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Throne of Blood

By: Robert N. Watson

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Throne of Blood (1957), Akira Kurosawa's reworking of Macbeth, is widely considered the greatest film adaptation of Shakespeare ever made. In a detailed account of the film, Robert N. Watson explores how Kurosawa draws key philosophical and psychological arguments from Shakespeare, translates them into striking visual metaphors, and inflects them through the history of post-World War II Japan. Watson places particular emphasis on the contexts that underlie the film's central tension between individual aspiration and the stability of broader social and ecological collectives - and therefore between free will and determinism. In his foreword to this new edition, Robert Watson considers the central characters' Washizu and his wife Asaji's blunder in viewing life as a ruthless competition in which only the most brutal can thrive in the context of an era of neoliberal economics, resurgent 'strongman' political leaders, and myopic views of the environmenal crisis, with nothing valued that cannot be monetized.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1839021888

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Applied Attention Theory

By: Christopher D. Wickens,Jason S. McCarley,Robert S. Gutzwiller

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Applied Attention Theory

By: Christopher D. Wickens,Jason S. McCarley,Robert S. Gutzwiller

Applied Attention Theory, Second Edition provides details concerning the relevance of all aspects of attention to the world beyond the laboratory. Topic application areas include the design of warning systems to capture attention; attention distractions in the workplace; failures of dividing attention while driving; and the measurement of mental workload while flying. This new edition discusses the implications of VR and AR for human attention. It also covers the treatment of attention-based pedagogical methods used to enhance learning and presents attentional issues in interacting with automation and AI. New chapters include applications of attention to healthcare, education pedagogy, highway safety, and human interaction with autonomous vehicles and other AI systems. The readership for this book is the professional, the researcher, and the student.

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286

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CRC Press

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100064507X

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9781000645071

Back to Nature

The Green and the Real in the Late Renaissance

By: Robert Watson

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Back to Nature

The Green and the Real in the Late Renaissance

By: Robert Watson

Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title Sweeping across scholarly disciplines, Back to Nature shows that, from the moment of their conception, modern ecological and epistemological anxieties were conjoined twins. Urbanization, capitalism, Protestantism, colonialism, revived Skepticism, empirical science, and optical technologies conspired to alienate people from both the earth and reality itself in the seventeenth century. Literary and visual arts explored the resulting cultural wounds, expressing the pain and proposing some ingenious cures. The stakes, Robert N. Watson demonstrates, were huge. Shakespeare's comedies, Marvell's pastoral lyrics, Traherne's visionary Centuries, and Dutch painting all illuminate a fierce submerged debate about what love of nature has to do with perception of reality.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812204255

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9780812204254

The Rest Is Silence

Death as Annihilation in the English Renaissance

By: Robert N. Watson

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The Rest Is Silence

Death as Annihilation in the English Renaissance

By: Robert N. Watson

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1994.

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Univ of California Press

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0520325613

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9780520325616

Throne of Blood

By: Robert N. Watson

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Throne of Blood

By: Robert N. Watson

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1839021896

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Cultural Evolution and its Discontents

Cognitive Overload, Parasitic Cultures, and the Humanistic Cure

By: Robert Watson

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Cultural Evolution and its Discontents

Cognitive Overload, Parasitic Cultures, and the Humanistic Cure

By: Robert Watson

People worry that computers, robots, interstellar aliens, or Satan himself – brilliant, stealthy, ruthless creatures – may seize control of our world and destroy what’s uniquely valuable about the human race. Cultural Evolution and its Discontents shows that our cultural systems – especially those whose last names are "ism" – are already doing that, and doing it so adeptly that we seldom even notice. Like other parasites, they’ve blindly evolved to exploit us for their own survival. Creative arts and humanistic scholarship are our best tools for diagnosis and cure. The assemblages of ideas that have survived, like the assemblages of biological cells that have survived, are the ones good at protecting and reproducing themselves. They aren’t necessarily the ones that guide us toward our most admirable selves or our healthiest future. Relying so heavily on culture to protect our uniquely open minds from cognitive overload makes us vulnerable to hijacking by the systems that co-evolve with us. Recognizing the selfish Darwinian functions of these systems makes sense of many aspects of history, politics, economics, and popular culture. What drove the Protestant Reformation? Why have the Beatles, The Hunger Games, and paranoid science-fiction thrived, and how was hip-hop co-opted? What alliances helped neoliberalism out-compete Communism, and what alliances might enable environmentalism to overcome consumerism? Why are multiculturalism and university-trained elites provoking working-class nationalist backlash? In a digital age, how can we use numbers without having them use us instead? Anyone who has wondered how our species can be so brilliant and so stupid at the same time may find an answer here: human mentalities are so complex that we crave the simplifications provided by our cultures, but the cultures that thrive are the ones that blind us to any interests that don’t correspond to their own.

