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Forged

Why Fakes are the Great Art of Our Age

By: Jonathon Keats

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Forged

Why Fakes are the Great Art of Our Age

By: Jonathon Keats

According to Vasari, the young Michelangelo often borrowed drawings of past masters, which he copied, returning his imitations to the owners and keeping originals. Half a millennium later, Andy Warhol made a game of "forging" the Mona Lisa, questioning the entire concept of originality. Forged explores art forgery from ancient times to the present. In chapters combining lively biography with insightful art criticism, Jonathon Keats profiles individual art forgers and connects their stories to broader themes about the role of forgeries in society. From the Renaissance master Andrea del Sarto who faked a Raphael masterpiece at the request of his Medici patrons, to the Vermeer counterfeiter Han van Meegeren who duped the avaricious Hermann Göring, to the frustrated British artist Eric Hebborn, who began forging to expose the ignorance of experts, art forgers have challenged "legitimate" art in their own time, breaching accepted practices and upsetting the status quo. They have also provocatively confronted many of the present-day cultural anxieties that are major themes in the arts. Keats uncovers what forgeries—and our reactions to them—reveal about changing conceptions of creativity, identity, authorship, integrity, authenticity, success, and how we assign value to works of art. The book concludes by looking at how artists today have appropriated many aspects of forgery through such practices as street-art stenciling and share-and-share-alike licensing, and how these open-source "copyleft" strategies have the potential to make legitimate art meaningful again. Forgery has been much discussed—and decried—as a crime. Forged is the first book to assess great forgeries as high art in their own right.

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Oxford University Press

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0199928355

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9780199928354

The Instigator

How Gary Bettman Remade the NHL and Changed the Game Forever

By: Jonathon Gatehouse

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The Instigator

How Gary Bettman Remade the NHL and Changed the Game Forever

By: Jonathon Gatehouse

Two decades of lockouts, soaring ticket prices, and on-ice tinkering have convinced many hard-core fans that the NHL's long-time commissioner Gary Bettman is the devil in disguise, but this book examines his motivations, peels back his often prickly demeanor, and explains how he manages to lead, confound, and keep order. It details the unlikely ascension of a fatherless Jewish kid from Long Island—who never played hockey and can barely skate—to the sport's biggest job. The seven-fold increase in gross revenue during Bettman's 20-year tenure as NHL commissioner makes him a business success story, and on his watch, professional hockey has also expanded far beyond its regional strongholds. By taming the NHL's famously fractious owners, all but busting its players' union, and enforcing a lawyerly discipline even on trash talk, Bettman has become a figure of almost unrivaled power in the business of sports, and this biography delves into how his influence shapes rival leagues in other countries, dictates the schedule of the Olympic Winter Games, and spills onto the ice itself.

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361

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Triumph Books

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1623686563

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9781623686567

Crime Scene Investigation Case Studies

Step by Step from the Crime Scene to the Courtroom

By: Jacqueline Fish

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Crime Scene Investigation Case Studies

Step by Step from the Crime Scene to the Courtroom

By: Jacqueline Fish

This text offers an innovative approach to learning about crime scene investigation, taking the reader from the first response on the crime scene to documenting crime scene evidence and preparing evidence for courtroom presentation. It includes topics not normally covered in other texts, such as forensic anthropology and pathology, arson and explosives, and the electronic crime scene. Numerous photographs and illustrations complement text material. A chapter-by-chapter fictional narrative also provides the reader with a qualitative dimension of the crime scene experience. Crime Scene Investigation is further enhanced by the contributions of such recognized forensic scholars as William Bass and Arthur Bohannon.

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289

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Routledge

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1317523385

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9781317523383

The Life & Campaigns of General Hughie Stockwell

From Norway Through Burma to Suez

By: Jonathon Riley

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The Life & Campaigns of General Hughie Stockwell

From Norway Through Burma to Suez

By: Jonathon Riley

The career of General Hugh Stockwell culminated in the ill-fated Suez Operation of 1956 but no stigma can attach to him for this. It was a military success but a political nightmare which resulted in the fall of Prime Minister Eden, the lowest point in relations between the Western allies, the departure of France from the NATO military structure and the huge loss of British national confidence. Stockwells career up to that point had been exemplary. Although commissioned into the Welch Fusiliers he had fought in Norway 1940, commanded the Special Training Centre at Lochailort and 2nd battalion Royal Welsh Fusiliers in 29 Independent Brigade during the successful invasion of Madagascar in 1942. He was a brigade and divisional commander in Burma and commander of 6 Airborne Division in Palestine before becoming Commander Land Forces during the Malayan Emergency under Templer. After the Suez debacle he went on to be Adjutant General and Deputy SACEUR during the height of the Cold War (Cuban missile crisis and erection of Berlin Wall). This is a timely biography of a soldier who was at the heart of the action during the Second World War and the turbulent post-war years

