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This highly original collection brings together some of the most important minds in both contemporary art history and theory, and law and legal history. The result is a fascinating discussion of the diverse relationships between law and the artistic image.

The essays draw on the critical procedures of law, art history, and cultural studies in order to create a new interdisciplinary field of visual culture and law. In exploring the hidden interdependence of law and art, the writings refute the generally held conception that law is fixed and rational while the judgment of art is autonomous and ambiguous. Among the topics addressed are the history of the relationship between art and law, the ways in which the visual is made subject to the force of the law, and the complex relations between law, the image, and identity.

With its groundbreaking ideas from a variety of intellectual traditions and disciplines, this book puts law and art into a new and exciting conversation that will introduce a new field of study and spark international debate.

Contributors are: Georges Didi-Huberman, Costas Douzinas, Hal Foster, Peter Goodrich, Piyel Haldar, Martin Jay, Mandy Merck, Lynda Nead, Jonathan Ribner, Katherine Fischer Taylor.

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ABOUT THE INTERRELATION OF LAW AND AESTHETICS.......2002-04-13

This is an interesting recopilation of essays about the relationship of law and art, normativism and creativity, obscenity and common mores. It contains contributions by several scholars in the field of Art and Law and is edited by professors Costas Douzinas and Lynda Nead.
The main scope of the book is to provide insights into the relationship between art and the law. As the editors write in the introduction:
"Lawyers live by the text and love the past, they hate novelty and misunderstand new languages. The law is able to appreciate new art only after it becomes like law. Great art, on the other hand, precisely because it breaks away from conventions and rules and expresses creative freedom and imagination, is the anthitesis of law. The law of art is the opposite of the rule of law......"
So here we find out how the individual is treated in abstract by the law and how the self in art is free, corporeal, with gender and history. We also learn about the allegorical images of Justice, during different ages and how obscenity, law and art intermingle. I found very illuminating,in this perspective, the basic qualities that prof. Nead assigns to the connoisseur of art: knowledge and judgment. "Connoisseurship -she writes- assumes a thorough knowledge of the subject concerned, which forms the basis of a critical judgment. But what kind of judgment is involved in connosseurship? The obvious answer would seem to be, an aesthetic sort-the perception and appraisal of pure form, of that which is beautiful. But at the point at which connoisseurship appears to have clearly defined aims and objects, the borders begin to dissolve; cerebral criteria become corporalized and the judgement of artistic form is compromised by the regulation of bodies and behaviors.."
And finally a startling conclusion is drawn: the prevention of obscenity by law acts to control mass culture and publics and to insulate the high culture and private consumption from legal intervention. This because what gentlemen choose to have in their private collections is a matter of taste; it is not a matter for the law......

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The interpretation of remote sensing images requires knowledge of the instruments used to acquire the images as well as the computer processing techniques used to generate them. Remote Sensing for Geologists: A Guide to Image Interpretation covers technology and processing techniques as they directly relate to interpreting imagery. This book is a manual of image interpretation that demonstrates what to look for on imagery when engaged in mineral or hydrocarbon exploration, mine and oil field development, engineering projects, and environmental monitoring. Four sections comprise this volume: project initiation; exploration techniques; exploitation and engineering remote sensing; and environmental concerns. They combine to provide you with a solid foundation of what image interpretation is, and enables you to recognize features of interest and effectively use imagery in projects for the petroleum, mining, or groundwater industries. About the Author Gary Prost obtained a BSc in Geology from Northern Arizona University and an MSc and PhD in Geology from the Colorado School of Mines. Over the past 25 years Prost has worked for the US Geological Survey, the Superior Oil Company (oil and minerals), and Amoco Production Company, serving four and a half years as the supervisor of the remote sensing group. His remote sensing experience includes both mineral and oil exploration in the United States and in more than thirty other countries. He is presently exploring for oil in frontier areas of Canada.

