2017年12月外文上架新书（部分）

【作  者】J. F. Pagel MS MD  (Author),‎ Philip Kirshtein (Author)

【出版社】Academic Press; 1 edition (May 9, 2017)

【馆藏地】理科馆外教中心（东）

【索书号】B845.1 /P133 /E

【简  介】 Machine Dreaming and Consciousness is the first book to discuss the questions raised by the advent of machine dreaming. Artificial intelligence (AI) systems meeting criteria of primary and self-reflexive consciousness are often utilized to extend the human interface, creating waking experiences that resemble the human dream. Surprisingly, AI systems also easily meet all human-based operational criteria for dreaming. These “dreams？ are far different from anthropomorphic dreaming, including such processes as fuzzy logic, liquid illogic, and integration instability, all processes that may be necessary in both biologic and artificial systems to extend creative capacity.

Today, multi-linear AI systems are being built to resemble the structural framework of the human central nervous system. The creation of the biologic framework of dreaming (emotions, associative memories, and visual imagery) is well within our technical capacity. AI dreams potentially portend the further development of consciousness in these systems. This focus on AI dreaming raises even larger questions. In many ways, dreaming defines our humanity. What is humanly special about the states of dreaming? And what are we losing when we limit our focus to its technical and biologic structure, and extend the capacity for dreaming into our artificial creations? Machine Dreaming and Consciousness provides thorough discussion of these issues for neuroscientists and other researchers investigating consciousness and cognition.

•Addresses the function and role of dream-like processing in AI systems

•Describes the functions of dreaming in the creative process of both humans and machines

•Presents an alternative approach to the philosophy of machine consciousness

•Provides thorough discussion of machine dreaming and consciousness for neuroscientists and other researchers investigating consciousness and cognition

 

【作  者】 Afsaneh Nahavandi

【出版社】Pearson; 7 edition (March 9, 2014)

【馆藏地】理科馆理科书库

【索书号】C933 /N153a(7) /E

【简  介】 The Art and Science of Leadership is intended for use in undergraduate and graduate courses in leadership. It is also suitable for any leader, or potential leader, who wants better decision making capability, more satisfied employees, better quality products and services, and more satisfied constituencies and customers.

Nahavandi’s text has an application emphasis with a cross cultural perspective on leadership.

 

This program will provide a better teaching and learning experience–for you and your students. Here’s how:

Encourage Students to Apply Theory to Their Own Development: Strong theoretical coverage and cutting-edge research is presented.

Cross Cultural Focus: A cross-cultural, racial, and gender-based analyses of leadership is presented.

Keep your Course Current and Relevant: New examples, exercises, and research findings appear throughout the text.

 

 

【作  者】Louis S. Gerteis 

【出版社】The University of North Carolina Press; New edition edition (June 1, 2011)

【馆藏地】理科馆理科书库

【索书号】D771.288 /L673 /E

【简  介】 From the late colonial period through the Civil War, slavery developed as the most powerful obstacle to the triumph of liberal values in America. In the second quarter of the nineteenth century, the ambiguities of the revolutionary generation's accomodation of slavery gave way to a direct and violent conflict between northern liberalism and southern slavery. The character of the antislavery movement -- its relationship to broader discussions of morality, law, political economy, and mass politics -- and the expectations it raised for the postemancipation South are central themes of this work.

 

In the past, historians of antislavery reform have distinguished between moral reform and political reform, between the uncompromising zeal of antislavery radicals and temporizing character of mass politics in the mid-nineteenth century. Louis Gerteis focuses on the evolution in antislavery reform of a liberal vision of progress and explores the manner in which moral sentiments against slavery advanced the utilitarian values of American capitalism.

 

Originally published in 1987.

 

A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

 

【作  者】Jonathan Berk (Author)

【出版社】Prentice Hall; 2 edition (January 8, 2011)

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【索书号】F275 /B512(2) /E

【简  介】The core concepts you expect. The new ideas you want. The pedagogy you need to succeed. 

 

Fundamentals of Corporate Finance’s applied perspective cements understanding of the modern-day core principles by equipping students with a problem-solving methodology and profiling real-life financial management practices—all within a clear valuation framework.

 

The second edition focuses on new topics and includes an increased emphasis on valuation.

 

【著  者】Robbert Woltering (Author)

【出版社】I.B.Tauris (March 15, 2011)

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【索书号】G219.411 /W868 /E

【简  介】While the Western perception of the ''the Orient'' has become a well-worn topic in the field of Asian and Middle Eastern studies, the way in which the Arab world has come to perceive the West has been largely neglected. Occidentalisms in the Arab World not only presents a comprehensive overview and pointed commentary on recent works in the emerging field of Occidentalist studies, but also provides new insight on the interplay between ideology and image in the formulation of ''the West.'' Robbert Woltering provides an in-depth look at the ways in which multiple representations -- occidentalisms -- of the West have developed in Egypt since the end of the Cold War. Through the rigorous analysis of political speeches, popular literature and recurrent images, Woltering examines the ideological foundations that continue to shape the image of the Occident in the twenty-first century. Occidentalisms in the Arab World provides an unparalleled and original commentary in an emerging field at the intersection of Middle East Studies, Political Science, and Media Studies.

 

 

【编  者】Betty T. Bennett (Editor),‎ Stuart Curran (Editor)

【出版社】Johns Hopkins University Press (July 25, 2003)

【馆藏地】理科馆外教中心（东）

【索书号】I561.074 /M393m /E

【简  介】Author of six novels, five volumes of biographical lives, two travel books, and numerous short stories, essays, and reviews, Mary Shelley is largely remembered as the author of Frankenstein, as the wife of Percy Bysshe Shelley, and as the daughter of William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft. This collection of essays, edited by Betty T. Bennett and Stuart Curran, offers a more complete and complex picture of Mary Shelley, emphasizing the full range and significance of her writings in terms of her own era and ours. Mary Shelley in Her Times brings fresh insight to the life and work of an often neglected or misunderstood writer who, the editors remind us, spent nearly three decades at the center of England's literary world during the country's profound transition between the Romantic and Victorian eras.

