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, Horst, Steven W., 1960-. Laws, mind, and free will. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2011, xiii, 277pp., very good dust-jacket, very good black hardcover. ISBN 9780262015257.

Kirby, David A. Lab coats in Hollywood: science, scientists, and cinema. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2011, xiv, 265pp., very good dust-jacket, very good white hardcover. Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey", released in 1968, is perhaps the most scientifically accurate film ever produced. The film presented such a plausible, realistic vision of space flight that many moon hoax proponents believe that Kubrick staged the 1969 moon landing using the same studios and techniques. Kubrick's scientific verisimilitude in 2001 came courtesy of his science consultants--including two former NASA scientists--; and the more than sixty-five companies, research organizations, and government agencies that offered technical advice. Although most filmmakers don't consult experts as extensively as Kubrick, films ranging from "A Beautiful Mind" and "Contact" to "Finding Nemo and "The Hulk" have achieved some degree of scientific credibility because of science consultants. In Lab Coats in Hollywood, David Kirby examines the interaction of science and cinema: how science consultants make movie science plausible, how filmmakers negotiate scientific accuracy within production constraints, and how movies affect popular perceptions of science. - CONTENTS: Scientific expertise in Hollywood : the interactions between scientific and entertainment cultures -- Cinematic science : scientific representation, film realism, and virtual witnessing technologies -- Valuing expertise : the entertainment industry's and scientific community's motivations in the science consulting relationship -- Scientists on screen : being a scientist, looking like a lab -- Cinematic fact checking : negotiating scientific facts within filmmaking culture -- Best guesses : scientific uncertainty, flexibility, and scientists in the aisles -- Fantastically logical : fantastic science, speculative scenarios, and the expertise of logic -- Preventing future disasters : science consultants and the enhancement of cinematic disasters -- The future is now : diegetic prototypes and the role of cinematic narratives in generating real-world technological development -- Improving science, improving entertainment : the significance of scientists in Hollywood. ISBN 9780262014786.

PAPERBACK, very good, probably unused, with slightest wear to top corners. remainder stamp on top foredge. ROBINSON, JULIA, ed. . John Cage. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2011, 1st printing number line ending in 1, x, 220pp., . October files, 12. - John Cage (1912-1992) defined a radical practice of composition that changed the course of modern music and shaped a new conceptual horizon for postwar art. Famous for his use of chance and "silence" in musical works, a pioneer in electronic music and the nonstandard use of instruments, Cage was one of the most influential composers of the last century. This volume traces a trajectory of writings on the artist, from the earliest critical reactions to the scholarship of today. If the first writing on Cage in the American context, often written by close associates with Cage's involvement, seemed lacking in critical distance, younger scholars--a generation removed--have recently begun to approach the legacy from a new perspective, with more developed theoretical frameworks and greater skepticism. This book captures that evolution. The texts include discussions of Cage's work in the context of the New Music scene in Germany in the 1950s; Yvonne Rainer's essay looking back on Cage and New York experimentalism of the 1960s; a complex and original mapping of Cage's place in a wider avant-garde genealogy that includes Le Corbusier and Moholy-Nagy; a musicologist's account of Cage's process of defining and formalizing his concept of indeterminacy; and an analysis of Cage's project that considers his strategies of self-representation as key to his unique impact on modern and postmodern art. - CONTENTS: John Cage, or liberated music (1959) / Heinz-Klaus Metzger -- Chance as ideology (1967) / Konrad Boehmer -- Looking myself in the mouth (1981) / Yvonne Rainer -- Cage and Asia: history and sources (1996) / David W. Patterson -- John Cage and the architecture of silence (1997) / Branden W. Joseph -- Post-Cagean aesthetics and the event score (2001) / Liz Kotz -- The formalization of indeterminacy in 1958: John Cage and the experimental composition at the New School (2008) / Rebecca Y. Kim -- John Cage and investiture: unmanning the system (2009) / Julia Robinson. ISBN 9780262516303.

