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Le livre de mes livres

Le livre de mes livres

Autor: Luc A. Granger

Número de Páginas: 250

Ce livre raconte l'histoire de mes lectures, celles qui m'ont formé, celles qui m'ont informé, celles qui m'ont distrait, celles qui m'ont amusé, celles qui m'ont ému, celles qui m'ont sauvé la vie, celles qui m'ont passionné au point qu'encore aujourd'hui, je les relis avec intérêt, certaines pour une dixième fois peut-être. Plusieurs de ces lectures sont devenues instantanément mes amies et le sont resté pour mon plus grand bonheur... Bonheur que je vous livre et partage aujourd'hui.

Professional Web APIs with PHP

Professional Web APIs with PHP

Autor: Paul Reinheimer

Número de Páginas: 379

Offers hands-on tips and numerous code examples that show Web developers how to leverage content and feeds from today's top Web sites-including Google, eBay, PayPal, Amazon, Yahoo!, and FedEx Introduces APIs (Application Program Interfaces) in general and uses real-world examples that show how to produce and document them Explains how to use the popular scripting language PHP to create APIs that interact with unrelated applications over the Web Examples take readers through each stage of the API process, from basic test implementations to integration with existing sites

Da Vinci code de Dan Brown (Fiche de lecture)

Da Vinci code de Dan Brown (Fiche de lecture)

Autor: Lepetitlitteraire, , Nathalie Roland

Número de Páginas: 29

Décryptez Da Vinci code de Dan Brown avec l’analyse du PetitLitteraire.fr ! Que faut-il retenir du Da Vinci code, le thriller ésotérique au succès planétaire ? Retrouvez tout ce que vous devez savoir sur cette œuvre dans une fiche de lecture complète et détaillée. Vous trouverez notamment dans cette fiche : • Un résumé complet • Une présentation des personnages principaux tels que Robert Langdon et Sophie Neveu • Une analyse des spécificités de l’œuvre : l'artiste au coeur de l'oeuvre, un thriller ésotérique, quelques repères scientifiques, religieux et ésotériques Une analyse de référence pour comprendre rapidement le sens de l’œuvre. LE MOT DE L’ÉDITEUR : « Dans cette nouvelle édition de notre analyse du Da Vinci code (2014), avec Nathalie Roland, nous fournissons des pistes pour décoder ce best-seller de la littérature américaine. Notre analyse permet de faire rapidement le tour de l’œuvre et d’aller au-delà des clichés. » Stéphanie FELTEN À propos de la collection LePetitLitteraire.fr : Plébiscité tant par les passionnés de littérature que par les lycéens, LePetitLittéraire.fr est considéré comme une référence en...

Dan Brown: Author of the Da Vinci Code

Dan Brown: Author of the Da Vinci Code

Autor: Laura Malfere

Número de Páginas: 24

ABOUT THE BOOK Anybody who takes the time to stay up to date with popular literature will have heard of the author Dan Brown, but not everyone is aware of who he is and what he does. As the famous author of the thriller series that included The Da Vinci Code, Brown has produced masterpieces that stand on the shelves of novel lovers everywhere. As well as authoring several popular books, Brown is well known for promoting an alternative approach to Christianity. Religion is a theme that is featured throughout the books he writes, sometimes in a way that has drawn in criticism from theologians. Despite this, Brown has declared in several interviews that his life is one big spiritual journey that he feels will never end. EXCERPT FROM THE BOOK Brown graduated from Phillips Exeter in 1982, at which point he went on to continue his education at Amherst College. Brown's time there saw him became a successful college squash player, as well as a member of the Psi Upsilon fraternity. It was not until Brown chose to spend a year of his education in Seville, Spain, that he began focusing on the works of Leonardo da Vinci, an interest that led to the main themes in his books. Brown later...

