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From Counterculture to Cyberculture

Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism

de Fred Turner ...

"In this unique, provocative work of cultural history, Turner teases apart the visions, myths, and rhetoric that have swept us into cyberspace." — Booklist (starred review)In the early 1960s, computers haunted the American popular imagination. Bleak tools of the cold war, they embodied the rigid organization and mechanical conformity that made the military-industrial complex possible. But by the ... Leer más

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"In this unique, provocative work of cultural history, Turner teases apart the visions, myths, and rhetoric that have swept us into cyberspace." — Booklist (starred review)In the early 1960s, computers haunted the American popular imagination. Bleak tools of the cold war, they embodied the rigid organization and mechanical conformity that made the military-industrial complex possible. But by the
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The Democratic Surround

Multimedia & American Liberalism from World War II to the Psychedelic Sixties

de Fred Turner ...

A "smart and fascinating" reassessment of postwar American culture and the politics of the 1960s from the author of From Counterculture to Cyberculture ( Reason Magazine).We tend to think of the sixties as an explosion of creative energy and freedom that arose in direct revolt against the social restraint and authoritarian hierarchy of the early Cold War years. Yet, as Fred Turner reveals in The ... Leer más

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A "smart and fascinating" reassessment of postwar American culture and the politics of the 1960s from the author of From Counterculture to Cyberculture ( Reason Magazine).We tend to think of the sixties as an explosion of creative energy and freedom that arose in direct revolt against the social restraint and authoritarian hierarchy of the early Cold War years. Yet, as Fred Turner reveals in The
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Aux sources de l'utopie numérique

De la contre-culture à la cyberculture, Stewart Brand, un homme d'influence

de Fred Turner ...

Stewart Brand occupe une place essentielle, celle du passeur qui au delà de la technique fait naître les rêves, les utopies et les justifications auto-réalisatrices. Depuis la fin des années soixante, il a construit et promu les mythes de l'informatique avec le Whole Earth Catalog, le magazine Wired ou le système de conférences électroniques du WELL et ses communautés virtuelles.« Aux sources de l ... Leer más

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Stewart Brand occupe une place essentielle, celle du passeur qui au delà de la technique fait naître les rêves, les utopies et les justifications auto-réalisatrices. Depuis la fin des années soixante, il a construit et promu les mythes de l'informatique avec le Whole Earth Catalog, le magazine Wired ou le système de conférences électroniques du WELL et ses communautés virtuelles.« Aux sources de l
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Escape from Zion

Mormon/Lds Zion

de Fred Turner ...

Western Historical Fiction Novel - (time frame) - Civil War Period of History - (event) - Mountain Meadows Massacre in Utah Mormon Territory.Nanci Cameron escapes crossing the Huricane Cliffs and the Grande Canyon to THE MOUNTAIN in Northern Arizona. ... Leer más

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Western Historical Fiction Novel - (time frame) - Civil War Period of History - (event) - Mountain Meadows Massacre in Utah Mormon Territory.Nanci Cameron escapes crossing the Huricane Cliffs and the Grande Canyon to THE MOUNTAIN in Northern Arizona.
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Chasing Dinosaurs

And Life's Meaning

de Fred Turner ...

It is approaching 100 years since the monkey trial - July 21, 1925. The trial was about our ancestors and the monkeys. The trial defaulted but monkeys seem to be the Winner and this trial conclusion still prevails with the evolution theory dominating out science text books. I dont know anybody that really believes in the theory of evolution ; but no convincing rebuttal has yet surfaced to force ... Leer más

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It is approaching 100 years since the monkey trial - July 21, 1925. The trial was about our ancestors and the monkeys. The trial defaulted but monkeys seem to be the Winner and this trial conclusion still prevails with the evolution theory dominating out science text books. I dont know anybody that really believes in the theory of evolution ; but no convincing rebuttal has yet surfaced to force
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Defining the Age

Daniel Bell, His Time and Ours

de Paul Starr, Julian E. Zelizer, Jenny Andersson, David A. Bell, Steven Brint, Stefan Eich, Michael Kazin, Jan-Werner Muller, Margaret O'Mara, Fred Turner ...

