What we can learn about human nature from the informative, manipulative, confusing, and amusing messages at the bottom of the web. Online comment can be informative or misleading, entertaining or maddening. Haters and manipulators often seem to monopolize the conversation. Some comments are off-topic, or even topic-less. In this book, Joseph Reagle urges us to read the comments. Conversations “on the bottom half of the Internet,” he argues, can tell us much about human nature and social behavior. Reagle visits communities of Amazon reviewers, fan fiction authors, online learners, scammers, freethinkers, and mean kids. He shows how comment can inform us (through reviews), improve us (through feedback), manipulate us (through fakery), alienate us (through hate), shape us (through social comparison), and perplex us. He finds pre-Internet historical antecedents of online comment in Michelin stars, professional criticism, and the wisdom of crowds. He discusses the techniques of online fakery (distinguishing makers, fakers, and takers), describes the emotional work of receiving and giving feedback, and examines the culture of trolls and haters, bullying, and misogyny. He considers the way comment—a nonstop stream of social quantification and ranking—affects our self-esteem and well-being. And he examines how comment is puzzling—short and asynchronous, these messages can be slap-dash, confusing, amusing, revealing, and weird, shedding context in their passage through the Internet, prompting readers to comment in turn, “WTF?!?”

In this delightfully witty, provocative book, literature professor and psychoanalyst Pierre Bayard argues that not having read a book need not be an impediment to having an interesting conversation about it. (In fact, he says, in certain situations reading the book is the worst thing you could do.) Using examples from such writers as Graham Greene, Oscar Wilde, Montaigne, and Umberto Eco, he describes the varieties of "non-reading"-from books that you've never heard of to books that you've read and forgotten-and offers advice on how to turn a sticky social situation into an occasion for creative brilliance. Practical, funny, and thought-provoking, How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read-which became a favorite of readers everywhere in the hardcover edition-is in the end a love letter to books, offering a whole new perspective on how we read and absorb them.

As a pandemic and racial reckoning exposed society's faults, Christian thinkers were laying the groundwork for a better future. A public health and economic crisis provoked by Covid-19. A social crisis cracked open by the filmed murder of George Floyd. A leadership crisis laid bare as the gravity of a global pandemic met a country suffocating in political polarization and idolatry. In the spring of 2020 Comment and Plough magazines created a joint publishing project that would tap the resources of the Christian humanist tradition to respond collaboratively and imaginatively to these crises. This volume, written in real time during a year that revealed the depths of our society's fissures, provides a wealth of proposals and reflections on what should come after: how we can truly renew our civilization. Breaking Ground has grown into a network of institutions and people that will continue to respond to these ongoing challenges with a deeply Christian and human vision for the future. Contributors include Anthony Barr, Marilynne Robinson, N. T. Wright, Adam Carrington, Gregory Thompson, Shadi Hamid, Rachel Anderson, John Clair, Christine Emba, Jennifer Frey, Michael Wear, David Grubbs, John Milbank, Mark Noll, Michael Lamb, Joe Nail, Charles Camosy, Dante Stewart, Katherine Boyle, Duke Kwon, Gracy Olmstead, Phil Christman, Brad Littlejohn, Brandon Mcginley, Oliver O Donovan, Amy Julia Becker, Chris Lambert, Benya Kraus, Carlo Lancellotti, Luke Bretherton, Jake Meador, Jeffrey Bilbro, Mark Gerzon, Cherie Harder, Susannah Black, Joe Boland, Patrick Pierson, Samuel Kimbriel, Kurt Armstrong, Patrick Tomassi, Chris Lambert, Stuart Mcalpine, Elayne Allen, Mack Mccarter, Father Jack Wall, Myles Werntz, Tobias Cremer, Doug Sikkema, E. J. Hutchinson, J. L. Wall, Joel Halldorf, Aryana Petrosky Roberts, Chelsea Langston Bambino, Dhananjay Jagannathan, Dwan Dandridge, Erin And David Leaverton, Heather C. O'Haneson, Irena Dragas Jansen, James Matthew Wilson, Joseph M Keegin, Joshua Bambino, and L. M. Sacasas.

