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Game theory: A very short introduction
... consists But game theory isn’t able to solve all of the world’s... the 5 The name of the game play every morning when we get into our cars to drive to work Alice and Bob again have two pure ... Game Theory 5 James Dean fail to make a decision They later get separated in the crowds and now each has to. .. always add up to zero We can always fix things to make this true in a game ... The owner of a grocery store deciding today’s price for corn flakes is playing an economic game In brief, a game is being played whenever human beings interact Antony and Cleopatra played
Ngày tải lên: 10/01/2014, 18:23
Postmodernism: A Very Short Introduction
... away from an allegiance to any ‘given’ systems, and to believe that the way we see the world can and should be changed Deconstructors, liberals, and Marxists can all get into some kind of alliance ... of the progressive emancipation of humanity – from Christian redemption to Marxist... as the author? Authorial (or historical) intention should no more be trusted than realism There thus arose ... and absurdity, and a commitment to the mimetic engagements of a traditionally narrated novel, such as Sartre’s La Nausée or Camus’s La Peste and L’Étranger, towards a far colder, contradiction-filled
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Design: A Very Short Introduction
... discovery in 1993 at an archaeological dig at Cayonu, a prehistoric agricultural village site in southern Turkey, of what is believed... human life It affects everyone in every detail of every ... back to about a million years, natural objects began to be used as tools and implements to supplement or enhance the capacities of the hand For example, the hand is capable of clawing soil to ... feature of the crafts tends to underestimate two other developments crucial to enhancing human ability to transform an environment Each 10 represents a capacity to reach... French, and Italian
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Psychiatry: A Very Short Introduction
... Insomnia or hypersomnia nearly every day Agitation or retardation nearly every day (observable by others) Fatigue or loss of energy nearly every day... hate a world where everyone had the same personality, ... would be intolerable Aldous Huxley’s book Brave New World (where everyone was able to remain constantly content by taking a drug called ‘Soma’) was a nightmare scenario, not a utopia Normal ... there is no ‘as if’ quality to them and the patient believes they are entirely real The world is now a very culturally mixed place and a judgement often has to be made about whether ideas
Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 21:15
Dreaming: A Very Short Introduction
... ones are more likely to awaken us and tilt the scales towards negative emotion A major disadvantage of sleep lab reports is that they are very expensive to obtain and tend to come almost exclusively ... that! And every bit as complicated Does everyone dream? All human beings who have been studied in sleep labs have Dreaming brain... the Nightcap, a home-based sleep monitor that allows us to know ... were in before their reports, to compare spontaneous awakening with experimental awakening reports, to obtain abundant data from each person, and, best of all, to obtain reports in natural settings
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Modern Art: A Very Short Introduction
... taste This too was soon to change, however The social base of modern art began to broaden at about the same time as its cultural headquarters moved across the Atlantic, from Paris to New York, ... itself, and was taken as, the ‘manifesto’ of a new approach to art, one that sat astride two of the paradoxes I outlined earlier For it was both a clear return to traditional values in painting ... object by Morris to any easy interpretation; their refusal to offer any obvious ‘meaning’ – carried inescapable associations of a cultural elitism that fatally undercut any claims to populism the
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Consciousness: A Very Short Introduction
... and then signals pass along specialized neurons called C-fibres to the spinal cord, and from there to the brain stem, thalamus, somatosensory cortex (which includes a map of all the areas of the ... explain why and how there appears to be a consistent physical world Neutral monists reject dualism but disagree about the fundamental nature of the world and how to unify it A third option is ... scientists today Materialists take matter as fundamental, but they must then face the problem that this book is all about How do you account... cause the pain, in which case we have to solve the
Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 21:43
Dinosaurs: A Very Short Introduction
... and appropriate story to tell, and one with which I am familiar, because it proved to be the unexpected starting point for my career as a palaeontologist... terms the pathway to fossilization ... creature: the common ancestor of all later dinosaurs To date at least four, possibly... concentrated in particular on anatomy He gained a reputation as a skilled anatomist, and acquired a ... gravitational pull on the imaginative landscape of youngsters 2 Top: a sketch of the Iguanodon model at Crystal Palace Bottom: A photograph of the model of Megalosaurus in Crystal Palace Park
Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 21:44
Tragedy: A Very Short Introduction
... draws history towards tragedy, as it does in Shakespeare’s drama and the great panoramic 19th-century novels such as Tolstoy’s War and Peace (1863–9) Aristotle versus Plato But tragedy, Aristotle ... Greeks to Shakespeare and Racine, from drama to other art forms, from fiction to real events? What needs has the idea of tragedy served, and to what use and abuse has it been put? This Very Short ... the Fall of Great Men (which begins with the rather... to make general statements, while those of history are particular’ That is to say, history simply tells us what actually happened, but poetry
Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 21:46
The Elements: A Very Short Introduction
... reality: light The ancients saw things this way too: that elements were types, not to be too closely identified with particular substances When Plato speaks of water the. .. earthly materials ... buried them, just as the Aristotelian elements allowed but ignored the universal profe hyle It marks the beginning of a tendency to pay lip service to Aristotle while getting on with more ... molecular fragments, excited into a glowing... quantities ('Toxic' arsenic and 'sterilizing' bromine are among them, showing that there is no easy division of elements into 'good' and 'bad'.) The
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Christian Art: A Very Short Introduction
... which told the universal stories of Christian history It could be seen on smaller paintings... true and authentic likeness of the holy person there portrayed In fact, despite this claim to historical ... elaborate underground tomb chambers in which the Christian communities buried their dead There is some uncertainty as to the date of the earliest catacomb paintings, but according to current opinion, ... Hermes in this aspect was adapted by Christians to form the image of Christ the Good Shepherd (Fig 1) Besides Old and New Testament images referring to deliverance, and representations of the Good
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Global catastrophes: A very short introduction
... variety of topics in history, philosophy, religion, science, and the humanities Over the next few years it will grow to a library of around 200 volumes – a Very Short Introduction to everything ... Global Catastrophes: A Very Short Introduction Very Short Introductions are for anyone wanting a stimulating and accessible way in to a new subject They are written by experts, ... we will begin to move out into space – first to our sibling worlds and then to the stars In the current inwardlooking political climate it is impossible to say when a serious move into space will...
