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Electronic Textual Editing
by John Unsworth Lou Burnard Katherine O'Brien O'KeeffeAlthough the contributors come from diverse disciplines and institutions around the world, this collection reflects an emerging consensus about the fundamental issues of electronic textual editing. The 24 essays address markup coding and procedures, electronic archive administration, use of standards, rights and permissions, and the changing environment of the internet. The guidelines of the Modern Language Association for scholarly editions are included in full.
Electronic Tribes
by Stephen A. Smith Tyrone L. AdamsWhether people want to play games and download music, engage in social networking and professional collaboration, or view pornography and incite terror, the Internet provides myriad opportunities for people who share common interests to find each other. The contributors to this book argue that these self-selected online groups are best understood as tribes, with many of the same ramifications, both positive and negative, that tribalism has in the non-cyber world. In Electronic Tribes, the authors of sixteen competitively selected essays provide an up-to-the-minute look at the social uses and occasional abuses of online communication in the new media era. They explore many current Internet subcultures, including MySpace. com, craftster. org, massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs) such as World of Warcraft, music downloading, white supremacist and other counterculture groups, and Nigerian e-mail scams. Their research raises compelling questions and some remarkable answers about the real-life social consequences of participating in electronic tribes. Collectively, the contributors to this book capture a profound shift in the way people connect, as communities formed by geographical proximity are giving way to communities - both online and offline - formed around ideas.
Electronics for Service Engineers
by Dave FoxElectronics for Service Engineers is the first text designed specifically for the Level 2 NVQs in Electronics Servicing. It provides the underpinning knowledge required by brown goods and white goods students, reflecting the popularity of the EMTA white goods NVQs. It has also been written in the light of the new EEB / City & Guilds Level 2 progression award (RVQ) for brown goods and commercial electronics, dubbed 'son of 2240', and the existing 2240 part 1. The wide ranging experience of the authors makes this a readable book with much relevance to the real-life challenges of the service engineer. From simple mathematics and circuit theory to transmission theory and aerials, from health and safety to logic gates and transducers, the complete range of knowledge required to service electronic and electrical equipment is here. This practical emphasis makes the book ideal for existing service engineers seeking to gain an NVQ. Numerous questions and worked examples throughout the text allow readers to monitor their own progress, and provide practice for C&G tests.Joe Cieszynski and Dave Fox have a wide mix of experience, both in the field and workshop working on TV and audio, and teaching electronic servicing and security installation at MANCAT. Joe writes regularly for Television magazine.
Electronics, Communications and Networks V
by Amir HussainThis book comprises peer-reviewed contributions presented at the 5th International Conference on Electronics, Communications and Networks (CECNet 2015), held in Shanghai, China, 12-15 December, 2015. It includes new multi-disciplinary topics spanning a unique depth and breadth of cutting-edge research areas in Electronic Engineering, Communications and Networks, and Computer Technology. More generally, it is of interest to academics, students and professionals involved in Consumer Electronics Technology, Communication Engineering and Technology, Wireless Communication Systems and Technology, and Computer Engineering and Technology.
Elegant Jeremiahs: The Sage from Carlyle to Mailer (Routledge Revivals)
by George P. LandowLabelled "an elegant Jeremiah" by a journalist of his day, the urbane Victorian Matthew Arnold must have received the comparison with the Old Testament prophet uneasily. Writing in the 1970s, Norman Mailer seems to owe nothing to the biblical for his description of a long hot wait to buy a cold drink while reporting on the first voyage to the moon. Yet both Arnold and Mailer, George P. Landow asserts in this book, are sages, writers in the nonfiction prose form of secular prophecy, a genre richly influenced by the episodic structures and harshly critical attitudes toward society which characterize Old Testament prophetic literature. In this book, first published in 1986, Landow defines the genre by exploring its rhetoric, an approach that enables him to illuminate the relationships among representative works of the nineteenth century to one another, to biblical, oratorical, and homiletic traditions, and to such twentieth-century writers as Lawrence, Didion, and Mailer.
