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Summary of Jason Fagone's The Woman Who Smashed Codes

Summary of Jason Fagone's The Woman Who Smashed Codes

Autor: Everest Media,

Número de Páginas: 59

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 Elizebeth was interviewed by the NSA in 1976, and she kept referring to the events of Riverbank Laboratories as if they were still recent. She explained that she was the last person who might remember the crags of things. #2 Elizebeth Smith was a twenty-three-year-old woman who went to the Newberry Library in Chicago in 1916 to look for a job. She was met by George Fabyan, who invited her to come to Riverbank and spend the night with him. #3 Elizebeth’s family had never shared her fear of being ordinary. They were midwestern people of modest means, Quakers from Huntington, Indiana. Her father, John Marion Smith, traced his lineage to an English Quaker who sailed to America in 1682 on the same boat as William Penn. #4 Elizebeth’s father didn’t want her to go to college, but she went anyway, studying Greek and English literature at top liberal arts schools. She found the concept of aristocracy liberating: the measure of a person was her ideas, not her wealth or religious knowledge.

Summary of Jason Fagone's The Woman Who Smashed Codes

Summary of Jason Fagone's The Woman Who Smashed Codes

Autor: Milkyway Media

Número de Páginas: 59

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 Elizebeth was interviewed by the NSA in 1976, and she kept referring to the events of Riverbank Laboratories as if they were still recent. She explained that she was the last person who might remember the crags of things. #2 Elizebeth Smith was a twentythreeyearold woman who went to the Newberry Library in Chicago in 1916 to look for a job. She was met by George Fabyan, who invited her to come to Riverbank and spend the night with him. #3 Elizebeth’s family had never shared her fear of being ordinary. They were midwestern people of modest means, Quakers from Huntington, Indiana. Her father, John Marion Smith, traced his lineage to an English Quaker who sailed to America in 1682 on the same boat as William Penn. #4 Elizebeth’s father didn’t want her to go to college, but she went anyway, studying Greek and English literature at top liberal arts schools. She found the concept of aristocracy liberating: the measure of a person was her ideas, not her wealth or religious knowledge.

Food for Thought

Food for Thought

Autor: Lawrence C. Rubin

Número de Páginas: 318

Historically, few topics have attracted as much scholarly, professional, or popular attention as food and eating--as one might expect, considering the fundamental role of food in basic human survival. Almost daily, a new food documentary, cooking show, diet program, food guru, or eating movement arises to challenge yesterday's dietary truths and the ways we think about dining. This work brings together voices from a wide range of disciplines, providing a fascinating feast of scholarly perspectives on food and eating practices, contemporary and historic, local and global. Nineteen essays cover a vast array of food-related topics, including the ever-increasing problems of agricultural globalization, the contemporary mass-marketing of a formerly grassroots movement for organic food production, the Food Network's successful mediation of social class, the widely popular phenomenon of professional competitive eating and current trends in "culinary tourism" and fast food advertising. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.

Cincinnati Magazine

Cincinnati Magazine

Número de Páginas: 196

Cincinnati Magazine taps into the DNA of the city, exploring shopping, dining, living, and culture and giving readers a ringside seat on the issues shaping the region.

Horsemen of the Esophagus

Horsemen of the Esophagus

Autor: Jason Fagone

Número de Páginas: 442

“To be up on stage, shoving food in your face, beats everyday existence for most people.” —David “Coondog” O’Karma, competitive eater “Hungry” Charles Hardy. Ed “Cookie” Jarvis. Sonya “The Black Widow” Thomas. Joey “Jaws” Chestnut. Will such names one day be looked back upon as the pioneers of a new manifestation of the irrepressible American appetite for competition, money, fame, and self-transformation? They will if the promoters of the newly emerging sport of competitive eating have their way. In Horsemen of the Esophagus, Jason Fagone reports on the year he spent in the belly of this awakening beast. Fagone’s trek takes him to 27 eating contests on two continents, from the World Grilled Cheese Eating Championship in Venice Beach, California, to Nagoya, Japan, where he pursues an interview with the legendary Takeru Kobayashi, perhaps the most prodigious eater in the world today, and to the Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest at Coney Island, the sport’s annual grand finale, where Kobayashi has eaten more than 50 dogs in 12 minutes. Along the way, Fagone discovers an absurd, sometimes troubling subculture on the make, ready to bust out of its ...

