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Living in the Simulacra

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Baudrillard

by Mark Heisten, Kathleen M. Ryan, David Staton ...

What is real in the twenty-first century, and how humans can navigate this shifting world.Despite a twenty-first-century plethora of images and our collective understanding that digital tools may alter the truth, human beings have a strong belief in the truth of the image: “pix or it didn’t happen.” But what does it mean when the image itself is fabricated? Or when AI is used to create audio or ... Read more

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What is real in the twenty-first century, and how humans can navigate this shifting world.Despite a twenty-first-century plethora of images and our collective understanding that digital tools may alter the truth, human beings have a strong belief in the truth of the image: “pix or it didn’t happen.” But what does it mean when the image itself is fabricated? Or when AI is used to create audio or
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Legends of Indie Comics: Words Only, Volume 2

by Garth Ennis, Howard Chaykin, Colleen Doran, Walter Simonson, Mike Baron, Bill Willingham, Steven Grant, John K. Snyder III, Mark Wheatley, Mark Verheiden, Henry Vogel, Ty Templeton, Joe Staton, Jan Strnad, David Quinn, James Artimus Owen, Roberta Gregory, Gary Carlson, Vaughn Bode, Bill Black, Donna Barr ...

Series Book 2 - Legends of Indie Comics: Words Only
Just imagine! A full house of top indie comics characters, reunited in this second volume of prose fiction tales by the genius creators who first breathed life into them in the 1980s and beyond! Whether you lovingly remember these heroes and creators or are meeting them for the first time, you are in for a wild ride with this star-studded cast. They set the industry on fire in comics from indie ... Read more

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Just imagine! A full house of top indie comics characters, reunited in this second volume of prose fiction tales by the genius creators who first breathed life into them in the 1980s and beyond! Whether you lovingly remember these heroes and creators or are meeting them for the first time, you are in for a wild ride with this star-studded cast. They set the industry on fire in comics from indie
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Environmental Communication and the Wild

Image, Industry, and Technology

by Christopher Lee Adamczyk, Hugo Picado de Almeida, Dr. Phillip D. Duncan, Dr. Adalberto Fernandes, Dr. JV Fuqua, Dr. Brandon Robert Green, Evan R. Jones, Minos-Athanasios Karyotakis, Dr. Nii Mahliaire, Dr. Ryan P. McCollough0, Derek Moscato1, Dr. Zak Roman3, Kathleen M. Ryan4, Casey R. Schmitt5, Dr. Kailan Sindelar6, David Staton7, Janet Wasko8, Stephen B. Crofts Wiley9 ...

This edited volume brings together scholars, teachers, journalists, activists, and filmmakers engaged in environmental communication and media studies to explore the constructions of primitive and wild spaces in our cultural creations of film, television, advertising, social media, infrastructure, and new technologies, among other media. Contributors present close analyses of a number of examples ... Read more

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This edited volume brings together scholars, teachers, journalists, activists, and filmmakers engaged in environmental communication and media studies to explore the constructions of primitive and wild spaces in our cultural creations of film, television, advertising, social media, infrastructure, and new technologies, among other media. Contributors present close analyses of a number of examples
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Persevering during the Pandemic

Stories of Resilience, Creativity, and Connection

by Deborah A. Macey, Michelle Napierski-Prancl, Lauren E. Burrow, Theresa Conefrey, Alicia Corts, Chrissy Cross, Izabela Derda, Jan DeWaters, Mary P. Erickson0, Heather J. Hether1, Lauren Kelly2, Matthew J. Manierre3, Derek Moscato4, Laurie E. Naranch5, Alana M. Nicastro6, Gwendelyn S. Nisbett7, Heather K. Olson Beal8, Newly Paul9, Seema Rivera0, Edith Ritt-Coulter1, Sarah Royal2, Stephanie G. Schartel Dunn3, Elizabeth L. Spradley4, Martha Whalen5, Shelly M. Valdez6, David Staton8, Sarah S. LeBlanc9 ...

