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Networked Remembrance

Excavating Buried Memories in the Railways beneath London and Berlin

by Samuel Merrill ...

Series Book 8 - Cultural Memories
Networked Remembrance is the first book to explore questions of urban memory within what are some of the most commonly experienced subterranean margins of the contemporary city: underground railways. Using London’s and Berlin’s underground railways as comparative case studies, this book reveals how social memories are spatially produced – through practices of cartography and toponymy, memory work ... Read more

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Networked Remembrance is the first book to explore questions of urban memory within what are some of the most commonly experienced subterranean margins of the contemporary city: underground railways. Using London’s and Berlin’s underground railways as comparative case studies, this book reveals how social memories are spatially produced – through practices of cartography and toponymy, memory work
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How Polarization Begets Polarization

Ideological Extremism in the US Congress

by Samuel Merrill III, Bernard Grofman, Thomas L. Brunell ...

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Extreme polarization in American politics is perhaps the most confounding political phenomenon of our time. This book binds together polarization in Congress and polarization in the electorate within an ever-expanding feedback loop. This loop is powered by the discipline exerted by the respective political parties on their Congressional members and district candidates and endorsed by the voters in ... Read more

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Extreme polarization in American politics is perhaps the most confounding political phenomenon of our time. This book binds together polarization in Congress and polarization in the electorate within an ever-expanding feedback loop. This loop is powered by the discipline exerted by the respective political parties on their Congressional members and district candidates and endorsed by the voters in
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The Republican Command

1897–1913

by Horace Samuel Merrill, Marion Galbraith Merrill ...

This powerful book reminds us of the enormous power the nation accords its political leaders and how in the significant period, 1897–1913, these leaders failed to meet their responsibilities. Their inadequacies, the authors feel, delayed the administration of justice for all citizens, neglected the Negro, and seriously impaired the future effectiveness of their own once viable, successful, and ... Read more

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This powerful book reminds us of the enormous power the nation accords its political leaders and how in the significant period, 1897–1913, these leaders failed to meet their responsibilities. Their inadequacies, the authors feel, delayed the administration of justice for all citizens, neglected the Negro, and seriously impaired the future effectiveness of their own once viable, successful, and
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How Polarization Begets Polarization

Ideological Extremism in the US Congress

by Samuel Merrill III, Bernard Grofman, Thomas L. Brunell ...

Extreme polarization in American politics--and especially in the U.S. Congress--is perhaps the most confounding political phenomenon of our time. This book binds together polarization in Congress and polarization in the electorate within an ever-expanding feedback loop. This loop is powered by the discipline exerted by the respective political parties on their Congressional members and district ... Read more

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Extreme polarization in American politics--and especially in the U.S. Congress--is perhaps the most confounding political phenomenon of our time. This book binds together polarization in Congress and polarization in the electorate within an ever-expanding feedback loop. This loop is powered by the discipline exerted by the respective political parties on their Congressional members and district
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Social Movements, Cultural Memory and Digital Media

Mobilising Mediated Remembrance

Edited by Samuel Merrill, Emily Keightley, Priska Daphi ...

Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
This collected volume is the first to study the interface between contemporary social movements, cultural memory and digital media. Establishing the digital memory work practices of social movements as an important area of research, it reveals how activists use digital media to lay claim to, circulate and curate cultural memories. Interdisciplinary in scope, its contributors address mobilizations ... Read more

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This collected volume is the first to study the interface between contemporary social movements, cultural memory and digital media. Establishing the digital memory work practices of social movements as an important area of research, it reveals how activists use digital media to lay claim to, circulate and curate cultural memories. Interdisciplinary in scope, its contributors address mobilizations
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The Myths and Fables of To-Day

Weather Lore, Charms and Household Signs

by Samuel Adams Drake ...

The stories a modern country tells itself and believes - the buried treasure, the vanished traveler, the sea serpent, the family curse - traced back to where they started. Drake wrote New England history and applied the same method to the legends of his own day. This edition is bound with a gallery of 55 plates after Rubens, Jordaens and Pellegrini, alongside five illustrations restored and ... Read more

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The stories a modern country tells itself and believes - the buried treasure, the vanished traveler, the sea serpent, the family curse - traced back to where they started. Drake wrote New England history and applied the same method to the legends of his own day. This edition is bound with a gallery of 55 plates after Rubens, Jordaens and Pellegrini, alongside five illustrations restored and
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The Household Book of Charms and Omens: Victorian Myths, Fables, and Folklore

by Samuel Adams Drake ...

