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The Pattern Seekers

Author : Simon Baron-Cohen
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 1541647130
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (416 download)

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Download or read book The Pattern Seekers written by Simon Baron-Cohen and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking argument about the link between autism and ingenuity. Why can humans alone invent? In The Pattern Seekers, Cambridge University psychologist Simon Baron-Cohen makes a case that autism is as crucial to our creative and cultural history as the mastery of fire. Indeed, Baron-Cohen argues that autistic people have played a key role in human progress for seventy thousand years, from the first tools to the digital revolution. How? Because the same genes that cause autism enable the pattern seeking that is essential to our species's inventiveness. However, these abilities exact a great cost on autistic people, including social and often medical challenges, so Baron-Cohen calls on us to support and celebrate autistic people in both their disabilities and their triumphs. Ultimately, The Pattern Seekers isn't just a new theory of human civilization, but a call to consider anew how society treats those who think differently.

A Pattern Language

Author : Christopher Alexander
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190050357
Total Pages : 1216 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book A Pattern Language written by Christopher Alexander and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-20 with total page 1216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You can use this book to design a house for yourself with your family; you can use it to work with your neighbors to improve your town and neighborhood; you can use it to design an office, or a workshop, or a public building. And you can use it to guide you in the actual process of construction. After a ten-year silence, Christopher Alexander and his colleagues at the Center for Environmental Structure are now publishing a major statement in the form of three books which will, in their words, "lay the basis for an entirely new approach to architecture, building and planning, which will we hope replace existing ideas and practices entirely." The three books are The Timeless Way of Building, The Oregon Experiment, and this book, A Pattern Language. At the core of these books is the idea that people should design for themselves their own houses, streets, and communities. This idea may be radical (it implies a radical transformation of the architectural profession) but it comes simply from the observation that most of the wonderful places of the world were not made by architects but by the people. At the core of the books, too, is the point that in designing their environments people always rely on certain "languages," which, like the languages we speak, allow them to articulate and communicate an infinite variety of designs within a forma system which gives them coherence. This book provides a language of this kind. It will enable a person to make a design for almost any kind of building, or any part of the built environment. "Patterns," the units of this language, are answers to design problems (How high should a window sill be? How many stories should a building have? How much space in a neighborhood should be devoted to grass and trees?). More than 250 of the patterns in this pattern language are given: each consists of a problem statement, a discussion of the problem with an illustration, and a solution. As the authors say in their introduction, many of the patterns are archetypal, so deeply rooted in the nature of things that it seemly likely that they will be a part of human nature, and human action, as much in five hundred years as they are today.

World of Patterns

Author : Rens Bod
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421443457
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book World of Patterns written by Rens Bod and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2022-05-10 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive account of the methods of knowledge production throughout human history and across the globe. The idea that the world can be understood through patterns and the principles that govern them is one of the most important human insights—it may also be our greatest survival strategy. Our search for patterns and principles began 40,000 years ago, when striped patterns were engraved on mammoths' bones to keep track of the moon's phases. What routes did human knowledge take to grow from these humble beginnings through many detours and dead ends into modern understandings of nature and culture? In this work of unprecedented scope, Rens Bod removes the Western natural sciences from their often-central role to bring us the first global history of human knowledge. Having sketched the history of the humanities in his ground-breaking A New History of the Humanities, Bod now adopts a broader perspective, stepping beyond classical antiquity back to the Stone Age to answer the question: Where did our knowledge of the world today begin and how did it develop? Drawing on developments from all five continents of the inhabited world, World of Patterns offers startling connections. Focusing on a dozen fields—ranging from astronomy, philology, medicine, law, and mathematics to history, botany, and musicology—Bod examines to what degree their progressions can be considered interwoven and to what degree we can speak of global trends. In this pioneering work, Bod aims to fulfill what he sees as the historian's responsibility: to grant access to history's goldmine of ideas. Bod discusses how inoculation was invented in China rather than Europe; how many of the fundamental aspects of modern mathematics and astronomy were first discovered by the Indian Kerala school; and how the study of law provided fundamental models for astronomy and linguistics from Roman to Ottoman times. The book flies across continents and eras. The result is an enlightening symphony, a stirring chorus of human inquisitiveness extending through the ages.

