Authors: Gale Group ,Neil Barron

Description: This volume contains descriptions of 1,245 books in nine fiction genres, including author or editor's name, publication information, story type, major characters, setting, plot summary, and more.

Langue: en

Publisher: Gale Cengage

Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines

Authors: Angus Croll

Description: What if William Shakespeare were asked to generate the Fibonacci series or Jane Austen had to write a factorial program? In If Hemingway Wrote JavaScript, author Angus Croll imagines short JavaScript programs as written by famous wordsmiths. The result is a peculiar and charming combination of prose, poetry, and programming. The best authors are those who obsess about language—and the same goes for JavaScript developers. To master either craft, you must experiment with language to develop your own style, your own idioms, and your own expressions. To that end, If Hemingway Wrote JavaScript playfully bridges the worlds of programming and literature for the literary geek in all of us. Featuring original artwork by Miran Lipova?a.

Langue: en

Publisher: No Starch Press

Categories: Computers

Authors: Jerome de Groot

Description: Consuming History examines how history works in contemporary popular culture. Analysing a wide range of cultural entities from computer games to daytime television, it investigates the ways in which society consumes history and how a reading of this consumption can help us understand popular culture and issues of representation. In this second edition, Jerome de Groot probes how museums have responded to the heritage debate and how new technologies from online game-playing to internet genealogy have brought about a shift in access to history, discussing the often conflicted relationship between ‘public’ and academic history and raising important questions about the theory and practice of history as a discipline. Fully revised throughout with up-to-date examples from sources such as Wolf Hall, Game of Thrones and 12 Years a Slave, this edition also includes new sections on the historical novel, gaming, social media and genealogy. It considers new, ground-breaking texts and media such as YouTube in addition to entities and practices, such as re-enactment, that have been underrepresented in historical discussion thus far. Engaging with a broad spectrum of source material and comparing the experiences of the UK, the USA, France and Germany as well as exploring more global trends, Consuming History offers an essential path through the debates for readers interested in history, cultural studies and the media.

Langue: en

Publisher: Routledge

Categories: History

Authors: Bob Batchelor

Description: Chronicles the history of popular culture in America from 1990 through the beginning of the twenty-first century, and discusses advertising, architecture, print media, entertainment, fashion, food, music, sports, art, and more; and includes time line for each decade, along with classroom activities for teachers and students.

Langue: en

Publisher: Greenwood

Categories: History

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Categories: Television programs

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Description: Includes, beginning Sept. 15, 1954 (and on the 15th of each month, Sept.-May) a special section: School library journal, ISSN 0000-0035, (called Junior libraries, 1954-May 1961). Also issued separately.

Langue: en

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Categories: Libraries

Authors: Library of Congress. National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped

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Categories: Blind

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Description: The aim of Current Biography Yearbook is to provide reference librarians, students, and researchers with objective, accurate, and well-documented biographical articles about living leaders in all fields of human accomplishment. Whenever feasible, obituary notices appear for persons whose biographies have been published in Current Biography. - Publisher.

Langue: en

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Categories: Biography

Authors: Geneviève Joutard ,Philippe Joutard

Description: Entre histoire et actualité, témoignages et documents, deux historiens français retracent l'histoire de la francophilie aux Etats-Unis et donnent la parole aux Américains d'hier et d'aujourd'hui, célèbres ou inconnus, épris de la France.

Langue: fr

Publisher: Actes Sud

Categories: France

Authors: Ralf Klausnitzer

Description: Verschwörungstheorien faszinieren. Schon im 17. Jahrhundert zirkulieren Darstellungen des vermeintlich omnipotenten Jesuitenordens und seiner globalen Unternehmungen. Die Publizistik des 18. Jahrhunderts observiert die zahlreichen Arkangesellschaften und fahndet nach dem geheimen Gang menschlicher Machinationen. ,,Unbekannte Obere" sind in den Zeitschriften der Aufklärung scheinbar omnipräsent; sie lenken die schlechten Geschicke oder planen den Umsturz der bestehenden Ordnung. Zugleich inspirieren konspirationistische Projektionen eine neuartige, von didaktischen und religiösen Zwecken emanzipierte Literatur: Friedrich Schillers erfolgreicher Fortsetzungsroman Der Geisterseher entdeckt das Faszinationspotential des mehrfach dimensionierten Scheins und modelliert am Beispiel des von Verschwörern manipulierten Individuums das brisante Problem von Selbst- und Fremdbestimmung. Goethes ,,Bildungsroman" Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre verweist mit dem Textelement der Turmgesellschaft subtil auf Praktiken des Illuminatenordens und exponiert die ,,geheime Lenkung" zu einem zentralen Handlungselement. Karl Gutzkows 1850/51 veröffentlichter ,,Feuilleton-Roman" Die Ritter vom Geiste schildert die Überwindung von Verschwörungsphantasien und führt zugleich jene ,,Gespenster des Communismus" in die Literatur ein, die im Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei von Karl Marx und Friedrich Engels zwei Jahre zuvor theoretisch behandelt wurden. Die Geschichte konspirationistischer Vorstellungen ist ein brisantes, in seinen Untergründen und Verzweigungen jedoch erst punktuell erforschtes Kapitel der deutschen und europäischen Kulturgeschichte. Die vorliegende Untersuchung rekonstruiert erstmals umfassend und auf breiter Materialbasis die interne Ausgestaltung von Verschwörungsszenarien zwischen 1750 und 1850.

Langue: de

Publisher: de Gruyter

Categories: History

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Categories: Celebrities

Authors: Abby H. P. Werlock

Description: Praise for the print edition:" ... no other reference work on American fiction brings together such an array of authors and texts as this.

Langue: en

Publisher: Infobase Learning

Categories: American fiction

Authors: Andrew F. Gregory ,Christopher Mark Tuckett ,Tobias Nicklas

Description: The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Apocrypha addresses issues and themes that arise in the study of early Christian apocryphal literature. It discusses key texts including the Gospel of Thomas, the Gospel of Mary, the Gospel of Peter, letters attributed to Paul, Peter, and Jesus, and acts and apocalypses written about or attributed to different apostles. Part One consists of authoritative surveys of the main branches of apocryphal literature (gospels, acts, epistles, apocalypses, and related literature) and Part Two considers key issues that they raise. These include their contribution to our understanding of developing theological understandings of Jesus, the apostles and other important figures such as Mary. It also addresses the value of these texts as potential sources for knowledge of the historical Jesus, and for debates about Jewish-Christian relations, the practice of Christian worship, and developing understandings of asceticism, gender and sexuality, etc. The volume also considers questions such as which ancient readers read early Christian apocrypha, their place in Christian spirituality, and their place in contemporary popular culture and contemporary theological discourse.

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