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How the Brain's Wiring Makes Us who We are

By: Sebastian Seung

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How the Brain's Wiring Makes Us who We are

By: Sebastian Seung

The audacious effort to map the brain--and along with it mental afflictions, from autism to schizophrenia--by a rising star in neuroscience.

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0547508182

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How the Brain's Wiring Makes Us Who We Are

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How the Brain's Wiring Makes Us Who We Are

By: Sebastian Seung

“Accessible, witty . . . an important new researcher, philosopher and popularizer of brain science . . . on par with cosmology’s Brian Greene and the late Carl Sagan” (The Plain Dealer). One of the Wall Street Journal’s 10 Best Nonfiction Books of the Year and a Publishers Weekly “Top Ten in Science” Title Every person is unique, but science has struggled to pinpoint where, precisely, that uniqueness resides. Our genome may determine our eye color and even aspects of our character. But our friendships, failures, and passions also shape who we are. The question is: How? Sebastian Seung is at the forefront of a revolution in neuroscience. He believes that our identity lies not in our genes, but in the connections between our brain cells—our particular wiring. Seung and a dedicated group of researchers are leading the effort to map these connections, neuron by neuron, synapse by synapse. It’s a monumental effort, but if they succeed, they will uncover the basis of personality, identity, intelligence, memory, and perhaps disorders such as autism and schizophrenia. Connectome is a mind-bending adventure story offering a daring scientific and technological vision for understanding what makes us who we are, as individuals and as a species. “This is complicated stuff, and it is a testament to Dr. Seung’s remarkable clarity of exposition that the reader is swept along with his enthusiasm, as he moves from the basics of neuroscience out to the farthest regions of the hypothetical, sketching out a spectacularly illustrated giant map of the universe of man.” —TheNew York Times “An elegant primer on what’s known about how the brain is organized and how it grows, wires its neurons, perceives its environment, modifies or repairs itself, and stores information. Seung is a clear, lively writer who chooses vivid examples.” —TheWashington Post

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HMH

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0547508174

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A History of Korean Christianity

By: Sebastian C. H. Kim,Kirsteen Kim

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A History of Korean Christianity

By: Sebastian C. H. Kim,Kirsteen Kim

With a third of South Koreans now identifying themselves as Christian, Christian churches play an increasingly prominent role in the social and political events of the Korean peninsula. Sebastian C. H. Kim and Kirsteen Kim's comprehensive and timely history of different Christian denominations in Korea includes surveys of the Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant traditions as well as new church movements. They examine the Korean Christian diaspora and missionary movements from South Korea and also give cutting-edge insights into North Korea. This book, the first recent one-volume history and analysis of Korean Christianity in English, highlights the challenges faced by the Christian churches in view of Korea's distinctive and multireligious cultural heritage, South Korea's rapid rise in global economic power and the precarious state of North Korea, which threatens global peace. This History will be an important resource for all students of world Christianity, Korean studies and mission studies.

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Cambridge University Press

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1316123146

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Theology in the Public Sphere

Public Theology as a Catalyst for Open Debate

By: Sebastian Kim

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Theology in the Public Sphere

Public Theology as a Catalyst for Open Debate

By: Sebastian Kim

A substantial and definitive introduction to public theology by one of the leading experts in the field.A key text for third year undergraduate modules and MA courses in Social Ethics, Political Theology and Public Theology.

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SCM Press

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0334048508

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9780334048503

Christianity as a World Religion

An Introduction

By: Sebastian Kim,Kirsteen Kim

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Christianity as a World Religion

An Introduction

By: Sebastian Kim,Kirsteen Kim

Now in its second edition, Christianity as a World Religion locates Christianity within its global context. Structured by geographical region, it covers Asia, Africa, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, North America, and Oceania. It deals with four dimensions of Christianity in each context: Christian history, churches and society, interreligious relations, and distinctive worship and theology. Study questions and further reading suggestions are provided in each chapter. Fully updated throughout, this second edition now includes: - A new chapter covering Christianity in Oceania - Further analysis of the early growth of Christianity in Asia and Africa - Coverage of research trends in migration, theologies of prosperity, and the role of local agents in evangelization - Coverage of global interconnections and networks, new movements, global Catholicism, Christian political engagement and persecution of Christian communities - A thorough revision of the conclusion, including reflection on the discipline of world Christianity and its implications for theology - 40 images and maps - Chapter summaries - Extra resources online including a timeline and weblinks - New text design and layout, making the text more student-friendly and accessible Christianity as a World Religion is ideal for courses on World Christianity, Christianity as a Global Religion, the History of Christianity and contemporary Christian theology.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1472569369

