Nathan Dean's Books

A Poetics of Handel's Operas

By: Nathan Link

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A Poetics of Handel's Operas investigates the rich representational fabric of Handel's stories, drawing upon musicology, narratology, drama, and film in offering a study with appeal to scholars, producers and performers, opera afficionados, and anyone fascinated by storytelling. In most storytelling genres, we often distinguish between the story, on the one hand, and the way that story is represented, on the other, without a second thought. We know that a character in a film hears neither her own voice-over nor the ambient music that accompanies it, and that she does not really build a house from the ground up in the three minutes spanned by the cinematic montage that depict its construction. In opera, however, many commentators to this day characterize the medium as "unrealistic," since we know, for example, that people in the real world do not sing to each other, nor does orchestral music accompany their utterances. This said, the vocal and orchestral music, while not literally present in the world of the story surely have a great deal to tell us about the opera's story and its characters, and if we distinguish the performance we see and hear on the stage and in the orchestra pit from the story represented, we enable ourselves to construct stories that are no less coherent than those conveyed by other media. By avoiding conflation of the story and its representation, we enable ourselves to engage more meaningfully with the significance of these and many other unique aspects of operatic storytelling"--

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James Sallis

A Companion to the Mystery Fiction

By: Nathan Ashman

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James Sallis

A Companion to the Mystery Fiction

By: Nathan Ashman

Once described as "the best crime writer you've never heard of," James Sallis is a largely underexplored figure in contemporary American literature. Best known for his thriller novel Drive--later adapted into the acclaimed 2011 movie of the same name starring Ryan Gosling and Carey Mulligan--Sallis has written across a range of genres and forms, including short fiction, poetry, musicology, science fiction, biography, nonfiction essays, literary reviews, and criticism. This companion, the first comprehensive examination of Sallis' writings, locates him as a vital voice within mystery fiction. In addition to an alphabetized analysis of his works, it includes a biography, career chronology, and an interview with the author. Readers will gain a deeper understanding of Sallis' extraordinary life and career, as well as insight into the recurrent themes and motifs of his rich and varied writings. This book is both an introduction to Sallis' work for new readers and a thorough reference guide for established fans and scholars.

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McFarland

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1476651612

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9781476651613

Netherworld

By: Nathan D. Gjovik

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Netherworld

By: Nathan D. Gjovik

Over the course of more than 22 years of service with the Federal government Nathan Gjovik has seen first-hand how it uses tools like affirmative action and various preferences and set asides to award positions, promotions, and contracts. These tools are nearly all designed to serve populations who the Government has deemed to be 'disadvantaged' while Caucasian males, who the Government has apparently determined as a class to be advantaged, are relegated to whatever they are able to muster on their own, outside the Federal sector. With the increasing proportion of Federal control of the US economy these tools determine in large part economic winners and losers within the US. These tools also indirectly impact how Federal laws are promulgated and enforced by program managers, many of whom were awarded their positions based primarily on their race or gender (or other non-merit based factors), determine how to best ensure the continuance of their program as well as the manner in which it will follow, enforce, or ignore Federal law. CAPT Nathan D. Gjovik, USPHS (Ret.) This book is an accounting of Mr. Gjovik's attempts to make positive changes from within the Federal government and the Federal responses to same. It also documents some of the asinine, incompetent, and potentially criminal activities which occur routinely within the Federal sector through the eyes of one who came from the private sector.

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Tate Publishing

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1622958098

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An Arrow's Arc: Journey of a Physician-Scientist

By: Carl Nathan

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An Arrow's Arc: Journey of a Physician-Scientist

By: Carl Nathan

A well-rendered portrait of an intense medical life devoted to equally intense research."—Kirkus Reviews “This is a wonderful account of a nonpareil physician-scientist and, in recent decades, a creator of drug therapies and a lifesci macher. Carl Nathan illuminates his memoir with great storytelling and deeply considered reflections (regularly summed up in pithy ‘life lessons’) on how his person and his personal journey prepared, and propelled, him. Like Carl, I am a scientist whose asthma and serial pneumonias meant swapping a lot of childhood companionship for finding out young how rewarding adventures of the mind can be. An Arrow’s Arc belongs on your bookshelf right next to Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!”—Professor K. Barry Sharpless, PhD, Scripps Research Institute, two-time winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry As a physician and renowned medical researcher, Carl Nathan has been at the forefront of discoveries in microbiology and immunology. In An Arrow’s Arc, he reflects on how his youthful experiences and passions moved him toward medicine and science, and how his five decades as a doctor and scientist have, in turn, shaped him. As a child, Nathan struggled with severe asthma, and he saw breast cancer take his mother’s life during his senior year of college, on the very same day he was accepted to Harvard Medical School. These experiences, among others, fueled his abiding interest in medicine and his determined efforts to understand how the immune system duels with cancer and infectious diseases. While a half-century dedicated to his patients and to biomedical research provided Dr. Nathan with a hard-won biological perspective on death’s role in life, he’s known since he was young that he could die at any time. He calls this a liberating thought, a gift, a call to action. Full of warmth and wisdom, An Arrow’s Arc is a beautiful reminder to all of us “that now is the time to love, to wonder, and to build.”

