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The complete hands-on sailing manual packed with detailed
step-by-step diagrams, lively action photos, and expert advice on
getting the most out of your sailing at whatever level. Whether you
are a dinghy or yacht sailor just learning the basics or wanting
tips on sailing with the best, this fully revised manual is the
book that will give you all the answers you are looking for. It's
all in here! -What type of dinghy or yacht? -Cruising and racing
-Launching, helming and capsizing -Mastering the trapeze -Sailing
with a spinnaker -Managing a crew -Reading the weather -Racing
techniques and tactics -Buoyage, tides, charts and navigation
-Anchoring and marina berthing -Knots, ropes and flags -Boat
etiquette and seamanship -Rules of the road, safety and emergencies
-Boat maintenance and repair and much more... This third edition
has been revised throughout and brought completely up-to-date,
including new techniques and developments in sailing, and new
approaches to navigation, communication and first aid. Reviews of
the earlier editions: ‘It's a beautifully designed book, with
glossy photos, diagrams and clear text, and a great read whether
you're just starting out or looking to improve your skills’ —
Practical Boat Owner ‘Lavishly illustrated, sharp photography ...
a first-class introductory text’ — Yachting Monthly
From Treasure Island to Robben Island, from the paradise of Thomas
More's 'Utopia' to Napoleon's purgatory on Elba, islands have
proved irresistible to mankind's imagination since time immemorial.
Self-confessed islomane Barry Smith explores how islands bewitch us
so, and examines the kind of human experiences that islands
inspire. Journeying all around the globe to take in the most
fascinating stories of Earth's half a million islands, this book
considers the unique geography, politics and economics of islands
and their cultures. It traces their singular place in literature,
religion and philosophy, and disentangles the myths and the facts
to reveal just why islands exert such an insistent grip on the
human psyche.
First published in 1986, this book presents a reissue of the first
detailed confrontation between the Austrian school of economics and
Austrian philosophy, especially the philosophy of the Brentano
school. It contains a study of the roots of Austrian economics in
the liberal political theory of the nineteenth-century Hapsburg
empire, and a study of the relations between the general theory of
value underlying Austrian economics and the new economic approach
to human behaviour propounded by Gary Becker and others in Chicago.
In addition, it considers the connections between Austrian
methodology and contemporary debates in the philosophy of the
social sciences.
Franz Brentano is recognised as one of the most important
philosophers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
This work, first published in English in 1988, besides being an
important contribution to metaphysics in its own right, has
considerable historical importance through its influence on
Husserl's views on internal time consciousness. The work is
preceded by a long introduction by Stephan K?rner in collaboration
with Brentano's literary executor.
The book's core argument is that an artificial intelligence that
could equal or exceed human intelligence-sometimes called
artificial general intelligence (AGI)-is for mathematical reasons
impossible. It offers two specific reasons for this claim: Human
intelligence is a capability of a complex dynamic system-the human
brain and central nervous system. Systems of this sort cannot be
modelled mathematically in a way that allows them to operate inside
a computer. In supporting their claim, the authors, Jobst Landgrebe
and Barry Smith, marshal evidence from mathematics, physics,
computer science, philosophy, linguistics, and biology, setting up
their book around three central questions: What are the essential
marks of human intelligence? What is it that researchers try to do
when they attempt to achieve "artificial intelligence" (AI)? And
why, after more than 50 years, are our most common interactions
with AI, for example with our bank's computers, still so
unsatisfactory? Landgrebe and Smith show how a widespread fear
about AI's potential to bring about radical changes in the nature
of human beings and in the human social order is founded on an
error. There is still, as they demonstrate in a final chapter, a
great deal that AI can achieve which will benefit humanity. But
these benefits will be achieved without the aid of systems that are
more powerful than humans, which are as impossible as AI systems
that are intrinsically "evil" or able to "will" a takeover of human
society.
