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Brains, Machines, and Mathematics | Michael A. Arbib usato Scienze Matematica e Ingegneria

Brains, Machines, and Mathematics | Michael A. Arbib usato Scienze Matematica e Ingegneria

This is a book whose time has come-again. The first edition (published by McGraw-Hill in 1964) was written in 1962, and it celebrated a number of approaches to developing an automata theory that could provide insights into the processing of information in brainlike machines, making it accessible to readers with no more than a college freshman's knowledge of mathematics. The book introduced many readers to aspects of cybernetics-the study of computation and control in animal and machine. But by the mid-1960s, many workers abandoned the integrated study of brains and machines to pursue artificial intelligence (AI) as an end in itself-the programming of computers to exhibit some aspects of human intelligence, but with the emphasis on achieving some benchmark of performance rather than on capturing the mechanisms by which humans were themselves intelligent. Some workers tried to use concepts from AI to model human cognition using computer programs, but were so dominated by the metaphor "the mind is a computer" that many argued that the mind must share with the computers of the 1960s the property of being serial, of executing a series of operations one at a time. As the 1960s became the 1970s, this trend continued. Meanwhile, experi mental neuroscience saw an exploration of new data on the anatomy and physiology of neural circuitry, but little of this research placed these circuits in the context of overall behavior, and little was informed by theoretical con cepts beyond feedback mechanisms and feature detectors.

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The Tristan Chord - Wagner and Philosophy | Bryan Magee usato Musica Musica

Word & Image - Art, books and design | Julius Bryant, Roman Watson, Elizabeth James usato Enciclopedie Enciclopedie

The best american comics 2012 | AA.VV. usato Fumetti Fumetti Fumetti

The Internet and Democratic Citizenship - Theory, Practice and Policy | Stephen Coleman, Jay G. Blumler usato Scienze umane Sociologia

Mafia and Outlaw Stories from Italian Life and Literature | Robin Pickering-Iazzi usato Storia Contemporanea

Mafia and Outlaw Stories from Italian Life and Literature | Robin Pickering-Iazzi usato Storia Contemporanea

The first of its kind in English, Mafia and Outlaw Stories from Italian Life and Literature is a selection of readings from Italian fiction and non-fiction writers on the subject of the Mafia. Among the renowned writers featured are Giovanni Verga, Grazia Deledda, Anna Maria Ortese, Livia De Stefani, and Silvana La Spina, as well as famous witnesses such as Felicia Impastato, Letizia Battaglia, and Rita Atria who provide personal, often terrifying testimonies about their experiences with the Mafia. It is a historically diverse examination of criminal and outlaw institutions by some of the most significant figures in Italian literature. These newly translated writings show the ways in which Italians perceived and wrote about the Mafia and crime from the 1880s to the 1990s. Among them are stories dealing with the important legends used by the Mafia as sources for their image and ideology, legends such as the brigand and the Blessed Paulists. Some of the fascinating themes discussed are connections between the Mafia, the State, and the Catholic Church; the Mafia and children; women and the Mafia; the Black Hand; and relations between the Mafia and the Allied Forces during the Second World War. Robin Pickering-Iazzi incorporates an invaluable introduction that charts key periods in the history of Italy and the Mafia, and profiles each of the authors in the collection, noting their major works in Italian as well as those available in English. These and other features make this text especially appropriate for courses in Italian studies. Mafia and Outlaw Stories from Italian Life and Literature takes a unique and intriguing approach to the subject of the Mafia, and offers informed judgements about its historical impact on Italian society and culture.

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Touch, Representation, and Blindness | Morton A. Heller usato Scienze umane Psicologia

My name is Charles Saatchi and I am an artoholic | Charles Saatchi usato Storia Biografie Diari e Memorie

Umberto Eco - Philosophy, Semiotics and the Work of Fiction | Michael Caesar usato Filosofia Contemporanea

Umberto Eco - Philosophy, Semiotics and the Work of Fiction | Michael Caesar usato Filosofia Contemporanea

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the work and thought of Umberto Eco - one of the most important writers in Europe today. This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the work and thought of Umberto Eco - one of the most important writers in Europe today. While Eco became world-famous with his best-selling novel The Name of the Rose, his writings have been influential in many fields for several decades. Caesar retraces the development of Eco's thought and its impact on literary studies, aesthetics, philosophy and semiotics. He shows how, throughout the 1950s and 1960s, Eco elaborated his theory of art, bringing together medieval aesthetics, the modernist avant-garde and his interest in the mass media. He discusses Eco's attempts to synthesize a general theory of signification and communication which would embrace both popular and mass culture - attempts which culminated in A Theory of Semiotics. Caesar also examines Eco's emergence as a novelist with the publication of The Name of the Rose in 1980 and the novels that followed it, and explores Eco's theories of reading and interpretation which take shape between The Role of the Reader and Six Walks in the Fictional Woods. The book concludes with an analysis of the themes addressed in Eco's most recent work, Kant and the Platypus. Wide-ranging and up to date, this engaging study will appeal to students of literature, philosophy and cultural studies, and to anyone who wants a clear introduction to one of Europe's most stimulating and original intellectuals.

