Contents Acknowledgments vii Contributors ix 1 Introduction DON HEIDER Part 1 — Underpinnings of Living Virtually Chapter 1. Technological Developments and Transitions in Virtual Worlds JAMES D. IVORY 11 Chapter 2 .

Author: Don Heider

Publisher: Peter Lang

ISBN: 1433101300

Category: Art

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Virtual worlds are most often three dimensional locales, where people create virtual personae (called avatars) who come to play, socialize, and work. This edited collection of groundbreaking research on virtual worlds offers a wide-ranging look at the sociology, politics, and communication practices in virtual worlds from a group of scholars in the United States and abroad.

He had serendipitously joined an online community that advocated dropping out of normal life and living, virtually, whatever alternate existence one wished to have. There, for the first time, Alex's identity was his to perfect as he saw ...

Author: Elias Aboujaoude

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

ISBN: 9780393080759

Category: Psychology

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"Instantly engaging and eminently accessible . . . . an enlightening and cautionary exploration of an increasingly intrusive aspect of modern society." —Booklist While the Internet can enhance well-being, Elias Aboujaoude has spent years treating patients whose lives have been profoundly disturbed by it. Part of the danger lies in how the Internet allows us to act with exaggerated confidence, sexiness, and charisma. Aboujaoude dubs this new self our “e-personality” and argues that its traits are too potent to be confined online. Offline, too, we’re becoming impatient, unfocused, and urge-driven. Virtually You draws from Aboujaoude’s personal and professional experience to highlight this new phenomenon. The first scrutiny of the virtual world’s transformative power on our psychology, Virtually You demonstrates how real life is being reconfigured in the image of a chat room, and how our identity increasingly resembles that of our avatar.

Implementation of Independent Living Activities The IV - E Independent Living Initiative was intended to provide a broad ... Virtually every state is using the funds in part to develop new policies or programmatic activities designed to ...

Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Public Assistance and Unemployment Compensation

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ISBN: STANFORD:36105045641342

Category: Foster home care

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This subgroup almost certainly includes suicides among those living in Glasgow (Exeter & Boyle, 2007). ... There is the problem of reaching and engaging those in the lowest socioeconomic groups when they are living virtually anywhere in ...

Author: Rory C. O'Connor

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

ISBN: 9781118903230

Category: Psychology

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The International Handbook of Suicide Prevention, 2nd Edition, presents a series of readings that consider the individual and societal factors that lead to suicide, it addresses ways these factors may be mitigated, and presents the most up-to-date evidence for effective suicide prevention approaches. An updated reference that shows why effective suicide prevention can only be achieved by understanding the many reasons why people choose to end their lives Gathers together contributions from more than 100 of the world’s leading authorities on suicidal behavior—many of them new to this edition Considers suicide from epidemiological, psychological, clinical, sociological, and neurobiological perspectives, providing a holistic understanding of the subject Describes the most up-to-date, evidence-based research and practice from across the globe, and explores its implications across countries, cultures, and the lifespan

Both of us were living virtually from paycheck to paycheck, so, clearly, capital would have to come from somewhere else. And, between us, we didn't have the faintest clue where to begin. That's when I picked up the phone and called ...

Author: Joe Camp

Publisher: Elm Hill

ISBN: 9781400329816

Category: Religion

Page: 300

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Meet the ordinary but unqualified proof that you can accomplish whatever you want to accomplish in life, no matter how impossible it might seem. God planted that passion in your heart and will use it to make your life extraordinary. Against the odds. This is a riveting true story that dares you to dream. Joe Camp showed his film to every studio in Hollywood and couldn’t get a distributor. Nobody wanted Benji. Nobody. Zero. The following summer Variety reported that the movie was the #3 box office gross of all movies for the year. In spite of all the folks who were so quick to say: You can’t do that! That’s impossible! Give up! Quit. Sit down. Shut up. Go away. If it could be done somebody would have done it already. God’s hand at work. Up close and personal. And what a story this book is as Joe Camp learns how every devastation that he believed to be surely the end of life as he knew it had to happen exactly as God orchestrated it or there never would’ve been a Benji. Or six Benji films. And there never would’ve been a bestselling book changing the lives of horses all across the planet. Or a second love of his life after his Carolyn was called home. God Only Knows is a true story that reads like a spellbinding novel, emotionally involving and packed with suspense while totally shredding our resistance to fully trusting God with our every devastation so that we might see our adversities for what they are: God molding us, strengthening us, teaching us how to get past the multitude of obstacles that any worthwhile dream will throw at us. “My fondest hope is that this book might inspire you to mount a white horse and charge off after things worthwhile, to reach for heights heretofore perceived as unreachable, to adventure into uncharted waters with passion, honesty and God by your side . . . and leave this world a better place for your effort.” --Joe Camp

... numerous projects to develop the country's resources , expand production , diversify the econoy , and raise Living standards . ... to encourage the importation of foodstuffs and , thereby , to reduce the cost of living . Virtually ...

