The Word Exchange

Author	: Alena Graedon
Publisher	: Hachette UK
Release Date	: 2014-04-10
ISBN 10	: 9780297869771
Pages	: 320 pages
Rating	: 4.2/5 (978 users)

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Download or read book The Word Exchange written by Alena Graedon and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2014-04-10 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Spine-tingling' New York Times 'A fast-paced, thrill-a-minute début novel' New Yorker 'Graedon knows how to ratchet up mystery' Esquire WORDS ARE UNDER THREAT. IT'S TIME TO FIGHT BACK... Imagine a world without words. A world in which books, libraries and newspapers are things of the past. A world where personal devices provide all you could want or need. Anana Johnson and her father, Doug, are hard at work on the final edition that will ever be printed of the English Dictionary. But one evening, Doug disappears and Anana unearths a single written clue: ALICE. In the battle to save her father, Anana discovers secret societies, dark incinerator rooms and underground passages. Above all, she finds a world that faces ruin from the dark side of technology. Praise for The Word Exchange 'A nervy, nerdy dystopian thriller' New York Times Book Review 'A propulsive, twisty future-noir' Daily Beast 'Spectacular' Karen Russell, author of Swamplandia! and Vampires in the Lemon Grove 'Dazzling' Slate 'Wildly ambitious, darkly intellectual and inventive' Kirkus Reviews, starred review

The Word Exchange

Author	: Alena Graedon
Publisher	: Anchor
Release Date	: 2014-04-08
ISBN 10	: 9780385537667
Pages	: 384 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (855 users)

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Download or read book The Word Exchange written by Alena Graedon and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dystopian novel for the digital age, The Word Exchange offers an inventive, suspenseful, and decidedly original vision of the dangers of technology and of the enduring power of the printed word. In the not-so-distant future, the forecasted “death of print” has become a reality. Bookstores, libraries, newspapers, and magazines are things of the past, and we spend our time glued to handheld devices called Memes that not only keep us in constant communication but also have become so intuitive that they hail us cabs before we leave our offices, order takeout at the first growl of a hungry stomach, and even create and sell language itself in a marketplace called the Word Exchange. Anana Johnson works with her father, Doug, at the North American Dictionary of the English Language (NADEL), where Doug is hard at work on the last edition that will ever be printed. Doug is a staunchly anti-Meme, anti-tech intellectual who fondly remembers the days when people used email (everything now is text or videoconference) to communicate—or even actually spoke to one another, for that matter. One evening, Doug disappears from the NADEL offices, leaving a single written clue: ALICE. It’s a code word he devised to signal if he ever fell into harm’s way. And thus begins Anana’s journey down the proverbial rabbit hole . . . Joined by Bart, her bookish NADEL colleague, Anana’s search for Doug will take her into dark basements and subterranean passageways; the stacks and reading rooms of the Mercantile Library; and secret meetings of the underground resistance, the Diachronic Society. As Anana penetrates the mystery of her father’s disappearance and a pandemic of decaying language called “word flu” spreads, The Word Exchange becomes a cautionary tale that is at once a technological thriller and a meditation on the high cultural costs of digital technology.

Reports of Cases at Law and in Chancery Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Illinois

Author	: Illinois. Supreme Court
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 1896
ISBN 10	: UIUC:30112074371672
Pages	: pages
Rating	: 4.:/5 (31 users)

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The God Exchange

Author	: Criss Cross
Publisher	: Archway Publishing
Release Date	: 2015-10-28
ISBN 10	: 9781480820531
Pages	: 80 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (88 users)

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Download or read book The God Exchange written by Criss Cross and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2015-10-28 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is time to evaluate your current value system. How do you make decisions? Do you base them on cultural references you find on TV or in movies? Do you ask your friendsand even strangerswhat they recommend? Do some wrong ideas become so implanted in your mind that you need a bulldozer to clear them out? Can the relationship between a pet dog and its owner tell us anything about our relationship to God? Author Criss Cross The God Exchange uses everyday examples to look at how God created human beings and how it impacts our decisions. We make decisions every day. Some are big, like buying a car or major appliance, changing jobs, or getting married. Others are smaller, such as those involving what were going to wear and eat. Every decision is made based on what we like and what we perceive as having good value. Cross shows how the things we valueand the people whose opinions we valueinfluence our decisions, and not always in good ways. Many of us leave God completely out of the decision-making process. When that happens, there are eternal consequences. As youll read in The God Exchange, some wrong decisions can be really funny and amusing; others are not. They are all part of life and how God designed us as humans. Once youre aware of what influences your decisions, you can be on your way to making better ones.

