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Table of Contents: “…Leading and learning for a lifetime -- Geezers : the era of limits -- Geeks : the era of options -- Crucibles of leadership --- The alchemy of leadership -- A passion for the promises of life.…”

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Table of Contents: “…Seat of future empire, home of the Armadillo (hippies) -- City of the Violet Crown, the Gay Place (scribes) -- Willie Nelson in groover's paradise (pickers) -- Austin City Limits (vid heads) -- Whole Foods Market (veg heads) -- South by Southwest (conventioneers) -- Austin Film Society (slackers) -- Dell, Lord British, RvB, Capital Factory, and the translator (geeks) -- The Franklin line (cool kids) -- Keeping Austin weird (the looky-loos) -- Onward through the fog (going mainstream) -- On the road again.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Confessions of a black geek /…”

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Table of Contents: “…Glossary: Speak Like a Geek: The Complete Archive…”
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Table of Contents: “…Character types: Greeks, geeks, nerds - and little miss hug --…”

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Table of Contents: “…"Let's be going" : a parent reads GeekCereal /…”

Table of Contents: “…Transformation of a stereotype : Geeks, nerds, whiz kids, and hackers /…”

Table of Contents: “…Peer-reviewed journals as geek-out message boards :…”

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Table of Contents: “…Putting it all together -- Speak like a geek.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Geeks and recursive publics -- Protestant reformers, polymaths, transhumanists -- The movement -- Sharing source code -- Conceiving open systems -- Writing copyright licenses -- Coordinating collaborations -- "If we succeed, we will disappear" -- Reuse, modification, and the nonexistence of norms -- Conclusion : The cultural consequences of free software.…”

Table of Contents: “…Virgin galactic -- O2 -- AirAsia -- Chilli Beans -- Six senses resorts and spas -- Burberry -- BBH -- The geek squad -- Zappos.com -- Umpqua bank -- TNT express -- JCB -- Innocent -- WWF -- How to be bold : practices, principles and people -- Bold practice survey.…”
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Table of Contents: “…-- Bringing the plants home alive -- Bringing themselves home alive -- Plant superstars -- Contemporary plant geeks -- Time line -- Author's note -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Illustration credits -- Index.…”

Table of Contents: “…Liar's poker -- Never mention money -- Learning to love your corporate culture -- Adult education -- A brotherhood of hoods -- The fat men and their marvelous money machine -- The Salomon diet -- From geek to man -- The art of war -- How can we make you happier? …”

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The rise of the movie geek: DVD culture, cinematic knowledge, and the home viewer -- The screen is alive: digital effects and Internet culture in the 1990s cyberthriller -- Wall-to-wall color: moviegoing in the age of digital projection -- Desktop productions: digital distribution and public film cultures -- Toppling the gates: blogging as networked film criticism -- Hollywood remixed: movie trailer mashups, five-second movies, and film culture -- Conclusion.…”

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Domesticating the exceptional: Those extraordinary twins and the limits of American individualism -- Marvelous and very real: the grotesque in The heart is a lonely hunter and Wise blood -- The uniform body: spectacles of disability and the Vietnam War -- Conceiving the freakish body: reimagining reproduction in Geek love and My year of meats -- Some assembly required: the disability politics of Infinite jest -- Conclusion: inclusion, fixing, and legibility.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Foreword / by Oliver Sacks -- Introduction: Beyond the geek syndrome -- The wizard of Clapham Common -- The boy who loves green straws -- What Sister Viktorine knew -- Fascinating peculiarities -- The invention of toxic parenting -- Princes of the air -- Fighting the monster -- Nature's smudged lines -- The Rain Man effect -- Pandora's box -- In autistic space -- Building the Enterprise : designs for a neurodiverse world -- Epilogue: The mayor of Kensington.…”

