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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["A fascinating guide to Franco Moretti’s literary criticism
"Experimental Criticism provides a series of close critical engagements with Franco Moretti. One of the world’s most innovative literary thinkers, Moretti may be best known for his ‘distant reading’ of vast numbers of literary texts at the Stanford Literary Lab. Francesco de Cristofaro and Stefano Ercolino lead a lively exploration of his work as a springboard for rethinking the fundamentals of literary theory. Topics include world literature and the Digital Humanities, literary morphology and evolutionary theory, the sociology of literature, and Marxism and literary history. A concluding section is dedicated to the novel, one of Moretti’s most prized research objects.
"Experimental Criticism reconstructs Moretti’s intellectual journey, from origins on the Italian Trotskyist Left to the project for a historical atlas of literature and later computational turn. The collection includes essays from Moretti himself on Lukács’s Theory of the Novel and the methodological tension between close and distant reading. ‘Why study literature?’, he asks. For the pleasure of reducing complex things to their simple elements; to bring them back to earth."

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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["What is life? This is among the most difficult open problems in science, right up there with the nature of consciousness and the existence of matter. All the definitions we have fall short. None help us understand how life originates or the full range of possibilities for what life on other planets might look like.
"In Life as No One Knows It, physicist and astrobiologist Sara Imari Walker argues that solving the origin of life requires radical new thinking and an experimentally testable theory for what life is. This is an urgent issue for efforts to make life from scratch in laboratories here on Earth and missions searching for life on other planets.
"Walker proposes a new paradigm for understanding what physics encompasses and what we recognize as life. She invites us into a world of maverick scientists working without a map, seeking not just answers but better ways to formulate the biggest questions we have about the universe. The book culminates with the bold proposal of a new theory for identifying and classifying life, one that applies not just to biological life on Earth but to any instance of life in the universe. Rigorous, accessible, and vital, Life as No One Knows It celebrates the mystery of life and the explanatory power of physics."]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[--- Because the printed ACKs my brother and I shared have (a) spent 40+ years in our parents' basement after (b) being intensely read by two not-very-careful boys and (c) can't really be divided fairly among our three children.
--- Some reviewers suggest the digitization was done very stupidly, check previews carefully.]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["For more than five decades, Bernd (1931–2007) and Hilla (1934–2015) Becher collaborated on photographs of industrial architecture in Germany, France, Belgium, Holland, Great Britain, and the United States. This sweeping monograph features the Bechers’ quintessential pictures, which present water towers, gas tanks, blast furnaces, and more as sculptural objects. Beyond the Bechers’ iconic Typologies, the book includes Bernd’s early drawings, Hilla’s independent photographs, and excerpts from their notes, sketchbooks, and journals. The book’s authors offer new insights into the development of the artists’ process, their work’s conceptual underpinnings, the photographers’ relationship to deindustrialization, and the artists’ legacy. An essay by award-winning cultural historian Lucy Sante and an interview with Max Becher, the artists’ son, make this volume an unrivaled look into the Bechers’ art, life, and career."]]></description>
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"The chapters from this international group of experts showcase innovative methodologies, such as archaeological GIS, as well as providing accessible explanations of specialist techniques such as die studies of coins, and important theoretical perspectives, including postcolonial approaches to the Greeks in India. Chapters cover the region’s archaeology, written and numismatic sources, and a history of scholarship of the subject, as well as culture, identity and interactions with neighbouring empires, including India and China.
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"Using advanced data visualizations to introduce different types of computational models, Atlas of Forecasts demonstrates how models can inform effective decision-making in education, science, technology, and policymaking. The models and maps presented aim to help anyone understand key processes and outcomes of complex systems dynamics, including which human skills are needed in an artificial intelligence–empowered economy; what progress in science and technology is likely to be made; and how policymakers can future-proof regions or nations. This Atlas offers a driver's seat-perspective for a test-drive of the future."]]></description>
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    <title>Probable Justice: Risk, Insurance, and the Welfare State, Friedman</title>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Decades into its existence as a foundational aspect of modern political and economic life, the welfare state has become a political cudgel, used to assign blame for ballooning national debt and tout the need for personal responsibility. At the same time, it affects nearly every citizen and permeates daily life—in the form of pension, disability, and unemployment benefits, healthcare and parental leave policies, and more. At the core of that disjunction is the question of how we as a society decide who should get what benefits—and how much we are willing to pay to do so.
"Probable Justice​ traces a history of social insurance from the eighteenth century to today, from the earliest ideas of social accountability through the advanced welfare state of collective responsibility and risk. At the heart of Rachel Z. Friedman’s investigation is a study of how probability theory allows social insurance systems to flexibly measure risk and distribute coverage. The political genius of social insurance, Friedman shows, is that it allows for various accommodations of needs, risks, financing, and political aims—and thereby promotes security and fairness for citizens of liberal democracies. "]]></description>
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    <title>Last and First Men review – eerie sounds and unearthly images from a posthuman world | Science fiction and fantasy films | The Guardian</title>
    <dc:date>2021-06-02T21:31:24+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/jul/29/last-and-first-men-review-tilda-swinton-johann-johannsson</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[How the blazes am I only learning about this now?  _Last and First Men_ was a formative book for me, and one which holds up [http://bactra.org/weblog/algae-2017-08.html#stapledon]]]></description>
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    <title>Thinking like an Economist | Princeton University Press</title>
    <dc:date>2021-05-12T16:00:51+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691167381/thinking-like-an-economist</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["For decades, Democratic politicians have frustrated progressives by tinkering around the margins of policy while shying away from truly ambitious change. What happened to bold political vision on the left, and what shrunk the very horizons of possibility? In Thinking Like an Economist, Elizabeth Popp Berman tells the story of how a distinctive way of thinking—an “economic style of reasoning”—became dominant in Washington between the 1960s and the 1980s and how it continues to dramatically narrow debates over public policy today.