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Casemate Publishers

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1473814553

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9781473814554

Acts of Nature

By: Jonathon King

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Acts of Nature

By: Jonathon King

Undertaking a technology-free vacation in an isolated region of the Florida Everglades, private eye Max Freeman and detective Sherry Richards are caught in the path of a violent hurricane that injures Sherry and places them out of help's reach, a situation that tests their survival skills and pits them against murderous looters.

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Penguin

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0525950087

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9780525950080

I Can Take It We Can Take It

By: Jonathon S.H. Lewis

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I Can Take It We Can Take It

By: Jonathon S.H. Lewis

I Can Take It, We Can Take It, is a tale about a man born in 1915 and his struggles and successes throughout the Great Depression years and beyond. This book chronicles this young man’s journey in the Civilian Conservation Corps to magnificent lands that he had never seen before. This book follows this young man’s decision to literally fight and use his fists of stone, in order to provide support for his family while working in the Civilian Conservation Corps. In addition, he learned and used a valuable trade to use in his life from one of FDR’s New Deal Programs.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1669861473

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9781669861478

The Epistle of Barnabas

A Commentary

By: Jonathon Lookadoo

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The Epistle of Barnabas

A Commentary

By: Jonathon Lookadoo

Although the Epistle of Barnabas may be best known for its Two Ways Tradition or its anti-Jewish use of Scripture, its contents reveal much that will be of interest to anyone studying Christian origins. In keeping with other contributions to the Apostolic Fathers Commentary Series, this volume not only introduces readers to critical issues such as date, authorship, and opponents but also reflects on the multifaceted scriptural interpretations at play within the argument and sketches the theological beliefs that underlie the text. The commentary also provides a fresh English translation of the Greek text while endeavoring to highlight the internal literary connections within the Epistle of Barnabas. In so doing, this book provides a knowledgeable and accessible interpretation of a fascinating early Christian document.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1532660723

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9781532660726

The Max Freeman Mysteries Volume Two

A Killing Night, Acts of Nature, Midnight Guardians, and Don't Lose Her

By: Jonathon King

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The Max Freeman Mysteries Volume Two

A Killing Night, Acts of Nature, Midnight Guardians, and Don't Lose Her

By: Jonathon King

The South Florida PI is back in the Edgar Award–winning series from a national bestselling author and “the master of the high-stakes thriller” (Michael Connelly). National bestselling author Jonathon King continues his Edgar Award–winning series that follows a tormented ex-cop from Philadelphia to South Florida on a quest to earn redemption from his dark past. “Whether taking us to the dark corners of the Everglades or the hard streets of Philadelphia, King’s writing is gritty, vivid, and suspenseful” (Harlan Coben). A Killing Night: After three young female bartenders are murdered in Miami, and another goes missing in Philadelphia, private investigator Max Freeman is hired—by his ex-girlfriend Sherry—to look into the deaths. He accepts the job grudgingly, especially since Sherry is convinced the killer is a retired police officer who once saved Freeman’s life back in Philly. “Compelling from start to finish.” —The Miami Herald Acts of Nature: Max and Sherry’s vacation in the Everglades ends abruptly when Hurricane Simone slams into the Sunshine State, leaving them stranded in the swamp and forced to contend with opportunistic crooks looking to benefit from the disaster and hired muscle from a powerful oil company hoping to protect a lethal secret—regardless of who stands in the way. “An action-packed glide through the Glades.” —South Florida Sun-Sentinel Midnight Guardians: Freeman takes on a case involving a conspiracy to defraud Medicare—but he quickly discovers there’s more to it than a simple scam. Soon the former Philadelphia cop is calling upon his old street instincts when an ex-drug kingpin known as the Brown Man turns up—and Freeman’s girlfriend, Det. Sherry Richards, is put in harm’s way. “Captivating.” —Publishers Weekly Don’t Lose Her: When a pregnant judge is abducted while presiding over the extradition hearing of a notorious Columbian drug lord, Freeman follows her trail into the Everglades to save her and her unborn child before it’s too late. “This book moves with relentless abandon.” —Michael Connelly

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Open Road Media

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1504056264

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9781504056267

EEG Signal Processing and Machine Learning

By: Saeid Sanei,Jonathon A. Chambers

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EEG Signal Processing and Machine Learning

