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Zen and the Art of Postmodern Philosophy

Two Paths of Liberation from the Representational Mode of Thinking

By: Carl Olson

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Zen and the Art of Postmodern Philosophy

Two Paths of Liberation from the Representational Mode of Thinking

By: Carl Olson

This book examines and compares the philosophical positions of various postmodern thinkers and Zen Buddhist philosophers on: language and play; modes of thinking; skepticism and doubt; self and other; time and death; nihilism and metaphysics; and the conception of the end of philosophy. The Zen thinkers dealt with are Dogen and Nishitani, and the Western thinkers are Derrida, Lacan, Heidegger, Lyotard, Foucault, Deleuze and Guatarri, Kristeva, and Levinas. Although each share similar notions concerning the shortcomings of representational thinking, major differences still exist. By clarifying these differences, Olson counters the tendency to overtly assert or covertly imply that postmodern and Zen philosophies are moving in the same direction. Some postmodern thinkers and Zen Buddhist philosophers share common philosophical ground with regard to a mutual philosophical attack and attempt to overcome the perceived shortcomings of the representational mode of thinking that conceives of the mind like a mirror and assumes a correspondence between appearance and reality that is supported by a metaphysical structure.

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State University of New York Press

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0791492214

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9780791492215

The Book of War: Includes The Art of War by Sun Tzu & On War by Karl von Clausewitz

By: Sun Tzu,Carl von Clausewitz

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The Book of War: Includes The Art of War by Sun Tzu & On War by Karl von Clausewitz

By: Sun Tzu,Carl von Clausewitz

Two classic works of military strategy that shaped the way we think about warfare: The Art of War by Sun Tzu and On War by Karl von Clausewitz, together in one volume “Civilization might have been spared much of the damage suffered in the world wars . . . if the influence of Clausewitz’s On War had been blended with and balanced by a knowledge of Sun Tzu’s The Art of War.”—B. H. Liddel Hart For two thousand years, Sun Tzu’s The Art of War has been the indispensable volume of warcraft. Although his work is the first known analysis of war and warfare, Sun Tzu struck upon a thoroughly modern concept: “The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.” Karl von Clausewitz, the canny military theorist who famously declared that war is a continuation of politics by other means, also claims paternity of the notion “total war.” On War is the magnum opus of the era of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic wars. Now these two great minds come together in a single volume that also features an introduction by esteemed military writer Ralph Peters and the Modern Library War Series introduction by Caleb Carr, New York Times bestselling author of The Alienist. (The cover and text refer to The Art of War as The Art of Warfare, an alternate translation of the title.)

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1024

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Modern Library

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0375754776

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9780375754777

Chinese Christians

Elites, Middlemen, and the Church in Hong Kong

By: Carl T. Smith

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Chinese Christians

Elites, Middlemen, and the Church in Hong Kong

By: Carl T. Smith

Provided with a Western-style education and versed in the English language by missionaries, the 19th-century Chinese Christian was a man who stood between cultures. The author shows how this dual aspect of his thought and outlook enabled him to act as liaison with foreigners promoting trade and commerce.

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Hong Kong University Press

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9622096883

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9789622096882

Refiguring Huckleberry Finn

By: Carl F. Wieck

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Refiguring Huckleberry Finn

By: Carl F. Wieck

Much about Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is ageless, yet its author was completely immersed in the age in which he wrote. Refiguring “Huckleberry Finn” looks at ways that contemporary American culture and history influenced the formation of Mark Twain’s masterwork. It also shows how the novel reflects Twain’s deep investment in what Carl F. Wieck calls “an open-minded, unbiased perception of the wellsprings of the American spirit.” Clearly, Twain knew the Mississippi River and its people well. With Frederick Douglass, William Dean Howells, Ulysses S. Grant, and John Hay (Abraham Lincoln’s personal secretary) among his friends, Twain also knew America. That understanding, Wieck shows us, is richly evident in Huckleberry Finn by the ways Twain explored themes of justice, rights, knowledge, and truth; engaged with the ideas of Douglass, Lincoln, and Thomas Jefferson; and expressed concern over the public discourse on race and equality. In addition, in discussions that range from number play in the novel to the symbolic potential of the Mississippi’s awesome, one-way flow, Wieck looks closely at Twain’s storytelling craft. Filled with new and challenging insights, Refiguring “Huckleberry Finn” reintroduces us to one of our greatest novels and one of our finest novelists.

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257

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University of Georgia Press

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0820325961

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9780820325965

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Celtic Wisdom

By: Carl McColman

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Celtic Wisdom

By: Carl McColman

Provides an introduction to the different syles of Celtic spirituality, covering such topics as the three paths, mythology, the role of ancestors, and incorporating the Celtic life into today's lifestyles.

