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Instant New York Times bestseller “Howard Zinn on acid or some bullsh*t like that.” —Tim Heidecker The creators of the cult-hit podcast Chapo Trap House deliver a manifesto for everyone who feels orphaned and alienated—politically, culturally, and economically—by the lanyard-wearing Wall Street centrism of the left and the lizard-brained atavism of the right: there is a better way, the Chapo Way. In a guide that reads like “a weirder, smarter, and deliciously meaner version of The Daily Show’s 2004 America (The Book)” (Paste), Chapo Trap House shows you that you don’t have to side with either sinking ships. These self-described “assholes from the internet” offer a fully ironic ideology for all who feel politically hopeless and prefer broadsides and tirades to reasoned debate. Learn the “secret” history of the world, politics, media, and everything in-between that THEY don’t want you to know and chart a course from our wretched present to a utopian future where one can post in the morning, game in the afternoon, and podcast after dinner without ever becoming a poster, gamer, or podcaster. A book that’s “as intellectually serious and analytically original as it is irreverent and funny” (Glenn Greenwald, New York Times bestselling author of No Place to Hide) The Chapo Guide to Revolution features illustrated taxonomies of contemporary liberal and conservative characters, biographies of important thought leaders, “never before seen” drafts of Aaron Sorkin’s Newsroom manga, and the ten new laws that govern Chapo Year Zero (everyone gets a dog, billionaires are turned into Soylent, and logic is outlawed). If you’re a fan of sacred cows, prisoners being taken, and holds being barred, then this book is NOT for you. However, if you feel disenfranchised from the political and cultural nightmare we’re in, then Chapo, let’s go…

In the early years of the twentieth century, an awareness was growing among European Australians of an unexpected threat, one that seemed the very embodiment of the dark, ominous power of the Australian bush. To the Indigenous people of the Guugu Yimithirr nation, it was nguman; to the whites it was the taipan, an eight foot, lightning fast venomous snake whose bite meant certain death. Venom is an examination of European settlers'' troubled and often antagonistic relationship with the land, seen through the lens of the desperate scramble for an antivenom, and highlighted by the story of George Rosendale, a taipan bite victim of the Guugu Yimithirr nation.

For most of the 20th century right through the present day, the Rolls Royce has stood as the prime symbol of quality and luxury. And here, in its sixth edition, is the fully-updated tribute to these classic cars and the men who created them. First, an engrossing and exquisitely illustrated history of the Rolls Royce covers everything from the birth of the Rolls as a two-cylinder vehicle in 1904 to its recent sale to Volkswagen. Follow the development of the Silver Ghost, the New Phantom, the Bentley and the Wraith, the Shadows and Spirits. The entire second section presents, in detail and with photographs, car and engine specifications. Included are the dates of major mechanical changes and the chassis numbers of the three Royce cars from 1904 to the Park Ward model of 2000, as well as the Bentleys built since 1931. This is truly a celebration worthy of a Rolls!

Profiles the top 50 golf courses in Australia. Welcome to every golfer''s ''must play'' list. Great Golf Courses Australia nominates the top locations down under. Features a range of unique locations, from the major metropolitan courses to stunningly diverse locations such as King Island, Kalgoorlie and Port Fairy. It''s a best of the best list of astonishingly beautiful and challenging locations for enthusiasts. The line-up was compiled by long-time Golf Australia editor Brendan James. For each course covered there is information on the standout holes, history and features. The stunning colour images, many captured by drone, will inspire golfers to start planning their next trip.

A list of ''must-play'' golf courses in Australia and New Zealand.

A collection of favorite photographs and lyrics from Singer-Songwriter Brendan James taken throughout the course of his musical career.

