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On the camera arts and consecutive matters :the writings of Hollis Frampton
The collected writings of artist and filmmaker Hollis Frampton, including all the essays from the long-unavailable Circles of Confusion along with rare additional material.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262254913
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- 1 online resource (xx, 331 pages) :illustrations (some color).
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Cinematic mythmaking :philosophy in film
Mythic themes and philosophical probing in film as an art form, as seen in works of Preston Sturges, Jean Cocteau, Stanley Kubrick, and various other filmmakers. Film is the supreme medium for mythmaking. The gods and heroes of mythology are both larger than life and deeply human; they teach us about the world, and they tell us a good story. Similarly, our experience of film is both distant and…
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- 9780262283694
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- 1 online resource (x, 245 pages).
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Movies and the moral adventure of life
Films as life lessons, enlarging our sense of human possibilities.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262297035
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 219 pages).
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Looking into pictures :an interdisciplinary approach to pictorial space
"A Bradford book."AnnotationOCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262275163
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 417 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates) :illustrations (some color).
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The mind's arrows :Bayes nets and graphical causal models in psychology
"A Bradford book."In recent years, small groups of statisticians, computer scientists, and philosophers have developed an account of how partial causal knowledge can be used to compute the effect of actions and how causal relations can be learned, at least by computers. The representations used in the emerging theory are causal Bayes nets or graphical causal models. In his new book, Clark Glymo…
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- 9780262273961
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- 1 online resource (xv, 222 pages) :illustrations.
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Reflections on water :new approaches to transboundary conflicts and cooperation
This book offers conceptual and empirical support for the idea that the human relationship with water must move beyond rationalist definitions of water as product, property, and commodity.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262268660
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 358 pages) :illustrations, maps.
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Re:skin
"In re:skin, scholars, essayists, and short stort writers offer their perspectives on skin--as boundary and surface, as metaphor and physical reality."--Dust jacket front flap.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262272773
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 356 pages) :illustrations
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Quotations as Pictures
The proposal of a semantics for quotations using explanatory notions drawn from philosophical theories of pictures. In Quotations as Pictures, Josef Stern develops a semantics for quotations using explanatory notions drawn from philosophical theories of pictures. He offers the first sustained analysis of the practice of quotation proper, as opposed to mentioning. Unlike other accounts that t…
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- 9780262367356
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- 412 STE q
Universal Jurisdiction: The Sierra Leone Profile
The doctrine of universal jurisdiction has evolved throughout modern times in the context of global criminal justice as a paramount agent of combating impunity emanating from international criminality. Sierra Leone, as a member of the international community and the United Nations, has, in recent times, been a pioneer in the progressive application and development of international criminal law …
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- 978-94-6265-054-1
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Tomorrow's Parties: Life in the Anthropocene
Twelve visions of living in a climate-changed world. We are living in the Anthropocene—an era of dramatic and violent climate change featuring warming oceans, melting icecaps, extreme weather events, habitat loss, species extinction, and more. What will life be like in a climate-changed world? In Tomorrow's Parties, science fiction authors speculate how we might be able to live and even th…
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- 9780262371544
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- 808 TOM
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