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There's a common belief that cyberspace cannot be regulated-that it is, in its very essence, immune from the government's (or anyone else's) control. Code, first published in 2000, argues that this belief is wrong. It is not in the nature of cyberspace to be unregulable; cyberspace has no "nature." It only has code-the software and hardware that make cyberspace what it is. That code can create a place of freedom-as the original architecture of the Net did-or a place of oppressive ...

Lawrence Block on AFTERTHOUGHTS 2.0:AFTERTHOUGHTS began in 2011, when I first began self-publishing titles from my voluminous backlist. I packed it with forewords and afterwords and essays and articles about the work, and arranged for its distribution as an ebook. Here's wwhat the publisher had to day about it at the time:"In a career spanning more than fifty years, Lawrence Block has produced more than one hundred books, ranging in genre from hard-boiled detective stories ...

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Whether a second language is learned as a child, teenager, or as an adult, second language acquisition research has noted certain patterns that can help ESL/EFL teachers prepare their lessons. Learn the three essential components of ESL/EFL students’ learning and other factors that can improve or challenge a student’s ability to learn.About the English Language Teacher Development SeriesAs the English language teaching field continually reinvents itself, th...

Lawrence English shares his appreciation of the profound cultural and artistic impact of one of the most iconic albums of all time: The Dark Side of the Moon, by Pink Floyd. This book transcends the realm of music to explore how this groundbreaking album became a cultural phenomenon, influencing art, politics, philosophy, and individual identity across generations.The Album That Defined an Era: Lawrence English takes readers on a journey to understand the...

Pink Floyd tapped into the deep roots people have in philosophy, psychology, religion, literature, and history, and their 1973 album The Dark Side of the Moon continues to appeal to people after almost fifty years. This book explains how the album evokes and resonates with so many cultural chords in all of us. "More Than Music is a rigorous examination of one of the most enduring records of all time, Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon.Analyzing the album from ...

Guesstimation 2.0 reveals the simple and effective techniques needed to estimate virtually anything--quickly--and illustrates them using an eclectic array of problems. A stimulating follow-up to Guesstimation, this is the must-have book for anyone preparing for a job interview in technology or finance, where more and more leading businesses test applicants using estimation questions just like these.The ability to guesstimate on your feet is an essential skill to h...

For fans of Raina Telgemeier and Kayla Miller comes the second graphic novel in the funny slice-of-life Cool Code series.Morgan, Zoey, and Daniel discover that the popularity AI they've coded is being used to wreak mischief and destroy friendships in their school. It's up to them to fix the glitch!When the coding club finds that their app has a malicious user, Morgan, Zoey, and Daniel code an update to contend with a mischievous AI llama th...

In Code Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan reconstructs how Progressive Era technocracy as well as crises of industrial democracy and colonialism shaped early accounts of cybernetics and digital media by theorists including Norbert Wiener, Warren Weaver, Margaret Mead, Gregory Bateson, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Roman Jakobson, Jacques Lacan, Roland Barthes, and Luce Irigaray. His analysis casts light on how media-practical research forged common epistemic cause in programs that stretched from...

Business Purpose Design is an essential guide for a human-centric and holistic purpose for businesses.Discontinuity, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity are driving forces of our world. Entire markets, industries, departments, and specialist areas interact and correlate with each other - unplanned and open-ended. In such a world, orientation is key to navigate, to distinguish relevant information from irrelevant, to take decisions and lead companies to create a positive future. Together...

A loving mother will do anything to prevent her son from failing his final exam... Luckily, the principal is a very accommodating - and perverse - guy!

“Don’t cry in front of anybody else, okay?”High schooler Kippei is over the moon when the stunning and popular Umegami agrees to date him, but she has one condition: his tears must be hers, and hers alone!Kippei continues to be a crybaby, but over the course of their relationship, the truth behind Umegami's tears comes to light, and the two grow closer...This volume is the heart-pounding conclusion for the awkward and unusual love story between a pu...