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Routledge

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0429670877

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9780429670879

Self-governance and Cooperation

By: Robert H. Myers

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Self-governance and Cooperation

By: Robert H. Myers

Robert Myers presents an original moral theory which charts a course between consequentialism and contractualism, portraying morality not simply as a matter of promoting the overall good, but rather as a matter of cooperating in its promotion.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199256594

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Management Control Systems

By: Robert Newton Anthony,John Dearden,Norton M. Bedford

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Management Control Systems

By: Robert Newton Anthony,John Dearden,Norton M. Bedford

Management Control Systems" helps students to develop the insight and analytical skills required of today's managers. Students uncover how real-world managers design, implement, and use planning and control systems to implement business strategies. The 12th edition builds on the strengths of prior editions by offering a rich diversity of cases balanced with current content and research..

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McGraw-Hill/Irwin

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025602961X

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9780256029611

Letters from California 1846-1847

By: William Robert Garner

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Letters from California 1846-1847

By: William Robert Garner

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0520340264

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The Soul's Upward Yearning

Clues to our Transcendent Nature from Experience to Reason

By: Robert Spitzer, S.J., Ph.D.

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The Soul's Upward Yearning

Clues to our Transcendent Nature from Experience to Reason

By: Robert Spitzer, S.J., Ph.D.

Western culture has been moving away from its Christian roots for several centuries but the turn from Christianity accelerated in the 20th century. At the core of this decline is a loss of a sense of our own transcendence. Scientific materialism has so seriously impacted our belief in human transcendence that many people find it difficult to believe in God and the human soul. This anti-transcendent perspective has not only cast its spell on the natural sciences, psychology, philosophy, and literature, it has also negatively impacted popular culture through the writings of Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, and many others. The warning signs of this loss of transcendence have been expressed by thinkers as diverse as Carl Jung (psychiatrist), Mircea Eliade (historian of religion), Gabriel Marcel (philosopher), C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien. These warnings were validated by a 2004 study in the American Journal of Psychiatry which showed that the absence of religion alone was responsible for a marked increase in suicide rates, sense of meaningless, substance abuse, separation from family, and other psychiatric problems. Thus, the loss of transcendence is negatively affecting not only individuals’ sense of happiness, dignity, ideals, virtues, and destiny, but also the culture. Ironically, the evidence for transcendence is greater today than in any other period in history. The problem is – this evidence has not been compiled and propagated. Fr. Spitzer’s book provides a bright light in the midst of this cultural darkness by presenting both traditional and contemporary evidence for God and a transphysical soul from several major sources. He also shows how human consciousness and intelligence is completely special – and cannot be replicated by artificial intelligence or animal consciousness. We are transcendent beings with souls capable of surviving bodily death – self-reflective beings aware of perfect truth, love, goodness, and beauty. We are beings with an unrestricted capacity to know and create science, law, culture, art, music, literature, and so much more. The evidence reveals that we have the dignity of being created in the very image of God, and if we underestimate it, we will undervalue one another, underlive our lives, and underachieve our destiny. This work is the most comprehensive treatment of human transcendence available today.

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Ignatius Press

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1586179551

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Book's by Robert N. Watson

Throne of Blood

Throne of Blood

Applied Attention Theory

Applied Attention Theory

Back to Nature

Back to Nature

The Rest Is Silence

The Rest Is Silence

Throne of Blood

Throne of Blood

Cultural Evolution and its Discontents

Cultural Evolution and its Discontents

Self-governance and Cooperation

Self-governance and Cooperation

Management Control Systems

Management Control Systems

Letters from California 1846-1847

Letters from California 1846-1847

The Soul's Upward Yearning

The Soul's Upward Yearning

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