The sociologist Daniel Bell was an uncommonly acute observer of the structural forces transforming the United States and other advanced societies in the twentieth century. The titles of Bell’s major books—The End of Ideology (1960), The Coming of Post-Industrial Society (1973), and The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (1976)—became hotly debated frameworks for understanding the era when they ... Leer más

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The sociologist Daniel Bell was an uncommonly acute observer of the structural forces transforming the United States and other advanced societies in the twentieth century. The titles of Bell’s major books—The End of Ideology (1960), The Coming of Post-Industrial Society (1973), and The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (1976)—became hotly debated frameworks for understanding the era when they
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Antidemocracy in America

Truth, Power, and the Republic at Risk

de Michelle Wilde Anderson, Lisa Wade, Thomas J. Sugrue, Victor Pickard, Saskia Sassen, Alina Das, Oona A. Hathaway, Scott J. Shapiro, Richard Sennett, Pedro Noguera, Fred Turner, Craig Calhoun, Margaret Levi, Shamus Khan, Gretchen Blake, Patrick Sharkey, Linda Gordon, Richard Shrum, Philip Gorski, Tanya Marie Luhrmann, Ashley Farmer, Douglas S. Massey, Steven Lukes, Michelle Jackson, David B. Grusky, Daniel Aldana Cohen, Wendy Brown, Judith Butler, Professor of Sociology Michele Lamont, Jack Halberstam, Jefferson Cowie, William Julius Wilson, Harel Shapira ...

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On Election Day in 2016, it seemed unthinkable to many Americans that Donald Trump could become president of the United States. But the victories of the Obama administration hid from view fundamental problems deeply rooted in American social institutions and history. The election’s consequences drastically changed how Americans experience their country, especially for those threatened by the ... Leer más

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On Election Day in 2016, it seemed unthinkable to many Americans that Donald Trump could become president of the United States. But the victories of the Obama administration hid from view fundamental problems deeply rooted in American social institutions and history. The election’s consequences drastically changed how Americans experience their country, especially for those threatened by the
... Leer más
Defining the Age

Daniel Bell, His Time and Ours

de Paul Starr, Julian E. Zelizer, Jenny Andersson, David A. Bell, Steven Brint, Stefan Eich, Michael Kazin, Jan-Werner Muller, Margaret O'Mara, Fred Turner ...

The sociologist Daniel Bell was an uncommonly acute observer of the structural forces transforming the United States and other advanced societies in the twentieth century. The titles of Bell’s major books—The End of Ideology (1960), The Coming of Post-Industrial Society (1973), and The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (1976)—became hotly debated frameworks for understanding the era when they ... Leer más

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The sociologist Daniel Bell was an uncommonly acute observer of the structural forces transforming the United States and other advanced societies in the twentieth century. The titles of Bell’s major books—The End of Ideology (1960), The Coming of Post-Industrial Society (1973), and The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (1976)—became hotly debated frameworks for understanding the era when they
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Think in Public

A Public Books Reader

de Judith Butler, Fred Turner, Lilly Irani, Stacey Balkan, Imani Perry, Frances Negrón-Muntaner, Nathan Connolly, Matthew Engelke, Philip Gorski, Kim Phillips-Fein, Max Holleran, Najwa al-Qattan, Jeremy Adelman, Destin Jenkins, Andrew Perrin, Kieran Setiya, Shannon Mattern, Jill Lepore, Suzy Hansen, James Vernon, Lynn French, Salamishah Tillet, Matthew Clair, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Ursula K. Le Guin, John Plotz, Christopher Schaberg, Eli Rosenblatt, Barbara Cassin, Rebecca Falkoff, Haruo Shirane, Karl Ashoka Britto, Joseph Jonghyun Jeon, Marah Gubar, Anne E. Fernald, Namwali Serpell, Tess McNulty, Mark McGurl, Nicholas Dames, Jan Mieszkowski, Karen Dunak, Daegan Miller, John R. McNeill ...

Series series Public Books Series
Since 2012, Public Books has championed a new kind of community for intellectual engagement, discussion, and action. An online magazine that unites the best of the university with the openness of the internet, Public Books is where new ideas are debuted, old facts revived, and dangerous illusions dismantled. Here, young scholars present fresh thinking to audiences outside the academy, accomplished ... Leer más

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Since 2012, Public Books has championed a new kind of community for intellectual engagement, discussion, and action. An online magazine that unites the best of the university with the openness of the internet, Public Books is where new ideas are debuted, old facts revived, and dangerous illusions dismantled. Here, young scholars present fresh thinking to audiences outside the academy, accomplished
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Norma Jean

The Life of Marilyn Monroe

de Fred Lawrence Guiles ...