Discover how the language of magic endures within the ordinary rituals of our daily life. In the origin of old sayings or the turning of a coin for luck, these are quiet reminders that even the most familiar acts still bear the trace of enchantment.The Household Book of Charms and Omens is a captivating exploration of the myths, superstitions, and domestic lore that bridge the boundary between the ... Read more

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Discover how the language of magic endures within the ordinary rituals of our daily life. In the origin of old sayings or the turning of a coin for luck, these are quiet reminders that even the most familiar acts still bear the trace of enchantment.The Household Book of Charms and Omens is a captivating exploration of the myths, superstitions, and domestic lore that bridge the boundary between the
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The Rise and Decline of Nations

Economic Growth, Stagflation, and Social Rigidities

by Mancur Olson ...

The years since World War II have seen rapid shifts in the relative positions of different countries and regions. Leading political economist Mancur Olson offers a new and compelling theory to explain these shifts in fortune and then tests his theory against evidence from many periods of history and many parts of the world.[T]his elegant, readable book. . . sets out to explain why economies ... Read more

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The years since World War II have seen rapid shifts in the relative positions of different countries and regions. Leading political economist Mancur Olson offers a new and compelling theory to explain these shifts in fortune and then tests his theory against evidence from many periods of history and many parts of the world.[T]his elegant, readable book. . . sets out to explain why economies
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Paradoxes of Media and Information Literacy

The Crisis of Information

by Jutta Haider, Olof Sundin ...

Paradoxes of Media and Information Literacy contributes to ongoing conversations about control of knowledge and different ways of knowing. It does so by analysing why media and information literacy (MIL) is proposed as a solution for addressing the current information crisis.Questioning why MIL is commonly believed to wield such power, the book throws into sharp relief several paradoxes that are ... Read more

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Paradoxes of Media and Information Literacy contributes to ongoing conversations about control of knowledge and different ways of knowing. It does so by analysing why media and information literacy (MIL) is proposed as a solution for addressing the current information crisis.Questioning why MIL is commonly believed to wield such power, the book throws into sharp relief several paradoxes that are
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Ambrose Bierce: The Complete Works

by Ambrose Bierce ...

This ebook contains Ambrose Bierce's complete works. This edition has been professionally formatted and contains several tables of contents. The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the beginning of that work, where you'll find a new TOC that lists all the ... Read more

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This ebook contains Ambrose Bierce's complete works. This edition has been professionally formatted and contains several tables of contents. The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the beginning of that work, where you'll find a new TOC that lists all the
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Presidents

Every Question Answered

by Carter Smith ...

From George Washington to Donald Trump, an entertaining and educational overview of the chief executives of the United States.The highest office of our country has been a challenging one to occupy, from the days of a newly founded nation to the global power seat it has become. Presidents: Every Question Answered reviews our leaders' time in office and how their distinct characteristics became ... Read more

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From George Washington to Donald Trump, an entertaining and educational overview of the chief executives of the United States.The highest office of our country has been a challenging one to occupy, from the days of a newly founded nation to the global power seat it has become. Presidents: Every Question Answered reviews our leaders' time in office and how their distinct characteristics became
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Mark Twain on Religion

by Mark Twain ...

a. Man the Machine. b. Personal Merit [The Old Man and the Young Man had been conversing. The Old Man had asserted that the human being is merely a machine, and nothing more. The Young Man objected, and asked him to go into particulars and furnish his reasons for his position.] Old Man. What are the materials of which a steam-engine is made? Young Man. Iron, steel, brass, white-metal, and so on. ... Read more

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a. Man the Machine. b. Personal Merit [The Old Man and the Young Man had been conversing. The Old Man had asserted that the human being is merely a machine, and nothing more. The Young Man objected, and asked him to go into particulars and furnish his reasons for his position.] Old Man. What are the materials of which a steam-engine is made? Young Man. Iron, steel, brass, white-metal, and so on.
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