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The Enduring Library: Technology, Tradition, and the Quest for Balance

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George Eliot’s Middlemarch, deemed by many the finest English-language novel of the nineteenth century, is rooted in a particular time and place. The time is the late 1820s and early 1830s and the place England—a country going through a profound change. Superstition was giving way to science, quackery to scientific medicine, stagecoaches to railroads, cottage industries and hand implements to factories and machinery, and the nation was still consumed with the controversies attendant on the First Reform Bill, finally enacted in 1832. The changes and societal shifts seemed epochal and transformational to the people of the time about which Eliot was writing (forty years later)—as indeed they were. The novel would lack much of its resonance if it were set in quieter, more settled times. The rub is, of course, to find any such times. The American and French Revolutions had taken place a scant fifty years before the events of Middlemarch—and they were epochal, the best of times and the worst of times. The European revolutions of 1848 lay between the times in which Middlemarch is set and the writing of the book, and they were seen as transforming the Continent. The First World War broke out thirty-four years after George Eliot died. It was called “the war to end all wars” and is seen by many as the defining line between the Victorian age and modern times. I could go on with a familiar litany of political, military, and social defining moments— the “quiet bland” Eisenhower 1950s were, after all, the time of the “red scare,” the stirrings of the civil rights movement, and the very real fears of nuclear war that still haunt most who were children then. At the time of writing the United States and the world are still reeling from the awful events of September 11, 2001—“a day in which the whole world changed,” we are told constantly.
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Enterprise Risk Management: From Incentives to Controls
Enterprise Risk Management: From Incentives to Controls

A fully revised second edition focused on the best practices of enterprise risk management

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Microsoft Powerpoint 2016: The Complete Guide
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Programming Server-Side Applications for Microsoft Windows 2000
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Radiation Induced Molecular Phenomena in Nucleic Acids: A Comprehensive Theoretical and Experimental Analysis
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H.264 and MPEG-4 Video Compression: Video Coding for Next Generation Multimedia
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Following on from the successful MPEG-2 standard, MPEG-4 Visual is enabling a new wave of multimedia applications from Internet video streaming to mobile video conferencing. The new H.264 ‘Advanced Video Coding’ standard promises impressive compression performance and is gaining support from developers and manufacturers. The first...

The Essential Turing: Seminal Writings in Computing, Logic, Philosophy, Artificial Intelligence, and Artificial Life plus The Secrets of Enigma
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Alan Turing was one of the most important and influential thinkers of the 20th century. This volume makes his key writings available to a non-specialist readership for the first time. They make fascinating reading both in their own right and for their historic significance: contemporary
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