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Defying comprehension, the tragic history of the Holocaust has been alternately repressed and canonized in postmodern Western culture. Recently our …
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Media critics remain captivated by the modernist myth of the new: they assume that digital technologies such as the World …
"Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.""But there is also another sense in which …
Ways of Seeing is a key art-historical work that continues to provoke widespread debate. It is comprised of seven different …
This is the second volume of Thomas Cripps's definitive history of African-Americans in Hollywood. It covers the period from World …
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A groundbreaking account of perception and art, from one of the twentieth century’s most important art historiansE. H. Gombrich is …
From the art of the Greeks to that of Renoir and Moore, this work surveys the ever-changing fashions in what …
The nature of the visual has, over the past decade, moved to the center of debates in the humanities. No …
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The notion of modularity, introduced by Noam Chomsky and developed with special emphasis on perceptual and linguistic processes by Jerry …
The broad range of material included in these volumes suggests to the newcomer the nature of the field of artificial …
Six leading experts lecture on a wide spectrum of recent results on the subject of the title, providing both a …
For years, researchers have used the theoretical tools of engineering to understand neural systems, but much of this work has …
Blending algebra, analysis, and topology, the study of compact Lie groups is one of the most beautiful areas of mathematics …
This introduction to the representation theory of compact Lie groups follows Herman Weyl’s original approach. It discusses all aspects of …
The theory of Lie groups is a very active part of mathematics and it is the twofold aim of these …
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Algebraic combinatorics has evolved into one of the most active areas of mathematics during the last several decades. Its recent …
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This monograph presents a comprehensive treatment of important new ideas on Dirac operators and Dirac cohomology. Dirac operators are widely …
Setting the Stage -- Linear Algebra over the Complex Numbers -- Complex Scalar Product Spaces (a.k.a. Hilbert Spaces) -- Lie …
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Extraordinary Bodies is a cornerstone text of disability studies, establishing the field upon its publication in 1997. Framing disability as …