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Automate This: How Algorithms Took Over Our Markets, Our ...

Automate This: How Algorithms Took Over Our Markets, Our ...

Christopher Steiner

In this fascinating, frightening book, Christopher Steiner tells the story of how algorithms took over—and shows why the “bot revolution” is about to spill into every aspect of our lives, often silently, without our knowledge.
African Art in Transit

African Art in Transit

Christopher B. Steiner

Based on extensive research in West Africa, Christopher Steiner's book presents a richly detailed description of the economic networks that transfer art objects from their site of use and production in Africa to their point of consumption ...
Crafting Tradition: The Making and Marketing of Oaxacan Wood ...

Crafting Tradition: The Making and Marketing of Oaxacan Wood ...

Michael Chibnik

Phillips, Ruth, and Christopher Steiner 1999a Art, Authenticity, and the Baggage of Cultural Encounter. In Unpacking Culture: Art and Commodity in Colonial and Postcolonial Worlds, Ruth Phillips and Christopher Steiner, eds., pp. 3-19.
Visualizing Africa in Nineteenth-Century British Travel Accounts

Visualizing Africa in Nineteenth-Century British Travel Accounts

Leila Koivunen

23–42. Grinker, RoyRichard, and ChristopherB. Steiner.“Representation and Discourse”. In Perspectives onAfrica: A Reader in Culture, History and Representation, edited by Roy Richard Grinker and Christopher B. Steiner.Oxford : Blackwell ...
Self-Transformation

Self-Transformation

Rudolf Steiner

At the heart of Rudolf Steiner's spiritual philosophy is the esoteric path of inner development that can lead to true self-transformation. In these lectures, Steiner shows how.
U.S. Tax Cases

U.S. Tax Cases

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The Ownership of Slock in Lyndon Wood Products by Defendant Harold G. Stciner, and of Stock in S &□ 1' Tree Farms, Inc., by Defendants Harold G. Steiner and Ollic Mae Steiner I find and determine that defendant Harold G. Steiner is the ...
The Searchers: The Making of an American Legend

The Searchers: The Making of an American Legend

Glenn Frankel

Author's interview with James D'Arc. Ford had shot 187,402 feet offilm: Daily Production Report (JFP). Max Steiner took over: Steiner's biography is from Thomas Kiefner, “Max Steiner,” in Film Music: The Neglected Art, February 13, 2008.
$20 Per Gallon: How the Inevitable Rise in the Price of ...

$20 Per Gallon: How the Inevitable Rise in the Price of ...

Christopher Steiner

And this is just the beginning of a huge and overwhelming domino effect that our way of life will undergo in the years to come.
Agriculture: An Introductory Reader

Agriculture: An Introductory Reader

Rudolf Steiner

An Introductory Reader Rudolf Steiner Richard Thornton Smith. Rudolf Steiner AGRICULTURE An Introduc -—_—I-II-' fl The evolving human being; Cosmos as the source of life; Plants and the living earth; Farms and the realms of nature; ...
World Yearbook of Education 2016: The Global Education Industry

World Yearbook of Education 2016: The Global Education Industry

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The Global Education Industry Antoni Verger, Christopher Lubienski, Gita Steiner -Khamsi ... Christopher. Lubienski,. and. Gita. SteinerKhamsi. Introduction In an era characterized by globalization across myriad sectors, industries, technologies  ...
Bees

Bees

Rudolf Steiner

Steiner began this series of lectures on bees in response to a question from an audience of workers at the Goetheanum.
Anthroposophy in Everyday Life

Anthroposophy in Everyday Life

Rudolf Steiner

Four of Rudolf Steiner's best-loved lectures are collected in this book.
George Steiner: A Reader

George Steiner: A Reader

George Steiner

Essays examine the nature of literary criticism, language, culture, Tolstoy, Racine, Heidegger, and treason
Approaches to Anthroposophy

Approaches to Anthroposophy

Rudolf Steiner

Steiner carefully corrects certain misunderstandings that had arisen regarding his spiritual-scientific research and demonstrates how anthroposophy has nothing whatever to do with mysticism or spiritualism; nor is it simply a revival of ...
Errata: An Examined Life

Errata: An Examined Life

George Steiner

Steiner's brilliant and elegant new book draws on episodes from his life to explore the central themes and ideas of his thinking and writing over the course of much of our troubled century.
The Triumph of the Dark: European International History ...

