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Seeing the Face, Seeing the Soul

Polemon's Physiognomy from Classical Antiquity to Medieval Islam

By: George Boys-Stones

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Seeing the Face, Seeing the Soul

Polemon's Physiognomy from Classical Antiquity to Medieval Islam

By: George Boys-Stones

Polemon of Laodicea's "Physiognomy" is a manual on how to tell character from appearance, thus enabling its readers to choose friends and avoid enemies on sight. The present volume is the work of a team of leading Classicists and Arabists. The main surviving versions in Greek and Latin are translated into English for the first time.

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Oxford University Press

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0199291535

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9780199291533

In Our Own Image

By: George Zarkadakis

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In Our Own Image

By: George Zarkadakis

Zarkadakis explores one of humankind's oldest love-hate relationships—our ties with artificial intelligence, or AI. He traces AI's origins in ancient myth, through literary classics like Frankenstein, to today's sci-fi blockbusters, arguing that a fascination with AI is hardwired into the human psyche. He explains AI's history, technology, and potential; its manifestations in intelligent machines; its connections to neurology and consciousness, as well as—perhaps most tellingly—what AI reveals about us as human beings.In Our Own Image argues that we are on the brink of a fourth industrial revolution—poised to enter the age of Artificial Intelligence as science fiction becomes science fact. Ultimately, Zarkadakis observes, the fate of AI has profound implications for the future of science and humanity itself.

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353

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Simon and Schuster

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1681771071

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9781681771076

Science Fiction

Toward a World Literature

By: George Slusser

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Science Fiction

Toward a World Literature

By: George Slusser

In what N. Katherine Hayles describes as "this enormously ambitious posthumous volume," renowned scholar George Slusser offers a definitive version of the argument about the history of science fiction that he developed throughout his career: that several important ideas and texts, routinely overlooked in other critical studies, made significant contributions to the creation of modern science fiction as it developed into a truly global literature. He explores how key thinkers like René Descartes, Benjamin Constant, Thomas DeQuincey, Guy du Maupassant, J.D. Bernal, and Ralph Waldo Emerson influenced and are reflected in twentieth-century science fiction stories from the United States, Great Britain, France, Germany, Poland, and Russia. The conclusion begins with Slusser’s overview of global science fiction in the twenty-first century and discusses recent developments in countries like China, Romania, and Israel. Hayles’s foreword provides a useful summation of the book’s contents, while science fiction writer Gregory Benford contributes an afterword providing a personal perspective on the life and thoughts of his longtime friend. The book was edited by Slusser’s former colleague Gary Westfahl, a distinguished scholar in his own right.

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367

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1666905364

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9781666905366

The Fourth Macabre MEGAPACK®

By: Frank Belknap Long,J.N. Williamson,George T. Wetzel,Richard Wilson

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The Fourth Macabre MEGAPACK®