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The rise of the movie geek: DVD culture, cinematic knowledge, and the home viewer -- The screen is alive: digital effects and Internet culture in the 1990s cyberthriller -- Wall-to-wall color: moviegoing in the age of digital projection -- Desktop productions: digital distribution and public film cultures -- Toppling the gates: blogging as networked film criticism -- Hollywood remixed: movie trailer mashups, five-second movies, and film culture -- Conclusion.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The rise of the movie geek: DVD culture, cinematic knowledge, and the home viewer -- The screen is alive: digital effects and Internet culture in the 1990s cyberthriller -- Wall-to-wall color: moviegoing in the age of digital projection -- Desktop productions: digital distribution and public film cultures -- Toppling the gates: blogging as networked film criticism -- Hollywood remixed: movie trailer mashups, five-second movies, and film culture -- Conclusion.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Detroit blues: "Because of you motherfuckers" -- To market, to market, New York style -- Gangsters, gooks, geishas, and geeks -- Up from innocence. Welcome to Washington -- Lost and found in L.A. -- For richer, for poorer -- Moving the mountain. …”

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The policy context: educational standards and human capital -- Conceptualising high achievement: theoretical perspectives on social identity and achievement -- Enabling high achievement: the shared practices of high achieving pupils -- Boffins and geeks: the social consequences for young people constructed as too hardworking -- The challenge of balance: anxieties concerning the tension between high achievement and popularity -- High achieving and popular: the ideal neoliberal subject? …”
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Table of Contents: “…Sweet Somethin's (Tootsie Roll) -- 22. Geek No Evil (Google).…”

Table of Contents: “…-- pt. 3: Unnatural selections. Send lawyers, geeks, and money ; Monkey suit ; Sword and shield, shock and awe ; Paleozoic roadkill, Kentucky Fried Chicken and bad frog beer ; Of panders and people -- Under the microscope, deer in the headlights ; Forty days and forty nights ; Breathtaking inanity.…”

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Seven deadly sins -- A good proposal is hard to find : but it's worth looking -- Recognizing reality -- Rushing to the exits -- A primer on persuasion -- Understanding persuasion -- Winning by a nose: the structure of persuasion -- Seven magic questions : how to develop a client-centered message -- Why the inuit hunt whales and other secrets of customer behavior -- The cicero principle : how to avoid talking to yourself in print -- Fluff, guff, geek and weasel : the art of saying what you mean -- Weaving your web : how to pull it all together from the start -- The art of the part : where to put your effort -- Letter proposals -- The structure and key elements of formal proposals -- Writing the business case -- Recommending and substantiating your solution -- Persuasive answers to rfp questions -- Presenting evidence and proving your points -- Gathering and tailoring reusable content -- How to manage the process without losing your sanity -- Deal or no deal? …”
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Table of Contents: “…Garofalo -- Library automation and open source software in Italy: an overview / Giovanna Frigimelica and Andrea Marchitelli -- Geeks and Luddites: library culture and communication / Dan Gall and Donna Hirst -- The status of the field / Edward Iglesias -- Building winning partnerships with vendors / Huibin (Heather) Cai -- Enterprise computing and the library: managing the transition / John Durno -- Doing more with more: systems, services and emerging technologies / Lisa Carlucci Thomas.…”

Table of Contents: “…The epic tradition -- The Jonian Greeks -- The background of the Persian war -- Athens between the wars -- Slavery as a Geek institution -- The Peloponnesian war -- The fourth century -- The Hellenistic state system -- Social and economic developments -- Intellectual developments -- The sources -- The world of Homer -- a. …”

Table of Contents: “…A piece of evidence -- Swan -- A chance encounter that would prove seminal -- Old boy -- Alabaster -- The geek club conglomerate -- Matthew -- Alpha -- The ladies -- the panoptocon -- The invitations -- The woods -- The golf course -- A garlic knot -- A triangle -- The neglected positive -- Cheese fries -- The T-shirt -- The Suicide Club -- Monster -- The loyal order -- A sea horse -- Star -- A broken date -- The old theater -- The oath -- The crown of Alabaster -- Look to the west, boys -- Bind it tight with sticking plaster -- History -- English muffins -- How to get through a closed door --Halloween -- A vamp -- The subsequent e-mails -- How much is that doggie in the window? …”

Table of Contents: “…Gardner Goldsmith -- A tale of two heroes / Shanna Swendson -- The good book / Eric Greene -- Mal contents / Alex Bledsoe -- Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal / Lani Diane Rich -- Mutant enemy U / Loni Peristere -- Geeks of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your lovebots! …”
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Table of Contents: “…-- Basic probability : Don't buy the extended warranty on your $99 printer -- The Monty Hall problem -- Problems with probability : How overconfident math geeks nearly destroyed the global financial system -- The importance of data : "Garbage in, garbage out" -- The central limit theorem : The Lebron James of statistics -- Inference : Why my statistics professor thought I might have cheated -- Polling : How we know that 64 percent of Americans support the death penalty (with a sampling error (plus or minus) 3 percent) -- Regression analysis : The miracle elixir -- Common regression mistakes : The mandatory warning label -- Program evaluation : Will going to Harvard change your life? …”

