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Mina P. Shaughnessy: Her Life and Work
Jane Maher Manufacturer: National Council of Teachers of English ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items: ASIN: 0814150292 |
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The "Countess" of Basic Writing.......2001-11-20
Through the use of excerpts from Shaughnessy's own letters and journal, the reader is treated to the momentary and well-earned celebrations and the constant, almost overwhelming struggle of her daily fight. It is inspiring and at the same time disheartening. One individual changed so much by her sheer will and determination. However, some of the elitist inhabitants of the ivory tower still lord over those who were not so fortunate in their early education.
This book is an excellent place for new teachers to begin their education in teaching.
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Hockey Heroes: Paul Kariya
Andrew Podnieks Manufacturer: Greystone Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1550547925 |
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Enemies Within: The Cold War and the AIDS Crisis in Literature, Film, and Culture
Jacqueline Foertsch Manufacturer: University of Illinois Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0252026373 |
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Enemies Within: The Cold War and the AIDS Crisis in Literature, Film, and Culture / Jacqueline Fo.
Foertsch Manufacturer: University of Illinois Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OQ4I30 |
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Pufnstuf & Other Stuff: The Weird and Wonderful World of Sid & Marty Krofft
David Martindale Manufacturer: Renaissance Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1580630073 |
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Pufnstuf, Witchiepoo, Bugaloo, Hoo Doo--nonsense words to all but the initiated. And who are the initiated? Let's just say they're adults of a certain age who may harbor a secret nostalgia for a... land of living hats. Lidsville, that is, a "groove, groove, grooviest" place where everyone has flipped their lid and hats have come alive. Such was the wacky world that television impresarios Sid and Marty Krofft unleashed on a generation of schoolchildren in the early to mid 1970s. Likely there is many a corporate executive today who, under times of stress, may be heard to hum a little jingle to themselves: "H.R. Pufnstuff / Who's your friend when things get rough? / H.R. Pufnstuff / Can't do a little 'cuz he can't do enough!"H.R. Pufnstuf, Lidsville, The Bugaloos, Land of the Lost, Far Out Space Nuts, and several others were Saturday morning television shows for children. All were colorfully populated by recognizable humans as well as actors in elaborate makeup, costumed fantasy characters, and outlandish puppets. Pufnstuf & Other Stuff takes a fond look back at these shows and evening programs, such as the Donny & Marie show, that also emerged from the prolific Krofft studios. Author David Martindale, who fits squarely into the age-group demographic for Krofft devotees, answers such potent questions as "Was Pufnstuf filled with double-entendre and punning drug references, even in the show's title, H.R. Pufnstuf?" (You'll have to read the book to find out.) Nostalgic grownups are the obvious audience for this book, but television and social historians will enjoy it, too. --Brenda Pittsley
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a blast from the past.......2006-01-29
A trippy trip down memory lane.......2005-12-18
Great little insights, author sounds like a jerk.......2002-11-19
Tough sledding.......2002-08-16
Trippy television ... a trippy book.......2000-05-09
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The Fellowship of the Ring Sourcebook (The Lord of the Rings Roleplaying Game)
Decipher RPG Manufacturer: Decipher Inc. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 1582369550 |
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The Fellowship Sourcebook.......2005-08-21
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The Digital Person: Technology and Privacy in the Information Age
Daniel Solove Manufacturer: NYU Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0814740375 Release Date: 2006-09-01 |
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View the Table of Contents. Read the Introduction.
This comprehensive analysis of privacy in the information age challenges traditional assumptions that breeches of privacy through the development of electronic dossiers involve the invasion of one's private space.
Choice
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The Digital Person challenges the existing ways in which law and legal theory approach the social, political, and legal implications of the collection and use of personal information in computer databases. Solove's book is ambitious, and represents the most important publications in the field of information privacy law for some years."
Georgetown Law Journal
"Anyone concerned with preserving privacy against technology's growing intrusiveness will find this book enlightening."
Publishers Weekly
"Solove . . . truly understands the intersection of law and technology. This book is a fascinating journey into the almost surreal ways personal information is hoarded, used, and abused in the digital age."
The Wall Street Journal
"Daniel Solove is one of the most energetic and creative scholars writing about privacy today.
The Digital Person is an important contribution to the privacy debate, and Solove's discussion of the harms of what he calls 'digital dossiers' is invaluable."
Jeffrey Rosen, author of The Unwanted Gaze and The Naked Crowd
"Powerful theme."
