Author: Manuel Delanda
Publisher: Continuum
Keywords: social, complexity, theory, assemblage, philosophy, society, new
Number of Pages: 142
Published: 2006-11-14
List price: $23.95
ISBN-10: 0826491693
ISBN-13: 9780826491695

Manuel DeLanda is a distinguished writer, artist and philosopher. In his new book, he offers a fascinating look at how the contemporary world is characterized by an extraordinary social complexity. Since most social entitles, from small communities to large nation-states, would disappear altogether if human minds ceased to exist, Delanda proposes a novel approach to social ontology that asserts the autonomy of social entities from the conceptions we have of them. This highly original and important book takes the reader on a journey that starts with personal relations and climbs up one scale at

Authors:Manuel DeLanda, Anthony Vidler, Peter Noever, Lebbeus
Publisher: Hatje Cantz Publishers
Keywords: wien, system, woods, lebbeus
Number of Pages: 116
Published: 2006-02-01
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 3775716645
ISBN-13: 9783775716642

Description: ìSystem Wien is an experimental sketch of Viennaís first District, and shows how it might find a way to change, even radically...î New York architect Lebbeus Woods, founder of the Research Institute for Experimental Architecture (RIEA), is deeply involved in architectural theory and experimental work. Rather than approach individual building plans, he develops visionary projects that embrace science, philosophy, and art. His design process, a complex intellectual model also inspired by science-fiction icons, has influenced generations of architects. Woods sets his hypothetical

Authors:Frank Edward Manuel, Fritzie P. Manuel,
Publisher: American Philosophical Society
Keywords: american, philosophical, society, memoirs, philosophers, bowdoin, patriot, james
Number of Pages: 274
Published: 2003-05-01
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 0871692473
ISBN-13: 9780871692474

A history of the early years of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, & the life & career of James Bowdoin, the Academy’s first president. The strength of the work rests in a combination of its subject matter & execution. The subject matter is both intrinsically interesting & simultaneously neglected. Neither the accomplishments of Bowdoin nor the contributions of the members of the Academy have been adequately studied, & the Manuel’s careful exploration is a valuable addition to our understanding of the founding of the nation. Using primary manuscript so

Authors:Manuel Pea Muoz, Manuel Peena Muunoz,
Publisher: Editorial Universitaria
Keywords: sembrador, spanish, coleccion, infancia, para, alas
Number of Pages: 270
Published: 1996-04
List price: $12.90
ISBN-10: 9561111144
ISBN-13: 9789561111141

Authors:Frank E. Manuel, Fritzie P. Manuel,
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Keywords: belknap, press, world, western, thought, utopian
Number of Pages: 912
Published: 1979-10-31
List price: $83.00
ISBN-10: 0674931858
ISBN-13: 9780674931855

This masterly study has a grand sweep. It ranges over centuries, with a long look backward over several millennia. Yet the history it unfolds is primarily the story of individuals: thinkers and dreamers who envisaged an ideal social order and described it persuasively, leaving a mark on their own and later times. The roster of utopians includes men of all stripes in different countries and eras--figures as disparate as More and Fourier, the Marquis de Sade and Edward Bellamy, Rousseau and Marx. Fascinating character studies of the major figures are among the delights of the book. Utopi

Authors:José Maia Neves, Manuel Filipe Santos, José Manuel M
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: artificial, intelligence, amita, alea, baosw, notes, aiasts, lecture, workshops, portuguese, 13th, conference, epia, progress, gaiw
Number of Pages: 704
Published: 2008-01-16
List price: $119.00
ISBN-10: 3540770003
ISBN-13: 9783540770008

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, EPIA 2007, held in Guimarães, Portugal, in December 2007 as eleven integrated workshops. The 58 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 210 submissions. In accordance with the eleven constituting workshops, the papers are organized in topical sections on a broad range of subjects.

Authors:Baumbach, Manuel, Manuel Baumbach, Silvio Bar,
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Keywords: millennium, studien, studies, german, epic, sophistic, smyrnaeus, transforming, homer, second, quintus
Number of Pages: 501
Published: 2007-12-18
List price: $133.00
ISBN-10: 3110195771
ISBN-13: 9783110195774

The Events after Homer, described by Quintus Smyrnaeus in the third century AD in his Greek epic Posthomerica, are an attempt to bridge the gap between the Iliad and the Odyssey , and to combine the various scattered reports of the battle for Troy into a single tale: the fate of Achilles, Ajax, Paris and the Amazon Penthesileia, the intervention of Neoptolemos and the story from the Trojan horse to the destruction of the city. The volume presented here summarizes the results of the first international conference on Quintus Smyrnaeus.