By: Frank Belknap Long,J.N. Williamson,George T. Wetzel,Richard Wilson

Welcome the fourth volume in our Macabre MEGAPACK® series. This collection of 3 poems and 20 stories was selected by one of Wildside’s editors, Shawn Garrett. They were published over a period of almost 150 years, in books and leading magazines, and they range from through time and space. One thing they all have in common is their chilling ability to bring a shudder to readers! Included: DARK VISION, by Frank Belknap Long THE FLYING DUTCHMAN, by Auguste Jal THE WHITE CAT OF DRUMGUNNIOL, by J. Sheridan Le Fanu MINE HOST THE CARDINAL, by Howard Pease THE DEVIL STONE, by Beatrice Heron-Maxwell THE STORY OF A TUSK, by H. A. Bryden THE QUEER PLACE, by Frederick Niven THE BURNED HOUSE, by Vincent O' Sullivan THE PIPERS OF MALLORY, by Theo. Douglas FATHER THORNTON'S VISITOR, by W. J. Wintle THE YARN OF THE “NANCY BELL,” by William S. Gilbert MEN WHO WALK UPON THE AIR, by Frank Belknap Long HYMENEAL, by Manly Banister (poem) THE GOLDEN BOUGH, by David H. Keller THEY NEVER EVEN SEE ME, by J. N. Williamson SIX FLIGHTS TO TERROR, by Manly Banister THE PRUNING MAN, by Robert Moore Williams ANONYMOUS, by George T. Wetzel THE PEEPER, by Frank Belknap Long THE NAME ON THE BOOK, by Richard Wilson THE DEVIL'S TUNE, by Ray Faraday Nelson THE THREE FISHERS, by Charles Kingsley NIGHTMARE HOUSE, by George T. Wetzel The MEGAPACK® Ebook Series If you enjoy this ebook, don't forget to search your favorite ebook store for "Wildside Press Megapack" to see more of the 300+ volumes in this series, covering adventure, historical fiction, mysteries, westerns, ghost stories, science fiction -- and much, much more!

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Wildside Press LLC

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1479428442

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The Living Dead Sneak Peek

By: George A. Romero,Daniel Kraus

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The Living Dead Sneak Peek

By: George A. Romero,Daniel Kraus

New York Times bestselling author Daniel Kraus completes George A. Romero's brand-new masterpiece of zombie horror, the massive novel left unfinished at Romero's death! Download a FREE sneak peek today! George A. Romero invented the modem zombie with Night of the Living Dead, creating a monster that has become a key part of pop culture. Romero often felt hemmed in by the constraints of film-making. To tell the story of the rise of the zombies and the fall of the humanity the way it should be told, Romero turned to fiction. Unfortunately, when he died, the story was incomplete. Enter Daniel Kraus, co-author, with Guillermo del Toro, of the New York Times bestseller The Shape of Water (based on the Academy Award-winning movie) and Trollhunters (which became an Emmy Award-winning series), and author of The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch (an Entertainment Weekly Top 10 Book of the Year). A lifelong Romero fan, Kraus was honored to be asked, by Romero's wido, to complete The Living Dead. Set in the present day, The Living Dead is an entirely new tale, the story of the zombie plague as George A. Romero wanted to tell it. It begins with one body. A pair of medical examiners find themselves battling a dead man who won't stay dead. It spreads quickly. In a Midwestern trailer park, a Black teenage girl and a Muslim immigrant battle newly-risen friends and family. On a US aircraft carrier, living sailors hide from dead ones while a fanatic makes a new religion out of death. At a cable news station, a surviving anchor keeps broadcasting while his undead colleagues try to devour him. In DC, an autistic federal employee charts the outbreak, preserving data for a future that may never come. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

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117

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Tor Books

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1250790859

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Experimental Americans

Celo and Utopian Community in the Twentieth Century

By: George L. Hicks

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Experimental Americans

Celo and Utopian Community in the Twentieth Century

By: George L. Hicks

Founded in 1937 by Arthur Morgan, first chairman of the Tennessee Valley Authority, Celo (pronounced see-lo) established its own rules of land tenure and taxation, conducted its internal business by consensus and did not require its members to accept any particular ideology or religious creed. Drawing on extensive fieldwork in Celo and among its local neighbors, consultation of Celo's documentary records, and interviews with ex-members, Hicks traces the Community's ups and downs. Attacked for its opposition to World War II, Celo was revived by pacifists released from prisons and Civilian Public Service camps after the war; debilitated in the 1950s by bitter feuds with ex-members, it was buoyed up in the 1960s by the radical enthusiasm of new currents in the nation."--BOOK JACKET.

