THIS is a charming little book. Brightly written, poignant with enthusiasm, and full of excellent teaching, it is sure to fulfil its purpose : to stimulate the amateur, and encourage the art student novitiate to serious study, hard, and, perhaps sometimes, dry work. Reading it reminded me pleasantly of my youth, when all the problems with which it deals were so new to one, when the veil was …
LibriVox recording of The Purple Land by William Henry Hudson. Read in English by Larry Wilson; MaryAnn; DJRickyV; Alexander Brett; jftocanada; Kalynda; Jairus Amar; Chancho Jomp In W.H. Hudson’s first novel, an Englishman wandering on horseback across the pampas finds adventure and romance in Uruguay. The full title became: “The Purple Land: Being the Narrative of One Richard Lamb's Adve…
The introduction of this work not only makes it possible, but even easy, to acquire a conversational knowledge of Hindustani. The whole of the instruction throughout has been compiled on HUGO'S well known Simplified System, the success of which is due to its commonsense character. It avoids all confusing technicalities of grammar, and imparts a knowledge of the language in an absolutely practic…
A remarkably rich theory has evolved around boosting, with connections to a range of topics including statistics, game theory, convex optimization, and information geometry. Boosting algorithms have also enjoyed practical success in such fields as biology, vision, and speech processing. At various times in its history, boosting has been perceived as mysterious, controversial, even paradoxical. …
Outgrowth of a meeting of the "Altenberg 16" at the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research in Altenberg, Austria, in July 2008. Cf. pref.In this volume, 16 leading evolutionary biologists and philosophers of science survey the conceptual changes that have emerged since Huxley's landmark publication, not only in such traditional domains of evolutionary biology as quantitati…
Two leading physicians' prescription for solving our health care problems: organizing the fragmented system that delivers care.One of the most daunting challenges facing the new U.S. administration is health care reform. The size of the system, the number of stakeholders, and ever-rising costs make the problem seem almost intractable. But in Chaos and Organization in Health Care, two leading ph…
"A Bradford book"--Page 4 of cover.Originally published: Melbourne ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1999. With new foreword.This text is an interdisciplinary examination of the evolutionary breakthroughs that rendered the brain accessible to itself.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
Thomas Binder, Giorgio De Michelis, Pelle Ehn, Giulio Jacucci, Per Linde, and Ina Wagner."A new perspective on design thinking and design practice: beyond products and projects, toward participatory design things.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
Where were you when the lights went out? At home during a thunderstorm? During the Great Northeastern Blackout of 1965? In California when rolling blackouts hit in 2000? In 2003, when a cascading power failure left fifty million people without electricity? We often remember vividly our time in the dark. In When the Lights Went Out, David Nye views power outages in America from 1935 to the prese…
Reflecting the interdisciplinary nature of the authors' collaboration, this book takes seriously the need to understand ubicomp not only technically but also culturally, socially politically and economically.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.