L'imaginaire du complot mondial

L'imaginaire du complot mondial

Autor: Pierre-andré Taguieff

Número de Páginas: 175

Nous vivons une époque où l'imaginaire du complot mondial semble se confondre avec l'imaginaire politique tel qu'il s'est mondialisé. On ne saurait s'étonner de constater que la croyance au complot donne l'illusion d'expliquer ou de pouvoir expliquer certains événements paraissant incompréhensibles ou inintelligibles. C'est là sa fonction principale. C'est la grande « utilité » de ce qu'il est convenu d'appeler la « théorie du complot » (conspiracy theory) : répondre à une demande. Croire au complot, c'est se mettre en mesure de donner du sens à ce qui en paraît dépourvu, et qui inquiète. Or, avec l'évolution chaotisante liée à la mondialisation, l'obscurité semble s'accroître avec l'incertitude, laquelle provoque le désarroi et nourrit des angoisses. D'où l'intensification de la demande de sens, et l'extension du domaine du complot. Une extension indéfinie, sans terme assignable. Car le soupçon de complot est fabriqué avec ce que Tocqueville appelait les « gros lieux communs qui mènent le monde. »

Des Templiers au Prieuré de Sion

Des Templiers au Prieuré de Sion

Autor: Jean-patrick Pourtal

Número de Páginas: 165

La dissolution de l’ordre du Temple et la persécution des Templiers au xive siècle continuent de marquer les esprits. Pourquoi le roi Philippe le Bel et le pape Clément V se sont-ils acharnés à les détruire ? Quels secrets les Templiers pouvaient-ils détenir pour qu’ils deviennent une menace ? Comment les Templiers ont-ils pu échapper aux persécutions au fil des siècles et sauvegarder leur incroyable secret ? Avec ce livre, prolongeant le Da Vinci Code qui révélait l’existence de l’ordre du Prieuré de Sion et qui a marqué le monde entier, Jean-Patrick Pourtal nous entraîne dans une incroyable enquête d’investigation s’étalant sur plus de sept siècles. L’auteur développe ses hypothèses sur les implications historiques des Templiers, mêlant dynastie royale et messages cachés. Il retourne sur des lieux mythiques tels Arginy, Gisors et Rennes-le-Château, et part à la rencontre de personnages qui ont servi à porter les tentatives de résurgences templières.

La foire aux illuminés

La foire aux illuminés

Autor: Pierre-andré Taguieff

Número de Páginas: 574

Qu'y a-t-il de commun entre les romans à énigmes de Dan Brown, thrillers ésotérico-religieux devenus best-sellers internationaux, et la masse des pamphlets d'extrême droite dénonçant des complots organisés par des puissances occultes ou semi-occultes visant à installer un « gouvernement mondial » ? Quelles croyances et quelles passions partagent les amateurs de la série télévisée X-Files, les fans de films, de BD ou de jeux vidéo mettant en scène des sociétés secrètes ou des invasions d'extraterrestres, les consommateurs immodérés de nourritures « ésotériques » en tout genre, et les demi-savants peuplant le monde des « historiens alternatifs », dénonciateurs fanatiques du « complot mondial » ? En fournissant des éléments de réponse à ces questions, Pierre-André Taguieff nous invite à explorer la nouvelle culture populaire massivement diffusée sur Internet, ce qu'il faut bien appeler le bazar de l'ésotérisme. Il part d'un constat : les fictions signées Dan Brown, parmi de nombreuses autres n'ayant pas rencontré un succès comparable, puisent dans le même fonds symbolique qu'une multitude de pamphlets conspirationnistes publiés depuis le...

Digital Telephony and Law Enforcement Access to Advanced Telecommunications Technologies and Services

Digital Telephony and Law Enforcement Access to Advanced Telecommunications Technologies and Services

Autor: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee On The Judiciary. Subcommittee On Technology And The Law

Número de Páginas: 300
Mediaphilism

Mediaphilism

Autor: Ryan Somma

Número de Páginas: 478

Collected here are the best of 10 years' worth of essays from ideonexus.com reviewing films, books, games, and culture from the perspective of a nerd in love with science and wonder.