Analysis Patterns

Author : Martin Fowler
Publisher : Addison-Wesley Professional
ISBN 13 : 9780201895421
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (954 download)

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Download or read book Analysis Patterns written by Martin Fowler and published by Addison-Wesley Professional. This book was released on 1997 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Martin Fowler is a consultant specializing in object-oriented analysis and design. This book presents and discusses a number of object models derived from various problem domains. All patterns and models presented have been derived from the author's own consulting work and are based on real business cases.

A New History of the Humanities

Author : Rens Bod
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199665214
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book A New History of the Humanities written by Rens Bod and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2013 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers the first overarching history of the humanities from Antiquity to the present.

Mashup Patterns

Author : Michael Ogrinz
Publisher : Pearson Education
ISBN 13 : 0321635930
Total Pages : 671 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (216 download)

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Download or read book Mashup Patterns written by Michael Ogrinz and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2009-03-18 with total page 671 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indispensable Patterns and Insights for Putting Mashups to Work in Enterprise Environments Using new mashup tools and technologies, enterprise developers can impose their own APIs on everything from Web sites and RSS feeds to Excel and PDF files–transforming a world of content into their own customized informationsource. In Mashup Patterns, Michael Ogrinz applies the concept of software development patterns to mashups, systematically revealing the right ways to build enterprise mashups and providing useful insights to help organizations avoid the mistakes that cause mashups to fail. Drawing on extensive experience building business-critical mashups, Ogrinz offers patterns and realistic guidance for every stage of the mashup development lifecycle and addresses the key issues developers, architects, and managers will face. Each pattern is documented with a practical description, specific use cases, and crucial insights into the stability of mashups built with it. Ogrinz concludes by presenting twelve start-to-finish case studies demonstrating mashup patterns at work in actual enterprise settings. Coverage includes: Understanding the relationships among mashups, portals, SOA, EAI/EII, and SaaS Exploring core mashup activities such as data management, surveillance, clipping, transformation, enrichment, publication, and promotion Optimizing security, privacy, accessibility, usability, and performance Managing mashup development, from planning and governance through integration, testing, and deployment Enhancing basic mashups with search, language translation, workflow support, and other improvements Performing effective load and regression testing Avoiding “anti-patterns” that cause enterprise mashups to fail Also of interest: The companion book, Mashups: Strategies for the Modern Enterprise by J. Jeffrey Hanson (Addison-Wesley), is an indispensable guide to designing, implementing, and debugging an enterprise mashup, offering sample code to illustrate key concepts.

Presentation Patterns

Author : Neal Ford
Publisher : Addison-Wesley
ISBN 13 : 013296337X
Total Pages : 555 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (329 download)

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Download or read book Presentation Patterns written by Neal Ford and published by Addison-Wesley. This book was released on 2012-08-15 with total page 555 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presentation Patterns is the first book on presentations that categorizes and organizes the building blocks (or patterns) that you’ll need to communicate effectively using presentation tools like Keynote and PowerPoint. Patterns are like the lower-level steps found inside recipes; they are the techniques you must master to be considered a master chef or master presenter. You can use the patterns in this book to construct your own recipes for different contexts, such as business meetings, technical demonstrations, scientific expositions, and keynotes, just to name a few. Although there are no such things as antirecipes, this book shows you lots of antipatterns—things you should avoid doing in presentations. Modern presentation tools often encourage ineffective presentation techniques, but this book shows you how to avoid them. Each pattern is introduced with a memorable name, a definition, and a brief explanation of motivation. Readers learn where the pattern applies, the consequences of applying it, and how to apply it. The authors also identify critical antipatterns: clichés, fallacies, and design mistakes that cause presentations to disappoint. These problems are easy to avoid—once you know how. Presentation Patterns will help you Plan what you’ll say, who you’ll say it to, how long you’ll talk, and where you’ll present Perfectly calibrate your presentation to your audience Use the storyteller’s “narrative arc” to full advantage Strengthen your credibility—and avoid mistakes that hurt it Hone your message before you ever touch presentation software Incorporate visuals that support your message instead of hindering it Create highly effective “infodecks” that work when you’re not able to deliver a talk in person Construct slides that really communicate and avoid “Ant Fonts,” “Floodmarks,” “Alienating Artifacts,” and other errors Master 13 powerful techniques for delivering your presentation with power, authority, and clarity Whether you use this book as a handy reference or read it from start to finish, it will be a revelation: an entirely new language for systematically planning, creating, and delivering more powerful presentations. You’ll quickly find it indispensable—no matter what you’re presenting, who your audiences are, or what message you’re driving home.