The Triumph of the Dark: European International History ...

Zara Steiner

In this magisterial narrative, Zara Steiner traces the twisted road to war that began with Hitler's assumption of power in Germany.
Lessons of the Masters

Lessons of the Masters

George Steiner

In the efforts of the disciples of such masters as Socrates and Jesus, in the passion narratives inspired by their deaths, Steiner sees the beginnings of the inward vocabulary, the encoded recognitions of much of our moral, philosophical, ...
Criminal Cold Cases

Criminal Cold Cases

Charlotte Greig

guilty to the murder of Chris Steiner. In order to find out what had happened to Steiner, his body had been exhumed. Whenithad been examined atthe time of his death, it had not shown any signs of violent attack, and it had been unclear as to ...
Britain and the Origins of the First World War

Britain and the Origins of the First World War

Zara S. Steiner

Taking into account the scholarship of the last twenty-five years, this second edition of Zara S. Steiner's classic study, thoroughly revised with Keith Neilson, explores a subject which is as highly contentious as ever.
Negotiations in a Vacant Lot: Studying the Visual in Canada

Negotiations in a Vacant Lot: Studying the Visual in Canada

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Phillips and ChristopherB. Steiner articulate theintersection of the discourses surroundingthe object categories “art,” “artifact,”and “commodity”(4). Phillipsand Steiner point out thatthese “three parallel discoursesof objects” emerged during the ...
The Stanford University School of Medicine Handbook of ...

The Stanford University School of Medicine Handbook of ...

Hans Steiner

This book offers a definitive and comprehensive resource for treating children and adolescents, using the unique approach from Stanford led by Dr. Hans Steiner.
Exotic No More: Anthropology on the Front Lines

Exotic No More: Anthropology on the Front Lines

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CHRISTOPHER B. STEINER In the first few years of the twentieth century, when social anthropology was slowly coming of age as a professional discipline in Europe, the study of art and visual culture was positioned somewhere at the very  ...
Africa in the Market

Africa in the Market

Christopher Steiner

The book explores the significance of 20th-century artistic production as a material component of local traditions and, at the same time, as artifacts circulating in a global market where local specificities are often lost.
Insulin

Insulin

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Academic, New York, pp 191–228 Steiner DF, Clark JL (1968) The spontaneous reoxidation of reduced beef and rat proinsulins. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 60:622- 629 Steiner DF, Oyer PC (1967) The biosynthesis of insulin and a probable ...
After Babel: Aspects of Language and Translation

After Babel: Aspects of Language and Translation

George Steiner

For the second edition of After Babel, George Steiner entirely revised the text, added new and expanded notes, provided a substantially updated bibliography (including much Russian and Eastern European material), and wrote a new preface ...
Art History and Its Institutions: Foundations of a Discipline

Art History and Its Institutions: Foundations of a Discipline

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Fashioning the canon of African art Christopher B. Steiner Since it is commonplace that every work of art requires both a creator and a spectator, it became evident that some exploratory inquiry was in order to determine the role of the patron ...
Grammars of Creation

Grammars of Creation

George Steiner

In Grammars of Creation the eminent critic George Steiner brings his unparalleled acumen and erudition to bear on these and other questions. 'This is a mesmerising book . . .
Architecture as a Synthesis of the Arts

Architecture as a Synthesis of the Arts

Rudolf Steiner

8 lectures plus extracts and notes (CW 286) This collection introduces Rudolf Steiner's vision of architecture as a culmination of the arts.
Austen Chamberlain and the Commitment to Europe: British ...

Austen Chamberlain and the Commitment to Europe: British ...

Dr Richard S Grayson

Zara Steiner, 'The Last Years of the Old Foreign Office, 1898-1905', VI, 1 (1963), pp. 59-90. 4. M. Swartz, The Union of Democratic Control in British Politics during the First World War (1971). 5. Zara Steiner and M. L. Dockrill, 'The Foreign ...

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