... Dedication to CAROL For becoming my smart, beautiful bride in 1949 and then giving fully of herself to me and our wonderful family i... ...We listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make se... ...and then take less than a century to create the largest contiguous empire in world history. 10. Mongols Open the Way They open the gate blocking... ...acuum tubes. 1952  Pre-election polls predicted a close contest between Illinois Gov. Adlai Stevenson and five-star Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower. Ear... ...92 victory over President Bush, not to mention Barack Obama‘s election in 2008 and the boost it gave to the Tea Party in 2010. By the beginning ... ...n managing a small UP bureau, managing editor jobs at small newspapers in Illinois and Montana preceded the start of his thirty-one years at Kalamaz... ...ichael started to ―drop in‖ to any number of classes at the University of Illinois and also to visit the departmental offices and ask for a ―one-hour... ..., Malcolm. Outliers: The Story of Success. New York: Little Brown and Co., 2008. Crystal, David. The Stories of English. Woodstock, NY: Overlook Pr... ... of Reason and the Closing of the Scientific Mind. New York: Basic Books, 2008. Lederer, Richard. The Miracle of Language. New York: Pocket Books,...

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...From whence cometh language, the InfoTech that lets us dominate our planet? We listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make sense of speech. -- 2. The Gift of Memory-For millennia, mnemonics reigned over commerce, news, entertainment, and the perpetuation and refinement of cra...

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... Caravan book. For more information, visit www.caravanbooks.org. Copyright © 2008 by James Boyle. All rights reserved. The author has made an online v... ... be accessed through the author’s website at http://james-boyle.com. Printed in the United States of America. ISBN: 978-0-300-13740-8 Library of Congr... ...ates of America. ISBN: 978-0-300-13740-8 Library of Congress Control Number: 2008932282 A catalogue record for this book is available from the British... ...served mockery. “Want that insignia torn off your car, Dad? Then it would be in the public domain, right?” My colleagues at Duke are one of the main i... ... at Duke are one of the main influences on my work. I am lucky enough to work in the only “Center for the Study of the Public Domain” in the academic w... ...ement—a requirement that one at least write the words “James Boyle copyright 2008,” for example, in order to get more than 100 years of legal protecti... ...ith Related Documents 1783–1854, ed. Donald Jack- son (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1962), 586). It is easy, in fact, reading this prodigious... ...p Deffaa, Blue Rhythms: Six Lives in Rhythm and Blues (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1996), 161. 13. Columbia Catalog Number CO45097, availabl...

...ll depend on a delicate balance between those ideas that are controlled and those that are free, between intellectual property and the public domain. In The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind (Yale University Press) James Boyle introduces readers to the idea of the public domain and describes how it is being tragically eroded by our current copyright, patent,...