Your Days are Numbered
Author | : Florence Campbell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 245 |
Release | : 1931 |
Genre | : Symbolism of numbers |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Florence Campbell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 245 |
Release | : 1931 |
Genre | : Symbolism of numbers |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Jacqueline Wernimont |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 239 |
Release | : 2019-01-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0262039044 |
A feminist media history of quantification, uncovering the stories behind the tools and technologies we use to count, measure, and weigh our lives and realities. Anglo-American culture has used media to measure and quantify lives for centuries. Historical journal entries map the details of everyday life, while death registers put numbers to life's endings. Today we count our daily steps with fitness trackers and quantify births and deaths with digitized data. How are these present-day methods for measuring ourselves similar to those used in the past? In this book, Jacqueline Wernimont presents a new media history of western quantification, uncovering the stories behind the tools and technologies we use to count, measure, and weigh our lives and realities. Numbered Lives is the first book of its kind, a feminist media history that maps connections not only between past and present-day “quantum media” but between media tracking and long-standing systemic inequalities. Wernimont explores the history of the pedometer, mortality statistics, and the census in England and the United States to illuminate the entanglement of Anglo-American quantification with religious, imperial, and patriarchal paradigms. In Anglo-American culture, Wernimont argues, counting life and counting death are sides of the same coin—one that has always been used to render statistics of life and death more valuable to corporate and state organizations. Numbered Lives enumerates our shared media history, helping us understand our digital culture and inheritance.
Author | : Dan Bouk |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 325 |
Release | : 2018-02-06 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 022656486X |
Classing -- Fatalizing -- Writing -- Smoothing -- A modern conception of death -- Valuing lives, in four movements -- Failing the future.
Author | : Oliver Jeffers |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 2014-07-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0698165543 |
Learn to count with the #1 New York Times bestselling artist of The Day the Crayons Quit and his hilarious cast of Hueys! "Is none a number?" you might ask. I'm glad you did. The answer is Yes! For example, how many lumps of cheese do you see next to you? The answer, depending on where you are, is likely "none." Counting with the reader all the way up to ten, the Hueys explain numbers as only they can. Such as: The number 4 is the number of tantrums thrown by Dave every day. 7 is the number of oranges balanced on things. And 9 is the number of seagulls who attacked Frank's French fries. Together they make quite a spectacle. But when you take away all of these fun illustrations in the book? You're left with none! This funny and accessible counting book from #1 New York Times bestseller Oliver Jeffers (The Day the Crayons Quit; This Moose Belongs to Me) gives the Hueys one more reason to be every young child's best friends. Praise for NONE THE NUMBER "Delightfully droll and enlightening . . . . The illustrations, 'made with pencils and a bit of color' on large white pages, are deceptively simple and ridiculously funny."--School Library Journal
Author | : Alexandra Garbarini |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2006-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0300135033 |
Terrorist attacks regularly trigger the enactment of repressive laws, setting in motion a vicious cycle that threatens to devastate civil liberties over the twenty-first century. In this clear-sighted book, Bruce Ackerman peers into the future and presents an intuitive, practical alternative. He proposes an 'emergency constitution' that enables government to take extraordinary actions to prevent a second strike in the short run while prohibiting permanent measures that destroy our freedom over the longer run. Ackerman's 'emergency constitution' exposes the dangers lurking behind the popular notion that we are fighting a war on terror. He criticizes court opinions that have adopted the war framework, showing how they uncritically accept extreme presidential claims to sweeping powers. Instead of expanding the authority of the commander-in-chief, the courts should encourage new forms of checks and balances that allow for decisive, but carefully controlled, presidential action during emergencies. In making his case, Ackerman explores emergency provisions in constitutions ranging from France to South Africa, retaining aspects that work and adapting others. He shows that no country today is well equipped to both fend off terrorists and preserve fundamental liberties, drawing particular attention to recent British reactions to terrorist attacks. Written for thoughtful citizens throughout the world, this book is democracy's constitutional reply to political excess in the sinister era of terrorism.
Author | : Charles Stanley Ogilvy |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 1988-01-01 |
Genre | : Mathematics |
ISBN | : 9780486257785 |
Challenging, accessible mathematical adventures involving prime numbers, number patterns, irrationals and iterations, calculating prodigies, and more. No special training is needed, just high school mathematics and an inquisitive mind. "A splendidly written, well selected and presented collection. I recommend the book unreservedly to all readers." — Martin Gardner.
Author | : Lee Eisenberg |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2006-12-26 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0743270320 |
Backed by imaginative reporting and insights, Eisenberg urges people to assume control and responsibility for their standard of living, and take greater aim on their long-term aspirations. Not an investment guide, this is a revealing look at common financial and emotional conflicts and how to control them.
Author | : Olivia Gatwood |
Publisher | : Button Poetry |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2017-03-21 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 194373514X |
One of the most recognizable young poets in America, Olivia Gatwood dazzles with her tribute to contemporary American womanhood in her debut book, New American Best Friend. Gatwood's poems deftly deconstruct traditional stereotypes. The focus shifts from childhood to adulthood, gender to sexuality, violence to joy. And always and inexorably, the book moves toward celebration, culminating in a series of odes: odes to the body, to tough women, to embracing your own journey in all its failures and triumphs.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1072 |
Release | : 1877 |
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ISBN | : |
Author | : Pittacus Lore |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 455 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Charms |
ISBN | : 0062000764 |
Friendships and a beautiful girl are distracting to a teenager who is hiding on Earth while he waits to develop the powers he will need to rejoin the other six surviving Garde members and fight those who destroyed their planet.