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What Pooh Might Have Said To Dante and other futile specu...

Rayner, Manny
What Pooh Might Have Said To Dante and other futile speculations
Would Mr. Darcy have preferred Mary Poppins to Lizzie Bennet? Is the New Testament science-fiction? Could the Three Musketeers have beaten the Lord of the Rings in a fair fight? Does Jemima Puddleduck work better as a French trash novel? And what would Pooh have said to Dante? You'll find answers to all the above questions, and many more, in this book.

CHF 32.50

If Research Were Romance and other implausible conjectures

Rayner, Manny
If Research Were Romance and other implausible conjectures
Why is Fifty Shades of Grey like the Higgs boson? Who would Kristen Stewart play in a movie of Ulysses? Is the answer 42? Would Jane Eyre prefer Hamlet or Claudius? And is research really like romance? You will find the answers to all the above questions, and many others, in this book

CHF 32.50

The New Adventures of Socrates: an extravagance

Rayner, Manny / Chua, Cathy
The New Adventures of Socrates: an extravagance
Plato's dialogues, updated for the age of social media and short attention spans. Socrates hangs out with his old gang - Plato, Glaucon, Thrasymachus and the rest - but also meets new characters including Madonna, George W. Bush, Richard Dawkins, Hamlet and an extremely well-meaning robot. Don't count on it teaching you any philosophy, but it might make you laugh if you have a sufficiently warped sense of humor.

CHF 21.90

The Spoken Language Translator

Rayner, Manny / Bouillon, Pierrette / Carter, David
The Spoken Language Translator
This book presents a detailed description of Spoken Language Translator (SLT), one of the first major projects in the area of automatic speech translation. The SLT system can translate between English, French, and Swedish in the domain of air travel planning, using a vocabulary of about 1500 words, and with an accuracy of about 75%. The greater part of the book describes the language processing components, which are largely built on top of the...

CHF 94.00