Two extraordinary personalities, and one remarkable friendship, are
reflected in the unique corpus of letters from Anglo-Parsi
composer-critic Kaikhosru Sorabji (1892-1988) to Philip Heseltine
(Peter Warlock) (1894-1930): a fascinating primary source for the
period 1913-1922 available in a complete scholarly edition for the
first time. The volume also provides a new contextual, critical and
interpretative framework, incorporating a myriad of perspectives:
identities, social geographies, style construction, and mutual
interests and influences. Pertinent period documents, including
evidence of Heseltine's reactions, enhance the sense of narrative
and expand on aesthetic discussions. Through the letters'
entertaining and perceptive lens, Sorabji's early life and
compositions are vividly illuminated and Heseltine's own intriguing
life and work recontextualised. What emerges takes us beyond tropes
of otherness and eccentricity to reveal a persona and a narrative
with great relevance to modern-day debates on canonicity and
identity, especially the nexus of ethnicity, queer identities and
Western art music. Scholars, performers and admirers of early
twentieth-century music in Britain, and beyond, will find this a
valuable addition to the literature. The book will appeal to those
studying or interested in early musical modernism and its
reception; cultural life in London around and after the First World
War; music, nationality and race; Commonwealth studies; and music
and sexuality.
Two extraordinary personalities, and one remarkable friendship, are
reflected in the unique corpus of letters from Anglo-Parsi
composer-critic Kaikhosru Sorabji (1892-1988) to Philip Heseltine
(Peter Warlock) (1894-1930): a fascinating primary source for the
period 1913-1922 available in a complete scholarly edition for the
first time. The volume also provides a new contextual, critical and
interpretative framework, incorporating a myriad of perspectives:
identities, social geographies, style construction, and mutual
interests and influences. Pertinent period documents, including
evidence of Heseltine's reactions, enhance the sense of narrative
and expand on aesthetic discussions. Through the letters'
entertaining and perceptive lens, Sorabji's early life and
compositions are vividly illuminated and Heseltine's own intriguing
life and work recontextualised. What emerges takes us beyond tropes
of otherness and eccentricity to reveal a persona and a narrative
with great relevance to modern-day debates on canonicity and
identity, especially the nexus of ethnicity, queer identities and
Western art music. Scholars, performers and admirers of early
twentieth-century music in Britain, and beyond, will find this a
valuable addition to the literature. The book will appeal to those
studying or interested in early musical modernism and its
reception; cultural life in London around and after the First World
War; music, nationality and race; Commonwealth studies; and music
and sexuality.
First published in 1986, this book presents a reissue of the first
detailed confrontation between the Austrian school of economics and
Austrian philosophy, especially the philosophy of the Brentano
school. It contains a study of the roots of Austrian economics in
the liberal political theory of the nineteenth-century Hapsburg
empire, and a study of the relations between the general theory of
value underlying Austrian economics and the new economic approach
to human behaviour propounded by Gary Becker and others in Chicago.
In addition, it considers the connections between Austrian
methodology and contemporary debates in the philosophy of the
social sciences.
This contains the Red Sonja tales from Marvel Feature #1-7, the
tales from Red Sonja issues #1-15 and a collection of issues from
the original Marvel Comics series “The Savage Sword of Conan in
one large volume. Presented with fully re-mastered color pages and
featuring a cover by Frank Thorne.
This book reviews Operations Research theory, applications and
practice in seven major areas of airline planning and operations.
In each area, a team of academic and industry experts provides an
overview of the business and technical landscape, a view of current
best practices, a summary of open research questions and
suggestions for relevant future research. There are several common
themes in current airline Operations Research efforts. First is a
growing focus on the customer in terms of: 1) what they want; 2)
what they are willing to pay for services; and 3) how they are
impacted by planning, marketing and operational decisions. Second,
as algorithms improve and computing power increases, the scope of
modeling applications expands, often re-integrating processes that
had been broken into smaller parts in order to solve them in the
past. Finally, there is a growing awareness of the uncertainty in
many airline planning and operational processes and decisions.
Airlines now recognize the need to develop robust solutions that
effectively cover many possible outcomes, not just the best case,
blue sky scenario.
Individual chapters cover:
Customer Modeling methodologies, including current and emerging
applications.