Cincinnati Magazine

Cincinnati Magazine

Número de Páginas: 196

Cincinnati Magazine taps into the DNA of the city, exploring shopping, dining, living, and culture and giving readers a ringside seat on the issues shaping the region.

Ingenious

Ingenious

Autor: Jason Fagone

Número de Páginas: 354

An epic tale of invention, in which ordinary people’s lives are changed forever by their quest to engineer a radically new kind of car In 2007, the X Prize Foundation announced that it would give $10 million to anyone who could build a safe, mass-producible car that could travel 100 miles on the energy equivalent of a gallon of gas. The challenge attracted more than one hundred teams from all over the world, including dozens of amateurs. Many designed their cars entirely from scratch, rejecting decades of thinking about what a car should look like. Jason Fagone follows four of those teams from the build stage to the final race and beyond—into a world in which destiny hangs on a low drag coefficient and a lug nut can be a beautiful talisman. The result is a gripping story of crazy collaboration, absurd risks, colossal hopes, and poignant losses. In an old pole barn in central Illinois, childhood sweethearts hack together an electric-powered dreamboat, using scavenged parts, forging their own steel, and burning through their life savings. In Virginia, an impassioned entrepreneur and his hand-picked squad of speed freaks pool their imaginations and build a car so light that you...

Cincinnati Magazine

Cincinnati Magazine

Número de Páginas: 208

Cincinnati Magazine taps into the DNA of the city, exploring shopping, dining, living, and culture and giving readers a ringside seat on the issues shaping the region.

The Art of Fact in the Digital Age

The Art of Fact in the Digital Age

Autor: Jacqueline Marino , David O. Dowling

Número de Páginas: 265

The Art of Fact in the Digital Age is a showcase of the most powerful and moving journalism of the past 25 years. Selections include stories originally published in established bastions of literary journalism (The New York Times, The Atlantic and The New Yorker), as well as those from specialized and online publications (Runner's World, The Atavist). It features writers of extraordinary style (including Carina del Valle Schorske, Brian Phillips, and Jia Tolentino), as well as those who have profoundly influenced public discourse on the 21st century's most urgent issues: Mitchell S. Jackson, Clint Smith, and Ta-Nehisi Coates on race; Susan Dominus and Luke Mogelson on migration; and Kathryn Schulz and David Wallace-Wells on environmental threats. It even includes one story that expanded literary journalism's repertoire into audio (This American Life). This collection, assembled for students, scholars, and practitioners alike, also charts the evolution of digital longform journalism through its greatest achievements, from transitioning readers to screens to the integration of multimedia with words in service of meaning. The art of fact in the 21st century opened new ranges of...

Cincinnati Magazine

Cincinnati Magazine

Número de Páginas: 136

Cincinnati Magazine taps into the DNA of the city, exploring shopping, dining, living, and culture and giving readers a ringside seat on the issues shaping the region.

Insatiable

Insatiable

Autor: Jason Fagone

Número de Páginas: 381

Bill 'EL Wingador' Simmons, Sonya 'The Black Widow' Thomas, David 'Coondog' O'Karma, Bill 'EL Wingador' Simmons, Sonya 'The Black Widow' Thomas, David 'Coondog' O'Karma, Eric 'Badlands' Booker, Timothy 'Eater X' Janus - just a few of the stars of one of America's fastest growing sports: competitive eating. In a country in which a third of the population is clinically obese, competitive eating has made the leap from trestle tables and paper napkins to stadium arenas - in the past two years, more than 1.4 million households have tuned in to Nathan's hot dog contest on ESPN. Beginning with a trip to Japan in search of the elusive (and surprising slim-line) champion Takeru Kobayashi and ending up at the sport's annual grand finale in Coney Island, Jason Fagone spends a year with the stars of the scene, watching as they eat their way into (or out of) oblivion, and finding out just what compels a 'gurgitator' to force down forty-six dozen oysters in ten minutes. Wickedly funny and devastatingly insightful, Jason Fagone uses this weirdest of sports as a lens through which to examine the dark side of the American Dream - the never-ending quest for wealth, celebrity, possessions and food....