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300

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University of Illinois Press

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0252026616

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9780252026614

Project Orion

The True Story of the Atomic Spaceship

By: George Dyson

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Project Orion

The True Story of the Atomic Spaceship

By: George Dyson

Project Orion describes one of the most awesome 'might have beens' (and may yet bes!) of the space age. This is essential reading for anyone interested in government bureaucracies and the military industrial complex." -Sir Arthur C. Clarke

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372

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Macmillan

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0805072845

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9780805072846

Clinton's Foreign Policy in Russia

From Deterrence and Isolation to Democratization and Engagement

By: George Andrew MacLean

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Clinton's Foreign Policy in Russia

From Deterrence and Isolation to Democratization and Engagement

By: George Andrew MacLean

The US–Russian Highly Enriched Uranium (HEU) Purchase Agreement was one of the most remarkable initiatives of Clinton's presidency, yet one of the most obscure that still continues under George W. Bush. This book examines the story behind Clinton's decision and its repercussions on our understanding of arms control, foreign policy decision making and US-Russian relations.

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184

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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0754649016

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9780754649014

Biological Control

By: George E. Heimpel,Nicholas J. Mills

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Biological Control

By: George E. Heimpel,Nicholas J. Mills

This book enhances our understanding of biological control, integrating historical analysis, theoretical models and case studies in an ecological framework.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521845149

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9780521845144

XXV Olympiad

By: George Constable

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XXV Olympiad

By: George Constable

XXV Olympiad, the twenty-third volume in The Olympic Century series, begins with the story of the Barcelona Summer Games of 1992. The Barcelona Games were the first without boycotts since 1972, and played host to a wealth of nations participating for the first time.The book explores how the Barcelona Games reflected a rapidly changing world. With the devolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, Barcelona played host to teams from the Baltic States and to a "e;Unified Team"e; made up of athletes from the former Soviet republics. The former member states of Yugoslavia participated as independent nations, and South Africa was welcomed back into the Olympic fold for the first time since 1960. The book also profiles heroes of Barcelona like the Chinese diver Fu Mingxia, who became the youngest-ever Olympic gold medalist at age 13; and Vitaly Scherbo of Belarus, who won four golds in artistic gymnastics in a single day.Following Barcelona, the book turns its focus to the 1994 Winter Games in Lillehammer, Norway, the first Winter Games not held in the same year as the Summer Games. Lillehammer featured aerial skiing as a full event for the first time, and saw Australia win its first ever Winter Olympic medal. The book also tells the story of the drama swirling around the women's figure skating competition, where Americans Nancy Kerrigan and Tonya Harding battled with eventual gold-medal winner Oksana Baiul of Ukraine.Juan Antonio Samaranch, former President of the International Olympic Committee, called The Olympic Century, "e;The most comprehensive history of the Olympic games ever published"e;.

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463

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eBook Partnership

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1987944224

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9781987944228

Current Legal Problems 2010

Volume 63

By: George Letsas,Colm O'Cinneide

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Current Legal Problems 2010

Volume 63

By: George Letsas,Colm O'Cinneide

This year's volume covers topics such as military detention, English criminal law, terrorism, democracy, human rights, civil liberties, the media and international law, family law, child welfare, health, feminism, economic theory, corporate law, competition regulation, contract law, biotechnology, biodiversity and more.

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Current Legal Problems

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0199602581

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Mammalogy

Adaptation, Diversity, Ecology

By: George A. Feldhamer,Lee C. Drickamer,Stephen H. Vessey,Joseph F. Merritt,Carey Krajewski

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Mammalogy

Adaptation, Diversity, Ecology

By: George A. Feldhamer,Lee C. Drickamer,Stephen H. Vessey,Joseph F. Merritt,Carey Krajewski

