"This book argues that bibliography is the foundation of information science, an infrastructure with the power to address many of the most challenging issues in the field. Bibliographers establish what has been presented to us as records of what has been known, experienced, and desired, and they are responsible for assessing and safeguarding what has arrived in the present and for reproducing w…
"The most respected researchers in the social sciences in France were each invited to write an essay presenting a book of interest, significance, and influence in the social sciences for a general readership, addressing its contributions and impact as well as its shortcomings, the lingering questions it leaves, and the work remaining to be done, to offer a new, nuanced portrait of the field's f…
"This book introduces students and non-specialists to the study of material behaviors at the molecular level and their impact on macroscopic properties"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"Based on extensive archival research in the voluminous Science Service records at the Smithsonian Institution, Writing for Their Lives focuses on a remarkable group of women whose contributions to science and journalism deserve greater recognition"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"This book explores the work of activists in the Americas who are documenting feminicide, arguing that feminist activists at the margins have much to teach mainstream data scientists about data ethics: how to work with data ethically amidst extreme and durable structural inequalities"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"An up-to-date synthesis of the neurocognitive theory of dreaming as presented by its founder"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"This edition of The Night Land follows the text of the 1912 edition published by Eveleigh Nash, which is in the public domain."--Title page verso."When the narrator receives a telepathic distress signal from a young woman whom (in a previous incarnation) he'd once loved, he sallies forth on an ill-advised rescue mission-into the uncharted and unfathomable Night Land"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibl…
"More Voices of the Radium Age will showcase proto- and early sf stories by much-admired authors best known today for their non-sf work (E. Nesbit, author of Three Children and It and other popular children's fantasies, and Booth Tarkington, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Magnificent Ambersons); authors whose outsized success with readers would influence the subsequent development of the …
"Coyne examines urban living through the frame of cryptography, diving into the technologies, instruments, and processes of hiding information, messages, things, spaces, places, and people within cities"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
An insightful investigation into the mechanisms underlying the predictive functions of neural networks--and their ability to chart a new path for AI. Prediction is a cognitive advantage like few others, inherently linked to our ability to survive and thrive. Our brains are awash in signals that embody prediction. Can we extend this capability more explicitly into synthetic neural networks to im…