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Neither Black nor white : slavery and race relations in Brazil and the United States / by Degler, Carl N.(CARDINAL)144332;

Includes bibliographical references and index.The challenge of the contrast. Contrast in history ; Contrast in cultural response ; Contrast acknowledged ; An explanation advanced -- Slavery compared. Who protects the slave's humanity? ; Manumission : how easy, how common? ; Rebellions and runaways ; The international slave trade as cause ; Slave rearing as consequence ; A harsher slavery ; To arm a Black slave ; Who identifies with negroes? ; The hidden difference -- The outer burdens of color. The geography of color prejudice ; Who is a negro? ; Permutations of prejudice ; Measures of discrimination -- The inner burdens of color. Negroes alone feel the weight ; Eventually the veil falls ; The flight from Blackness ; The Black mother on two continents ; Black panthers not allowed ; Sex, but not marriage ; "A negro with a white soul" ; The heart of the matter --The roots of difference. Consciousness of color ; The historical dimension ; The mulatto is the key ; The beginnings of the mulatto escape hatch ; White wife against white man ; A path not taken ; Cultural and social values make a difference ; Democracy's contribution ; The differences as national ideologies -- A contrast in the future? The gap narrows ; Negroes see a new contrast ; A Brazilian dilemma ; Always that indelible color.Until this groundbreaking work, scholars were puzzled by the differing courses of slavery and race relations in the United States and Brazil. Brazil had never developed a system of rigid segregation, such as appeared in the United States, and Blacks in Brazil were able to gain economically and retain far more of their African culture. Rejecting the theory of Giberto Freyre and Frank Tannenbaum ; that Brazilian slavery was more humane ; the author points to a combination of demographic, economic and cultural factors as the real reason for the differences.American Historical Association Albert A. Beveridge Award, 1971.Bancroft Prize, 1972.Pulizer Prize, History, 1972.

Subjects: Black people; African Americans; Slavery; Slavery; Black people; Black people;

Mathematics made simple / by Sperling, Abraham P.,1912-2000?(CARDINAL)160630; Peckaitis, Christine M.(CARDINAL)773033; Stuart, Monroe.(CARDINAL)160632;

Subjects: Mathematics.;

Sound unbound : sampling digital music and culture / by DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid.(CARDINAL)273158;

Includes bibliographical references and index.An introduction, or my (ambiguous) life with technology / Steve Reich -- In through the out door: sampling and the creative act / Paul D. Miller -- The future of language / Saul Williams -- The ecstasy of influence: a plagiarism mosaic / Jonathan Lethem -- Roots and wires remix: polyrhythmic tricks and the black electronic / Erik Davis -- The life and death of media / Bruce Sterling -- Un-imagining utopia / Dick Hebdige -- Freaking the machine: a discussion about Keith Obadike's sexmachines / Keith & Mendi Obadike -- Freeze frame: audio, aesthetics, sampling, and contemporary multimedia / Ken Jordan and Paul D. Miller -- A theater of ideas: an interview with Steve Reich and Beryl Korot on Three tales / David Allenby -- Quantum improvisation: the cybernetic presence / Pauline Oliveros -- The ghost outside the machine / Scanner aka Robin Rimbaud -- The musician as thief: digital culture and copyright law / Daphne Keller -- Integrated systems: mobile stealth unit / Beth Coleman and Howard Goldkrand -- An interview with Moby / Lucy Walker -- Zing! Went the strings / Joseph Lanza -- Renegade academia / Simon Reynolds -- The world of sound: a division of Raymond Scott Enterprises / Jeff E. Winner -- From hip-hip to flip-flop: black noise in the master-slave circuit / Ron Eglash -- South Africa's rhythms of resistance / Lee Hirsch -- The virtual breeding of sound / Manuel DeLanda -- Zoom: mining acceleration / Liminal Product: Frances Dyson and Douglas Kahn -- An interview with Alex Steinweiss / Carlo McCormick -- Stop, hey, what's that sound? / Ken Jordan -- Permuting connections: software for dancers / Scott deLahunta -- On improvisation, temporality, and embodied experience / Vijay Iyer -- Spin the painting: an interview with Nadine Robinson / Alondra Nelson -- Camera Lucida: three-dimensional sonochemical observatory / Evelina Domnitch and Dmitry Gelfand -- Fear of a Muslim planet: hip-hop's hidden history / Naeem Mohaiemen -- Three pieces / Chuck D -- Bells and their history / Brian Eno -- What one must do: comments and asides on musical philosophy / Daniel Bernard Roumain -- An interview with Pierre Boulez / Hans Ulrich Obrist and Philippe Parreno -- Adh'an: the sounds of an islamized orthodoxy / Ibrahim Quraishi -- Theatre of the spirits: Joseph Cornell and silence / Catherine Corman -- Where did the music go? / Jaron Lanier.

