservation and conservation dilemmas. Given the ephemerality of their mediums, software art, installation art, and interactive games may be heading to obsolescence and oblivion. Rinehart and Ippolito, both museum professionals, examine the preservation of new media art from both practical and theoretical perspectives, offering concrete examples that range from Nam June Paik to Danger Mouse. They investigate three threats to twenty-first-century creativity: technology, because much new media art depends on rapidly changing software or hardware; institutions, which may rely on preservation methods developed for older mediums; and law, which complicates access with intellectual property constraints such as copyright and licensing. Technology, institutions, and law, however, can be enlisted as allies rather than enemies of ephemeral artifacts and their preservation. The variable media approach that Rinehart and Ippolito propose asks to what extent works to be preserved might be medium-independent, translatable into new mediums when their original formats are obsolete.

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MIT Press

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026254668X

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9780262546683

Biographical Dictionary of Explorers

By: Alan Wexler,Jon Cunningham

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Biographical Dictionary of Explorers

By: Alan Wexler,Jon Cunningham

An informative, fascinating resource suitable for students, researchers, and general readers, this biographical dictionary is a "who was who" of world and space explorers, giving readers a sense of the human drama—the achievements and the challenges—that those who go where few or none have gone before must face. The explorers covered include Jacques Cousteau, Sir Vivian Fuchs, John Glenn Jr., Aleksei Leonov, Annie Peck, Valentina Tereshkova, and many more.

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Infobase Holdings, Inc

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1438182155

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9781438182155

Glory for Sale

Fans, Dollars and the New NFL

By: Jon Morgan

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Glory for Sale

Fans, Dollars and the New NFL

By: Jon Morgan

A behind-the-scenes account of the Cleveland Browns' move to Baltimore and an exposé of an NFL in which "big money and stadium economics have replaced fan allegiance and gridiron heroics."--Back cover.

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Bancroft Press

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161088017X

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9781610880176

The Great Pox

The French Disease in Renaissance Europe

By: Jon Arrizabalaga,John Henderson,Roger Kenneth French

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The Great Pox

The French Disease in Renaissance Europe

By: Jon Arrizabalaga,John Henderson,Roger Kenneth French

A century and a half after the Black Death killed over a third of the population of Western Europe, a new plague swept across the continent. The Great Pox - commonly known as the French Disease - brought a different kind of horror: instead of killing its victims rapidly, it endured in their bodies for years, causing acute pain, disfigurement and ultimately an agonising death. The authors analyse the symptoms of the Great Pox and the identity of patients, richly documented in the records of the massive hospital of 'incurables' established in early sixteenth-century Rome. They show how the disease threw accepted medical theory and practice into confusion and provoked public disputations among university teachers. And at the most practical level they reveal the plight of its victims at all levels of society, from ecclesiastical lords to the poor who begged in the streets. Examining a range of contexts from princely courts and republics to university faculties, confraternities and hospitals, the authors argue powerfully for a historical understanding of the Great Pox based on contemporary perceptions rather than on a retrospective diagnosis of what later generations came to know as 'syphilis'.

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Yale University Press

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0300069340

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9780300069341

American Desperado

My Life--From Mafia Soldier to Cocaine Cowboy to Secret Government Asset

By: Jon Roberts,Evan Wright

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American Desperado

My Life--From Mafia Soldier to Cocaine Cowboy to Secret Government Asset

By: Jon Roberts,Evan Wright

The true story of super-criminal Jon Roberts, star of the documentary Cocaine Cowboys. American Desperado is Roberts’ no-holds-barred account of being born into Mafia royalty, witnessing his first murder at the age of seven, becoming a hunter-assassin in Vietnam, returning to New York to become--at age 22--one of the city’s leading nightclub impresarios, then journeying to Miami where in a few short years he would rise to become the Medellin Cartel’s most effective smuggler. But that’s just half the tale. The roster of Roberts’ friends and acquaintances reads like a Who’s Who of the latter half of the 20th century and includes everyone from Jimi Hendrix, Richard Pryor, and O.J. Simpson to Carlo Gambino, Meyer Lansky, and Manuel Noriega. Nothing if not colorful, Roberts surrounded himself with beautiful women, drove his souped-up street car at a top speed of 180 miles per hour, shared his bed with a 200-pound cougar, and employed a 6”6” professional wrestler called “The Thing” as his bodyguard. Ultimately, Roberts became so powerful that he attracted the attention of the Republican Party’s leadership, was wooed by them, and even was co-opted by the CIA for which he carried out its secret agenda. Scrupulously documented and relentlessly propulsive, this collaboration between a bloodhound journalist and one of the most audacious criminals ever is like no other crime book you’ve ever read.