Airline Planning and Schedule Development, with a look at many
remaining open research questions.
Revenue Management, including a view of current business and
technical landscapes, as well as suggested areas for future
research.
Airline Distribution -- a comprehensive overview of this newly
emerging area.
Crew Management Information Systems, including a review of
recent algorithmic advances, as well as the development of
information systems that facilitate the integration of crew
management modeling with airline planning and operations.
Airline Operations, with consideration of recent advances and
successes in solving the airline operations problem.
Air Traffic Flow Management, including the modeling environment and
opportunities for both Air Traffic Flow Management and the
airlines."
Ontology is the philosophical discipline which aims to understand
how things in the world are divided into categories and how these
categories are related together. This is exactly what information
scientists aim for in creating structured, automated
representations, called 'ontologies,' for managing information in
fields such as science, government, industry, and healthcare.
Currently, these systems are designed in a variety of different
ways, so they cannot share data with one another. They are often
idiosyncratically structured, accessible only to those who created
them, and unable to serve as inputs for automated reasoning. This
volume shows, in a non-technical way and using examples from
medicine and biology, how the rigorous application of theories and
insights from philosophical ontology can improve the ontologies
upon which information management depends.
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On Disgust (Paperback, New Ed)
Aurel Kolnai; Edited by Barry Smith, Carolyn Korsmeyer
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Kolnai made a breakthrough in the phenomenology of aversion when he
showed the "double intentionality" of emotions like fear, focusing
on both the object of fear and the subjects' concern for his own
well-being, this being one of the ways in which fear differs from
disgust. In a surprising yet persuasive move, Kolnai argues that
disgust is never related to inorganic or non-biological matter, and
that its arousal by moral objects has an underlying similarity with
its arousal by organic material: a particular combination of life
and death. Kolnai gives an analytic list of various kinds of
disgusting objects (which should not be read just before lunch) and
shows how disgust relates to the five senses.
When Franz Brentano introduced the concept of intentionality into
modern philosophy, he initiated a revolution in philosophical
thinking whose effects are still being felt - not least in
contemporary developments in the field of cognitive science. Barry
Smith's Austrian Philosophy: The Legacy of Franz Brentano is the
first extensive study of the philosophy of the Brentano school. The
Brentanian philosophy is oriented towards the problem of mental
directedness, of how mind relates to objects. Thus in working out
their 'theories of objects', the Brentanian philosophers - in
contrast to Frege and his successors in the analytic movement - did
not abandon psychological concerns in favor of an orientation
towards language. Rather, their investigations in ontology
proceeded always in tandem with work on the cognitive processes in
which objects are experienced. In thus spanning the gulf between
psychology and ontology, the Brentano school gave rise to movements
of thought such as phenomenology and Gestalt psychology (the term
'Gestalt' was introduced as a technical term of philosophy by
Brentano's student Ehrenfels). The Brentanists enjoyed close
relations with Carl Menger and other early members of the Austrian
school of economics and Austrian Philosophy contains a detailed
study of the interconnections between their work on the general
theory of value and subjective theories of value developed in the
economic sphere. Brentano's student Kasimir Twardowski initiated
the rich tradition of scientifically and logically oriented
philosophy in Poland, and the role of Brentanianism in Polish
philosophy, and especially in the development of Lesniewski's
mereology, is here for the first time subjectedto extended
historical treatment. Another Brentano student, Carl Stumpf, was
responsible for introducing into philosophy the technical term
'Sachverhalt' or 'state of affairs', and the associated doctrine of
realism in logic, too, is shown to have been a special preserve of
the Brentano movement on the continent of Europe. In setting out
the ways in which Brentanian philosophers crucially influenced the
development of scientific philosophy in Central Europe around the
turn of the century Barry Smith's ambitious new work provides a
detailed survey of developments in Austrian philosophy in its
classical period, from the 1870s to the Anschluss in 1938.
This book reviews Operations Research theory, applications and
practice in seven major areas of airline planning and operations.