Pensez comme un freak !

Pensez comme un freak !

Autor: Steven D Levitt , Stephen J Dubner

Número de Páginas: 232

"Freakonomics", le best-seller du New York Times, a changé la manière dont nous voyons le monde en explorant la face cachée des choses. "Pensez comme un freak", le nouveau livre de Steven D. Levitt et Stephen J. Dubner, est leur ouvrage le plus révolutionnaire à ce jour. Ils savent toujours aussi bien raconter une histoire, tout en avançant une analyse non conventionnelle. Ils nous font partager leur manière de penser et nous proposent une nouvelle approche pour résoudre les problèmes. Les sujets qu'ils nous proposent vont du monde des affaires à la philanthropie, en passant par le sport et la politique, et ils ont tous pour but de nous donner les clés pour renouveler notre manière de penser. Vous découvrirez les secrets du plus gros mangeur de hot-dogs, la raison pour laquelle un médecin australien a avalé des bactéries dangereuses et pourquoi les arnaqueurs nigérians prennent soin de dire qu'ils viennent du Nigeria dans leurs courriels. Levitt et Dubner voient le monde comme personne. Et maintenant, vous aussi vous pouvez adopter leur point de vue. Il n'y a jamais eu penseurs plus iconoclastes et divertissants.

Cincinnati Magazine

Cincinnati Magazine

Número de Páginas: 148

Cincinnati Magazine taps into the DNA of the city, exploring shopping, dining, living, and culture and giving readers a ringside seat on the issues shaping the region.

Nobody's Victim

Nobody's Victim

Autor: Carrie Goldberg

Número de Páginas: 257

'A rallying cry for privacy justice' New York Times 'We need more warriors like Carrie' Tarana Burke, founder of the MeToo movement In an era of doxing, revenge porn and online stalking, the law is failing us. Tech companies are untouchable and often women are persecuted. Carrie Goldberg built her law firm on battling these unprecedented cases - from stalkers haunting their exes through social media and dating apps, to schools suspending girls who report sexual assault, to trolls making fake bomb threats in their victims' names. Here, she tells her clients' stories alongside her own remarkable journey to become the lawyer she once needed. Gripping and inspiring, Nobody's Victim shows how we must rewire the legal system for the age of the internet and gives us the weapons to fight back. *Perfect for fans of She Said by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, The Whisper Network by Chandler Baker and The Good Fight*

Con la cocina no se juega

Con la cocina no se juega

Autor: David De Jorge

Número de Páginas: 286

El ideario del chef de moda Galardonado por los prestigiosos Gourmand World Cookbooks Awards 2011: Premio Best Book in the World David de Jorge define su trabajo como «pura exaltación de la gula y el jovial disparate» que reivindica «la buena comida sin fantochadas y con buenos ingredientes: el milagro más seguro. Una gastronomía con sentido común que desenmascarará a los egochefs más horteras». A partir de esta declaración de intenciones, el objetivo de este libro es componer un excepcional menú de infinitos platos que pueden combinarse con libertad absoluta: breves piezas que nos hablan sin solemnidad de vinos, aceites, mercados, platos, cocineros, restaurantes y comilonas, elaboradas con un lenguaje coloquial y desenfadado, irreverente en ocasiones y siempre inteligente. Una invitación al disfrute de los placeres cotidianos: amistad, amor o literatura, celebrados alrededor de una mesa y con la comida como eje de una experiencia múltiple, completa y, sobre todo, divertida. Reseñas: «Con simpatía, franqueza y sin engolamientos ni jergas displicentes, David de Jorge prueba, sazona, corta, pregunta, felicita, sopla, descubre, sirve, recomienda, aliña, sonríe,...

