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Echo Chambers [Secure Microsoft Reader]
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In Republic.com, Cass Sunstein argued that in cyberspace we already have the ability to filter out everything but what we wish to see. And tomorrow, our power to filter promises to increase exponentially. In all of the applause for this remarkable ascendance of personalized information, Sunstein asked the questions, Is it good for democracy? Is it healthy for the republic? What does this mean for freedom of speech? Republic.com exposed the treacherous drawbacks of egocentric Internet use, while... more info>>
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Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist [Secure Microsoft Reader]
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Strains of Utopia: Gender, Nostalgia, and Hollywood Film Music [Secure Microsoft Reader]
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When Dmitri Tiomkin thanked Johannes Brahms, Johann Strauss, Richard Strauss, and Richard Wagner upon accepting the Academy Award for his score of The High and the Mighty in 1954, he was honoring a romantic style that had characterized Hollywood's golden age of film composition from the mid-1930s to the 1950s. Exploring elements of romanticism in film scores of composers ranging from Erich Korngold to Bernard Herrmann, Caryl Flinn argues that films tended to link music to the sense of an idealiz... more info>>
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