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Austin, James H., 1925-. Meditating selflessly: practical neural Zen. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2011, 2d printing number line, xxiv, 251pp., very good dust-jacket, fresh attractive copy, red hardcover, appears unused. ISBN 9780262015875.

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very good dust-jacket with some light wear, very good blue hardcover, attractive copy in great shape. ALEXANDER, PHILIP N. A widening sphere: evolving cultures at MIT. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2011, 1st printing number line ending in 1, xi, 508pp., . CONTENTS: "A Future Full of Promise" / William Barton Rogers -- "Sailing Seas Not Well Charted" / John Daniel Runkle -- "All that we Hold True and Manly" / Francis Amasa Walker -- "Uneasy Lies the Head" / James Mason Crafts -- "Into Touch with the World at Large" / Henry Smith Pritchett -- "Thoroughly Sure of Himself" / Richard Cockburn MacLaurin -- "Not the Man for Us" / Ernest Fox Nichols -- "Shaping Things in Orderly Fashion" / Samuel Wesley Stratton -- "All Knowledge his Sphere" / Karl Taylor Compton. ISBN 9780262015639.

very good dust-jacket, old price label on front, very good gray hardcover, little used if at all. remainder mark on top foredge. SANSOM, ROGER. Ingenious genes: how gene regulation networks evolve to control development. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2011, 1st printing number line ending with 1, x, 128pp., . Life and mind. - CONTENTS: The problem of the evolvability of gene regulation networks -- Are gene regulation networks evolvable? -- Kauffman's framework for gene regulation -- The connectionist framework for gene regulation -- Why gene regulation networks are the controllers of development. ISBN 9780262195812.