Table of Contents: “…-- Basic probability : Don't buy the extended warranty on your $99 printer -- The Monty Hall problem -- Problems with probability : How overconfident math geeks nearly destroyed the global financial system -- The importance of data : "Garbage in, garbage out" -- The central limit theorem : The Lebron James of statistics -- Inference : Why my statistics professor thought I might have cheated -- Polling : How we know that 64 percent of Americans support the death penalty (with a sampling error (plus or minus) 3 percent) -- Regression analysis : The miracle elixir -- Common regression mistakes : The mandatory warning label -- Program evaluation : Will going to Harvard change your life? …”
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Table of Contents: “…Crowe, and Janiece Mackey -- The academic research library's white past and present / Ian Beilin -- Present topographies: surveying whiteness in contemporary LIS -- The weight of being a mirror : a librarian's short autobiography / Sarah Hannah Gómez -- Looking the part / Jessica Macias -- Nostalgia, cuteness, and geek chic : whiteness in Orla Kiely's Library / Vani Natarajan -- White feminism and distributions of power in academic libraries / Megan Watson -- Who killed the world? …”

Table of Contents: “…Acceptable use policy -- Artificial intelligence -- Bandwidth -- Biometrics -- Blogging -- Bookmarks -- Bots -- CAD -- Chat and e-mail abbreviations -- Chat rooms -- Clip art -- Comic sites -- Commercialization -- Compression -- Computer dating -- Computer simulation -- Computer visualization -- Convergence -- Cookies -- Copyright -- Cybercafés -- Cyberspace -- Cybersquatting/domain hijacking -- Cybrarian -- Deep Web -- Digital audio -- Digital camera -- Digital cinema -- Digital imaging -- Digital video -- Distance learning -- Domains -- Dot-com -- Early adopters -- Easter eggs -- E-books -- Electronic publishing -- E-mail -- Emoticons -- ENIAC -- E-zines -- Filtering -- Gaming -- Geek speak -- Global positioning systems -- Globalization -- Gopher -- Graphical user interface -- History of computer hardware -- Hoax sites -- HTML -- Hyperfiction -- Hypertext -- Information society -- Instant messaging -- Internet acronyms -- Internet advertising -- Internet providers -- Internet radio -- IRC -- Linux -- Luddite -- Mac versus PC -- Media streaming -- MIDI -- MP3s -- MUDs -- Multimedia -- Multitasking -- Nanny cams -- Netiquette -- New economy -- New media -- Old internet -- Online conferences -- Online support groups -- Palm computers or personal digital assistants -- Peer-to-peer file sharing -- Portability -- PowerPoint poisoning -- Privacy -- Punched cards -- Quantum computing -- Safe rooms -- Search engines -- Shareware -- Skins -- Spamming -- Technophobia -- TWAIN -- URL -- Usenet -- Virtual reality -- Viruses -- Voice activation and recognition -- Wearable computing devices -- Webcams -- Webquests -- Wired environments -- Wireless application protocol -- Wireless networks --Y2K.…”

Table of Contents: “…/ Karen Coyle -- Closure was never a goal in this piece / Judy Malloy and Cathy Marshall -- Estrogen brigades and "big tits" threads: media fandom online and off / Susan Clerc -- Elites, lamers, narcs and whores: exploring the computer underground / Netta "grayarea" Gilboa -- We are geeks, and we are not guys: the systers mailing list / L. …”

