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  • Taken for Grantedness

    The Embedding of Mobile Communication into Society

    by Richard Ling ...
    An examination of how the mobile phone has become part of the fabric of society—as did such earlier technologies as the clock and the car.Why do we feel insulted or exasperated when our friends and family don't answer their mobile phones? If the Internet has allowed us to broaden our social world into a virtual friend-net, the mobile phone is an instrument of a more intimate social sphere. The ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • New Tech, New Ties

    How Mobile Communication Is Reshaping Social Cohesion

    by Richard Ling ...
    How cell phones and mobile communication may in many cases strengthen social cohesion.The message of this book is simple: the mobile phone strengthens social bonds among family and friends. With a traditional land-line telephone, we place calls to a location and ask hopefully if someone is “there”; with a mobile phone, we have instant and perpetual access to friends and family regardless of where ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Trade before Civilization

    Long Distance Exchange and the Rise of Social Complexity

    Edited by Johan Ling, Kristian Kristiansen, Richard J. Chacon ...
    Trade before Civilization explores the role that long-distance exchange played in the establishment and/or maintenance of social complexity, and its role in the transformation of societies from egalitarian to non-egalitarian. Bringing together research by an international and methodologically diverse team of scholars, it analyses the relationship between long-distance trade and the rise of ... Read more

    $122.99 USD

  • PRICAI 2016: Trends in Artificial Intelligence

    14th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Phuket, Thailand, August 22-26, 2016, Proceedings

    Edited by Richard Booth, Min-Ling Zhang ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th Pacific Rim Conference on Artificial Intelligence, PRICAI 2016, held in Phuket, Thailand, in August 2016.The 53 regular papers and 15 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 161 submissions. Pricai covers a wide range of topics such as AI foundations; applications of AI; semantic web; information ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • What's in the Bible for Women

    Life's Questions, God's Answers

    by Georgia Curtis Ling, Larry Richards, PhD ...
    Engaging Topical Guide for WomenWhatever the topic, this unique and engaging Bible reference series can help direct readers to the answer. Through a blend of Scripture and analysis, biblical character studies, personal application, and more, these volumes help readers discern what God's Word has to say about topics relevant to them. Geared to people of all levels of Bible understanding, these ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Hog Fever, Episodes 1–5

    by Kevin Godley, Kevin Godley, Kevin Godley, Escargot Books and Music, Greg Penny, Terence Stamp, Terence Stamp, Sue Godley, Rowan Lommel, Laura Rearwin Ward, Peter Bellwood0, Jim Cummings1, Emmanuelle Sallet2, Oliver Butcher3, Simon Gluckman4, Daniel Ash5, Kelly Tracy6, John Jorgenson7, Mark Ling8, a full cast9, Richard La Plante1, Billy Goodrum2 ...
    Narrated by a full cast0 ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 35 min

    Midway between the satire of Spinal Tap and the pathos of American Beauty lies the schizophrenic state of mind known as Hog Fever. On the surface this is the story of a man, a motorcycle, and a teetering bank balance. But lurking beneath, occasionally visible like threads through faded denim, is the story of a man in search of freedom—or at least one last stab at it.Motivated by the emasculating ... Read more

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  • The Dawn of Everything

    A New History of Humanity

    by David Graeber, David Wengrow ...
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  • Confident Heart, A

    Learning to Live in the Power of God's Promises

    by Renee Swope ...
    Often the biggest obstacle to living out our faith is our own doubt--about our worth, our abilities, our relationship with God, and situations in our lives. A Confident Heart gives voice to the questions, doubts, struggles, and hopes so many women have. Author Renee Swope shows women how to identify, overcome, and even use doubt in order to live confidently in God's power, truth, and grace. ... Read more

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  • Cognitive Surplus

    How Technology Makes Consumers into Collaborators

    by Clay Shirky ...
    The author of the breakout hit Here Comes Everybody reveals how new technology is changing us for the better.In his bestselling Here Comes Everybody, Internet guru Clay Shirky provided readers with a much-needed primer for the digital age. Now, with Cognitive Surplus, he reveals how new digital technology is unleashing a torrent of creative production that will transform our world. For the first ... Read more

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  • He Speaks to Me

    Preparing to Hear the Voice of God

    by Priscilla C. Shirer ...
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  • Animals and Inequality in the Ancient World

    Edited by Benjamin S. Arbuckle, Sue Ann McCarty ...
    Animals and Inequality in the Ancient World explores the current trends in the social archaeology of human-animal relationships, focusing on the ways in which animals are used to structure, create, support, and even deconstruct social inequalities.The authors provide a global range of case studies from both New and Old World archaeology—a royal Aztec dog burial, the monumental horse tombs of ... Read more

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