"Introduced by liberal technocrats who hoped to improve government, this way of thinking was grounded in economics but also transformed law and policy. At its core was an economic understanding of efficiency, and its advocates often found themselves allied with Republicans and in conflict with liberal Democrats who argued for rights, equality, and limits on corporate power. By the Carter administration, economic reasoning had spread throughout government policy and laws affecting poverty, healthcare, antitrust, transportation, and the environment. Fearing waste and overspending, liberals reined in their ambitions for decades to come, even as Reagan and his Republican successors argued for economic efficiency only when it helped their own goals.
"A compelling account that illuminates what brought American politics to its current state, Thinking Like an Economist also offers critical lessons for the future. With the political left resurgent today, Democrats seem poised to break with the past—but doing so will require abandoning the shibboleth of economic efficiency and successfully advocating new ways of thinking about policy."

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    <title>Savage Journey by Peter Richardson - Hardcover - University of California Press</title>
    <dc:date>2021-05-02T12:45:25+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520304925/savage-journey</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Savage Journey is a "supremely crafted" study of Hunter S. Thompson's literary formation and achievement. Focusing on Thompson's influences, development, and unique model of authorship, Savage Journey argues that his literary formation was largely a San Francisco story. During the 1960s, Thompson rode with the Hell's Angels, explored the San Francisco counterculture, and met talented editors who shared his dissatisfaction with mainstream journalism. Author Peter Richardson traces Thompson's transition during this time from New Journalist to cofounder of Gonzo journalism. He also endorses Thompson's later claim that he was one of the best writers using the English language as both a musical instrument and a political weapon. Although Thompson's political commentary was often hyperbolic, Richardson shows that much of it was also prophetic.
"Fifty years after the publication of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and more than a decade after his death, Thompson's celebrity continues to obscure his literary achievement. This book refocuses our understanding of that achievement by mapping Thompson's influences, probing the development of his signature style, and tracing the reception of his major works. It concludes that Thompson was not only a gifted journalist, satirist, and media critic, but also the most distinctive American voice in the second half of the twentieth century."]]></description>
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    <title>Atlas of AI | Yale University Press</title>
    <dc:date>2021-02-28T02:35:08+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["What happens when artificial intelligence saturates political life and depletes the planet? How is AI shaping our understanding of ourselves and our societies? In this book Kate Crawford reveals how this planetary network is fueling a shift toward undemocratic governance and increased inequality. Drawing on more than a decade of research, award-winning science, and technology, Crawford reveals how AI is a technology of extraction: from the energy and minerals needed to build and sustain its infrastructure, to the exploited workers behind “automated” services, to the data AI collects from us. 
"Rather than taking a narrow focus on code and algorithms, Crawford offers us a political and a material perspective on what it takes to make artificial intelligence and where it goes wrong. While technical systems present a veneer of objectivity, they are always systems of power. This is an urgent account of what is at stake as technology companies use artificial intelligence to reshape the world."]]></description>
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    <title>Visual Differential Geometry and Forms | Princeton University Press</title>
    <dc:date>2020-12-22T21:26:39+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691203706/visual-differential-geometry-and-forms</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Visual Differential Geometry and Forms fulfills two principal goals. In the first four acts, Tristan Needham puts the geometry back into differential geometry. Using 235 hand-drawn diagrams, Needham deploys Newton’s geometrical methods to provide geometrical explanations of the classical results. In the fifth act, he offers the first undergraduate introduction to differential forms that treats advanced topics in an intuitive and geometrical manner.
"Unique features of the first four acts include: four distinct geometrical proofs of the fundamentally important Global Gauss-Bonnet theorem, providing a stunning link between local geometry and global topology; a simple, geometrical proof of Gauss’s famous Theorema Egregium; a complete geometrical treatment of the Riemann curvature tensor of an n-manifold; and a detailed geometrical treatment of Einstein’s field equation, describing gravity as curved spacetime (General Relativity), together with its implications for gravitational waves, black holes, and cosmology. The final act elucidates such topics as the unification of all the integral theorems of vector calculus; the elegant reformulation of Maxwell’s equations of electromagnetism in terms of 2-forms; de Rham cohomology; differential geometry via Cartan’s method of moving frames; and the calculation of the Riemann tensor using curvature 2-forms. Six of the seven chapters of Act V can be read completely independently from the rest of the book.
"Requiring only basic calculus and geometry, Visual Differential Geometry and Forms provocatively rethinks the way this important area of mathematics should be considered and taught."

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    <title>Probability and Random Processes - Hardcover - Geoffrey Grimmett; David Stirzaker - Oxford University Press</title>
    <dc:date>2020-11-16T16:37:07+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["New sections on coupling from the past, Lévy processes, self-similarity and stability, time changes, and the holding-time/jump-chain construction of continuous-time Markov chains"

--- This is my favorite stochastic processes book, and strongly recommended.
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    <title>50 Hikes in Pennsylvania | Matthew Cathcart | W. W. Norton &amp; Company</title>
    <dc:date>2020-07-27T14:26:10+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://wwnorton.com/books/9781682685235</link>
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    <title>Old Thiess, a Livonian Werewolf: A Classic Case in Comparative Perspective, Ginzburg, Lincoln</title>
    <dc:date>2020-04-03T04:09:07+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/O/bo46813477</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In 1691, a Livonian peasant known as Old Thiess boldly announced before a district court that he was a werewolf. Yet far from being a diabolical monster, he insisted, he was one of the “hounds of God,” fierce guardians who battled sorcerers, witches, and even Satan to protect the fields, flocks, and humanity—a baffling claim that attracted the notice of the judges then and still commands attention from historians today.
