On October the third, in the year 2055, two thirds of downtown Chicago suddenly drops dead. With no warning, explanation, or clues, ex-beat cop Jack Reed must piece together what has happened, and why, before the truth is buried forever in an avalanche of online user-generated content.iPads, Smart-phones, Google glasses, Apple watches - the world is becoming more and more digitized every day. The internet is no longer a toy, nor a luxury, but a utility as necessary as water and gas....

Our digital world is growing at an astounding pace. The ongoing collection, analysis, and dissemination of vast amounts of data is enriching society's collective knowledge and understanding, its genome, in unprecedented ways. Yet in this golden information age, no person or organization is immune from devastating, irreparable data loss, whether by natural disaster, cyber-attacks, or simple human error. Society's Genome is a clarion call to all data users creators and preservationists alike...

Have you ever wondered why it can be so hard to get your nutrition, your fitness, and your health back on track? Have you tried the “calories in versus calories out” way of eating and done hours on hours of boring cardio without any results? Would you like to know the secret to achieving world-class nutrition and fitness in just minutes (not hours) per day? Would you like to finally overcome those cravings for foods you know are sabotaging your health, making you gain weight, and destroyin...

In the nineteenth-century United States, jokes, comic anecdotes, and bons mots about the Pacific Islands and Pacific Islanders tried to make the faraway and unfamiliar either understandable or completely incomprehensible (i.e., “other”) to American readers. A Laughable Empire examines this substantial archival corpus, attempting to make sense of nineteenth-century American humor about Hawai‘i and the rest of the Pacific world.Todd Nathan Thompson collects and inte...

The firefly remembers a time when he didnt have the awesome glow. It was some time ago when he was a little bug, and the others made fun of him. He didnt have any friends. He wasnt invited to birthday parties. They said he wasnt special and wasnt worth anything.For a time, firefly believed those naysayers. That is, until he met a butterfly who experienced the same thing and offered some sage advice. Firefly was hopeful. Then, one day, he broke through his cocoon and experienced a t...

Abraham Lincoln’s sense of humor proved legendary during his own time and remains a celebrated facet of his personality to this day. Indeed, his love of jokes—hearing them, telling them, drawing morals from them—prompted critics to dub Lincoln “the National Joker.” The political cartoons and print satires that mocked Lincoln often trafficked in precisely the same images and terms Lincoln humorously used to characterize himself. In this intriguing study, Todd Nathan Thompson considers the p...

Truth spoken plainly and powerfully is difficult to dismiss and impossible to ignore. Edited with purpose by A. Gregory Frankson, AfriCANthology: Perspectives of Black Canadian Poets brings together some of Canada's most influential dub, page, and spoken word poetic voices and gives them space to speak freely about their personal journeys in piercing verse and unapologetic prose. Just as individual experiences of Blackness are diverse across Canada, each contributor recounts aspec...