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Trillions

Thriving in the Emerging Information Ecology

By: Peter Lucas,Joe Ballay,Mickey McManus

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Trillions

Thriving in the Emerging Information Ecology

By: Peter Lucas,Joe Ballay,Mickey McManus

We are facing a future of unbounded complexity. Whether that complexity is harnessed to build a world that is safe, pleasant, humane and profitable, or whether it causes us to careen off a cliff into an abyss of mind-numbing junk is an open question. The challenges and opportunities--technical, business, and human--that this technological sea change will bring are without precedent. Entire industries will be born and others will be laid to ruin as our society navigates this journey. There are already many more computing devices in the world than there are people. In a few more years, their number will climb into the trillions. We put microprocessors into nearly every significant thing that we manufacture, and the cost of routine computing and storage is rapidly becoming negligible. We have literally permeated our world with computation. But more significant than mere numbers is the fact we are quickly figuring out how to make those processors communicate with each other, and with us. We are about to be faced, not with a trillion isolated devices, but with a trillion-node network: a network whose scale and complexity will dwarf that of today’s Internet. And, unlike the Internet, this will be a network not of computation that we use, but of computation that we live in. Written by the leaders of one of America’s leading pervasive computing design firms, this book gives a no-holds-barred insiders’ account of both the promise and the risks of the age of Trillions. It is also a cautionary tale of the head-in-the-sand attitude with which many of today’s thought-leaders are at present approaching these issues. Trillions is a field guide to the future--designed to help businesses and their customers prepare to prosper, in the information.

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272

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118240065

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9781118240069

The Stockings Were Knit

By: Mickey Landau

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The Stockings Were Knit

By: Mickey Landau

These eight festive knit Christmas stocking designs offer styles for everyone in the family, including the pets! The stockings can be displayed with the toe at right or at left, because the cuffs show the same design on both sides. Special finishing touches for some of the stockings include embroidery and duplicate stitch. 8 knit stockings by Mickey Landau for medium weight yarn and Intermediate skill level: For My Best Friend (dog), Purr-fect Pastimes (cat), Hugs and Kisses (X's and O's), Familar Carols Play (bells), Old-fashioned Christmas (houndstooth pattern), Let It Snow! (snowflakes), Winter Wonderland (snowman scene), and Christmas Classic (gingerbread man).

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Leisure Arts

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1574863959

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9781574863956

Baseball

The Fans' Game

By: Gordon S. (Mickey) Cochrane

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Baseball

The Fans' Game

By: Gordon S. (Mickey) Cochrane

In 1939, John Kieran, a famous sportswriter for The New York Times, said of Baseball: The Fans' Game: "Frankly, this is the best book on baseball that I ever read." It remains one of the best and the SABR is proud to have made it available. SABR first published a paperback replica of the original Funk & Wagnalls 1939 edition in 1993, adding an introduction by Mark Alvarez at that time. Now an ebook edition has been made available for for all in digital formats. Cochrane's book is wonderful for two reasons. First, its tone is real, a true rarity among player-written tomes. Although it's not an autobiography, you'll get a real sense of Mickey Cochrane's personality here, with remarkably little piffle. Second, it's full of nuggets that any baseball fan will treasure. Just look at the topics listed in the table of contents: I. BECOMING A PROFESSIONAL The Chronicle of a Major Leaguer in the Making, from College Campus to the Big Show—The Value of Minor League Training II. WHAT MAKES A PLAYER Fundamentals of Sound Baseball—Hitting, Fielding, Throwing and Running—The Importance of Confidence—Slumps and How Some Were Broken—Pointers for Outfielders III. LET'S LOOK AT THE LINE-UP Fundamentals of Catching—Some Sound Pitching Advice—Footwork and the Line-Up IV. DEFENSE The Battery and Its Relation to the Defense—The Benefits of a Good Double-Play Combination—Strategy on the Defense—Some Stories of Babe Ruth V. BATTING Cobb's System of Batting-Guess Hitting and Sign Stealing—Cultivating Ability to Take a Strike—Attacking Strategy VI. HIT-AND-RUN, THE BUNT, SIGNS. Defensive Strategy Versus the Big Inning—The Hit and-Run and the Big Inning—Stealing Signs and How Some of the Greatest Signal Burglars Work VII. HANDLING PITCHERS Getting the Most Out of Your Stuff—Training Pitcher—The Pressure of a Pennant Race on a Staff-Breaking Down the Effectiveness of an Opposing Pitcher VIII. STRATEGY AND PSYCHOLOGY Importance of the Bull Pen In Winning-Team Tactics—When to Lift a Pitcher—Type of Relief to Have Ready-Essentials of Good Pinch Pitching—"Jockeying" which Started a Losing Streak IX. A WORD FOR THE FANS The Fans Always Write—When Does a Fan Own a Ball Club?—All-Star Teams X. Epilogue A City Goes Crazy over a Championship Ball Club—What Makes for Success in Baseball—Never Make the Same Mistake Twice

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242

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SABR, Inc.

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193359957X

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9781933599571

Inter/View

Talks with America's Writing Women

By: Mickey Pearlman,Katherine Usher Henderson

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Talks with America's Writing Women

By: Mickey Pearlman,Katherine Usher Henderson

Twenty-eight powerful and individual voices are heard as Pearlman and Henderson offer a forum for a generous cross-section of the women writing fiction in America today—writers whose vital statistics cross the borders of race, religion, ethnic origin, sexual preference, marital status, age, geography, and lifestyle. Each writer is presented in an essay/interview reflecting the dynamic that develops naturally when two vital minds meet to discuss topic of mutually interest. The writers talk about the role of memory, space, and family in their work, about politics, dreams, and race, about their mothers and children and alma maters, about book reviewing and their agents, editors, and publishers, and about each others' work. A bibliography of principal works follows each essay. A valuable contribution to writers both female and male, for above all else, this is a book about writing.

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297

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University Press of Kentucky

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0813185467

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9780813185460

Rancid Aphrodisiac

Subjectivity, Desire, and Rock 'n' Roll

By: Mickey Vallee

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Rancid Aphrodisiac

Subjectivity, Desire, and Rock 'n' Roll

By: Mickey Vallee

It has been sixty years since Rock 'n' Roll exploded into the mainstream, yet we remain limited in our understanding of how its bawdy excesses absorbed into the annals of mass popularity in such a short amount of time. Mickey Vallee asks: what if the Rock 'n' Roll eruption was nothing less than postwar consumer capitalism at its very best, precisely because it was taken as its very worst? Vallee explores the emergence of Rock 'n' Roll's from an entirely new theoretical disposition in order to answer this question, drawing mainly from Lacanian cultural psychoanalysis to reveal that Rock 'n' Roll was far more conformist than we are generally led to believe; namely, that it was conformist with emerging liberal principles of freedom from the tyranny of the state. Vallee supports this proposition with detailed analyses of familiar (and not-so-familiar) characters and texts in Rock 'n' Roll to suggest that the disruption of our symbolic economy was symptomatic of a new cultural logic of economic freedom. While not denying Rock 'n' Roll's role in the pre-civil rights movement, Vallee refuses the possibility to deny that Rock 'n' Roll's symbolic efficacy ultimately coordinated a neoliberal foundation to the ideology of individualism in its rhythm, instrumentation, lyrics, and vocals, where its power was at its most effective and affective.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1501322176

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9781501322174

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