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Under the Eaves of Architecture. The Aga Khan: builder and patron | Philip Jodidio usato Arte Architettura

Investigating Difference - Human and Cultural Relations in Criminal Justice | The Criminal Justice Collective usato Scienze umane Sociologia

Caravaggio, Andrew Graham-Dixon , usato, A life sacred and profane, Storia, Biografie Diari e Memorie, dimanoinmano.it

Caravaggio, Andrew Graham-Dixon , usato, A life sacred and profane, Storia, Biografie Diari e Memorie, dimanoinmano.it

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio lived the darkest and most dangerous life of any of the great painters. The worlds of Milan, Rome and Naples through which Caravaggio moved and which Andrew Graham-Dixon describes brilliantly in this book, are those of cardinals and whores, prayer and violence. The patrons of the church competed to have the leading artists of the day in their households, and the artists jostled for their favour. On the streets surrounding the churches and palaces, brawls and swordfights were regular occurrences. In one such fight Caravaggio, a particularly violent man, killed Ranuccio Tomassoni, a pimp, and fled afterwards to Naples and then Malta, home to the Knights of St John, where he escaped from prison following his conviction for another vicious assault. Fleeing once more he fell victim himself to a crippling vendetta attack. Shortly afterwards, he died while returning to Rome to seek a papal pardon for his crimes. He was thirty-eight years old. In the course of this desperate life Caravaggio created the most dramatic paintings of his age, using ordinary men and women - often prostitutes and the very poor - to model for his depictions of classic religious scenes. Andrew Graham-Dixon's exceptionally illuminating readings of Caravaggio'spictures, which are the heart of the book, show very clearly how he created their drama, immediacy and humanity, and how completely he departed from the conventions of his time. A note from the Editor- This is one of the most compelling biographies of any kind I have ever been involved with. The writing grabs you by the throat - as the endorsement by double Man Booker prize-winner Peter Carey, which we print on the back of the book, attests. But more than that, Andrew Graham-Dixon is able to link Caravaggio's life and work more convincingly, I think, than any previous writer. You see how the pictures came out of his extraordinary, dark and dangerous life, and out of Italy at the height of the Counter-Reformation. And, amazingly, exactly four hundred years after Caravaggio's death, he has some important discoveries to report, which I believe finally solve two of the greatest mysteries hitherto about Caravaggio. Andrew has been working on the book for ten years but it has certainly been worth waiting for.

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A bear and a tree | Stephen Michael King usato Libri per ragazzi Illustrati

Aaron Copland. The Life and Work of an Uncommon Man | Howard Pollack usato Musica Musica

The New Zen Garden - Designing quiet spaces | Joseph Cali usato Arte Architettura

The New Zen Garden - Designing quiet spaces | Joseph Cali usato Arte Architettura

IN THE TRADITION OF JAPANESE TOUCH FOR YOUR GARDEN, THE PERFECT BOOK FOR CONTEMPOLATING A ZEN-STYLE GARDEN FOR HOME OR TOWNHOUSE, YARD OR BALCONY. Japanese gardens are renowned for their serene and peaceful ambiance.The New Zen Gardenpresents the Japanese garden as it exists today, with all its traditional qualities joined to modern architecture and viewed from a modern perspective. This book takes the concept introduced in the best-sellingJapanese Touch for Your Gardenand, focusing on the more contemplative gardens that are drawing greater and greater attention, blends it with a more practical approach. Lavishly illustrated with many previously unpublished photographs and featuring the works of contemporary garden designers and landscape architects,The New Zen Gardenbegins with a brief introduction of the history of the Japanese garden and its spiritual roots. It then guides the reader through the basics of garden concepts, layout, and personal needs. With a focus on small- and medium-size home gardens, author Joseph Cali introduces a visually explicit process in which anyone can conceive their own home garden, whether for a single-family residence or the balcony of an apartment or townhouse. Cali also includes a handful "spotlight sections" that feature guidance from prominent Japanese garden designers, each of whom steers the reader step-by-step through a specific building technique, including the making of textured clay walls, traditional stone walkways, and stone settings. The New Zen Gardenprovides a wealth of information on designing a garden to harmonize with any home or private space. It is a provocative eye-opener both for the serious Japanese garden enthusiast and the weekend gardener.

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A Halloween Scare in Texas - Prepare if you dare | Eric James usato Libri per ragazzi Illustrati