Convulsing Bodies: Religion and Resistance in Foucault

By using religion to get at the core concepts of Michel Foucault's thinking, this book offers a strong alternative to the way that the philosopher's work is read across the humanities. Foucault was famously interested in Christianity as both the rival to ancient ethics and the parent of modern discipline and was always alert to the hypocrisy and the violence in churches. Yet many readers have ignored how central religion is to his thought, particularly with regard to human bodies and how they are shaped. The point is not to turn Foucault into some sort of believer or to extract from him a fixed thesis about religion as such. Rather, it is to see how Foucault engages religious rhetoric page after page―even when religion is not his main topic. When readers follow his allusions, they can see why he finds in religion not only an object of critique, but a perennial provocation to think about how speech works on bodies―and how bodies resist. Arguing that Foucault conducts experiments in writing to frustrate academic expectations about history and theory, Mark Jordan gives equal weight to the performative and theatrical aspects of Foucault's writing or lecturing. How does Foucault stage possibilities of self-transformation? How are his books or lectures akin to the rituals and liturgies that he dissects in them? Convulsing Bodies follows its own game of hide-and-seek with the agents of totalizing systems (not least in the academy) and gives us a Foucault who plays with his audiences as he plays for them―or teaches them.

Literature & Fiction

Jordan, Mark

History & Criticism

Stanford University Press

For most owners, the business sale, merger, or acquisition process is a mountain of uncertainty. The Business Sale...An Owner's Most Perilous Expedition provides practical steps to navigate an owner through the uncharted journey of selling a business.

The Business Sale...an Owner's Most Perilous Expedition: Guiding Techniques from Merger & Acquisition Professionals

Business & Money

Gould, Mark

Perkins, David L.

Dillon, Rick

Presogna, Jeffrey

Management & Leadership

Decere Pub

Notes from Hard Drive

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Thrillers & Suspense

Trafford Publishing

Enhance your SAS® data wrangling skills with high precision and parallel data manipulation using the new DS2 programming language. This book addresses the new DS2 programming language from SAS, which combines the precise procedural power and control of the Base SAS DATA step language with the simplicity and flexibility of SQL. DS2 provides simple, safe syntax for performing complex data transformations in parallel and enables manipulation of native database data types at full precision. It also introduces PROC FEDSQL, a modernized SQL language that blends perfectly with DS2. You will learn to harness the power of parallel processing to speed up CPU-intensive computing processes in Base SAS and how to achieve even more speed by processing DS2 programs on massively parallel database systems. Techniques for leveraging Internet APIs to acquire data, avoiding large data movements when working with data from disparate sources, and leveraging DS2â€™s new data types for full-precision numeric calculations are presented, with examples of why these techniques are essential for the modern data wrangler. While working through the code samples provided with this book, you will build a library of custom, reusable, and easily shareable DS2 program modules, execute parallelized DATA step programs to speed up a CPU-intensive process, and conduct advanced data transformations using hash objects and matrix math operations.

Mastering the SAS DS2 Procedure: Advanced Data Wrangling Techniques

Computers & Technology

Programming Languages

SAS Institute

Enhance your SAS® data-wrangling skills with high-precision and parallel data manipulation using the DS2 programming language. Now in its second edition, this book addresses the DS2 programming language from SAS, which combines the precise procedural power and control of the Base SAS® DATA step language with the simplicity and flexibility of SQL. DS2 provides simple, safe syntax for performing complex data transformations in parallel and enables manipulation of native database data types at full precision. It also covers PROC FEDSQL, a modernized SQL language that blends perfectly with DS2. You will learn to harness the power of parallel processing to speed up CPU-intensive computing processes in Base SAS and how to achieve even more speed by processing DS2 programs on massively parallel database systems. Techniques for leveraging internet APIs to acquire data, avoiding large data movements when working with data from disparate sources, and leveraging DS2's new data types for full-precision numeric calculations are presented, with examples of why these techniques are essential for the modern data wrangler. Here's what's new in this edition: <ul>
<li> how to significantly improve performance by using the new SAS® Viya® architecture with its SAS® Cloud Analytic Services (CAS) </li> <li> how to declare private variables and methods in a package </li> <li> the new PROC DSTODS2 </li> <li> the PCRXFIND and PCRXREPLACE packages </li> </ul>
 While working though the code samples provided with this book, you will build a library of custom, reusable, and easily shareable DS2 program modules, execute parallelized DATA step programs to speed up a CPU-intensive process, and conduct advanced data transformations using hash objects and matrix math operations. This book is part of the SAS Press Series.

