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The Critical Ihde
Don Ihde; Edited by Robert Rosenberger; Introduction by Robert Rosenberger
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The Critical Ihde (Hardcover)
Don Ihde; Edited by Robert Rosenberger; Introduction by Robert Rosenberger
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"A new edition of Dennis Rosenthal's Consumer Credit Law and
Practice - A Guide is always an event to be welcomed by the busy
practitioner" Roy Goode, Foreword to 5th Edition Covers all aspects
of the laws of consumer credit, covering consumer credit and
consumer hire, contract terms, credit products, security
instruments, procedures, practical problems and regulatory
controls. Written in a clear and penetrating style, the sixth
edition has been extensively updated and rewritten to take account
of all relevant case law, legislation and developments and includes
new content on: - the senior managers ‘regime - promotions -
Consumer Duty and the overlay with TCF (treating customers fairly)
It assists in navigating the complex web of legislation,
regulation, rules and guidance governing this area of law. It is
essential reading for: banking and commercial law practitioners;
in-house lawyers; companies operating in consumer credit related
industries, including banks and building societies, credit card
companies, finance and leasing companies; compliance personnel; and
consumer advisers.
How should we understand the experience of encountering and
interpreting images? What are their roles in science and medicine?
How do they shape everyday life? Postphenomenology and Imaging: How
to Read Technology brings together scholars from multiple
disciplines to investigate these questions. The contributors make
use of the "postphenomenological" philosophical perspective,
applying its distinctive ideas to the study of how images are
experienced. These essays offer both philosophical analysis of our
conception of images and empirical studies of imaging practice. The
contributors analyze concrete examples from a variety of fields of
science and medicine, including radiology, neuroscience, cytology,
physics, remote sensing, and space science. They also include
examples of imaging in everyday life, from smartphone apps to
animated GIFs. Edited by Samantha J. Fried and Robert Rosenberger,
this collection includes an extensive "primer" chapter introducing
and expanding the postphenomenological account of imaging, as well
as a set of short pieces by "critical respondents": prominent
scholars who may not self-identify as doing postphenomenology but
whose adjacent work is illuminating.
This book covers technologies, applications, tools, languages,
procedures, advantages, and disadvantages of reconfigurable
supercomputing using Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs). The
target audience is the community of users of High Performance
Computers (HPC) who may benefit from porting their applications
into a reconfigurable environment. As such, this book is intended
to guide the HPC user through the many algorithmic considerations,
hardware alternatives, usability issues, programming languages, and
design tools that need to be understood before embarking on the
creation of reconfigurable parallel codes. We hope to show that
FPGA acceleration, based on the exploitation of the data
parallelism, pipelining and concurrency remains promising in view
of the diminishing improvements in traditional processor and system
design. Table of Contents: FPGA Technology / Reconfigurable
Supercomputing / Algorithmic Considerations / FPGA Programming
Languages / Case Study: Sorting / Alternative Technologies and
Concluding Remarks
Postphenomenology and Media: Essays on Human-Media-World Relations
sheds light on how new, digital media are shaping humans and their
world. It does so by using the postphenomenological framework to
comprehensively study "human-media relations," making use of
conceptual instruments such as the transparency-opacity
distinction, embodiment, multistability, variational analysis, and
cultural hermeneutics. This collection outlines central issues of
media and mediation theory that can be explored
postphenomenologically and showcases research at the cutting edge
of philosophy of media and technology. The contributors together
enlarge the range of thinking about human-media-world relations in
contemporary society, reflecting the interdisciplinary range of
this school of thought, and explore, sometimes self-reflexively and
sometimes critically, the provocative landscape of
postphenomenology and media.
Uncovering injustices built into our everyday surroundings Callous
Objects unearths cases in which cities push homeless people out of
public spaces through a combination of policy and strategic design.
Robert Rosenberger examines such commonplace devices as garbage
cans, fences, signage, and benches—all of which reveal political
agendas beneath the surface. Such objects have evolved, through a
confluence of design and law, to be open to some uses and closed to
others, but always capable of participating in collective ends on a
large scale. Rosenberger brings together ideas from the philosophy
of technology, social theory, and feminist epistemology to
spotlight the widespread anti-homeless ideology built into our
communities and enacted in law. Forerunners: Ideas First is a
thought-in-process series of breakthrough digital publications.
