"This volume is the most important if not the final word on the great imagery debate. It examines issues critical to all cognition. For example, whether the brain is a general purpose computer and if the brain's structure imposes limits on what can be represented in our minds." Michael I. Posner, Pr[...]

"A filmmaker is a man like any other; and yet his life is not the same. . . . This is, I think, a special way of being in contact with reality." Or so says Michelangelo Antonioni, the legendary filmmaker behind the stark landscapes and social alienation of "Blow-Up" and "L'Avventura," who here revea[...]

Emir Kusturica is one of Eastern Europe's most celebrated and influential filmmakers. Over the course of a thirty-year career, Kusturica has navigated a series of geopolitical fault lines to produce subversive, playful, often satiric works. On the way he won acclaim and widespread popularity while s[...]

The human brain is often described as the most complex object in the universe. Tens of billions of nerve cells-tiny tree-like structures -- make up a massive network with enormous computational power. In this book, Giorgio Ascoli reveals another aspect of the human brain: the stunning beauty of its [...]

A modern, magical twist on the Gothic romance and girl detective genres, the Lynburn Legacy books will appeal to fans of both "Beautiful Creatures" and the Mortal Instruments series. Reviewers have praised the take-charge heroine and the spellbinding romance.
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When completed, the Messina Straight bridge will stand as the world's longest single span bridge and as a benchmark for future projects with longer spans. This book delineates the enormous amount of theoretical and practical research and development work has been carried out by experts from across t[...]

This book collects new contributions from an international group of leading scholars - including many who have worked closely with Agamben - to consider the impact of Agamben's thought on research in the humanities and social sciences. Giorgio Agamben: Legal, Political and Philosophical Perspectives[...]

This book draws together the most authoritative articles on development economics published in the past few years, is aimed at undergraduate level and is suitable for students with little or no background in economics. The main themes include poverty, foreign aid, agriculture and human capital, with[...]

This book has two main goals: to provide a unifed and structured overview of thisgrowing field, as well as to propose a corresponding software framework, the OpenTL library, developed by the author. The mainobjective of this work is to show, how most real-world application scenarios can be naturall[...]

An instant success upon its publication in the mid-sixteenth century, Giorgio Vasari''s "Lives of the Artists remains one of the principal resources for study of the art and artists of the Italian Renaissance. The "Lives''" colorful and detailed portraits of the most representative figures of Italia[...]