Elegant Legal Writing
by Ryan McCarlElegant Legal Writing helps attorneys elevate their writing from passable to polished. Drawing on ideas from cognitive science, stylistics, and litigation strategy, the book teaches practical techniques by example using fast-paced chapters. Readers will learn the essentials of effective legal composition: Writing clear, efficient prose Crafting strong arguments Telling a client's story through a compelling narrative Overcoming procrastination and drafting more productively Readability, aesthetics, and argumentation are intertwined. Ryan McCarl shows how litigation documents that are easier and more pleasant to read are more likely to persuade judges and other busy readers. The book also discusses parts of legal writing that many guides overlook, including sentence mechanics, writing technology, and typography.
Elektrotechnik und Elektronik in Maschinenbau und Mechatronik: Für Studierende und für die Praxis
by Julian EndresAnlagen und Maschinen werden immer komplexer, auch weil in ihnen immer mehr Elektronik verbaut ist. Die Grundlagen und die Anwendungen der Elektrotechnik, der Elektronik und der Kommunikationstechnik spielen daher für den Maschinenbau eine immer wichtigere Rolle. Dieser Entwicklung trägt das Buch Rechnung. Es stellt die Grundlagen dieser Fachgebiete sowie der Halbleiter- und Leistungselektronik ausführlich dar. Zudem behandelt es elektrische Maschinen und Anlagen, Energieversorgung und die Datenkommunikation mit Feldbussen. Jeder Abschnitt ist in gleicher Weise gegliedert: Eine strukturierte Übersicht zeigt die Zusammenhänge auf, Beispiele verdeutlichen die Rechnungen und die Gedankengänge, Diagramme und Fotos veranschaulichen die Anwendungen. Zusammen mit den Übungsaufgaben und Lösungen ergibt sich ein didaktischer Aufbau, der es Lesern erleichtert, sich in die Elektrotechnik und die Elektronik einzuarbeiten.Für die 4. Auflage wurden die Inhalte aktualisiert und ergänzt. Unter anderem wurde eine Einführung in elektrische Fahrzeugantriebe eingefügt und das Kapitel zur Energieversorgung um Abschnitte zur Energieübertragung in Stromnetzen erweitert. Das Werk eignet sich als Lehrbuch für Studierende der Ingenieurwissenschaften, insbesondere des Maschinenbaus, richtet sich aber auch an angehende Wirtschaftsingenieure und Mechatroniker. Für Ingenieure im Beruf ist der Band ein umfassendes und fundiertes Nachschlagewerk – auch wenn es um neue Herausforderungen in den Bereichen Industrie 4.0 und elektrische Antriebstechnogien geht.
Elementaire sociale vaardigheden: Transferpunt Vaardigheidsonderwijs
by Marian Adriaansen Josien CarisCommuniceren is een belangrijk onderdeel van vrijwel elk beroep. Of communicatieprocessen effectief verlopen is niet alleen afhankelijk van aan te leren technieken, maar vooral ook van de 'echtheid' van iemands optreden. Om effectief te kunnen communiceren heb je (zelf)kennis nodig over je eigen kwaliteiten. Dit leermateriaal helpt je om de basisvaardigheden zo aan te leren dat zij kunnen dienen als solide basis voor de ontwikkeling van je specifieke beroepsvaardigheden. De auteurs besteden in de hoofdstukken op oriënterend niveau ook aandacht aan de toepassing van de basisvaardigheden in verschillende hulpverleningssituaties binnen welzijn en gezondheidszorg. Nieuw is de website met daarop een serie filmfragmenten waarin de besproken vaardigheden worden gedemonstreerd. Op deze website zijn ook toetsvragen, studieopdrachten en oefeningen opgenomen, die een actieve wijze van kennismaken met en oefenen van de beoogde vaardigheden mogelijk maken. Aan deze geheel herziene druk zijn twee nieuwe hoofdstukken toegevoegd: Argumenteren en Digitaal communiceren. Waar vele boeken vooral ingaan op de theorie, is dit boek ook erg praktijkgericht. Het geeft studenten goede handvatten om theorie toe te passen en te oefenen, waardoor het boek meer is dan alleen een verdiepend boek.