Series series Bloomsbury Studies in Communication and Storytelling
This edited collection highlights how people connected with friends and family, students and colleagues, and leaders and communities, in their quest to persevere during the pandemic. The chapters describe how people enjoyed their passions for the arts in new and unexpected ways, given the restrictions of COVID-19 safety protocols, and how scripted and reality television programming helped them ... Read more

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This edited collection highlights how people connected with friends and family, students and colleagues, and leaders and communities, in their quest to persevere during the pandemic. The chapters describe how people enjoyed their passions for the arts in new and unexpected ways, given the restrictions of COVID-19 safety protocols, and how scripted and reality television programming helped them
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Multiphysics Simulation by Design for Electrical Machines, Power Electronics and Drives

by Frede Blaabjerg, Marius Rosu, Ping Zhou, Dingsheng Lin, Dan M. Ionel, Mircea Popescu, Vandana Rallabandi, David Staton ...

Series series IEEE Press Series on Power and Energy Systems
Presents applied theory and advanced simulation techniques for electric machines and drivesThis book combines the knowledge of experts from both academia and the software industry to present theories of multiphysics simulation by design for electrical machines, power electronics, and drives. The comprehensive design approach described within supports new applications required by technologies ... Read more

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Presents applied theory and advanced simulation techniques for electric machines and drivesThis book combines the knowledge of experts from both academia and the software industry to present theories of multiphysics simulation by design for electrical machines, power electronics, and drives. The comprehensive design approach described within supports new applications required by technologies
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Needs Assessment

by David Royse, Michele Staton-Tindall, Karen Badger, J. Matthew Webster ...

Series series Pocket Guide to Social Work Research Methods
In today's rapidly changing world, new social and human service problems emerge constantly, and in order to make good use of resources that are often limited, social service agencies must ensure that their services are truly needed. Needs assessments provide a baseline against which later results can be compared, and may also assist policy-makers in recognizing new trends or problems on the ... Read more

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In today's rapidly changing world, new social and human service problems emerge constantly, and in order to make good use of resources that are often limited, social service agencies must ensure that their services are truly needed. Needs assessments provide a baseline against which later results can be compared, and may also assist policy-makers in recognizing new trends or problems on the
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Television and the Self

Knowledge, Identity, and Media Representation

by Amanda S. McClain, Brian McKernan, A. Bowdoin Van Riper, Tanja N. Aho, Andrée E. C. Betancourt, Amy C. Duvall, Jennifer G. Hall, Susan G. Kahlenberg, Marcelina Piotrowski, Leah A. Rosenberg, Ellen E. Stiffler, Lynne M. Webb, Robin Redmond Wright, Jingsi Christina Wu, David Staton, Michael Johnson Jr., Cynthia J. Miller ...

Sitting prominently at the hearth of our homes, television serves as a voice of our modern time. Given our media-saturated society and television’s prominent voice and place in the home, it is likely we learn about our society and selves through these stories. These narratives are not simply entertainment, but powerful socializing agents that shape and reflect the world and our role in it. ... Read more

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Sitting prominently at the hearth of our homes, television serves as a voice of our modern time. Given our media-saturated society and television’s prominent voice and place in the home, it is likely we learn about our society and selves through these stories. These narratives are not simply entertainment, but powerful socializing agents that shape and reflect the world and our role in it.
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Friends, Lovers, Co-Workers, and Community

Everything I Know about Relationships I Learned from Television

by Kathleen M. Ryan, Noah J. Springer, Mary Erickson, Lauren Bratslavsky, Elizabeth L. Cohen, Teri Del Rosso, Erika Engstrom0, Fran Hassencahl1, Alexander L. Lancaster2, Kathryn L. Lookadoo3, Sabrina K. Pasztor4, Siobhan E. Smith5, John Shrader6, William David Hart7, Norman C.H. Wong8, Jane Marcellus9, David Staton0, Jan Whitt1 ...