Piensa como un freak

Piensa como un freak

Autor: Steven D. Levitt , Stephen J. Dubner

Número de Páginas: 196

Los autores de Freakonomics te enseñan cómo ejercitar tu cerebro. Con Piensa como un freak, Steven D. Levitt y Stephen J. Dubner han escrito su libro más revolucionario hasta la fecha. Con el sello inconfundible de narración cautivadora y análisis no convencional, nos llevan al interior de su proceso reflexivo y nos enseñan a pensar de manera un poco más productiva, más creativa, más racional, es decir, a pensar como un freak. Como en sus libros anteriores, ningún tema está vedado, de los negocios a la filantropía, pasando por los deportes o la política, todo con el objetivo de reciclar tu cerebro. Algunos de los pasos para pensar como un freak: - Deja de lado tu brújula moral, porque es difícil ver un problema con claridad si ya has decidido qué hacer con él. - Piensa como un niño, porque se te ocurrirán mejores ideas y plantearás mejores preguntas. - Toma una clase magistral en incentivos, porque, para bien o para mal, los incentivos gobiernan el mundo. - Aprende a convencer a gente que no quiere ser convencida, porque ser bueno no basta para que uno se salga con la suya. - Aprende a apreciar las ventajas de abandonar, porque no puedes resolver el problema de ...

La escritura de los dioses

La escritura de los dioses

Autor: Edward Dolnick

Número de Páginas: 331

Un apasionante thriller cultural.Un fascinante retrato de imperios antiguos y modernos, una mirada sin parangón a la historia, la cultura y la humanidad. «Un viaje al corazón del enigma, la historia del libro de piedra que nos enseñó a descifrar códigos secretos, la hebra que une el antiguo Egipto con el nacimiento de la informática, el nexo entre Champollion y Sherlock Holmes».IRENE VALLEJO Delta del Nilo, 1799. En un asfixiante día de julio es hallada entre un montón de escombros la piedra de Rosetta, uno de los objetos arqueológicos más famosos del mundo y la clave para desentrañar una lengua perdida. La losa de granito contenía el mismo texto grabado en tres idiomas distintos: en egipcio, en demótico y en griego. Hasta su descubrimiento, nadie era capaz de leer los innumerables jeroglíficos que cubrían los templos y estatuas del antiguo Egipto, un poderoso imperio que había dominado el mundo durante treinta siglos, pero sobre el que, sin embargo, se ignoraba prácticamente todo. Quien fuera capaz de descifrar la piedra de Rosetta abriría definitivamente la puerta de un misterio sellado desde hacía dos mil años. A partir de 1802, en una época en que...

Nacidos para correr

Nacidos para correr

Autor: Christopher Mcdougall

Número de Páginas: 346

Un relato fascinante que no solo conquistará tu mente sino que también inspirará tu cuerpo cuando descubras que el secreto de la felicidad está en tus pies y que todos hemos nacido para correr. Repleto de personajes inolvidables, increíbles hazañas atléticas y ciencia de vanguardia, Nacidos para correr es una aventura épica que comienza con la simple pregunta: ¿por qué me duele el pie? Para encontrar una respuesta, Christopher McDougall nos lleva desde los laboratorios científicos de alta tecnología de Harvard hasta los sofocantes valles y los picos nevados donde cada vez más corredores llevan sus fuerzas al extremo. Protegida por el terreno más abrupto de América del Norte, la misteriosa tribu de los tarahumara de las Barrancas del Cobre, en México, custodia un arte perdido. Durante siglos han desarrollado técnicas que les permiten correr cientos de kilómetros sin descanso, convirtiéndolos en los corredores de fondo más rápidos de todos los tiempos. Este talento, casi sobrehumano, convierte a los tarahumara en hombres serenos e inmunes a las enfermedades y a las tensiones de la vida moderna. Con la ayuda de Caballo Blanco, un curioso personaje que años...

Fester

Fester

Autor: Hadar Aviram

Número de Páginas: 305

The mismanagement of the COVID-19 pandemic in California’s prisons stands out as the state’s worst-ever medical catastrophe in a carceral setting. Fester offers a cultural history of this correctional disaster through first-person accounts, courtroom observations, policy documents, and years of carefully collected quantitative data. Bearing witness to the immense suffering wrought on people behind bars through dehumanization, fear, and ignorance, Fester explains how carceral cruelty also threatens the health and well-being of all Californians. This book stands as a monument to the brave coalition of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people and their loved ones, along with activists, doctors, journalists, and lawyers, who fought to shed light on one of the darkest times in the Golden State’s correctional system.