Data Warehousing and Analytics

Data Warehousing and Analytics

Autor: David Taniar , Wenny Rahayu

Número de Páginas: 642

This textbook covers all central activities of data warehousing and analytics, including transformation, preparation, aggregation, integration, and analysis. It discusses the full spectrum of the journey of data from operational/transactional databases, to data warehouses and data analytics; as well as the role that data warehousing plays in the data processing lifecycle. It also explains in detail how data warehouses may be used by data engines, such as BI tools and analytics algorithms to produce reports, dashboards, patterns, and other useful information and knowledge. The book is divided into six parts, ranging from the basics of data warehouse design (Part I - Star Schema, Part II - Snowflake and Bridge Tables, Part III - Advanced Dimensions, and Part IV - Multi-Fact and Multi-Input), to more advanced data warehousing concepts (Part V - Data Warehousing and Evolution) and data analytics (Part VI - OLAP, BI, and Analytics). This textbook approaches data warehousing from the case study angle. Each chapter presents one or more case studies to thoroughly explain the concepts and has different levels of difficulty, hence learning is incremental. In addition, every chapter has also ...

Listen

Listen

Autor: Michel Faber

Número de Páginas: 510

"I'm not here to change your mind about Dusty Springfield or Shostakovich or Tupac Shakur or synthpop. I'm here to change your mind about your mind." There are countless books on music with much analysis given to musicians, bands, eras and/or genres. But rarely does a book delve into what's going on inside us when we listen. Michel Faber explores two big questions: how do we listen to music and why do we listen to music? To answer these questions, he considers a range of factors, which includes age, illness, the notion of "cool," commerce, the dichotomy between "good" and "bad" taste and much more. From the award-winning author of The Crimson Petal and the White and Under the Skin, this idiosyncratic and philosophical book reflects Michel Faber's lifelong obsession with music of all kinds. Listen will change your relationship with the heard world.

Pomona Queen

Pomona Queen

Autor: Kem Nunn

Número de Páginas: 242

Lost in a southern California barrio, Earl Dean has a hard time believing there is one living soul in this foul-smelling night who wants to be found by a salesman hawking vacuum cleaners. What awaits Earl in the faint flow of a distant porch light is the world of Dan Brown... Dan Brown’s brother has been killed. Dan has plans to handle the revenge, and Earl has strayed into the crossfire. Dan is the last of the road warriors, a murderous, drug-crazed biker who only thinks of laws as things to break. But more than Buddy Brown lies dead in the moonlight. From a time when the valley was the hub of the nation’s citrus industry to the defoliated sorry mess of today, it has come down to one fact: Earl Dean, broken-hearted vacuum cleaner salesman, owns the last single acre of orange groves in Pomona. And like his great-grandfather before him, he must come forward to claim his inheritance.

The Book Publishing Industry

The Book Publishing Industry

Autor: Albert N. Greco , Jim Milliot , Robert M. Wharton

Número de Páginas: 502

This volume provides an innovative and detailed overview of the book publishing industry, including details about the business processes in editorial, marketing and production. The work explores the complex issues that occur every day in the publishing industry.

The American Popular Novel After World War II

The American Popular Novel After World War II

Autor: David Willbern

Número de Páginas: 265

Through the perspectives of selected best-selling novels from the end of World War II to the end of the 20th century--including The Catcher in the Rye, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Godfather, Jaws, Beloved, The Silence of the Lambs, and Jurassic Park--this book examines the crucial issues the U.S. was experiencing during those decades. These novels represent the voices of popular conversations, as Americans considered issues of family, class, racism and sexism, feminism, economic ambition, sexual violence, war, law, religion and science. Through the windows of fiction, the book surveys the Cold War and anti-communism, the prefeminist era of the 1950s and the sexual revolution of the 1970s, forms of corporate power in the 1960s and 1980s, the traumatic legacies of slavery and Vietnam, the American fascination with lawyers, cops and criminals, alternate styles of romance in the era of late capitalism, our abiding distrust of science, and our steadfast wonder about the Great Mysteries.

The Great Jewish Mystery

The Great Jewish Mystery

Autor: Dalet Alan

Número de Páginas: 170

Grab a highlighter and prepare your heart for The Great Jewish Mystery. The time has come to expose friends, family, and particularly our children to this mystery, which will eventually impact the world. The Middle East receives global coverage daily, yet this mysterious topic is never discussed. Worldwide conspiracies now exist to deny efforts that will uncover this mystery. Therefore, the three major religionsJudaism, Christianity, and Islamcan no longer sit on the sidelines and avoid tough questions from this book. In addition, this Jewish mystery briefly combats the fallacies of The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown. Brown clearly attacked what the Jews consider sacred and made erroneous claims about the Dead Sea Scrolls. This book seeks to encourage millions not to be intimidated by man-made traditions or spiritual challenges. Finally, this book is a phenomenal quick reference guide to the best-kept Middle East secret. Come, let us reason together!

