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The Scientific Method - Massimiliano (professor Of Physics Di Ventra - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

The Scientific Method - Massimiliano (professor Of Physics Di Ventra - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

This book looks at how science investigates the natural world around us. It is an examination of the scientific method, the foundation of science, and basis on which our scientific knowledge is built on. Written in a clear, concise, and colloquial style, the book addresses all concepts pertaining to the scientific method. It includes discussions on objective reality, hypotheses and theory, and the fundamental and inalienable role of experimental evidence in scientific knowledge.This collection of personal reflections on the scientific methodology shows the observations and daily uses of an experienced practitioner. Massimiliano Di Ventra also examines the limits of science and the errors we make when abusing its method in contexts that are not scientific, for example, in policymaking. By reflecting on the general method, the reader can critically sort through other types of scientific claims, and judge their ability to apply it in study and in practice.

DKK 226.00
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MemComputing - Massimiliano Di Ventra - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

MemComputing - Massimiliano Di Ventra - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

MemComputing is a new computing paradigm that employs time non-locality (memory) to both process and store information. This book, written by the originator of this paradigm, explains the main ideas behind MemComputing, explores its theoretical foundations, and shows its applicability to a wide variety of combinatorial optimization problems, machine learning, and quantum mechanics. The book is ideal for graduate students in Physics, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, and Mathematics, as well as researchers in both academia and industry interested in unconventional computing. The author relies on extensive margin notes, important remarks, and many illustrations to better explain the main concepts and clarify jargon, making the book as self-contained as possible. The reader will be guided from the basic notions to the more advanced ones with an always clear and engaging writing style. Along the way, the reader will appreciate the advantages of this computing paradigm and the major differences that set it apart from the prevailing Turing model of computation, and even quantum computing.

DKK 722.00
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Sensorimotor Life - Ezequiel Di Paolo - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Sensorimotor Life - Ezequiel Di Paolo - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

How accurate is the picture of the human mind that has emerged from studies in neuroscience, psychology, and cognitive science? Anybody with an interest in how minds work - how we learn about the world and how we remember people and events - may feel dissatisfied with the answers contemporary science has to offer.Sensorimotor Life draws on current theoretical developments in the enactive approach to life and mind. It examines and expands the premises of the sciences of the human mind, while developing an alternative picture closer to people''s daily experiences. Enactive ideas are applied and extended, providing a theoretically rich, naturalistic account of meaning and agency. The book includes a dynamical systems description of different types of sensorimotor regularities or sensorimotor contingencies; a dynamical interpretation of Piaget''s theory of equilibration to ground the concept of sensorimotor mastery; and a theory of agency as organized networks of sensorimotor schemes, as well as its implicatons for embodied subjectivity. Written for students and researchers of cognitive science, the authors offer a fuller view of the mind, a view better attuned to the experiences of people who live, work, love, struggle, and age, thrown into a world of meaningful relations they help create. Additionally, the book is of interest to neuroscientists, psychiatrists, and philosophers of science.

DKK 738.00
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Constituting Freedom - Fabio Raimondi - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Constituting Freedom - Fabio Raimondi - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Constituting Freedom focuses on the question at the heart of Machiavelli''s thinking, that is ''in what mode a free state, if there is one, can be maintained in corrupt cities; or, if there is not, in what mode to order it?''The book analyses the different solutions thought up by Machiavelli, starting from the hypothesis of the ''civil principality'', the definition of the republican '' civil and free way of life'' and the examination of the history of the Florentine institutions, to two short writings during the years 1520-1522, the Discursus florentinarum rerum and the Minuta di provisione per la riforma dello Stato di Firenze, in which Machiavelli explored publicly, for the first time, his projects to bring back the republican freedom in Florence after the fall of the first Republic of the City and the Medici''s return.The book''s main argument is that Machiavelli was always a committed republican, even when he worked for the Medici, and even though he believed that the city''s constitution needed to change after the fall of Soderini. In the Discursus and in the Minuta Machiavelli proposed a constitution in which the ''humours'' were forced to mix themselves with one another so as to be obliged to generate a new form of ''equality'', which according to Machiavelli is the main characteristic of a free, just, and stable republic. The aim was not to obtain equilibrium among parts of the city leaving them unaltered, but to mix them. Only in this way could Florence return to being free.

