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Dynamical Systems, Graphs, and Algorithms (Lecture Notes in Mathematics)
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The modern theory and practice of dynamical systems requires the study of structures that fall outside the scope of traditional subjects of mathematical analysis. An important tool to investigate such complicated phenomena as chaos and strange attractors is the method of symbolic dynamics. This book describes a family of the algorithms to study global structure of systems.
By a finite covering of the phase space we construct a directed graph (symbolic image) with vertices corresponding to cells of the covering and edges corresponding to admissible transitions.
The method is used to localize the periodic orbits and the chain recurrent set, to construct the attractors and their basins, to estimate the entropy, Lyapunov exponents and the Morse spectrum, to verify the hyperbolicity and the structural stability.
Considerable information can be obtained thus, and more techniques may be discovered in future research.
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Are we more than the sum of our parts? Perhaps, but it's fascinating nonetheless to look at our noses, ears, feet, and other bits as isolated evolutionary stories. That's just what Michael Sims does in Adam's Navel, an amusing collection of bodily facts. Sims wrote the book while laid out recovering from back surgery, jotting free association musings about whatever body part he had in mind. The result is a set of chapters with such titles as "Skin Deep," "The Not-Quite-Naked Ape," and "Our Steed the Leg." Besides anatomy and evolution, Sims turns to literature, movies, comics, and pop culture to glean references. He doesn't have patience for puritanical or non-egalitarian attitudes toward body parts, defending Eve Ensler's Vagina Monologues against a "conspiracy of silence" and dismissing Camille Paglia's "nonsensical argument" that male urination is superior to that of females. But Sims doesn't let things get too serious:
The cleft where the buttocks begin to form into two hemispheres--the butt crack famously exhibited by fat plumbers who drop wrenches--was once called the nock. The word survives elsewhere, as the name of an arrow's notch to accommodate the bowstring.
As engaging as it is fact-filled, Adam's Navel brings together delightful anatomical trivia with abundant evidence that we pay as much attention to breasts, fingers, and patches of hair as we do to whole people. --Therese Littleton
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A witty and informed survey, Adam's Navel is a unique brew of science, history, and storytelling that illuminates our perception, exploitation, and celebration of the human body.
Moving from head to toe in twelve chapters, Michael Sims blends cultural history with evolutionary theory to produce a wonderfully original narrative. "No part of the body lacks a story," writes Sims, who analyzes and demystifies the visible parts of the body that make up the whole-our animal form that is also a screen onto which we project our fears and obsessions. He tells of dreadlocks and Achilles' heel, of fingerprints and penis size. He discusses the history of breastfeeding, the allure of navel rings, ancient rules for shaking hands, why nature builds men and women on a female body plan, and how the evolution of our two-legged stance affects childbirth and back pain.
Drawing on evolution and the mechanics of human anatomy, along with Shakespeare, mythology, film, and popular culture, Sims creates a marvelous new lens through which to view this body that we inhabit almost unconsciously. Adam's Navel is a field guide to the landscape of ourselves.
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Just sticks to the facts........2007-05-09
I found this book quite hard to enjoy because of the author's political and religious insults. If he could have just written about the body parts and not fill the pages with his own personal biases it would have been a much better read.
Body Politics.......2006-11-24
A very readable book. Our bodies are our most important point of reference for the rest of the observable universe of course, and also a source of much myth and creative analogy. Michael Sims has explored all this in a very engaging style. It is very well researched and well written. Imagine my surprise to find a reference to one of Ataturk's speeches where he likens a nation to a human body. In any case, well worth it.
navelgazers look here.......2005-10-14
After reading the first few paragraphs of Michael Sims' "Adam's Navel," I was delighted by the tone and style, which immediately reminded me of many of Diane Ackerman's books, e.g., "A Natural History of the Senses." Sims intelligently and cleverly describes the written and unwritten histories of external body parts (leaving the internals, speculatively, for another text). From head to toe, Sims provides biological, cultural, and psychological tales about the body that makes one step back, rethink, and even delight in the body as a functional yet artistic form.
Body Beautiful.......2005-06-28
Right down to the Julian Opie image on the front (certain versions), I thought this book delivered totally.
There are some amazing facts here, interwoven with modern relevance and an engaging writing style.It's pop-science but that's fine by me.
Well done
The External Human Body Examined.......2004-11-06
Like other Americans my age, I grew up in a time when certain body parts were rarely discussed, and if they were there were made up euphemisms to cover their basic ugliness. The actions of such body parts were also taboo. In fact nobody ever went to the bathroom or shared a bed on early television, even if married! As a child I wondered if such grand people as the President of the United States actually used the bathroom at all except to bathe! The toilet was a little mentioned, though necessary fixture.
Times have changed (some would say for the worst!) and I, for one, find it refreshing to have the WHOLE BODY examined in "Adam's Navel: A Natural and Cultural History of the Human Form," by Michael Sims. While numerous books have appeared on this and related subjects in recent years, Sims has contributed by given us a solid popular overview. His accounts of the biology and lore of the hair, head, face, eyes, nose, lips, ears, arms, hands, breasts, navels, genitalia, and legs make fascinating reading.