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Paul Dry Books

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1589881850

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The Mythology of Supernatural

The Signs and Symbols Behind the Popular TV Show

By: Nathan Robert Brown

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The Mythology of Supernatural

The Signs and Symbols Behind the Popular TV Show

By: Nathan Robert Brown

A look into the paranormal legends, lore, mythology, and monsters featured on the hit television show Supernatural. From angels to demons, The Mythology of Supernatural explores the religious roots and the ancient folklore of the otherworldly entities that brothers Sam and Dean Winchester face on the hit television show Supernatural—and that have inhabited the shadows of human imagination across countless cultures and centuries.

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1101517522

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King's Knight and Other Stories

A Science-Fiction Anthology

By: James Nathan Post

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King's Knight and Other Stories

A Science-Fiction Anthology

By: James Nathan Post

KING'S KNIGHT is a still-prophetic virtual-world novella written in 1971 about a Chessman with no memory of any other life, struggling with his suspicion there is more to his world than he is allowed to know. From the beginning of cybertelempathy in a 1965 grad student's basement lab, to the man who steals a remotely-operated "gnome" to commit a crime, to the mother who wants to love her baby again and again, these are humorous, exciting, and sometimes provocative visions of what might have been, and yet may be.

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0595165656

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Lyrics and How They Inspire Me

By: Nathan Catchpole

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Lyrics and How They Inspire Me

By: Nathan Catchpole

For as long as author Nathan Catchpole could remember, he has always loved music. In fact, he loved it so much that he started writing lyrics when he was just twelve years old. He has written over a thousand songs since then. In his book, he reveals Lyrics and How They Inspire Me. He first heard music when he was only three years old, although he couldnt understand what the singers were singing about. He only knew that he liked what he was hearing and years later, music would become a central part of his life. In Lyrics and How They Inspire Me, Catchpole shares his favorite singers and the songs that inspired him. He gives brief biographies of each along with their discographies and points out the particular lyrics that moved him to create his own. An entertaining at the same time informative book, Lyrics and How They Inspire Me provides readers insight on singers lives, their hits and misses, and the impact they had on their fans.

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1465308024

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Problems in Contract Law

Cases and Materials

By: Charles L. Knapp,Nathan M. Crystal,Harry G. Prince

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Problems in Contract Law

Cases and Materials

By: Charles L. Knapp,Nathan M. Crystal,Harry G. Prince

In Problems in Contract Law: Cases and Materials, Ninth Edition, by Charles L. Knapp, Nathan M. Crystal, and Harry G. Prince, a balance of traditional and contemporary cases reflect the development and complexity of contract law. Explanatory notes and text place classic and contemporary cases in their larger legal context, while questions and problem exercises bridge theory and practice. Adaptable for instructors with different teaching techniques, this successful book includes various perspectives and contractual settings, and offers a highly intelligent, contemporary treatment of contract law. It can easily be used in teaching by traditional case analysis, through problem-based instruction, or using theoretical inquiry. New to the Ninth Edition: Seven new cases that reflect advances in or improved statements of contract law Two restored cases (Kirksey v. Kirksey and Hill v. Jones) that provide valuable perspectives on fundamental areas of contract law Eight new problems (including seven net additions and one replacement) to provide more review options for teachers and students and to add contemporary fact patterns A new, two-color design featuring interesting photographs illustrating people and places discussed in some of the cases Editing of note and text material to reduce length without affecting coverage Reorganization of text and comment material to focus comments primarily on historical developments, allowing professors flexibility in assigning or deleting comments Student accessibility to deleted cases from prior editions through Connected Casebook, allowing professors the further flexibility of continuing to easily assign cases for which they have a particular preference Professors and students will benefit from: Flexible application for professors with various teaching methodologies: traditional, problem, theoretical, and practical A mixture of classic and contemporary cases The authors’ emphasis on accessibility of the material—rejecting a hide-the-ball approach Review questions at the end of each chapter that are primarily designed for students to perform self-assessments of their grasp of the material. Answers with explanations are included in an appendix within the book.