Early Modern Exchanges

Author	: Helen Hackett
Publisher	: Routledge
Release Date	: 2016-03-09
ISBN 10	: 9781317146940
Pages	: 307 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (171 users)

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Download or read book Early Modern Exchanges written by Helen Hackett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-09 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marcus Gheeraerts’s portrait of a ’Persian lady’ - probably in fact an English lady in masquing costume - exemplifies the hybridity of early modern English culture. Her surrounding landscape and the embroidery on her gown are typically English; but her head-dress and slippers are decidedly exotic, the inscriptions beside her are Latin, and her creator was an ’incomer’ artist. She is emblematic of the early modern culture of exchange, both between England and its neighbours, and between Europe and the wider world. This volume presents fresh research into such early modern exchanges, exploring how new identities, subjectivities and artefacts were forged in dialogues and encounters between diverse cultures, nations and language communities. The early modern period was a time of creative interactions between cultures and disciplines, and accordingly this is a multidisciplinary volume, drawing together international experts in literature, history, modern and ancient languages and art history. It understands cultural exchange as encompassing both the geographical mobilities of travel and trade and the transmission of ideas across borders and between languages, as enabled by the new technology of print. Sites of exchange were located not only in distant and unfamiliar lands, but also in the bookseller’s shop and the scholar’s study. The volume also explores the productive and complex dialogues between early modern culture and the classical past. The types of exchanges discussed include the linguistic transactions of translation and imitation; interactions between cultural elites, such as monarchs, courtiers and diplomats; and the catalytic influences of particularly mobile or outward-looking individuals and groups. Ranging from the neo-Latin poetry of an English author to the plays of a nun in seventeenth-century New Spain, from royal portraits exchanged in diplomatic negotiations to travelling companions in the Ottoman Empire, the volume sheds new light

Social Comptabilism

Author	: Ernest Solvay
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 1897
ISBN 10	: HARVARD:32044056925506
Pages	: 124 pages
Rating	: 4.A/5 ( users)

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Journal of the Senate of the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina

Author	:
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 1893
ISBN 10	: NYPL:33433010016164
Pages	: 646 pages
Rating	: 4.:/5 (334 users)

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The Law Reports of the Incorporated Council of Law Reporting

Author	: Great Britain. High Court of Justice. King's Bench Division
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 1897
ISBN 10	: CORNELL:31924064805686
Pages	: 870 pages
Rating	: 4.E/5 ( users)

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House Documents

Author	: USA House of Representatives
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 1870
ISBN 10	: BSB:BSB11037533
Pages	: 1496 pages
Rating	: 4.B/5 (1 users)

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A Practical Treatise on the Law of Covenants for Title

Author	: William Henry Rawle
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 1887
ISBN 10	: STANFORD:36105044264153
Pages	: 780 pages
Rating	: 4.F/5 ( users)

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Congressional Record

Author	:
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 1881
ISBN 10	: BSB:BSB11469617
Pages	: 936 pages
Rating	: 4.B/5 (1 users)

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The Word Exchange

Author	: Alena Graedon
Publisher	: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Release Date	: 2014
ISBN 10	: 0297869760
Pages	: 370 pages
Rating	: 4.8/5 (697 users)

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Download or read book The Word Exchange written by Alena Graedon and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2014 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IMAGINE A WORLD IN WHICH BOOKS, libraries and newspapers are things of the past. A world where devices called Memes synchronise with people's minds and call taxis, order food and even give medicine - often without a user's command. Anana Johnson and her father, Doug, are hard at work on the final edition that will ever be printed of the English Dictionary. But one evening, Doug disappears and Anana unearths a single written clue: ALICE. It's a code word Doug devised to signal if he ever fell into harm's way. In the battle to save her father, Anana discovers secret societies, dark incinerator rooms and underground passages. Above all, she finds a world that faces ruin from the dark side of technology.

The Encyclopaedia Britannica

Author	: Thomas Spencer Baynes
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 1879
ISBN 10	: ZHBL:ZHBL-00036283
Pages	: 894 pages
Rating	: 4.:/5 ( users)

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Reports of the United States Board of Tax Appeals

Author	: United States. Board of Tax Appeals
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 1926
ISBN 10	: UOM:39015076030454
Pages	: 1492 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (91 users)

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The American Decisions

Author	: John Proffatt
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 1879
ISBN 10	: UOM:35112103354470
Pages	: 794 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (511 users)

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Commentaries on the Laws of England The Twentieth Edition Incorporating the Alterations Down to the Present Time By James Stewart

Author	: Sir William BLACKSTONE
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 1862
ISBN 10	: BL:A0026560540
Pages	: 626 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (26 users)

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The Encyclopedia Britannica

Author	: Thomas Spencer Baynes
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 1878
ISBN 10	: HARVARD:HN52J4
Pages	: pages
Rating	: 4.A/5 ( users)

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