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Introduction -- Market reports -- Reading the ticker tape -- Picturing the market -- Confidence games and inside information -- Conspiracy and the invisible hand of the market -- Epilogue

Americans pay famously close attention to "the market", obsessively watching trends, patterns, and swings and looking for clues in every fluctuation. In Reading the Market, Peter Knight explores the Gilded Age origins and development of this peculiar interest. He tracks the historic shift in market operations from local to national while examining how present-day ideas about the nature of markets are tied to past genres of financial representation. Drawing on the late nineteenth-century explosion of art, literature, and media, which sought to dramatize the workings of the stock market for a

Written with the needs of students uppermost, Small-Scale Research is a direct, comprehensive guide for students doing theses, dissertations, papers and projects. It systematically works through the central methods of inquiry and demonstrates the strengths and weaknesses of different approaches

An exploration of conspiracy-minded anxieties about viral infiltration focuses on the "ILOVEYOU" computer virus that hit 45 million computers in 20 countries in 2000. The rhetoric of paranoia & conspiracy that followed the Love Bug is examined alongside the paranoid talk that has accompanied other infiltrations such as the acquired immune deficiency syndrome epidemic & earlier computer viruses. It is contended that the Internet & its viral plagues exemplify confusion between self & other that has resulted from the state of "low-intensity" conflict in the world that has produced an unspecified sense of threat. In addition, the link between national politics & the rhetoric of germophobia has generated a corresponding shift in the vocabulary of immunology from the skin as the body's protective barrier to the immune system. Difficulties involved in determining whether conspiracy theories surrounding the Love Bug were justified or exaggerated are discussed, along with the unlikely prospect of total immunity, & the increasing confusion between Them & Us that is a byproduct of corporeal paranoia. 28 References. J. Lindroth

An exploration of conspiracy-minded anxieties about viral infiltration focuses on the "ILOVEYOU" computer virus that hit 45 million computers in 20 countries in 2000. The rhetoric of paranoia & conspiracy that followed the Love Bug is examined alongside the paranoid talk that has accompanied other infiltrations such as the acquired immune deficiency syndrome epidemic & earlier computer viruses. It is contended that the Internet & its viral plagues exemplify confusion between self & other that has resulted from the state of "low-intensity" conflict in the world that has produced an unspecified sense of threat. In addition, the link between national politics & the rhetoric of germophobia has generated a corresponding shift in the vocabulary of immunology from the skin as the body's protective barrier to the immune system. Difficulties involved in determining whether conspiracy theories surrounding the Love Bug were justified or exaggerated are discussed, along with the unlikely prospect of total immunity, & the increasing confusion between Them & Us that is a byproduct of corporeal paranoia. 28 References. J. Lindroth