"In this book, eminent scholars Carlo Ginzburg and Bruce Lincoln offer a uniquely comparative look at the trial and startling testimony of Old Thiess. They present the first English translation of the trial transcript, in which the man’s own voice can be heard, before turning to subsequent analyses of the event, which range from efforts to connect Old Thiess to shamanistic practices to the argument that he was reacting against cruel stereotypes of the “Livonian werewolf” a Germanic elite used to justify their rule over the Baltic peasantry. As Ginzburg and Lincoln debate their own and others’ perspectives, they also reflect on broader issues of historical theory, method, and politics. Part source text of the trial, part discussion of historians’ thoughts on the case, and part dialogue over the merits and perils of their different methodological approaches, Old Thiess, a Livonian Werewolf opens up fresh insight into a remarkable historical occurrence and, through it, the very discipline of history itself."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691172200/land-of-wondrous-cold">
    <title>Land of Wondrous Cold | Princeton University Press</title>
    <dc:date>2020-03-12T15:00:31+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691172200/land-of-wondrous-cold</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Antarctica, the ice kingdom hosting the South Pole, looms large in the human imagination. The secrets of this vast frozen desert have long tempted explorers, but its brutal climate and glacial shores notoriously resist human intrusion. Land of Wondrous Cold tells a gripping story of the pioneering nineteenth-century voyages, when British, French, and American commanders raced to penetrate Antarctica’s glacial rim for unknown lands beyond. These intrepid Victorian explorers—James Ross, Dumont D’Urville, and Charles Wilkes—laid the foundation for our current understanding of Terra Australis Incognita.
"Today, the white continent poses new challenges, as scientists race to uncover Earth’s climate history, which is recorded in the south polar ice and ocean floor, and to monitor the increasing instability of the Antarctic ice cap, which threatens to inundate coastal cities worldwide. Interweaving the breakthrough research of the modern Ocean Drilling Program with the dramatic discovery tales of their Victorian forerunners, Gillen D’Arcy Wood describes Antarctica’s role in a planetary drama of plate tectonics, climate change, and species evolution stretching back more than thirty million years. An original, multifaceted portrait of the polar continent emerges, illuminating our profound connection to Antarctica in its past, present, and future incarnations."]]></description>
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    <title>The Archaeology of Afghanistan - F.R. Allchin; Warwick Ball; Norman Hammond - Oxford University Press</title>
    <dc:date>2019-07-18T10:50:37+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-archaeology-of-afghanistan-9780748699179?cc=us&amp;lang=en#</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Afghanistan is at the cultural crossroads of Asia, where the great civilisations of Mesopotamia and Iran, South Asia and Central Asia overlapped and sometimes conflicted. Its landscape embraces environments from the high mountains of the Hindu Kush to the Oxus basin and the great deserts of Sistan; trade routes from China to the Mediterranean, and from Central Asia to the Arabian Sea cross the country. It has seen the development of early agriculture, the spread of Bronze Age civilisation of Central Asia, the conquests of the Persians and of Alexander of Macedon, the spread of Buddhism and then Islam, and the empires of the Kushans, Ghaznavids, Ghurids and Timurids centred there, with ramifications across southern Asia. All of which has resulted in some of the most important, diverse and spectacular historical remains in Asia.
"First published in 1978, this was the first book in English to provide a complete survey of the immensely rich archaeological remains of Afghanistan. The contributors, all acknowledged scholars in their field, have worked in the country, on projects ranging from prehistoric surveys to the study of Islamic architecture. It has now been thoroughly revised and brought up to date to incorporate the latest discoveries and research."]]></description>
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    <title>An Introduction to the Advanced Theory and Practice of Nonparametric Econometrics by Jeffrey S. Racine</title>
    <dc:date>2019-01-06T02:05:38+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/an-introduction-to-the-advanced-theory-and-practice-of-nonparametric-econometrics/974161A820CE022349B95AF2320C25FA</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Interest in nonparametric methodology has grown considerably over the past few decades, stemming in part from vast improvements in computer hardware and the availability of new software that allows practitioners to take full advantage of these numerically intensive methods. This book is written for advanced undergraduate students, intermediate graduate students, and faculty, and provides a complete teaching and learning course at a more accessible level of theoretical rigor than Racine's earlier book co-authored with Qi Li, Nonparametric Econometrics: Theory and Practice (2007). The open source R platform for statistical computing and graphics is used throughout in conjunction with the R package np. Recent developments in reproducible research is emphasized throughout with appendices devoted to helping the reader get up to speed with R, R Markdown, TeX and Git."

--- Ooh.]]></description>
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    <title>Thinking Through Statistics, Martin</title>
    <dc:date>2018-09-01T18:19:56+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/T/bo28394847</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Simply put, Thinking Through Statistics is a primer on how to maintain rigorous data standards in social science work, and one that makes a strong case for revising the way that we try to use statistics to support our theories. But don’t let that daunt you. With clever examples and witty takeaways, John Levi Martin proves himself to be a most affable tour guide through these scholarly waters.
"Martin argues that the task of social statistics isn't to estimate parameters, but to reject false theory. He illustrates common pitfalls that can keep researchers from doing just that using a combination of visualizations, re-analyses, and simulations. Thinking Through Statistics gives social science practitioners accessible insight into troves of wisdom that would normally have to be earned through arduous trial and error, and it does so with a lighthearted approach that ensures this field guide is anything but stodgy."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/picturing-science-and-engineering">
    <title>Picturing Science and Engineering | The MIT Press</title>
    <dc:date>2018-07-13T12:54:17+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/picturing-science-and-engineering</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["One of the most powerful ways for scientists to document and communicate their work is through photography. Unfortunately, most scientists have little or no training in that craft. In this book, celebrated science photographer Felice Frankel offers a guide for creating science images that are both accurate and visually stunning. Picturing Science and Engineering provides detailed instructions for making science photographs using the DSLR camera, the flatbed scanner, and the phone camera. The book includes a series of step-by-step case studies, describing how final images were designed for cover submissions and other kinds of visualizations. Lavishly illustrated in color throughout, the book encourages the reader to learn by doing, following Frankel as she recreates the stages of discovery that lead to a good science visual. Frankel shows readers how to present their work with graphics—how to tell a visual story—and considers issues of image adjustment and enhancement. She describes how developing the right visual to express a concept not only helps make science accessible to nonspecialists, but also informs the science itself, helping scientists clarify their thinking. Within the book are specific URLs where readers can view Frankel's online tutorials—visual “punctuations” of this printed edition. Additional materials, including tutorials and videos, can be found online at the book's website."