Historia de la Fe Cristiana, de la Biblia & la Iglesia

Historia de la Fe Cristiana, de la Biblia & la Iglesia

Autor: Luis A. Portillo

Número de Páginas: 464

Con los innumerables medios de informacion en la actualidad, es imperdonable que un creyente no conozca, por lo menos lo mas basico, sobre los pasados 20 siglos de historia de la Fe Cristiana. El proposito de este libro es educar al creyente en los temas de Dios, Jesus, la historia de la Iglesia, la Biblia y el origen de ciertas creencias; sin compromisos a ninguna congregacion o doctrina. Entre los temas que se exponen este libro estan la veneracion a la Virgen Maria, Santos, la observancia al sabado, hablar en lenguas, la Trinidad, donacion de sangre, el aborto, el diezmo, muchos mas, asi como resumenes de los libros de la Biblia. Es muy importante conocer de estos temas, aunque no se este de acuerdo con ellos, para asi hacer una mejor defensa de la Fe Cristiana. Este libro se ha recopilado la informacion mas basica e importante que TODO creyente o predicador esta OBLIGADO A SABER, para estar siempre preparados con mansedumbre y reverencia a predicar y defender el Evangelio. NT 1 Pedro 3:15

Mystères d'écrivains

Mystères d'écrivains

Autor: Élise Costa

Número de Páginas: 209

Ami lecteur, ne vous est-il jamais arrivé de vous demander si vos écrivains préférés, Elena Ferrante, Stephen King, Agatha Christie, cachaient des secrets ? Élise Costa nous offre dans ce livre une cinquantaine de petites histoires avec un sens de l’humour et de la dramaturgie tout à fait savoureux. On y croise des personnalités mondialement connues ou d’autres à découvrir. Elles partagent cependant une particularité, un mystère qui ne manqueront pas de vous étonner. Entrez dans cet univers ; il peut faire changer votre regard sur les livres et ceux qui les écrivent ! Élise Costa est devenue journaliste pour assouvir son besoin d’histoires. En 2010, elle sort un livre de docu-fiction, Comment je n’ai pas rencontré Britney Spears. En quête perpétuelle de récits, elle cherche à sonder l’âme humaine pour nous faire découvrir ce qui se cache sous la surface. Elle est aujourd’hui chroniqueuse judiciaire pour le magazine Slate.fr.

Encyclopedia of Contemporary Christian Fiction

Encyclopedia of Contemporary Christian Fiction

Autor: Nancy M. Tischler

Número de Páginas: 374

A biographical encyclopedia of American and British Christian-themed writers from World War II to the present, covering acclaimed literary works and popular evangelical fiction. Encyclopedia of Contemporary Christian Fiction: From C.S. Lewis to Left Behind spans the entire breadth of Christian-themed British and American writing from World War II to the present—well-known and less familiar authors, acclaimed literary novels, and popular writing in a variety of genres (mysteries, thrillers, romances), works that explore matters of faith, works that challenge orthodoxy and church practices, and works wholly written by and for devout evangelicals. Encyclopedia of Contemporary Christian Fiction offers 90 alphabetically organized entries covering the field's most important writers. Each entry includes a brief biography, religious and educational background, a survey of major works and themes, and a summary of critical response, as well as a bibliography of major works and criticism. By examining evocative, sometimes overlooked Christian elements in modern fiction, and by exploring the depth and scope of popular evangelical fiction, Encyclopedia of Contemporary Christian Fiction...

How Writing Made Us Human, 3000 BCE to Now

How Writing Made Us Human, 3000 BCE to Now

Autor: Walter Stephens

Número de Páginas: 571

"The author presents a sweeping history of writing and the way it has preserved cultural practices, traditions, and knowledge throughout human history. In each case, real and imagined, ancient and modern, the author shows us how stories of books, their creators, and their preservation over time inspired wonder and an endless appetite for historical revelation"--

Inferno Decoded

Inferno Decoded

Autor: Michael Haag

Número de Páginas: 272

Originally published: London: Profile Books, 2013.

