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Ludics: Play as Humanistic Inquiry

Palgrave Macmillan, 2021

This book establishes play as a mode of humanistic inquiry with a profound effect on art, culture and society. Play is treated as a dynamic and relational modality where relationships of all kinds are forged and inquisitive interdisciplinary engagement is embraced. Play cultivates reflection, connection, and creativity, offering new...

Spontaneous Play in the Language Classroom: Creating a Community

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

This book investigates the importance of humour and play in the establishment of individual and group identities among adult language learners on an intensive business English course. The enclosed setting allows the emergent nature of community building and identity projection to be traced, foregrounding the important role of...

Designing with Blends: Conceptual Foundations of Human-Computer Interaction and Software Engineering

MIT Press, 2007

The evolution of the concept of mind in cognitive science over the past 25 years creates new ways to think about the interaction of people and computers. New ideas about embodiment, metaphor as a fundamental cognitive process, and conceptual integration--a blending of older concepts that gives rise to new, emergent properties--have become...

The New Authoritarians: Convergence on the Right

Haymarket Books, 2019

The eighteen months between June 2016 and the end of 2017 saw the victory of Leave in Britain’s EU referendum, the election of Donald Trump as President of the United States, and unprecedented support for Marine Le Pen of the Front National in her campaign for the same office in France. Nearly a decade after the great financial...

3D Game Engine Architecture: Engineering Real-Time Applications with Wild Magic

Morgan Kaufmann, 2004

Dave Eberly's 3D Game Engine Design was the first professional guide to the essential concepts and algorithms of real-time 3D engines and quickly became a classic of game development. Dave's new book 3D Game Engine Architecture continues the tradition with a comprehensive look at the software engineering and...

An Introduction to Quantum Computing

Oxford University Press, 2006

This concise, accessible text provides a thorough introduction to quantum computing - an exciting emergent field at the interface of the computer, engineering, mathematical and physical sciences. Aimed at advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students in these disciplines, the text is technically detailed and is clearly illustrated...

Emergent Web Intelligence: Advanced Semantic Technologies (Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing)

Springer, 2010

The success of the World Wide Web depends on the ability of users to store, process and retrieve digital information regardless of distance boundaries, languages and domains of knowledge. The universality and flexibility of the World Wide Web have also enabled the rapid growth of a variety of new services and applications based on...

Nitric Oxide Protocols (Methods in Molecular Biology)

Humana Press, 2004

It has been more than five years since the appearance of the first edition of Nitric Oxide Protocols. According to Medline, more than 32,500 publications dealing with nitric oxide have appeared in the primary literature in the intervening time from 1999 to April 2004. These numbers attest to the continuing vitality of a field...

The Web's Awake: An Introduction to the Field of Web Science and the Concept of Web Life

John Wiley & Sons, 2007

A fascinating perspective on what the Web is and what it will be

Has the World Wide Web evolved into a new life form? The author of this provocative book, Philip Tetlow, presents a very compelling argument that it indeed has.

Drawing from theories originating in the natural sciences, mathematics, and...

Essential Essays, Volume 1: Foundations of Cultural Studies (Stuart Hall: Selected Writings)

Duke University Press, 2019

From his arrival in Britain in the 1950s and involvement in the New Left, to founding the field of cultural studies and examining race and identity in the 1990s and early 2000s, Stuart Hall has been central to shaping many of the cultural and political debates of our time. Essential Essays—a landmark two-volume...

Science and Social Science

Routledge, 1999

Is social science really a science at all, and if so in what sense? This is the first real question that any course on the philosophy of the social sciences must tackle. In this brief introduction, Malcolm Williams gives the students the grounding that will enable them to discuss the issues involved with confidence.

Is social science...

Joint Cognitive Systems: Patterns in Cognitive Systems Engineering

CRC Press, 2006

Our fascination with new technologies is based on the assumption that more powerful automation will overcome human limitations and make our systems 'faster, better, cheaper,' resulting in simple, easy tasks for people. But how does new technology and more powerful automation change our work? Research in Cognitive Systems Engineering (CSE) looks at...

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