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Pennylesse
The Zuckerberg Galaxy
by Joseph P. Duggan
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$0.99 USD.
Words: 14,490.
Language:
English.
Published: July 19, 2011
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Pennylesse.
Categories:
Nonfiction » Computers & Internet » Social networking
A Primer for Navigating the Media Maelstrom. Centennial tribute to Marshall McLuhan, who foresaw the Internet, Google, Wikipedia, and e-commerce in his classic Gutenberg Galaxy. Shows how McLuhan enhances his friend Peter Drucker's work on management and innovation. The Zuckerberg Galaxy also examines social media's disruption of human nature, making people "discarnate."
Give Paz a Chance
by Joseph P. Duggan
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$0.99 USD.
Words: 26,510.
Language:
English.
Published: July 16, 2011
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Pennylesse.
Categories:
Nonfiction » Politics & Current Affairs » Public affairs
Give Paz a Chance collects essays in media studies, cultural criticism, and politics by former White House and State Department official Joseph P. Duggan. The title essay lauds Octavio Paz's commitment to criticism as a way of thinking with integrity, as ”the imagination cured of fantasies and determined to face the world's realities.”
Clearvigil in Spring (Clarivigilia Primaveral)
by Miguel Angel Asturias
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$0.99 USD.
Words: 13,700.
Language:
English.
Published: July 16, 2011
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Pennylesse.
Categories:
Poetry » Latin American Poetry
First authorized English translation of Nobel laureate Asturias’ Clarivigilia Primaveral. Robert W. Lebling, translator. Nobel Committee called it an "impressive" work that “deals with the very genesis of the arts and of poetic creation, in a language which seems to have assumed the bright splendor of the magical queztal's feathers and the glimmering of phosphorescent insects."