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The Ethical Algorithm
Over the course of a generation, algorithms have gone from mathematical abstractions to powerful mediators of daily life. In evolving from static computer programs hand-coded by …
A Word on Words
For years the legendary John Seigenthaler hosted A Word on Words on Nashville's public television station, WNPT. During the show’s four-decade run (1972 to 2013), he interviewed …
Dragon Lord Chronicles
The dragon lord to the five kingdoms has been assassinated, throwing the kingdoms into turmoil. After young dragon rider Alaric Smithson is relieved of duty, he enters to vie for …
Collected Works of Erasmus
Between 1515 and 1533 Erasmus wrote commentaries on eleven psalms, his only treatment of texts from the Old Testament. His principal aim was, as in his Paraphrases, to contribute, …
Rhetorical Narratology
Narratology attempts to determine the rules or codes of composition of a narrative and to formulate the “grammar” of narrative, that is, the structures and formulas that recur …
Progressive Violence
This book examines the role of collective violence in the achievement of solidarity, shedding light on the difficulty faced by sociology in theorizing violence and warfare as a …
Ethical Algorithm
Over the course of a generation, algorithms have gone from mathematical abstractions to powerful mediators of daily life. Algorithms have made our lives more efficient, more …
Writing for the Street, Writing in the Garret: Melville, Dickinson, and Private Publication
Although Herman Melville and Emily Dickinson differed dramatically in terms of their lives and writing careers, they shared not only a distaste for writing "for the street" (mass …
Corporate Diplomacy
Clinkerstone
1982. Sean Gallagher, a talented musician leaves the west coast of Ireland to work for this Uncle’s construction firm in Chicago. All goes well until he is forced to leave after a …
Progressive Violence
This book examines the role of collective violence in the achievement of solidarity, shedding light on the difficulty faced by sociology in theorizing violence and warfare as a …
Metaphors of Mind in Fiction and Psychology
Curiosity about the human mind -- what it is and how it functions -- began long before modern psychology. But because the mind and its processes are so elusive, they could be …