Table of Contents: “…Crowe, and Janiece Mackey -- The academic research library's white past and present / Ian Beilin -- Present topographies: surveying whiteness in contemporary LIS -- The weight of being a mirror : a librarian's short autobiography / Sarah Hannah Gómez -- Looking the part / Jessica Macias -- Nostalgia, cuteness, and geek chic : whiteness in Orla Kiely's Library / Vani Natarajan -- White feminism and distributions of power in academic libraries / Megan Watson -- Who killed the world? …”
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Table of Contents: “…/ Youth from Horse Lake First Nation ; Sokolum on the small screen / Heather Hills ; Art outside the box / Louie Gong ; The power of sport / Waneek Horn-Miller ; Modern warrior / Bunky Echo-Hawk -- Part 4: Dreamcatchers : Life lessons / Jade Willoughby ; Adventure in art / Ruthie, Sierra, Chamisa and Santana Edd ; Reunited / Sharai Mustatia ; The road to the red carpet / Michelle Thrush ; Tips from the musical trenches / Conlin Delbaere-Sawchuk ; Idle no more / Kelli Clifton, Raquel Simard, Kris Statnyk ; Salish geek / Jeffrey Veregge ; First nation flavor / Aaron Joseph Bear Robe ; Hoop breaking / James Jones ; Grad: just the beginning / Tenille Campbell ; Weaving dreams / Patricia Stein.…”

