Collecting and Safeguarding the Oral Traditions

Collecting and Safeguarding the Oral Traditions
Author: John McIlwaine
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2013-02-07
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110955431

The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) is the leading international body representing the interests of library and information services and their users. It is the global voice of the information profession. The series IFLA Publications deals with many of the means through which libraries, information centres, and information professionals worldwide can formulate their goals, exert their influence as a group, protect their interests, and find solutions to global problems.

Limits in Perception

Limits in Perception
Author: van Doorn
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 609
Release: 2020-01-29
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1000715140

This book presents an analysis of limits in perception from the vantage point of the physicist, the engineer, the psychophysicist, the psychologist and the theorist. Limits in perception find their causal explanation at many logically and/or physically different levels. Some of the most fundamental bottlenecks are due to the quantum mechanical and atomistic structure of the microworld. Other simple constraints are due to the material constitution of sensory organs. For instance, the fact that the eye is predominantly composed of water limits both the optical quality and the available spectral window. The engineer uses knowledge on such limits to design equipment that optimizes human performance in daily life. Examples include room acoustics and visual displays. Psychophysicists and psychologists deal with limits on a quite different logical level. These limits constrain much of our perceptually guided behaviour. The book includes chapters on such topics as movement perception, binocular vision, illusory phenomena, language and perception, the perception of time. A few concluding chapters on fundamental limits imposed by information theoretical constraints on the coding and representation of sensed structure are included. Limits in Perception will be important reading material for scientists and/or engineers in the following fields: perception, experimental psychology, sensory biology, physics, neuroscience, human engineering, artificial intelligence, robotics, ophthalmology, audiology, psychonomics and ergonomics, remote sensing.

High Temperature Materials

High Temperature Materials
Author: Subhash C. Singhal
Publisher: The Electrochemical Society
Total Pages: 302
Release: 2002
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9781566773713

The Gotti Tapes

The Gotti Tapes
Author: Ralph Blumenthal
Publisher: Crown
Total Pages: 421
Release: 2012-05-09
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 0307814904

The author of Last Days of the Sicilians presents a look into the Mafia in the tradition of Wiseguy and Boss of Bosses. Culled from years of wiretapping, here are the unexpurgated FBI tapes of mobster John Gotti, which reveal in detail how he and his crew commanded the most powerful organized crime family in the country. Gotti talks: “I’m not gonna leave a circus when I go to jail. I don’t wanna be a phony…One thing I ain’t gonna be is two-faced. I’m gonna call ‘em like I see ‘em…I’d like to kill all the lawyers.”

Mystery Fanfare

Mystery Fanfare
Author: Michael L. Cook
Publisher: Popular Press
Total Pages: 456
Release: 1983
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9780879722302

This work is a composite index of the complete runs of all mystery and detective fan magazines that have been published, through 1981. Added to it are indexes of many magazines of related nature. This includes magazines that are primarily oriented to boys' book collecting, the paperbacks, and the pulp magazine hero characters, since these all have a place in the mystery and detective genre.