By: Saeid Sanei,Jonathon A. Chambers

EEG Signal Processing and Machine Learning Explore cutting edge techniques at the forefront of electroencephalogram research and artificial intelligence from leading voices in the field The newly revised Second Edition of EEG Signal Processing and Machine Learning delivers an inclusive and thorough exploration of new techniques and outcomes in electroencephalogram (EEG) research in the areas of analysis, processing, and decision making about a variety of brain states, abnormalities, and disorders using advanced signal processing and machine learning techniques. The book content is substantially increased upon that of the first edition and, while it retains what made the first edition so popular, is composed of more than 50% new material. The distinguished authors have included new material on tensors for EEG analysis and sensor fusion, as well as new chapters on mental fatigue, sleep, seizure, neurodevelopmental diseases, BCI, and psychiatric abnormalities. In addition to including a comprehensive chapter on machine learning, machine learning applications have been added to almost all the chapters. Moreover, multimodal brain screening, such as EEG-fMRI, and brain connectivity have been included as two new chapters in this new edition. Readers will also benefit from the inclusion of: A thorough introduction to EEGs, including neural activities, action potentials, EEG generation, brain rhythms, and EEG recording and measurement An exploration of brain waves, including their generation, recording, and instrumentation, abnormal EEG patterns and the effects of ageing and mental disorders A treatment of mathematical models for normal and abnormal EEGs Discussions of the fundamentals of EEG signal processing, including statistical properties, linear and nonlinear systems, frequency domain approaches, tensor factorization, diffusion adaptive filtering, deep neural networks, and complex-valued signal processing Perfect for biomedical engineers, neuroscientists, neurophysiologists, psychiatrists, engineers, students and researchers in the above areas, the Second Edition of EEG Signal Processing and Machine Learning will also earn a place in the libraries of undergraduate and postgraduate students studying Biomedical Engineering, Neuroscience and Epileptology.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119386934

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9781119386933

Passing Orders

Demonology and Sovereignty in American Spiritual Warfare

By: S. Jonathon O'Donnell

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Passing Orders

Demonology and Sovereignty in American Spiritual Warfare

By: S. Jonathon O'Donnell

Demonization has increasingly become central to the global religious and political landscape. Passing Orders interrogates this centrality through an analysis of evangelical “spiritual warfare” demonologies in contemporary America. Situating spiritual warfare as part of broader frameworks of American exceptionalism, ethnonationalism, and empire management, author S. Jonathon O’Donnell exposes the theological foundations of the systems of queer- and transphobia, anti-blackness, Islamophobia, and settler colonialism that justify the dehumanizing practices of the current U.S. political order. O’Donnell argues that demonologies are not only tools of dehumanization but also ontological and biopolitical systems that create and maintain structures of sovereign power, or orthotaxies—models of the “right ordering” of space, time, and bodies that stratify humanity into hierarchies of being and nonbeing. Alternative orders are demonized as passing, framed as counterfeit, transgressive, and transient. Yet these orders refuse to simply pass on, instead giving strength to deviant desires that challenge the legitimacy of sovereign violence. Critically examining this challenge in the demonologies of three figures—Jezebel, the Islamic Antichrist, and Leviathan—Passing Orders re-imagines demons as a surprising source of political and social resistance, reflecting fragile and fractious communities bound by mutual passing and precarity into strategic coalitions of solidarity, subversion, and survival.

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Fordham University Press

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0823289699

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9780823289691

Plate Tectonics

Unraveling the Mysteries of the Earth

By: Jonathon S. Erickson,Jon Erickson

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Plate Tectonics

Unraveling the Mysteries of the Earth

By: Jonathon S. Erickson,Jon Erickson

Explains the theory of continental drift and shows how this activity has affected the Earth's geological make-up.

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0735102007

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9780735102002

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Forged

Forged

The Instigator

The Instigator

Crime Scene Investigation Case Studies

Crime Scene Investigation Case Studies

The Life & Campaigns of General Hughie Stockwell

The Life & Campaigns of General Hughie Stockwell

Acts of Nature

Acts of Nature

I Can Take It We Can Take It

I Can Take It We Can Take It

The Epistle of Barnabas

The Epistle of Barnabas

The Max Freeman Mysteries Volume Two

The Max Freeman Mysteries Volume Two

EEG Signal Processing and Machine Learning

EEG Signal Processing and Machine Learning

Passing Orders

Passing Orders

Plate Tectonics

Plate Tectonics

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