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Mnemonic Solidarity : Global Interventions
This open access book provides a concise introduction to a critical development in memory studies. A global memory formation has emerged since the 1990s, in which memories of traumatic histories in different parts of the world, often articulated in the terms established by Holocaust memory, have become entangled, reconciled, contested, conflicted and negotiated across borders. As historical act…
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- 9783030576691
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- XI, 135 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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A Primer on Memory Consistency and Cache Coherence, Second Edition
Many modern computer systems, including homogeneous and heterogeneous architectures, support shared memory in hardware. In a shared memory system, each of the processor cores may read and write to a single shared address space. For a shared memory machine, the memory consistency model defines the architecturally visible behavior of its memory system. Consistency definitions provide rules ab…
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- 9783031017643
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- XX, 276
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Memory and the Gothic Aesthetic in Film
This open access book defines the cinematic Gothic as an aesthetics of memory and exile. Guided by three intersecting concepts – memory, travelling, and touch – it suggests that the cross-border movements of exiles, émigrés, and professional travellers had a crucial impact on the emergence, development, and dissemination of the Gothic. This approach expands the canon to overlooked films, …
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- 978-3-031-73628-5
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- Palgrave Gothic
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- XV, 281
The Portuguese colonial war and the African liberation struggles: memory, pol…
Introduction / Miguel Cardina -- Portugal, colonial aphasia and the public memory of war / Miguel Cardina -- Politics of memory and silence: Angola's liberation struggle in postcolonial times / Vasco Martins -- The liberation struggle and the politics of heroism in Mozambique: the war veterans as remains of memory / Natália Bueno and Bruno Sena Martins -- Mantenhas para quem luta! : Evoking t…
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- 9781003396925
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Archives and Records
This open access book addresses the protection of privacy and personality rights in public records, records management, historical sources, and archives; and historical and current access to them in a broad international comparative perspective. Considering the question “can archiving pose a security risk to the protection of sensitive data and human rights?”, it analyses data security and …
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Rogue archives :digital cultural memory and media fandom
"The task of archiving was once entrusted only to museums, libraries, and other institutions that acted as repositories of culture in material form. But with the rise of digital networked media, a multitude of self-designated archivists -- fans, pirates, hackers -- have become practitioners of cultural preservation on the Internet. These nonprofessional archivists have democratized cultural mem…
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- 9780262336772
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- 1 online resource (x, 430 pages)
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The Memory Process: Neuroscientific and Humanistic Perspectives
The convergence of neuroscience, philosophy, art, music & literature offers valuable new insights into the study of memory.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262289672
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- 1 online resource (vi, 440 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates) :illustrations (some color), music
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How We Remember: Brain Mechanisms of Episodic Memory
Episodic memory proves essential for daily function, allowing us to remember where we parked the car, what time we walked the dog, or what a friend said earlier. In this book, Hasselmo presents a new model describing the brain mechanisms for encoding and remembering an episode as a spatiotemporal trajectory.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262298230
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- 1 online resource (xii, 366 pages) :illustrations (some color)
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Cognitive Search: Evolution, Algorithms, and the Brain
Over a century ago, William James proposed that people search through memory much as they rummage through a house looking for lost keys. Like other animal species search space, we scour our environments for territory, food, mates, and other goals, including information. We search for items in visual scenes, for historical facts and shopping deals on internet sites, for new friends to add to our…
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- 9780262306003
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- 1 online resource (xi, 403 pages) :illustrations.
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Borges and memory :encounters with the human brain
Discusses the science of memory and the interpretation of memory in the novels of Jorge Luis Borges and earlier literatures.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262305877
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- 1 online resource (ix, 213 pages) :illustrations
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