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Minority Report
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Author : H.L. Mencken
language : en
Publisher: Knopf
Release Date : 2013-10-02
Minority Report written by H.L. Mencken and has been published by Knopf this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-02 with Literary Collections categories.
In the fall of 1948 H. L. Mencken, then at the top of his unmatchable form (he had spoken at a meeting of the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia only a little while before), suffered a stroke. He soon recovered his physical vigor, but writing was for him a thing of the past. Some months before his death, in going through some papers that he was putting in order for deposit in his beloved Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore, his long-time secretary discovered these Notebooks. Mencken meant to publish them, as he makes clear in the preface, which also describes them better than I can. Suffice it to say that here is one more generous sampling of the old Mencken battling fearlessly for the freedom and dignity of the individual and for the general decencies of life and attacking all that seems fundamentally hostile to man: government, organized religion, professional philosophers, and pedagogues above all. It shows his restless and inquiring mind ranging over many of the problems that beset all of us who ever take time out to think, all in his unmatchable style, which, however much it crackles, has the supreme virtue—which Henry always found in his own great model, Thomas Henry Huxley—that of never leaving you in doubt of its meaning. Read the preface and note that this book is precisely what its title suggests; it consists of hundreds of notes—some only a few lines in length, some running to several pages, all reflecting a rigorous and exhilarating mind and personality. It may be a long time before another like him crosses our path.
Minority Report
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Author : John D. Griffin
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2008-09-15
Minority Report written by John D. Griffin and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-09-15 with Social Science categories.
Are the views of Latinos and African Americans underrepresented in our federal government? For that matter, what does it mean to be represented equitably? Rather than taking for granted a single answer to these complex questions, John Griffin and Brian Newman use different measures of political equality to reveal which groups get what they want from government and what factors lead to their successes. One of the first books to compare the representation of both African Americans and Latinos to that of whites, Minority Report shows that congressional decisions and federal policy tend to mirror the preferences of whites as a group and as individuals better than the preferences of either minority group, even after accounting for income disparities. This is far from the whole story, though, and the authors’ multifaceted approach illustrates the surprising degree to which group population size, an issue’s level of importance, the race or ethnicity of an office holder, and electoral turnout can affect how well government action reflects the views of each person or group. Sure to be controversial, Minority Report ultimately goes beyond statistical analyses to address the root question of what equal representation really means.
Minority Report
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Author : Philip K Dick
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2010-05-14
Minority Report written by Philip K Dick and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-05-14 with Fiction categories.
'One of the most original practitioners writing any kind of fiction' Sunday Times Imagine a future where crimes can be detected before they are committed, and criminals are convicted and sentenced for crimes before committing them. This is the scenario of Philip K. Dick's classic story, which was also a major Hollywood blockbuster filmed by Steven Spielberg, starring Tom Cruise. In addition to MINORITY REPORT this exclusive collection includes nine other superb short stories by the twentieth century's outstanding SF master, three of which have been made into feature films.
Screening Big Data
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Author : Gerald Sim
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2024-07-30
Screening Big Data written by Gerald Sim and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-07-30 with Social Science categories.
This book examines the influence of key films on public understanding of big data and the algorithmic systems that structure our digitally mediated lives. From star-powered blockbusters to civic-minded documentaries positioned to facilitate weighty debates about artificial intelligence, these texts frame our discourse and mediate our relationship to technology. Above all, they impact society’s abilities to regulate AI and navigate big tech’s political and economic maneuvers to achieve market dominance and regulatory capture. Foregrounding data politics with close readings of key films like Moneyball, Minority Report, The Social Dilemma, and Coded Bias, Gerald Sim reveals compelling ways in which films and tech industry–adjacent media define apprehension of AI. With the mid-2010s techlash in danger of fizzling out, Screening Big Data explores the relationship between this resistance and cultural infrastructure while highlighting the urgent need to refocus attention onto how technocentric media occupy the public imagination. This book will interest students and scholars of film and media studies, digital culture, critical data studies, and technopolitics.