- Frankel's photography is great, so I'm looking forward to this.]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2018-05-18T13:30:03+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/reinforcement-learning-second-edition</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Self-recommending.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://press.princeton.edu/titles/11132.html">
    <title>Quinn, J.: In Search of the Phoenicians (Hardcover and eBook) | Princeton University Press</title>
    <dc:date>2018-01-06T00:35:24+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://press.princeton.edu/titles/11132.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The Phoenicians traveled the Mediterranean long before the Greeks and Romans, trading, establishing settlements, and refining the art of navigation. But who these legendary sailors really were has long remained a mystery. In Search of the Phoenicians makes the startling claim that the “Phoenicians” never actually existed. Taking readers from the ancient world to today, this monumental book argues that the notion of these sailors as a coherent people with a shared identity, history, and culture is a product of modern nationalist ideologies—and a notion very much at odds with the ancient sources.
"Josephine Quinn shows how the belief in this historical mirage has blinded us to the compelling identities and communities these people really constructed for themselves in the ancient Mediterranean, based not on ethnicity or nationhood but on cities, family, colonial ties, and religious practices. She traces how the idea of “being Phoenician” first emerged in support of the imperial ambitions of Carthage and then Rome, and only crystallized as a component of modern national identities in contexts as far-flung as Ireland and Lebanon.
"In Search of the Phoenicians delves into the ancient literary, epigraphic, numismatic, and artistic evidence for the construction of identities by and for the Phoenicians, ranging from the Levant to the Atlantic, and from the Bronze Age to late antiquity and beyond. A momentous scholarly achievement, this book also explores the prose, poetry, plays, painting, and polemic that have enshrined these fabled seafarers in nationalist histories from sixteenth-century England to twenty-first century Tunisia."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/H/bo27315039">
    <title>Hyecho's Journey: The World of Buddhism, Lopez Jr.</title>
    <dc:date>2018-01-06T00:04:45+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/H/bo27315039</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In the year 721, a young Buddhist monk named Hyecho set out from the kingdom of Silla, on the Korean peninsula, on what would become one of the most extraordinary journeys in history. Sailing first to China, Hyecho continued to what is today Vietnam, Indonesia, Myanmar, India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Iran, before taking the Silk Road and heading back east, where he ended his days on the sacred mountain of Wutaishan in China.
"With Hyecho’s Journey, eminent scholar of Buddhism Donald S. Lopez Jr. re-creates Hyecho’s trek. Using the surviving fragments of Hyecho’s travel memoir, along with numerous other textual and visual sources, Lopez imagines the thriving Buddhist world the monk explored. Along the way, Lopez introduces key elements of Buddhism, including its basic doctrines, monastic institutions, works of art, and the many stories that have inspired Buddhist pilgrimage. Through the eyes of one remarkable Korean monk, we discover a vibrant tradition flourishing across a vast stretch of Asia. Hyecho’s Journey is simultaneously a rediscovery of a forgotten pilgrim, an accessible primer on Buddhist history and doctrine, and a gripping, beautifully illustrated account of travel in a world long lost."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/lessons-lobster">
    <title>Lessons from the Lobster | The MIT Press</title>
    <dc:date>2017-12-17T17:30:22+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/lessons-lobster</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Neuroscientist Eve Marder has spent forty years studying thirty neurons in the stomach of a lobster. Her focus on this tiny network of cells has yielded valuable insights into the much more complex workings of the human brain; she has become a leading voice in neuroscience. In Lessons from the Lobster, Charlotte Nassim describes Marder’s work and its significance accessibly and engagingly, tracing the evolution of a supremely gifted scientist’s ideas.
"From the lobster's digestion to human thought is very big leap indeed. Our brains selectively recruit networks from about ninety billion available neurons; the connections are extremely complex. Nevertheless, as Nassim explains, Marder’s study of a microscopic knot of stomatogastric neurons in lobsters and crabs, a small network with a countable number of neurons, has laid vital foundations for current brain research projects.
"Marder’s approach is as intuitive as it is analytic, but always firmly anchored to data. Every scrap of information is a pointer for Marder; her discoveries depend on her own creative thinking as much as her laboratory’s findings. Nassim describes Marder’s important findings on neuromodulation, the secrets of neuronal networks, and homeostasis. Her recognition of the importance of animal-to-animal variability has influenced research methods everywhere.
