Greek Mythology : Gods and Heroes Brought to Life
by Robert Garland
English | 2020 | ISBN: 1526776545 | 234 Pages | PDF | 21.4 MB
Bob Warden, "Great Food Fast : Bob Warden's Ultimate Pressure Cooker Recipes"
English | ISBN: 1934193798 | 2012 | 208 pages | MOBI | 3 MB
New York Times and National Bestseller!
Graph-Based Modelling in Science, Technology and Art
English | 2022 | ISBN: 3030767868 | 311 Pages | PDF | 11 MB
This book presents interdisciplinary, cutting-edge and creative applications of graph theory and modeling in science, technology, architecture and art. Topics are divided into three parts: the first one examines mechanical problems related to gears, planetary gears and engineering installations; the second one explores graph-based methods applied to medical analyses as well as biological and chemical modeling; and the third part includes various topics e.g. drama analysis, aiding of design activities and network visualisation. The authors represent several countries in Europe and America, and their contributions show how different, useful and fruitful the utilization of graphs in modelling of engineering systems can be. The book has been designed to serve readers interested in the subject of graph modelling and those with expertise in related areas, as well as members of the worldwide community of graph modelers.
Glen Smith, "Grails in Action"
English | ISBN: 1933988932 | 2009 | 520 pages | EPUB, MOBI, PDF | 11 MB + 12 MB + 8 MB
For web developers used to wrestling with Java and XML, Grails is a breath offresh air. Developers are instantly productive, picking up all the benefits of theRuby-based Rails framework without giving up any of the power of Java.
From Perception to Consciousness: Searching with Anne Treisman By Jeremy Wolfe, Lynn Robertson
2012 | 439 Pages | ISBN: 019973433X | PDF | 12 MB
Anyone interested in the study of attention will have had some exposure to the work of Anne Treisman. Anne Treisman has been one of the most influential cognitive psychologists in the last 50 years. Her research and theoretical insights have influenced a variety of disciplines, including vision sciences, auditory sciences, cognitive psychology, cognitive neurosciences, philosophy, psychiatry, neuropsychology, and behavioral neurology. She is best known for her work on attention. Early in her career, much of that work involved auditory stimuli. Her later work has been primarily in the realm of visual attention. She has been especially concerned with the interactions among visual perception, attention, and memory as they relate to conscious and unconscious experience. Her Feature Integration Theory has been one of the organizing ideas in the field for three decades.While still a graduate student at Oxford, she helped launch the modern study of attention. In the present volume, several of her most influential papers are reprinted (including some of the harder to find early work). To accompany these reprints, the editors invited experts to comment and/or to show how their own work had been shaped by Treisman's ideas and findings. The result is a scientifically rich ride through the world of ideas inspired by Treisman's work. The contributed chapters include discussions of auditory and visual attention, the role of features in selection, parallel and serial processing, and automaticity. They describe the roots and evolution of Feature Integration Theory and related models like Guided Search. They explore the interactions of attention and perception at the cognitive, neuropsychological, and biological levels. Readers can consider the critical role of binding in perception, the role of attention in scene perception, as well as the influence of cognitive load, memory, reflection, and perceptual learning on early and late processing. They will see how methods to study conscious perceptual awareness have evolved over the years.
Finding Democracy in Music (Musical Cultures of the Twentieth Century) by Robert Adlington, Esteban Buch
2020 | ISBN: 036748692X | English | 222 pages | PDF | 5 MB
For a century and more, the idea of democracy has fuelled musicians' imaginations. Seeking to go beyond music's proven capacity to contribute to specific political causes, musicians have explored how aspects of their practice embody democratic principles. This may involve adopting particular approaches to compositional material, performance practice, relationships to audiences, or modes of dissemination and distribution.
Hadas Elber-Aviram, "Fairy Tales of London: British Urban Fantasy, 1840 to the Present"
English | ISBN: 1350110671 | 2021 | 312 pages | PDF | 10 MB
From the time of Charles Dickens, the imaginative power of the city of London has frequently inspired writers to their most creative flights of fantasy. Charting a new history of London fantasy writing from the Victorian era to the 21st century, Fairy Tales of London explores a powerful tradition of urban fantasy distinct from the rural tales of writers such as J.R.R. Tolkien. Hadas Elber-Aviram traces this urban tradition from Dickens, through the scientific romances of H.G. Wells, the anti-fantasies of George Orwell and Mervyn Peake to contemporary science fiction and fantasy writers such as Michael Moorcock, Neil Gaiman and China Miéville.
Existential Monday: Philosophical Essays By Benjamin Fondane; Bruce Baugh; Andrew Rubens
2016 | 160 Pages | ISBN: 159017898X | EPUB | 1 MB
Benjamin Fondane-who was born and educated in Romania, moved as an adult to Paris, lived for a time in Buenos Aires, where he was close to Victoria Ocampo, Jorge Luis Borges's friend and publisher, and died in Auschwitz-was an artist and thinker who found in every limit, in every border, "a torture and a spur." Poet, critic, man of the theater, movie director, Fondane was the most daring of the existentialists, a metaphysical anarchist, affirming individual against those great abstractions that limit human freedom-the State, History, the Law, the Idea.Existential Mondayis the first selection of his philosophical work to appear in English. Here Fondane, until now little-known except to specialists, emerges as one of the great French philosophers of the twentieth century.
Excavating Indiana Jones : Essays on the Films and Franchise
by Randy Laist
English | 2020 | ISBN: 1476676925 | 219 Pages | PDF | 8.8 MB
Michael Denton, "Evolution: Still a Theory in Crisis"
English | ISBN: 1936599325 | 2016 | 354 pages | EPUB, MOBI | 1135 KB + 1467 KB
More than thirty years after his landmark book Evolution: A Theory in Crisis (1985), biologist Michael Denton revisits his earlier thesis about the inability of Darwinian evolution to explain the history of life. He argues that there remains "an irresistible consilience of evidence for rejecting Darwinian cumulative selection as the major driving force of evolution." From the origin of life to the origin of human language, the great divisions in the natural order are still as profound as ever, and they are still unsupported by the series of adaptive transitional forms predicted by Darwin. In addition, Denton makes a provocative new argument about the pervasiveness of nonadaptive order throughout biology, order that cannot be explained by the Darwinian mechanism.