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The Bloomsbury Companion to Socrates (Bloomsbury Companions)

Bloomsbury Reference, 2013

Socrates, the largely enigmatic Greek thinker, is universally considered to have laid the foundations of western philosophy. His philosophy, available to us through the early dialogues of Plato and the writings of his contemporaries, has had a remarkably enduring influence on virtually every area of philosophical enterprise .

This...

Proofs and Algorithms: An Introduction to Logic and Computability (Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science)

Springer, 2011

Logic is a branch of philosophy, mathematics and computer science. It studies the required methods to determine whether a statement is true, such as reasoning and computation.

Proofs and Algorithms: Introduction to Logic and Computability is an introduction to the fundamental concepts of contemporary logic - those of a...

Software Engineering Foundations: A Software Science Perspective

Auerbach Publications, 2007

A groundbreaking book in this field, Software Engineering Foundations: A Software Science Perspective integrates the latest research, methodologies, and their applications into a unified theoretical framework. Based on the author's 30 years of experience, it examines a wide range of underlying theories from philosophy, cognitive informatics,...

Human Accomplishment: The Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences, 800 B.C. to 1950

Harper Perennial, 2004

A sweeping cultural survey reminiscent of Barzun's From Dawn to Decadence.

"At irregular times and in scattered settings, human beings have achieved great things. Human Accomplishment is about those great things, falling in the domains known as the arts and sciences, and the people who did them.'

So begins...

Dreaming About the Divine (S U N Y Series in Dream Studies)

University of New York, 2007

Explores the role of dreams in spiritual work.

In Dreaming about the Divine, Bonnelle Lewis Strickling argues that people dream about the divine in forms that fit their current emotional and spiritual condition. Using Jungian psychology and the philosophy of Karl Jaspers, Strickling contends that dreams...

The Philosophy of Software: Code and Mediation in the Digital Age

Palgrave Macmillan, 2011

Writing remains to me an unusual practice that transforms my experience of the world whilst under the spell of writing. This book has had a particularly intensive birth, written as it is in the middle of the academic year and with everyday life swirling around it with all the attendant distractions. It has emerged from a number of related...

Discrete or Continuous?: The Quest for Fundamental Length in Modern Physics

Cambridge University Press, 2014

The idea of infinity plays a crucial role in our understanding of the universe, with the infinite spacetime continuum perhaps the best-known example - but is spacetime really continuous? Throughout the history of science, many have felt that the continuum model is an unphysical idealization, and that spacetime should be thought of as...

A Philosophy of Cinematic Art

Cambridge University Press, 2010

A Philosophy of Cinematic Art is a systematic study of cinema as an art form, showing how the medium conditions fundamental features of cinematic artworks. It discusses the status of cinema as an art form, whether there is a language of film, realism in cinema, cinematic authorship, intentionalist and constructivist theories of interpretation,...

Moodle E-learning Course Development

Packt Publishing, 2006

A complete guide to successful learning using Moodle
- Straight-forward coverage of installing and using the Moodle system
- Working with Moodle features in all learning environments
- A unique course-based approach focuses your attention on designing well structured, interactive, and successful courses

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Beginning Android 4 Application Development

Wrox Press, 2012

I FIRST STARTED PLAYING WITH THE ANDROID SDK before it was offi cially released as version 1.0. Back then, the tools were unpolished, the APIs in the SDK were unstable, and the documentation was sparse. Fast-forward three and a half years, Android is now a formidable mobile operating system, with a following no less impressive than...

Jump Start Git

SitePoint Pty Ltd, 2015

Get a Jump Start on version control with Git today!

Most engineers we meet prefer Git over other distributed version control systems.

These systems let you store different versions of project files and directories, so you can roll back to an earlier one if something goes wrong. And since they're...

Urban Planning and Development in China and Other East Asian Countries

Springer, 2018

This book examines urban development and its role in planning in China and other Asian cities. Starting with a substantial narrative on the history, development philosophy, and urban form of ancient Asian cities, it then identifies the characteristics of urban society and different phases of development history. It then discusses urbanization...

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