"Marder has run her laboratory at Brandeis University since 1978. She was President of the Society for Neuroscience in 2008 and she is the recipient of numerous awards, including the 2016 Kavli Award in Neuroscience and the 2013 Gruber Prize in Neuroscience. Research that reaches the headlines often depends on technical fireworks, and especially on spectacular images. Marder's work seldom fits that pattern, but this book demonstrates that a brilliant scientist working carefully and thoughtfully can produce groundbreaking results."]]></description>
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    <title>Blandford, R. and Thorne, K.: Modern Classical Physics: Optics, Fluids, Plasmas, Elasticity, Relativity, and Statistical Physics (Hardcover and eBook) | Princeton University Press</title>
    <dc:date>2017-12-14T23:04:41+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://press.princeton.edu/titles/10157.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["This first-year, graduate-level text and reference book covers the fundamental concepts and twenty-first-century applications of six major areas of classical physics that every masters- or PhD-level physicist should be exposed to, but often isn't: statistical physics, optics (waves of all sorts), elastodynamics, fluid mechanics, plasma physics, and special and general relativity and cosmology. Growing out of a full-year course that the eminent researchers Kip Thorne and Roger Blandford taught at Caltech for almost three decades, this book is designed to broaden the training of physicists. Its six main topical sections are also designed so they can be used in separate courses, and the book provides an invaluable reference for researchers."]]></description>
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    <title>Live Work Work Work Die | Corey Pein | Macmillan</title>
    <dc:date>2017-10-10T16:27:15+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://us.macmillan.com/liveworkworkworkdie/coreypein/9781627794855/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["At the height of the startup boom, journalist Corey Pein set out for Silicon Valley with little more than a smartphone and his wits. His goal: to learn how such an overhyped industry could possibly sustain itself as long as it has. Determined to cut through the clichés of big tech—the relentless optimism, the mandatory enthusiasm, and the earnest, incessant repetition of vacuous buzzwords—Pein decided that he would need to take an approach as unorthodox as the companies he would soon be covering. To truly understand the delirious reality of a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, he knew, he would have to inhabit that perspective—he would have to become an entrepreneur. Thus he begins his journey—skulking through gimmicky tech conferences, pitching his over-the-top business ideas to investors, and interviewing a cast of outrageous characters: cyborgs and con artists, Teamsters and transhumanists, jittery hackers and naive upstart programmers whose entire lives are managed by their employers—who work endlessly and obediently, never thinking to question their place in the system.
"In showing us this frantic world, Pein challenges the positive, feel-good self-image that the tech tycoons have crafted—as nerdy and benevolent creators of wealth and opportunity—revealing their self-justifying views and their insidious visions for the future. Indeed, as Pein shows, Silicon Valley is awash in disreputable ideas: Google executive and futurist Raymond Kurzweil has a side business peddling dietary supplements and has for years pushed the outlandish notion that human beings are destined to merge with computers and live forever in some kind of digital cosmic hive mind. Peter Thiel, the billionaire venture capitalist affiliated with PayPal and Facebook, is now an important advisor to President Trump and has subsidized a prolific blogger known by the pen name Mencius Moldbug who writes approvingly of ideas like eugenics and dictatorship. And Moldbug is not alone. There is, in fact, a small but influential—and growing—group of techies with similarly absurd and extremist beliefs who call themselves the “neoreactionary” vanguard of a “Dark Enlightenment.”
"Vivid and incisive, Live Work Work Work Die is a troubling portrait of a self-obsessed industry bent on imposing its disturbing visions on the rest of us."

--- By the author of the instant-classic "Mouthbreathing Machiavellis Dream of a Silicon Reich" (https://thebaffler.com/latest/mouthbreathing-machiavellis).]]></description>
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    <title>Random Measures, Theory and Applications | Olav Kallenberg | Springer</title>
    <dc:date>2017-09-13T22:40:57+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319415963</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Offering the first comprehensive treatment of the theory of random measures, this book has a very broad scope, ranging from basic properties of Poisson and related processes to the modern theories of convergence, stationarity, Palm measures, conditioning, and compensation. The three large final chapters focus on applications within the areas of stochastic geometry, excursion theory, and branching processes. Although this theory plays a fundamental role in most areas of modern probability, much of it, including the most basic material, has previously been available only in scores of journal articles. The book is primarily directed towards researchers and advanced graduate students in stochastic processes and related areas."]]></description>
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    <title>Fundamentals nonparametric bayesian inference | Statistical theory and methods | Cambridge University Press</title>
    <dc:date>2017-08-26T00:33:15+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/statistics-probability/statistical-theory-and-methods/fundamentals-nonparametric-bayesian-inference?format=HB#yKtRQ6H8uhqc5zKX.97</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Explosive growth in computing power has made Bayesian methods for infinite-dimensional models - Bayesian nonparametrics - a nearly universal framework for inference, finding practical use in numerous subject areas. Written by leading researchers, this authoritative text draws on theoretical advances of the past twenty years to synthesize all aspects of Bayesian nonparametrics, from prior construction to computation and large sample behavior of posteriors. Because understanding the behavior of posteriors is critical to selecting priors that work, the large sample theory is developed systematically, illustrated by various examples of model and prior combinations. Precise sufficient conditions are given, with complete proofs, that ensure desirable posterior properties and behavior. Each chapter ends with historical notes and numerous exercises to deepen and consolidate the reader's understanding, making the book valuable for both graduate students and researchers in statistics and machine learning, as well as in application areas such as econometrics and biostatistics."

--- These are two of the central figures in the field, and van der Vaart is a really good writer...]]></description>
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    <title>Demopolis democracy liberalism theory and practice | History of ideas and intellectual history | Cambridge University Press</title>
    <dc:date>2017-07-28T18:32:08+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/history/history-ideas-and-intellectual-history/demopolis-democracy-liberalism-theory-and-practice?format=PB&amp;isbn=9781316649831#Q0Caxz3HdbHFJEKo.97</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["What did democracy mean before liberalism? What are the consequences for our lives today? Combining history with political theory, this book restores the core meaning of democracy as collective and limited self-government by citizens. That, rather than majority tyranny, is what democracy meant in ancient Athens, before liberalism. Participatory self-government is the basis of political practice in 'Demopolis', a hypothetical modern state powerfully imagined by award-winning historian and political scientist Josiah Ober. Demopolis' residents aim to establish a secure, prosperous, and non-tyrannical community, where citizens govern as a collective, both directly and through representatives, and willingly assume the costs of self-government because doing so benefits them, both as a group and individually. Basic democracy, as exemplified in real Athens and imagined Demopolis, can provide a stable foundation for a liberal state. It also offers a possible way forward for religious societies seeking a realistic alternative to autocracy."]]></description>
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    <title>The Plague of War - Jennifer T. Roberts - Oxford University Press</title>
    <dc:date>2017-01-29T02:31:23+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-plague-of-war-9780199996643?cc=us&amp;lang=en&amp;#</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In 431 BC, the long simmering rivalry between the city-states of Athens and Sparta erupted into open warfare, and for more than a generation the two were locked in a life-and-death struggle. The war embroiled the entire Greek world, provoking years of butchery previously unparalleled in ancient Greece. Whole cities were exterminated, their men killed, their women and children enslaved. While the war is commonly believed to have ended with the capture of the Athenian navy in 405 and the subsequent starvation of Athens, fighting in Greece would continue for several decades. Sparta's authority was challenged in the so-called Corinthian War (395-387) when Persian gold helped unite Athens with Sparta's former allies. The war did not truly end until, in 371, Thebes' crack infantry resoundingly defeated Sparta at Leuctra, forever shattering the myth of Spartan military supremacy.
