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Author : Andy Brown
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Binary Myths 1 & 2 written by Andy Brown and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Randall E. Auxier
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1351792482
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)
Download or read book The Quantum of Explanation written by Randall E. Auxier and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-03-31 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Quantum of Explanation advances a bold new theory of how explanation ought to be understood in philosophical and cosmological inquiries. Using a complete interpretation of Alfred North Whitehead’s philosophical and mathematical writings and an interpretive structure that is essentially new, Auxier and Herstein argue that Whitehead has never been properly understood, nor has the depth and breadth of his contribution to the human search for knowledge been assimilated by his successors. This important book effectively applies Whitehead’s philosophy to problems in the interpretation of science, empirical knowledge, and nature. It develops a new account of philosophical naturalism that will contribute to the current naturalism debate in both Analytic and Continental philosophy. Auxier and Herstein also draw attention to some of the most important differences between the process theology tradition and Whitehead’s thought, arguing in favor of a Whiteheadian naturalism that is more or less independent of theological concerns. This book offers a clear and comprehensive introduction to Whitehead’s philosophy and is an essential resource for students and scholars interested in American philosophy, the philosophy of mathematics and physics, and issues associated with naturalism, explanation and radical empiricism.
Author : Debra Soh
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982132523
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)
Download or read book The End of Gender written by Debra Soh and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "International sex researcher, neuroscientist, and frequent contributor to The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Debra Soh [discusses what she sees as] gender myths in this ... examination of the many facets of gender identity"--
Author : Jay Kappraff
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9814490512
Total Pages : 616 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (144 download)
Download or read book Beyond Measure written by Jay Kappraff and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2002-12-16 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book consists of essays that stand on their own but are also loosely connected. Part I documents how numbers and geometry arise in several cultural contexts and in nature: the ancient musical scale, proportion in architecture, ancient geometry, megalithic stone circles, the hidden pavements of the Laurentian library, the shapes of the Hebrew letters, and the shapes of biological forms. The focus is on how certain numbers, such as the golden and silver means, present themselves within these systems. Part II shows how many of the same numbers and number sequences are related to the modern mathematical study of numbers, dynamical systems, chaos, and fractals. Contents: Essays in Geometry and Number as They Arise in Nature, Music, Architecture and Design:The Spiral in Nature and MythThe Vortex of LifeHarmonic LawThe Projective Nature of the Musical ScaleThe Music of the SpheresTangrams and Amish QuiltsLinking Proportions, Architecture, and MusicA Secret of Ancient GeometryThe Hyperbolic Brunes StarThe Hidden Pavements of the Laurentian LibraryMeasure in Megalithic BritainThe Flame-hand Letters of the Hebrew AlphabetConcepts Described in Part I Reappear in the Context of Fractals, Chaos, Plant Growth and Other Dynamical Systems:Self-Referential SystemsNature's Number SystemNumber: Gray Code and the Towers of HanoiGray Code, Sets, and LogicChaos Theory: A Challenge to PredictabilityFractalsChaos and FractalsThe Golden MeanGeneralizations of the Golden Mean — IGeneralizations of the Golden Mean — IlPolygons and ChaosGrowth of Plants: A Study in NumberDynamical Systems Readership: Polytechnic or college students, designers, mathematicians and general readers. Keywords:General Mathematics;GeometryReviews:“This unusual book contains many interesting observations about the real world and relates these observations to one another by means of the 'higher artithmetic' of real numbers. The book is thus a carefully crafted combination of philosophy, history, biology, geography, philology, geology, and chemistry engagingly woven together by the quadrivium of music, astronomy, geometry and number.” H S M Coxeter University of Toronto “Broad in scope, ‘Beyond Measure’ is filled with fascinating and valuable information — not only for curious students and lay people — but also for the seasoned researcher. From ancient myths, to music, to fractals and consiousness itself, Jay Kappraff ranges far and wide in an exhilarating, challenging, and innovative book sure to stimulate reader's sense of wonder at the incredible vastness of our mathematical universe.”Clifford A Pickover T J Watson Research Centre, IBM “Jay Kappraff has a rare ability to convey discoveries and ideas of fellow mathematicians and scientists to the interested general public. In his latest book, ‘Beyond Measure’, he presents the unity of numbers and culture and helps the reader make his and her own discoveries in the world around us.” Istvan Hargittai Budapest Technical University “Beyond Measure is bound to increase your appreciation of the role of matheamtics in our world.” Library of Science “… the topics are interesting … it is very well written and contains much of interest.” Mathematical Reviews “This pleasant book should be in the hands of many non-mathematicians and is of interest also for mathematicians.” Zentralblatt MATH