DKK 838.00
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Serial Composition - Reginald Smith Brindle - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Serial Composition - Reginald Smith Brindle - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

This introductory text for students covers all the most important aspects of serial composition, including full discussion of such topics as melody writing, twelve-note harmony, polyphonic writing, forms, stylistic factors, avant-garde techniques, and free twelve-note composition. The author''s intention is to avoid a pedantic exposition of serial principles and to include many technical details which are also valid in non serial contexts, being the common property of contemporary musical languages. Richard Smith Brindle (born 1917) is a native of Lancashire. He studied at the University College of North Wales, Bangor, in Rome at the Academia di Santa Cecilia, and in Florence privately with Dallapiccola. His own music is influenced by he Italian avant-garde school of berio, Maderna, non, and others. From 1970 until his retirement in 1985 he was Professor of Music at the University of Surrey.

DKK 768.00
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Topics on Analysis in Metric Spaces - Paolo Tilli - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Topics on Analysis in Metric Spaces - Paolo Tilli - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Based on lecture notes from the Scuola Normale this book presents the main mathematical prerequisites for analysis in metric spaces. Supplemented with exercises of varying difficulty it is ideal for a graduate-level short course for applied mathematicians and engineers. The book covers abstract measure theory, Hausdorff measures, Lipschitz functions, covering theorems, lower semicontinuity of the one-dimensional Hausdorff measure, Sobolev spaces of maps between metric spaces, and Gromov-Hausdorff theory, all developed in a general metric setting. The existence of geodesics (and more generally of minimal Steiner connections) is discussed in general metric spaces and, as an application of the Gromov-Hausdorff theory, even in some cases when the ambient space is not locally compact. A brief and very general description of the theory of integration with respect to non-decreasing set functions is presented following the Di Giorgi method of using Cavalieri''s formula as the definition of the integral.

DKK 1095.00
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The Ideas of Nikolai Bukharin - - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

The Ideas of Nikolai Bukharin - - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Nikolai Bukharin was a pioneer and founder member of Soviet Communism. An Old Bolshevik and a close comrade of Lenin, he was shot by Stalin, but eventually reinstated, posthumously, under Gorbachev. This collection of essays by an international range of scholars is the first systematic study of his ideas.The book analyses three major areas of his thought: economics and the peasantry, politics and international relations, and culture and science, and examines his influence both on his contemporaries and on subsequent thinkers. Anthony Kemp-Welch''s extensive introduction establishes the context for this discussion, and also provides a historical evaluation of Bukharin''s role in relation to the emergence of Stalinism, the phenomenon that finally removed him from the political stage.Bukharin''s intellectual legacy is only now beginning to be appreciated fully and this book will be an important resource for anyone wanting a more thorough analysis of his intellectual contribution.Contributors: Anna di Biagio, John Biggart, V. P. Danilov, Peter Ferdinand, Neil Harding, A. Kemp-Welch, Robert Lewis, and Alec Nove.

DKK 1196.00
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The Italian - Ann Radcliffe - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

The Italian - Ann Radcliffe - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

''Among his associates no one loved him, many disliked him, and more feared him.'' Father Schedoni is enlisted by the imperious Marchesa di Vivaldi to prevent her son from marrying the beautiful Ellena. Schedoni has no scruples in kidnapping Ellena and in undertaking whatever villainy will further his own ends. His menacing presence dominates a gripping tale of love and betrayal, abduction and assassination, and incarceration in the dreadful dungeons of the Inquisition. Uncertainty and doubt lie everywhere, in Radcliffe''s last and most unnerving novel. Ann Radcliffe defined the ''terror'' genre of writing and helped to establish the Gothic novel, thrilling readers with her mysterious plots and eerie effects. In The Italian she rejects the rational certainties of the Enlightenment for a more ambiguous and unsettling account of what it is to be an individual - particularly a woman - in a culture haunted by history and dominated by institutional power. This new edition includes Radcliffe''s important essay ''On the Supernatural in Poetry'', in which she distinguishes terror writing from horror.