Les impostures antichrétiennes

Les impostures antichrétiennes

Autor: Joseph-marie Verlinde

Número de Páginas: 305

Pour faire la lumière sur le discours plus ou moins caché de Dan Brown, dans le Da Vinci Code notamment, Jean-Marie Verlinde reprend ses thèses une à une et répond ainsi au défi lancé au christianisme. Plus que jamais, le christianisme se doit de répondre aux défis qui lui sont lancés, notamment au New Age et aux thèses développées dans le Da Vinci Code, ou encore au gnosticisme, à l'occultisme et à la " magia sexualis ". Les adeptes du New Age adhèrent en effet à l'idée d'une Tradition primordiale dont les religions ne seraient que des expressions plus ou moins dévoyées. Joseph-Marie Verlinde démontre le caractère fantaisiste de cette théorie, prenant forme chez Dan Brown dans le culte à la " Grande Déesse " qui a supplanté le Dieu paternaliste judéo-chrétien. En déconstruisant une à une les thèses de l'écrivain américain – sur la Révélation, le mythe du Graal, la soi-disant diabolisation de la sexualité par l'Église, sa prétendue misogynie –, il nous donne les clés pour comprendre la véritable teneur de l'" œuvre " de Dan Brown. Et c'est aussi pour lui l'occasion de répandre la Bonne Nouvelle pour contrer ses effets. Né en 1947,...

The Solomon Key and Beyond

The Solomon Key and Beyond

Autor: W. Frederick Zimmerman

Número de Páginas: 462

The Unauthorized Dan Brown Update includes information about Digital Fortress, Angels & Demons, Deception Point, The Da Vinci Code (book and movie), The Solomon Key, and subsequent novels. It's a "mini" book in the sense that it is fairly thin - 96 pages to start with, although it will grow over time. (For example, detailed chapter-by-chapter analysis of The Solomon Key will be added soon after that novel is published.) This is a "meta" book in the sense that it complements, without trying to replace, the many worthy books that are already available about The Da Vinci Code. This book is unique in that it provides a "nimble," timely report on *all* of Dan Brown's activities, including everything that is known about The Solomon Key, "The Da Vinci Code" movie, and beyond.

The Man Behind the Da Vinci Code

The Man Behind the Da Vinci Code

Autor: Lisa Rogak

Número de Páginas: 178

Chronicles the life of author Dan Brown, discussing his childhood, schooling, efforts to avoid the public eye, acclaimed novels, impact on the literary world, and other related topics.

The Mediatization of Culture and Society

The Mediatization of Culture and Society

Autor: Stig Hjarvard

Número de Páginas: 194

Mediatization has emerged as a key concept to reconsider old, yet fundamental questions about the role and influence of media in culture and society. In particular the theory of mediatization has proved fruitful for the analysis of how media spread to, become intertwined with, and influence other social institutions and cultural phenomena like politics, play and religion. This book presents a major contribution to the theoretical understanding of the mediatization of culture and society. This is supplemented by in-depth studies of: The mediatization of politics: From party press to opinion industry; The mediatization of religion: From the faith of the church to the enchantment of the media; The mediatization of play: From bricks to bytes; The mediatization of habitus: The social character of a new individualism. Mediatization represents a new social condition in which the media have emerged as an important institution in society at the same time as they have become integrated into the very fabric of social and cultural life. Making use of a broad conception of the media as technologies, institutions and aesthetic forms, Stig Hjarvard considers how characteristics of both old and...

Discussing the Da Vinci Code

Discussing the Da Vinci Code

Autor: Lee Strobel , Garry Poole

Número de Páginas: 96

This first-ever DVD-driven small group study guide stimulates animated discussion over one of today's hottest topics--whether the "The Da Vinci Code" novel and movie unearth explosive facts or are inaccurate depictions of ancient events.