Author : Bradley W. Patterson
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1984563645
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (845 download)
Download or read book Redefining Reason written by Bradley W. Patterson and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2018-11-16 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the twentieth century, Western thinkers engaged in a politically charged, often highly personal and acrimonious debate over the mental and rational capacity of people from traditional nonliterate societies. The issue was a question of whether or not humanity was, at bottom, psychologically and rationally unified and equal as a species. Redefining Reason offers the first in-depth, critical history of that debate and its repercussions in modern Western thought and society. Divided into three sections, this book first sets the twentieth-century “primitive” mentality debate within its historical context so that it may be better understood. It then focuses on some of the highlights of the debate. The next section suggests that this debate was, in reality, a chapter itself in (or in an aspect of) a much larger story: the story of what may be appropriately referred to as the hyperrationalization of human society. To conclude, this book follows the debate into the twenty-first century and offers the clarification and resolutions developed in earlier chapters to contemporary students, scholars, and educated lay readers.
Author : Karansher Singh Sandhu
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
ISBN 13 : 2832529615
Total Pages : 657 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (325 download)
Download or read book Breaking the myth: Breeding for stress tolerance, grain yield, and quality traits simultaneously by diversifying the narrow genetic base written by Karansher Singh Sandhu and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2023-07-20 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Andreas M. Hinz
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3034802374
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (348 download)
Download or read book The Tower of Hanoi – Myths and Maths written by Andreas M. Hinz and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-01-31 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comprehensive monograph on the mathematical theory of the solitaire game “The Tower of Hanoi” which was invented in the 19th century by the French number theorist Édouard Lucas. The book comprises a survey of the historical development from the game’s predecessors up to recent research in mathematics and applications in computer science and psychology. Apart from long-standing myths it contains a thorough, largely self-contained presentation of the essential mathematical facts with complete proofs, including also unpublished material. The main objects of research today are the so-called Hanoi graphs and the related Sierpiński graphs. Acknowledging the great popularity of the topic in computer science, algorithms and their correctness proofs form an essential part of the book. In view of the most important practical applications of the Tower of Hanoi and its variants, namely in physics, network theory, and cognitive (neuro)psychology, other related structures and puzzles like, e.g., the “Tower of London”, are addressed. Numerous captivating integer sequences arise along the way, but also many open questions impose themselves. Central among these is the famed Frame-Stewart conjecture. Despite many attempts to decide it and large-scale numerical experiments supporting its truth, it remains unsettled after more than 70 years and thus demonstrates the timeliness of the topic. Enriched with elaborate illustrations, connections to other puzzles and challenges for the reader in the form of (solved) exercises as well as problems for further exploration, this book is enjoyable reading for students, educators, game enthusiasts and researchers alike.
Author : Marysia Zalewski
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317983726
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)
Download or read book Intervening in Northern Ireland written by Marysia Zalewski and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The articles in this special issue, drawn from a workshop hosted by the Institute of Governance, Queen’s University, Belfast, explicitly engage with and challenge conventional academic analyses in order to confront the ways in which the conflict on Northern Ireland has traditionally been represented and understood. Part of the reason for adopting this approach is because it is suggested that to a certain extent, academic analyses have defined the parameters of the conflict which has necessarily had implications for the shape of ensuing solutions. A further claim is that the persistent historical and political search for causes and solutions may be constitutive of the problems that conventional analysts seek to resolve. The articles in the first part introduce and problematize traditional analyses of the conflict. Additionally, these essays explain alternative approaches offering other ways of thinking about how the ‘problem’ of Northern Ireland has been constituted. The second part comprises empirically focused essays, each either engaging with or confronting the issue of the liberal hegemony that defines most analyses of the conflict. The final essay returns to more explicitly re-consider how the ‘problem’ of Northern Ireland has been theorized, represented and understood. This book was previously published as a special issue of Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy.
