A Century Plus Five Years
Author | : Powell Stamper |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 113 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : First Presbyterian Church of Hendersonville, Tennessee |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Powell Stamper |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 113 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : First Presbyterian Church of Hendersonville, Tennessee |
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Author | : David Bellos |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2024-01-23 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1324073721 |
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 be understood without knowing its backstory, a long tangle of high ideals, low greed, opportunism, and word-mangling that allowed poems and novels (and now, even ringtones and databases) to be treated as if they were no different from farms and houses. Principled arguments against copyright arose from the start and nearly abolished it in the nineteenth century. Nonetheless, countless revisions have made copyright ever stronger. Who Owns This Sentence? is an often-humorous and always-enlightening cultural, legal, and global history of the idea that intangible things can be owned, and makes a persuasive case for seeing copyright as an engine of inequality in the twenty-first century.
Author | : Laup TS |
Publisher | : novum pro Verlag |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2019-05-29 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3990645072 |
After witnessing his father's murder as a child, Paul Ashton grows up as an IRA man with a personal axe to grind. Paul returns to England to meet up with his cousin, Jimmy, who is facilitating the running of arms through a Russian connection. These are then buried at churches in a series of 'funerals' aided by ex-IRA man who has joined the priesthood, to be resurrected on the eve of the centenary of the Easter Rising. Paul, however, is distracted from the task in hand by his attraction to the beautiful Isabella, daughter of his Russian contact, and his penchant for hard drugs - not to mention a spell in a mental institution. Paul uses Jimmy's contacts, not knowing that they are secret Pagans and have a sinister motive in assisting the Irish - and that they want rid of Paul ...
Author | : Alexander Griffith |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 54 |
Release | : 1892 |
Genre | : Calendar |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Felix Budelmann |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 461 |
Release | : 2009-04-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521849446 |
Introduction to this wide-ranging body of poetry, which includes work by such famous poets as Sappho and Pindar.
Author | : Sue Kappa |
Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2021-02-03 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 1664114556 |
Sue Kappa has taken his artistry to another level. Continuing to operate in the unique trait of the African free verse style, he has put together here a set of citations, tributes for the memorable remembrances of the sterling human qualities of notable figures such as Mama Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Jr., Papa Johannes Paulus II, Nelson Mandela, Azumah Nelson, Haile Gebrselassie, Serena Williams, Kofi Annan, Presidents JEA Mills and Rawlings, others, and iconic events such as 9/11, who, and which have greatly impacted many lives. He questions the ‘conscious killing’ of ‘his twin sisters’ Ladan and Laleh of Fizourabad and the May, 2020 killing of George Floyd. In ‘The Cheering Crowd’, he taunts the legendary character, sycophancy as a worthless pursuit. Similarly, he draws attention to the plight of vulnerable head-porters, Kayayee, on the streets of Accra. This collection again marks the deeply contemplative nature of Kappa as he paints relics of the combination of his insightful instincts and style of the long rendition. In this three-in-one volume collection of mostly long homages christened A Dab Of a Film ...Of the Fragrance ...Of a Rose (Vol. 1-3), following four of his earlier collections (all by Xlibris), Kappa utilizes this deep-fry style of digging extensively into subjects treated, to make us reflect on the Golden lives of the personalities eulogized or the social phenomena hoisted up for celebration or for reconsideration.
Author | : James J. Haggerty |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 138 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Astronautics |
ISBN | : 9780160453687 |
Author | : Harold Kalter |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2010-07-28 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 9048188202 |
Serious congenital malformations are a major contributor to the infant death rate worldwide. Their nonhereditary causes are multiple and complex, and include infectious and metabolic dangers, disease medication, nutritional inadequacy, medicinal products, environmental agents and pollutants, among them. The cause of many however is still unknown. The wide range of these causes makes the defects of interest to those of a wide range of medical and investigatory backgrounds, especialy clinicians, fundamental scientists, and environmentalists.
Author | : Juan Gabriel Vasquez |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2022-08-02 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0593190149 |
A new collection of electric, searing stories from award-winning, bestselling author Juan Gabriel Vásquez. The characters in Songs for the Flames are men and women touched by violence—sometimes directly, sometimes only in passing—but whose lives are changed forever, consumed by fire and by unexpected encounters and unyielding forces. A photographer becomes obsessed with the traumatic past that an elegant woman, a fellow guest staying at a countryside ranch, would rather leave behind. A military reunion forces a soldier to confront a troubling history, both personal and on a larger scale. And in a tour-de-force piece, the search for a book leads a writer to the fascinating story of why a woman is buried next to a graveyard, rather than in it—and the remarkable account of her journey from France to Colombia as a child orphan. Juan Gabriel Vásquez returns to stories with these nine morally complex tales, fresh proof of his narrative versatility and his profound understanding of the lives of others. There’s a romantic wistfulness that combusts with the realities of dangerous histories, both personal and political, to throw these characters into the flames from which they either emerge purified, reborn, or burned and destroyed.
Author | : Michael Patrick Leahy |
Publisher | : Harpeth River Press |
Total Pages | : 186 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 097949740X |
In this hard hitting and intellectually powerful response to Sam Harris' Letter to a Christian Nation, Michael Patrick Leahy exposes the intellectual dishonesty behind Mr. Harris' brand of Christian bashing atheistic evangelism. Leahy points out in devastating detail the numerous factual misrepresentations in Mr. Harris' book (for instance, debunking Mr. Harris' outrageous claim that 50% of all Americans believe the universe is only 6,000 years old--the facts show the number is 18% at most), and dismantles the simplistic solutions proposed by Mr. Harris. Stop violence by ending all faith ? Easier to try to stop the ocean tides. Limit the rights of Christians to participate in the political process ? In the name of justice then, Harris would oppress Christians, creating a world wide second class of citizens. Follow the model of fascists in Europe in dealing with the threat of Islamic fundamentalism ? Even fellow atheist Christopher Hitchens calls such a solution repugnant. Seekers of the truth from all faiths should run, not walk, to their keyboard or local book store and purchase Michael Patrick Leahy's Letter to an Atheist. Reviews Finally, a strong Christian voice addresses the intellectual dishonesty of atheistic evangelism Christine Schaub, best selling author of The Longing Season, the story of John Newton and Amazing Grace Michael Patrick Leahy skillfully debunks Harris' charge that serious Christians and Islamic radicals should be equally feared; He also exposes the bigotry and distortion typically shown by secularists when addressing Intelligent Design. More importantly, Leahy shows that Harris' proposed utopia, in which religion is caged and tamed by the secularists, hasalready been shown to produce a world that most do not care to inhabit. Ralph Seelke, Ph.D. Professor, Biology University of Wisconsin-Superior Michael Patrick Leahy's book is a substantive critique of the work of Sam Harris in Letter to a Christian Nation. Leahy shows how wrong minded and frankly lopsided Harris' view of reality ends up being. Good intellectual stuff. Dr. Bob Harrington Lead Pastor of Harpeth Community Church, Franklin, Tennessee A must-read for Christians and non-Christians who truly seek the truth about the toughest long-standing issues confronting humanity. Mr. Leahy has used a logical, step-by-step, reasoned, and well-referenced approach to engage and refute an attack on Christian positions and principles. The material is well worth reading and debating. I was especially impressed by the defense of Christians' track record in opposing slavery. With the recent public attention to the life and contribution of William Wilberforce, this chapter could not be more timely. Reginald Finger, MD, MPH Independent medical researcher About the Author Michael Patrick Leahy is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard, and has an MBA from Stanford. His professional career has been in technology marketing. For more information about the author, go to his website at http: //www.michaelpatrickleahy.com .