, Softcover/Paperback. Zustand: Gut. Auflage: Illustrated. 380 Seiten Fresh and clean copy in good condition. Frisches und sauberes Exemplar in gutem Zustand. Contents: 1. Introduction - 2. Space-Suit - 3. The New Look - 4. The New Look in Defense Planning - 5. Flight and Suits - 6. Cyborg - 7. Flight Suit to Space Suit - 8. Man in Space - 9. Bras and the Battlefield - 10. JFK - 11. Contractual Physiology - 12. Simulation - 13. The Moon Suit Plays Football - 14. Handmade - 15. Hard Suit 1 - 16. We ve Got a Signal! - 17. Hard Suit 2 - 18. Control Space - 19. Cities and Cyborgs - 20. 21 Layers - 21. Conclusion ISBN 9780262015202 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1134.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An urgent critique of the biopolitical subject and omnipresent Empire.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An early work that lays the foundation for establishing a 'polemical" dimension to psychoanalysis.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An examination of political conflicts over pesticide drift and the differing conceptions of justice held by industry, regulators, and activists.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An expert explains how the conventional wisdom about decision making can get us into troubleand why experience can't be replaced by rules, procedures, or analytical methods.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A dizzying trip through the mind(s) of the provocative and influential thinker Nick Land.During the 1990s British philosopher Nick Land's unique work, variously described as rabid nihilism, mad black deleuzianism, and cybergothic, developed perhaps the only rigorous and culturally-engaged escape route out of the malaise of continental philosophy a route that was implacably blocked by the academy. However, Land's work has continued to exert an influence, both through the British speculative realist philosophers who studied with him, and through the many cultural producers writers, artists, musicians, filmmakers who have been invigorated by his uncompromising and abrasive philosophical vision.Beginning with Land's early radical rereadings of Heidegger, Nietzsche, Kant and Bataille, the volume collects together the papers, talks and articles of the mid-90s long the subject of rumour and vague legend (including some work which has never previously appeared in print) in which Land developed his futuristic theory-fiction of cybercapitalism gone amok; and ends with his enigmatic later writings in which Ballardian fictions, poetics, cryptography, anthropology, grammatology and the occult are smeared into unrecognisable hybrids.Fanged Noumena gives a dizzying perspective on the entire trajectory of this provocative and influential thinker's work, and has introduced his unique voice to a new generation of readers.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Detailed advice on writing papers, giving presentations, and refereeing, plus an essential guide to the basics of being a graduate student in economics.This book is an invaluable handbook for young economists working on their dissertations, preparing their first articles for submission to professional journals, getting ready for their first presentations at conferences and job seminars, or undertaking their first refereeing assignments. In clear, concise language a model in itself William Thomson describes how to make written and oral presentations both engaging and efficient. Declaring 'I would certainly take up arms for clarity, simplicity, and unity,' Thomson covers the basics of clear exposition, including such nuts-and-bolts topics as titling papers, writing abstracts, presenting research results, and holding an audience's attention. This second edition features a substantial new chapter, 'Being a Graduate Student in Economics,' that offers guidance on such essential topics as the manners and mores of graduate school life, financial support, selecting an advisor, and navigating the job market. The chapter on giving talks has been rewritten to reflect the widespread use of presentation software, and new material has been added to the chapter on writing papers.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - One of Japan's leading architects examines notions of Japan-ness as exemplified by key events in Japanese architectural history from the seventh to the twentieth century; essays on buildings and their cultural context.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The use of case studies to build and test theories in political science and the other social sciences has increased in recent years. Many scholars have argued that the social sciences rely too heavily on quantitative research and formal models and have attempted to develop and refine rigorous methods for using case studies. This text presents a comprehensive analysis of research methods using case studies and examines the place of case studies in social science methodology. It argues that case studies, statistical methods, and formal models are complementary rather than competitive. The book explains how to design case study research that will produce results useful to policymakers and emphasizes the importance of developing policy-relevant theories. It offers three major contributions to case study methodology: an emphasis on the importance of within-case analysis, a detailed discussion of process tracing, and development of the concept of typological theories. Case Studies and Theory Development in the Social Sciences will be particularly useful to graduate students and scholars in social science methodology and the philosophy of science, as well as to those designing new research projects, and will contribute greatly to the broader debate about scientific methods.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This comprehensive and accessible text fills the need for a political economy view of global environmental politics, focusing on the ways key economic processes affect environmental outcomes. It examines the main actors and forces shaping global environmental management, particularly in the developing world. Moving beyond the usual academic emphasis on international agreements and institutions, it strives to integrate debates within the real world of global policy and the academic world of theory.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The first volume in Peter Sloterdijk's monumental Spheres trilogy: an investigation of humanity's engagement with intimate spaces.