Ngày tải lên: 11/01/2014, 18:43
Photography: a very short introduction
... Photography: A Very Short Introduction Very Short Introductions are for anyone wanting a stimulating and accessible way in to a new subject They are written by ... variety of topics in history, philosophy, religion, science, and the humanities Over the next few years it will grow to a library of around 200 volumes – a Very Short Introduction to everything ... of photography), attempting to write an introduction to this dispersed field feels like a vain task The quite distinct versions of photography’s history unravel attempts to tell a coherent story...
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Nuclear weapons: A very short introduction
... variety of topics in history, philosophy, religion, science, and the humanities Over the next few years it will grow to a library of around 200 volumes – a Very Short Introduction to everything ... weapons; the race to beat Nazi scientists to the bomb; the history of early attempts to control the bomb, through to the Soviet detonation of an atomic device in August 1949; the race to acquire the ... Nuclear Weapons atom are determined by its atomic number The total number of what is called nucleons (protons and neutrons) in an atom is the atomic mass number Atoms with the same atomic number...
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The meaning of life: A very short introduction
... variety of topics in history, philosophy, religion, science, and the humanities Over the next few years it will grow to a library of around 200 volumes – a Very Short Introduction to everything ... being a tortoise Tortoises are in this sense remarkably similar to postmodernists, to whom the idea of the human condition is equally alien Language, in other words, allows us not only to get ... failed to learn from I can at least claim to have written one of the very few meaning-of-life books which does not recount the story of Bertrand Russell and the taxi driver I am very grateful to...
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Quantum theory: A very short introduction
... years it will grow to a library of around 200 volumes – a Very Short Introduction to everything from ancient Egypt and Indian philosophy to conceptual art and cosmology Very Short Introductions available ... satisfactory way We shall see that the true explanation of Balmer’s odd discovery was eventually to be found using a very different set of ideas In the meantime, the nature of atoms probably seemed too ... still being too speculative to be rewarded in this fashion! The quantum analysis of the photoelectric effect was a great physics victory, but it seemed nevertheless to be a pyrrhic victory The subject...
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Existentialism: A very short introduction
... being], to exist is to choose and to cease to choose is to cease to be Sartre also echoes Kierkegaard’s relation of choice to self-constitution when he adds that, for human reality, to be is to choose ... variety of topics in history, philosophy, religion, science, and the humanities Over the next few years it will grow to a library of around 200 volumes – a Very Short Introduction to everything ... Existentialism: A Very Short Introduction Very Short Introductions are for anyone wanting a stimulating and accessible way in to a new subject They are written by experts,...
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Chaos: A very short introduction
... variety of topics in history, philosophy, religion, science, and the humanities Over the next few years it will grow to a library of around 200 volumes – a Very Short Introduction to everything ... ‘evolution’ and ‘chaos’ are used simultaneously to refer both to phenomena to be explained and to the theories that are supposed to the explaining This often leads to confusion between the description and ... Of course, an ocean weather ship is harder to misplace than a horse shoe nail There is more to this story, and to see its relevance we need to look into how weather models ‘work’ Operational weather...
Ngày tải lên: 14/01/2014, 10:54
Documentary film: A very short introduction
... variety of topics in history, philosophy, religion, science, and the humanities Over the next few years it will grow to a library of around 200 volumes—a Very Short Introduction to everything ... choose the way they want to structure a story—which characters to develop for viewers, whose stories to focus on, how to resolve the storytelling Filmmakers have many choices to make about each of ... film : a very short introduction / Patricia Aufderheide p cm.— (Very short introductions) Includes bibliographical references and index ISBN 978-0-19-518270-5 (pbk.) Documentary films—History and...
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Fossils: A Very Short Introduction
... variety of topics in history, philosophy, religion, science, and the humanities Over the next few years it will grow to a library of around 200 volumes – a Very Short Introduction to everything ... Fossils: A Very Short Introduction Very Short Introductions are for anyone wanting a stimulating and accessible way in to a new subject They are written by experts, ... care to remember on working with fossils, I did not set out to be a palaeontologist I am particularly grateful, therefore, to my colleagues on both sides of the scholarly neontological/ palaeontological...
Ngày tải lên: 11/02/2014, 21:04