Elementaire sociale vaardigheden: Transferpunt Vaardigheidsonderwijs
by Marian Adriaansen Josien CarisDit boek helpt studenten in zorg en welzijn om communicatieve basisvaardigheden zó aan te leren dat die een solide basis vormen voor de ontwikkeling van specifieke beroepsvaardigheden. Ook leren ze om die communicatieve vaardigheden in verschillende hulpverleningssituaties toe te passen. Daarbij heeft het boek aandacht voor aan te leren technieken, én voor de echtheid van iemands optreden. Effectief communiceren vereist immers ook kennis over je eigen kwaliteiten. Elementaire sociale vaardigheden gaat uitgebreid in op de theorie, én is erg praktijkgericht. Het s een verdiepend boek, dat studenten handvatten geeft om theorie te oefenen en toe te passen. Aan deze geheel herziene druk is bovendien een nieuw hoofdstuk toegevoegd: omgaan met laaggeletterdheid. Ook nieuw is de mogelijkheid om met behulp van een app direct vanuit het boek de bijpassende filmfragmenten te bekijken. In deze filmfragmenten worden de besproken vaardigheden gedemonstreerd. Ze staan ook op mijn.bsl.nl - net als de toetsvragen, studieopdrachten en oefeningen. Zo kun je eenvoudig kennismaken met de beoogde vaardigheden, en ze actief oefenen.
Elemente optischer Netze: Grundlagen und Praxis der optischen Datenübertragung
by Volkmar BrücknerIn diesem einführenden und kompakten Lehrbuch werden die wichtigsten Elemente von optischen Netzen eingeführt und für die ingenieurmäßige Lösung praktischer Probleme aufbereitet. Thematische Schwerpunkte sind Glas- und Polymerfasern, optische Sender und Empfänger, die Modulation von Laserlicht für hochbitratige Übertragungen, Elemente passiver (Koppler, Verzweiger) und aktiver (Schalter, optische Verstärker) Netze und der Einfluss nichtlinearer Effekte auf die optische Datenübertragung. An Beispielen werden Vorteile und Grenzen der Datenübertragung in optischen Netzen erläutert. Zu jedem Schwerpunkt werden praxisnahe bzw. praxisorientierte Fragen und Aufgaben gestellt. Schwierige mathematische Zusammenhänge und Formeln werden nachvollziehbar in MathCad® simuliert.
Elemente optischer Netze: Grundlagen und Praxis der optischen Datenübertragung
by Volkmar BrücknerIn diesem einführenden und kompakten Lehrbuch werden die wichtigsten Elemente von optischen Netzen eingeführt und für die ingenieurmäßige Lösung praktischer Probleme aufbereitet. Thematische Schwerpunkte sind Glas- und Polymerfasern, optische Sender und Empfänger, die Modulation von Laserlicht für hochbitratige Übertragungen, Elemente passiver (Koppler, Verzweiger) und aktiver (Schalter, optische Verstärker) Netze und der Einfluss nichtlinearer Effekte auf die optische Datenübertragung. An Beispielen werden Vorteile und Grenzen der Datenübertragung in optischen Netzen erläutert. Zu jedem Schwerpunkt werden praxisnahe bzw. praxisorientierte Fragen und Aufgaben gestellt. Schwierige mathematische Zusammenhänge und Formeln werden nachvollziehbar in MathCad® simuliert.
Elements of Data Science, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence Using R
by Matthias Dehmer Frank Emmert-Streib Salissou MoutariThe textbook provides students with tools they need to analyze complex data using methods from data science, machine learning and artificial intelligence. The authors include both the presentation of methods along with applications using the programming language R, which is the gold standard for analyzing data. The authors cover all three main components of data science: computer science; mathematics and statistics; and domain knowledge. The book presents methods and implementations in R side-by-side, allowing the immediate practical application of the learning concepts. Furthermore, this teaches computational thinking in a natural way. The book includes exercises, case studies, Q&A and examples.