A Guide to Remote Sensing: Interpreting Images of the Earth (Oxford science publications)

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A Guide to Remote Sensing: Interpreting Images of the Earth (Oxford science publications)
S.A. Drury
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Images of the Earth: A Guide to Remote Sensing (Oxford Science Publications)

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Images of the Earth: A Guide to Remote Sensing (Oxford Science Publications)
S. A. Drury
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Entertaining yet serious, this text examines every facet of the Earth's surface: the ocean depths, paths of hurricanes, the productivity of forests and farms, where mineral riches lie, the damage that we humans do and the tragedy of nature's own catastrophes.

A Guide to Remote Sensing : Interpreting Images of the Earth

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A Guide to Remote Sensing : Interpreting Images of the Earth
S. A. Drury
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A Guide to Remote Sensing- Interpreting Images of the Earth
S. A. Drury
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Images of Earth - a Teacher's Guide to Remote Sensing in Geography at Key Stage 2

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Images of Earth - a Teacher's Guide to Remote Sensing in Geography at Key Stage 2
Michael Barnett , Ashley Kent , and Mike Milton
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Images of the Earth - A Guide to Remote Sensing

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Images of the Earth - A Guide to Remote Sensing
S. A., Drury
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disapointing.......2007-07-12

I was quite disappointed with this book. I came from the "Feynman lectures on computation", a really enlightening book that answers fundamental questions.
Do not look for the same kind of book in the "Feynman and computation" it is a quite old and non-fundamental view of the subjects.

Memories of a great scientist.......2007-01-15

Recollections about Richard Feynman (W. Daniel Hillis's "Richard Feynman and The Connection Machine" is the most interesting one), a few articles by the great physicist himself, and a number of invited articles on the physics of information and computation by Tommaso Toffoli, John Archibald Wheeler, Wojciech Zurek, Ed Fredkin, and so on. The pictures of fluid dynamics problems simulated using cellular automata are very cute!

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A Feynman look at computers and computing
Mostly brilliant
I like this book
Dissapointing is correct
Dissapointing

Feynman Lectures on Computation
Tony Hey , and Richard P. Feynman
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The famous physicist's timeless lectures on the promise and limitations of computers

When, in 1984-86, Richard P. Feynman gave his famous course on computation at the California Institute of Technology, he asked Tony Hey to adapt his lecture notes into a book. Although led by Feynman, the course also featured, as occasional guest speakers, some of the most brilliant men in science at that time, including Marvin Minsky, Charles Bennett, and John Hopfield. Although the lectures are now thirteen years old, most of the material is timeless and presents a "Feynmanesque" overview of many standard and some not-so-standard topics in computer science such as reversible logic gates and quantum computers.

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A Feynman look at computers and computing.......2007-08-05

There is an amazing amount of material in this small volume, and it is presented in Feynman's
very clear style. It covers to some depth many of the topics of a computer science education,
but also includes a lot of material from physics and engineering related to how semiconductor
chips of the early eightys operate.

The early chapters explain how a computer does a few simple operations, and how longer and longer
sequences of simple operations accomplish more complex tasks. Feynman continues with a look at
the details of the operations, as implemented in gates, decoders, flip flops, and other bits of
hardware. He continues with several topics from computer science, such as finite state machines,
Turing machines, computability, and a little bit about computer languages. Then he jumps back to
bits and the representation of information, including data compression, error detection and error
correction.

The last sections deal with physics, such as the thermodynamics of computation, and quantum mechanics
of computation.

I suspect most readers will find some sections much more interesting than others. Some places I
wished there was a way to give six or seven stars. A few times I wondered if I should skim the
remainder of the chapter or just skip it entirely. I read on and found a section I was glad I
had not missed.

Mostly brilliant.......2006-05-09

Of course, 'brilliant' is what you'd expect from Feynman. These lectures, originally presented in 1983-6, capture a number of the most fundamental, esoteric concepts in computing. Since Feynman is doing the explaining, however, the ideas come across clear and strong.

Chapter 3, on the basic theory of computation, introduces not only the Turing machine, but also the basic idea of what things can and can not possibly be computed and why. He also explains the "universal" machine, and the meaning of universality that mathematically steps up from any one machine to all machines. The next chapters discuss coding theory. That has body of knowledge has since become pervasive in our every-day lives, even if it's never visible. After that two chapters present the physical limits to computation, and how computation can approach those limits using quantum mechanics.