Cincinnati Magazine

Cincinnati Magazine

Número de Páginas: 152

Cincinnati Magazine taps into the DNA of the city, exploring shopping, dining, living, and culture and giving readers a ringside seat on the issues shaping the region.

Eating Words: A Norton Anthology of Food Writing

Eating Words: A Norton Anthology of Food Writing

Autor: Sandra M. Gilbert , Roger J. Porter

Número de Páginas: 440

“Food writing spans centuries and philosophies. . . . At long last there’s a Norton Anthology with all the most important works.”—Eater Edited by influential literary critic Sandra M. Gilbert and award-winning restaurant critic and professor of English Roger Porter, Eating Words gathers food writing of literary distinction and vast historical sweep into one groundbreaking volume. Beginning with the taboos of the Old Testament and the tastes of ancient Rome, and including travel essays, polemics, memoirs, and poems, the book is divided into sections such as “Food Writing Through History,” “At the Family Hearth,” “Hunger Games: The Delight and Dread of Eating,” “Kitchen Practices,” and “Food Politics.” Selections from writings by Julia Child, Anthony Bourdain, Bill Buford, Michael Pollan, Molly O’Neill, Calvin Trillin, and Adam Gopnik, along with works by authors not usually associated with gastronomy—Maxine Hong Kingston, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Hemingway, Chekhov, and David Foster Wallace—enliven and enrich this comprehensive anthology. “We are living in the golden age of food writing,” proclaims Ruth Reichl in her preface to this savory...

A History of Crime and the American Criminal Justice System

A History of Crime and the American Criminal Justice System

Autor: Mitchel P. Roth

Número de Páginas: 805

This book offers a history of crime and the criminal justice system in America, written particularly for students of criminal justice and those interested in the history of crime and punishment. It follows the evolution of the criminal justice system chronologically and, when necessary, offers parallels between related criminal justice issues in different historical eras. From its antecedents in England to revolutionary times, to the American Civil War, right through the twentieth century to the age of terrorism, this book combines a wealth of resources with keen historical judgement to offer a fascinating account of the development of criminal justice in America. A new chapter brings the story up to date, looking at criminal justice through the Obama era and the early days of the Trump administration. Each chapter is broken down into four crucial components related to the American criminal justice system from the historical perspective: lawmakers and the judiciary; law enforcement; corrections; and crime and punishment. A range of pedagogical features, including timelines of key events, learning objectives, critical thinking questions and sources, as well as a full glossary of...

Sporting Rhetoric

Sporting Rhetoric

Autor: Barry Brummett

Número de Páginas: 288

Millions of people around the world are engaged in sports and games. This volume studies the ways in which engagement is performed in popular culture. We do not just watch football - we perform by being a fan. NBA players do not simply run up and down the court. Instead, on and off the court they perform certain roles, many informed by hip hop culture. Such performances are rhetorical: they manage attitudes, behaviors, and predispositions, influencing the distribution of power. Competitive hot dog eaters, bull riding, and Mexican wrestlers are some of the other sports and games covered by the contributors. The book is unique in bringing together the three themes of sports and games, performance, and the rhetoric of popular culture, and is relevant for both scholarly use and classroom adoption in courses ranging from sport and society, rhetoric, composition, persuasion and argument, and popular culture.

Think Like a Freak

Think Like a Freak

Autor: Steven D. Levitt , Stephen J. Dubner

Número de Páginas: 224

From the rule-breaking authors of international bestsellers Freakonomics and Superfreakonomics, this is the ultimate guide to how to Think Like a Freak The Freakonomics books have come to stand for something: challenging conventional wisdom; using data rather than emotion to answer questions; and learning to unravel the world's secret codes. Now Levitt and Dubner have gathered up what they have learned and turned it into a readable and practical toolkit for thinking differently - thinking, that is, like a Freak. Whether you are interested in the best way to improve your odds in penalty kicks, or in major global reforms, here is a blueprint for an entirely new way to solve problems. Along the way, you'll learn how the techniques of a Japanese hot-dog-eating champion can help you, the reason an Australian doctor swallowed a batch of dangerous bacteria, why Nigerian e-mail scammers make a point of saying they're from Nigeria, and why Van Halen's demanding tour contract banning brown M&Ms was really a safety measure. You'll learn why sometimes it's best to put away your moral compass, and smarter to think like a child. You will be given a master class in incentives-because for better...