Elements of Influence: The Art of Getting Others to Follow Your Lead
by Terry R. BaconWhat do a person's knowledge, expressiveness, history, character, and attraction have in common? Or his or her role resources, information, network, and reputation? Each is a key to either personal or organizational power, and together they open the complex combination lock on the door of true leadership and irresistible influence. The Elements of Powercombines the latest research on the nature of power all over the world with a handy self-assessment and invaluable insight into: * How power works in organizations * How people use and lose power * The relationship between power and leadership * Whatmakes famous people powerful - or what diminishes their power * Sources of power and how to build each one * Leading and influencing others more effectively Complete with "Portraits in Power" examining key business figures and world leaders alike, the full effect is an accessible and unprecedented pipeline to the many sources and types of internal and external power, including the most valuable of all: the power of will.
Elements of News Writing
by James W. KershnerKershner's The Elements of News Writing 3/e is a concise handbook that presents the essential rules of journalism, while offering in-depth analysis of the evolving industry. With comprehensive coverage from history to how-to, and discussions of new media, online journalism, blogging, and social networking, this text covers news writing from a 360 degree view. <P><P> The Elements of News Writing covers the basics of news writing without the extra verbiage. The author pays extra attention to grammar and usage, with easy-to-follow basic tips on writing for all types of mass media, new and old.
Elements of Optical Networking: Basics and Practice of Glass Fiber Optical Data Communication
by Volkmar BrücknerThis compact textbook introduces the most important elements of optical networks and uses them to solve practical problems by engineering solutions. The main topics are glass fibers, optical transmitters and receivers, modulation of laser light for high bit rates, elements of passive (couplers, distributors) and active (switches, optical amplifiers) networks, influence of nonlinearities in optical transmission as well as integration into the global network. Examples describe advantages and limits of optical data transfer in networks. In addition to each topic, practical exercises and questions are given. Difficult mathematical relationships and formulas are explained and simulated using a mathematical program.This textbook has been recommended and developed for university courses in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.The contentPhotonics, wave-guide structures, glass fibers – Parameters and properties of optical fibers: attenuation and dispersion, transmission bandwidth – Optical transmitters, modulation of transmitters – Optical amplifiers – Optical receivers – Active and passive optical couplers and switches – Nonlinear processes in glass fibers, solitons – Active and passive optical networksTarget GroupsStudents of Bachelor and Master courses at Universities of Applied SciencesStudents of Bachelor courses at Technical UniversitiesPractitioners in the fields of telecommunications and communication technologyLife-long learners
Elements of Writing Third Course
by James L. Kinneavy John E. WarrinerA language arts textbook covering the following areas in three parts: PART 1 Writing PART 2 Handbook PART 3 Resources
Elevate the Masses: Alexander Gardner, Photography, and Democracy in Nineteenth-Century America
by Makeda BestAlexander Gardner is best known for his innovative photographic history of the Civil War. What is less known is the extent to which he was involved in the international workers’ rights movement. Tying Gardner’s photographic storytelling to his transatlantic reform activities, this book expands our understanding of Gardner’s career and the work of his studio in Washington, DC, by situating his photographic production within the era’s discourse on social and political reform.Drawing on previously unknown primary sources and original close readings, Makeda Best reveals how Gardner’s activism in Scotland and photography in the United States shared an ideological foundation. She reads his Photographic Sketch Book of the War as a politically motivated project, rooted in Gardner’s Chartist and Owenite beliefs, and illuminates how its treatment of slavery is primarily concerned with the harm that the institution posed to the United States’ reputation as a model democracy. Best shows how, in his portraiture, Gardner celebrated Northern labor communities and elevated white immigrant workers, despite the industrialization that degraded them. She concludes with a discussion of Gardner’s promotion of an American national infrastructure in which photographers and photography played an integral role.Original and compelling, this reconsideration of Gardner’s work expands the contribution of Civil War photography beyond the immediate narrative of the war to comprehend its relation to the vigorous international debates about democracy, industrialization, and the rights of citizens. Scholars working at the intersection of photography, cultural history, and social reform in the nineteenth century on both sides of the Atlantic will find Best’s work invaluable to their own research.
