wyszukanych pozycji: 40
Temperaments: Memoirs of Henri Cartier-Bresson and Other Artists
ISBN: 9781504008129 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In these five profiles, four of which originally appeared in the New Yorker, the author evokes the life and work of seven gifted artists. Among those presented, often through lively conversations, are Jean Helion, Mark Rothko, R.B. Kitaj, and Dennis Creffield. Chief among those portrayed however is Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004), the great French photographer and photojournalist who, famed for dodging contact with the press, is here sketched in rare and fond detail. Of all these artists, only two still live: what emerges from this book is a picture, often bizarre, often hilarious,...
In these five profiles, four of which originally appeared in the New Yorker, the author evokes the life and work of seven gifted artists. Among...
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48,85 zł |
Gödel, Escher, Bach
ISBN: 9788073632656 / Czeski / 2012 / 832 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Hlavním cílem této mimořádné knihy na pomezí metamatematiky, informatiky, filozofie a kognitivní psychologie je zkoumání, co jsou a odkud se berou základní atributy člověka - vědomí a inteligence. Je vystavěna na trojúhelníkovém půdorysu, jehož strany tvoří Bachovy fugy, Escherovy obrazy a dílo matematika Kurta Gödela. Tato zdánlivě nesouvisející témata mají totiž jednu společnou skrytou, o to však podstatnější vlastnost: jejich struktura je postavena na odkazu na sebe sama - takzvané autoreferenci. V knize se pravidelně střídá rigorózní výklad...
Hlavním cílem této mimořádné knihy na pomezí metamatematiky, informatiky, filozofie a kognitivní psychologie je zkoumání, co jsou a odkud se...
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185,81 zł |
Earth Moves: Galileo and the Roman Inquisition
ISBN: 9780393338201 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Galileo was then sixty-nine years old and the most venerated scientist in Italy. Although subscribing to an anti-literalist view of the Bible, as per Saint Augustine, Galileo considered himself a believing Catholic Playing to his own strengths--a deep knowledge of Italy, a longstanding interest in Renaissance and Baroque lore--Dan Hofstadter explains this apparent paradox and limns this historic moment in the widest cultural context, portraying Galileo as both humanist and scientist, deeply versed in philosophy and poetry, on easy terms with musicians, writers, and painters.
Galileo was then sixty-nine years old and the most venerated scientist in Italy. Although subscribing to an anti-literalist view of the Bible, as per ...
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89,43 zł |
The Love Affair as a Work of Art
ISBN: 9781504008136 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 298 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This series of entwined biographical sketches recounts how, in the Romantic Era, love affairs, often illicit, were transformed into novels, memoirs, and published correspondences. We make the intimate acquaintance of great writers like Mme de Stael, Chateaubriand, George Sand, and Anatole France, who, however, fall gradually under the suspicion of pursuing their amorous entanglements for "good material." The tale ends with a moving account, based on unpublished sources, of the strange, intense friendship of Marcel Proust and Jeanne Pouquet, the girl who became the model for Gilberte in...
This series of entwined biographical sketches recounts how, in the Romantic Era, love affairs, often illicit, were transformed into novels, memoirs, a...
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56,99 zł |
Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
ISBN: 9780465026562 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 824 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Douglas Hofstadter's book is concerned directly with the nature of "maps" or links between formal systems. However, according to Hofstadter, the formal system that underlies all mental activity transcends the system that supports it. If life can grow out of the formal chemical substrate of the cell, if consciousness can emerge out of a formal system of firing neurons, then so too will computers attain human intelligence. Godel, Escher, Bach is a wonderful exploration of fascinating ideas at the heart of cognitive science: meaning, reduction, recursion, and much more.
Douglas Hofstadter's book is concerned directly with the nature of "maps" or links between formal systems. However, according to Hofstadter, the forma...
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101,79 zł |
Alte Waren neu entdeckt
ISBN: 9783838152370 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2016 / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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467,65 zł |
THE FOREIGN CONSULS AMONG US expanded edition
ISBN: 9780988216914 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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157,13 zł |
The Idea of a Party System: The Rise of Legitimate Opposition in the United States, 1780-1840volume 2
ISBN: 9780520017542 / Angielski / Miękka / 1970 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This work traces the historical processes in thought by which American political leaders slowly edged away from their complete philosophical rejection of a party and hesitantly began to embrace a party system. In the author's words, "The emergence of legitimate party opposition and of a theory of politics that accepted it was something new in the history of the world; it required a bold new act of understanding on the part of its contemporaries and it still requires study on our part." Professor Hofstadter's analysis of the idea of party and the development of legitimate opposition offers...
This work traces the historical processes in thought by which American political leaders slowly edged away from their complete philosophical rejection...
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188,53 zł |
Leute die vom Müll leben
ISBN: 9783838136103 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2013 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Die Mullproblematik ist ein topaktuelles Thema unserer Zeit. Das tagliche Entsorgen des Abfalls pragt nicht nur unser Verhalten, sondern auch unser Bewusstsein und soll in diesem Buch als Tatigkeit des Alltags sowie als Phanomen, von welchem andere Leute leben, gesehen werden. Die Menge an weggeworfenen Lebensmittel verblufft und schockiert in vielerlei Hinsicht. Vor allem bekennende Bewegungen, wie jene der Freeganer, tolerieren diese Situation nicht. Aus Protest und moralischen Aspekten leben sie von dem, was sie im Abfall finden und aus Mulltonnen entwenden. Desweiteren leben viele...