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"Wonderfully geeky and deeply compassionate." —Marieke Nijkamp, #1 New York Times bestselling author In this charming novel by Eric Smith, two teen gamers find their virtual worlds—and blossoming romance—invaded by the real-world issues of trolling and doxing in the gaming community. We all need a place to escape the real world. For Divya and Aaron, it’s the world of online gaming. While Divya trades her rising-star status for sponsorships to help her struggling single mom pay rent, Aaron plays as a way to fuel his own dreams of becoming a game developer—and as a way to disappear when his mom starts talking about medical school. After a chance online meeting, the pair decides to team up. But they soon find themselves the targets of a group of internet trolls, who begin launching a real-world doxxing campaign, threatening Aaron’s dream and Divya’s actual life. They think they can drive her out of the game, but Divya’s whole world is on the line… And she isn’t going down without a fight. Looking for more from Eric Smith? Don't miss You Can Go Your Own Way!

Complete classroom training manual for QuickBooks Desktop Pro 2023. 315 pages and 194 individual topics. Includes practice exercises and keyboard shortcuts. You will learn how to set up a QuickBooks company file, pay employees and vendors, create custom reports, reconcile your accounts, use estimating, time tracking and much more. Topics Covered: The QuickBooks Environment 1. The Home Page and Insights Tabs 2. The Centers 3. The Menu Bar and Keyboard Shortcuts 4. The Open Window List 5. The Icon Bar 6. Customizing the Icon Bar 7. The Chart of Accounts 8. Accounting Methods 9. Financial Reports Creating a QuickBooks Company File 1. Using Express Start 2. Using the EasyStep Interview 3. Returning to the Easy Step Interview 4. Creating a Local Backup Copy 5. Restoring a Company File from a Local Backup Copy 6. Setting Up Users 7. Single and Multiple User Modes 8. Closing Company Files 9. Opening a Company File Using Lists 1. Using Lists 2. The Chart of Accounts 3. 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Creating Scheduled Paychecks 7. Creating Unscheduled Paychecks 8. Creating Termination Paychecks 9. Voiding Paychecks 10. Tracking Your Tax Liabilities 11. Paying Your Payroll Tax Liabilities 12. Adjusting Payroll Liabilities 13. Entering Liability Refund Checks 14. Process Payroll Forms 15. Tracking Workers Compensation Using Credit Card Accounts 1. Creating Credit Card Accounts 2. Entering Credit Card Charges 3. Reconciling and Paying Credit Cards Assets and Liabilities 1. Assets and Liabilities 2. Creating and Using an Other Current Asset Account 3. Removing Value from Other Current Asset Accounts 4. Creating Fixed Asset Accounts 5. Creating Liability Accounts 6. Setting the Original Cost of Fixed Assets 7. Tracking Depreciation 8. The Fixed Asset Item List Equity Accounts 1. Equity Accounts 2. Recording an Owner’s Draw 3. Recording a Capital Investment Writing Letters With QuickBooks 1. Using the Letters and Envelopes Wizard 2. Editing Letter Templates Company Management 1. Viewing Your Company Information 2. Setting Up Budgets 3. Using the To Do List 4. Using Reminders and Setting Preferences 5. Making General Journal Entries 6. Using Payment Reminders 7. Receipt Management Using QuickBooks Tools 1. Company File Cleanup 2. Exporting and Importing List Data Using IIF Files 3. Advanced Importing of Excel Data 4. Updating QuickBooks 5. Using the Calculator 6. Using the Portable Company Files 7. Using the Calendar 8. The Income Tracker 9. The Bill Tracker 10. The Lead Center 11. Moving QuickBooks Desktop Using the Migrator Tool Using the Accountant’s Review 1. Creating an Accountant’s Copy 2. Transferring an Accountant’s Copy 3. Importing Accountant’s 4. Removing Restrictions Using the Help Menu 1. Using Help

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