Elevate the Masses: Alexander Gardner, Photography, and Democracy in Nineteenth-Century America
by Makeda BestAlexander Gardner is best known for his innovative photographic history of the Civil War. What is less known is the extent to which he was involved in the international workers’ rights movement. Tying Gardner’s photographic storytelling to his transatlantic reform activities, this book expands our understanding of Gardner’s career and the work of his studio in Washington, DC, by situating his photographic production within the era’s discourse on social and political reform.Drawing on previously unknown primary sources and original close readings, Makeda Best reveals how Gardner’s activism in Scotland and photography in the United States shared an ideological foundation. She reads his Photographic Sketch Book of the War as a politically motivated project, rooted in Gardner’s Chartist and Owenite beliefs, and illuminates how its treatment of slavery is primarily concerned with the harm that the institution posed to the United States’ reputation as a model democracy. Best shows how, in his portraiture, Gardner celebrated Northern labor communities and elevated white immigrant workers, despite the industrialization that degraded them. She concludes with a discussion of Gardner’s promotion of an American national infrastructure in which photographers and photography played an integral role.Original and compelling, this reconsideration of Gardner’s work expands the contribution of Civil War photography beyond the immediate narrative of the war to comprehend its relation to the vigorous international debates about democracy, industrialization, and the rights of citizens. Scholars working at the intersection of photography, cultural history, and social reform in the nineteenth century on both sides of the Atlantic will find Best’s work invaluable to their own research.
Elis: Internal Politics and External Policy in Ancient Greece (Cities of the Ancient World)
by Graeme BourkeElis examines the city of Elis from its earliest history, through the Archaic period and the Classical period where it reached its zenith, to its decline in the Hellenistic, Roman and later periods. Through examining this prominent city-state, its role in contemporary politics and the place of Olympia in its territory, Graeme Bourke allows the reader to explore broader issues, such as the relationship between the Spartans and their various allies, often collectively referred to as ‘the Peloponnesian League’, the connection between political structures and Panhellenic sanctuaries, and the network of relationships between various ancient sanctuaries throughout the Greek-speaking world. The volume, which makes available in English for the first time much of the debate about the city, provides a valuable resource for students and academics studying the city of Elis, the Peloponnese and the relationships within it, and pre-Hellenistic Greece as a whole.
Elite Discourse: The rhetorics of status, privilege and power
by Crispin Thurlow and Adam JaworskiElite Discourse examines how language and communication – or just discourse – define, mediate and legitimize class privilege. It does so from the perspective of those people and places who often stand to gain most from inequality. Collectively, chapters consider language and communication that is elitist in its appeal to distinction, excellence and superiority; they also describe the ways in which various groups and institutions lay claim to ‘eliteness’ as a way to position themselves (or to be positioned by others) as elite or non-elite. As such, chapters are concerned as much with discourse about elite status as they are with the discourse of elites – those groups commonly defined by their material wealth, political control, or demographic rarity. Ultimately, Elite Discourse views ‘elite’ as something we do, rather than something we necessarily have or are. Indeed, elite status and eliteness point us to the rhetorical strategies by which many people differentiate themselves and by which they access symbolic-material resources for shoring up their status, privilege and power. This book was originally published as a special issue of Social Semiotics.
Ella Baker's Catalytic Leadership: A Primer on Community Engagement and Communication for Social Justice (Communication for Social Justice Activism #2)
by Patricia S. ParkerElla Baker (1903–1986) was an influential African American civil rights and human rights activist. For five decades, she worked behind the scenes with people in vulnerable communities to catalyze social justice leadership. Her steadfast belief in the power of ordinary people to create change continues to inspire social justice activists around the world. This book describes a case study that translates Ella Baker’s community engagement philosophy into a catalytic leadership praxis, which others can adapt for their work. Catalytic leadership is a concrete set of communication practices for social justice leadership produced in equitable partnership with, instead of on, communities. The case centers the voices of African American teenage girls who were living in a segregated neighborhood of an affluent college town and became part of a small collective of college students, parents, university faculty, and community activists learning leadership in the spirit of Ella Baker.