Written between fresh ideas and finished books, Forerunners draws
on scholarly work initiated in notable blogs, social media,
conference plenaries, journal articles, and the synergy of academic
exchange. This is gray literature publishing: where intense
thinking, change, and speculation take place in scholarship.
Philosophy of Science: 5 Questions is a collection of short
interviews based on 5 questions presented to some of the most
influential and prominent scholars in the field. We hear their
views on philosophy of science, the aim, the scope, thefuture
direction of research and how their work fits in these respects.
Interviews with Harry Collins, John Dupre, Arthur Fine, Allan
Franklin, Peter Galison, Ronald N. Giere, Adolf Grunbaum, Sandra
Harding, Don Ihde, Sheila Jasanoff, Evelyn Fox Keller, Philip
Kitcher, Helen Longino, David Papineau, Stathis Psillos, Joseph
Rouse, Patrick Suppes, Nancy Tuana.
In the tradition of Prague and White Teeth, This Is Not
Civilization is an inspired, sweeping debut novel that hopscotches
from Arizona to Central Asia to Istanbul with a well-meaning, if
misguided, young Peace Corps volunteer. Jeff Hartig lies at the
center of this modern take on the American-abroad tale, which
brings together four people from vastly different backgrounds, each
struggling with the push and pull of home. A young Apache, Adam
Dale, forsakes the reservation for the promise of a world he knows
little about. Anarbek Tashtanaliev, of post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan,
operates a cheese factory that no longer produces cheese. Nazira,
his daughter, strains against the confines of their village's
age-old traditions.
With captivating insight, realism, and humor, Robert Rosenberg
delivers a sensitive story about the cost of trying to do good in
the world.
"OF ALL HIS MANY REGRETS, IT WAS HIS DECISION TO WRITE HIS MEMORIES
THAT AVRAM COHEN NOW REGRETTED THE MOST"
Thus begins "An Accidental Murder, " the latest book in Robert
Rosenberg's acclaimed Avram Cohen mystery series. In a tale that
takes the retired Jerusalem detective from Germany's Frankfurt book
fair to the Negev desert, as he searches for a murderer in Germany
and ends up in the dark netherworld of the new Russian mafia in
Israel, Avram Cohen is revealed as never before -- a man with a
complex past that makes his future most uncertain.
Someone wants to kill Cohen -- or so it seems -- possibly
because of something he wrote in his memoir about his year as an
avenger assassinating Nazis after his long-ago liberation from the
Dachau concentration camp. But then his longtime protege Nissim
Levy is found murdered on the road to Eilat.
Is this a revenge killing somehow aimed at Cohen, or as Nissim's
former assistant believes, could the Russian mafioso be
involved?
From private nightclubs where mafia kingpins entertain with
vodka-drenched feasts to massage parlors where the women work with
cold-blooded professionalism, Cohen's search for Levy's killer
becomes a twisted journey into a new side of Israel hardly known to
the outsider. On the way, Cohen must look back at his own guilt
before he can unveil a killer with a misguided but nonetheless
profound motive for murder.
This finely drawn novel is, like all the Cohen novels, a
portrait of a deeply complicated man trying hard to be moral in a
world where greed rules. Building an atmosphere of personal pain
and paranoia up until the very last pages of the book, Rosenberg
gives us a tour de force.
Postphenomenology and Media: Essays on Human-Media-World Relations
sheds light on how new, digital media are shaping humans and their
world. It does so by using the postphenomenological framework to
comprehensively study "human-media relations," making use of
conceptual instruments such as the transparency-opacity
distinction, embodiment, multistability, variational analysis, and
cultural hermeneutics. This collection outlines central issues of
media and mediation theory that can be explored
postphenomenologically and showcases research at the cutting edge
of philosophy of media and technology. The contributors together
enlarge the range of thinking about human-media-world relations in
contemporary society, reflecting the interdisciplinary range of
this school of thought, and explore, sometimes self-reflexively and
sometimes critically, the provocative landscape of
postphenomenology and media.
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