Brendan James Murray has been a high school teacher for more than ten years. In that time he has seen hundreds of kids move through the same hallways and classrooms - boisterous, angry, shy, big-hearted, awkward - all of them on the journey to adulthood. In The School, he paints an astonishingly vivid portrait of a single school year, perfectly capturing the highs and lows of being a teenager, as well as the fire, passion and occasional heartbreak of being their teacher. Hilarious, heartfelt and true, it is a timeless story of a teacher and his classes, a must-read for any parent, and a tribute to the art of teaching. -- Publisher''s website.

Nocturnes is a contrubution to dramatic poetry that explores grief in the dreamworld in search of consolation..

Poetry and Stuff Like That is an eclectic collection of light-hearted and hard-hitting poems, a song requesting a change to the English national anthem, a comedic monologue set in a shower and an account of a Spanish tradition involving the slaughter of two pigs. Each piece is preceded by an introduction providing insight into the original idea.

A chance encounter in a fish-''n''-chip shop set Brendan Murray on the trail of a mystery. Had a gay man been secretly murdered on HMAS Australia during the Second World War? The veteran he spoke to was certain. ''I knew about it,'' he said. ''We all did.'' But was the story true? If so, who was the dead man? And why was it so hard to find out? The Drowned Man is a search for the answer, almost stymied by cover-up and silence. In the end, it brings us to the lies that have shrouded our understanding of war, and especially of war at sea. As one of the survivors poignantly says, ''I want to pass it on to the next generation. What it was like. What it was really like.'' This is a spellbinding story told by a powerful new Australian voice. Uncovers the possibility of a murder that has never before come to light. Offers a completely new perspective on Australian military history. Takes an unwavering look at the horrors of war, which act to contextualise the murders by way of the violent indifference of the time. Reveals a great deal not only about Australia in the 1940s, but also Australia today; hate crimes like these continue, alongside more general discrimination in the navy and elsewhere. For people who love Australian history, true crime and naval stories Captures the reality of war on board the HMAS Australia in World War II.

A dozen poems, a song, a monologue and a short story - all preceded by an introduction explaining the inspiration behind them. A light-hearted look at poetry which takes away the pain and frustration of understanding the author''s message

Mysterious intruders infiltrating the mind of every individual on the planet in order to monitor for potential threats to a civilisation beyond mankind''s reach is the stuff of science fiction movies, isn''t it? For BBC researcher Andy Crawford, however, a reoccurrence of disturbing dreams confirms unequivocally that unwarranted intrusions from an enigmatic entity are only too real. Inevitably, communication is firmly established between both parties and our protagonist is profoundly shocked to learn of the monumental task he has been instructed to fulfil. His initial reaction is to reject it out of hand, but he eventually finds himself confronted by an impossible dilemma which requires a great deal of rational thought. With his marriage crumbling around him and his professional life in jeopardy, the question is whether or not his personal problems will affect his decision making. Even though it is morally wrong, will he ultimately be persuaded to complete the assignment that he has been given?

This book is a collector''s guide for all King Crimson fans around the world. Included you will find track listings on more than 800 vinyl albums, vinyl 7" and 12" singles, CD albums, CD singles, some promos, 8-Track tapes, Cassette Tapes and even a Reel to Reel tape. Most release dates and catalog numbers are listed, with recordings released from more than 25 countries included. There are more than 110 b & w cover art illustrations throughout the book. An unauthorized releases section is included which list many of the bootleg, counterfeits and pirated records from around the world. We have also included a section that lists album credits / details for 90 King Crimson releases. This is a must have guide for any King Crimson Fan!

This article details strategies to build a nonprofit corporation dedicated to affordable housing development. The intended audiences are prospective nonprofit corporation organizers, nonprofit housing developers, and those interested in learning more about nonprofit affordable housing development regardless of their background.

