Ray Heid is a fourth generation local legend sharing stories of growing up in Steamboat Springs, Colorado in the early 1940s. His Pop owned a grocery store called the Boys' Market. They made deliveries to sheepherders' camps on the Continental Divide in vintage 1920 vehicles. He grew up competing as a four way skier and specialty big hill jumper traveling to all the big hills across the country in the 1950s from Lake Placid, New York to Leavenworth, Washington. He came of age surrounded by Olympic hopefuls, success stories, and several years as the head ski coach at the University of Wyoming. He spent twenty years involved in the ski business in Ruidoso, New Mexico. He went out on search and rescues and was in the sports retail business. Ray and his family returned to Colorado to run a guide and outfitting horse ranch outside of Steamboat Springs and over the years his passion for skiing and his life as a horseman have entwined. The mythical cowboy skier and his elk hide duster is promoted and seen as the western image in the Colorado High Country. His life stories entertain, and as an old man with authentic hard working country charm, he has reached legendary status as he continues to make a living riding horses and skiing for pleasure. He lives the dream on his ranch in the country surrounded by his horses, his children and their children.

Written for Glasgow Unity in 1947, this extraordinarily moving play of women surviving in the east end of Glasgow of the 1930s was revived by 7:84 Company to tremendous critical acclaim. It finds in the lives of Maggie, her family and her neighbours not only all the tragedy that appalling housing, massive unemployment and grinding poverty can produce, but alo a rich vein of comedy - the sense of the ridiculous, the need for a good laugh.

After a long time of neglect, Artificial Intelligence is once again at the center of most of our political, economic, and socio-cultural debates. Recent advances in the field of Artifical Neural Networks have led to a renaissance of dystopian and utopian speculations on an AI-rendered future. Algorithmic technologies are deployed for identifying potential terrorists through vast surveillance networks, for producing sentencing guidelines and recidivism risk profiles in criminal justice systems, for demographic and psychographic targeting of bodies for advertising or propaganda, and more generally for automating the analysis of language, text, and images. Against this background, the aim of this book is to discuss the heterogenous conditions, implications, and effects of modern AI and Internet technologies in terms of their political dimension: What does it mean to critically investigate efforts of net politics in the age of machine learning algorithms?

This book was first published in 1991. It considers the concepts and theories relating to mostly aqueous systems of activity coefficients.

Each chapter is a biographical sketch of an influential black woman who has written for American newspapers or television news, including Maria W. Stewart, Mary Ann Shadd Cary, Gertrude Bustill Mossell, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Josephine St.Pierre Ruffin, Delilah L. Beasley, Marvel Cooke, Charlotta A. Bass, Alice Allison Dunnigan, Ethel L. Payne, and Charlayne Hunter-Gault.

This book examines the afterlife of decolonization in the collective memory of the Netherlands. It offers a new perspective on the cultural history of representing the decolonization of the Dutch East Indies, and maps out how a contested collective memory was shaped. Taking a transdisciplinary approach and applying several theoretical frames from literary studies, sociology, cultural anthropology and film theory, the author reveals how mediated memories contributed to a process of what he calls "unremembering." He analyses in detail a broad variety of sources, including novels, films, documentaries, radio interviews, memoires and historical studies, to reveal how five decades of representing and remembering decolonization fed into an unremembering by which some key notions were silenced or ignored. The author concludes that historians, or the historical guild, bear much responsibility for the unremembering of decolonization in Dutch collective memory.