Paddling Northern Minnesota

Paddling Northern Minnesota
Author: Lynne Smith Diebel
Publisher: Big Earth Publishing
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2005
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 9781931599511

Discover an amazing variety of paddling adventures with this guide to 86 trips on northern Minnesota's rivers, including the Boundary Waters.

Whiting Up

Whiting Up
Author: Marvin Edward McAllister
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2011
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0807835080

In the early 1890s, black performer Bob Cole turned blackface minstrelsy on its head with his nationally recognized whiteface creation, a character he called Willie Wayside. Just over a century later, hiphop star Busta Rhymes performed a whiteface superco

Artificial General Intelligence

Artificial General Intelligence
Author: Ben Goertzel
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 379
Release: 2022-01-06
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3030937585

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Artificial General Intelligence, AGI 2021, held as a hybrid event in San Francisco, CA, USA, in October 2021. The 36 full papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 50 submissions. The papers cover topics from foundations of AGI, to AGI approaches and AGI ethics, to the roles of systems biology, goal generation, and learning systems, and so much more.

Jay Gatsby

Jay Gatsby
Author: Janet Savage
Publisher:
Total Pages: 100
Release: 2017-04-10
Genre:
ISBN: 9781946982988

WHAT IF JAY GATSBY IS A BLACK MAN PASSING AS A WHITE ONE? "Jay Gatsby: A Black Man in Whiteface" expounds upon the thesis that Jay Gatsby, the much beloved hero of "The Great Gatsby", is a man of mixed black and white parentage who pretends and appears to be a white man. Through a close read of the text, a review of F. Scott Fitzgerald's life and letters, and a discussion of the racially charged climate of America's Jazz Age, the "Black Gatsby" theory shows how America's troubled conscience about race laces through the novel and that Fitzgerald wrote from his conflicting racial beliefs and his insider/outsider status to support the novel's central theme: the doomed pursuit of the American Dream. Fitzgerald himself said that even the most complimentary contemporary reviewers failed to understand what the novel was about. It is often referred to as a novel where much is said by implication and ellipsis which must be weighed and measured to appreciate its artistic grandeur. "Jay Gatsby: A Black Man in Whiteface" does the weighing and measuring to see what we may have missed in a direct and fun prose style with easily accessible supporting annotation and bibliography so you can follow along.

Performing Whiteness

Performing Whiteness
Author: Gwendolyn Audrey Foster
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2012-02-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0791487350

2003 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Performing Whiteness crosses the boundaries of film study to explore images of the white body in relation to recent theoretical perspectives on whiteness. Drawing on such diverse critical methodologies as postcolonial studies, feminist film criticism, anthropology, and phenomenology, Gwendolyn Audrey Foster examines a wide variety of films from early cinema to the present day in order to explore the ways in which American cinema imposes whiteness as a cultural norm, even as it exposes its inherent instability. In discussions that range from The Philadelphia Story to Attack of the 50 Foot Woman, Foster shows that, though American cinema is an all-white construct, there exists the possibility of a healthy resistance to cultural norms of race, gender, sexuality, and class.

Advances in Neural Computation, Machine Learning, and Cognitive Research V

Advances in Neural Computation, Machine Learning, and Cognitive Research V
Author: Boris Kryzhanovsky
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 365
Release: 2021-11-22
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3030915816

This book describes new theories and applications of artificial neural networks, with a special focus on answering questions in neuroscience, biology and biophysics and cognitive research. It covers a wide range of methods and technologies, including deep neural networks, large scale neural models, brain computer interface, signal processing methods, as well as models of perception, studies on emotion recognition, self-organization and many more. The book includes both selected and invited papers presented at the XXIII International Conference on Neuroinformatics, held on October 18-22, 2021, Moscow, Russia.

Paddling Minnesota

Paddling Minnesota
Author: Greg Breining
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 449
Release: 2016-07-01
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1493025139

Minnesota, the 'Land of 10,000 Lakes' is replete with wonderful paddling options for everyone—from families seeking serene waters for youngsters, to expert kayakers looking to test their skills on ripping rapids. This guide, an update of Greg Breining's Official State Guide, includes more than 100 trips and 23 brand-new paddles that represent the full range of paddling experiences Minnesota has to offer, from paddles down the Minnehaha Creek in the heart of the Twin Cities, to excursions through the Boundary Waters Canoe Wilderness Area in the remote northern reaches of the state. Minnesota is a paddler's playground, and this guide is the key to discovering the many wonders of its clear, blue waters. Look inside to find: clear maps, difficulty ratings, and points of special interest, as well as fascinating insights on the history and ecology of the Minnesota waterways.

Popular Theatre

Popular Theatre
Author: Joel Schechter
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2013-10-11
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1136412204

Bertolt Brecht turned to cabaret; Ariane Mnouchkine went to the circus; Joan Littlewood wanted to open a palace of fun. These were a few of the directors who turned to popular theatre forms in the last century, and this sourcebook accounts for their attraction. Popular theatre forms introduced in this sourcebook include cabaret, circus, puppetry, vaudeville, Indian jatra, political satire, and physical comedy. These entertainments are highly visual, itinerant, and readily understood by audiences. Popular Theatre: A Sourcebook follows them around the world, from the bunraku puppetry of Japan to the masked topeng theatre of Bali to South African political satire, the San Francisco Mime Troupe's comic melodramas, and a 'Fun Palace' proposed for London. The book features essays from the archives of The Drama Review and other research. Contributions by Roland Barthes, Hovey Burgess, Marvin Carlson, John Emigh, Dario Fo, Ron Jenkins, Joan Littlewood, Brooks McNamara, Richard Schechner, and others, offer some of the most important, informative, and lively writing available on popular theatre. Introducing both Western and non-Western popular theatre practices, the sourcebook provides access to theatrical forms which have delighted audiences and attracted stage artists around the world.