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9781472569363

Risk State

Japan's Foreign Policy in an Age of Uncertainty

By: Sebastian Maslow,Ra Mason,Paul O'Shea

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Risk State

Japan's Foreign Policy in an Age of Uncertainty

By: Sebastian Maslow,Ra Mason,Paul O'Shea

The increase of new complex security challenges and the heightening significance of a diverse array of actors has simultaneously posed a challenge to traditional perspectives on international relations and foreign policy and created an opportunity for new concepts to be applied. Conventional explanations of Japan’s foreign policy have provided us with theoretically predetermined understandings and fallacious predictions. Reformulating risk in its application to the study of international relations and foreign policy, this volume promises new insights into the analysis of contemporary foreign policy in East Asia and Japan’s post-Cold War international relations in particular.

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Routledge

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1317062760

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Hyperspectral Image Unmixing Incorporating Adjacency Information

By: Bauer, Sebastian

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Hyperspectral Image Unmixing Incorporating Adjacency Information

By: Bauer, Sebastian

While the spectral information contained in hyperspectral images is rich, the spatial resolution of such images is in many cases very low. Many pixel spectra are mixtures of pure materials' spectra and therefore need to be decomposed into their constituents. This work investigates new decomposition methods taking into account spectral, spatial and global 3D adjacency information. This allows for faster and more accurate decomposition results.

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KIT Scientific Publishing

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3731507889

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Data Scientists at Work

By: Sebastian Gutierrez

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Data Scientists at Work

By: Sebastian Gutierrez

Data Scientists at Work is a collection of interviews with sixteen of the world's most influential and innovative data scientists from across the spectrum of this hot new profession. "Data scientist is the sexiest job in the 21st century," according to the Harvard Business Review. By 2018, the United States will experience a shortage of 190,000 skilled data scientists, according to a McKinsey report. Through incisive in-depth interviews, this book mines the what, how, and why of the practice of data science from the stories, ideas, shop talk, and forecasts of its preeminent practitioners across diverse industries: social network (Yann LeCun, Facebook); professional network (Daniel Tunkelang, LinkedIn); venture capital (Roger Ehrenberg, IA Ventures); enterprise cloud computing and neuroscience (Eric Jonas, formerly Salesforce.com); newspaper and media (Chris Wiggins, The New York Times); streaming television (Caitlin Smallwood, Netflix); music forecast (Victor Hu, Next Big Sound); strategic intelligence (Amy Heineike, Quid); environmental big data (André Karpištšenko, Planet OS); geospatial marketing intelligence (Jonathan Lenaghan, PlaceIQ); advertising (Claudia Perlich, Dstillery); fashion e-commerce (Anna Smith, Rent the Runway); specialty retail (Erin Shellman, Nordstrom); email marketing (John Foreman, MailChimp); predictive sales intelligence (Kira Radinsky, SalesPredict); and humanitarian nonprofit (Jake Porway, DataKind). The book features a stimulating foreword by Google's Director of Research, Peter Norvig. Each of these data scientists shares how he or she tailors the torrent-taming techniques of big data, data visualization, search, and statistics to specific jobs by dint of ingenuity, imagination, patience, and passion. Data Scientists at Work parts the curtain on the interviewees’ earliest data projects, how they became data scientists, their discoveries and surprises in working with data, their thoughts on the past, present, and future of the profession, their experiences of team collaboration within their organizations, and the insights they have gained as they get their hands dirty refining mountains of raw data into objects of commercial, scientific, and educational value for their organizations and clients.

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Apress

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143026599X

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Avoiding Unintended Flows of Personally Identifiable Information : Enterprise Identity Management and Online Social Networks

By: Labitzke, Sebastian

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Avoiding Unintended Flows of Personally Identifiable Information : Enterprise Identity Management and Online Social Networks

By: Labitzke, Sebastian

This work addresses potentially occurring unintended flows of personally identifiable information (PII) within two fields of research, i.e., enterprise identity management and online social networks. For that, we investigate which pieces of PII can how often be gathered, correlated, or even be inferred by third parties that are not intended to get access to the specific pieces of PII. Furthermore, we introduce technical measures and concepts to avoid unintended flows of PII.

