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... Chicago Press prepared a single sheet of typographic fundamentals intended as a guide for the University community. That sheet grew into a pamphlet, and the pamphlet grew into a book--the first edition of the Manual of Style, published in 1906. Now in its fifteenth edition, The Chicago Manual of Style--the essential reference for authors, editors, proofreaders, indexers, ...

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... The Future of the Internet— And How to Stop It This page intentionally left blank The Future of t... ...to Stop It This page intentionally left blank The Future of the Internet And How to Stop It Jonathan Zittrain Yale University Press New Haven & Lo... ...ng illustrations, in any form (beyond that copying permitted by Sections 107 and 108 of the U.S. Copyright Law and except by reviewers for the public ... .... cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-300-12487-3 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. Internet. 2. Internet—Social aspects. 3. Inter... ...rt II After the Stall—63 4 The Generative Pattern—67 5 T ethered Appliances, Software as Service, and Perfect Enforcement—101 6 The Lessons of Wikipe... ... yet it could be at home on someone’s desk. Instead of puzzling over bits of hardware or typing up punch cards to feed into someone else’s main- frame... ... to program the machines themselves, but true beginners simply could load up software written and then shared or sold by their more skilled or inspire... ...inker with it. Hobbyists wrote programs. Businesses began to plan on selling software. Jobs (and Apple) had no clue how the machine would be used. The... ... of The Rise and Stall of the Generative Net 8 the initial model of bundled hardware and software that is created and con- trolled by one company. Th...

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...The following treatise on Sextus Empiricus and Greek Scepticism has been prepared to supply a need much felt in the English language by students of Greek philosophy. For while other schools of Greek philosophy have been exhaustively and critically discussed by English...

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...ptance of the idea? These are some of the questions dealt with in this book. In this first chapter the nature of an idea is developed, contextualized and shown to be a most timely topic. To pave the way for this book's argument that ideas are exchanged in marketlike transactions, the aim of this chapter is to present an idea as a dynamic and vital entity....

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...Who influences us in our lives? How do they influence us? Whom do we call an enemy? Whom do we call a friend? And why? Why do we have relationships at all? These are the questions Helena Harper eloquently asks in her collection of poems that examines the relationships in her own life. She has had to rethink her definition of 'enemy',...

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...The history of four terrorist organizations in the Balkans and a general introduction to terrorism and freedom fighting. Also includes essays about religious co-existence in the Balkans and about pathological narcissism as a precursor to terrorism....

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...uld arrive in our city, so clever as to be able to assume any character and imitate any object, and should propose to make a public display ... ... object, and should propose to make a public display of his talents and his productions, we shall pay him reverence as a sacred, admirab... ...and his productions, we shall pay him reverence as a sacred, admirable, and charming personage, but we shall tell him that in our state ther... ...ip, cramped on a seat in the bus, disconnection was making his mind jittery, soft, and rolling like a ball away from him. He tried sleeping but his m... ...ire. He recognized different buildings, and the curves of the street near a hard dirt tennis court. This was Ne Doc Dong. "Do you want me," said one,... ...It was spiritual and he liked it. Then he lusted after the young men. He had hardly looked at them lustfully while in America. Occasionally Korean wom... ...d and yet, dilettante that he was, he needed some beauty to exude out of his hardened mud. He needed reverberating notes to sink into the plaster cas... ...ich had the signature of the world as an evil place upon it , and caress his soft and lonely brain. Finally, the two or three-year-old parted one of t... ...re no louder than whispers, these whispers were cries of bewilderment albeit softer than agony since they could not be fully articulated for lack of a...

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...Reading age 10+ You might not know it but you, everyone you know and the world itself are all but figments in the imagination of a Storyteller on another planet. Each night foolish creatures called Bloons gather around him to listen to the latest crazy antics of Hoomanity. But it seems as ...

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... – if you don’t like it just write yourself a better part in the script!” and Gal, who showed me how magic happens. Copyright © Tom Glaister 2008 Al... ...e from the British Library ISBN 978-0-9560192-0-2 Paperback Printed, bound and distributed by Lightning Source Tom Glaister Tom Glaister Firecrest Pu... ... Tom Glaister Firecrest Publishing Acknowledgements Acknowledgements Bozo and the Storyteller f rst popped into my head in the house of Jiska in Ams... ...ould have evoked the sympathy of any Bloon, but the Storyteller said that hardly anyone bothered to look up at the skies these days. Instead, they h... ...ied to face up to what the Storyteller was saying. He began to think very hard and f ipped upside-down to sit on his head so that the blood would f ... ...and bring blue skies and sunshine wherever they go. Other deities f nd it hard to get out of bed in the morning, and when they do they bring a good ... ...ven’t had the chance to learn very much yet.’ Dr Bunsen leant forward and softened his voice to the extent that it sounded menacing. ‘Theo, if you c... ... starlight as it trickled down the cheese dunes. And the cheese! OK, this soft French stuff wasn’t bad, but back home a Bloon would think nothing of ... ...he crowd just jeered and spat. ‘The burning of the witches,’ Lou whispered softly. ‘They threw her in a river and, because she didn’t drown, they dec...