Cincinnati Magazine

Cincinnati Magazine

Número de Páginas: 184

Cincinnati Magazine taps into the DNA of the city, exploring shopping, dining, living, and culture and giving readers a ringside seat on the issues shaping the region.

Cincinnati Magazine

Cincinnati Magazine

Número de Páginas: 196

Cincinnati Magazine taps into the DNA of the city, exploring shopping, dining, living, and culture and giving readers a ringside seat on the issues shaping the region.

American Governor

American Governor

Autor: Matt Katz

Número de Páginas: 464

The ultimate insider to Chris Christie’s 2016 presidential campaign delivers a definitive biography of the popular and controversial governor of New Jersey—including the true story behind the Bridgegate lane-closure scandal. Journalist Matt Katz has been covering Christie since 2011 and has seen firsthand how the governor appeals to the public through his tactics, rhetoric, and personality. In American Governor, Katz weaves a compelling on-the-ground political narrative that begins with the roots of his family’s journey to America and takes us through his upset victory over Governor Jon Corzine and then along the road to his announcement of his candidacy for the highest office in the country. Packed with exclusive information, interviews, and anecdotes, American Governor illustrates how Christie evolved from an unpopular perennial candidate running for local office to the most watched Republican in the country, a populist with leadership skills, charm, and luck seemingly unparalleled by any other up-and-coming politician. Christie has proven himself a dynamic force of nature by emerging wounded but not unbowed after Bridgegate—a scandal that would have destroyed another...

One Nation Under Dog

One Nation Under Dog

Autor: Michael Schaffer

Número de Páginas: 226

A witty, insightful, and affectionate examination of how and why we spend billions on our pets, and what this tells us about ourselves In 2003, Michael Schaffer and his wife drove to a rural shelter and adopted an emaciated, dreadlocked Saint Bernard who they named Murphy. They vowed that they'd never become the kind of people who send dogs named Baxter and Sonoma out to get facials, or shell out for $12,000 hip replacements. But then they started to get weird looks from the in-laws: You hired a trainer? Your vet prescribed antidepressants? So Schaffer started poking around and before long happened on an astonishing statistic: the pet industry, estimated at $43 billion this year, was just $17 billion barely a decade earlier. One Nation Under Dog is about America's pet obsession—the explosion, over the past generation, of an industry full of pet masseuses, professional dog-walkers, organic kibble, leash-law militants, luxury pet spas, veterinary grief counselors, upscale dog shampoos, and the like: a booming economy that is evidence of tremendous and rapid change in the status of America's pets. Schaffer provides a surprising and lively portrait of our country—as how we treat...

Cincinnati Magazine

Cincinnati Magazine

Número de Páginas: 264

Cincinnati Magazine taps into the DNA of the city, exploring shopping, dining, living, and culture and giving readers a ringside seat on the issues shaping the region.

The Best American Newspaper Narratives, Volume 10

The Best American Newspaper Narratives, Volume 10

Autor: Gayle Reaves

Número de Páginas: 335

This anthology collects the ten winners of the 2022 Best American Newspaper Narrative Writing Contest at UNT’s Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference. First place winner: Jason Fagone, “The Jessica Simulation: Love and Loss in the Age of A.I.,” about one man’s attempt to still communicate with his dead fiancée (San Francisco Chronicle). Second place: Jenna Russell, Penelope Overton, and David Abel, “The Lobster Trap” (The Boston Globe and Portland Press Herald). Third place: Jada Yuan, “Discovering Dr. Wu” (The Washington Post). Runners-up include Lane DeGregory, “Who Wants to Be a Cop? (Tampa Bay Times); Christopher Goffard, “The Trials of Frank Carson” (Los Angeles Times); Evan Allen, “Under the Wheel” (The Boston Globe); Mark Johnson, “A Wisconsin Mom Gave Birth in a COVID-19 Coma before Slipping to the Brink of Death” (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel); Annie Gowen, “A Dance, Not a War” (The Washington Post); Peter Jamison, “They’d Battled Addiction Together. Then Lockdowns became a ‘Recipe for Death’” (The Washington Post); and Douglas Perry, “The Obsession” (The Oregonian / Oregon Live).