Series series Fred Lawrence Guiles Old Hollywood Collection
Marilyn Monroe remains the most provocative female legend of the twentieth century. What you may have known about her before was only the tip of the iceberg. For twenty years, the men and women who knew Marilyn best saw what they knew suppressed because certain important people were still living, and the tenor of the times prohibited frankness. Instead, rumors ballooned.This book finally sets the ... Leer más

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Marilyn Monroe remains the most provocative female legend of the twentieth century. What you may have known about her before was only the tip of the iceberg. For twenty years, the men and women who knew Marilyn best saw what they knew suppressed because certain important people were still living, and the tenor of the times prohibited frankness. Instead, rumors ballooned.This book finally sets the
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Rock on Film

The Movies That Rocked the Big Screen

de Fred Goodman ...

Series series Turner Classic Movies
For rock music and film buffs alike, this is the ultimate guide exploring the electrifying, entertaining, and often daring marriage of rock & roll and cinema**.**When the use of Bill Haley’s “Rock Around the Clock” turned 1955’s Blackboard Jungle into a teen sensation and a box-office smash, it proved the opening shot in a cinematic and cultural revolution. Starting with Elvis Presley and the ... Leer más

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For rock music and film buffs alike, this is the ultimate guide exploring the electrifying, entertaining, and often daring marriage of rock & roll and cinema**.**When the use of Bill Haley’s “Rock Around the Clock” turned 1955’s Blackboard Jungle into a teen sensation and a box-office smash, it proved the opening shot in a cinematic and cultural revolution. Starting with Elvis Presley and the
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99 Classic Thriller Short Stories:

Works by Philip K. Dick, Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Conan Doyle, H.G. Wells, Wilkie Collins...and many more !

de Edgar Allan Poe, Alexander Pushkin, Algernon Blackwood, Arthur Conan Doyle, Arthur O. Friel, Arthur Quiller-Couch, Arthur Stringer, Arthur Train, Baroness Orczy, Barry Pain, Charles E. Van Loan, Cleveland Moffett, Compton Mackenzie, Cy Warman, E.Nesbit, E.W. Hornung, Edgar Wallace, Edward S. Ellis, Ethel Turner, Eugene Manlove Rhodes, Frank L. Packard, Fred M. White, G.B. Lancaster, George Newnes, Gilbert Parker, Guy Boothby, H. Bedford-Jones, H.A. Lamb, H.C. Bailey, H.G. Wells, Hapsburg Liebe, Harold Bindloss, Harold Titus, Harvey J. O'Higgins, Henry C. Rowland, Jack Holt, James Aquila Kempster, James B. Connolly, Josephine Dodge Daskam, Mary Heaton Vorse, Mary Shipman Raymond Andrews, Mrs. Belloc Lowndes, O.Henry, Philip K. Dick, Rafael Sabatini, Sax Rohmer, Stewart Edward White, W.W. Jacobs, Wadsworth Camp, Wilbur Daniel Steele, Wilkie Collins, William McLeod Raine, Readym Anthologies ...

Series Libro 1 - 99 Readym Anthologies
CONTENTS: ALEXANDER PUSHKIN 1. The Queen of Spades ALGERNON BLACKWOOD: 2. Confession 3. S. O. S. 4. The Wings of Horus ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE 5. B. 24 ARTHUR O. FRIEL: 6. The Spider 7. The Vulture ARTHUR QUILLER-COUCH: 8. Statement of Gabriel Foot, Highwayman 9. The Affair of Bleakirk-on-Sands 10. The Countess of Bellarmine ARTHUR STRINGER: 11. The Adolescence of Number Eighty-Seven 12. The Button ... Leer más

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CONTENTS: ALEXANDER PUSHKIN 1. The Queen of Spades ALGERNON BLACKWOOD: 2. Confession 3. S. O. S. 4. The Wings of Horus ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE 5. B. 24 ARTHUR O. FRIEL: 6. The Spider 7. The Vulture ARTHUR QUILLER-COUCH: 8. Statement of Gabriel Foot, Highwayman 9. The Affair of Bleakirk-on-Sands 10. The Countess of Bellarmine ARTHUR STRINGER: 11. The Adolescence of Number Eighty-Seven 12. The Button
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