DKK 120.00
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Advances in Numerical Analysis: Volume III: Large-Scale Matrix Problems and the Numerical Solution of Partial Differential Equations - - Bog - Oxford

Advances in Numerical Analysis: Volume III: Large-Scale Matrix Problems and the Numerical Solution of Partial Differential Equations - - Bog - Oxford

This book contains contributions from the invited speakers to the fifth S.E.R.C Summer School in Numerical Analysis, which was held at Lancaster University from 19th to 31st July, 1992.The expositions were at a level which could be understood by post-graduate research students, yet would be advanced enough to stimulate established researchers. The book should therefore be useful to a wide class of readers.The topics which are covered include some of the most important areas of current research in numerical analysis. Part I deals with the use of parrallel computers, both for solving large sets of linear equations and calculating the eigensystems of large matrices. Such problems arise from the discretization of partial differential equations. Aspects of the solution of such equations are dealt with in Part II. These include the preconditioning of elliptic problems, the study of semi-conductors, and description of recent methods for the solution of hydrodynamic problems.The contributors are: Jesse L. Barlow, Pennsylvania State University; Professor Jack Dongarra, Oak Ridge National Library; Professor Howard C. Elman, Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, Maryland; Professor Randolph E. Bank, University of California; Professor J.W. Jerome, Northwestern University, and Professor Maurizio Pandolfi, Politecnico di Torino, Italy.

DKK 1010.00
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The Mozart-Da Ponte Operas - Andrew Steptoe - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

The Mozart-Da Ponte Operas - Andrew Steptoe - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Mozart''s collaborations with the librettist Lorenzo da Ponte led to the composition of three of the greatest masterpieces in all opera, Le Nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni, and Così fan tutte. The aim of this book is to guide the reader to deeper understanding and enjoyment of these enigmatic works, not so much through detailed musical analysis as through setting the scene for their composition. The author examines the cultural and social context in which they were written, the sort of audience who might have attended, and their tastes and expectations. He considers Mozart''s own intentions and aspirations for these works, composed over a period of rapid intellectual and political change, during which his beliefs, ambitions, and position in society changed radically. At a musical level, Mozart''s work underwent crucial stylistic developments that are manifest in these three operas. We are also given clues to da Ponte''s view of opera and the type of entertainment he set out to create. Finally, the author looks at the practicalities of opera production in Mozart''s time, all of which would have influenced the final creation of these works.

DKK 689.00
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From Bench to Market - Walter Cabri - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

From Bench to Market - Walter Cabri - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Who wins the race to turn molecules into medicines? How much does it cost? What factors influence the choice of synthetic routes and reaction mechanisms? How can pharmaceutical companies protect their discoveries? In From Bench to Market, Walter Cabri and Romano Di Fabio chart the process of industrial chemical synthesis, from the first discovery of a molecule, or ''new chemical entity'', to its entry in the marketplace as a drug. They discuss all aspects related to the process research for bulk production, including comparison between different synthetic routes, key methodologies and reaction mechanisms, costs, patent competition, and crystalline forms. The authors use the real chemical history of the development of drugs from several therapeutic areas as detailed case studies, each chosen to illustrate a range of issues and methodologies in industrial chemistry. Several chapters cover the development of the various ß-lactam antibiotics; two chapters describe the discovery and synthesis of the anticancer drugs Idarubicin and Paclitaxal; in another chapter, the synthesis of the anti-viral drug Acyclovir and the ''patent war'' that resulted are explored. Between them, the authors represent considerable first-hand experience in pharmaceutical research and development. The technical, practical, and strategic information they have amassed make this essential reading for graduate and undergraduate chemists intending to work in the pharmaceutical industry, as well as for industrial chemists themselves. Lecturers teaching courses in medicinal and organic chemistry will also find it useful.