Series series Bloomsbury Studies in Communication and Storytelling
Friends, Lovers, Co-Workers, and Community analyzes how television narratives form the first decade of the twenty-first century are powerful socializing agents which both define and limit the types of acceptable interpersonal relationships between co-workers, friends, romantic partners, family members, communities, and nations. This book is written by a diverse group of scholars who used a variety ... Read more

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Friends, Lovers, Co-Workers, and Community analyzes how television narratives form the first decade of the twenty-first century are powerful socializing agents which both define and limit the types of acceptable interpersonal relationships between co-workers, friends, romantic partners, family members, communities, and nations. This book is written by a diverse group of scholars who used a variety
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Interactive Documentary

Decolonizing Practice-Based Research

Edited by Kathleen M. Ryan, David Staton ...

Interactive documentary is still an emerging field that eludes concise definitions or boundaries. Grounded in practice-based research, this collection seeks to expand the sometimes exclusionary field, giving voice to scholars and practitioners working outside the margins.Editors Kathleen M. Ryan and David Staton have curated a collection of chapters written by a global cohort of scholars to ... Read more

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Interactive documentary is still an emerging field that eludes concise definitions or boundaries. Grounded in practice-based research, this collection seeks to expand the sometimes exclusionary field, giving voice to scholars and practitioners working outside the margins.Editors Kathleen M. Ryan and David Staton have curated a collection of chapters written by a global cohort of scholars to
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Varieties of Democracy

Measuring Two Centuries of Political Change

by Michael Coppedge, John Gerring, Adam Glynn, Carl Henrik Knutsen, Staffan I. Lindberg, Daniel Pemstein, Brigitte Seim, Svend-Erik Skaaning, Jan Teorell ...

Varieties of Democracy is the essential user's guide to The Varieties of Democracy project (V-Dem), one of the most ambitious data collection efforts in comparative politics. This global research collaboration sparked a dramatic change in how we study the nature, causes, and consequences of democracy. This book is ambitious in scope: more than a reference guide, it raises standards for causal ... Read more

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Varieties of Democracy is the essential user's guide to The Varieties of Democracy project (V-Dem), one of the most ambitious data collection efforts in comparative politics. This global research collaboration sparked a dramatic change in how we study the nature, causes, and consequences of democracy. This book is ambitious in scope: more than a reference guide, it raises standards for causal
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Again, Dangerous Visions

by Harlan Ellison, Harlan Ellison, Ursula K. Le Guin, Kate Wilhelm, Ben Bova, Gene Wolfe, Ray Bradbury, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Piers Anthony, Dean Koontz0, James Tiptree1, various authors2 ...

Series series The Dangerous Visions Series
A follow-up to the original groundbreaking collection, Again, Dangerous Visions features forty-six short stories from giants of the science fiction genre.Grand Master of the Science Fiction Writers of America and winner of countless awards—including the Hugo, Nebula, Edgar Allan Poe, and Bram Stoker—Harlan Ellison proved once more that he was both unpredictable and irrepressible in this second ... Read more

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A follow-up to the original groundbreaking collection, Again, Dangerous Visions features forty-six short stories from giants of the science fiction genre.Grand Master of the Science Fiction Writers of America and winner of countless awards—including the Hugo, Nebula, Edgar Allan Poe, and Bram Stoker—Harlan Ellison proved once more that he was both unpredictable and irrepressible in this second
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Saving Time

Discovering a Life Beyond Productivity Culture

by Jenny Odell ...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The visionary author of How to Do Nothing returns to challenge the notion that ‘time is money.’ . . . Expect to feel changed by this radical way of seeing.”—Esquire“One of the most important books I’ve read in my life.”—Ed Yong, author of An Immense WorldA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Harper’s Bazaar, Esquire, Chicago Public Library, Electric Lit</... ... Read more

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The visionary author of How to Do Nothing returns to challenge the notion that ‘time is money.’ . . . Expect to feel changed by this radical way of seeing.”—Esquire“One of the most important books I’ve read in my life.”—Ed Yong, author of An Immense WorldA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Harper’s Bazaar, Esquire, Chicago Public Library, Electric Lit</...
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