Nietzsche: The God of Groundhog Day

Nietzsche: The God of Groundhog Day

Autor: Michael Faust

Número de Páginas: 116

Is Groundhog Day the greatest philosophical movie of all time? It examines Nietzsche's eternal recurrence, Camus' Myth of Sisyphus, and the possibility of becoming a Superman and even a god. Did Nietzsche's atheism disguise a pious Lutheran spirit? What is the basis of our love of music? What are the implications of building a machine that gives us everything we want? Is narrative non-fiction a form of parasitism? Do novels have personalities? How can a book be loved by some and hated by others? Is the publishing industry dominated by people of a certain Myers-Briggs type, and are certain sections of the population being denied the sorts of books they would like to read because the books they enjoy aren't rated by commissioning editors? Is the human race destined to be always stupid? Did German philosopher Hegel think he was God?

'Cult Wars' in Historical Perspective

'Cult Wars' in Historical Perspective

Autor: Eugene V. Gallagher

Número de Páginas: 189

'Cult Wars' in Historical Perspective provides a broad characterization of the shifting religious contours over the past several decades. Offering an assessment of several important topics in the study of new religions, this book explores developments in well-known groups such as the Unification movement, The Family International (Children of God), the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), and the Church of Scientology. Bringing together both insiders and outsiders from various academic disciplines and personal perspectives, this book takes account of the ways in which the cult question is defined and addressed in different countries. It offers a vivid depiction of how the cult wars or cult controversies of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries first took shape; the transformation of deeply entrenched positions on cults and sects as at least some members of new groups, cult watchers, and academics entered into serious and sustained conversations about topics of mutual concern; the shifting foci and concerns of the general public, law enforcement and the courts, and academics in various countries; and the complex histories of individual groups in...

Fakes, Forgeries, and Fictions

Fakes, Forgeries, and Fictions

Autor: Tony Burke

Número de Páginas: 443

Fakes, Forgeries, and Fictions examines the possible motivations behind the production of apocryphal Christian texts. Did the authors of Christian apocrypha intend to deceive others about the true origins of their writings? Did they do so in a way that is distinctly different from New Testament scriptural writings? What would phrases like "intended to deceive" or "true origins" even mean in various historical and cultural contexts? The papers in this volume, presented in September 2015 at York University in Toronto, discuss texts from as early as second-century papyrus fragments to modern apocrypha such as tales of Jesus in India in the nineteenth-century Life of Saint Issa. The highlights of the collection include a keynote address by Bart Ehrman ("Apocryphal Forgeries: The Logic of Literary Deceit") and a panel discussion on the Gospel of Jesus' Wife, reflecting on what reactions to this particular text--primarily on biblioblogs--can tell us about the creation, transmission, and reception of apocryphal Christian literature. The eye-opening papers presented at the panel caution and enlighten readers about the ethics of studying unprovenanced texts, the challenges facing female...

101 Questions and Answers on The Da Vinci Code and the Catholic Tradition

101 Questions and Answers on The Da Vinci Code and the Catholic Tradition

Autor: Nancy Marie De Flon , John Vidmar

Número de Páginas: 182

Answers questions about The Da Vinci Code and the novel's relation to Catholicism, pointing out misrepresentations of church history and doctrine and revealing many positive aspects of the Catholic tradition.

The Discourse of Reading Groups

The Discourse of Reading Groups

Autor: David Peplow , Joan Swann , Paola Trimarco , Sara Whiteley

Número de Páginas: 214

Of interest in their own terms as a significant cultural practice, reading groups also provide a window on the everyday interpretation of literary texts. While reading is often considered a solitary process, reading groups constitute a form of social reading, where interpretations are produced and displayed in discourse. The Discourse of Reading Groups is a study of such joint conceptual activity, and how this is necessarily embedded in interpersonal activity and the production of reader identities. Uniquely in this context it draws on, and seeks to integrate, ideas from both cognitive and social linguistics. The book will be of interest to scholars in literacy studies as well as cultural and literary studies, the history of reading, applied linguistics and sociolinguistics, digital technologies and educational research.

Weird - The Life And Times Of A Pocket God

Weird - The Life And Times Of A Pocket God

Autor: Mark Christopher Lee

Número de Páginas: 302

Weird is the biography of Mark Christopher Lee lead singer and songwriter in cult indie band - The Pocket Gods. This book charts the highs and lows of being in an unsigned indie band. From being discovered by the late John Peel and recording sessions for BBC Radio 1 and Radio 6, to playing gigs to one man and his dog in dubious London pubs. It captures the sights, sounds and smells of an up and coming indie band. It also explores Mark's relationship with the paranormal and the "weird" unexplainable things that have happened in his rock and roll journey. It's like Spinal Tap meets the X Files but with better snacks. Mark Whitby from Dandelion Radio has described the book as; "A tale from the far more interesting backwaters of modern music, with Mark and his band fighting to survive within the swirling evolutionary gloop. It's Mark's honesty that stands out. It reaches out and grabs you by the throat wringing fascinating observations out of every line whether you like them or not"

Who Owns This Sentence?

