Telling the Evolutionary Time

Telling the Evolutionary Time
Author: Philip C J Donoghue
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2003-12-16
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 020364252X

Determining the precise timing for the evolutionary origin of groups of organisms has become increasingly important as scientists from diverse disciplines attempt to examine rates of anatomical or molecular evolution and correlate intrinsic biological events to extrinsic environmental events. Molecular clock analyses indicate that many major groups

The Ticklish Subject

The Ticklish Subject
Author: Slavoj Žižek
Publisher: Verso
Total Pages: 420
Release: 2000
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9781859842911

With his characteristic wit, Zizek addresses the burning question of how to reformulate a leftist project in an era of global capitalism and liberal-democratic multiculturalism. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Color Appearance Models

Color Appearance Models
Author: Mark D. Fairchild
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 485
Release: 2013-06-07
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1118653106

The essential resource for readers needing to understand visual perception and for those trying to produce, reproduce and measure color appearance in various applications such as imaging, entertainment, materials, design, architecture and lighting. This book builds upon the success of previous editions, and will continue to serve the needs of those professionals working in the field to solve practical problems or looking for background for on-going research projects. It would also act as a good course text for senior undergraduates and postgraduates studying color science. The 3rd Edition of Color Appearance Models contains numerous new and expanded sections providing an updated review of color appearance and includes many of the most widely used models to date, ensuring its continued success as the comprehensive resource on color appearance models. Key features: Presents the fundamental concepts and phenomena of color appearance (what objects look like in typical viewing situations) and practical techniques to measure, model and predict those appearances. Includes the clear explanation of fundamental concepts that makes the implementation of mathematical models very easy to understand. Explains many different types of models, and offers a clear context for the models, their use, and future directions in the field.

The Emerald Handbook of Appearance in the Workplace

The Emerald Handbook of Appearance in the Workplace
Author: Adelina Broadbridge
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2023-11-27
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1800711743

The first of its kind in addressing appearance and careers with varying approaches and across a diverse range of concepts, this Handbook provides an essential overview of the unspoken impact that personal presentation and assumptions can have on how employees are perceived and ultimately progress in their careers.

The Atlas Six

The Atlas Six
Author: Olivie Blake
Publisher: Tor Books
Total Pages: 453
Release: 2021-09-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1250854555

The much-acclaimed BookTok sensation, Olivie Blake's The Atlas Six--now newly revised and edited with additional content. • The tag #theatlassix has millions of views on TikTok • A dark academic debut fantasy with an established cult following that reads like THE SECRET HISTORY meets THE UMBRELLA ACADEMY • The first in an explosive trilogy The Alexandrian Society, caretakers of lost knowledge from the greatest civilizations of antiquity, are the foremost secret society of magical academicians in the world. Those who earn a place among the Alexandrians will secure a life of wealth, power, and prestige beyond their wildest dreams, and each decade, only the six most uniquely talented magicians are selected to be considered for initiation. Enter the latest round of six: Libby Rhodes and Nico de Varona, unwilling halves of an unfathomable whole, who exert uncanny control over every element of physicality. Reina Mori, a naturalist, who can intuit the language of life itself. Parisa Kamali, a telepath who can traverse the depths of the subconscious, navigating worlds inside the human mind. Callum Nova, an empath easily mistaken for a manipulative illusionist, who can influence the intimate workings of a person’s inner self. Finally, there is Tristan Caine, who can see through illusions to a new structure of reality—an ability so rare that neither he nor his peers can fully grasp its implications. When the candidates are recruited by the mysterious Atlas Blakely, they are told they will have one year to qualify for initiation, during which time they will be permitted preliminary access to the Society’s archives and judged based on their contributions to various subjects of impossibility: time and space, luck and thought, life and death. Five, they are told, will be initiated. One will be eliminated. The six potential initiates will fight to survive the next year of their lives, and if they can prove themselves to be the best among their rivals, most of them will. Most of them. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Predicting Perceptions: Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Appearance

Predicting Perceptions: Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Appearance
Author: Stefano Padilla
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2012-05-03
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 147166869X

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and appearance lies in the mind of the observer. The latter is playing an increasingly important role in nearly all of our buying decisions: it informs us as to the quality of an automobile cabin, the desirability of an iPhone, the handle of a woollen sweater - the list is endless.Given the exponential rise in internet commerce and the ubiquity of smart devices, the ability to predict buyers' perceptions formed from interaction with digital media is maybe more important than those obtained by handling the real article.Thus, the science of appearance metrology is becoming increasingly critical. It concerns the development of methodologies, procedures, and equipment which allow us to predict observers' perceptions. The field is therefore highly multidisciplinary: physical measurement, psychophysics, media generation, image processing, statistics, and vision science.This book is a compilation of recent research relating to perception and appearance.

The Structure of Appearance

The Structure of Appearance
Author: Nelson Goodman
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9401011842

With this third edition of Nelson Goodman's The Structure of Appear ance, we are pleased to make available once more one of the most in fluential and important works in the philosophy of our times. Professor Geoffrey Hellman's introduction gives a sustained analysis and appreciation of the major themes and the thrust of the book, as well as an account of the ways in which many of Goodman's problems and projects have been picked up and developed by others. Hellman also suggests how The Structure of Appearance introduces issues which Goodman later continues in his essays and in the Languages of Art. There remains the task of understanding Good man's project as a whole; to see the deep continuities of his thought, as it ranges from logic to epistemology, to science and art; to see it therefore as a complex yet coherent theory of human cognition and practice. What we can only hope to suggest, in this note, is the b. road Significance of Goodman's apparently technical work for philosophers, scientists and humanists. One may say of Nelson Goodman that his bite is worse than his bark. Behind what appears as a cool and methodical analysis of the conditions of the construction of systems, there lurks a radical and disturbing thesis: that the world is, in itself, no more one way than another, nor are we. It depends on the ways in which we take it, and on what we do.

Non-Appearance Before the International Court of Justice

Non-Appearance Before the International Court of Justice
Author: Jerome B. Elkind
Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Total Pages: 252
Release: 1984-09-17
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9024729211

Any dreams that Europe had at last become too mature a society of states for the continent to be afficted by bloody international disputes have been shattered in recent months. This unique book examines both the sources of disputes -the delimination of boundaries, ethnic differences, human rights violations, environmental damage, drug control, etc. -& the most appropriate methods for settling them. The examination is thorough & detailed, & the result is a substantial work, authored by leading authorities, many of whom have played major roles in devising & operating dispute settlement procedures. This bilingual (English & French) volume is destined to become an important vade-mecum for diplomats & officials, & a reference work of permanent significance for students, academics & all those interested in international law & relations.