Certainly, despite the more open climate, prudery has not left us. We still live in times when an Attorney General is afraid to appear in the same photograph as a statue of Justice with a naked breast! This incident led to numerous jokes and did little to improve the image of the office!
If you are interested in the external human body (probably most everybody as we are "owners" and "operators" of the same) you will find numerous anecdotes, facts and fables relating to our intimate selves.
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This volume provides a unique and unprecedented forum for debate between the different African cinematic communities (including North African filmmakers). Views are exchanged on topics ranging from the problems of production, exhibition, and distribution to questions of "modernity," postcolonial theory, and the (arguably increasing) presence of western cultural imperialism.
The papers and the responses to the papers edited by critic and programmer June Givanni are presented in full and Imruh Bakari's introduction places the material in the context of previous and subsequent debate.
Contributors: Manthia Diawara, Teshome Gabriel, Clyde Taylor, John Badenhorst, Ferid Boughedir, Gaston Kabore, Tafatoana Mahoso.
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Symbolic Projection for Image Information Retrieval and Spatial Reasoning: Theory, Applications and Systems for Image Information Retrieval and Spatial ... (Signal Processing and its Applications)
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Information systems with an abundance of graphics data are growing rapidly due to advances in data storage technology, the development of multimedia communications across networks, and the fact that parallel computers are leading to faster image processing systems.
This book addresses image information retrieval and spatial reasoning using an approach called Symbolic Projection, which supports descriptions of the image content on the basis of the spatial relationships between the pictorial objects. Image information systems have a wide variety of applications, including information retrieval on the World Wide Web, medical pictorial archiving, computer-aided design, robotics, and geographical information systems, and this book is comprehensively illustrated with examples from these areas.
Symbolic Projection now forms the basis of an enormous number and range of information retrieval algorithms, and also supports query-by-picture and qualitative spatial reasoning. Both authors are international experts in the field, and the book will serve as an excellent source for those working in multimedia systems and image information systems who wish to find out more about this exciting area.
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* An all-inclusive source to the field--all you need to know
* S-K. Chang is the leading authority in this field, which he pioneered
* Includes a wide variety of applications, including information retrieval on the World Wide Web, computer-aided design, and geographical information systems
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Mathematical Reasoning: Analogies, Metaphors, and Images (Studies in Mathematical Thinking and Learning)
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The Language of Mathematics: Making the Invisible Visible
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Presents the latest research on how reasoning with analogies, metaphors, metonymies, and images can facilitate mathematical understanding. For math education, educational psychology, and cognitive science scholars.
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Body in the Text (Interpretations series)
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That seemingly 'natural' object, the human body, has become in the late twentieth century - an age characterised by the development of such phenomena as genetic engineering, information technologies and cyborg fantasies - an object of interdisciplinary enquiry and politically committed critiques, to which this book offers a critical introduction. It surveys the recent wealth of writing on 'the body' as an object of interdisciplinary enquiry.
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Tongue First: Adventures in Physical Culture
Emily Jenkins
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Emily Jenkins isn't ashamed of her insecurities, but she isn't throwing away her preconceptions, either. Tongue First can be reassuring to anyone who has felt embarrassed about disrobing in public or wonders about being more adventurous, as Jenkins unleashes her wit on topics from sensory deprivation to tattoos to afternoon naps. All sorts of things get tasted in this book: scary things, exciting things, fun things, banal things. Somehow, Jenkins portrays them as all OK--or, at least, just as OK as anything else.
This catalog of emotions and experiences categorizes body decoration as celebration, explores what people do to control rebellious bodies (or to flout the convention that says they should), shows how getting a tattoo isn't all that different from the search for the perfect shade of red lipstick, and gives us a good look at the inside of Jenkins's head (and, in the chapter in which she shaves it, the outside as well). Her catty wit can sometimes occlude her message; when she slams an outré practice, then demonstrates that it's just like what ordinary people do, the reader may well ask if Jenkins is kidding or making social commentary, particularly since her criticisms rarely get more judgmental than a resounding "not for me, thanks." --Cheryl Trooskin
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A smart, humorous exploration of bodily thrills and paranoia from aerobics to acupuncture, strip shows to sensory deprivation.
Your perception of your body will change when you read this book. You will be pulling on your boxer shorts or your black lace bra, and suddenly consider why you decorate yourself the way you do. You will shake up your martini, kiss your beloved, read a dirty magazine, go for a jog, and think about what your bodily behavior says about your soul. And what it is doing to your soul. You will notice the defenses you erect for yourself. Perhaps a tube of lipstick. Perhaps an addiction.
