Cultural Studies
"Looking Awry"An Introduction to Jacques Lacan Through Popular Culture
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"October Books" series; Provides a reading of the psychoanalytical theory of Jacques Lacan through the works of contemporary popular culture, from horror fiction and detective thrillers to popular romances and Hitchcock films. New ed. Paperback, 200 pages. Size: 174 x 228 mm. Weight: 320g.
Author: Zizek, Slavoj
ISBN: 026274015X
Publisher: Mit Press Ltd
Date: 1992 (United States)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Cultural Studies
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"Plague of Fantasies"
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"Wo Es War" series; This volume posits that the current epoch is plagued by fantasies. There is an intensifying antagonism between the ever greater abstraction of people's lives - whether in the form of digitalization or market relations - and the deluge of pseudo-concrete images which surround people. Paperback, 288 pages. Size: 230 x 130 mm. Weight: 425g.
Author: Zizek, Slavoj
ISBN: 1859841937
Publisher: Verso Books
Date: 1997 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Cultural Studies
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"Conversations With Zizek"
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"Conversations" series; Slavoj Zizek is a Slovenian sociologist who trained as a Lacanian and uses Lacan to analyse popular culture and politics. This book illustrates the originality of Zizek's thinking on psychoanalysis, philosophy, multi-culturalism, popular/cyber culture, totalitarianism, ethics and politics. It provides a glimpse of Zizek's humour and character. With 0. Paperback, 184 pages. Size: 217 x 140 mm. Weight: 244g.
Author: Zizek, Slavoj Daly, Glyn
ISBN: 0745628974
Publisher: Blackwell Publishers
Date: 2003 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Cultural Studies
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"Drugs, Addiction and Initiation"The Modern Search for Ritual
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Examines that pervasive abuse of drugs in our society can in be ascribed to a resurgence of collective need for initiation and initiatory structures: a longing for something sacred underlies our culture's manic drive toward excessive consumption. New ed. Paperback, 133 pages. Size: 230 x 155 mm. Weight: 227g.
Author: Zoja, Luigi
ISBN: 3856305955
Publisher: Daimon Verlag
Date: 2000 (Switzerland)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Cultural Studies
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"Cultures of Cities"
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Shows how three notions of culture - as ethnicity, aesthetic, and marketing tool - reshape urban places and conflicts over revitalization. This book rejects the idea that cities have either a singular urban culture or many different subcultures to argue that cultures are constantly negotiated in the city's central spaces. With 6. Paperback, 336 pages. Size: 229 x 152 mm.
Author: Zukin, Sharon Zukin, Sharon
ISBN: 1557864373
Publisher: Blackwell Publishers
Date: 1995 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Cultural Studies
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"Codes, Graphs and Systems"
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"International Series in Engineering and Computer Science" series; A collection of contributions from world-renowned experts in coding theory, information theory, and signal processing, this book provides a broad perspective on contemporary research in these areas. With illustrations, port.. Hardback, 480 pages. Size: 230 x 158 mm. Weight: 794g.
Author: (Blahut, Richard E., ed.)
ISBN: 0792376862
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers Group
Date: 2002 (Netherlands)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Cybernetics & Systems Theory
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"Cyberspace/Cyberbodies/Cyberpunk"Cultures of Technological Embodiment
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"Published in Association With Theory, Culture & Society" series; An investigation into the realities of human embodiment and the limits of virtual worlds. Topics examined include: the challenge presented by cyberspace to the social and cultural forms of the human body and the cultural implications of the changing relationship between the body and technology. Paperback, 288 pages. Size: 234 x 156 mm. Weight: 431g.
Author: (Featherstone, Mike, ed.)
ISBN: 0761950850
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
Date: 1996 (United States)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Cybernetics & Systems Theory
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"Handbook of Graphs and Networks"From the Genome to the Internet
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Looks at complex interacting networks in systems from such diverse areas as physics, biology, economics, ecology, and computer science. With illustrations (some col.). Hardback, 417 pages. Size: 246 x 186 mm. Weight: 919g.
Author: (Bornholdt, Stefan, ed.)