In each area, a team of academic and industry experts provides an
overview of the business and technical landscape, a view of current
best practices, a summary of open research questions and
suggestions for relevant future research. There are several common
themes in current airline Operations Research efforts. First is a
growing focus on the customer in terms of: 1) what they want; 2)
what they are willing to pay for services; and 3) how they are
impacted by planning, marketing and operational decisions. Second,
as algorithms improve and computing power increases, the scope of
modeling applications expands, often re-integrating processes that
had been broken into smaller parts in order to solve them in the
past. Finally, there is a growing awareness of the uncertainty in
many airline planning and operational processes and decisions.
Airlines now recognize the need to develop 'robust' solutions that
effectively cover many possible outcomes, not just the best case,
"blue sky" scenario. Individual chapters cover: Customer Modeling
methodologies, including current and emerging applications. Airline
Planning and Schedule Development, with a look at many remaining
open research questions. Revenue Management, including a view of
current business and technical landscapes, as well as suggested
areas for future research. Airline Distribution -- a comprehensive
overview of this newly emerging area. Crew Management Information
Systems, including a review of recent algorithmic advances, as well
as the development of information systems that facilitate the
integration of crew management modeling with airline planning and
operations. Airline Operations, with consideration of recent
advances and successes in solving the airline operations problem.
Air Traffic Flow Management, including the modeling environment and
opportunities for both Air Traffic Flow Management and the
airlines.
Many current developments in American academic life -
multiculturalism, rhetoric and hermeneutics, and deconstruction -
have been inspired by the ideas of European philosophers such as
Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze and Lyotard. In Europe the influence of
these philosophers is restricted to a small coterie and their ideas
have contributed to none of the wide-ranging social and
institutional changes recently witnessed in some segments of
American academia. Contributions are included by specialists on
both sides of the doctrinal and ideological divide, so as to
present a serious confrontation between those who see the influence
of Derrida and others as benign or insignificant and those who
perceive it as corrosive in its effects on academic standards in
the US.
The book's core argument is that an artificial intelligence that
could equal or exceed human intelligence-sometimes called
artificial general intelligence (AGI)-is for mathematical reasons
impossible. It offers two specific reasons for this claim: Human
intelligence is a capability of a complex dynamic system-the human
brain and central nervous system. Systems of this sort cannot be
modelled mathematically in a way that allows them to operate inside
a computer. In supporting their claim, the authors, Jobst Landgrebe
and Barry Smith, marshal evidence from mathematics, physics,
computer science, philosophy, linguistics, and biology, setting up
their book around three central questions: What are the essential
marks of human intelligence? What is it that researchers try to do
when they attempt to achieve "artificial intelligence" (AI)? And
why, after more than 50 years, are our most common interactions
with AI, for example with our bank's computers, still so
unsatisfactory? Landgrebe and Smith show how a widespread fear
about AI's potential to bring about radical changes in the nature
of human beings and in the human social order is founded on an
error. There is still, as they demonstrate in a final chapter, a
great deal that AI can achieve which will benefit humanity. But
these benefits will be achieved without the aid of systems that are
more powerful than humans, which are as impossible as AI systems
that are intrinsically "evil" or able to "will" a takeover of human
society.
These letters cover all aspects of Warlock's music, and give a
vivid glimpse of the early 20th-century musical and artistic world.
The composer Philip Heseltine (1894-1930), better known by his
pseudonym 'Peter Warlock', is one of the most fascinating
characters in twentieth-century English music. Educated at Eton and
Oxford, yet musically largely self-taught, he is considered by many
to be one of the great English song-writers. But besides being a
composer, he was also an important pioneer editor of early music as
well as the author of a number of books and numerous articles for
newspapers and journals. His eccentric life-style, his outspoken
comments and writings about music, as well as the mysterious
circumstances surrounding his death, have all ensured that the
'Warlock legend' has not lost its fascinationover the years. During
his short life he was a prolific and highly articulate letter
writer and some thousand of his letters have survived. These the
Warlock scholar and authority Barry Smith has edited with copious
annotations and footnotes as well as generous background material.
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