1450 results for '"Fried, Johannes'

This comprehensive new text is an excellent introduction to game theory, acessible to undergraduate and graduate students with a moderate background in mathematics. Using examples from both economics...

Modern philosophical thought has a manifold tradition of emphasising the moment. The Moment demands questioning all-too-common notions of time, of past, present and future, uniqueness and repetition,...

During the last twenty years the problem of pattern recognition (specifically, image recognition) has been studied intensively by many investigators, yet it is far from being solved. The number of...

Text: German

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In 1939, fifty million Americans went to the movies every week, Louis B. Mayer was the highest-paid man in the country, and Hollywood produced 530 feature films a year. One decade and five thousand...

Four bored teenagers plan a brutal gratuitous act as an expression of contempt for the mediocrity of everyday life in Austria. "Jelinek's prose is breathless and incisive as she paints psychological...

This popular introduction emphasizes the creative tension between solitude and contemplation and the call to be open to contemporary circumstances. McGreal shows how the figures of Elijah and Mary...

“Once upon a time there was a little witch who was only a hundred and  twenty-seven years old”—that’s how the story of the little witch and her talking raven Abraxas begins, and though one hundred...

The fall of the Berlin wall, the uprising at Tiananmen Square, the war in the Persian Gulf, the conflict in Bosnia―such events have been fundamentally affected by modern technology. As we become...

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The incredible story of MOVE, the revolutionary Black civil liberties group that Philadelphia police bombed in 1985, killing 11 civilians--by one of the few people born into the organization, raised...

Text: English, Danish (translation)

Since the beginning of its history, Islam has encountered other religious communities both in Arabia and in the territories conquered during its expansion. Muslims faced other religions from the...

"Luminous, evocative, and original."--Christina Baker KlineA daring, erotically charged novel about ambition, desire, and the dangerous pursuit of self-knowledge. Ina is a 41-year-old literary...

Briefly traces the history of Tyler Graphics, shows examples of prints made by the firm, and discusses the techniques of print making and paper making

Why do the basic technologies of education—the book and the lecture—endure in our digital age?Why are the fundamentals of education apparently so little changed in our era of digital technology? Is...