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Crown

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0307450430

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9780307450432

Economics and the Historian

By: Thomas G. Rawski,Susan B. Carter,Jon S. Cohen,Stephen Cullenberg,Richard Sutch

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Economics and the Historian

By: Thomas G. Rawski,Susan B. Carter,Jon S. Cohen,Stephen Cullenberg,Richard Sutch

These essays provide a thorough introduction to economics for historians. The authors, all eminent scholars, show how to use economic thinking, economic models, and economic methods to enrich historical research. They examine such vital issues as long-term trends, institutions, labor—including an engaging dialogue between a labor historian and a labor economist—international affairs, and money and banking. Scholars and teachers of history will welcome this volume as an introduction and guide to economics, a springboard for their own research, and a lively and provocative source of collateral reading for students at every level. The combined research experience of these authors encompasses many varieties of economics and covers a kaleidoscopic array of nations, subjects, and time periods. All are expert in presenting the insights and complexities of economics to nonspecialist audiences.

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Univ of California Press

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0520910869

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9780520910867

Re-collection

Art, New Media, and Social Memory

By: Richard Rinehart,Jon Ippolito

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Re-collection

Art, New Media, and Social Memory

By: Richard Rinehart,Jon Ippolito

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MIT Press

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Multimedia Services in Wireless Internet

Modeling and Analysis

By: Lin Cai,Xuemin Shen,Jon W. Mark

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Multimedia Services in Wireless Internet

Modeling and Analysis

By: Lin Cai,Xuemin Shen,Jon W. Mark

Learn how to provide seamless, high quality multimedia for the wireless Internet This book introduces the promising protocols for multimedia services and presents the analytical frameworks for measuring their performance in wireless networks. Furthermore, the book shows how to fine-tune the parameters for Quality of Service (QoS) provisioning in order to illustrate the effect that QoS has upon the stability, integrity and growth of next generation wireless Internet. In addition, the authors provide the tools required to implement this understanding. These tools are particularly useful for design and engineering network architecture and protocols for future wireless Internet. Additionally, the book provides a good overview of wireless networks, while also appealing to network researchers and engineers. Key Features: Provides a comprehensive and analytical understanding of the performance of multimedia services in wireless Internet, and the tools to implement such an understanding Addresses issues such as IEEE 802.11, AIMD/RED (Additive Increase-Multiplicative Decrease/ Random Early Detection), multimedia traffic models, congestion control and random access networks Investigates the impact of wireless characteristics on QoS constraint multimedia applications Includes a case study on AIMD for multimedia playback applications Features numerous examples, suggested reading and review questions for each chapter This book is an invaluable resource for postgraduate students undertaking courses in wireless networks and multimedia services, students studying advanced graduate courses in electrical engineering and computer science, and researchers and engineers in the field of wireless networks.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470747749

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9780470747742

Traditional, Complementary and Integrative Medicine

An International Reader

By: Jon Adams,Gavin Andrews,Joanne Barnes

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Traditional, Complementary and Integrative Medicine

An International Reader

By: Jon Adams,Gavin Andrews,Joanne Barnes

This authoritative collection is the first wide-ranging overview dedicated to traditional, complementary and integrative medicine (TCIM) and its scientific study. Compiled by an expert editorial team, it is an essential guide to the vast and ever-growing international literature on TCIM. Contributions come from practitioners and academics drawn from a diverse range of disciplines and professions across the globe. From perspectives on the significance of TCIM within public health policy to discourses on its influence in fields such as psychiatry and sociology, discrete chapters come together to provide an international map of the contemporary research, key debates and core issues which shape the field. Carefully structured to ensure easy navigation, the reader is divided into three parts: - Part A focuses on the consumption of TCIM, including chapters on its use through the life-cycle and within the context of disease and health management - Part B covers considerations for practitioners across the world, taking in issues over ethics, communication and education - Part C features chapters on the role of evidence, research and knowledge production in TCIM and looks at what lies ahead for the field With its thought-provoking insights and suggestions for further reading, this comprehensive resource provides guidance and inspiration for anyone embarking on study, practice or research within health, nursing or medicine.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1137265590

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9781137265593

Let's No One Get Hurt

A Novel

By: Jon Pineda

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Let's No One Get Hurt

A Novel

By: Jon Pineda

“An inventive and powerful coming of age story about the search for community and all the ways our ties to one another come undone. Jon Pineda has a poet’s eye for the details of this vivid, haunting landscape, and he brings it blazingly to life.” —Jenny Offill, author of Dept. of Speculation With the cinematic and terrifying beauty of the American South humming behind each line, Jon Pineda’s Let’s No One Get Hurt is a coming-of-age story set equally between real-world issues of race and socioeconomics, and a magical, Huck Finn-esque universe of community and exploration. Fifteen-year-old Pearl is squatting in an abandoned boathouse with her father, a disgraced college professor, and two other grown men, deep in the swamps of the American South. All four live on the fringe, scavenging what they can—catfish, lumber, scraps for their ailing dog. Despite the isolation, Pearl feels at home with her makeshift family: the three men care for Pearl and teach her what they know of the world. Mason Boyd, aka “Main Boy,” is from a nearby affluent neighborhood where he and his raucous friends ride around in tricked-out golf carts, shoot their fathers’ shotguns, and aspire to make Internet pranking videos. While Pearl is out scavenging in the woods, she meets Main Boy, who eventually reveals that his father has purchased the property on which Pearl and the others are squatting. With all the power in Main Boy’s hands, a very unbalanced relationship forms between the two kids, culminating in a devastating scene of violence and humiliation.