This includes the superfically odd idea of reversible computation. I say odd because, for example, knowing that two numbers add up to six doesn't tell you whether the two were five and one, zero and six, or some other combination. You normally can't run addition backwards from the sum to the summands, so standard addition is said to be irreversible. Reversibility gives amazing properties to a system, however, and things like the Toffoli gates show how it can be implemented.

The only disappointments in this book come from the very beginning and very end. The beginning describes what a computer is, as if the reader had never heard of computers before. I guess that basic level is still needed, but is no longer needed at the college level. The very end describes silicon technology, as it was known in the early 1980s. Despite some fascinating bits of device physics and some heavy editing, that discussion has aged with the rapidity you'd expect from Moore's law. And in a few places, the older discussions of biological systems have aged poorly.

Still, his explorations of the physical limits to computation as just as fresh and salient as ever. I recommend this to anyone with a beginner's interest in the foundations of coding, computing, and quantum computation.

//wiredweird

I like this book.......2004-11-10

Yes, I think you can teach the theory of computation from this book. And you can learn it from this book. Some of the material isn't all that recent, but much of it doesn't need to be.

35 years ago, if one were teaching a course on the theory of computation, I'd have recommended Minsky's book (it came out in 1967). That was a great text. Nowadays, there are numerous choices. But one could still use books that originally came out well before Feynman's notes, such as Lewis & Papadimitriou or Hopcroft, Motwani, and Ullman.

The question boils down to the quality of what is in the book, as well as what material it has that other books do not, and what material it is missing that most other texts have.

This book is quite readable and preserves much of Feynman's teaching style. So let's look at what it is missing. First, it doesn't talk much about real neurons. Of course, even Minsky doesn't dwell much on that, and other computation books avoid that topic too. But now, there's a more serious omission. Feynman spends something like two pages on grammars! If you were using Lewis and Papadimitriou (first edition) there would be a chapter of over 70 pages on context-free languages alone. As a teacher or a student, would you really want to miss all that?

No, as a student, you would have to read up on all that material elsewhere. And as a teacher, you would have to use another book or write your own notes. That material is too much a part of most required curricula.

But that doesn't take away from the value of the book when it comes to the rest of the material. And the final four chapters, which discuss coding and information theory, reversible computation and the thermodynamics of computing, quantum mechanical computers, and some physical aspects of computation, are all useful material that you often won't see in other computation texts.

As a student, I'd read the book. As a teacher, I'd recommend it to my students. But as either, I wouldn't expect to use it as the only textbook.

Dissapointing is correct.......2004-02-19

We physicists want a readable book on computability, degrees of computational complexity, and the like. Feynman would have been the writer to provide us with that. We're fortunate to have anything at all of what Feynman thought about the subject, but this book (taken from Feynman's rough lecture notes) does not do the job. E.g., in the first chapter we're presented with a description of RPF's joy in discovery and corresponding philosophy of how to understand anything: don't read about it, just work it out by yourself in umpteen different ways (nothing new about Feynman there!), but the examples provided of how Feynman actullally worked it out can be compared with some of Arnol'd's presentations of how he worked out mechanics problems in his text on Classical Mechanics (state the problem, then state the final result). So we still need a SYSTEMATIC 'written-for physicists' text on computability. Neverthless, we can be grateful to Hey and Allen for putting together these stimulating Feynman fragments for us, especially since they stem from his last days of life as a physicist.

By the way, Feynman certainly would not have agreed with S. Weinberg's extreme reductionist philisophy that asserts that once we've understood quantum theory and quarks then we've understood physics/nature, that 'the rest is mere detail'. On the other hand, he surely would have horselaughed the holists who proclaim that reductionism is dead, that physics will become more like 'poetry'. The lie in the latter nonsense is exposed by the entire field of genetics and cell biology, which is where the 'real' complexity in nature is to be found. Every physics student should be required to take a good class in molecular biolgy these days, a subject that's a lot more important and a lot more interesting than string theory (which, as Feynman more or less said, has degenerated into mere philosophy in the absence of experiments to test the ideas) .

