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How can we understand a system as complex as the brain? Does the brain use the same operational principles to control physical and mental activities? How can we incorporate in a model what we know and what we do not know about the brain?The connectionist model presented in this book provides tools for addressing such questions. Its nodes represent well-established biological facts combined with observations of the overall behaviors of the syst...

How can we understand a system as complex as the brain? Does the brain use the same operational principles to control physical and mental activities? The connectionist model presented in this book provides tools for addressing such questions.

Futuristic science fiction about a man whose records are wiped from the Earth's data banks.

The interplay of literature and physics that led to acceptance of the theory of relativity

Completely updated with new entries and extensive revisions of the previous edition, "The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia Of Rock & Roll" is the authoritative volume on the world's music makers--from the one-hit wonders to the megastars. Over 200 photos.

We have seen the astounding potential of the Internet as an informational tool, but we are also beginning to encounter the infinite questions it unfurls about legal issues and crimes committed with its aid. David Wall and his stellar cast of contributors address the various criminological debates that are emerging over cybercrime. Essays examine the general problem of crime and the Internet, what is understood by the term 'cybercrime', the dif...

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Supporting Inclusive Education is a case study of a London primary school which includes a wide range of learners. It looks at: different teaching and learning styles, the effective use of learning support assistants, responding to challenging behaviour, using specialist strategies, how to research inclusive education, and what makes for a connective pedagogy. It is written for an audience of teacher-researchers in a jargon-free style.Jenny Co...

The Old Provençal version of the »Pseudo Turpino« (MS Add 17920 of the British Museum in London) is a unique testimony of the dissemination of the Caroline epic in the Romance context. On the basis of the first (incomplete) edition, the editor has embarked on a series of investigations serving the historical localization of the text and thanks to the perusal of a number of documents hitherto poorly understood has succeeded in establishing its ...

Jonathan Meuli examines differing attitudes towards Northwest Coast material culture as they are found in the structures of oral and written narratives and the built environment.

Leading cultural thinker Ien Ang engages with urgent questions of identity in an age of globalization and diaspora. Ang reflects upon tensions between Asia' and the West' at a national and global level, and considers the disparate meanings of Chineseness' in the contemporary world. Ang then turns to the West', exploring the paradox of Australia's identity as a Western' country in the Asian region, and tracing Australia's uneasy relationship wi...

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This impassioned and informed book is the first to describe how government and industry have failed working families and what we can do to get beyond this critical impasse

The Pawtuxet Valley, though only a few square miles in central Rhode Island, has a rich and varied history. From the 1790s to the 1960s, the textile industry blossomed, expanded, and gave birth to nationally known brands such as Fruit of the Loom, helping to clothe America. The industry drew thousands of immigrants to the banks of the Pawtuxet River to make new lives for themselves. Yankees, Quebecois, English, Polish, Irish, Italians, Portugu...

With over two hundred historical photographs, Allentown and Upper Freehold Township offers a fascinating overview of two communities in Monmouth County that are closely tied together historically and culturally. Allentown and Upper Freehold Township are located at the western border of a county that nearly spans the state from the Atlantic Ocean to a few miles from the Delaware River. This book explores how the county's last rural landscape, U...

From the ideas of Clausewitz to contemporary doctrines of containment and cold war, this is a definitive history of modern military thought. A one-volume collection of Azar Gat's acclaimed trilogy, it traces the quest for a general theory of war from its origins in the Enlightenment. Drastically re-evaluating B.H. Liddell Hart's contribution to strategic theory, the author argues that in the wake of the trauma of the First World War, and in re...

Inhaltsangabe:Einleitung: Spätestens seit den 60er Jahren des 20. Jahrhunderts strömt jedes Jahr in den Sommermonaten eine große Zahl von Urlaubern nach Mallorca und Korsika, die zu einer weitreichenden Veränderung der ursprünglichen Gestalt beider Inseln führen. Welche Strategien können hauptsächlich touristisch orientierte Regionen wie Mallorca und Korsika anwenden, um den Menschenmassen während der Reisezeit Herr zu werden und dabei nicht ...

The Politics of Religion in Napoleonic Italy explores the intense cultural conflict created by French rule in Italy at the start of the nineteenth century. Napoleon's desire for cultural conformity struck at the heart of Italian religious life. Yet the reforms imposed by French rule created resentment and resistance across Italy, finally leading to Napoleon's famous quarrel with Pope Pius VII. In this fascinating study, Mike Broers traces the ...

The modern metropolis has been one of the crucial sites for the exploration of modernity since at least the mid-nineteenth century. In this new volume, David Frisby provides an original and critical examination of the construction and experience of metropolitan modernity. Drawing on a rich variety of sources, Frisby seeks to reveal some key features of metropolitan experience in modernity. Among the issues examined are Benjamin's account of th...

Books and Readers in Early Modern EnglandMaterial StudiesEdited by Jennifer Andersen and Elizabeth Sauer. Afterword by Stephen Orgel"A fascinating collection."--History"Showcasing an innovative, interdisciplinary group of essays, Books and Readers in Early Modern England will interest scholars of bibliography, collections studies, literature, and history. This book should also prove useful in the classroom. . . . It is only fitting that a book...