Reflecting the expertise and perspective of five leading mammalogists, the fourth edition of Mammalogy: Adaptation, Diversity, Ecology significantly updates taxonomy, includes a new chapter on mammalian molecular phylogenetics, and highlights several recently described species. There are close to 5,500 species in the class Mammalia, including the blue whale—the largest animal that has ever lived—and the pygmy shrew, which weighs little more than a penny. The functional diversity of mammals has allowed them to play critical roles in every ecosystem, whether marine, freshwater, alpine, tundra, forest, or desert. Many mammal species are critically endangered and present complex conservation and management challenges. This book touches on those challenges, which are often precipitated by overharvesting and habitat loss, as well as emerging threats, such as the impact of wind turbines and white nose syndrome on bats and chronic wasting disease on deer. Among the updates and additions to the fourth edition of Mammalogy are numerous new photos, figures, and cladograms, over 4,200 references, as well as • A completely new chapter on mammalian phylogeny and genomics• Current taxonomy—including major changes to orders, suborders, and superfamilies of bats and rodents• An explanation of the recent inclusion of whales with terrestrial even-toed ungulates• Updates on mammalian structural, functional adaptations, and fossil history• recent advances in our understanding of phylogeny, biogeography, social behavior, and ecology• A discussion of two new orders and thirteen newly recognized extant families • Reflections on the implications of climate change for mammals• Thorough examinations of several recently described species, including Durrell’s vontsira ( Salanoia durrelli) and the Laotian rock rat ( Laonastes aenigmamus)• An explanation of mammalian biomechanics, such as that seen in lunge feeding of baleen whales• Breakout boxes on unique aspects of mammals, including the syntax of bat songs, singing mice, and why there are no green mammals (unless we count algae-covered sloths) Maintaining the accessible, readable style for which Feldhamer and his coauthors are well known, this new edition of Mammalogy is the authoritative textbook on this amazingly diverse class of vertebrates.

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JHU Press

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1421415887

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9781421415888

European Writers

By: William Thomas Hobdell Jackson,George Stade

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European Writers

By: William Thomas Hobdell Jackson,George Stade

This reference work is comprised of two volumes treating the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, three volumes on the Romantics, and four volumes dealing with twentieth century authors. Scholar's new to literary history and criticism should find the balanced, well written essays on included authors a solid introduction.

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Macmillan Reference USA

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0684165945

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9780684165943

The Space of Appearance

By: George Baird

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The Space of Appearance

By: George Baird

George Baird probes into the conceptual lineage and current expressions of postmodernism and the critique of postmodern architecture over the past four decades.

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MIT Press

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0262523434

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9780262523431

Analogia

The Emergence of Technology Beyond Programmable Control

By: George Dyson

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Analogia

The Emergence of Technology Beyond Programmable Control

By: George Dyson

Named one of WIRED’s "The Best Pop Culture That Got Us Through 2020" In Analogia, technology historian George Dyson presents a startling look back at the analog age and life before the digital revolution—and an unsettling vision of what comes next. In 1716, the philosopher and mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz spent eight days taking the cure with Peter the Great at Bad Pyrmont in Saxony, trying to persuade the tsar to launch a voyage of discovery from Russia to America and to adopt digital computing as the foundation for a remaking of life on earth. In two classic books, Darwin Among the Machines and Turing’s Cathedral, George Dyson chronicled the realization of the second of Leibniz’s visions. In Analogia, his pathbreaking new book, he brings the story full circle, starting with the Russian American expedition of 1741 and ending with the beyond-digital revolution that will complete the transformation of the world. Dyson enlists a startling cast of characters, from the time of Catherine the Great to the age of machine intelligence, and draws heavily on his own experiences at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, and onward to the rain forest of the Northwest Coast. We are, Dyson reveals, entering a new epoch in human history, one driven by a generation of machines whose powers are no longer under programmable control. Includes black-and-white illustrations

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0374710074

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The Fourth Macabre MEGAPACK®

The Living Dead Sneak Peek

The Living Dead Sneak Peek

Experimental Americans

Experimental Americans

Project Orion

Project Orion

Clinton's Foreign Policy in Russia

Clinton's Foreign Policy in Russia

Biological Control

Biological Control

XXV Olympiad

XXV Olympiad

Current Legal Problems 2010

Current Legal Problems 2010

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