Hearing impairment affects as many as 15% of the U.S. population. Effective audiological rehabilitation for individuals with hearing loss requires amplification of auditory stimuli via the use of hearing aids that have been properly fitted by a hearing health professional; however many people who are fitted for hearing aids do not use them regularly. Investigators evaluate the effect of a reinforcer sampling procedure in two concurrent multiple baseline experiments with individuals on two dependent variables related to hearing aid usage: (a) daily hearing aid usage by participants in hours per day (Experiments 1 and 2) and (b) the proportion of time that hearing aids were used by participants in acoustical environments that were similar to the acoustical environment present during the reinforcer sampling procedure (Experiment 1). Hearing aid usage, automatically recorded via datalogging features, is introduced as a behavioral cusp skill for individuals whose normal communication abilities are impaired by hearing loss. The use of hearing aids is identified as a socially significant behavior affecting a large and growing population of hearing impaired individuals currently underserved by applied behavior analysis researchers and practitioners.

Intellectual property holders have invested significant resources into Second Life in pursuit of customers and virtual market share. 15.8 million residents are available to hear your message. Within this virtual world, however, they have found age old intellectual property problems: counterfeiters with virtual Herman Miller furniture and Rolex watches.Similarly, participants have become residents of Second Life for the opportunity to develop virtual intellectual property.Virtual art galleries, magazines, and bar associations have sprung up. The United States Patent and Trademark Office has grantedregistration to virtual trademarks created within Second Life.Both real world and virtual world intellectual property holders have come to Linden Research''s Second Life on the premise that their intellectual property would be protected. Is it? How should the added exposure of a virtual intellectual property portfolio be managed by an intellectual property right holder?Recently filed complaints indicate that Linden Lab''s “commercially reasonable efforts” may not be sufficient. In fact, they may be detrimental to the intellectual property owner. Here, I will discuss suits filed against Linden Lab regarding Second Life''s intellectual property protection. The complaints are illustrative of the peril in having intellectual property rights be privately adjudicated and enforced.

The texts that the protagonists produce of themselves are figured as their very flesh transubstantiated, and as nothing other than the poetic works that we are reading. These metaphysical dimensions of the fiction make forceful statements about the power of the artistic act, and especially its potential to reclaim and restore the self in a gesture of political defiance. By establishing a distinct set of images, themes, and techniques shared by the authors, along with a conceptual framework in which to discuss them, this dissertation responds to a scholarly need, until now not substantively articulated, to place Mandel’shtam’s and Nabokov’s creative projects into dialogue. As much as it invites a parallel gaze, however, the study equally contributes daring new chapters to each author’s existing body of scholarship and opens fields of inquiry that demand continued critical attention.

Mitochondria are essential for nearly all eukaryotic cells and play a key role in more than 300 human diseases. Over the past several decades, in part due to advancements in proteomics and the integration of orthogonal approaches, the components of the mitochondrial proteome have been revealed to near completion. In contrast to this depth of knowledge, we find that 20% of the mitochondrial proteome is comprised of uncharacterized, orphan mitochondrial proteins (OMPs). Similarly, many patients with overt mitochondrial disease lack molecular diagnoses. To illuminate key areas of mitochondrial biology, we apply mass spectrometry-based proteomics to quantify the dynamic nature of mitochondrial post-translational modifications (PTMs) and protein-protein interactions (PPIs). While the known diversity and prevalence of mitochondrial protein PTMs have expanded rapidly of late, the regulatory role of these modifications, if any, is still poorly understood. To evaluate the extent and importance of one such PTM, lysine acetylation, we quantified the mouse liver mitochondrial acetylproteome under two pairs of contrasting states - obese vs. lean and fasted vs. refed. Our proteomic analyses support the identification of thousands of acetyl sites on hundreds of proteins. Acetyl abundance at more than 500 sites is dynamically regulated across the aforementioned conditions. Furthermore, we apply state-of-the-art protein purification techniques to establish the inhibitory capacity of acetylation of the key metabolic enzyme Acat1 at each of two dynamically-acetylated active site lysine residues. To accelerate the functional characterization of the more than 200 orphan mitochondrial proteins, we applied affinity enrichment coupled to mass spectrometry (AE-MS) to map OMP-related PPIs across two cell types and nutrient states. We establish the first unbiased evidence of a mammalian lipid biosynthetic complex involving several OMPs. Furthermore, we associate many OMPs with known pathways and processes for the first time. In this work, we evaluate the current state of mitochondrial protein and disease annotation, we expand the understanding of the regulatory nature of mitochondrial protein acetylation, we find evidence for and map the architecture of a mammalian lipid biosynthetic complex, and we accelerate the functional annotation of more than a dozen OMPs.