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1543811027

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Barnard Beginnings

By: Annie Nathan Meyer

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Barnard Beginnings

By: Annie Nathan Meyer

Annie Nathan Meyer was an American author, antisuffragist, and a founder of Barnard College. She was born in New York City, the daughter of Robert and Annie Florance Nathan, members of the Sephardic community, which had figured prominently in the commercial and cultural life of New York since the Revolution. Her book Barnard Beginnings penned in 1935 is an engaging chronicle of the college's early years and an important document in the history of American higher education.

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147338687X

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Content, Cognition, and Communication

Philosophical Papers II

By: Nathan Salmon

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Content, Cognition, and Communication

Philosophical Papers II

By: Nathan Salmon

Nathan Salmon presents a selection of his essays from the early 1980s to 2006, on a set of closely connected topics central to analytic philosophy. The book is divided into four thematic sections. The first contains six essays on the theme of direct reference, and associated issues regarding names and descriptions, demonstratives and reflexivity. The four essays in the second section, under the heading of apriority, concern particular consequences of Millianism with respect to the semantic-epistemological status of certain special kinds of sentences. The five essays in the third section develop Salmon's project of reconciling Millianism with a host of problems posed by locutions of propositional attitude, especially by attributions of belief. The volume concludes with four essays about the distinction between meaning and use, or more generally, the distinction between semantics and pragmatics.

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0191536105

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The Starday Story

The House That Country Music Built

By: Nathan D. Gibson

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The Starday Story

The House That Country Music Built

By: Nathan D. Gibson

Association of Recorded Sound Collections Awards for Excellence Best Research in Record Labels–Certificate of Merit (2012) The Starday Story: The House That Country Music Built is the first book entirely dedicated to one of the most influential music labels of the twentieth century. In addition to creating the largest bluegrass catalogue throughout the 1950s and '60s, Starday was also known for its legendary rockabilly catalogue, an extensive Texas honky-tonk outpouring, classic gospel and sacred recordings, and as a Nashville independent powerhouse studio and label. Written with label president and co-founder Don Pierce, this book traces the label's origins in 1953 through the 1968 Starday-King merger. Interviews with artists and their families, employees, and Pierce contribute to the stories behind famous hit songs, including "Y'all Come," "A Satisfied Mind," "Why Baby Why," "Giddy-up Go," "Alabam," and many others. Gibson's research and interviews also shed new light on the musical careers of George Jones, Arlie Duff, Willie Nelson, Roger Miller, the Stanley Brothers, Cowboy Copas, Red Sovine, and countless other Starday artists. Conversations with the children of Pappy Daily and Jack Starns provide a unique perspective on the early days of Starday, and extensive interviews with Pierce offer an insider glance at the country music industry during its golden era. Weathering through the storm of rock and roll and, later, the Nashville Sound, Starday was a home to traditional country musicians and became one of the most successful independent labels in American history. Ultimately, The Starday Story is the definitive record of a country music label that played an integral role in preserving our nation's musical heritage.

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Univ. Press of Mississippi

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1496801512

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The Pocket Idiot's Guide to Surviving College

By: Nathan Brown

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The Pocket Idiot's Guide to Surviving College

By: Nathan Brown

Not just another overview of academia, this is the perfect handbook for living the college life. It is filled with the kind of insights only students themselves can offer, on topics from late term papers to late-night frat parties.

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159257212X

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The Boy in the Book

By: Nathan Penlington

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The Boy in the Book

By: Nathan Penlington

When Nathan discovered a job lot of the first 106 adventures for sale on eBay, there was never any question that he would place a bid. When the books arrived, he lost himself in the old adventures. Yet, as he flicked through the pages, there was another story being written. In the margins of each book were the scribblings of the little boy who had once owned them, a little boy by the name of Terence John Prendergast. Terence wrote jokes and hints for adventurers following the same stories as him. More troubling, among the notes were intimations of a tormented childhood: of the boys and teachers who bullied him; of the things he hated about himself and had to improve; of his thoughts of suicide and his desperate need to find friends, be liked, and find somebody - anybody - to confide in. THE BOY IN THE BOOK is Nathan's poignant recreation of the discovery of the fragments of Terence Prendergast's diary, his quest to find the lost boy, and the friendship that resulted from their first meeting. In doing so, Nathan is forced to examine his own childhood - and, as his relationship with Terence deepens, he begins to believe that the two men are not so different, and to reflect on the darkness that can exist in childhood.