Modern C++ Design

Author : Andrei Alexandrescu
Publisher : Addison-Wesley Professional
ISBN 13 : 9780201704310
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Modern C++ Design written by Andrei Alexandrescu and published by Addison-Wesley Professional. This book was released on 2001 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title documents a convergence of programming techniques - generic programming, template metaprogramming, object-oriented programming and design patterns. It describes the C++ techniques used in generic programming and implements a number of industrial strength components.

Life Patterns

Author : John Mauldin Ph D
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780998795805
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (958 download)

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Download or read book Life Patterns written by John Mauldin Ph D and published by . This book was released on 2017-03-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook explains Life Patterns using Biblical scripture to understand development, operation, and change.

The Aeroplane

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1230 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book The Aeroplane written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 1230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Patterns of Home

Author : Max Jacobson
Publisher : Taunton
ISBN 13 : 9781561585335
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book Patterns of Home written by Max Jacobson and published by Taunton. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings the timeless lessons of residential design to homeowners who seek inspiration and direction in the design or remodelling of their homes.

Survey of Current Business

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Survey of Current Business written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

United States Economist, and Dry Goods Reporter

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1082 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book United States Economist, and Dry Goods Reporter written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 1082 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Patterns in History

Author : David Bebbington
Publisher : Regent College Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781573831536
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Patterns in History written by David Bebbington and published by Regent College Publishing. This book was released on 1990-12 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Two- and Three-Dimensional Patterns of the Face

Author : Peter W. Hallinan
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1439863938
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (398 download)

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Download or read book Two- and Three-Dimensional Patterns of the Face written by Peter W. Hallinan and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1999-06-15 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The human face is perhaps the most familiar and easily recognized object in the world, yet both its three-dimensional shape and its two-dimensional images are complex and hard to characterize. This book develops the vocabulary of ridges and parabolic curves, of illumination eigenfaces and elastic warpings for describing the perceptually salient fea

The South Western Reporter

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1312 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book The South Western Reporter written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 1312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes the decisions of the Supreme Courts of Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee, and Texas, and Court of Appeals of Kentucky; Aug./Dec. 1886-May/Aug. 1892, Court of Appeals of Texas; Aug. 1892/Feb. 1893-Jan./Feb. 1928, Courts of Civil and Criminal Appeals of Texas; Apr./June 1896-Aug./Nov. 1907, Court of Appeals of Indian Territory; May/June 1927-Jan./Feb. 1928, Courts of Appeals of Missouri and Commission of Appeals of Texas.

Elemental Design Patterns

Author : Jason McC. Smith
Publisher : Addison-Wesley
ISBN 13 : 0321712536
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (217 download)

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Download or read book Elemental Design Patterns written by Jason McC. Smith and published by Addison-Wesley. This book was released on 2012-03-23 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2012 Jolt Award Finalist! Even experienced software professionals find it difficult to apply patterns in ways that deliver substantial value to their organizations. In Elemental Design Patterns, Jason McC. Smith addresses this problem head-on, helping developers harness the true power of patterns, map them to real software implementations more cleanly and directly, and achieve far better results. Part tutorial, part example-rich cookbook, this resource will help developers, designers, architects, and analysts successfully use patterns with a wide variety of languages, environments, and problem domains. Every bit as important, it will give them a deeper appreciation for the work they’ve chosen to pursue. Smith presents the crucial missing link that patterns practitioners have needed: a foundational collection of simple core patterns that are broken down to their core elements. If you work in software, you may already be using some of these elemental design patterns every day. Presenting them in a comprehensive methodology for the first time, Smith names them, describes them, explains their importance, helps you compare and choose among them, and offers a framework for using them together. He also introduces an innovative Pattern Instance Notation diagramming system that makes it easier to work with patterns at many levels of granularity, regardless of your goals or role. If you’re new to patterns, this example-rich approach will help you master them piece by piece, logically and intuitively. If you’re an experienced patterns practitioner, Smith follows the Gang of Four format you’re already familiar with, explains how his elemental patterns can be composed into conventional design patterns, and introduces highly productive new ways to apply ideas you’ve already encountered. No matter what your level of experience, this infinitely practical book will help you transform abstract patterns into high-value solutions.