Law in Film: RESONANCE AND REPRESENTATION

Humor & Entertainment

Black, David A.

Movies

University of Illinois Press

The courtroom, like the movie theater, is an arena for the telling and interpreting of stories. Investigators piece them together, witnesses tell them, advocates retell them, and judges and juries assess their plausibility. These narratives reconstitute absent events through words, and their filming constitutes a double narrative: one important cultural practice rendered in the terms of another. Drawing on both film studies and legal scholarship, David A. Black explores the implications of representing court procedure, as well as other phases of legal process, in film. His study ranges from an inquiry into the common metaphorical ground between film and law, explored through "the detective" and "the witness," to a critical survey of legal writings about the cinema, to close analyses of key films about law. In examining multiple aspects of law in film, Black sustains a focus on the central importance of narrative while also unearthing the influences—pleasure in film, power in law—that lie beyond the narrative realm. Black's penetrating study treats questions of narrative authority and structure, social authority, and cultural history, revealing the underlying historical, cultural, and cognitive connections between legal and cinematic practices.

The most unique and highly developed concept of weakness in the New Testament is to be found in the writings of the apostle Paul. Essentially, Paul's conception of weakness stands in a dynamic relationship with his Christology. He is defensive of his own infirmities only because a misunderstanding of weakness has led to error concerning the nature and acquisition of divine strength. Paul is strong, but only because he is «in Christ». Otherwise he freely admits to being an apostle of weakness, and in so doing has set forth a powerful rationale for Christians of all ages to glory in their weaknesses, not merely endure them.

Paul, Apostle of Weakness: Astheneia and its Cognates in the Pauline Literature

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers

Summary The Well-Grounded Rubyist, Second Edition addresses both newcomers to Ruby as well as Ruby programmers who want to deepen their understanding of the language. This beautifully written and totally revised second edition includes coverage of features that are new in Ruby 2.1, as well as expanded and updated coverage of aspects of the language that have changed. Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications. About the Technology This is a good time for Ruby! It's powerful like Java or C++, and has dynamic features that let your code react gracefully to changes at runtime. And it's elegant, so creating applications, development tools, and administrative scripts is easier and more straightforward. With the long-awaited Ruby 2, an active development community, and countless libraries and productivity tools, Ruby has come into its own. About the Book The Well-Grounded Rubyist, Second Edition is a beautifully written tutorial that begins with your first Ruby program and goes on to explore sophisticated topics like callable objects, reflection, and threading. The book concentrates on the language, preparing you to use Ruby in any way you choose. This second edition includes coverage of new Ruby features such as keyword arguments, lazy enumerators, and Module#prepend, along with updated information on new and changed core classes and methods. What's Inside <ul>
<li>Clear explanations of Ruby concepts</li>
<li>Numerous simple examples</li>
<li>Updated for Ruby 2.1</li>
<li>Prepares you to use Ruby anywhere for any purpose</li>
</ul>
About the Author David A. Black is an internationally-known software developer, author, trainer, speaker, and event organizer. He is a Ruby standard library contributor and one of the founders of Ruby Central, Inc., the parent organization of the official international Ruby and Ruby on Rails conferences. David works at 2U, Inc. in New York City. Table of Contents <ol>PART 1 RUBY FOUNDATIONS<li>Bootstrapping your Ruby literacy</li>
<li>Objects, methods, and local variables</li>
<li>Organizing objects with classes</li>
<li>Modules and program organization</li>
<li>The default object (self), scope, and visibility</li>
<li>Control-flow techniques</li>PART 2 BUILT-IN CLASSES AND MODULES<li>Built-in essentials</li>
<li>Strings, symbols, and other scalar objects</li>
<li>Collection and container objects</li>
<li>Collections central: Enumerable and Enumerator</li>
<li>Regular expressions and regexp-based string operations</li>
<li>File and I/O operations</li>PART 3 RUBY DYNAMICS<li>Object individuation</li>
<li>Callable and runnable objects</li>
<li>Callbacks, hooks, and runtime introspection</li>
</ol>

The Well-Grounded Rubyist

Computers & Technology

Networking & Cloud Computing

Manning Pubns Co

Summary The Well-Grounded Rubyist, Third Edition is a beautifully written tutorial that begins with your first Ruby program and takes you all the way to sophisticated topics like reflection, threading, and recursion. Ruby masters David A. Black and Joe Leo distill their years of knowledge for you, concentrating on the language and its uses so you can use Ruby in any way you choose. Updated for Ruby 2.5. Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications. About the Technology Designed for developer productivity, Ruby is an easy-to-learn dynamic language perfect for creating virtually any kind of software. Its famously friendly development community, countless libraries, and amazing tools, like the Rails framework, have established it as the language of choice for high-profile companies, including GitHub, SlideShare, and Shopify. The future is bright for the well-grounded Rubyist! About the Book In The Well-Grounded Rubyist, Third Edition, expert authors David A. Black and Joseph Leo III deliver Ruby mastery in an easy-to-read, casual style. You'll lock in core principles as you write your first Ruby programs. Then, you'll progressively build up to topics like reflection, threading, and recursion, cementing your knowledge with high-value exercises to practice your skills along the way. What's Inside <ul>
<li>Basic Ruby syntax</li>
<li>Running Ruby extensions</li>
<li>FP concepts like currying, side-effect-free code, and recursion</li>
<li>Ruby 2.5 updates</li>
</ul>
 About the Reader For readers with beginner-level programming skills, as well as more advanced programmers interested in Ruby and experienced Rubyists looking to review the foundations of their practice. About the Authors David A. Black is an internationally known Ruby developer and author, and a cofounder of Ruby Central. Ruby teacher and advocate Joseph Leo III is the founder of Def Method and lead organizer of the Gotham Ruby Conference. Table of Contents <ol>PART 1 RUBY FOUNDATIONS<li>Bootstrapping your Ruby literacy</li>
<li>Objects, methods, and local variables</li>
<li>Organizing objects with classes</li>
<li>Modules and program organization</li>
<li>The default object (self), scope, and visibility</li>
<li>Control-flow techniques</li>
 PART 2 BUILT-IN CLASSES AND MODULES<li>Built-in essentials</li>
<li>Strings, symbols, and other scalar objects</li>
<li>Collection and container objects</li>
<li>Collections central: Enumerable and Enumerator</li>
<li>Regular expressions and regexp-based string operations</li>
<li>File and I/O operations</li>
 PART 3 RUBY DYNAMICS<li>Object individuation</li>
<li>Callable and runnable objects</li>
<li>Callbacks, hooks, and runtime introspection</li>
<li>Ruby and functional programming</li>
</ol>

Leo III, Joseph

Programming

Manning

The Myth of Adolescence: Raising Responsible Children in an Irresponsible Society

Parenting & Relationships

Davidson Pr

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