Privacy Journal
"This is not only a book you should read, but you should make sure your friends read it."
IEEE Review
"Solove offers a book that is both comprehensive and easy to understand, discussing the changes that technology has brought to our concept of privacy. An excellent starting point for much needed discussion."
Law Technology News
"An unusually perceptive discussion of one of the most vexing problems of the digital ageour loss of control over our personal information. It's a fascinating journey into the almost surreal ways personal information is hoarded, used, and abused in the digital age. I recommend his book highly."
Bruce Schneier
"Solove's book is the best exposition thus far about the threat that computer databases containing personal data about millions of Americans poses for information privacy."
Pamela Samuelson, Chancellor's Professor of Law and Information Management at the University of California, Berkeley
"Solove drives his points home through considerable reconfiguration of the basic argument. Rather than casting blame or urging retreat to a precomputer database era, the solution is seen in informing individuals, challenging data collectors, and bringing the law up-to-date."
Choice
"If you want to find out what a mess the law of privacy is, how it got that way, and whether there is hope for the future, then read this book."
Legal Times
"Solove evaluates the shortcomings of current approaches to privacy as well as some useful and controversial ideas for striking a new balance. Anyone who deals with privacy matters will find a lot ot consider."
DM News
"Solove's treatment of this particular facet is thoughtful, thorough, concise, and occasionally laced with humor. The present volume gives us reason to look forward to his future contributions."
The Law and Politics Book Review
"Solove's book is useful, particularly as an overview on how these private and government databases grew in sophistication and now interact with one another."
Christian Science Monitor
"A far-reaching examination of how digital dossiers are shaping our lives. Daniel Solove has persuasively reconceptualized privacy for the digital age. A must-read."
Paul Schwartz, Brooklyn Law School
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The Digital Person is a detailed and approachable resource on privacy issues and the laws that affect them."
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Seven days a week, twenty-four hours a day, electronic databases are compiling information about you. As you surf the Internet, an unprecedented amount of your personal information is being recorded and preserved forever in the digital minds of computers. For each individual, these databases create a profile of activities, interests, and preferences used to investigate backgrounds, check credit, market products, and make a wide variety of decisions affecting our lives. The creation and use of these databaseswhich Daniel J. Solove calls "digital dossiers"has thus far gone largely unchecked. In this startling account of new technologies for gathering and using personal data, Solove explains why digital dossiers pose a grave threat to our privacy.
The Digital Person sets forth a new understanding of what privacy is, one that is appropriate for the new challenges of the Information Age. Solove recommends how the law can be reformed to simultaneously protect our privacy and allow us to enjoy the benefits of our increasingly digital world.
The first volume in the series EX MACHINA: LAW, TECHNOLOGY, AND SOCIETY
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The Digital Person.......2007-05-02
taken from Journal of Law, Economics & Policy Volume 1, Number 2 (Winter 2005).......2006-08-17
Distortion of John E. Holts Public Record.......2006-07-17
Super on Law and Accountability, Read with "The Transparent Society".......2006-07-08
"Purposely Not Taught Outside of Law School- its Big Money!".......2006-02-24
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The digital person: Technology and privacy in the information age [A book review from: Government Information Quarterly]
R. Gellman Manufacturer: Elsevier ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B000RR2M7A |
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This digital document is a journal article from Government Information Quarterly, published by Elsevier in 2005. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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The Digital Person: Technology and Privacy in the Information Age.(Book Review) : An article from: The Cato Journal
Jim Harper Manufacturer: Thomson Gale ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B000E1N6RY Release Date: 2005-12-27 |
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This digital document is an article from The Cato Journal, published by Thomson Gale on September 22, 2005. The length of the article is 1317 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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365: Your Date With History
W.B. Marsh Manufacturer: Totem Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1840466065 |
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Whether it is major political events like the Boston Tea Party (December 16), or incredible discoveries like that of Tutankhamun's tomb (November 26), every event in history happened-of course-on one of 365 days.Customer Reviews:
Random Access History.......2005-09-21
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365: Your Date With History
W. B. Marsh Manufacturer: Totem Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000N66LCC |
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365: Your Date with History
Manufacturer: Icon Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000H5X6IG |
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Rethinking Michigan Indian History
Patrick Russell Lebeau Manufacturer: Michigan State University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items: ASIN: 0870137123 |
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broadening of Native American studies.......2005-11-01
