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Virtual Sociocultural Convergence

By: William Sims Bainbridge

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Virtual Sociocultural Convergence

By: William Sims Bainbridge

This book explores the remarkable sociocultural convergence in multiplayer online games and other virtual worlds, through the unification of computer science, social science, and the humanities. The emergence of online media provides not only new methods for collecting social science data, but also contexts for developing theory and conducting education in the arts as well as technology. Notably, role-playing games and virtual worlds naturally demonstrate many classical concepts about human behaviour, in ways that encourage innovative thinking. The inspiration derives from the internationally shared values developed in a fifteen-year series of conferences on science and technology convergence. The primary methodology is focused on sending avatars, representing classical social theorists or schools of thought, into online gameworlds that harmonize with, or challenge, their fundamental ideas, including technological determinism, urban sociology, group formation, freedom versus control, class stratification, linguistic variation, functional equivalence across cultures, behavioural psychology, civilization collapse, and ethnic pluralism. Researchers and students in the social and behavioural sciences will benefit from the many diverse examples of how both qualitative and quantitative science of culture and society can be performed in online communities of many kinds, even as artists and gamers learn styles and skills they may apply in their own work and play.

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259

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Springer

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3319330209

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9783319330204

Winter Botany

By: William Trelease

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Winter Botany

By: William Trelease

Shows that the woody plants can be identified to their dormant state, sometimes more easily than when they are green and flowering.

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450

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Courier Corporation

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0486218007

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9780486218007

The Hamilton Palace Libraries. Catalogue of the Third Portion. The Beckford Library, Removed from Hamilton Palace

By: William Beckford

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The Hamilton Palace Libraries. Catalogue of the Third Portion. The Beckford Library, Removed from Hamilton Palace

By: William Beckford

Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.

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514

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3385416531

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9783385416536

The Lost Constitution

By: William Martin

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The Lost Constitution

By: William Martin

Rare-book expert Peter Fallon and his girlfriend, Evangeline, the main characters from Back Bay and Harvard Yard, are back for another treasure hunt through time. They have learned of an early, annotated draft of the Constitution, stolen and smuggled out of Philadelphia. The draft's marginal notes spell out, in shocking detail, the Founders' unequivocal intentions---the unmistakable meaning of the Bill of Rights. Peddled and purloined, trafficked and concealed for over two centuries, the lost Constitution could forever change America's history---and its future. Moreover, Congress is already at war, fighting tooth and claw over the eternally contentious Bill of Rights. When word gets out of the lost draft's existence, it launches a frenzied search, as both sides of the partisan machine believe it will reinforce their arguments. While battling politicians from both sides of the debate, Peter and Evangeline must get to the document first, because they know that if the wrong people find it, they will burn it, stripping the nation of its constitutional moorings. The search takes Peter and Evangeline into the rich history of America and New England, from Shay's Rebellion to the birth of the American industrial revolution to the march of the legendary 20th Maine in the Civil War. Past and present play off one another as the search for the draft heats up. It finally boils over on the first night of the World Series, at that Mecca of New England, Boston's fabled Fenway Park, and the truth is finally revealed....

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538

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Macmillan

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0765315386

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9780765315380

The Ink Truck

A Novel

By: William Kennedy

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The Ink Truck

A Novel

By: William Kennedy

A “wildly funny” novel of a monumentally unsuccessful newspaper strike in 1960s upstate New York from a Pulitzer Prize–winning author (People). The newspaper strike has stretched on for more than a year. When it began, the Guild boasted over 250 members. Now, they’re down to eighteen, with only three truly serious about the cause. Their leader, Bailey, is a columnist with an outsize sense of his own importance and a hatred of scabs that borders on fanaticism. Married to a roller derby queen, but smitten with one of his fellow radicals, Bailey is on a path of self-destruction that could take the entire city’s newspaper establishment down along with him. And that’s just what he has in mind. With the cape-wearing old-school Rosenthal at his side, Bailey embarks on a mad mission: hijacking the newspaper’s entire ink shipment and dumping it in the snow. But he’s hardly taken his first step when the scheme spins out of control, trapping him between armies of gypsies, scabs, and the wildest hippies New York has to offer. Set in a city closely resembling his native Albany, the fiction debut of William Kennedy is “a bawdy Celtic romp,” foreshadowing the wit and imagination that marked his literary career (Time).

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217

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Open Road Media

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1504042115

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9781504042116

That Greece Might Still be Free

The Philhellenes in the War of Independence

By: William St. Clair

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That Greece Might Still be Free

The Philhellenes in the War of Independence

By: William St. Clair

When in 1821, the Greeks rose in violent revolution against the rule of the Ottoman Turks, waves of sympathy spread across Western Europe and the United States. More than a thousand volunteers set out to fight for the cause. The Philhellenes, whether they set out to recreate the Athens of Pericles, start a new crusade, or make money out of a war, all felt that Greece had unique claim on the sympathy of the world. As Byron wrote, 'I dreamed that Greece might Still be Free'; and he died at Missolonghi trying to translate that dream into reality. William St Clair's meticulously researched and highly readable account of their aspirations and experiences was hailed as definitive when it was first published. Long out of print, it remains the standard account of the Philhellenic movement and essential reading for any students of the Greek War of Independence, Byron, and European Romanticism. Its relevance to more modern ethnic and religious conflicts is becoming increasingly appreciated by scholars worldwide. This new and revised edition includes a new Introduction by Roderick Beaton, an updated Bibliography and many new illustrations.

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480

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Open Book Publishers

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1906924007

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9781906924003

Boyd's New York City Tax-Book

By: William Henry Boyd

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Boyd's New York City Tax-Book

By: William Henry Boyd

Reprint of the original, first published in 1857.

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266

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3375168101

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9783375168100

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Virtual Sociocultural Convergence

Virtual Sociocultural Convergence

Winter Botany

Winter Botany

The Hamilton Palace Libraries. Catalogue of the Third Portion. The Beckford Library, Removed from Hamilton Palace

The Hamilton Palace Libraries. Catalogue of the Third Portion. The Beckford Library, Removed from Hamilton Palace

The Lost Constitution

The Lost Constitution

The Ink Truck

The Ink Truck

That Greece Might Still be Free

That Greece Might Still be Free

Boyd's New York City Tax-Book

Boyd's New York City Tax-Book

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