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Cohen Daniel
Pillars of Salt, Monuments of Grace: New England Crime Literature and the Origins of American Popular Culture, 1674-1860 (Commonwealth Center Studies in American Culture)
 List Price: Price: $18.00 You Save: $1.95 (10%) DescriptionIn this innovative study, Daniel A. Cohen explores a major cultural shift embodied in hundreds of early New England crime publications. Tracing the declining authority of Puritan ministers, he shows how the arbiters of an increasingly pluralistic literary marketplace gradually supplanted pious execution sermons with last-speech broadsides, gallows verses, criminal autobiographies, trial reports, newspaper stories, and romantic docudramas. "Pillars of Salt, Monuments of Grace" probes the forgotten origins of our modern mass media’s preoccupation with crime and punishment.
Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, and Presenting the Past on the Web
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The Masters of the Veil: Book One of the Veil Trilogy
 List Price: Price: $10.31 You Save: $2.64 (20%) DescriptionLife can't get much better for Sam Lock. Popular, good-looking, and with a future as a professional football player... every guy at Stanton High School wishes he were Sam. That is, until his championship football game, when Sam accidentally links with an ancient source of energy known as the Veil and reveals his potential to become a powerful sorcerer. Sam's dreams are crushed as he is whisked off to Atlas Crown, a community of sorcerers who utilize the Veil as a part of everyday life. Once there, he trains beside a mute boy who speaks through music, an eternal sage who is the eyes and ears of the Veil, and a beautiful girl who's pretty sure Sam's an idiot. As it becomes clear that Sam is meant for power magic the most feared and misunderstood form of sorcery people beyond Atlas Crown learn of his dangerous potential. An exiled group of power sorcerers are eager to recruit Sam, believing that he is destined to help them achieve their long-held goal. If they succeed, they could bring about the downfall of not only Atlas Crown... but all of humankind.
Introduction to Computer Theory
 Price: $93.88 DescriptionThis text strikes a good balance between rigor and an intuitive approach to computer theory. Covers all the topics needed by computer scientists with a sometimes humorous approach that reviewers found "refreshing". It is easy to read and the coverage of mathematics is fairly simple so readers do not have to worry about proving theorems.
The Prosperity of Vice: A Worried View of Economics
 List Price: Price: $8.00 You Save: $19.95 (71%) DescriptionWhat happened yesterday in the West is today being repeated on a global scale. Industrial society is replacing rural society: millions of peasants in China, India, and elsewhere are leaving the countryside and going to the city. New powers are emerging and rivalries are exacerbated as competition increases for control of raw materials. Contrary to what believers in the "clash of civilizations" maintain, the great risk of the twenty-first century is not a confrontation between cultures but a repetition of history. In The Prosperity of Vice, the influential French economist Daniel Cohen shows that violence, rather than peace, has been the historical accompaniment to prosperity. Peace in Europe came only after the barbaric wars of the twentieth century, not as the outcome of economic growth. What will happen this time for today's eagerly Westernizing emerging nations? Cohen guides us through history, describing the European discovery of the "philosopher's stone": the possibility of perpetual growth. But the consequences of addiction to growth are dire in an era of globalization. If a billion Chinese consume a billion cars, the future of the planet is threatened. But, Cohen points out, there is another kind of globalization: the immaterial globalization enabled by the Internet. It is still possible, he argues, that the cyber-world will create a new awareness of global solidarity. It even may help us accomplish a formidable cognitive task, as immense as that realized during the Industrial Revolution--one that would allow us learn to live within the limits of a solitary planet. Cohen Daniel News
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Yahoo! SportsThe Mets Remain Unbeaten in the Replay BoothNow, Cohen, the Mets' SNY announcer, is more likely to add, “Now there'll be a review.” Cohen said by telephone on Thursday that there was a sort of “weird beauty” to calling Daniel Murphy's home run on Wednesday night, then calling it again when Nationals left crying in Mets home run drama made for TV
New York TimesNeighbors Saying Farewells to Bookshop They Couldn't SaveDan Cohen, known professionally as Danna Banana, performed at the Morningside Bookshop. The store owes $158000 in rent and is being forced to close. More Photos > By CHRISTINE HAUGHNEY In the final week at the Morningside Bookshop, there was no letup
New York TimesThe Hunt The Six-Minute TestBy JOYCE COHEN FOR two decades, Steven Leeds and Rachel Hott lived in Montclair, NJ, an hourlong train-and-subway commute to their office near Union Square in Manhattan. But with their two children almost grown, Mr. Leeds, in particular, wanted a quick