This book breaks with the conventional model of perception that views vision as a mere inference to an objective reality on the basis of "inverse optics." The authors offer the alternative view that perception is an expressive and awareness-generating process. Perception creates semantic information[...]

Problems in Real Analysis: Advanced Calculus on the Real Axis features a comprehensive collection of challenging problems in mathematical analysis that aim to promote creative, non-standard techniques for solving problems. This self-contained text offers a host of new mathematical tools and strategi[...]

This comparative historical sociology of the Bolshevik revolutionaries offers a reinterpretation of political radicalization in the last years of the Russian Empire. Finding that two-thirds of the Bolshevik leadership were ethnic minorities - Ukrainians, Latvians, Georgians, Jews and others - this b[...]

When you combine the sheer scale and range of digital information now available with a journalist's "nose for news" and her ability to tell a compelling story, a new world of possibility opens up. With "The Data Journalism Handbook," you'll explore the potential, limits, and applied uses of this new[...]

"Liliana Heker is one of the most remarkable voices of the Argentinean generation after Borges."--Alberto ManguelThe year is 1976. The protagonists are women, writers, guerilla fighters, friends. And as they move toward the most shocking reversal in Latin American literature, their story emerges as [...]