ISBN: 3527403361
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Date: 2002 (Germany)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Cybernetics & Systems Theory
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"Online Optimization of Large Scale Systems"State of the Art
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In online optimization the main issue is incomplete data, and the scientific challenge: How well can an online algorithm perform? Can one guarantee solution quality, even without knowing all data in advance? This book attempts to answer those questions and others. With 162 figures, 27 tables. Hardback, 815 pages. Weight: 1270g.
Author: (Grotschel, Martin, ed.)
ISBN: 3540424598
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg Gmbh & Co. Kg
Date: 2001 (Germany)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Cybernetics & Systems Theory
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"Progress in Simulation"
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This text on progress in computer simulation includes discussion of simulation software, parallel simulation techniques, knowledge-based simulations, simulation of neural nets, object-orientated simulation reuse of simulation models, and applications of simulation in areas such as architecture. With indexes. Hardback, 412 pages. Weight: 585g.
Author: (Zobrist, George W., ed.)
ISBN: 0893916536
Publisher: Intellect Books
Date: 1999 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Cybernetics & Systems Theory
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"Systems Approaches and Their Application"Examples From Sweden
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Describes the actual application of systems thinking across a broad field of cases representing research, teaching, decision support and construction. The focus on Sweden reinforces the unitary context in which comparison can be made between a systems approach for better research (theory), better practice and better design and construction. With illustrations. Hardback, 357 pages. Size: 234 x 156 mm. Weight: 682g.
Author: (Sjostedt, Gunnar, ed.)
ISBN: 1402023693
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers Group
Date: 2004 (Netherlands)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Cybernetics & Systems Theory
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"Nonlinear Dynamics of Chaotic and Stochastic Systems"Tutorial and Modern Developments
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"Springer Series in Synergetics" series; Serves as a treatise on the theory of nonlinear dynamics of chaotic and stochastic systems. This book contains a discussion of fundamental problems and research results in a field. It includes sections on statistical properties of dynamical chaos, on effects of synchronization in oscillatory systems and on synchronization in living systems. With 221 black & white illustrations, 1 black & white tables, 56 black & white halftones, 165 black & whi. 2 rev ed. Hardback, 466 pages. Size: 235 x 155 mm. Weight: 779g.
Author: Anishchenko, Vadim S. Astakhov, Vladimir Neiman, Alexander Vadivasova, Tatjana Schimansky-Geier, Lutz
ISBN: 3540381643
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg Gmbh & Co. Kg
Date: 2007 (Germany)
Readership: Further/Higher Education Cybernetics & Systems Theory
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"System Theory and Practical Applications of Biomedical Signals"
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"Biomedical Engineering" series; Biomedical and digital signal processing researchers rarely have expertise in practical medical applications, and medical instrumentation designers usually are unfamiliar with system theory. This work bridges those gaps in a practical manner, showing how various aspects of system theory are put into practice by industry. With ill.. Hardback, 472 pages. Size: 258 x 183 mm. Weight: 1022g.
Author: Baura, G D
ISBN: 0471236535
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Date: 2002 (United States)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Cybernetics & Systems Theory
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"Bionics for the Evil Genius"25 Build-It-Yourself Projects
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"Evil Genius" series; Once the focus of popular 70's TV, bionics (integrating mechanical and electronic materials with living matter) are used to replace or repair physiological or anatomical functions or disorders. This title provides a way to learn bionics via 25 projects. With illustrations. Paperback, 196 pages. Size: 271 x 210 mm. Weight: 488g.
Author: Braga, Newton C.
ISBN: 0071459251
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
Date: 2006 (United States)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Cybernetics & Systems Theory
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"Dynamical Systems, Ergodic Theory and Applications"
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"Encyclopaedia of Mathematical Sciences" series; This volume sets out to familiarize the reader with the fundamental ideas and results of modern ergodic theory and its applications to dynamical systems and statistical mechanics. The exposition starts from the basics of the subject, introducing ergodicity, mixing and entropy. With 25 figs.. 2nd exp. And revised ed. Hardback, 470 pages. Weight: 726g.
Author: Bunimovich, L.A. Sukhov, Yu.M. Vershik, A.M. Dani, S.G. Dobrushin, R.L. Jakobson, M.V. Kornfeld, I.P. Maslova, N.B. Pesin, Ya B. Smillie, J.
ISBN: 3540663169
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg Gmbh & Co. Kg
Date: 2000 (Germany)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Cybernetics & Systems Theory
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