A comprehensive guide to no-cost entertainment, travel, and recreation opportunities in Michigan.

Michigan Free: Your Comprehensive Guide to Free Travel, Recreation, and Entertainment Opportunities (Family Travel)

Science & Math

Freedman, Eric

Nature & Ecology

UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN REGIONAL

Provides facts on over 100 fields of study and career prospects for each major

Kaplan What to Study: 101 Fields in a Flash

Business & Money

Hoffnan, Edward

Job Hunting & Careers

Kaplan

Book by Freedman, Eric, Hoffman, Edward

John F Kennedy in His Own Words

Biographies & Memoirs

Hoffman, Edward

Kennedy, John Fitzgerald

Leaders & Notable People

Citadel Pr

?From the first steps toward enfranchisement through modern lawmakers’ vision for America, a new book from CQ Press is the first single-volume reference to provide the complete story of African Americans making U.S. political history. In African Americans in Congress: A Documentary History, authors Eric Freedman―a Pulitzer Prize winner―and Stephen A. Jones, have assembled a vital collection of original narrative supported by more than 120 of the most important historical documents tracing the African American political experience and the history of African American legislators in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. 
 Throughout this comprehensive work, the stories of notable African Americans who have served in Congress are told, including: Hiram R. Revels of Mississippi, the first African American senator; Shirley A. Chisholm of New York, the first black woman to serve in Congress; Charles B. Rangel of New York, the chair of the House Committee on Ways and Means and a founding member of the Congressional Black Caucus; and Barack Obama of Illinois, the only African American senator in the 110th Congress. ? The first part of the book features chronological chapters on the history of African American involvement in U.S. politics and on Capitol Hill, while the second part features thematic chapters on the African American political experience. The issues and events covered include: <ul>
<li>The debate over slavery, the Civil War and Reconstruction</li> <li>The civil rights movement and political empowerment</li> <li>The maturation of the Congressional Black Caucus</li> <li>Elections and investigations</li> <li>War, peace, patriotism and international affairs</li> <li>The struggle for economic justice</li> </ul>
It also details some little-known stories, including future Rep. Robert Smalls’ heroism in commandeering a Confederate ship during the Civil War and piloting it into Union custody and the controversy when President Herbert Hoover’s wife invited the wife of Rep. Oscar De Priest to a White House tea. The appendixes contain lists of African Americans in the 110th Congress and those since the 41st Congress, a chronology of significant events and an extensive bibliography.

African Americans in Congress: A Documentary History

Politics & Social Sciences

Jones, Stephen A.

Social Sciences

CQ Press

A complete guide to water-related activities and recreation in Michigan.

On the water, Michigan: Your comprehensive guide to water recreation in the Great Lake State

Huron-Superior-Michigan Press

Artificial Intelligence and Playable Media

This book introduces readers to artificial intelligence (AI) through the lens of playable media and explores the impact of such software on everyday life. 
From video games to robotic companions to digital twins, artificial intelligence drives large sectors of the culture industry where play, media and machine learning coexist. This book illustrates how playable media contribute to our sense of self, while also harnessing our data, tightening our bonds with computation and realigning play with the demands of network logic. Author Eric Freedmanexamines a number of popular media forms - from the Sony AIBO robotic dog, video game developer Naughty Dog’s Uncharted and The Last of Us franchises, to Peloton’s connected fitness equipment - to lay bare the computational processes that undergird playable media, and addresses the social, cultural, technological and economic forces that continue to shape user-centered experience and design. The case studies are drawn from a number of related research fields, including science and technology studies, media studies and software studies. 
This book is ideal for media studies students, scholars and practitioners interested in understanding how applied artificial intelligence works in popular, public and visual culture.

Humor & Entertainment

Routledge

This book introduces readers to artificial intelligence (AI) through the lens of playable media and explores the impact of such software on everyday life.From video games to robotic companions to digital twins, artificial intelligence drives large sectors of the culture industry where play, media and machine learning coexist. This book illustrates how playable media contribute to our sense of self, while also harnessing our data, tightening our bonds with computation and realigning play with the demands of network logic. Author Eric Freedman examines a number of popular media forms - from the Sony AIBO robotic dog, video game developer Naughty Dog's Uncharted and The Last of Us franchises, to Peloton's connected fitness equipment - to lay bare the computational processes that undergird playable media, and addresses the social, cultural, technological and economic forces that continue to shape user-centered experience and design. The case studies are drawn from a number of related research fields, including science and technology studies, media studies and software studies.This book is ideal for media studies students, scholars and practitioners interested in understanding how applied artificial intelligence works in popular, public and visual culture.

The Persistence of Code in Game Engine Culture

With its unique focus on video game engines, the data-driven architectures of game development and play, this innovative textbook examines the impact of software on everyday life and explores the rise of engine-driven culture. Through a series of case studies, Eric Freedman lays out a clear methodology for studying the game development pipeline, and uses the video game engine as a pathway for media scholars and practitioners to navigate the complex terrain of software practice. Examining several distinct software ecosystems that include the proprietary efforts of Amazon, Apple, Capcom, Epic Games and Unity Technologies, and the unique ways that game engines are used in non-game industries, Freedman illustrates why engines matter. The studies bind together designers and players, speak to the labors of the game industry, value the work of both global and regional developers, and establish critical connection points between software and society. Freedman has crafted a much-needed entry point for students new to code, and a research resource for scholars and teachers working in media industries, game development and new media.

Transient Images: Personal Media in Public Frameworks

In this probing study, Eric Freedman focuses on what images from photography, mobile communications, and the Internet reveal about looking. Exploring subjectivity by critically examining the look, he elaborates on the nature of the photographic frame and its relation to interpretive practices. Freedman scrutinizes what he calls technobiographyOCoa life written through technology, and considers the movement of personal images into public spaces. He also considers authorship that situates the self as inherently engaged with and inscribed by information technology.
All of the chapters ina"Transient Images"aexplore Freedman's interest in examining how media technologies activate particular notions of self and community. He provides examples that address traumaOCopictures of missing children on milk cartons and episodes of the reality series InterventionOCoas well as the strategies behind creating and distributing personal advertisements on the Internet.a"Transient Images"adraws out the tensions that exist in images circulating in the digital era.

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

Temple University Press

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Michigan Free: Your Comprehensive Guide to Free Travel, Recreation, and Entertainment Opportunities (Family Travel)

Kaplan What to Study: 101 Fields in a Flash

John F Kennedy in His Own Words

African Americans in Congress: A Documentary History

On the water, Michigan: Your comprehensive guide to water recreation in the Great Lake State

Artificial Intelligence and Playable Media

Artificial Intelligence and Playable Media

The Persistence of Code in Game Engine Culture

The Persistence of Code in Game Engine Culture

Transient Images: Personal Media in Public Frameworks