"Jennifer Roberts' rich narrative of this famous conflict is the first general history to tell the whole story, from the war's origins down to Sparta's defeat at Leuctra. In her masterful account, this long and bloody war affected every area of life in Athens, exacerbated divisions between rich and poor in Sparta, and sparked civil strife throughout the Greek world. Yet despite the biting sorrows the fighting occasioned, it remains a gripping saga of plots and counter-plots, murders and lies, thrilling sea chases and desperate overland marches, missed opportunities and last-minute reprieves, and, as the war's first historian Thucydides had hoped, lessons for a less bellicose future. In addition, Roberts considers the impact of the war on Greece's cultural life, including the great masterworks of tragedy and comedy performed at this time and, most infamously, the trial and execution of Socrates. A fast-paced narrative of one of antiquity's most famous clashes, The Plague of War is a must-read for history enthusiasts of all ages."]]></description>
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    <title>Lyapunov Exponents | Nonlinear Science and Fluid Dynamics | Cambridge University Press</title>
    <dc:date>2017-01-26T17:09:14+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.cambridge.org/9781107030428</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Lyapunov exponents lie at the heart of chaos theory, and are widely used in studies of complex dynamics. Utilising a pragmatic, physical approach, this self-contained book provides a comprehensive description of the concept. Beginning with the basic properties and numerical methods, it then guides readers through to the most recent advances in applications to complex systems. Practical algorithms are thoroughly reviewed and their performance is discussed, while a broad set of examples illustrate the wide range of potential applications. The description of various numerical and analytical techniques for the computation of Lyapunov exponents offers an extensive array of tools for the characterization of phenomena such as synchronization, weak and global chaos in low and high-dimensional set-ups, and localization. This text equips readers with all the investigative expertise needed to fully explore the dynamical properties of complex systems, making it ideal for both graduate students and experienced researchers."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674504776">
    <title>After Piketty — Heather Boushey, J. Bradford DeLong, Marshall Steinbaum | Harvard University Press</title>
    <dc:date>2016-12-01T21:50:52+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674504776</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century is the most widely discussed work of economics in recent history, selling millions of copies in dozens of languages. But are its analyses of inequality and economic growth on target? Where should researchers go from here in exploring the ideas Piketty pushed to the forefront of global conversation? A cast of economists and other social scientists tackle these questions in dialogue with Piketty, in what is sure to be a much-debated book in its own right.
"After Piketty opens with a discussion by Arthur Goldhammer, the book’s translator, of the reasons for Capital’s phenomenal success, followed by the published reviews of Nobel laureates Paul Krugman and Robert Solow. The rest of the book is devoted to newly commissioned essays that interrogate Piketty’s arguments. Suresh Naidu and other contributors ask whether Piketty said enough about power, slavery, and the complex nature of capital. Laura Tyson and Michael Spence consider the impact of technology on inequality. Heather Boushey, Branko Milanovic, and others consider topics ranging from gender to trends in the global South. Emmanuel Saez lays out an agenda for future research on inequality, while a variety of essayists examine the book’s implications for the social sciences more broadly. Piketty replies to these questions in a substantial concluding chapter."]]></description>
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    <title>Coming for Christmas! H.P. Lovecraft's The Call of Cthulhu (for beginning readers) - Chaosium Inc.</title>
    <dc:date>2016-10-12T17:02:53+00:00</dc:date>
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    <title>Education and Equality, Allen</title>
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    <link>http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/E/bo23530445</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["American education as we know it today—guaranteed by the state to serve every child in the country—is still less than a hundred years old. It’s no wonder we haven’t agreed yet as to exactly what role education should play in our society. In these Tanner Lectures, Danielle Allen brings us much closer, examining the ideological impasse between vocational and humanistic approaches that has plagued educational discourse, offering a compelling proposal to finally resolve the dispute. 
"Allen argues that education plays a crucial role in the cultivation of political and social equality and economic fairness, but that we have lost sight of exactly what that role is and should be. Drawing on thinkers such as John Rawls and Hannah Arendt, she sketches out a humanistic baseline that re-links education to equality, showing how doing so can help us reframe policy questions. From there, she turns to civic education, showing that we must reorient education’s trajectory toward readying students for lives as democratic citizens. Deepened by commentaries from leading thinkers Tommie Shelby, Marcelo Suárez-Orozco, Michael Rebell, and Quiara Alegría Hudes that touch on issues ranging from globalization to law to linguistic empowerment, this book offers a critical clarification of just how important education is to democratic life, as well as a stirring defense of the humanities."]]></description>
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    <title>Vartanian, A.: Diderot and Descartes (eBook, Paperback and Hardcover).</title>
    <dc:date>2016-06-22T18:11:28+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://press.princeton.edu/titles/2964.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["A study of scientific naturalism in the Enlightenment. In tracing the materialism of Diderot, La Mettrie, Buffon, and D’Holbach to its sources, it offers a fresh appraisal of the total influence of Descartes on the Enlightenment."]]></description>
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    <title>Mokyr, J.: A Culture of Growth: The Origins of the Modern Economy. (eBook and Hardcover)</title>
    <dc:date>2016-05-07T18:16:50+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://press.princeton.edu/titles/10835.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["During the late eighteenth century, innovations in Europe triggered the Industrial Revolution and the sustained economic progress that spread across the globe. While much has been made of the details of the Industrial Revolution, what remains a mystery is why it took place at all. Why did this revolution begin in the West and not elsewhere, and why did it continue, leading to today’s unprecedented prosperity? In this groundbreaking book, celebrated economic historian Joel Mokyr argues that a culture of growth specific to early modern Europe and the European Enlightenment laid the foundations for the scientific advances and pioneering inventions that would instigate explosive technological and economic development. Bringing together economics, the history of science and technology, and models of cultural evolution, Mokyr demonstrates that culture—the beliefs, values, and preferences in society that are capable of changing behavior—was a deciding factor in societal transformations.