It's Not Free Speech

It's Not Free Speech

Autor: Michael Bérubé , Jennifer Ruth

Número de Páginas: 304

"This books takes up the hot-button issues at the intersection of free speech, hate speech, and academic freedom on the contemporary college campus. It questions whether scholarship and "extramural" speech that is deemed racist, homophobic, or sexist should be exempt from the protections of academic freedom and sanctioned on campus"--

Cincinnati Magazine

Cincinnati Magazine

Número de Páginas: 162

Cincinnati Magazine taps into the DNA of the city, exploring shopping, dining, living, and culture and giving readers a ringside seat on the issues shaping the region.

The Gambler and the Scholars

The Gambler and the Scholars

Autor: John F. Dooley

Número de Páginas: 332

In May 1917, William and Elizebeth Friedman were asked by the U.S. Army to begin training officers in cryptanalysis and to decrypt intercepted German diplomatic and military communications. In June 1917, Herbert Yardley convinced the new head of the Army’s Military Intelligence Division to create a code and cipher section for the Army with himself as its head. These two seminal events were the beginning of modern American cryptology, the growth of which culminated 35 years later with the creation of the National Security Agency. Each running their own cryptologic agencies in the 1920s, the Friedman-Yardley relationship was shattered after Yardley published a tell-all book about his time in military intelligence. Yet in the end, the work they all started in 1917 led directly to the modern American intelligence community. As they got older, they became increasingly irrelevant in the burgeoning American cryptologic fraternity. Topics and features: * Examines the lives of three remarkable and pioneering cryptologists * Offers fascinating insights into spies, codes and ciphers, rumrunners, poker, and military history * Sheds new light on interesting parts of the cryptologists’...

El Tao del viajero

El Tao del viajero

Autor: Paul Theroux

Número de Páginas: 295

El libro ideal para preparar nuestros viajes: para disfrutarlos, comprenderlos y recordarlos. No puedes transitar el camino hasta que tú mismo te conviertes en el camino. Paul Theroux celebra cincuenta años de viajar por el mundo y reúne lo mejor de su obra y los pasajes más memorables de aquellos autores que lo han formado como lector y viajero: Vladimir Nabokov, Samuel Johnson, Evelyn Waugh, Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, Ernest Hemingway, GrahamGreene y DH Lawrence entre otros se dan cita en estas páginas. Guía filosófica y libro de viajes a la vez, El Tao del viajero es una obra para regalar y atesorar, para leer una y otra vez, como libro de cabecera que marca el camino espiritual del viajero que todos llevamos dentro. La crítica ha dicho: «Theroux sigue siendo ese autor que atrae de un modo adictivo, incansablemente perceptivo y curioso.» The Washington Post «Siga a Theroux dondequiera que vaya, se verá sorprendido y cautivado...» Globe and Mail «Paul Theroux: monumento vivo de la prosa de viajes.» El País «Lectura perfecta para el verano que se le avecina a quien quiera viajar; a quien, queriendo, no pueda; y a quien, precisamente por no querer o no poder,...

Robert A.M. Stern

Robert A.M. Stern

Autor: Robert A. M. Stern

Número de Páginas: 600

In over thirty years of practice, Robert A. M. Stern has developed a distinctive architecture committed to the synthesis of tradition and innovation and to the creation and enhancement of a meaningful sense of place. Inspired by the legacy of great American architecture, his firm, Robert A. M. Stern Architects, has produced a wide variety of building types at differing scales in a range of stylistic vocabularies throughout the world. This monograph, which follows four earlier volumes documenting Stern's practice, includes more than one hundred projects from the years 1999-2003. Featured in this volume are a number of the distinguished houses for which Stern has become so well known, including residences in New York, Massachusetts, Maine, Virginia, South Carolina, Texas, Colorado, and California. Also presented are numerous educational buildings, another of the firm's specialties, at Columbia University, Dartmouth College, Georgetown University, Harvard Business School, Rice University, Johns Hopkins University, Acadia University in Nova Scotia, and other schools. Finally, this volume showcases projects that demonstrate Stern's prodigious range: the National Advocacy Center in...

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