Mastering the SAS DS2 Procedure: Advanced Data-Wrangling Techniques, Second Edi

Networking & Cloud Computing

Enhance your SAS data-wrangling skills with high-precision and parallel data manipulation using the DS2 programming language. Now in its second edition, this book addresses the DS2 programming language from SAS, which combines the precise procedural power and control of the Base SAS DATA step language with the simplicity and flexibility of SQL. DS2 provides simple, safe syntax for performing complex data transformations in parallel and enables manipulation of native database data types at full precision. It also covers PROC FEDSQL, a modernized SQL language that blends perfectly with DS2. You will learn to harness the power of parallel processing to speed up CPU-intensive computing processes in Base SAS and how to achieve even more speed by processing DS2 programs on massively parallel database systems. Techniques for leveraging internet APIs to acquire data, avoiding large data movements when working with data from disparate sources, and leveraging DS2's new data types for full-precision numeric calculations are presented, with examples of why these techniques are essential for the modern data wrangler. Here's what's new in this edition: <ul> <li> how to significantly improve performance by using the new SASViyaarchitecture with its SAS Cloud Analytic Services (CAS) </li> <li> how to declare private variables and methods in a package </li> <li> the new PROC DSTODS2 </li> <li> the PCRXFIND and PCRXREPLACE packages </li> </ul> While working though the code samples provided with this book, you will build a library of custom, reusable, and easily shareable DS2 program modules, execute parallelized DATA step programs to speed up a CPU-intensive process, and conduct advanced data transformations using hash objects and matrix math operations.

Mastering the SAS DS2 Procedure: Advanced Data-Wrangling Techniques, Second Edition (Hardcover edition)

Software

Two good friends who work at a moribund television station under a tyrannical boss, are pleased to find out they are being sent to work a calendar girl photo session at a giant shopping mall. Once they get to the mall, they find that a time warp in the mall has introduced several T-Rexes plus Josef Stalin, Leon Trotsky and a band of deadly Bolsheviks into the situation. The dinosaurs are bent on lunch and Stalin is planning to take over the mall and use the time warp to conquer history. With the help of the scantily clad calendar girls the duo battles the dinosaurs and use the time warp to draft some famous people from American history to fight Stalin. In the end Stalin is confronted, the boss is humiliated and the two heroes each meet a girl. Mark Jordan lives in his hometown of Henryville, Indiana and has long worked in television production. He currently is a camera operator for two horse racetracks in Kentucky. The idea for Time Mall came from a dream Mark had about 20 years ago. He originally wrote it up as a screenplay. After the script sat around for years it was decided to turn it into a novel.

Time Mall

Dramas & Plays

Liberty Hill Publishing

Putting Content Online: A Practical Guide for Libraries (Chandos Information Professional Series)

This book focuses on practical, standards-based approaches to planning, executing and managing projects in which libraries and other cultural institutions digitize material and make it available on the web (or make collections of born-digital material available). Topics include evaluating material for digitization, intellectual property issues, metadata standards, digital library content management systems, search and retrieval considerations, project management, project operations, proposal writing, and libraries’ emerging role as publishers.
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<li>Highly practical. Explains complex processes, warns of potential challenges and provides advice for solving realistic problems</li>
<li>Comprehensive: includes coverage of the range of techniques and strategies for digitizing and organizing material that practitioners can use to plan and implement digitization projects </li>
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Reference

Chandos Publishing

This book focuses on practical, standards-based approaches to planning, executing and managing projects in which libraries and other cultural institutions digitize material and make it available on the web (or make collections of born-digital material available). Topics include evaluating material for digitization, intellectual property issues, metadata standards, digital library content management systems, search and retrieval considerations, project management, project operations, proposal writing, and libraries’ emerging role as publishers.Highly practical. Explains complex processes, warns of potential challenges and provides advice for solving realistic problemsComprehensive: includes coverage of the range of techniques and strategies for digitizing and organizing material that practitioners can use to plan and implement digitization projects

The Chronicle of Mant

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Fantasy

Independently published

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