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Outside Color: Perceptual Science and the Puzzle of Color in Philosophy (Mit Press)
Vendor: Abebooks.com Price: 50.66 $An integrated study of the history, philosophy, and science of color that offers a novel theory of the metaphysics of color.Is color real or illusory, mind independent or mind dependent? Does seeing in color give us a true picture of external reality? The metaphysical debate over color has gone on at least since the seventeenth century. In this book, M. Chirimuuta draws on contemporary perceptual science to address these questions. Her account integrates historical philosophical debates, contemporary work in the philosophy of color, and recent findings in neuroscience and vision science to propose a novel theory of the relationship between color and physical reality. Chirimuuta offers an overview of philosophy's approach to the problem of color, finds the origins of much of the familiar conception of color in Aristotelian theories of perception, and describes the assumptions that have shaped contemporary philosophy of color. She then reviews recent work in perceptual science that challenges philosophers' accounts of color experience. Finally, she offers a pragmatic alternative whereby perceptual states are understood primarily as action-guiding interactions between a perceiver and the environment. The fact that perceptual states are shaped in idiosyncratic ways by the needs and interests of the perceiver does not render the states illusory. Colors are perceiver-dependent properties, and yet our awareness of them does not mislead us about the world. Colors force us to reconsider what we mean by accurately presenting external reality, and, as this book demonstrates, thinking about color has important consequences for the philosophy of perception and, more generally, for the philosophy of mind.
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Alexej von Jawlensky: Gesicht ? Landschaft ? Stillleben
Vendor: Abebooks.com Price: 29.61 $Gut/Very good: Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit wenigen Gebrauchsspuren an Einband, Schutzumschlag oder Seiten. / Describes a book or dust jacket that does show some signs of wear on either the binding, dust jacket or pages.
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The Logic of Political Survival (Mit Press)
Vendor: Abebooks.com Price: 33.35 $The authors of this ambitious book address a fundamental political question: why are leaders who produce peace and prosperity turned out of office while those who preside over corruption, war, and misery endure? Considering this political puzzle, they also answer the related economic question of why some countries experience successful economic development and others do not. The authors construct a provocative theory on the selection of leaders and present specific formal models from which their central claims can be deduced. They show how political leaders allocate resources and how institutions for selecting leaders create incentives for leaders to pursue good and bad public policy. They also extend the model to explain the consequences of war on political survival. Throughout the book, they provide illustrations from history, ranging from ancient Sparta to Vichy France, and test the model against statistics gathered from cross-national data. The authors explain the political intuition underlying their theory in nontechnical language, reserving formal proofs for chapter appendixes. They conclude by presenting policy prescriptions based on what has been demonstrated theoretically and empirically.
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Building Construction Before Mechanization (The MIT Press)
Vendor: Abebooks.com Price: 28.49 $How were huge stones moved from quarries to the sites of Egyptian pyramids? How did the cathedral builders of the Middle Ages lift blocks to great heights by muscle power alone? In this intriguing book John Fitchen explains and illustrates the solutions to these and many other puzzles in preindustrial building construction. This is the first general survey of the practices and role of the builder (as opposed to the designer) in constructing an array of structures. Fitchen's approach gives a valuable hands-on feel for what it's like to work with ropes and ladders, wedges and slings; with crews engaged in well digging, bridge building, and the transporting of obelisks hundreds of miles by water and over land. The buildings discussed range from the tents, tepees, and igloos of nomadic tribes to the monumental pyramids of Egypt, the temples of Greece, the aqueducts of Rome, and the cathedrals of medieval Europe.
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Will Shortz presents Ultimate Sudoku: 1000 Wordless Crossword Puzzles
Vendor: Abebooks.com Price: 45.83 $Ul·ti·mate (ul´te mit) adj.---of the greatest size or importance, the maximum; when used to describe puzzles, refers to sudoku as the widely acknowledged "king of logic puzzles" from the world's #1 puzzle guru, Will ShortzWill Shortz Presents Ultimate Sudoku is the biggest, boldest, and most impressive collection of sudoku available. If you can't get enough of these addictive, seductive puzzles, then the book for you has finally arrived. So prepare to dive into sudoku: With one thousand puzzles, you'll always be satisfied!Features:· 1,000 top-quality sudoku from easy to hard· Edited by legendary New York Times crossword editor Will Shortz· Big grids with lots of space for easy solving
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Georges Braque 1906 - 1914: Inventor of Cubism
Vendor: Abebooks.com Price: 21.38 $Neu -Vor dem Ersten Weltkrieg prägt der junge Georges Braque (1882-1963) mit seinem Freund Pablo Picasso acht Jahre lang die vielleicht revolutionärste Etappe in der Geschichte der modernen Malerei: den Kubismus. Landschaften und Stillleben sind seine Spezialmotive. Das Buch zeigt, wie Braque in rasanter Abfolge und auf höchstem Niveau die stilistischen Mittel weiterentwickelt oder neu erfindet: Fauvismus, Vorkubismus, Analytischer Kubismus, Papier Collés und Synthetischer Kubismus folgen in einzigartiger Verdichtung aufeinander. Tempo und Intensität der Stilwechsel verblüffen bis heute. Die Jahre vor dem Ersten Weltkrieg bringen in Westeuropa bahnbrechende Erfindungen, neue Denkweisen und Philosophien und die faszinierende Beschleunigung des Alltags hervor. Dort liegt der Ursprung unseres modernen, medialen Zeitalters, mit dem sich auch die räumlichen und zeitlichen Wahrnehmungsweisen völlig verändern. So eröffnen Automobile, Flugzeuge und Röntgenbilder neue Blickwinkel und dynamische Perspektiven auf die Welt. Das immer populärer werdende Kino mit seinen überraschenden bildtechnischen Möglichkeiten erweitert den Wahrnehmungshorizont und wird zur Inspiration der malenden Avantgarde. In der Werkgeschichte des jungen Braque, der ein begeisterter Kinogänger ist und sich von den neuen Techniken des Films anregen lässt, erscheinen die Ereignisse der Zeit wie in einem Brennglas fokussiert. Das Buch folgt dieser Faszination und verortet Braques künstlerische Phasen in den historischen Kontext. 240 pp. Deutsch
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