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Chapter Teatro e violenza in Moby Dick — Rehearsed di Orson Welles
Moby Dick Rehearsed is a magnificent experiment in the style of Orson Welles, whose talent explores in depth the texture of Melville's novel in an attempt to put it on stage. The analysis shows how the play - performed in New York in 1955 - sheds light on Welles's idea of the theater as a laboratory to experiment with the possibilities of this peculiar form of entertainment. The novel's inner v…
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Beyond Embodied Cognition: Intentionality, Affordance, and Environmental Adap…
One of the interests of this Research Topic was to provide an explanation of the relationship between the sensorimotor process and one’s interaction with the environment. Huang et al. aimed at the exploring the potential dissociation between the sense of 1PP-location (i.e., first-person perspective) and body-location. In doing so they approached a topic that is of great interest in the fi…
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Transformations of Lamarckism: From Subtle Fluids to Molecular Biology
This title shows the advantages of a Lamarckian perspective on evolution. Indeed the development-oriented approach it presents is becoming central to current evolutionary studies.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 457 pages) :illustrations.
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From Groups to Individuals: Evolution and Emerging Individuality
The biological and philosophical implications of the emergence of new collective individuals from associations of living beings.Our intuitive assumption that only organisms are the real individuals in the natural world is at odds with developments in cell biology, ecology, genetics, evolutionary biology, and other fields. Although organisms have served for centuries as nature's paradigmatic ind…
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What is health? :allostasis and the evolution of human design
An argument that health is optimal responsiveness and is often best treated at the system level.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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Signals and boundaries :building blocks for complex adaptive systems
Complex adaptive systems (cas), including ecosystems, governments, biological cells, and markets, are characterized by intricate hierarchical arrangements of boundaries and signals. In ecosystems, for example, niches act as semi-permeable boundaries, and smells and visual patterns serve as signals; governments have departmental hierarchies with memoranda acting as signals; and so it is with oth…
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Adaptation in natural and artificial systems :an introductory analysis with a…
"A Bradford book."DSU Title III 2007-2012.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 1st MIT Press ed.
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 211 pages) :illustrations.
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Unless As Stone Is
The sestina is a form in which words repeat regularly, intricately, appearing and reappearing in new contexts with new meanings. Sam Lohmann’s Unless As Stone Is emerged from a few years of living with Dante’s sestina, “Al poco giorno e al gran cerchio d’ombra.” He allowed the text to appear in its own new — if irregularly scheduled — contexts. New translations, new scenery, new m…
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