Explores the role that the Chippewa, Ottawa, Pottawatomie, & the 12 federally recognized tribes played in state history.......2005-10-14
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Computers Ltd.: What They Really Can't Do (Popular Science)
David Harel Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0198604424 |
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Computers are incredible. They are one of the most important inventions of the 20th century, dramatically and irrevocably changing the way we live. That is the good news. The bad news is that there are still major limitations to computers, serious problems that not even the most powerful computers can solve. The consequences of such limitations can be serious. Too often these limits get overlooked, in the quest for bigger, better, and more powerful computers. In Computers Ltd., David Harel, best-selling author of Algorithmics, explains and illustrates one of the most fundamental, yet under-exposed facets of computers - their inherent limitations. Looking at the bad news that is proven, lasting and robust, discussing limitations that no amounts of hardware, software, talents or resources can overcome, the book presents a disturbing and provocative view of computing at the start of the 21st century. Along the way he shows just how far from perfect computers are, while shattering some of the many claims made for these machines. Though we may strive for bigger and better things in computing, we need to be realistic: computers are not omnipotent - far from it. Moreover, the problem is real and here to stay.Customer Reviews:
Easy introduction.......2004-09-21
A limited introduction to the limits of Computation.......2001-11-09
Harel, who's a renowned figure in the field of Theoretical Computer Science,
has the ability to write and explain in a way that makes things seem
wonderfully clear, and indeed it is only such authors who can write good
books for the general reader.
This small (240 pages) book is quite ambitious in its coverage of topics -
starting off with the notion of an algorithm, it goes on to discuss
Efficiency and correctness, Turing machines, Finite state machines,
Decidability, Computability, Complexity, NP-completeness, Recursion,
Parallel algorithms, Probabilistic algorithms, and even touches upon
Quantum Computing and Artificial Intelligence !!
All this is done with almost no mathematics, at least hardly any beyond
high-school level. The reader is gently introduced to some of the most
celebrated problems of Computer Science, and he/she can get a feel of
the nature of this exciting and interesting field.
Throughout the book, the author keeps underscoring the fact that no matter
how far technology progresses, there'll always be problems that we can't
solve cheaply, or can't solve at all, or can't ever know whether they
can be solved or not (!!), ie he stresses that there are problems that
are 'beyond computers', which cannot be tamed by more and more processing
power or any other technological advancements.
This book covers pretty much the same range of topics as Harel's earlier
book, 'Algorithmics : the spirit of Computer Science', but in only half
the number of pages, and with a heavy emphasis on the 'limitations' of
computers, which actually are limitations of our knowledge rather than
of the machines themselves.
How does it compare with the eariler book ? Well, it's more uptodate,
since it was published in 2000, whereas the other one was in 1992 -
so here you find buzzwords like 'Java', 'Dotcom', 'Quantum Computing',
etc, which you wouldn't find in the earlier book, but on the whole
i prefer the earlier one, since it had a little more detail, made you
think a little more, and even had exercises for those who were interested
in probing further.
So all in all, if you want a light, breezy introduction to the basic ideas
of Theoretical Computer Science which doesn't demand too much concentration,
this is a good choice, but if you're willing to put in some time & effort
& enjoy puzzles & logical thinking, then you'll find Harel's other book,
'Algorithmics : the spirit of Computer Science' much more rewarding.
Popularization At Its Best.......2000-11-23
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Computers Ltd - What They Really Can*t Do
David, Harel Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OKX094 |
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California's Threatened Environment: Restoring The Dream
Manufacturer: Island Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 1559631732 |
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These timely essays describe how to rediscover a land where life can be lived and enjoyed to the fullest, free from the constant specter of pollution, overcrowding, and overdevelopment. Though focusing on California, the environment everywhere faces similar pressures. If solutions can be found for one region, perhaps there is hope for the rest of the country as well.
The contributions gathered here, written specifically for this volume by experts from across the state, examine the many and varied threats to the health and well-being of one of the nation's most striking landscapes and its inhabitants. California's Threatened Environment identifies realistic and workable suggestions for revitalizing the once Golden State - suggestions that can help to protect threatened environments across the United States.
"It would be difficult to imagine a better book for realistically acquainting oneself with the endangered natural state of the state." - San Francisco Chronicle
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Manufacturer: Island Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000HNQJY6 |
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California's Threatened Environment : Restoring the Dream
Tim (editor) Palmer Manufacturer: Island Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000HMJF1G |
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California's Threatened Environment : Restoring the Dream
Tim (editor) Palmer Manufacturer: Island Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000HMJRJG |
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