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Godzilla (DVD)
Bryan Cranston, Ken Watanabe, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Sally Hawkins, Elizabeth Olsen, …
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R30
Discovery Miles 300
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Bryan Cranston, Ken Watanabe, Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Sally
Hawkins star in this reimagining of the 1954
Japanese film about the destruction caused by a giant monster.
When
a devastating event is covered up as a natural disaster, nuclear
physicist Joe Brody realises something much more sinister is to blame. Scientists Dr. Ichiro Serizawa and Dr. Vivienne Graham reveal that in 1954 a powerful monster was awakened and though 'nuclear tests' were carried out in the Pacific Ocean to destroy it, the creature has now returned.
With the US Armed Forces, including Joe's son Navy Lieutenant Ford Brody, called into action, humanity fights for its survival.
The Oxford Handbook of the Economics of Networks represents the
frontier of research into how and why networks form, how they
influence behavior, how they help govern outcomes in an interactive
world, and how they shape collective decision making, opinion
formation, and diffusion dynamics. From a methodological
perspective, the contributors to this volume devote attention to
theory, field experiments, laboratory experiments, and
econometrics. Theoretical work in network formation, games played
on networks, repeated games, and the interaction between linking
and behavior is synthesized. A number of chapters are devoted to
studying social process mediated by networks. Topics here include
opinion formation, diffusion of information and disease, and
learning. There are also chapters devoted to financial contagion
and systemic risk, motivated in part by the recent financial
crises. Another section discusses communities, with applications
including social trust, favor exchange, and social collateral; the
importance of communities for migration patterns; and the role that
networks and communities play in the labor market. A prominent role
of networks, from an economic perspective, is that they mediate
trade. Several chapters cover bilateral trade in networks,
strategic intermediation, and the role of networks in international
trade. Contributions discuss as well the role of networks for
organizations. On the one hand, one chapter discusses the role of
networks for the performance of organizations, while two other
chapters discuss managing networks of consumers and pricing in the
presence of network-based spillovers. Finally, the authors discuss
the internet as a network with attention to the issue of net
neutrality.
This edition of G. E. Moore's notes taken at Wittgenstein's seminal
Cambridge lectures in the early 1930s provides, for the first time,
an almost verbatim record of those classes. The presentation of the
notes is both accessible and faithful to their original
manuscripts, and a comprehensive introduction and synoptic table of
contents provide the reader with essential contextual information
and summaries of the topics in each lecture. The lectures form an
excellent introduction to Wittgenstein's middle-period thought,
covering a broad range of philosophical topics, ranging from core
questions in the philosophy of language, mind, logic, and
mathematics, to illuminating discussions of subjects on which
Wittgenstein says very little elsewhere, including ethics,
religion, aesthetics, psychoanalysis, and anthropology. The volume
also includes a 1932 essay by Moore critiquing Wittgenstein's
conception of grammar, together with Wittgenstein's response. A
companion website offers access to images of the entire set of
source manuscripts.
This edition of G. E. Moore's notes taken at Wittgenstein's seminal
Cambridge lectures in the early 1930s provides, for the first time,
an almost verbatim record of those classes. The presentation of the
notes is both accessible and faithful to their original
manuscripts, and a comprehensive introduction and synoptic table of
contents provide the reader with essential contextual information
and summaries of the topics in each lecture. The lectures form an
excellent introduction to Wittgenstein's middle-period thought,
covering a broad range of philosophical topics, ranging from core
questions in the philosophy of language, mind, logic, and
mathematics, to illuminating discussions of subjects on which
Wittgenstein says very little elsewhere, including ethics,
religion, aesthetics, psychoanalysis, and anthropology. The volume
also includes a 1932 essay by Moore critiquing Wittgenstein's
conception of grammar, together with Wittgenstein's response. A
companion website offers access to images of the entire set of
source manuscripts.
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Phenomenology and the Arts (Paperback)
A. Licia Carlson, Peter Costello; Contributions by John Russon, Galen A. Johnson, John Lysaker, …
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R1,792
Discovery Miles 17 920
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Phenomenology and the Arts develops the interplay between
phenomenology as a historical movement and a descriptive method
within Continental philosophy and the arts. Divided into five
themes, the book explores first how the phenomenological method
itself is a kind of artistic endeavor that mirrors what it
approaches when it turns to describe paintings, dramas, literature,
and music. From there, the book turns to an analysis and commentary
on specific works of art within the visual arts, literature, music,
and sculpture. Contributors analyze important historical figures in
phenomenology-Kant, Hegel, Husserl, Heidegger, and Merleau-Ponty.
But there is also a good deal of work on art itself-Warhol, Klee,
jazz, and contemporary and renaissance artists and artworks. Edited
by Peter R. Costello and Licia Carlson, this book will be of
interest to students in philosophy, the arts, and the humanities in
general, and scholars of phenomenology will notice incredibly rich,
groundbreaking research that helps to resituate canonical figures
in phenomenology with respect to what their works can be used to
describe.