The essays in this volume demonstrate the importance of Mary Shelley's neglected novels, including Matilda, Valperga, The Last Man, and Falkner. Other topics include Mary Shelley's work in various literary genres, her editing of her husband's poetry and prose, her politics, and her trajectory as a female writer. This volume advances Mary Shelley studies to a new level of discourse and raises important issues for English Romanticism and women's studies.

Professor Marcel Danesi, an internationally-known expert in semiotics, branding and communication, answers the pertinent questions. Are emoji making us dumber? Can they ultimately replace language? Will people grow up emoji literate as well as digitally native? Can there be such a thing as a Universal Visual Language? Read this book for the answers.

 

 

 

 

【作  者】J.P. Park (Author)

【出版社】 University of Washington Press; First Edition edition (February 21, 2012)【馆藏地】理科馆外教中心（东）

【索书号】J209.248 /P235 /E

【简  介】Sometime before 1579, Zhou Lujing, a professional writer living in a bustling commercial town in southeastern China, published a series of lavishly illustrated books, which constituted the first multigenre painting manuals in Chinese history. Their popularity was immediate and their contents and format were widely reprinted and disseminated in a number of contemporary publications. Focusing on Zhou's work, Art by the Book describes how such publications accommodated the cultural taste and demands of the general public, and shows how painting manuals functioned as a form in which everything from icons of popular culture to graphic or literary cliche was presented to both gratify and shape the sensibilities of a growing reading public. As a special commodity of early modern China, when cultural standing was measured by a person's command of literati taste and lore, painting manuals provided nonelite readers with a device for enhancing social capital. 

 

J. P. Park builds on important recent research on social status, economic development, and print publishing in late imperial China to show how a world of social meaning is evident in the literary subgenre of painting manuals, and provides insight into the links between art history, print culture, and social history.

 

J. P. Park is assistant professor of art history at the University of California, Riverside.

 

【出版社】State University of New York Press; 1st US Edition 1st Printing edition (July 3, 1996)

【馆藏地】理科馆外教中心阅览室

【索书号】N02 /V879 /E

【简  介】Argues that the tradition of critical theory has had significant problems dealing with the concept of nature and that their solutions require taking seriously the idea of nature as socially constructed.

 

“Vogel's book lies at the intersection of three important fields: Marxist Critical Theory, postempiricist philosophy and sociology of science, and environmental ethics. It is truly excellent. The argument is original and convincing. The project of relating the Western Marxist tradition to contemporary trends in philosophy of science and environmental ethics enriches all three fields.”—Andrew Feenberg, San Diego State University

 

Against Nature examines the history of the concept of nature in the tradition of Critical Theory, with chapters on Lukacs, Horkheimer and Adorno, Marcuse, and Habermas. It argues that the tradition has been marked by significant difficulties with respect to that concept; that these problems are relevant to contemporary environmental philosophy as well; and that a solution to them requires taking seriously--and literally--the idea of nature as socially constructed.

 

“This is a stunningly good piece of work on a crucial problem within an influential tradition in twentieth-century philosophy. Vogel's book promises to be the definitive scholarly assessment of the problems and opportunities facing a Critical Theory of nature and science. Vogel sorts out the issues clearly and persuasively, showing how a fundamental, debilitating dilemma recurs throughout the tradition, yet also sympathetically displaying the strengths and accomplishments of each of the major figures, and suggesting a persuasive approach to avoiding the dilemma without abandoning the tradition's most basic commitments. All of the Critical Theorists are notoriously difficult writers, yet Vogel's own prose is a model of how to write philosophy accessibly.”—Joseph Rouse, Wesleyan University

 

“Vogel's book will immediately become the center of productive debate, since he uses such forceful arguments to slay a number of sacred cows. It will make him a major figure in his field.”—Michael Zimmerman, Tulane University

 

“In this reader's opinion, this book meets the highest standards of scholarly excellence, argumentative rigor, interpretive originality, and literary accomplishment.”—David Ingram, Loyola University of Chicago.

 

【作  者】John Thomson (Author)

【出版社】Guangxi Normal University Press; 2nd edition (May 1, 2015)

【馆藏地】理科馆外教中心（东）

【索书号】K928.9-64 /T483 /E

【简  介】Opium Wars, uprising of Taiping Heavenly Kingdomfacing these huge adversities, the corrupted and declining Qing Empire started westernization movement, learned from the advanced technology and system then the changes happened. The forerunner of documentary photography came to China right at that period, and he recorded the China got behind and striving to change and strengthen the power of nation. This earliest panoramic photo logging in China is also a masterpiece about introduction of China in multiple levels through visual pictures other than abstract statements.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

【作  者】William Sweet (Author)

【出版社】Yale University Press (December 6, 2016)

【馆藏地】理科馆外教中心（东）

【索书号】P467-05 /S974 /E

【简  介】 The essential primer for understanding climate diplomacy, describing both the major players and the path to progress, from the 1992 Rio Summit to the 2015 Paris Climate Conference

 

Climate Diplomacy from Rio to Paris is the first accessible overview of climate diplomacy in its first quarter century. The author, who has reported on energy and climate for two decades, provides readers with a nuanced account of the major players and their interests—from the United States, the European Union, and China to environmental organizations, the United Nations, and the Vatican—and analyzes the outcomes of the major climate conferences at Rio, Kyoto, Copenhagen, and Paris.