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0755365712

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Copyright Law Symposium

By: Nathan Burkan Memorial Competition

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Copyright Law Symposium

By: Nathan Burkan Memorial Competition

Featured here are the following prizewinning essays in the 1990 and 1991 ASCAP Nathan Burkan Memorial Competition in copyright law: 19901st Prize: Lee D. Neumann, Columbia University School of Law, "The Berne Convention and Droit de Suite Legislation in the United States".2nd Prize: Michael K. Davis-Hall, Harvard Law School, "Copyright and the Design of Useful Articles: A Functional Analysis of 'Separability.'"3rd Prize: Cynthia D. Mann, Harvard Law School, "The Aesthetic Side of Life: The Applied Art/Industrial Design Dichotomy".4th Prize (tie): Jon Clark, University of Maine School of Law, "Copyright Law and Work for Hire: A Critical History".4th Prize (tie): Ted K. Ringsred, William Mitchell College of Law, "Is Anticompetitive Misuse a Defense to Copyright Infringement?"Honorable Mention: Benjamin R. Seecof, University of California -- Hastings College of the Law, "Scanning Into the Future of Copyrightable Images: Computer-Based Image Processing Poses a Present Threat".19911st Prize: Christine L. Chinni, Western New England College School of Law, "Droit D'Auteur Versus the Economics of Copyright: Implications for American Law of Accession to the Berne Convention".2nd Prize: Jonathan Z. King, Harvard Law School, "The Anatomy of a Jazz Recording: Copyrighting America's Classical Music".3rd Prize: Leslie J. Hagin, University of Texas at Austin School of Law, "A Comparative Analysis of Laws Applied to Fashion Works: Renewing the Proposal for Folding Fashion Works Into the United States Copyright Statute".4th Prize: John Gastineau, Indiana University School of Law, "Bent Fish: Issues of Ownership and Infringement in Digitally Processed Images".5thPrize: Montgomery Frankel, University of San Francisco School of Law, "From Kroft to Shaw, and Beyond: The Shifting Test for Copyright Infringement in the Ninth Circuit".

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023111060X

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The Future of Work

How Artificial Intelligence Can Augment Human Capabilities

By: Yassi Moghaddam,Heather Yurko,Haluk Demirkan,Nathan Tymann,Ammar Rayes

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The Future of Work

How Artificial Intelligence Can Augment Human Capabilities

By: Yassi Moghaddam,Heather Yurko,Haluk Demirkan,Nathan Tymann,Ammar Rayes

In this book, experts from industry and academia explore these trends and discuss how innovative companies are leveraging Artificial Intelligence and intelligent tools to make the workforce more inclusive, and enhance and augment the human worker rather than replace it. Jobs, and nature of work as we know it, are changing rapidly. As companies become more "digital," employees need to be empowered to become more innovative. Disruptive changes to work behaviors and business models will have a profound impact on the nature of work and worker. In many industries and countries, the most in-demand occupations, specialties, and skills did not exist ten or even five years ago, and the pace of change is set to accelerate. This will have a tremendous impact on how the workforce of the future acquires and applies new skills, and how companies organize work to stay nimble and competitive. In this book, experts from industry and academia explore these trends and discuss how innovative companies are leveraging Artificial Intelligence and intelligent tools to make the workforce more inclusive, and enhance and augment the human worker rather than replace it.

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Business Expert Press

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1951527194

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Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales 3-Book Collection: Volume Four

Blades of Freedom; Cold War Correspondent; and Above the Trenches

By: Nathan Hale

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Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales 3-Book Collection: Volume Four

Blades of Freedom; Cold War Correspondent; and Above the Trenches

By: Nathan Hale

Get three fan-favorite tales of American history from author-illustrator Nathan Hale’s New York Times bestselling graphic novel series in this must-have set! Hilarious, gruesome, and packed with facts, this series introduces readers to some of the strangest moments in history. In this set, readers will hide behind enemy lines with reporter Marguerite Higgins in Cold War Correspondent: A Korean War Tale, fight alongside Haitian revolutionaries in Blades of Freedom: A Tale of Haiti, Napoleon, and the Louisiana Purchase, and soar through the sky with American fighter pilots in Above the Trenches: A WWI Flying Ace Tale. Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales! Read them all—if you dare! One Dead Spy: A Revolutionary War Tale (#1) Big Bad Ironclad!: A Civil War Tale (#2) Donner Dinner Party: A Pioneer Tale (#3) Treaties, Trenches, Mud, and Blood: A World War I Tale (#4) The Underground Abductor: An Abolitionist Tale about Harriet Tubman (#5) Alamo All-Stars: A Texas Tale (#6) Raid of No Return: A World War II Tale of the Doolittle Raid (#7) Lafayette!: A Revolutionary War Tale (#8) Major Impossible: A Grand Canyon Tale (#9) Blades of Freedom: A Tale of Haiti, Napoleon, and the Louisiana Purchase (#10) Cold War Correspondent: A Korean War Tale (#11) Above the Trenches: A WWI Flying Ace Tale (#12)