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Phenomenology and the Arts (Hardcover)
A. Licia Carlson, Peter Costello; Contributions by John Russon, Galen A. Johnson, John Lysaker, …
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R4,003
Discovery Miles 40 030
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Phenomenology and the Arts develops the interplay between
phenomenology as a historical movement and a descriptive method
within Continental philosophy and the arts. Divided into five
themes, the book explores first how the phenomenological method
itself is a kind of artistic endeavor that mirrors what it
approaches when it turns to describe paintings, dramas, literature,
and music. From there, the book turns to an analysis and commentary
on specific works of art within the visual arts, literature, music,
and sculpture. Contributors analyze important historical figures in
phenomenology-Kant, Hegel, Husserl, Heidegger, and Merleau-Ponty.
But there is also a good deal of work on art itself-Warhol, Klee,
jazz, and contemporary and renaissance artists and artworks. Edited
by Peter R. Costello and Licia Carlson, this book will be of
interest to students in philosophy, the arts, and the humanities in
general, and scholars of phenomenology will notice incredibly rich,
groundbreaking research that helps to resituate canonical figures
in phenomenology with respect to what their works can be used to
describe.
This book, just for kids, looks at 10 different careers:
Firefighter, Navy Seal, Astronaut, Police Officer, Veterinarian,
Pilot, Lawyer, Actor, Doctor, and a Teacher. The book looks at how
much they make, what education is involved, what the future holds,
and more Each topic may also be purchased as an individual book.
A career as a Police Officer is an exciting one But do you really
know what it takes to become one? This book takes you inside the
career and shows you the day and the life of a Police Officer.
Inside you'll learn what they do, what training is required, what
the future holds, and how you can become one
A career as a Teacher is an exciting one But do you really know
what it takes to become one? This book takes you inside the career
and shows you the day and the life of a Teacher. Inside you'll
learn what they do, what training is required, what the future
holds, and how you can become one
A career as a Pilot is an exciting one But do you really know what
it takes to become one? This book takes you inside the career and
shows you the day and the life of a Pilot. Inside you'll learn what
they do, what training is required, what the future holds, and how
you can become one
A career as an Actor is an exciting one But do you really know what
it takes to become one? This book takes you inside the career and
shows you the day and the life of a Actor. Inside you'll learn what
they do, what training is required, what the future holds, and how
you can become one
A career as a Doctor is an exciting one But do you really know what
it takes to become one? This book takes you inside the career and
shows you the day and the life of a Doctor. Inside you'll learn
what they do, what training is required, what the future holds, and
how you can become one
A career as a firefighter is an exciting one But do you really know
what it takes to become one? This book takes you inside the career
and shows you the day and the life of a firefighter. Inside you'll
learn what they do, what training is required, what the future
holds, and how you can become one
A career as a firefighter is an exciting one But do you really know
what it takes to become one? This book takes you inside the career
and shows you the day and the life of a firefighter. Inside you'll
learn what they do, what training is required, what the future
holds, and how you can become one
A career as a Astronaut is an exciting one But do you really know
what it takes to become one? This book takes you inside the career
and shows you the day and the life of a Astronaut. Inside you'll
learn what they do, what training is required, what the future
holds, and how you can become one
A career as a lawyer is an exciting one But do you really know what
it takes to become one? This book takes you inside the career and
shows you the day and the life of a lawyer. Inside you'll learn
what they do, what training is required, what the future holds, and
how you can become one
Perception is one of the oldest and most deeply investigated topics
in the field of psychology, and it is also raises some profound
philosophical questions. It is concerned with how we use the
information reaching our senses to guide and control our behaviour
as well as to create our particular, subjective experiences of the
surrounding world. In this Very Short Introduction, Brian J. Rogers
discusses the philosophical question of what it means to perceive,
as well as describing how we are able to perceive the particular
characteristics of objects and scenes such as their lightness,
colour, form, depth, and motion. What we perceive, however, does
not always correspond to what exists in the world and, as Rogers
shows, the study of illusions can be useful in telling us something
about the nature and limitations of our perceptual processes.
Rogers also explores perception from an evolutionary perspective,
explaining how evolutionary pressures have shaped the perceptual
systems of humans and other animals. He shows that perception is
not necessarily a separate and independent process but rather part
of a 'perceptual system', involving both the extraction of
perceptual information and the control of action. Rogers goes on to
cover the significant progress made recently in the understanding
of perception through the use of precise and controlled
psychophysical methods, single cell recordings, and imaging
techniques. There have also been many insights from attempts to
model perceptual processes in artificial systems. As Rogers shows,
these attempts have revealed how difficult it is to programme
machines to perform even the most simple of perceptual tasks that
we take for granted. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions
series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in
almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect
way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors
combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to
make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
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