Author: United States Tariff Commission

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ISBN: UOM:39015038673367

Category: Commerce

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Out of the blue, one of his old songs had been picked to soundtrack an advert and the resulting exposure – plus the use of two more of his songs in follow-up campaigns – had transformed him from living virtually hand to mouth in a ...

Author: Nick Kent

Publisher: Hachette UK

ISBN: 9781472132895

Category: Fiction

Page: 225

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London 1968: The Unstable Boys are the name on every music insider's lips and tipped to follow in the footsteps of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. This is their chance to hit the bigtime. They don't know they're about to be obliterated by a series of tragedies and a chaotic breakup that puts paid to the band's starry-eyed dreams of stratospheric success. One day you're the dog's bollocks; the next day you're a nobody - fame is a fickle friend. London 2016: Bestselling crime writer Michael Martindale has reached breaking point. Estranged from his wife and children following the very public fallout of his disastrous affair, he is alone, with only his self-pity to keep him warm at night. Until he makes the mistake of publicly declaring his admiration for his teenage musical obsession, the Unstable Boys. When the band's twisted and feral frontman, the Boy, turns up on his doorstep, Martindale quickly learns that sometimes you should be careful what you wish for. Razor-sharp and laced with a caustic wit, The Unstable Boys is a dark comic caper with an unmistakeable musicality from legendary music journalist Nick Kent.

8 Not only did Norinaga's reputation become one of considerable national celebrity , but he achieved this while living virtually his entire adult life outside of one or another of Japan's major metropolises — an indication of both ...

Author: Peter Nosco

Publisher: BRILL

ISBN: 9781684170081

Category: Literary Criticism

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Remembering Paradise studies three major eighteenth-century nativist scholars in Japan: Kada no Azumamaro, Kamo no Mabuchi, and the celebrated Motoori Norinaga. Peter Nosco demonstrates that these scholars, frequently depicted as the formulators of rabid xenophobia, were intellectuals engaged in a quest for meaning, wholeness, and solace in what they perceived to be disordered times. He traces the emergence and development of their philosophies, identifying elements of continuity into the eighteenth century from the singular Confucian-nativist discourse of the seventeenth century. He also describes the rupture between nativism and Confucianism at the start of the eighteenth century and the quest for ancient, distinctly Japanese values. The emphasis on patriotism and nostalgia in the works of these three scholars may have relevance to the kind of nationalism emerging in Japan in the 1980s, manifested in a renewed interest in visiting one’s home place and in the history and culture of the seventeenth through mid-nineteenth centuries. The current fusion of nationalism and nostalgia can perhaps be better understood through Nosco’s analysis of comparable sentiments that were important in earlier times.

Great Britain for decades had depended on its overseas investments to provide the “ invisible earnings ” that underpinned the British standard of living . Virtually all of these had been sacrificed to win the war .

Author: Walter Russell Mead

Publisher: Knopf

ISBN: 9781101946985

Category: Political Science

Page: 672

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A groundbreaking work that overturns the conventional understanding of the Israeli-American relationship and, in doing so, explores how fundamental debates about American identity drive our country's foreign policy. In this bold examination of the Israeli-American relationship, Walter Russell Mead demolishes the myths that both pro-Zionists and anti-Zionists have fostered over the years. He makes clear that Zionism has always been a divisive subject in the American Jewish community, and that American Christians have often been the most fervent supporters of a Jewish state, citing examples from the time of J.P. Morgan and John D. Rockefeller to the present day. He spotlights the almost forgotten story of left-wing support for Zionism, arguing that Eleanor Roosevelt and liberal New Dealers had more influence on President Truman's Israel policy than the American Jewish community--and that Stalin's influence was more decisive than Truman's in Israel's struggle for independence. Mead shows how Israel's rise in the Middle East helped kindle both the modern evangelical movement and the Sunbelt coalition that carried Reagan into the White House. Highlighting the real sources of Israel's support across the American political spectrum, he debunks the legend of the so-called "Israel lobby." And, he describes the aspects of American culture that make it hostile to anti-Semitism and warns about the danger to that tradition of tolerance as our current culture wars heat up. With original analysis and in lively prose, Mead illuminates the American-Israeli relationship, how it affects contemporary politics, and how it will influence the future of both that relationship and American life.

All States now provide payments for eligible children , and all States except Mississippi provide payments for one parent or other caretaker relative with whom a child is living . Virtually all the States include the second parent in ...

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ISBN: STANFORD:36105006314053

Category: Social security

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