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Hacking Capitalism: The Free and Open Source Software Movement (Routledge Research in Information Technology and Society)

Routledge, 2007

The Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) movement demonstrates how labour can self-organise production, and, as is shown by the free operating system GNU/Linux, even compete with some of the worlds largest firms. The book examines the hopes of such thinkers as Friedrich Schiller, Karl Marx, Herbert Marcuse and Antonio Negri, in the light 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...

History, Historians, and Conservatism in Britain and America: From the Great War to Thatcher and Reagan

Oxford University Press, 2009

History, Historians, and Conservatism in Britain and America examines the subjects, motives, and personal and intellectual origins of conservative historians who were also successful public intellectuals. In their search for a persuasive and wide appeal, conservatives depended until at least the 1960s upon history and historians to provide...

ThermoPoetics: Energy in Victorian Literature and Science

MIT Press, 2010

In ThermoPoetics, Barri Gold sets out to show us how analogous, intertwined, and mutually productive poetry and physics may be. Charting the simultaneous emergence of the laws of thermodynamics in literature and in physics that began in the 1830s, Gold finds that not only can science influence literature, but literature can influence...

Topological Methods in Data Analysis and Visualization: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications (Mathematics and Visualization)

Springer, 2011

The deluge of data observed throughout research and industry has turned the analysis of the resulting information into the primary limiting factor for the rapid progress of science, engineering, and medicine. The field of visualization strives to tackle this data analysis challenge by devising visual representations that afford users an...

Unobstructed Shortest Paths in Polyhedral Environments (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

Springer, 1987

The study of minimum paths on or around polyhedra in Euclidean 3-space is of growing importance in robotics. This work presents new algorithms based on extensions of the Voronoi diagram. Since experience with new algo- rithms is also important, this work also describes a workbench to allow experimentation.

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The Hoover Dam (Building America: Then and Now)

Chelsea House Publications, 2009

The time was the early 1930s, the president was Herbert Hoover, and the situation in the United States looked bleak. The stock market had crashed in 1929, and most Americans were hurt by the Great Depression, which left a majority of them jobless, homeless, and penniless. But in the West, a beacon of hope was in the...

The Princeton Companion to Mathematics

Princeton Press, 2008

This is a one-of-a-kind reference for anyone with a serious interest in mathematics. Edited by Timothy Gowers, a recipient of the Fields Medal, it presents nearly two hundred entries, written especially for this book by some of the world's leading mathematicians, that introduce basic mathematical tools and vocabulary; trace the...

And Every Word Is True: Newfound evidence reveals Truman Capote's

Literati Editions, 2019

Truman Capote’s bestselling book “In Cold Blood” has captivated worldwide audiences for over fifty years. It is a gripping story about the consequences of a trivial robbery gone terribly wrong in a remote village of western Kansas.But what if robbery was not the motive at all, but something more sinister? And why would the...

Reputation, Stock Price, and You: Why the Market Rewards Some Companies and Punishes Others

Apress, 2012

“All of our working lives we have heard the mantra, ‘a reputation lost is never regained.’ Still, the firms we work for, admire and invest in seem to take costly reputation hits all too often. Everyone interested in managing, regulating or investing in public firms will find Nir Kossovsky’s book a wonderful read...

Family Business Models: Practical Solutions for the Family Business

Palgrave Macmillan, 2010

In the early 20th century, American sociologist W. I. Thomas won fame with the statement: ‘If men define situations as real, they are real in their consequences.’ This fundamental observation on human behavior, now known as the Thomas theorem, became a cornerstone of contemporary sociology. The idea that our...

Regret: A Theology

University of Notre Dame Press, 2021

In this brilliant theological essay, Paul J. Griffiths takes the reader through all the stages of regret.

To various degrees, all human beings experience regret. In this concise theological grammar, Paul J. Griffiths analyzes this attitude toward the past and distinguishes its various kinds. He examines...

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