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Abrams

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A Crooked Number

By: Nathan Jorgenson

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A Crooked Number

By: Nathan Jorgenson

With a remarkable combination of pathos and humor, Nathan Jorgenson spins another unique and powerful yarn about the human condition. A crooked number chronicles the relationship of freshman dental student Grant Thorson and Professor Kate Bellows. Jorgenson weaves the themes young love, graduate school, and amateur baseball into a rich and tender coming-of-age story.

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Greenleaf Book Group

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0974637068

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Restoring the Soul of the University

Unifying Christian Higher Education in a Fragmented Age

By: Perry L. Glanzer,Nathan F. Alleman,Todd C. Ream

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Restoring the Soul of the University

Unifying Christian Higher Education in a Fragmented Age

By: Perry L. Glanzer,Nathan F. Alleman,Todd C. Ream

Has the American university gained the whole world but lost its soul? Christian universities must reimagine excellence in a time of exile, placing the liberating arts before the liberal arts and focusing on the worship, love, and knowledge of God as central to academia. This pioneering work charts the history of the university and casts an inspiring vision for the future of higher education.

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0830891633

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The Nix

A novel

By: Nathan Hill

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The Nix

A novel

By: Nathan Hill

Winner of the Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction A New York Times 2016 Notable Book Entertainment Weekly's #1 Book of the Year A Washington Post 2016 Notable Book A Slate Top Ten Book NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “The Nix is a mother-son psychodrama with ghosts and politics, but it’s also a tragicomedy about anger and sanctimony in America. . . . Nathan Hill is a maestro.” —John Irving From the suburban Midwest to New York City to the 1968 riots that rocked Chicago and beyond, The Nix explores—with sharp humor and a fierce tenderness—the resilience of love and home, even in times of radical change. It’s 2011, and Samuel Andresen-Anderson—college professor, stalled writer—has a Nix of his own: his mother, Faye. He hasn’t seen her in decades, not since she abandoned the family when he was a boy. Now she’s re-appeared, having committed an absurd crime that electrifies the nightly news, beguiles the internet, and inflames a politically divided country. The media paints Faye as a radical hippie with a sordid past, but as far as Samuel knows, his mother was an ordinary girl who married her high-school sweetheart. Which version of his mother is true? Two facts are certain: she’s facing some serious charges, and she needs Samuel’s help. To save her, Samuel will have to embark on his own journey, uncovering long-buried secrets about the woman he thought he knew, secrets that stretch across generations and have their origin all the way back in Norway, home of the mysterious Nix. As he does so, Samuel will confront not only Faye’s losses but also his own lost love, and will relearn everything he thought he knew about his mother, and himself.

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1101946628

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Architects of Memory

Information and Rhetoric in a Networked Archival Age

By: Nathan R. Johnson

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Architects of Memory

Information and Rhetoric in a Networked Archival Age

By: Nathan R. Johnson

Probes the development of information management after World War II and its consequences for public memory and human agency We are now living in the richest age of public memory. From museums and memorials to the vast digital infrastructure of the internet, access to the past is only a click away. Even so, the methods and technologies created by scientists, espionage agencies, and information management coders and programmers have drastically delimited the ways that communities across the globe remember and forget our wealth of retrievable knowledge. In Architects of Memory: Information and Rhetoric in a Networked Archival Age, Nathan R. Johnson charts turning points where concepts of memory became durable in new computational technologies and modern memory infrastructures took hold. He works through both familiar and esoteric memory technologies—from the card catalog to the book cart to Zatocoding and keyword indexing—as he delineates histories of librarianship and information science and provides a working vocabulary for understanding rhetoric’s role in contemporary memory practices. This volume draws upon the twin concepts of memory infrastructure and mnemonic technê to illuminate the seemingly opaque wall of mundane algorithmic techniques that determine what is worth remembering and what should be forgotten. Each chapter highlights a conflict in the development of twentieth-century librarianship and its rapidly evolving competitor, the discipline of information science. As these two disciplines progressed, they contributed practical techniques and technologies for making sense of explosive scientific advancement in the wake of World War II. Taming postwar science became part and parcel of practices and information technologies that undergird uncountable modern communication systems, including search engines, algorithms, and databases for nearly every national clearinghouse of the twenty-first century.

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0817320601

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