Subjects: Music; Music and technology.; Popular culture;

The manga guide to linear algebra / by Takahashi, Shin.(CARDINAL)493480; Inoue, Iroha.(CARDINAL)400609; Trend-pro Co.(CARDINAL)493481;

1. What is linear algebra? -- Overview of linear algebra -- 2. The fundamentals -- Number systems -- Implication and equivalence -- Propositions -- Set theory -- Sets -- Set symbols -- Subsets -- Functions -- Images -- Domain and range -- Onto and one-to-one functions -- Inverse functions -- Linear transformations -- Combinations and permutations -- Not all "rules for ordering" are functions -- 3. Intro to matrices -- What is a matrix? -- Matrix calculations -- Addition -- Subtraction -- Scalar multiplication --Matrix multiplication -- Special matrices -- Zero matrices -- Transpose matrices -- Symmetric matrices -- Upper triangular and lower triangular matrices -- Diagonal matrices -- Identity matrices -- 4. More matrices -- Inverse matrices -- Calculating inverse matrices -- Determinants -- Calculating determinants -- Calculating inverse matrices using cofactors -- Using determinants -- Solving linear systems with Cramer's Rule -- 5. Introduction to vectors -- What are vectors? -- Vector calculations -- Geometric interpretations -- 6. More vectors -- Linear independence -- Bases -- Dimension -- subspaces -- Basis and dimension -- Coordinates -- 7. Linear transformations -- what is a linear transformation? -- Why we study linear transformations -- Special transformations -- Scaling -- Rotation -- Translation -- 3-D projection -- Kernel, image, and the dimension theorem for linear transformations -- Rank -- Calculating the rank of a matrix -- The relationship between linear transformations and matrices -- 8. Eigenvalues and eigenvectors -- What are eigenvalues and eigenvectors? -- Calculating eigenvalues and eigenvectors -- Calculating the pth power of an nxn matrix -- Multiplicity and diagonalization."Reiji wants two things in life: a black belt in karate and Misa, the girl of his dreams. Luckily, Misa's big brother is the captain of the university karate club and is ready to strike a deal: Reiji can join the club if he tutors Misa in linear algebra. Follow along in The Manga Guide to Linear Algebra as Reiji takes Misa from the absolute basics of this tricky subject through mind-bending operations like performing linear transformations, calculating determinants, and finding eigenvectors and eigenvalues. With memorable examples like miniature golf games and karate tournaments, Reiji transforms abstract concepts into something concrete, understandable, and even fun. As you follow Misa through her linear algebra crash course, you'll learn about: Basic vector and matrix operations such as addition, subtraction, and multiplication Linear dependence, independence, and bases Using Gaussian elimination to calculate inverse matrices Subspaces, dimension, and linear span Practical applications of linear algebra in fields like computer graphics, cryptography, and engineering But Misa's brother may get more than he bargained for as sparks start to fly between student and tutor. Will Reiji end up with the girl--or just a pummeling from her oversized brother? Real math, real romance, and real action come together like never before in The Manga Guide to Linear Algebra"--

Subjects: Graphic novels.; Comics (Graphic works); Algebras, Linear;

The return of the shadow : the history of The lord of the rings, part one / by Tolkien, R.R..(CARDINAL)341453; Tolkien, Christopher.(CARDINAL)341453; Tolkien, J. R. R.(John Ronald Reuel),1892-1973.(CARDINAL)138154;

A long-expected party -- From Hobbiton to the Woody End -- Of Gollum and the ring -- To Maggot's farm and Buckland -- The old forest and the Withywindle -- Tom Bombadil -- The barrow-wight -- Arrival at Bree -- Trotter and the journey to Weathertop -- The attack on Weathertop -- From Weathertop to the Ford -- At Rivendell -- 'Queries and alterations' -- Return to Hobbiton -- Ancient history -- Delays are dangerous -- A short cut to mushrooms -- Again from Buckland to the Withywindle -- The third phase : the journey to Bree -- The third phase : at the sign of the prancing pony -- The third phase : to Weathertop and Rivendell -- New uncertainties and new projections -- In the house of Elrond -- The ring goes south -- The mines of Moria.In this sixth volume of The History of Middle-earth the story reaches The Lord of the Rings. In The Return of the Shadow (an abandoned title for the first volume) Christopher Tolkien describes, with full citation of the earliest notes, outline plans, and narrative drafts, the intricate evolution of The Fellowship of the Ring and the gradual emergence of the conceptions that transformed what J.R.R. Tolkien for long believed would be a far shorter book, 'a sequel to The Hobbit'. The enlargement of Bilbo's 'magic ring' into the supremely potent and dangerous Ruling Ring of the Dark Lord is traced and the precise moment is seen when, in an astonishing and unforeseen leap in the earliest narrative, a Black Rider first rode into the Shire, his significance still unknown. The character of the hobbit called Trotter (afterwards Strider or Aragorn) is developed while his indentity remains an absolute puzzle, and the suspicion only very slowly becomes certainty that he must after all be a Man. The hobbits, Frodo's companions, undergo intricate permutations of name and personality, and other major figures appear in strange modes: a sinister Treebeard, in league with the Enemy, a ferocious and malevolent Farmer Maggot. The story in this book ends at the point where J.R.R. Tolkien halted in the story for a long time, as the Company of the Ring, still lacking Legolas and Gimli, stood before the tomb of Balin in the Mines of Moria. The Return of the Shadow is illustrated with reproductions of the first maps and notable pages from the earliest manuscripts.

Subjects: Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973.; Fantasy fiction, English; Middle Earth (Imaginary place);

The philosophers' secret fire : a history of the imagination / by Harpur, Patrick.(CARDINAL)178093;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 304-310) and index.

Subjects: Imagination (Philosophy); Mythology; Alchemy;

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