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402

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Penguin

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0028644174

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9780028644172

Art and Idea in the Novels of China Miéville

By: Carl Freedman

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Art and Idea in the Novels of China Miéville

By: Carl Freedman

This book offers (in the first six chapters) critical readings of six novels by China Miéville, which are followed (in the seventh chapter) by a theoretical meditation on some of the conceptual issues raised by and engaged in the Miéville oeuvre. There comes a moment in The City & the City, though it is not necessarily the same moment for every reader, when you realise that Beszel and Ul Qoma are not separate realms but the same space divided. Likewise, art and idea are often subject to absurd partition, but then along comes an author such as China Miéville who shows them to be, in truth, indissoluble. So argues Freedman's inordinately readable and just as rigorous account of Miéville's major novels. Highly recommended. (Mark Bould, University of the West of England) Freedman offers a compelling interpretation of Miéville's novels informed equally by an impressive range of literary influences and a carefully documented exploration of historical antecedents. Seeing Miéville's genre hybridity as an illustration of the power of dialectical thinking, Freedman illuminates the complex utopian project of Miéville's fiction. Freedman is one of our finest critical voices on Miéville, one of the most important speculative writers of the 21st century. (Sherryl Vint, University of California, Riverside)

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Gylphi Limited

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1780240309

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9781780240305

Opium, Empire and the Global Political Economy

A Study of the Asian Opium Trade 1750-1950

By: Carl Trocki

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Opium, Empire and the Global Political Economy

A Study of the Asian Opium Trade 1750-1950

By: Carl Trocki

Drug epidemics are clearly not just a peculiar feature of modern life; the opium trade in the nineteenth century tells us a great deal about Asian herion traffic today. In an age when we are increasingly aware of large scale drug use, this book takes a long look at the history of our relationship with mind-altering substances. Engagingly written, with lay readers as much as specialists in mind, this book will be fascinating reading for historians, social scientists, as well as those involved in Asian studies, or economic history.

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226

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Routledge

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113511899X

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9781135118990

Shock and Naturalization in Contemporary Japanese Literature

By: Carl Cassegård

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Shock and Naturalization in Contemporary Japanese Literature

By: Carl Cassegård

This study introduces the concepts of naturalization and naturalized modernity, and uses them as tools for understanding the way modernity has been experienced and portrayed in Japanese literature since the end of the Second World War. Special emphasis is given to four leading post-war writers – Kawabata Yasunari, Abe Kobo, Murakami Haruki and Murakami Ryu. The author argues that notions of ‘shock’ in modern city life in Japan (as exemplified in the writings of Walter Benjamin and George Simmel), while present in the work of older Japanese writers, do not appear to hold true in much contemporary Japanese literature: it is as if the ‘shock’ impact of change has evolved as a ‘naturalized’ or ‘Japanized’ process. The author focuses on the implications of this phenomenon, both in the context of the theory of modernity and as an opportunity to reevaluate the works of his chosen writers.

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256

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Global Oriental

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9004213481

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9789004213487

VLSI Placement and Global Routing Using Simulated Annealing

By: Carl Sechen

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VLSI Placement and Global Routing Using Simulated Annealing

By: Carl Sechen

From my B.E.E degree at the University of Minnesota and right through my S.M. degree at M.I.T., I had specialized in solid state devices and microelectronics. I made the decision to switch to computer-aided design (CAD) in 1981, only a year or so prior to the introduction of the simulated annealing algorithm by Scott Kirkpatrick, Dan Gelatt, and Mario Vecchi of the IBM Thomas 1. Watson Research Center. Because Prof. Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, my UC Berkeley advisor, had been a consultant at IBM, I re ceived a copy of the original IBM internal report on simulated annealing approximately the day of its release. Given my background in statistical mechanics and solid state physics, I was immediately impressed by this new combinatorial optimization technique. As Prof. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli had suggested I work in the areas of placement and routing, it was in these realms that I sought to explore this new algorithm. My flJ'St implementation of simulated annealing was for an island-style gate array placement problem. This work is presented in the Appendix of this book. I was quite struck by the effect of a nonzero temperature on what otherwise appears to be a random in terchange algorithm.

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298

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1461316979

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9781461316978

Abraham Lincoln

His Speeches And Writings

By: Roy Basler,Carl Sandburg

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Abraham Lincoln

His Speeches And Writings

By: Roy Basler,Carl Sandburg

This volume presents nearly 250 of Lincoln's most important speeches, state papers, and letters in their entirety. Here are not only the masterpieces—the Gettysburg Address, the Inaugural Addresses, the 1858 Republican Convention Speech, the Emancipation Proclamation—but hundreds of lesser-known gems. Alfred Kazin has written that Lincoln was "not just the greatest writer among our Presidents . . . but the most telling and unforgettable of all American 'public' writer-speakers," and it's never been cleaner than in this comprehensive edition.