"Mokyr looks at the period 1500–1700 to show that a politically fragmented Europe fostered a competitive “market for ideas” and a willingness to investigate the secrets of nature. At the same time, a transnational community of brilliant thinkers known as the “Republic of Letters” freely circulated and distributed ideas and writings. This political fragmentation and the supportive intellectual environment explain how the Industrial Revolution happened in Europe but not China, despite similar levels of technology and intellectual activity. In Europe, heterodox and creative thinkers could find sanctuary in other countries and spread their thinking across borders. In contrast, China’s version of the Enlightenment remained controlled by the ruling elite."]]></description>
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    <title>Shared Fantasy: Role Playing Games as Social Worlds, Fine</title>
    <dc:date>2016-04-19T21:35:17+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/S/bo5949823.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["This classic study still provides one of the most acute descriptions available of an often misunderstood subculture: that of fantasy role playing games like Dungeons & Dragons. Gary Alan Fine immerses himself in several different gaming systems, offering insightful details on the nature of the games and the patterns of interaction among players—as well as their reasons for playing."]]></description>
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    <title>Paranoia RPG by Matthew Sprange — Kickstarter</title>
    <dc:date>2015-11-06T02:44:53+00:00</dc:date>
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    <title>The Dead Ladies Project: Exiles, Expats, and Ex-Countries, Crispin</title>
    <dc:date>2015-10-03T01:05:28+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/D/bo20832243</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["When Jessa Crispin was thirty, she burned her settled Chicago life to the ground and took off for Berlin with a pair of suitcases and no plan beyond leaving. Half a decade later, she’s still on the road, in search not so much of a home as of understanding, a way of being in the world that demands neither constant struggle nor complete surrender.
"The Dead Ladies Project is an account of that journey—but it’s also much, much more. Fascinated by exile, Crispin travels an itinerary of key locations in its literary map, of places that have drawn writers who needed to break free from their origins and start afresh. As she reflects on William James struggling through despair in Berlin, Nora Barnacle dependant on and dependable for James Joyce in Trieste, Maud Gonne fomenting revolution and fostering myth in Dublin, or Igor Stravinsky starting over from nothing in Switzerland, Crispin interweaves biography, incisive literary analysis, and personal experience into a rich meditation on the complicated interactions of place, personality, and society that can make escape and reinvention such an attractive, even intoxicating proposition."]]></description>
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    <title>Van De Mieroop, M.: Philosophy before the Greeks: The Pursuit of Truth in Ancient Babylonia. (eBook and Hardcover)</title>
    <dc:date>2015-07-01T22:56:41+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://press.princeton.edu/titles/10616.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["There is a growing recognition that philosophy isn’t unique to the West, that it didn’t begin only with the classical Greeks, and that Greek philosophy was influenced by Near Eastern traditions. Yet even today there is a widespread assumption that what came before the Greeks was “before philosophy.” In Philosophy before the Greeks, Marc Van De Mieroop, an acclaimed historian of the ancient Near East, presents a groundbreaking argument that, for three millennia before the Greeks, one Near Eastern people had a rich and sophisticated tradition of philosophy fully worthy of the name.
"In the first century BC, the Greek historian Diodorus of Sicily praised the Babylonians for their devotion to philosophy. Showing the justice of Diodorus’s comment, this is the first book to argue that there were Babylonian philosophers and that they studied knowledge systematically using a coherent system of logic rooted in the practices of cuneiform script. Van De Mieroop uncovers Babylonian approaches to knowledge in three areas: the study of language, which in its analysis of the written word formed the basis of all logic; the art of divination, which interpreted communications between gods and humans; and the rules of law, which confirmed that royal justice was founded on truth.