Die Mullproblematik ist ein topaktuelles Thema unserer Zeit. Das tagliche Entsorgen des Abfalls pragt nicht nur unser Verhalten, sondern auch unser Be...
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443,01 zł |
Development and Scope of Higher Education in the United States: A Staff Study for the Commission on Financing Higher Education
ISBN: 9780231019569 / Angielski / Twarda / 1952 / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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605,18 zł |
Philosophies of Art and Beauty: Selected Readings in Aesthetics from Plato to Heidegger
ISBN: 9780226348124 / Angielski / Miękka / 1976 / 728 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. This anthology is remarkable not only for the selections themselves, among which the Schelling and the Heidegger essays were translated especially for this volume, but also for the editors' general introduction and the introductory essays for each selection, which make this volume an invaluable aid to the study of the powerful, recurrent ideas concerning art, beauty, critical method, and the nature of representation. Because this collection makes clear the ways in which the philosophy of art relates to and is part of general philosophical positions, it will be an essential sourcebook to...
This anthology is remarkable not only for the selections themselves, among which the Schelling and the Heidegger essays were translated especially for...
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138,14 zł |
Social Darwinism in American Thought, 1860-1915
ISBN: 9781512812350 / Angielski / Twarda / 1944 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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429,03 zł |
Gödel, Escher, Bach - ein Endloses Geflochtenes Band : Ausgezeichnet mit dem Pulitzerpreis und dem American Book Award, Kategorie Science Hardback 1980
ISBN: 9783608949063 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2017 / 844 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Schon die Verknüpfung von Bachschen Kompositionen, den Bildern Eschers und dem berüchtigten Unvollständigkeitssatz des österreichischen Mathematikers Kurt Gödel, dessen 100. Geburtstag am 28. April 2006 gefeiert wird, ist ungewöhnlich genug. Treten dann auch noch Achilles und eine Schildkröte auf den Plan, via Lewis Carroll einer alten griechischen Paradoxie entlehnt ..., dann wissen wir, dass wir ein rätselhaftes Jahrhundertbuch in Händen halten, das sich letztlich um eine Frage dreht, die sich in Hunderte verzweigt: Wie können selbstbewußte beseelte Wesen aus einer unbewußten,...
Schon die Verknüpfung von Bachschen Kompositionen, den Bildern Eschers und dem berüchtigten Unvollständigkeitssatz des österreichischen Mathematik...
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113,14 zł |
I Am a Strange Loop
ISBN: 9780465030798 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 436 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Can thought arise out of matter? Can self, soul, consciousness, "I" arise out of mere matter? If it cannot, then how can you or I be here?
I Am a Strange Loop argues that the key to understanding selves and consciousness is the "strange loop"--a special kind of abstract feedback loop inhabiting our brains. The most central and complex symbol in your brain is the one called "I." The "I" is the nexus in our brain, one of many symbols seeming to have free will and to have gained the paradoxical ability to push particles around, rather than the reverse. How can a mysterious abstraction... Can thought arise out of matter? Can self, soul, consciousness, "I" arise out of mere matter? If it cannot, then how can you or I be here?
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89,59 zł |
The Miracle Garden: Selected Poems of Marc Elihu Hofstadter
ISBN: 9798475264973 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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55,57 zł |
Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern
ISBN: 9780465045662 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 880 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Hofstadters collection of quirky essays is unified by its primary concern: to examine the way people perceive and think..
Hofstadters collection of quirky essays is unified by its primary concern: to examine the way people perceive and think..
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148,76 zł |
Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies
ISBN: 9780465024759 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Since 1977, Hofstadter, the author of Godel, Escher, Bach, and his students have been developing computer models of discovery, creation, and analogical thought. What has emerged is a sophisticated and unorthodox vision of the mind in which perception, at an abstract level, is the key: perception of situations, of patterns, of patterns among patterns. This book conveys this bold vision to a broad public. Illustrations.
Since 1977, Hofstadter, the author of Godel, Escher, Bach, and his students have been developing computer models of discovery, creation, and analogica...
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105,88 zł |
Great Issues in American History, Vol. II: From the Revolution to the Civil War, 1765-1865
ISBN: 9780394705415 / Angielski / Miękka / 1969 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Volume II gathers documents from the period of the Revolution through the Jacksonian era, up to the Civil War and the Emancipation. To fit both Colonial and Early National courses, documents covering 1765-1776 appear at the beginning of this volume and at the end of Volume I.
Volume II gathers documents from the period of the Revolution through the Jacksonian era, up to the Civil War and the Emancipation. To fit both Coloni...
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60,91 zł |
Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking
ISBN: 9780465018475 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 592 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Analogy is the core of all thinking. This is the simple but unorthodox premise that Pulitzer Prize-winning author Douglas Hofstadter and French psychologist Emmanuel Sander defend in their new work. Hofstadter has been grappling with the mysteries of human thought for over thirty years. Now, with his trademark wit and special talent for making complex ideas vivid, he has partnered with Sander to put forth a highly novel perspective on cognition. We are constantly faced with a swirling and intermingling multitude of ill-defined situations. Our brain's job is to try to...
Analogy is the core of all thinking. This is the simple but unorthodox premise that Pulitzer Prize-winning author Douglas Hofstadter...
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142,59 zł |