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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0374717699

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9780374717698

Volume 13: Kierkegaard's Influence on the Social Sciences

By: Jon Stewart

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Volume 13: Kierkegaard's Influence on the Social Sciences

By: Jon Stewart

Kierkegaard has long been known as a philosopher and theologian, but his contributions to psychology, anthropology and sociology have also made an important impact on these fields. In many of the works of his complex authorship, Kierkegaard presents his intriguing and unique vision of the nature and mental life of human beings individually and collectively. The articles featured in the present volume explore the reception of Kierkegaard's thought in the social sciences. Of these fields Kierkegaard is perhaps best known in psychology, where The Concept of Anxiety and The Sickness unto Death have been the two most influential texts. With regard to the field of sociology, social criticism, or social theory, Kierkegaard's Literary Review of Two Ages has also been regarded as offering valuable insights about some important dynamics of modern society..

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Routledge

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1351875116

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9781351875110

Retooling Social Security for the 21st Century

Right and Wrong Approaches to Reform

By: C. Eugene Steuerle,Jon M. Bakija

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Retooling Social Security for the 21st Century

Right and Wrong Approaches to Reform

By: C. Eugene Steuerle,Jon M. Bakija

Study of the Social Security debate arguing that Social Security needs reform and offering a blueprint for implementing them to meet today's and tomorrow's needs.

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The Urban Insitute

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0877666024

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9780877666028

The Enthusiast

How the Best Friend of Francis of Assisi Almost Destroyed What He Started

By: Jon M. Sweeney

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The Enthusiast

How the Best Friend of Francis of Assisi Almost Destroyed What He Started

By: Jon M. Sweeney

Popular historian and award-winning author Jon M. Sweeney relates the untold story of St. Francis’s friendship with Elias of Cortona, the man who helped him build the Franciscan movement. Sweeney uses the complexities of their relationship in a gripping narrative of how their efforts changed the world and how Elias’s enthusiasm betrayed the ideals of his friend. Few biographies of St. Francis have examined his complicated relationship with close friend Elias of Cortona. In The Enthusiast, award-winning author and historian Jon M. Sweeney delves into this little-known partnership that defined and then almost destroyed Francis’s ideals. Blending history and biography, Sweeney reveals how Francis and Elias rebuilt churches, aided lepers, and entertained as “God’s troubadours” to the delight of everyday people who had grown tired of a remote and tumultuous Church. At the height of their spiritual renaissance, however, Elias became “the devil” to many of the other friars; they believed him to be a traitor to their ideals. After Francis’s premature death, the movement fractured. Scorned by most of the Franciscan leadership, Elias followed a path that would leave him a lonely, broken man. Sweeney shows how Elias’s undoing was rooted in his attempts to honor his old friend. The Enthusiast was the winner of a 2017 Catholic Press Association Book Award: History (Third Place).

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Ave Maria Press

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1594716021

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9781594716027

Muscle Pain

Understanding Its Nature, Diagnosis, and Treatment

By: Siegfried Mense,David G. Simons,I. Jon Russell

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Muscle Pain

Understanding Its Nature, Diagnosis, and Treatment

By: Siegfried Mense,David G. Simons,I. Jon Russell

For the first time a book that addresses all aspects of muscle pain fr om basic science to clinical treatment. This book answers all possible questions regarding muscle pain - from local muscle soreness to the f ibromyalgia syndrome. The unique concept behind the book is the combin ation of neuroanatomical and neurophysiological data with the clinical management of all diseases that exhibit muscle pain.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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0683059289

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9780683059281

At the Edge of Art

By: Joline Blais,Jon Ippolito

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At the Edge of Art

By: Joline Blais,Jon Ippolito

A collection of desktop computer art works by more than fifty creators features designs by engineers, software programmers, and biologists; highlights pieces that do not fall into the realm of formal art; and explores six ways in which technology is creating new artistic forums.

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0500238227

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9780500238226

American Desperado

My Life--From Mafia Soldier to Cocaine Cowboy to Secret Government Asset

By: Jon Roberts,Evan Wright

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American Desperado

My Life--From Mafia Soldier to Cocaine Cowboy to Secret Government Asset

By: Jon Roberts,Evan Wright

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Crown

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0307450449

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9780307450449

American Desperado

My Life as a Cocaine Cowboy

By: Jon Roberts,Evan Wright

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American Desperado

My Life as a Cocaine Cowboy

By: Jon Roberts,Evan Wright

American Desperado is possibly the most jaw-dropping, event-filled, adrenaline-soaked criminal autobiography ever written. Like a real-life Scarface Jon was born into the upper levels of the Gambino crime family and witnessed his first murder at age seven. He became a one-man juvenile crime wave before joining an assassination squad in Vietnam.

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Random House

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0091945224

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