The Anatomy of Bias: How Neural Circuits Weigh the Options

In this engaging, even lyrical, book, Jan Lauwereyns examines the neural underpinnings of decision-making, using 'bias' as his core concept rather than the more common but noncommittal terms 'selection' and 'attention'.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Engineers for Change: Competing Visions of Technology in 1960s America

An account of conflicts within engineering in the 1960s that helped shape our dominant contemporary understanding of technological change as the driver of history. In the late 1960s an eclectic group of engineers joined the antiwar and civil rights activists of the time in agitating for change. The engineers were fighting to remake their profession, challenging their fellow engineers to embrace…

Functions in Biological and Artificial Worlds: Comparative Philosophical Pers…

This text features investigations into the relationship between organism and artifacts from the perspective of functionality.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Re-collection: Art, new media, and social memory

The first book on the philosophy and aesthetics of digital preservation examines the challenge posed by new media to our long-term social memory.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

The Inner History of Devices

"For more than two decades, in such landmark studies as The Second Self and Life on the Screen, Sherry Turkle has challenged our collective imagination with her insights about how technology enters our private worlds. In The Inner History of Devices, she describes her process, an approach that reveals how what we make is woven into our ways of seeing ourselves. She brings together three traditi…

Catalogue of chamber music for woodwind instruments

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Three Lectures on Post-Industrial Society

Previously published in French as: Trois le?cons sur la soci?et?e post-industrielle.A noted economist analyzes the upheavals caused by revolutions in technology, labor, culture, financial markets, and globalization.In this pithy and provocative book, noted economist Daniel Cohen offers his analysis of the global shift to a post-industrial era. If it was once natural to speak of industrial socie…

The black rose and other poems

Introspection, carried too far, may wreck the soul of a man, but without it a poet is merely a versifier or an experimenter, dealing with the laboratory instead of with life. For him there must be no eternal verities except those he discovers and proves to himself. He can take nothing on trust. His life-work is to " stir the decent dust about the world " — his own world as well as that of oth…

Hawaii Nei : an idyll of the Pacific isles

Alas ! the gloomy land of night, The fiery pit of baleful light ; Great clouds of smoke to heaven ascending, The melted mountains downward tending: Jehovah !— I am seized with fe

Madame Fontenoy:

AR away from the usual route of tourists, amid vineyards, rich meadows, and low sunny hills, and skirted by a broad sleepy river, stands the old town of Rheims in Champagne. So far away that few travellers