Author : David Kennedy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1846319773
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (463 download)
Download or read book Women's Experimental Poetry in Britain 1970-2010 written by David Kennedy and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women's Experimental Poetry in Britain 1970-2010 examines a critically neglected but significant body of contemporary writing, placing it within wider social and political contexts. Ranging from Geraldine Monk's ventriloquizing of the Pendle witches to Denise Riley's fiercely self-critical lyric poems—from the multi-media experiments of Maggie O'Sullivan to the globally aware, politicized sequences of Andrea Brady and Jennifer Cooke—it offers a needed theoretical look at women's experimental poetry in Britain over the past forty years, drawing on the likes of Julia Kristeva and others to show how the female poetic voice has constantly negotiated with dominant systems of representation.
Author : Warren Buckland
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501316540
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Wes Andersons Symbolic Storyworld written by Warren Buckland and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2018-10-18 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wes Anderson's Symbolic Storyworld presents a theoretical investigation of whatmakes the films of Wes Anderson distinctive. Chapter by chapter, it relentlessly pulls apart each of Anderson's narratives to pursue the proposition that they all share the same deep underlying symbolic values – a common symbolic storyworld. Taking the polemical strategy of outlining and employing Claude Lévi-Strauss's distinguished (and notorious) work on myth and kinship to analyze eight of Anderson's films, Warren Buckland unearths the peculiar symbolic structure of each film, plus the circuits of exchange, tangible and intangible gift giving, and unusual kinship systems that govern the lives of Anderson's characters. He also provides an analysis of Wes Anderson's visual and aural style, identifying several distinctive traits of Anderson's mise en scène.
Author : Anthony Wilden
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136442375
Total Pages : 659 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (364 download)
Download or read book System and Structure written by Anthony Wilden and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-11 with total page 659 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences. This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of those important works which have since gone out of print, or are difficult to locate. Published by Routledge, 112 volumes in total are being brought together under the name The International Behavioural and Social Sciences Library: Classics from the Tavistock Press. Reproduced here in facsimile, this volume was originally published in 1980 and is available individually. The collection is also available in a number of themed mini-sets of between 5 and 13 volumes, or as a complete collection.
Author : Erik Martiny
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1444344293
Total Pages : 661 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (443 download)
Download or read book A Companion to Poetic Genre written by Erik Martiny and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-10-13 with total page 661 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A COMPANION TO POETIC GENRE A COMPANION TO POETIC GENRE This eagerly awaited Companion features over 40 contributions from leading academics around the world, and offers critical overviews of numerous poetic genres. Covering a range of cultural traditions from Britain, Ireland, North America, Japan and the Caribbean, among others, this valuable collection considers ancient genres such as the elegy, the ode, the ghazal, and the ballad, before moving on to Medieval and Renaissance genres originally invented or codified by the Troubadours or poets who followed in their wake. The book also approaches genres driven by theme, such as the calypso and found poetry. Each chapter begins by defining the genre in its initial stages, charting historical developments and finally assessing its latest mutations, be they structural, thematic, parodic, assimilative, or subversive.
Author : Joe Andrew
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9789042011359
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (113 download)
Download or read book Two Hundred Years of Pushkin: Alexander Pushkin : myth and monument written by Joe Andrew and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2003 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Puskin's poetry, prose and drama frequently draw upon myths of classical antiquity, myths of modern European culture - grand narratives such as the Don Juan legend and Dante's Inferno - as well as uniquely Russian myths. The contributors to this volume explore these myths from a variety of critical viewpoints and highlight the specific ways in which Pushkin uses myth - among these his recurrent emphasis on the symbolism of monuments and statuary.
