Published in six volumes between 1894 and 1905, this collection served as a valuable reference work for students and scholars of Egyptology at a time when ongoing archaeological excavations were adding significantly to the understanding of one of the world's oldest civilisations. At the forefront of this research was Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie (1853–1942), whose pioneering methods ma…
"A Bradford Book."Can there be a Buddhism without karma, nirvana, and reincarnation that is compatible with the rest of knowledge?OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
Examines efforts in Los Angeles, Washington D.C., Chicago, Salt Lake City, San Jose, and other cities to reclaim postindustrial urban riverside land for use as open space, parks and housing.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
Susan Kozel draws on live performance practice, digital technologies & the philosophical approach of phenomenology. She places the human body at the centre of explorations of interactive interfaces, responsive systems & affective computing, asking what is to be discovered as we become closer to our computers?OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"An argument to view memory as predicting the future, rather than merely archiving the past. Based on experimental evidence from psychology and neuroscience"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"Worn Out connects scholarship on digital capitalism and surveillance to the specific setting of retail work in fast fashion"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"The first feminist reading of photoromances that examines both its industry and its fandom, arguing for their remarkable relevance as transmedia narratives in a transnational market"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"A glimpse into the future of intelligent machines, and a journey through the laboratories and researchers that are building them. The book offers a mix of fiction and nonfiction narrative: readers can "see" a world, a few decades away, where intelligent machines have become reality, and learn about the science brewing in today's labs and the technical and socioeconomic challenges, often throug…
Human cognition is soft. It is too flexible, too rich, and too open-ended to be captured by hard (precise, exceptionless) rules of the sort that can constitute a computer program. In Connectionism and the Philosophy of Psychology, Horgan and Tienson articulate and defend a new view of cognition. In place of the classical paradigm that take the mind to be a computer (or a group of linked compute…