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The Human Tradition in America between the Wars, 1920-1945
American society in the years from 1920 to 1945 experienced great transformation and upheaval. Significant changes in the role of government, in the nation's world outlook, in the economy, in technology, and in the social order challenged those who lived in this tumultuous period framed by the two world wars. This transformation lies at the core of this collection of biographical essays. Each individual in his or her own way grappled with the difficulties of the times. Some of those included here were well known in their day and afterwards, but many led lives now obscured by the passage of time. In these essays are men and women, African-Americans, Hispanics, whites, and Native Americans fro...
Cracking the Hard-Boiled Detective
The hard-boiled private detective is among the most recognizable characters in popular fiction since the 1920s--a tough product of a violent world, in which police forces are inadequate and people with money can choose private help when facing threatening circumstances. Though a relatively recent arrival, the hard-boiled detective has undergone steady development and assumed diverse forms. This critical study analyzes the character of the hard-boiled detective, from literary antecedents through the early 21st century. It follows change in the novels through three main periods: the Early (roughly 1927-1955), during which the character was defined by such writers as Carroll John Daly, Dashiell...
Florida on the Boil
Provides incisive reviews of more than 300 recommended novels and short-story collections set in Florida. Numerous Florida fiction writers, past and present, are represented in the book, including such diverse talents as Edna Buchanan, Harry Crews, Connie May Fowler, and others.--Excerpted from book cover.
The 1992 SRC Algorithm Animation Festival
Abstract: "During the last two weeks of July 1992, twenty researchers at Digital Equipment Corporation's Systems Research Center participated in the 1st Annual SRC Algorithm Animation Festival. Only two of the researchers had previously animated an algorithm, and not too many more had ever written an application that involved graphics. In this paper, we report on the Animation Festival, describing why we did it andwhat we did, and commenting on what we learned."
Artists at Gemini G.E.L.
"Some of the most important graphic works of the 20th century have been produced in the Gemini G.E.L. (Graphic Editions Limited) workshop in Los Angeles. To celebrate Gemini's 25th anniversary, 15 artists - a who's who of American art - have created the prints and multiples that are reproduced here in full colour. Artists John Baldessari, Jonathan Borofsky, Richard Diebenkorn, Mark di Suvero, Jasper Johns, Ellsworth Kelly, Edward Kienholz, Nancy Reddin Kienholz, Roy Lichtenstein, Malcolm Morley, Claes Oldenburg, Ken Rice, Robert Rauschenberg, Richard Serra and Saul Steinberg have each been interviewed by Mark Rosenthal. He elicits the artists' views about their work, their methods and the meaning they hope others will find in their art. The artists related their work not only to the contemporary art scene, but also to personal and social issues"--Front flap of dust jacket.
Graphical Fisheye Views of Graphs
Abstract: "A fisheye lens is a very wide angle lens that shows places nearby in detail while also showing remote regions in successively less detail. This paper describes a system for viewing and browsing planar graphs using a software analog of a fisheye lens. We first show how to implement such a view using solely geometric transformations. We then describe a more general transformation that allows hierarchical, structural information about the graph to modify the views. Our general transformation is a fundamental extension to the early efforts in fisheye views."
DeckScape
Abstract: "This report describes DeckScape, an experimental World-Wide Web browser based on a deck metaphor. A deck consists of a collection of Web pages, and multiple decks can exist on the screen at once. As the user traverses links, new pages appear on top of the current deck. Retrievals are done using a background thread, so all visible pages in any deck are active at all times. Users can move and copy pages between decks, and decks can be used as a general-purpose way to organize material, such as hotlists, query results, and breadth-first expansions."
Compression and Complexity of Sequences 1997
This text should be suitable for researchers, professors, practitioners, students and other computing professionals interested in the topic of computational intelligence."