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3731500949

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Cantata No. 109 -- Ich glaube, lieber Herr

Choral Worship Cantata

By: Johann Sebastian Bach

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Cantata No. 109 -- Ich glaube, lieber Herr

Choral Worship Cantata

By: Johann Sebastian Bach

A Choral Worship Cantata in SATB with AT Soli voicing, composed by Johann Sebastian Bach.

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Alfred Music

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1457483718

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Choreographie als Kulturtechnik

Neue Perspektiven

By: Jörn Ahrens,Lisa Beißwanger,Hartmut Böhme,Gerko Egert,Susanne Foellmer,Sabine Huschka,Bojana Kunst,Kirsten Maar,Sebastian Matthias,Katja Schneider,Gerald Siegmund,Christina Thurner,Birgit Wiens

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Choreographie als Kulturtechnik

Neue Perspektiven

Der Begriff der Choreographie erfährt zurzeit eine bemerkenswerte interdisziplinäre Ausweitung: Choreographie wird als qualitative Instanz für die Analyse verschiedenster kultureller, gesellschaftlicher und ästhetischer Praktiken und Lebensformen verwandt und erscheint im Licht einer Kulturtechnik. Dabei markiert Choreographie diejenige Instanz, die chaotische und unübersichtliche Bewegungsformen in den Fluss bringen, ordnen und regulieren kann. Choreographie erhält geradezu eine kulturstiftende Dimension, die sie als Kulturtechnik zu denken gibt. Welches Potenzial birgt ein Verständnis von Choreographie als Kulturtechnik? Welche kulturprägenden Optionen liegen in der Kunst des Choreographischen und was bedeutet dies für den Begriff der Choreographie, der eng mit den Potenzialen des Körpers korreliert? Vor diesem Hintergrund eröffnet der Band eine kritische Auseinandersetzung mit den Funktionen, Potenzialen, Zuschreibungen und Versprechungen von Choreographie. Aus kulturtheoretischer und -soziologischer, tanz-, theater-, medien- und kunstwissenschaftlicher Perspektive werden ästhetische und kulturelle Tragweiten von Choreographie diskutiert und im Kontext von Szenographien, Erinnerungstechniken, Ausstellungskonzeptionen, Museums-Events, autobiographischen Entwürfen, Gesellschaftsformationen, Aufführungsästhetiken und digitalen Tools untersucht. Auf der Grundlage ihrer strukturellen Gefüge, die medial durch Notationen, scores und Handlungsanweisungen vermittelt sind, bringen Choreographien Formen und Gestalten hervor. Ihnen kommt dabei eine ästhetische und kulturelle Funktion der Ordnungsstiftung zu. Außerdem scheint ihre Kunst eine geradezu transformatorische Organisationskraft zu besitzen, die es versteht, mit energetischen Kräften zwischen Körpern, Räumen und Zeiten 'gliedernd' zu wirken. Choreographie erscheint mitunter sogar als eine kulturprägende Instanz, die mit einer Gabe der Selbstorganisation fern subjektzentrierter Einflussnahme ausgestattet ist. Mit Beiträgen von Jörn Ahrens, Lisa Beißwanger, Hartmut Böhme, Gerko Egert, Susanne Foellmer, Sabine Huschka, Bojana Kunst, Kirsten Maar, Sebastian Matthias, Katja Schneider, Gerald Siegmund, Christina Thurner und Birgit Wiens.

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Neofelis Verlag

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3958083943

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A History of Korean Christianity

A History of Korean Christianity

Theology in the Public Sphere

Theology in the Public Sphere

Christianity as a World Religion

Christianity as a World Religion

Risk State

Risk State

Hyperspectral Image Unmixing Incorporating Adjacency Information

Hyperspectral Image Unmixing Incorporating Adjacency Information

Data Scientists at Work

Data Scientists at Work

Avoiding Unintended Flows of Personally Identifiable Information : Enterprise Identity Management and Online Social Networks

Avoiding Unintended Flows of Personally Identifiable Information : Enterprise Identity Management and Online Social Networks

Cantata No. 109 -- Ich glaube, lieber Herr

Cantata No. 109 -- Ich glaube, lieber Herr

Choreographie als Kulturtechnik

Choreographie als Kulturtechnik

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