Digital Yesterdays
Digital Yesterdays

Author: Steven R. Harrison

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2011-02-08

Total Pages: 170

ISBN-13: 1445797143

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Chronological Explorer Steve Wilberforce has the whole of recorded history to save when his time machine falls into the wrong hands, a thief out to correct a mistake on her last heist. With car chases, scrapes with the law and time travel spanning five centuries, that's a lot to sort out. Add in bad costume choice and an automated man servant whose upgrade to distinguish himself from Action Man costs aC--500, things can only get worse. Bonus sneak peak material! The 1st chapter of 'Attack of the Atomic Airships!' Introducing Air Group Captain Sebastopol Valiant, the steampunk missing link between Harry Flashman and Biggles. Can be found at the end of 'Digital Yesterdays'

Yesterday's Tomorrow
Yesterday's Tomorrow

Author: Bini Adamczak

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2021-04-20

Total Pages: 183

ISBN-13: 0262045133

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How the communist revolution failed, presented in a series of catastrophes. The communist project in the twentieth century grew out of utopian desires to oppose oppression and abolish class structures, to give individual lives collective meaning. The attempts to realize these ideals became a series of colossal failures. In Yesterday's Tomorrow, Bini Adamczak examines these catastrophes, proceeding in reverse chronological order from 1939 to 1917: the Hitler-Stalin Pact, the Great Terror of 1937, the failure of the European Left to prevent National Socialism, Stalin's rise to power, and the bloody rebellion at Kronstadt. In the process, she seeks a future that never happened.

Music - Media - History
Music - Media - History

Author: Matej Santi

Publisher: transcript Verlag

Published: 2021-01-31

Total Pages: 301

ISBN-13: 3839451450

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Music and sound shape the emotional content of audio-visual media and carry different meanings. This volume considers audio-visual material as a primary source for historiography. By analyzing how the same sounds are used in different media contexts at different times, the contributors intend to challenge the linear perspective of (music) history based on canonic authority. The book discusses AV-Documents (analysis in context), methodological questions (implications for research, education, and popularization of knowledge), archives of cultural memory (from the perspective of Cultural Studies) as well as digitalization and its consequences (organization of knowledge).

Yesterday's Tomorrows
Yesterday's Tomorrows

Author: Pere Gallardo

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2014-03-26

Total Pages: 410

ISBN-13: 1443858773

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2012 was a year of financial crises and ecological disasters, of endings and forebodings. The world did not end on December 21st as the Mayan calendar predicted, but became the stage for new beginnings, utopian communities, protest groups and solidarity movements. The essays in this book form an intertextual space for negotiating meaningful facts and fictions with an aim to understanding the present. Discussions focus on utopia and dystopia from literature and film, not only within the framework of science fiction but also critical theory, gender politics and social sciences. The authors of these essays are international academics whose interest lies in utopian studies and who attended the 13th International Conference of Utopian Studies, “The Shape of Things to Come”, held in Tarragona, Spain, in 2012.

Scientific and Technical Revolution: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
Scientific and Technical Revolution: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

Author: Elena G. Popkova

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-06-05

Total Pages: 1763

ISBN-13: 3030479455

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This book presents a system view of the digital scientific and technological revolution, including its genesis and prerequisites, current trends, as well as current and potential issues and future prospects. It gathers selected research papers presented at the 12th International Scientific and Practical Conference, organized by the Institute of Scientific Communications. The conference “Artificial Intelligence: Anthropogenic Nature vs. Social Origin” took place on December 5–7, 2019 in Krasnoyarsk, Russia. The book is intended for academic researchers and independent experts studying the social and human aspects of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and the associated transition to the digital economy and Industry 4.0, as well as the creators of the legal framework for this process and its participants – entrepreneurs, managers, employees and consumers. It covers a variety of topics, including “intelligent” technologies and artificial intelligence, the digital economy, the social environment of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and its consequences for humans, the regulatory framework of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, and the “green” consequences, prospects and financing of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

Boundaries, Phases and Interfaces
Boundaries, Phases and Interfaces

Author: Olga Fernández-Soriano

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Published: 2017-06-15

Total Pages: 379

ISBN-13: 9027265720

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This book approaches the concept of boundary, central in linguistic theory, and the related notion of phase from the perspective of the interaction between syntax and its interfaces. A primary notion is that phases are the appropriate domains to explain most interface linguistic phenomena and that the study of (narrow) interfaces helps to understand conditions on the internal structure of the Language Faculty. The first part of this volume is dedicated to introducing the notion of boundary, cycle and phase, and also the current debates regarding internal interfaces, in particular, the syntax-phonology, syntax-semantics, syntax-discourse, syntax-morphology and syntax-lexicon interfaces, in order to show how the notion of boundary/phase is related to (or even determines) most of their characteristics. The four sections of the second part deal with (morpho)phonology/ syntax and the role or boundaries/phases; the syntax-discourse and syntax-semantics interface; and the lexicon-syntax interface, while the notion of boundary/phase cross-cuts the main topics addressed.

Yesterday’s Words
Yesterday’s Words

Author: Marijke Mooijaart

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2021-02-03

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 1527565688

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Yesterday’s Words: Contemporary, Current and Future Lexicography reflects the main issues of scholarly discussion in the fields of historical lexicography and lexicology including the historiography of lexicography. The state-of-the-art volume offers a wide range of contributions in five chapters. After the editors’ introduction to Yesterday’s Words, the chapter Dictionaries and Dictionary-Makers of Former Ages concentrates on historical lexicography, including both the main lexicographical works in English and German and dictionaries of minority languages such as Frisian, Welsh, Irish and Scots. The Vocabulary of the Past discusses historical lexicological and etymological issues such as the results of early language contact in the West-Germanic area and in Jamaica in more recent times. Researchers involved in ongoing lexicographical projects, such as the first dictionary of Old Dutch, report on their practice and methodological approach in Current and Future Lexicography and Lexicology. Many dictionaries or dictionary research projects discussed in the volume have been or are being carried out in a digital environment. In the final chapter, Technology of Today for Yesterday’s Words, special attention is paid to projects in which computer techniques and the development of new applications have been essential. The volume is an essential text for lexicographers, historiographers and historical linguists.

Retail Yesterday and Today
Retail Yesterday and Today

Author: Jerry Ford

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2016-11-19

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 1524563064

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The reader will be exposed to real-life experiences before and after laws are introduced to protect workers. The reader will learn from the book what favoritism, discrimination, influence, personal and team morals, political atmosphere, and toxic leadership looked like in the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The role that technology has played in the evolution of the industry has been amazing, and the reader will get a snapshot of what technology and team member engagement looks like in its infancy through today.

Was It Yesterday?
Was It Yesterday?

Author: Matthew Leggatt

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 2021-06-01

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 1438483503

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Bringing together prominent transatlantic film and media scholars, Was It Yesterday? explores the impact of nostalgia in twenty-first century American film and television. Cultural nostalgia, in both real and imagined forms, is dominant today, but what does the concentration on bringing back the past mean for an understanding of our cultural moment, and what are the consequences for viewers? This book questions the nature of this nostalgic phenomenon, the politics associated with it, and the significance of the different periods, in addition to offering counterarguments that see nostalgia as prevalent throughout film and television history. Considering such films and television shows as La La Land, Westworld, Stranger Things, and American Hustle, the contributors demonstrate how audiences have spent more time over the last decade living in various pasts.