Who Owns This Sentence?

Autor: David Bellos , Alexandre Montagu

Número de Páginas: 240

A New Yorker Best Book of 2024 A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice "Lively, opinionated, and ultra-timely." —Louis Menand, The New Yorker A fascinating and original history of an idea that now controls and monetizes almost everything we do. Copyright is everywhere. Your smartphone incorporates thousands of items of intellectual property. Someone owns the reproduction rights to photographs of your dining table. At this very moment, battles are raging over copyright in the output of artificial intelligence programs. Not only books but wallpaper, computer programs, pop songs, cartoon characters, snapshots, and cuddly toys are now deemed to be intellectual properties—making copyright a labyrinthine construction of laws with colorful and often baffling rationales covering almost all products of human creativity. It wasn’t always so. Copyright has its roots in eighteenth-century London, where it was first established to limit printers’ control of books. But a handful of little-noticed changes in the late twentieth century brought about a new enclosure of the cultural commons, concentrating ownership of immaterial goods in very few hands. Copyright’s metastasis can’t ...

The Lost Symbol - 101 Amazing Facts You Didn't Know

The Lost Symbol - 101 Amazing Facts You Didn't Know

Autor: G Whiz

Número de Páginas: 39

Did you know The Lost Symbol has set the record as the fastest selling adult novel in history, selling over one million in hardcover and e-book versions in the U.S., the UK and Canada, on its first day of release? Or, did you know as a child, Brown developed an interest in secrets and puzzles and constantly worked on anagrams and crossword puzzles.? What are the amazing facts of The The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown? Do you want to know the golden nuggets of facts readers love? If you've enjoyed the book, then this will be a must read delight for you! Collected for readers everywhere are 101 book facts about the book & author that are fun, down-to-earth, and amazingly true to keep you laughing and learning as you read through the book! Tips & Tricks to Enhance Reading Experience • Enter "G Whiz" after your favorite title to see if publication exists! ie) Harry Potter G Whiz • Enter "G Whiz 101" to search for entire catalogue! • Tell us what title you want next! • Combine your favorite titles to receive bundle coupons! • Submit a review and hop on the Wall of Contributors! “Get ready for fun, down-to-earth, and amazing facts that keep you laughing & learning" - G Whiz...

Misquoting Truth

Misquoting Truth

Autor: Timothy Paul Jones

Número de Páginas: 177

In clear, concise prose, Timothy Paul Jones takes on Bart Ehrman's misleading conclusions about how we got the New Testament, how the New Testament documents have been transmitted and what kind of diversity existed among early Christians.

CONTENDING FOR THE FAITH

CONTENDING FOR THE FAITH

Autor: Christopher H.k. Persaud

Número de Páginas: 512

Doubt and disbelief in God's existence and his plan of redemption for lost humankind is becoming increasingly evident in today's hedonistic, self-directed world. Many Christian believers even, choose to listen to, and to acknowledge a “feel-good-now” Gospel, notwithstanding its deviation from Biblical truth and its possible damning implications. Conversely, many people are wont to deny the existence of a devil and the reality of a place of unceasing torment and/or destruction called hell. A good God cannot be so cruel, they opine. Jesus commissioned his followers to take his Gospel to the far reaches of the Earth, and the Holy Scriptures encourage Christians in Jude 1: 3, “...to earnestly contend for the faith.” More than at any other time in history, believers must defend the Christian Gospel and advocate its timeless truths everywhere so that all of humankind may hear about Christ's offer of eternal life in a place named Paradise. The miscellany of contemplative inquiries and arguments presented in CONTENDING FOR THE FAITH purposes to do just that – endorse and advance the Gospel of Christ and help establish Biblical truth! Much too much is at stake for not...

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