Author: Michael Cunningham File Type: mobi On a grey morning in 1923, Virginia Woolf is awakened by a dream which will become Mrs. Dalloway. In present-day Greenwich Village, Clarissa Vaughan is planning a part for her dearest love, a poet dying of AIDS. And in Los Angeles in 1949, Laura Brown -- pregnant and feeling stifled by her life -- is compulsively reading the works of Virginia Woolf. Cunningham moves seamlessly between the three women in a passionate, profound and deeply moving ode to consciousness.

Author: Andy Merrifield File Type: pdf The New Urban Question is an exuberant and illuminating adventure through our current global urban condition, tracing the connections between radical urban theory and political activism. From Haussmanns attempts to use urban planning to rid 19th-century Paris of workers revolution to the contemporary metropolis, including urban disaster-zones such as downtown Detroit, Merrifield reveals how the urban experience has been profoundly shaped by class antagonism and been the battle-ground for conspiracies, revolts and social eruptions. Going beyond the work of earlier urban theorists such as Manuel Castells, Merrifield identifies the new urban question that has emerged and demands urgent attention, as the city becomes a site of active plunder by capital and the setting for new forms of urban struggle, from Occupy to the Indignados.-- The New Urban Question is an exuberant and illuminating adventure through our current global urban condition, tracing the connections between radical urban theory and political activism. From Haussmanns attempts to use urban planning to rid 19th-century Paris of workers revolution to the contemporary metropolis, including urban disaster-zones such as downtown Detroit, Merrifield reveals how the urban experience has been profoundly shaped by class antagonism and been the battle-ground for conspiracies, revolts and social eruptions. Going beyond the work of earlier urban theorists such as Manuel Castells, Merrifield identifies the new urban question that has emerged and demands urgent attention, as the city becomes a site of active plunder by capital and the setting for new forms of urban struggle, from Occupy to the Indignados.**

Author: Paul Andrews File Type: pdf The inside story of how a small band of agitators at Microsoft staged the stunning turnaround that transformed the company from an Internet laggard into such a dominant force that it was accused of monopolizing the industry. Microsofts Windows software ruled the desktops of America. Nine out of ten personal computers ran the operating system, and most applications--from word processors to spreadsheets--couldnt function without it. When Bill Gates peered into Microsofts crystal ball, he saw a world of Windows. Then the Internet burst on the scene, and suddenly Gatess Windows-oriented future didnt look so bright. The Internet ran on UNIX, not Windows. The World Wide Web, not Windows, linked information in a global electronic library. A new software program called Mosaic, not Windows, made finding and reading Web documents as easy as skimming a magazine. Moreover, companies with little stake in Windows--Netscape, America Online, Sun Microsystems--were laying first claim to the Internet frontier. The Internet was the future of computing--and the worlds largest software company wasnt ready for it. Yet four years later, Microsofts Internet metamorphosis was so complete that the Department of Justice slapped the company with the broadest antitrust action since the breakup of AT&T. In How the Web Was Won, veteran Seattle Times journalist Paul Andrews chronicles, for the first time, the most remarkable business turnaround of the 1990s the story of Microsofts turbulent journey from Windows to the Web--and of the handful of Internet believers who led the charge. Taking the reader into the mind of Microsoft, Andrews reveals how the company struggled first to comprehend and then capitalize on the Net. How twenty-two-year-old Internet hound J Allard was shocked to learn that nobody at Microsoft seemed to know anything about networking computers when he arrived in late 1991. How Steve Ballmer, Gatess Harvard buddy and second in command at Microsoft, lit the Internet fuse with a head-scratching e-mail in December 1993. How Gatess technical assistant, Steven Sinofsky, discovered in early 1994 that Cornell University, his alma mater, was more wired than the worlds most successful software company. And how by mid-1995, awash in the rising tide of Netscape, America Online, Java, and the Web, Bill Gates assigned the Internet the highest level of importance, launching an effort that, in a matter of months, would provoke the Justice Department, competitors, and industry analysts to warn that Microsoft could someday rule the Internet. Based on three years of reporting and more than 100 interviews with the prime movers driving Microsofts Internet strategy and deployment, How the Web Was Won captures the explosive drama and high-stakes gamesmanship of Microsofts epic struggle for Internet supremacy. The result is an illuminating portrait of a software empire under siege and an intimate look at the fiery competitiveness that kindled its dramatic reversal of fortune. **

Author: Kyle Simpson File Type: epub No matter how much experience you have with JavaScript, odds are you dont fully understand the language. As part of the You Dont Know JS series, this compact guide explores JavaScript types in greater depth than previous treatments by looking at type coercion problems, demonstrating why types work, and showing you how to take advantage of these features. Like other books in this series, You Dont Know JS Types & Grammar dives into trickier parts of the language that many JavaScript programmers simply avoid or assume dont exist (like types). Armed with this knowledge, you can achieve true JavaScript mastery. With this book you will ul lGet acquainted with JavaScripts seven types null, undefined, boolean, number, string, object, and symboll lUnderstand why JavaSripts unique array, string, and number characteristics may delight or confound youl lLearn how natives provide object wrappers around primitive valuesl lDive into the coercion controversyand learn why this feature is useful in many casesl lExplore various nuances in JavaScript syntax, involving statements, expressions, and other featureslul