Inspired by the recent interest in using geothermal energy from the Perth Basin, models of the underground water ow in the deep sedimentary basin are being developed. If convection were to occur, then a circulation of uid assists in bringing hot water closer to the surface. If such hot upwellings can be located, the cost of extracting water at an operational temperature can be reduced. This thesis explores issues of modelling convection in porous media, with particular focus on the e ect of the domain size on the observed convection patterns. Convection in an in nite layer of a porous medium occurs if the dimensionless Rayleigh number exceeds a critical value. This is also true for a box of a porous medium, however, each discrete modal solution has its own associated critical Rayleigh number. Usually just one mode will be generated at the onset of convection, however, there are many critical box dimensions for which up to four modes share the same critical Rayleigh number and all may be generated at the onset of convection. In such circumstances there will be a slow interchange of energy between the preferred modes. A perturbation method is applied to a system where multiple modes are generated at onset to yield a system of ordinary di erential equations which govern the evolution of the amplitudes of the viable modes. For three interacting modes, three unique cases arise, each with a di erent phase-space structure. Critical boxes with "moderate" aspect ratios are systematically categorised into these cases. While two of the examples represent the usual case where just one mode survives in the nal state, the third example is a special case where it is possible for the three modes to coexist. This procedure is extended to a case where four modes are generated at the onset of convection, completing all possible scenarios in a moderate box domain. The initial conditions determine which mode(s) will survive. For non-critical boxes, the bifurcations that occur as the Rayleigh number increases are analysed and pro led in the weakly-nonlinear regime.

Understanding what factors affect the origins, maintenance, and evolutionary and behavioral dynamics of cultural transmission is essential to build a comprehensive picture of cultural transmission in any species. To address all of these aspects, more ecologically valid studies in the wild are needed to complement both captive studies and the wealth of extant theoretical models. However, field data are difficult to collect, interpret, and analyze, as cultural transmission is a dynamic process affected by myriad factors. In this dissertation I present my efforts to address these challenges in white-faced capuchin monkeys, Cebus capucinus. In Chapter 1, I discuss what factors affect the origins of cultural traits by evaluating what individual-level factors predict propensity to innovate. I find that predictors of individual annual innovation rate differ across behavioral domains. Older, more sociable individuals invent more forms of social interactions. Younger capuchins invent more foraging, investigative, and self-directed behaviors. Chapter 2 documents one means through which extractive foraging traditions are culturally transmitted via an experimental introduction of Sterculia apetala fruits to a group of wild capuchins. I develop and present a dynamical, hierarchical Bayesian statistical approach to estimate individual heterogeneity in social learning strategies and its contribution to group-level cultural dynamics. Pay-off biased learning is shown to best predict the transmission of S. apetala processing behaviors. I provide evidence that multiple learning strategies might be jointly employed. I also find substantial variation in individual learning strategies that is patterned by age. Younger individuals are more influenced by both social information and their own individual experience. This suggests that aggregate cultural dynamics depend upon the variation in learning strategies and the age structure of wild populations. In chapter 3, I discuss equifinality- the idea that steady states in a cultural system can be reached via multiple mechanisms from multiple initial states. I suggest methodological ways to anticipate and address instances of equifinality, and discuss how the inability to attribute cultural dynamics to a single driving factor is not a bug– but an inescapable and potentially informative feature of cultural systems.