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Manifestos and immodest proposals from China's most famous artist and activist, culled from his popular blog, shut down by Chinese authorities in 2009.In 2006, even though he could barely type, China's most famous artist started blogging. For more than three years, Ai Weiwei turned out a steady stream of scathing social commentary, criticism of government policy, thoughts on art and architecture, and autobiographical writings. He wrote about the Sichuan earthquake (and posted a list of the schoolchildren who died because of the government's tofu-dregs engineering ), reminisced about Andy Warhol and the East Village art scene, described the irony of being investigated for fraud by the Ministry of Public Security, made a modest proposal for tax collection. Then, on June 1, 2009, Chinese authorities shut down the blog. This book offers a collection of Ai's notorious online writings translated into English the most complete, public documentation of the original Chinese blog available in any language.The New York Times called Ai a figure of Warholian celebrity. He is a leading figure on the international art scene, a regular in museums and biennials, but in China he is a manifold and controversial presence: artist, architect, curator, social critic, justice-seeker. He was a consultant on the design of the famous Bird's Nest stadium but called for an Olympic boycott; he received a Chinese Contemporary Art lifetime achievement award in 2008 but was beaten by the police in connection with his citizen investigation of earthquake casualties in 2009. Ai Weiwei's Blog documents Ai's passion, his genius, his hubris, his righteous anger, and his vision for China.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This is the essential companion to the second edition of Jeffrey Wooldridge's widely used graduate econometrics text. The text provides an intuitive but rigorous treatment of two state-of-the-art methods used in contemporary microeconomic research. The numerous end-of-chapter exercises are an important component of the book, encouraging the student to use and extend the analytic methods presented in the book. This manual contains advice for answering selected problems, new examples, and supplementary materials designed by the author, which work together to enhance the benefits of the text. Users of the textbook will find the manual a necessary adjunct to the book.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A commonsense, self-contained introduction to the mathematics and physics of music; essential reading for musicians, music engineers, and anyone interested in the intersection of art and science.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The second edition of a comprehensive introduction to all aspects of mobile robotics, from algorithms to mechanisms.Mobile robots range from the Mars Pathfinder mission's teleoperated Sojourner to the cleaning robots in the Paris Metro. This text offers students and other interested readers an introduction to the fundamentals of mobile robotics, spanning the mechanical, motor, sensory, perceptual, and cognitive layers the field comprises. The text focuses on mobility itself, offering an overview of the mechanisms that allow a mobile robot to move through a real world environment to perform its tasks, including locomotion, sensing, localization, and motion planning. It synthesizes material from such fields as kinematics, control theory, signal analysis, computer vision, information theory, artificial intelligence, and probability theory. The book presents the techniques and technology that enable mobility in a series of interacting modules. Each chapter treats a different aspect of mobility, as the book moves from low-level to high-level details. It covers all aspects of mobile robotics, including software and hardware design considerations, related technologies, and algorithmic techniques.This second edition has been revised and updated throughout, with 130 pages of new material on such topics as locomotion, perception, localization, and planning and navigation. Problem sets have been added at the end of each chapter. Bringing together all aspects of mobile robotics into one volume, Introduction to Autonomous Mobile Robots can serve as a textbook or a working tool for beginning practitioners.Curriculum developed by Dr. Robert King, Colorado School of Mines, and Dr. James Conrad, University of North Carolina-Charlotte, to accompany the National Instruments LabVIEW Robotics Starter Kit, are available. Included are 13 (6 by Dr. King and 7 by Dr. Conrad) laboratory exercises for using the LabVIEW Robotics Starter Kit to teach mobile robotics concepts.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The essential reference to SuperCollider, a powerful, flexible, open-source, cross-platform audio programming language.SuperCollider is one of the most important domain-specific audio programming languages, with potential applications that include real-time interaction, installations, electroacoustic pieces, generative music, and audiovisuals. The SuperCollider Book is the essential reference to this powerful and flexible language, offering students and professionals a collection of tutorials, essays, and projects. With contributions from top academics, artists, and technologists that cover topics at levels from the introductory to the specialized, it will be a valuable sourcebook both for beginners and for advanced users. SuperCollider, first developed by James McCartney, is an accessible blend of Smalltalk, C, and further ideas from a number of programming languages. Free, open-source, cross-platform, and with a diverse and supportive developer community, it is often the first programming language sound artists and computer musicians learn. The SuperCollider Book is the long-awaited guide to the design, syntax, and use of the SuperCollider language. The first chapters offer an introduction to the basics, including a friendly tutorial for absolute beginners, providing the reader with skills that can serve as a foundation for further learning. Later chapters cover more advanced topics and particular topics in computer music, including programming, sonification, spatialization, microsound, GUIs, machine listening, alternative tunings, and non-real-time synthesis; practical applications and philosophical insights from the composer's and artist's perspectives; and 'under the hood, developer's-eye views of SuperCollider's inner workings. A Web site accompanying the book offers code, links to the application itself and its source code, and a variety of third-party extras, extensions, libraries, and examples.

Foreword by Stephen Sewell, Introduction by Peter Weibel. In Zusammenarbeit mit dem ZKM/Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe. In englischer Sprache. Begleitbuch zu Scheers 360°-3D-Kino-Installation. - Sehr gutes Exemplar ohne Namenszüge oder Stempel. (FU1b:).

XVI, 239 pp. Illustrated. Publisher's hardover, dust-jacket. A very good copy.

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