DKK 829.00
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Bel Canto - Lucie Manen - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Bel Canto - Lucie Manen - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Lucie Manén presents the findings of her extensive investigation into the original Italian art of Bel Canto singing. After summarizing the history of Bel Canto and some mistaken teaching methods, she describes in detail her own research into the physiological aspects of Bel Canto - from posture and breathing to details of messa di voce and coloratura.This is a completely revised and expanded version of Lucie Manén''s The Art of Singing: A Manual of Bel Canto (Faber Music Ltd, 1974; 2nd edition 1981). It is illuminated throughout by the author''s practical and musical insights, and illustrated with exercises from original Bel Canto manuals.`The publication of this book must surely herald a change of attitude. Lucie Manén''s clear exposition of her solidly grounded theories and well-tried practice will prompt wise, healthy, and positive questioning of established methods, and should serve to bring about a long-overdue revolution in that least-regulated of all professions, the teaching of singing.'' (From the Preface by Brian Trowell)`Lucie Manén has more qualifications than any singer I have ever met for writing a Manual for singers. There have been learned books on the voice but the authors have not been singers; there have been biographies and autobiographies whose subjects have revealed a personal secret or two. But there have been few who have combined experience as a singer with a deep and wide learning so convincingly as Madame Manén.'' Peter Pears

DKK 821.00
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Manual of Political Economy - Vilfredo ) Pareto - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Manual of Political Economy - Vilfredo ) Pareto - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Vilfredo Pareto''s Manual of Political Economy is a ''classic'' study in the history of economic thought for many reasons, the most noteworthy of which include the setting of general equilibrium economics within a choice theoretic framework based on the opposition between tastes and obstacles; the definitive formulation of economic efficiency, including the surplus approach to collective welfare; the technically flawed but nonetheless insightful treatment of path dependence in consumer theory; and the introduction of non-competitive market analysis to the general equilibrium economics. In so doing, Pareto''s general study of economic equilibrium not only substantially extended the contributions to economic theory made by Léon Walras, his predecessor in the Chair of Political Economy at the University of Lausanne, it did so in a manner that was often contrary to Walras''s own thinking on the formalisation of economic theory.This English language ''critical edition'' of Pareto''s Manual of Political Economy - a revised and extended translation of the ''Edizione critica'' published in Italian in 2006 - is a very significant book for two main reasons. First, it is the only variorum translation of the Italian language Manuale di Economia Politica, originally published in 1906, and the subsequent French language Manuel d''Économie Politique, originally published in 1909. Second, it includes extensive contributions from the editors including annotations, to clarify particular points in Pareto''s text; editors'' notes, to critically reflect on major themes in Pareto''s text and to draw attention to the historical influences that led to their development and their anticipation of, or influence on, subsequent ideas that emerged in economics; and notes to the 1909 mathematical appendix, to highlight the mix of insight and imperfection in Pareto''s mathematical economics.

DKK 387.00
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Zofloya - Charlotte Dacre - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Zofloya - Charlotte Dacre - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

`Few venture as thou hast in the alarming paths of sin.'' This is the final judgement of Satan on Victoria di Loredani, the heroine of Zofloya, or The Moor (1806), a tale of lust, betrayal, and multiple murder set in Venice in the last days of the fifteenth century. The novel follows Victoria''s progress from spoilt daughter of indulgent aristocrats, through a period of abuse and captivity, to a career of deepening criminality conducted under Satan''s watchful eye. Charlotte Dacre''s narrative deftly displays her heroine''s movement from the vitalized position of Ann Radcliffe''s heroines to a fully conscious commitment to vice that goes beyond that of `Monk'' Lewis''s deluded Ambrosio. The novel''s most daring aspect is its anatomy of Victoria''s intense sexual attraction to her Moorish servant Zofloya that transgresses taboos both of class and race. A minor scandal on its first publication, and a significant influence on Byron and Shelley, Zofloya has been unduly neglected. Contradicting idealized stereotypes of women''s writing, the novel''s portrait of indulged desire, gratuitous cruelty, and monumental self-absorption retains considerable power to disturb. The introduction to this edition, the first for nearly 200 years, examines why Zofloya deserves to be read alongside established Gothic classics as the highly original work of an intriguing and unconventional writer. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World''s Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford''s commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

DKK 119.00
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