Testing the boundaries between fear and temptation, Emily Jenkins takes us on a journey from ordinary physical experiences (going to the dentist, putting on stockings) to extreme ones (snorting heroin, shaving her head). She interviews people whose bodies are radically different from hers and enters communities where people share unusual ideas about physicality. Sometimes you will recognize your own habits. Other times you'll be shocked or repulsed. Always you will find yourself questioning the ordinary things you do, rethinking your relationship to your body.
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Been there done that.......2002-05-31
It started off okay. Heroine never did that. I couldn't wait to see what else she was going to try. Much to my dismay I had done most everything she described. I am only 27 years old. I feel so bad for her if the experiences she talks about are really major tests or adventures. I can tell you that she really wasn't taking any chances here. I thought maybe there would be more experimental behaviors rather than tested and true life experiences that most of us have. Don't buy it and don't read it. And for goodness sakes if you liked this book please get out of that chair and experience life!!!
An inspired taste of things I'd rather not eat.......1999-08-18
In spirited, refreshing prose, this book allowed me to venture into and vicariously experience much of the current bodily culture scene. In places, Jenkins' astute sensitivity is touching and disturbing. I closed the last page bigger in awareness than when I opened the first.
Mediocre.......1999-06-22
No insights to be gleaned here
disappointed, disappointed, disappointed!.......1999-01-13
I thought this book was going to be eye-opening to things that I knew I would never try. Instead the author spent more time discussing (or boring us with) her opinion on the subject matters then actual time being involved in the events. If I had known that it was a book of opinions I would have never purchased it. Everyone has an opinion on these subjects, we wanted to know what it was like to experience them.
Thought-provoking, vivid, engaging........1998-10-06
I loved this book. First off, Jenkins writes wonderfully--her descriptions of her own and others' experiences of bodily culture, from taking heroin to choosing a lipstick, vividly (and often hilariously) take the reader there. Second, the book is thought provoking. Without ever becoming didactic, Jenkins reliably offers insights every few pages that stop the reader short. Jenkins richly engages us in pondering the meaning (cultural and personal) of the thousands of choices we each make about our body.
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Body in Human Inquiry: Interdisciplinary Explorations of Embodiment (Critical Bodies)
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Photo Idea Index
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Idea Index: Graphic Effects and Typographic Treatments
ASIN: 158180766X |
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From Jim Krause comes the fifth book in the popular Index series: Photo Idea Index. This innovative guide:
-Provides designers with the information they need to take creative photographs, explore different digital manipulations, and use them in real-world design applications
-Shares the basics of technical information, then provides a wealth of inspiration, making this both a "what if" book and a "how to" book
-Explores low-cost and do-it-yourself ways to create unusual effects
-Speaks to designers' desires to use their own photos rather than costly stock photography
Full of out-of-the-ordinary ideas, this guide offers the trademark mix of inspiration and instruction that have made the previous books in the series a creative success.
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great idea book.......2007-08-06
Great book for inspiring ideas. Love the "field guide" layout. Makes for quick reference. A must for every amateur photographer's library.
New level of photography.......2007-06-09
When you have reached, or think that you have reached what you feel is the zenith of your photographic skills, read this book and discover a whole new world of seeing and painting with light.
Really, I would give it 4 1/2, but no option for that..........2007-04-22
This is such a FUN book! While it is not specifically geared to the scrapbooker (more to designers), I still found it highly inspirational. I have been scrapping for about five years now with my main subject having always been my daughter. While there is absolutely nothing wrong with that (she will always be my 'main' focus, I'm sure), I have found myself wanting to scrap more of the 'everyday' as a way to record our lives for future generations to (hoepfully) enjoy. With that comes photographing our environment and the items/objects within it. This book offers some great ideas and inspiration and I LOVE the fact that the author is careful to include that most of the pictures in the book can be (and were) taken with a non-SLR camera...this is important to me because I don't have one and probably won't be able to afford one anytime soon. It's nice to see examples of great pictures taken by a point-and-shoot.
Get Your Creative Juices Flowing!.......2007-03-19
New to digital photography? Returning to photography after a long hiatus? This book offers both tips and wonderful ideas for taking pictures and improving your skills. Digital cameras offer the opportunity for the photographer to experiment without having to get prints/slides developed. Because of this, you have to learn that you are allowed to take hundreds of shots just to play and experiment.
Mr. Krause's book shows you simple ways to find subjects that you never knew existed. Since buying his book, less that 2 months ago, I have used it to take over 2,000 photos. I now understand some things about shots that can only be learned by doing and Mr. Krause really encourages you to do!
Great What If book!!.......2007-03-11
I've only given this book 4 stars because I haven't yet finished it (got it in the mail yesterday, already half way trough) so I'll leave room for a final star.
I can't stress enough the fact that this book is fuel for creativity on almost any level. I've been a photographer for quite a long time now and while most things said in the book are things you can pick up after a while, the way ideas are presented is very inspiring.
Gorgeous edition, I have Idea Index and this edition is better by far (early editions to crack cus they were glued). Plastic cover with a window to interior pictures.
A must have!
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Photo Idea Index
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