Dissapointing.......2003-11-29

I find this book dissapointing. It doesn't compare with the insight, clarity, and beauty found in the famous "Feynman lectures in physics". Basically what Feynman does in this book is simplify and coaches one though complex Computer Science/ Information Theory Concepts. The book may have the small size of a novel, but I find it to be more like a textbook; because it has many equations (even exercises in the first chapter), and also one has to be quite attentive while reading. I'm not saying this is a bad book, only that, if you liked the "Feynman lectures in physics" it doesn't automatically mean you'll like this book. This book is different, obviously in the sense that it doesn't deal much with physics, and secondly in the fact that it is not passionatly written, I think. Why is this book so expensive anyways?
Now that you got my warning. I can definitely recomend this book for people intereseted in things like:
-theoretical limits of computers (enthropy, energy)
-physical realizations of logic gates (transistors)
-quantum computers

Feynman and Computation: Exploring the Limits of Computers (The Advanced Book Program)

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Plenty of interesting articles
Feynman is...well, Feynman

Feynman and Computation: Exploring the Limits of Computers (The Advanced Book Program)

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Plenty of interesting articles.......2004-11-13

I know I'm not supposed to discuss other reviews, but I would like to point out that the previous review is for a different book! It is for the Feynman Lectures on Computation! And that is an excellent book which is very useful (although probably insufficient) for anyone taking (or teaching) a class on the theory of computation.

This book is quite different. It's a collection of intriguing articles, as well as some reminiscences about Richard Feynman. Feynman had a tendency to tell fascinating stories. It was part and parcel of his style. And it's generally fun to see more of his stories and more stories about him.

The book is divided into five parts. The first is related to the Feynman course on computation. It includes a nice article on neural networks by John Hopfield (I wish some of this material had been put into the "lectures on computation" book!). And an interesting article showing that the motion of Pluto is chaotic. The next section is on reducing the size of computers, which includes scaling of MOS technology and theoretical limits on size reduction. After that comes the "quantum" section. That has an article by Feynman on simulating physics with computers, followed by rather instructive articles on quantum robots, quantum information theory, and quantum computation.

The fourth section is on parallel computation. And the final section is on "fundamentals." This includes an article by John A. Wheeler (Feynman's thesis advisor at Princeton) who asks what quantum physics and information theory can tell us about the question, "How come existence?"

I enjoyed this book very much.

Feynman is...well, Feynman.......2000-10-20

I ordered this book, not knowing what to expect...whether it would be aimed at a general audience or (like his Physics Lectures) something even professionals have to work hard to master. As I started reading it my first reaction was, groan, I've been programming for over fifteen years and this is definitely for total beginners. He gives a brief introduction, a "file clerk model" and then introduces "instruction sets". With his first exercise you begin to realize this is not going to be bedside reading. If you try to think the problems through it is definitely uphill, but once you get to the peaks the sight is exhilarating... This book is demanding but ranks among the best to have come out in a long time (but then I happen to like the three major aspects of the book, math, physics and computer science so maybe I am just a bit biased).

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Feynman Lectures on Computation
Richard P. Feynman
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The rarest of scrolls from the days of Ghengis Khan, shadowy villains, and an ancient organization with ties to modern organized crime are just the start. For this case will take Charlie Chan across the Pacific in search of answers . . . and to the edges of the human psyche!

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Earl Derr Biggers' classic detective Charlie Chan investigates a cult called the Temple of the Golden Horde, which may be involved in murder! This short novel, by Edgar Award nominee Michael Collins, originally appeared in Charlie Chan Mystery Magazine in 1974. This is the first book publication. Features a new introduction by the author.

The Temple of the Golden Horde (Charlie Chan Mystery Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 3)

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The Temple of the Golden Horde (Charlie Chan Mystery Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 3)
Robert Hart Davis
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