Author: Hendrik Poutsma
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language and languages
Languages : en
Pages : 904
Book Description
Tales from Facebook
Author: Daniel Miller
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0745637876
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Facebook is now used by nearly 500 million people throughout the world, many of whom spend several hours a day on this site. Once the preserve of youth, the largest increase in usage today is amongst the older sections of the population. Yet until now there has been no major study of the impact of these social networking sites upon the lives of their users. This book demonstrates that it can be profound. The tales in this book reveal how Facebook can become the means by which people find and cultivate relationships, but can also be instrumental in breaking up marriage. They reveal how Facebook can bring back the lives of people isolated in their homes by illness or age, by shyness or failure, but equally Facebook can devastate privacy and create scandal. We discover why some people believe that the truth of another person lies more in what you see online than face-to-face. We also see how Facebook has become a vehicle for business, the church, sex and memorialisation. After a century in which we have assumed social networking and community to be in decline, Facebook has suddenly hugely expanded our social relationships, challenging the central assumptions of social science. It demonstrates one of the main tenets of anthropology - that individuals have always been social networking sites. This book examines in detail how Facebook transforms the lives of particular individuals, but it also presents a general theory of Facebook as culture and considers the likely consequences of social networking in the future.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0745637876
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Facebook is now used by nearly 500 million people throughout the world, many of whom spend several hours a day on this site. Once the preserve of youth, the largest increase in usage today is amongst the older sections of the population. Yet until now there has been no major study of the impact of these social networking sites upon the lives of their users. This book demonstrates that it can be profound. The tales in this book reveal how Facebook can become the means by which people find and cultivate relationships, but can also be instrumental in breaking up marriage. They reveal how Facebook can bring back the lives of people isolated in their homes by illness or age, by shyness or failure, but equally Facebook can devastate privacy and create scandal. We discover why some people believe that the truth of another person lies more in what you see online than face-to-face. We also see how Facebook has become a vehicle for business, the church, sex and memorialisation. After a century in which we have assumed social networking and community to be in decline, Facebook has suddenly hugely expanded our social relationships, challenging the central assumptions of social science. It demonstrates one of the main tenets of anthropology - that individuals have always been social networking sites. This book examines in detail how Facebook transforms the lives of particular individuals, but it also presents a general theory of Facebook as culture and considers the likely consequences of social networking in the future.
I'd Die For You
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501144340
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
"Known not only for his brilliant novels but also for short stories chronicling the Jazz Age, such as 'Bernice bobs her hair' and 'The diamond as big as the Ritz, ' F. Scott Fitzgerald continued to write stories his entire life, some of which were never published--until now. Many of the stories in I'd die for you were submitted to major magazines and accepted for publication during Fitzgerald's lifetime but were never printed. A few were written as movie scenarios and sent to studios or producers, but not filmed. Others are stories that could not be sold because their subject matter or style departed from what editors expected of Fitzgerald in the 1930s. They come from various sources, from library archive to private collections, including those of Fitzgerald's family"--Jacket flap.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501144340
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
"Known not only for his brilliant novels but also for short stories chronicling the Jazz Age, such as 'Bernice bobs her hair' and 'The diamond as big as the Ritz, ' F. Scott Fitzgerald continued to write stories his entire life, some of which were never published--until now. Many of the stories in I'd die for you were submitted to major magazines and accepted for publication during Fitzgerald's lifetime but were never printed. A few were written as movie scenarios and sent to studios or producers, but not filmed. Others are stories that could not be sold because their subject matter or style departed from what editors expected of Fitzgerald in the 1930s. They come from various sources, from library archive to private collections, including those of Fitzgerald's family"--Jacket flap.
Monsters from the Id
Author: E. Michael Jones
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Jones uncovers the origins of horror in the suffering inflicted by political and sexual revolution. The avenging monster, a mainstay of horror, emerged from the sexual dissolution of the French Revolution (Frankenstein) and thrived in the syphilitic underworld of Victorian England (Dracula). From Nosferatu and Psycho to Alien and Interview with the Vampire, the twentieth century has spawned new monsters of unprecedented horror. -- What is the connection between sex and horror? -- Why are vampires and nameless or faceless monsters so common in horror? -- Why do we need horror -- yet fail to understand it?
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Jones uncovers the origins of horror in the suffering inflicted by political and sexual revolution. The avenging monster, a mainstay of horror, emerged from the sexual dissolution of the French Revolution (Frankenstein) and thrived in the syphilitic underworld of Victorian England (Dracula). From Nosferatu and Psycho to Alien and Interview with the Vampire, the twentieth century has spawned new monsters of unprecedented horror. -- What is the connection between sex and horror? -- Why are vampires and nameless or faceless monsters so common in horror? -- Why do we need horror -- yet fail to understand it?
A New Dictionary of the English Language
Author: Charles Richardson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 1056
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 1056
Book Description
The Eastern Reporter
Author: John Thomas Cook
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 970
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 970
Book Description
A Grammar of Late Modern English, for the Use of Continental, Especially Dutch, Students
Author: Hendrik Poutsma
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 912
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 912
Book Description
A Grammar of Late Modern English, for the Use of Continental, Especially Dutch, Students: The parts of speech. Section I. A. Nouns, adjectives and articles. B. Pronouns and numerals. Section II. The verb and the particles
Author: Hendrik Poutsma
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language and languages
Languages : en
Pages : 904
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language and languages
Languages : en
Pages : 904
Book Description
Zoological Record
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
"Zoological Record is published annually in separate sections. The first of these is Comprehensive Zoology, followed by sections recording a year's literature relating to a Phylum or Class of the Animal Kingdom. The final section contains the new genera and subgenera indexed in the volume." Each section of a volume lists the sections of that volume.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
"Zoological Record is published annually in separate sections. The first of these is Comprehensive Zoology, followed by sections recording a year's literature relating to a Phylum or Class of the Animal Kingdom. The final section contains the new genera and subgenera indexed in the volume." Each section of a volume lists the sections of that volume.
A Grammar of Late Modern English ...
Author: Hendrik Poutsma
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 912
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 912
Book Description
The Publishers Weekly
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1272
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1272
Book Description