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Beautiful Testing: Leading Professionals Reveal How They Improve Software (Theory in Practice)

O'Reilly, 2009

Successful software depends as much on scrupulous testing as it does on solid architecture or elegant code. But testing is not a routine process, it's a constant exploration of methods and an evolution of good ideas.

Beautiful Testing offers 23 essays from 27 leading testers and developers that illustrate the qualities and...

Encyclopedia of Database Systems

Springer, 2009

The multi-volume Encyclopedia of Database Systems provides easy access to relevant information on all aspects of very large databases, data management, and database systems. Over 1,400 illustrated essays and definitional entries, organized alphabetically, present basic terminology, concepts, methods and data processing...

Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science

Springer, 2009

The aim of the series Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science, of which this is the first volume, is to take up anew the challenge of considering the scientific enterprise in its entirety in light of recent developments in logic and philosophy. Developments in logic are especially relevant to the current situation in philosophy of...

Disjunctivism: Contemporary Readings (MIT Readers in Contemporary Philosophy)

MIT Press, 2009

Winning entry, Professional Cover/Jacket Category, in the 2009 New England Book Show sponsored by Bookbuilders of Boston.

A central debate in contemporary philosophy of perception concerns the disjunctive theory of perceptual experience. Until the 1960s, philosophers of perception generally assumed that a veridical...

Postcolonial Philosophy of Religion

Springer, 2010

The essays in this volume take up the history of philosophy of religion and contemporary problems within the discipline. They pursue these tasks as opportunities to correct Eurocentric biases that distort knowledge not only of religions originating beyond the West, but of the West’s own traditions.

This is the first collection of...

Mind Design II: Philosophy, Psychology, and Artificial Intelligence

MIT Press, 1997

"Ming Design II is a welcome update of its predecessor, itself a useful compendium on the philosophy of cognitive science. This new volume retains the intellectual foundations, and some discussions of classical AI built on them, while adding connectionism, situated AI, and dynamic systems theory as extra storeys. Which of these is...

Paint or Pixel: The Digital Divide in Illustration Art

Nonstop Press, 2008

This collection of art and essays, by the best of todays science fiction and fantasy artists, presents candid opinions behind the revolution now taking place in the field. Are computers creating a seismic shift in the creation of sfandf art, or are they just another tool in the artists paint box?

I was there the day the commercial art...

The Fourth Paradigm: Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery (Volume 1)

Microsoft Press, 2009

This book presents the first broad look at the rapidly emerging field of data-intensive science, with the goal of influencing the worldwide scientific and computing research communities and inspiring the next generation of scientists. Increasingly, scientific breakthroughs will be powered by advanced computing capabilities that help researchers...

The New Fiscal Sociology: Taxation in Comparative and Historical Perspective

Cambridge University Press, 2009

The New Fiscal Sociology: Taxation in Comparative and Historical Perspective demonstrates that the study of taxation can illuminate fundamental dynamics of modern societies. The sixteen essays in this collection offer a state-of-the-art survey of the new fiscal sociology that is emerging at the intersection of sociology, history, political science,...

Themes of the American Civil War: The War Between the States

Routledge, 2009

Themes of the American Civil War offers a timely and useful guide to this vast topic for a new generation of students. The volume provides a broad-ranging assessment of the causes, complexities, and consequences of America’s most destructive conflict to date. The essays, written by top scholars in the field, and reworked for this...

Mental Actions

Oxford University Press, 2009

This volume investigates the neglected topic of mental action, and shows its importance for the metaphysics, epistemology, and phenomenology of mind. Twelve specially written essays address such questions as the following: Which phenomena should we count as mental actions--imagining, remembering, judging, for instance? How should we explain our...

Harming Future Persons: Ethics, Genetics and the Nonidentity Problem (International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine)

Springer, 2009

This collection of essays investigates the obligations we have in respect of future persons, from our own future offspring to distant future generations. Can we harm them? Can we wrong them? Can the fact that our choice brings a worse off person into existence in place of a better off but "nonidentical" person make...

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