Author : Rachel Havrelock
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226319598
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)
Download or read book River Jordan written by Rachel Havrelock and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-10-27 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the site of several miracles in the Jewish and Christian traditions, the Jordan is one of the world’s holiest rivers. It is also the major political and symbolic border contested by Israelis and Palestinians. Combining biblical and folkloric studies with historical geography, Rachel Havrelock explores how the complex religious and mythological representations of the river have shaped the current conflict in the Middle East. Havrelock contends that the intractability of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict stems from the nationalist myths of the Hebrew Bible, where the Jordan is defined as a border of the Promised Land. Both Israelis and Palestinians claim the Jordan as a necessary boundary of an indivisible homeland. Examining the Hebrew Bible alongside ancient and modern maps of the Jordan, Havrelock chronicles the evolution of Israel’s borders based on nationalist myths while uncovering additional myths that envision Israel as a bi-national state. These other myths, she proposes, provide roadmaps for future political configurations of the nation. Ambitious and masterful in its scope, River Jordan brings a fresh, provocative perspective to the ongoing struggle in this violence-riddled region.
Author : Nitzan Ben-Shaul
Publisher : Berg
ISBN 13 : 1847886086
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (478 download)
Download or read book Film written by Nitzan Ben-Shaul and published by Berg. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Film: The Key Concepts presents a coherent, clear and exciting overview of film theory for beginning readers. The book takes the reader through the often conflicting analyses that make up film theory, illustrating arguments with examples from mainstream and independent films. Concise and comprehensive, the book guides the reader through realism, formalism, structuralism, semiotics, Marxism, psychoanalysis, feminism, cognitivism, post-colonialism, postmodernism, gender and queer film theory, stardom and film audience research. The book as a whole provides a complete overview of the evolution of film theory. Throughout, the analysis is illustrated with lively boxed studies of key mainstream and independent films. Bulleted chapter summaries, questions and guides to further reading are also provided.
Author : David Lewis-Williams
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
ISBN 13 : 050077045X
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Inside the Neolithic Mind: Consciousness, Cosmos, and the Realm of the Gods written by David Lewis-Williams and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 2005-10-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of how brain structure and cultural content interacted in the Neolithic period 10,000 years ago to produce unique life patterns and belief systems. What do the headless figures found in the famous paintings at Catalhoyuk in Turkey have in common with the monumental tombs at Newgrange and Knowth in Ireland? How can the concepts of "birth," "death," and "wild" cast light on the archaeological enigma of the domestication of cattle? What generated the revolutionary social change that ended the Upper Palaeolithic? David Lewis-Williams's previous book, The Mind in the Cave, dealt with the remarkable Upper Palaeolithic paintings, carvings, and engravings of western Europe. Here Dr. Lewis-Williams and David Pearce examine the intricate web of belief, myth, and society in the succeeding Neolithic period, arguably the most significant turning point in all human history, when agriculture became a way of life and the fractious society that we know today was born. The authors focus on two contrasting times and places: the beginnings in the Near East, with its mud-brick and stone houses each piled on top of the ruins of another, and western Europe, with its massive stone monuments more ancient than the Egyptian pyramids. They argue that neurological patterns hardwired into the brain help explain the art and society that Neolithic people produced. Drawing on the latest research, the authors skillfully link material on human consciousness, imagery, and religious concepts to propose provocative new theories about the causes of an ancient revolution in cosmology and the origins of social complexity. In doing so they create a fascinating neurological bridge to the mysterious thought-lives of the past and reveal the essence of a momentous period in human history. 100 illustrations, 20 in color.
Author : Stephan Günzel
Publisher : Universitätsverlag Potsdam
ISBN 13 : 3940793493
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (47 download)
Download or read book Conference Proceedings of The Philosophy of Computer Games 2008 written by Stephan Günzel and published by Universitätsverlag Potsdam. This book was released on 2009 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first volume of the DIGAREC Series holds the proceedings of the conference The Philosophy of Computer Gamesʺ, held at the University of Potsdam from May 8-10, 2008. The contributions of the conference address three fields of computer game research that are philosophically relevant and, likewise, to which philosophical reflection is crucial. These are: ethics and politics, the action-space of games, and the magic circle. All three topics are interlinked and constitute the paradigmatic object of computer games: Whereas the first describes computer games on the outside, looking at the cultural effects of games as well as on moral practices acted out with them, the second describes computer games on the inside, i.e. how they are constituted as a medium. The latter finally discusses the way in which a border between these two realms, games and non-games, persists or is already transgressed in respect to a general performativity.
