Common Errors in English Usage

Common Errors in English Usage
Author: Paul Brians
Publisher: Franklin, Beedle & Associates, Inc.
Total Pages: 261
Release: 2003
Genre: English language
ISBN: 1887902899

Online version of Common Errors in English Usage written by Paul Brians.

The Mass Ornament

The Mass Ornament
Author: Siegfried Kracauer
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 420
Release: 1995
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9780674551633

The Mass Ornament today remains a refreshing tribute to popular culture, and its impressively interdisciplinary writings continue to shed light not only on Kracauer's later work but also on the ideas of the Frankfurt School, the genealogy of film theory and cultural studies, Weimar cultural politics, and, not least, the exigencies of intellectual exile.

The Sailor's Word-book

The Sailor's Word-book
Author: William Henry Smyth
Publisher: London : Blackie and son
Total Pages: 836
Release: 1867
Genre: Military art and science
ISBN:

The Domain of Language

The Domain of Language
Author: Michael D. Fortescue
Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2002
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9788772897066

This book is intended as counter-evidence to the perception of Linguistics as the domain of dusty schoolroom grammar, where proponents of one theoretical orientation or the other spend their brief breaks in the playground bashing the others over the head with their favorite abstractions. The discipline may appear to outsiders as fragmented and, worse still, lacking in relevance to the real world outside its gates. The purpose is to show that Linguistics, in all its varied branches, can be entertaining as well as thought-provoking, and that its domain is indeed a coherent one despite all the internecine squabbling. The subject is introduced in an unconventional way as a kind of fable with an historical moral that professional linguists, as well as students, should enjoy as a commentary on the state of the discipline today.

The Pentagon's Brain

The Pentagon's Brain
Author: Annie Jacobsen
Publisher: Little, Brown
Total Pages: 585
Release: 2015-09-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 0316371653

Discover the definitive history of DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency, in this Pulitzer Prize finalist from the author of the New York Times bestseller Area 51. No one has ever written the history of the Defense Department's most secret, most powerful, and most controversial military science R&D agency. In the first-ever history about the organization, New York Times bestselling author Annie Jacobsen draws on inside sources, exclusive interviews, private documents, and declassified memos to paint a picture of DARPA, or "the Pentagon's brain," from its Cold War inception in 1958 to the present. This is the book on DARPA -- a compelling narrative about this clandestine intersection of science and the American military and the often frightening results.

High-Tech Trash

High-Tech Trash
Author: Carolyn L. Kane
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2019-12-17
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0520974492

A free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press’ Open Access publishing program for monographs. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. High-Tech Trash analyzes creative strategies in glitch, noise, and error to chart the development of an aesthetic paradigm rooted in failure. Carolyn L. Kane explores how technologically influenced creative practices, primarily from the second half of the twentieth and first quarter of the twenty-first centuries, critically offset a broader culture of pervasive risk and discontent. In so doing, she questions how we continue onward, striving to do better and acquire more, despite inevitable disappointment. High-Tech Trash speaks to a paradox in contemporary society in which failure is disavowed yet necessary for technological innovation.

Pharmako/Poeia

Pharmako/Poeia
Author: Dale Pendell
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009
Genre: Botany, Medical
ISBN: 9781556438875

"Pharmako poeia: plant powers, poisons, and herbcraft focuses on familiar psychoactive plant-derived substances and related synthetics, ranging from the licit (tobacco, alcohol) to the illicit (cannabis, opium) and the exotic (absinthe, salvia divinorum, nitrous oxide)"--Provided by publisher.

A Postcapitalist Politics

A Postcapitalist Politics
Author: J. K. Gibson-Graham
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 317
Release:
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1452908834

Is there life after capitalism? In this creatively argued follow-up to their book The End of Capitalism (As We Knew It), J. K. Gibson-Graham offer already existing alternatives to a global capitalist order and outline strategies for building alternative economies. A Postcapitalist Politics reveals a prolific landscape of economic diversity—one that is not exclusively or predominantly capitalist—and examines the challenges and successes of alternative economic interventions. Gibson-Graham bring together political economy, feminist poststructuralism, and economic activism to foreground the ethical decisions, as opposed to structural imperatives, that construct economic “development” pathways. Marshalling empirical evidence from local economic projects and action research in the United States, Australia, and Asia, they produce a distinctive political imaginary with three intersecting moments: a politics of language, of the subject, and of collective action. In the face of an almost universal sense of surrender to capitalist globalization, this book demonstrates that postcapitalist subjects, economies, and communities can be fostered. The authors describe a politics of possibility that can build different economies in place and over space. They urge us to confront the forces that stand in the way of economic experimentation and to explore different ways of moving from theory to action. J. K. Gibson-Graham is the pen name of Katherine Gibson and Julie Graham, feminist economic geographers who work, respectively, at the Australian National University in Canberra and the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

The Wireless Networking Starter Kit

The Wireless Networking Starter Kit
Author: Adam C. Engst
Publisher: Peachpit Press
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2003
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0321174089

For readers ready to embrace the freedom of wireless, this is the place to start. In these pages they'll learn first about the underpinnings of wireless technology and network basics before getting down to the real business at hand: setting up, configuring, and maintaining a wireless network. Step-by-step instructions delivered in easily digestible chunks make it easy to get a network humming.