"The result is an innovative intellectual history of the ancient Near Eastern world during the many centuries in which Babylonian philosophers inspired scholars throughout the region—until the first millennium BC, when the breakdown of this cosmopolitan system enabled others, including the Greeks, to develop alternative methods of philosophical reasoning"]]></description>
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]]></description>
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"These models are expressive and powerful, but exact computation is often intractable. A broad research effort in recent years has aimed at designing structured prediction models and approximate inference and learning procedures that are computationally efficient. This volume offers an overview of this recent research in order to make the work accessible to a broader research community. The chapters, by leading researchers in the field, cover a range of topics, including research trends, the linear programming relaxation approach, innovations in probabilistic modeling, recent theoretical progress, and resource-aware learning."]]></description>
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    <title>Ancient Chinese Bronzes: A Personal Appreciation, Shapiro</title>
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    <title>Eames Lounge Chair and Ottoman Product Configurator - Herman Miller</title>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[After coveting this deeply for many years, I finally looked up the price.  I will not be able to afford this after tenure, but perhaps after making full professor, and saving for a few years.]]></description>
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    <title>The Library: A World History, Campbell, Pryce</title>
    <dc:date>2013-11-01T03:44:42+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>to:NB books:noted libraries photos coveted</dc:subject>
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    <title>The Road to Maxwell's Demon - Academic and Professional Books - Cambridge University Press</title>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Time asymmetric phenomena are successfully predicted by statistical mechanics. Yet the foundations of this theory are surprisingly shaky. Its explanation for the ease of mixing milk with coffee is incomplete, and even implies that un-mixing them should be just as easy. In this book the authors develop a new conceptual foundation for statistical mechanics that addresses this difficulty. Explaining the notions of macrostates, probability, measurement, memory, and the arrow of time in statistical mechanics, they reach the startling conclusion that Maxwell's Demon, the famous perpetuum mobile, is consistent with the fundamental physical laws. Mathematical treatments are avoided where possible, and instead the authors use novel diagrams to illustrate the text. This is a fascinating book for graduate students and researchers interested in the foundations and philosophy of physics."]]></description>
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    <title>Sites of Impact: Meteorite Craters Around the World by Stan. Gaz - Powell's Books</title>
    <dc:date>2012-12-07T16:43:03+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.powells.com/biblio?isbn=9781568988153</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The Earth is pockmarked with the evidence of ancient collisions: huge craters blasted into its surface by thousands of pounds of meteorite fragments traveling at approximately 50,000 miles per hour. Ranging in age from those formed in this century to billion-year-old specimens, the Earth's meteorite craters are eroding at a rapid pace. The best-preserved impact sites are often difficult to accessburied under ice, obscured by foliage, or baking in desert climes. These desolate landscapes are connected to another place outside of our world, and for photographer Stan Gaz they are sites of pilgrimagesteps in a journey begun as a curious young boy accompanying his father on geological expeditions, and culminating in a six-year journey traveling the globe in search of these sites, much of that time spent leaning his twenty-pound, handheld Hasselblad medium format camera out of an open-sided helicopter."]]></description>
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"After offering a basic definition of waves and explaining the mechanics of wind-wave generation, Raichlen describes how waves travel, how they shoal (rise), how they break, and how they transform in other ways. He goes on to describe, among other things, the complicated sun-Earth-moon combinations that create astronomical tides (the high and low tides that occur daily and predictably); the effects of waves on the beach, including rip currents and beach erosion, and on harbors and shipping; and the building of breakwaters to protect harbors and bays. He discusses hurricanes, storm surges, and hurricane-generated waves. He offers a brief history of tsunamis, including Sumatra’s in 2004 and Japan’s in 2011, and explains the mechanisms that generate them (including earthquakes, landslides, and volcanoes).
"Waves can be little ripples that lap peacefully at the shore or monstrous tsunamis that destroy everything in their paths. Describing the science underlying this astonishing variety, Waves offers a different kind of beach reading."]]></description>
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    <title>Under the Drones: Modern Lives in the Afghanistan-Pakistan Borderlands - Shahzad Bashir, Robert D. Crews | Harvard University Press</title>
    <dc:date>2011-12-07T21:00:24+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[In the West, media coverage of Afghanistan and Pakistan is framed by military and political concerns, resulting in a simplistic picture of ageless barbarity, terrorist safe havens, and peoples in need of either punishment or salvation. Under the Drones looks beyond this limiting view to investigate real people on the ground, and to analyze the political, social, and economic forces that shape their lives. Understanding the complexity of life along the 1,600-mile border between Afghanistan and Pakistan can help America and its European allies realign their priorities in the region to address genuine problems, rather than fabricated ones.

This volume explodes Western misunderstandings by revealing a land that abounds with human agency, perpetual innovation, and vibrant complexity. Through the work of historians and social scientists, the thirteen essays here explore the real and imagined presence of the Taliban; the animated sociopolitical identities expressed through traditions like Pakistani truck decoration; Sufism’s ambivalent position as an alternative to militancy; the long and contradictory history of Afghan media; the simultaneous brutality and potential that heroin brings to women in the area.

Moving past shifting conceptions of security, the authors expose the West’s prevailing perspective on the region as strategic, targeted, and alarmingly dehumanizing. Under the Drones is an essential antidote to contemporary media coverage and military concerns.]]></description>
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    <title>Stranger Magic - Marina Warner | Harvard University Press</title>
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    <title>All the Roads are Open: The Afghan Journey, Schwarzenbach, Cole</title>
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    <title>Greg Dunn's golden neurons : bioephemera</title>
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    <title>Announcement: CM BOOK!</title>
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    <title>Morality and Masculinity in the Carolingian Empire - Academic and Professional Books - Cambridge University Press</title>
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    <title>Tour d'Afrique Ltd. | The Route from Istanbul to Beijing, Maps, Distance, Pricing, Details, Sectional Explanations</title>
    <dc:date>2011-03-31T01:21:23+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.tourdafrique.com/tours/silkroute/the-route</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A bargain at E4000.
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    <title>TopatoCo: &quot;Keep Calm and Shoot Them in the Head&quot; Print</title>
    <dc:date>2011-03-12T03:24:17+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.topatoco.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&amp;Store_Code=TO&amp;Product_Code=ASW-CALM-PRINT&amp;Category_Code=ASW</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Would it be wrong to put this up in the office, across from the student chair?  (Yes, probably, but oh so tempting.)
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    <title>Land of the Unconquerable : The Lives of Contemporary Afghan Women : Edited by Jennifer Heath and Ashraf Zahedi - University of California Press</title>
    <dc:date>2011-01-16T03:37:56+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["What makes a place? Infinite City, Rebecca Solnit’s brilliant reinvention of the traditional atlas, searches out the answer by examining the many layers of meaning in one place, the San Francisco Bay Area. Aided by artists, writers, cartographers, and twenty-two gorgeous color maps, each of which illuminates the city and its surroundings as experienced by different inhabitants, ... explores the area thematically—connecting, for example, Eadweard Muybridge’s foundation of motion-picture technology with Alfred Hitchcock’s filming of Vertigo. Across an urban grid of just seven by seven miles, she finds seemingly unlimited landmarks and treasures—butterfly habitats, queer sites, murders, World War II shipyards, blues clubs, Zen Buddhist centers. She roams the political terrain, both progressive and conservative, and details the cultural geographies of the Mission District, the culture wars of the Fillmore, the South of Market world being devoured by redevelopment, and much, much more."
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