Paul Anderson
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"Preface The Web is no longer the sole preserve of computer science. Web 2.0 services have imbued the Web as a technical infrastructure with the imprint of human behaviour, and this has consequently attracted attention from many new fields of study including business studies, economics, information science, law, media studies, philosophy, psychology, social informatics and sociology. In fact, to understand the implications of Web 2.0, an interdisciplinary...
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Attorney General Janet Reno is a singular American leader. From the day she arrived in Washington, the first woman to head the Justice Department, she has been the most intriguing person in the Clinton administration. With keen intelligence and an ethical certainty rarely seen in American politics, she has made every tough call - from the Waco debacle to the Whitewater affair. Through it all she has remained her own person - blunt and honest. But...
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A down-and-out silver miner raising a son, self-made oilman Daniel Plainview has a voracious appetite for oil and it turns him into a California tycoon in the early years of the 20th century. Getting the oil from the ground is an intensely physical process that later broadens into Plainview's equally indomitable urge to control land and power. Along the way, Plainview deals with a mighty derrick fire, a visit from a long-lost brother, the ongoing...
6) The Master
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In post-World War II America, a naval veteran arrives home unsettled and uncertain of his future, until he is tantalized by The Cause and its charismatic leader.