mit press ltd jun 2023 (11 Ergebnisse)

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'A series of black-and-white photographs by Roswell Angier, paired with occasional paintings by his wife, the artist Susan Hawley, which explore the town of Gallup, New Mexico, shot largely over a three-year period in the 1980s'.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'A leading figure in neuroaesthetics makes the case that aesthetic experience can be meaningfully measured by the tools of neuroscience'--.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - How modern notions of architectural style were bornand the debates they sparked in nineteenth-century Germany.The term style has fallen spectacularly out of fashion in architectural circles. Once a conceptual key to understanding architecture's inner workings, today style seems to be associated with superficiality, formalism, and obsolete periodization. But how did styleonce defined by German sociologist Georg Simmel as a place where one is "no longer alone"in architecture actually work How was it used and what did it mean In Style and Solitude, Mari Hvattum seeks to understand the apparent death of style, returning to its birthplace in the late eighteenth century, and charting how it grew to influence modern architectural discourse and practice. As Hvattum explains, German thinkers of the eighteenth and nineteenth century offered competing ideas of what style was and how it should be applied in architecture. From Karl Friedrich Schinkel's thoughtful eclecticism to King Maximilian II's attempt to capture the zeitgeist in an architectural competition, style was at the center of fascinating experiments and furious disputes. Starting with Johann Joachim Winckelmann's invention of the period style and ending a century later with Gottfried Semper's generative theory of style, Hvattum explores critical debates that are still ongoing today.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Comprehensive analysis of how climate and environmental disasters influence armed conflict dynamics around the world'--.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'A political economy analysis of global market shifts and their implications for the politics and governance of deforestation in agricultural supply chains'--.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - From the influential author of Dynamics in Action, how the concepts of constraints provide a way to rethink relationships, opening the way to intentional, meaningful causation.Grounding her work in the problem of causation, Alicia Juarrero challenges previously held beliefs that only forceful impacts are causes. Constraints, she claims, bring about effects as well, and they enable the emergence of coherence. In Context Changes Everything, Juarrero shows that coherence is induced by enabling constraints, not forceful causes, and that the resulting coherence is then maintained by constitutive constraints. Constitutive constraints, in turn, become governing constraints that regulate and modulate the way coherent entities behave. Using the tools of complexity science, she offers a rigorously scientific understanding of identity, hierarchy, and top-down causation, and in so doing, presents a new way of thinking about the natural world. Juarrero argues that personal identity, which has been thought to be conferred through internal traits (essential natures), is grounded in dynamic interdependencies that keep coherent structures whole. This challenges our ideas of identity, as well as the notion that stability means inflexible rigidity. On the contrary, stable entities are brittle and cannot persist. Complexity science, says Juarrero, can shape how we meet the world, how what emerges from our interactions finds coherence, and how humans can shape identities that are robust and resilient. This framework has significant implications for sociology, economics, political theory, business, and knowledge management, as well as psychology, religion, and theology. It points to a more expansive and synthetic philosophy about who we are and about the coherence of living and nonliving things alike.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'An exploration and analysis of the disturbing Lustmord images - graphic representations of sexual murder - by artists such as George Grosz, Otto Dix, Rudolph Schindler, and more generally of the interelationship between art and criminality in early 20th-century Germany and Austria'--.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Drawing on interviews with mashup producers, close readings of the mashup music and videos, and a historically and aesthetically informed cultural studies approach, Br vig demonstrates how mashup music embraces the essence of parody through its mashing and repurposing of sources, associations, and connotations'--.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'A graduate-level methodology textbook on statistical analysis of linguistic data. Appropriate for a variety of courses in linguistics and cognitive science'--.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Using neuronal network models of behavioral physiology and neuroethology in a wide variety of animal models, this text will explore the development of autonomous robotic systems'--.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Expanded, updated, and fully revisedthe definitive introduction to electronic music is ready for new generations of students.Essential and state-of-the-art, The Computer Music Tutorial, second edition is a singular text that introduces computer and electronic music, explains its motivations, and puts topics into context. Curtis Roads's step-by-step presentation orients musicians, engineers, scientists, and anyone else new to computer and electronic music.The new edition continues to be the definitive tutorial on all aspects of computer music, including digital audio, signal processing, musical input devices, performance software, editing systems, algorithmic composition, MIDI, and psychoacoustics, but the second edition also reflects the enormous growth of the field since the book's original publication in 1996. New chapters cover up-to-date topics like virtual analog, pulsar synthesis, concatenative synthesis, spectrum analysis by atomic decomposition, Open Sound Control, spectrum editors, and instrument and patch editors. Exhaustively referenced and cross-referenced, the second edition adds hundreds of new figures and references to the original charts, diagrams, screen images, and photographs in order to explain basic concepts and terms.Features.