Table of Contents: “…. -- Mendocino Brewing Company, Inc. -- MindGeek SARL -- Mod-Pac Corporation -- Move, Inc. -- Murray Energy Corporation -- NRT Technology Corporation -- Nutraclick, LLC -- Oasis Outsourcing, Inc. -- On Deck Capital, Inc. -- Organogenesis Inc. -- Par Pharmaceutical Companies, Inc. -- Petrochem Carless Limited -- Phunware Inc. -- Pirch, Inc. -- Pou Chen Corporation -- Prepay Nation LLC -- Qlik Technologies Inc. -- QLT Inc. -- Radeberger Gruppe, AG -- Rahr Corporation -- Redfin Corporation -- Restaurant Associates Corporation -- Riot Games, Inc. -- Ripley Entertainment, Inc. -- SalMar ASA -- Seventh Generation, Inc. -- Shepherd Neame Limited -- Signet Jewelers Limited -- Snapchat, Inc. -- St. …”
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Table of Contents: “…. -- SciQuest, Inc. -- SeatGeek, Inc. -- SierraPine, A California Limited Partnership -- Sigfox -- Southern Nevada Water Authority -- Squarespace, Inc. -- Stereotaxis, Inc. -- Tapad, Inc. -- Tati SA -- Telos Corporation -- ThoughtWorks, Inc. -- Titan International, Inc. -- Transcat, Inc. -- Umpqua Holdings Corporation -- United Road Services, Inc. -- Ushahidi, Inc. -- Usinas Siderurgicas de Minas Gerais S.A. -- Vascular Solutions, Inc. -- Vebego International BV -- Verod Capital Management Limited -- VMware Inc. -- VTOL Technologies Ltd. -- Warners' Stellian Appliance Company, Inc. -- Western Specialty Contractors -- WeWork Companies, Inc. -- Wilhelm Construction, Inc. -- YourPeople, Inc. -- Zendesk, Inc.…”
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Table of Contents: “…. -- Full Harvest Technologies, Inc. -- Geek Squad -- GoDaddy Inc. -- Gondrand Group -- Grupo Breca S.A. …”
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Table of Contents: “…. -- Sun World International, LLC -- TheStreet, Inc. -- ThinkGeek, Inc. -- Ulta Salon, Cosmetics & Fragrance, Inc. -- University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center -- Virtustream -- W.P. …”
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Table of Contents: “…. -- F -- Fishman and Tobin Incorporated -- Ford Gum and Machine Company, Incorporated -- Fuchs Petrolub AG -- G -- Geek Squad Incorporated -- The Go Daddy Group Incorporated -- GoldToeMoretz, LLC -- Gonnella Baking Company -- Grendene S.A. -- Groupe Ares S.A. -- Groupe Dubreuil S.A. -- H -- Hikma Pharmaceuticals Limited -- Hilding Anders AB -- I -- ICON Health and Fitness, Incorporated -- Integrity Media, Incorporated -- J -- Jack B. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Indie kid style -- No. 75. Geek chic -- No. 76. Celebrity -- No. 77. Techno -- No. 78. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Bungle, costume-wearing band played "bizarre" music -- Bebo Norman, rising star in Christian music -- Po' Girl, female Canadian folk band -- The Pursuit of Happiness, canadian geek-chic rock band -- Jon Randall, country musician wrote "Whiskey Lullaby" -- Fred Rose, publisher made Nashville central to music scene -- The Samples, songwriting and fan-focused rock band -- Juelz Santana, rapper used music to escape streets -- Ashlee Simpson, edgy pop singer and actress -- Willie the Lion Smith, roaring 1920s pianist -- Angela Strehli, "First Lady of Texas Blues" -- Taking Back Sunday, rock group combines punk and emo -- Tegan and Sara, twin sisters form classic style duo -- Anibal Troilo, Argentinean tango music legend -- Robin Trower, atistic and bluesy rock guitarist -- Benny Waters, jazz master performed for decades -- Ronny Weiser, record label owner revived American rockabilly -- Kanye West, socially conscious hip-hop star -- Chris Whitley, creative blues and rock performer -- Johnny Winter, blues-loving guitarist -- Bernard Wrigley, British folk singer and actor -- Young Dubliners, Irish band combines tradition and rock.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Blue footsies (Cleveland, Ohio, 1950) -- Church (Cleveland, Ohio, 1950) -- Called up (Cleveland, Ohio, 1951) -- Texas protection (James Connally AFB, Texas 1951) -- Telling time (James Connally AFB, Texas 1951) -- Bomb drill (Lackland AFB, Texas, 1952) -- Pink menace (Lackland AFB, Texas 1952) -- A snake (Lowry AFB, Colorado, 1955) -- Your own (Smoky Hill AFB, Kansas 1953) -- Bad name ((Smoky Hill AFB, Kansas 1954) -- Sonic book ((Smoky Hill AFB, Kansas 1954) -- Career girl ((Smoky Hill AFB, Kansas 1954) -- Making history ((Smoky Hill AFB, Kansas 1955) -- Gold box ((Smoky Hill AFB, Kansas 1955) -- Kemo Sabe ((Smoky Hill AFB, Kansas 1955) -- Mississippi ((Smoky Hill AFB, Kansas 1955) -- Glow-in-the-dark ((Smoky Hill AFB, Kansas 1956) -- Travenling light ((Smoky Hill AFB, Kansas 1956) -- Just pick a name (On the road, 1956) -- Say It (Mather AFB, California, 1956) -- Moonlily ((Mather AFB, California, 1956) -- Cloud-gathering ((Mather AFB, California, 1956) -- Sputnik ((Mather AFB, California, 1957) -- Darkroom (Mather AFB, California, 1957) -- Nelsons (On the road, 1957) -- Fieldwork (Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 1957) -- Caucasian dinner (Kittery Point, Maine, 1958) -- Ghost ((Kittery Point, Maine, 1958) -- Attic window (Kittery Point, Maine, 1958) -- Paper dolls ((Kittery Point, Maine, 1958) -- Queen of the sixth grade ((Kittery Point, Maine, 1958) -- Aooga ((Kittery Point, Maine, 1958)) -- Beautiful hair ((Kittery Point, Maine, 1958) -- Critic (Kittery Point, Maine, 1959) -- Parking lot dawn (On the road, 1959) -- A drift of girlfriends (Sacramento, California, 1959) -- Africans (Sacramento, California, 1959) -- Bitter apple (Sacramento, California, 1959) -- The history of tribal suppression (On the road, 1959) -- Sinfonia concertante (Fort Worth, Texas, 1959) -- Mischieving ((Fort Worth, Texas, 1959) -- To Miss Jackson ((Fort Worth, Texas, 1959) -- Let me count the ways (On the road, 1959) -- A quartet of geeks (Clinton-Sherman AFB, Oklahoma, 1959) -- Dances with doorknobs (Clinton-Sherman AFB, Oklahoma, 1959) -- My friends (Clinton-Sherman AFB, Oklahoma, 1959) -- The baby picture guessing game (Clinton-Sherman AFB, Oklahoma, 1959) -- Safe path through quicksand Clinton-Sherman AFB, Oklahoma, 1959 -- How I discovered poetry Clinton-Sherman AFB, Oklahoma, 1959) -- Thirteen-year-old American Negro girl Clinton-Sherman AFB, Oklahoma, 1959).…”

Table of Contents: “…maybe your own / David Batstone -- Geeks and geezers: how era, values, and defining moments shape leaders / Warren G. …”