Ellen Browning Scripps: New Money and American Philanthropy
by Molly McClainMolly McClain tells the remarkable story of Ellen Browning Scripps (1836–1932), an American newspaperwoman, feminist, suffragist, abolitionist, and social reformer who used her fortune to support women’s education, the labor movement, and public access to science, the arts, and education. Born in London, Scripps grew up in rural poverty on the Illinois prairie. She went from rags to riches, living out that cherished American story in which people pull themselves up by their bootstraps with audacity, hard work, and luck. She and her brother E.W. Scripps built America’s largest chain of newspapers, linking Midwestern industrial cities with booming towns in the West. Less well known today than the papers started by Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst, Scripps newspapers transformed their owners into millionaires almost overnight. By the 1920s Scripps was worth an estimated $30 million, most of which she gave away. She established the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California, and appeared on the cover of Time magazine after founding Scripps College in Claremont, California. She also provided major financial support to organizations worldwide that promised to advance democratic principles and public education. In Ellen Browning Scripps McClain brings to life an extraordinary woman who played a vital role in the history of women, California, and the American West.
Elmer Wheeler’s Tested Public Speaking [Second Edition]
by Elmer WheelerOriginally published in 1947, this is the Second Edition of "Elmer Wheeler's Tested Public Speaking" (1939). Brought up to date, it incorporates revised material based on Wheeler's further vast experience acquired in the course of giving 2,798 additional speeches since the publication of the first edition in 1939. It also includes his talk, "Take an Hour to Say No," which at the time of this 1947 publication had been reprinted over a record 7 million times."As usual, Elmer Wheeler has based this book not on fancy, academic rules, but rather on his own practical experience as an outstanding speaker in his own right."
Eloquence Is Power
by Sandra M. GustafsonOratory emerged as the first major form of verbal art in early America because, as John Quincy Adams observed in 1805, "eloquence was POWER." In this book, Sandra Gustafson examines the multiple traditions of sacred, diplomatic, and political speech that flourished in British America and the early republic from colonization through 1800. She demonstrates that, in the American crucible of cultures, contact and conflict among Europeans, native Americans, and Africans gave particular significance and complexity to the uses of the spoken word. Gustafson develops what she calls the performance semiotic of speech and text as a tool for comprehending the rich traditions of early American oratory. Embodied in the delivery of speeches, she argues, were complex projections of power and authenticity that were rooted in or challenged text-based claims of authority. Examining oratorical performances as varied as treaty negotiations between native and British Americans, the eloquence of evangelical women during the Great Awakening, and the founding fathers' debates over the Constitution, Gustafson explores how orators employed the shifting symbolism of speech and text to imbue their voices with power.
Embargoed Science
by Vincent KiernanThe popular notion of a lone scientist privately toiling long hours in a laboratory, striking upon a great discovery, and announcing it to the world is a romanticized fiction. Vincent Kiernan's Embargoed Science reveals the true process behind science news: an elite few scholarly journals control press coverage through a mechanism known as an embargo. The journals distribute advance copies of their articles to hundreds and sometimes thousands of journalists around the world, on the condition that journalists agree not to report their stories until a common time, several days later. When the embargo lifts, airwaves and newspaper pages are flooded with stories based on the journal's latest issue. In addition to divulging the realities behind this collusive practice, Kiernan offers an unprecedented exploration of the embargo's impact on public and academic knowledge of science and medical issues. He surveys twenty five daily U.S. newspapers and relates his in-depth interviews with reporters to examine the inner workings of the embargo and how it structures our understanding of news about science. Kiernan ultimately argues that this system fosters "pack journalism" and creates an unhealthy shield against journalistic competition. The result is the uncritical reporting of science and medical news according to the dictates of a few key sources.