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Da Capo Press

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0786723726

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9780786723720

Encyclopedia of Assassinations

More than 400 Infamous Attacks that Changed the Course of History

By: Carl Sifakis

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Encyclopedia of Assassinations

More than 400 Infamous Attacks that Changed the Course of History

By: Carl Sifakis

Encyclopedia of Assassinations is the most comprehensive handbook on over 400 assassinations, attempts, and plots against political figures. The narrative entries detail history’s most turbulent moments, including the date, location, and full description of each incident, as well as biographical information about the victim and assassin and the circumstances surrounding each historical event. Here are: • Jesse James: Outlaw killed by Bob Ford in 1882 • Ian Gow: Conservative member of the British Parliament killed by a car bomb in 1990 • Franz Ferdinand: Archduke and heir to the Austrian throne killed by Gavrilo Princip in 1914 • John F. Kennedy: American president killed by Lee Harvey Oswald in 1963 • Rajiv Gandhi: Prime Minister of India killed by an unidentified bomber in 1991 • Ernesto “Che” Guevara: Revolutionary killed by Bolivian forces in 1967 • Abraham Lincoln: American president killed by John Wilkes Booth in 1865 • And hundreds more! This encyclopedia’s illustrations, bibliography, appendix grouping the assassinations by country, and further readings turn it into an essential reference for history teachers, students, crime buffs, and those who are curious about “the most notorious acts of their kind.”

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Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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1626363250

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9781626363250

Film Piracy, Organized Crime, and Terrorism

By: Gregory F Treverton,Carl Matthies,Karla J Cunningham,Jeremiah Gouka,Greg Ridgeway

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Film Piracy, Organized Crime, and Terrorism

By: Gregory F Treverton,Carl Matthies,Karla J Cunningham,Jeremiah Gouka,Greg Ridgeway

A study of the involvement of organized-crime and terrorist groups in product counterfeiting. Case studies of film piracy illustrate the problem of criminal--and perhaps terrorist--groups using this new high-payoff, low-risk way to fund their activities. Cooperation among law enforcement and governments worldwide is needed to combat intellectual-property theft, which threatens the global information economy, public safety, and national security.

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381

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Rand Corporation

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0833046748

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9780833046741

Fundamentals of Photonics

By: Bahaa E. A. Saleh,Malvin Carl Teich

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Fundamentals of Photonics

By: Bahaa E. A. Saleh,Malvin Carl Teich

Fundamentals of Photonics A complete, thoroughly updated, full-color third edition Fundamentals of Photonics, Third Edition is a self-contained and up-to-date introductory-level textbook that thoroughly surveys this rapidly expanding area of engineering and applied physics. Featuring a blend of theory and applications, coverage includes detailed accounts of the primary theories of light, including ray optics, wave optics, electromagnetic optics, and photon optics, as well as the interaction of light and matter. Presented at increasing levels of complexity, preliminary sections build toward more advanced topics, such as Fourier optics and holography, photonic-crystal optics, guided-wave and fiber optics, LEDs and lasers, acousto-optic and electro-optic devices, nonlinear optical devices, ultrafast optics, optical interconnects and switches, and optical fiber communications. The third edition features an entirely new chapter on the optics of metals and plasmonic devices. Each chapter contains highlighted equations, exercises, problems, summaries, and selected reading lists. Examples of real systems are included to emphasize the concepts governing applications of current interest. Each of the twenty-four chapters of the second edition has been thoroughly updated.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119702119

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9781119702115

Biology of Stress in Fish

By: Carl B. Schreck,Lluis Tort,Anthony Farrell,Colin Brauner

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Biology of Stress in Fish

By: Carl B. Schreck,Lluis Tort,Anthony Farrell,Colin Brauner

Biology of Stress in Fish: Fish Physiology provides a general understanding on the topic of stress biology, including most of the recent advances in the field. The book starts with a general discussion of stress, providing answers to issues such as its definition, the nature of the physiological stress response, and the factors that affect the stress response. It also considers the biotic and abiotic factors that cause variation in the stress response, how the stress response is generated and controlled, its effect on physiological and organismic function and performance, and applied assessment of stress, animal welfare, and stress as related to model species. - Provides the definitive reference on stress in fish as written by world-renowned experts in the field - Includes the most recent advances and up-to-date thinking about the causes of stress in fish, their implications, and how to minimize the negative effects - Considers the biotic and abiotic factors that cause variation in the stress response

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Academic Press

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0128027371

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9780128027370

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Refiguring Huckleberry Finn

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Celtic Wisdom

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Celtic Wisdom

Art and Idea in the Novels of China Miéville

Art and Idea in the Novels of China Miéville

Opium, Empire and the Global Political Economy

Opium, Empire and the Global Political Economy

Shock and Naturalization in Contemporary Japanese Literature

Shock and Naturalization in Contemporary Japanese Literature

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VLSI Placement and Global Routing Using Simulated Annealing

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Abraham Lincoln

Encyclopedia of Assassinations

Encyclopedia of Assassinations

Film Piracy, Organized Crime, and Terrorism

Film Piracy, Organized Crime, and Terrorism

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Fundamentals of Photonics

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