Religious Difference In A Secular Age
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Author : Saba Mahmood
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2015-11-03
Religious Difference In A Secular Age written by Saba Mahmood and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-03 with Social Science categories.
How secular governance in the Middle East is making life worse—not better—for religious minorities The plight of religious minorities in the Middle East is often attributed to the failure of secularism to take root in the region. Religious Difference in a Secular Age challenges this assessment by examining four cornerstones of secularism—political and civil equality, minority rights, religious freedom, and the legal separation of private and public domains. Drawing on her extensive fieldwork in Egypt with Coptic Orthodox Christians and Bahais—religious minorities in a predominantly Muslim country—Saba Mahmood shows how modern secular governance has exacerbated religious tensions and inequalities rather than reduced them. Tracing the historical career of secular legal concepts in the colonial and postcolonial Middle East, she explores how contradictions at the very heart of political secularism have aggravated and amplified existing forms of Islamic hierarchy, bringing minority relations in Egypt to a new historical impasse. Through a close examination of Egyptian court cases and constitutional debates about minority rights, conflicts around family law, and controversies over freedom of expression, Mahmood invites us to reflect on the entwined histories of secularism in the Middle East and Europe. A provocative work of scholarship, Religious Difference in a Secular Age challenges us to rethink the promise and limits of the secular ideal of religious equality.
Official Report Of The Proceedings Of The Republican National Convention Held In
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1888
Official Report Of The Proceedings Of The Republican National Convention Held In written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1888 with Presidents categories.
Lex Populi
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Author : William P. MacNeil
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2007
Lex Populi written by William P. MacNeil and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Law categories.
This is a book about jurisprudence—or legal philosophy. The legal philosophical texts under consideration are—to say the least—unorthodox. Tolkien, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Harry Potter, Million Dollar Baby, and other cultural products are all referenced as exemplary instances of what the author calls lex populi—“people’s” or “pop law.” There, more than anywhere else, will one find the leading issues of legal philosophy. These issues, however, are heavily coded, for few of these pop cultural texts announce themselves as expressly legal. Nonetheless, Lex Populi reads these texts “jurisprudentially,” that is, with an eye to their hidden legal philosophical meanings, enabling connections such as: Tolkien’s Ring as Kelsen’s grundnorm; vampire slaying as legal language’s semiosis; Hogwarts as substantively unjust; and a seriously injured young woman as termination’s rights-bearer. In so doing, Lex Populi attempts not only a jurisprudential reading of popular culture, but a popular rereading of jurisprudence, removing it from the legal experts in order to restore it to the public at large: a lex populi by and for the people.
Report Of The Proceedings Of The Annual Meeting Of The Missouri Bar Association
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Author : Missouri Bar Association
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1898
Report Of The Proceedings Of The Annual Meeting Of The Missouri Bar Association written by Missouri Bar Association and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1898 with Bar associations categories.
List of members in each volume.
Official Report Of The Proceedings And Debates Of The Convention
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Author : Utah. Constitutional Convention
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1898
Official Report Of The Proceedings And Debates Of The Convention written by Utah. Constitutional Convention and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1898 with Constitutional conventions categories.
Minority Report
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Author : Carl R. Trueman
language : en
Publisher: Mentor
Release Date : 2007-11-29
Minority Report written by Carl R. Trueman and has been published by Mentor this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-11-29 with Christianity and culture categories.
Theological essays are dusty, humourless affairs aren't they? Well, they don't have to be! This is the second collection of essays by Carl Trueman. His first collection was received with the enthusiasm. This time Chick Lit, Adolf Eichman, the i-pod, Francis J. Beckwith, the Blues, Watership Down, American Idol, Nietzsche, zen-calvinism, Augustine and ferrets(!) all get a mention. If you want to inform your mind and chuckle at the same time - Carl's your man!