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Alan Turing's Electronic Brain
Well known for this crucial wartime role in breaking the ENIGMA code, this book chronicles Turing's struggle to build the modern computer. Includes first hand accounts by Turing and the pioneers of computing who worked with him.
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Projecting citizenship : photography and belonging in the British Empire
In Projecting Citizenship , Gabrielle Moser gives a comprehensive account of an unusual project produced by the British government’s Colonial Office Visual Instruction Committee at the beginning of the twentieth century—a series of lantern slide lectures that combined geography education and photography to teach schoolchildren around the world what it meant to look and to feel like an imperial citizen.
Through detailed archival research and close readings, Moser elucidates the impact of this vast collection of photographs documenting the land and peoples of the British Empire, circulated between 1902 and 1945 in classrooms from Canada to Hong Kong, from the West Indies to Australia. Moser argues that these photographs played a central role in the invention and representation of imperial citizenship. She shows how citizenship became a photographable and teachable subject by tracing the intended readings of the images that the committee hoped to impart to viewers and analyzing how spectators may have used their encounters with these photographs for protest and resistance. Moser shows how the Visual Instruction Committee pictured citizenship within an everyday context and decenters the preoccupation with trauma, violence, atrocity, and conflict that characterizes much of the theoretical literature on visual citizenship and demonstrates that the relationship between photography and citizenship emerged not in the dismantling of modern colonialism but in its consolidation.
Interweaving political and economic history, history of pedagogy, and theories of citizenship with a consideration of the aesthetic and affective dimensions of viewing the lectures, Projecting Citizenship offers important insights into the social inequalities and visual language of colonial rule.
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Julia Margaret Cameron's \fancy subjects\
Julia Margaret Cameron's 'fancy subjects' is the first study of Cameron's allegorical photographs and the first to examine the intellectual connections of this imagery to British culture and politics of the 1860s and 1870s. Cameron chose allegory as her primary artistic device because it allowed her to use popular iconography to convey a latent or secondary meaning. She used the term 'fancy subjects' to embed moral, intellectual and political narratives in her photographs. This book reconnects her to the prominent minds in her circle who influenced her thinking, including Benjamin Jowett, George Grote and Henry Taylor, and demonstrates her awareness and responsiveness to popular graphic art, including textiles and wall paper, book illustrations and engravings from period folios, cartoons from Punch and line drawings from the Illustrated London News, cabinet photographs and autotype prints.
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Increased left ventricular trabeculation in highly trained athletes: do we need more stringent criteria for the diagnosis of left ventricular non-compaction in athletes?
Objective To investigate the prevalence and significance of increased left ventricular (LV) trabeculation in highly trained athletes. Design Cross sectional echocardiographic study. Setting Sports cardiology institutions in the UK and France. Subjects 1146 athletes aged 14–35 years (63.3% male), participating in 27 sporting disciplines, and 415 healthy controls of similar age. The results of athletes fulfilling conventional criteria for LV non-compaction (LVNC) were compared with 75 patients with LVNC. Main outcome measure Number of athletes with increased LV trabeculation and the number fulfilling criteria for LVNC. Results Athletes displayed a higher prevalence of increased LV trabeculation compared with controls (18.3% vs 7.0%; p≤0.0001) and 8.1% athletes fulfilled conventional criteria for LVNC. Increased LV trabeculation were more common in athletes of African/Afro-Caribbean origin. A small proportion of athletes (n=10; 0.9%) revealed reduced systolic function and marked repolarisation changes in association with echocardiographic criteria for LVNC raising the possibility of an underlying cardiomyopathy. Follow-up during the ensuing 48.6±14.6 months did not reveal adverse events. Conclusions A high proportion of young athletes exhibit conventional criteria for LVNC highlighting the non-specific nature of current diagnostic criteria if applied to elite athletic populations. Further assessment of such athletes should be confined to the small minority that demonstrate low indices of systolic function and marked repolarisation changes.
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The Victorian eye
During the nineteenth century, Britain became the first gaslit society, with electric lighting arriving in 1878. At the same time, the British government significantly expanded its power to observe and monitor its subjects. How did such enormous changes in the way people saw and were seen affect Victorian culture? To answer that question, Chris Otter mounts an ambitious history of illumination and vision in Britain, drawing on extensive research into everything from the science of perception and lighting technologies to urban design and government administration. He explores how light facilitated such practices as safe transportation and private reading, as well as institutional efforts to collect knowledge. And he contends that, contrary to presumptions that illumination helped create a society controlled by intrusive surveillance, the new radiance often led to greater personal freedom and was integral to the development of modern liberal society. The Victorian Eye’s innovative interdisciplinary approach—and generous illustrations—will captivate a range of readers interested in the history of modern Britain, visual culture, technology, and urbanization.
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Projecting Citizenship
In Projecting Citizenship , Gabrielle Moser gives a
comprehensive account of an unusual project produced by the British
government's Colonial Office Visual Instruction Committee at the
beginning of the twentieth century-a series of lantern slide
lectures that combined geography education and photography to teach
schoolchildren around the world what it meant to look and to feel
like an imperial citizen.
Through detailed archival research and close readings, Moser
elucidates the impact of this vast collection of photographs
documenting the land and peoples of the British Empire, circulated
between 1902 and 1945 in classrooms from Canada to Hong Kong, from
the West Indies to Australia. Moser argues that these photographs
played a central role in the invention and representation of
imperial citizenship. She shows how citizenship became a
photographable and teachable subject by tracing the intended
readings of the images that the committee hoped to impart to
viewers and analyzing how spectators may have used their encounters
with these photographs for protest and resistance.
Interweaving political and economic history, history of
pedagogy, and theories of citizenship with a consideration of the
aesthetic and affective dimensions of viewing the lectures,
Projecting Citizenship offers important insights into the
social inequalities and visual language of colonial rule.
eBook
The cybernetic brain
Cybernetics is often thought of as a grim military or industrial science of control. But as Andrew Pickering reveals in this beguiling book, a much more lively and experimental strain of cybernetics can be traced from the 1940s to the present. The Cybernetic Brain explores a largely forgotten group of British thinkers, including Grey Walter, Ross Ashby, Gregory Bateson, R. D. Laing, Stafford Beer, and Gordon Pask, and their singular work in a dazzling array of fields. Psychiatry, engineering, management, politics, music, architecture, education, tantric yoga, the Beats, and the sixties counterculture all come into play as Pickering follows the history of cybernetics’ impact on the world, from contemporary robotics and complexity theory to the Chilean economy under Salvador Allende. What underpins this fascinating history, Pickering contends, is a shared but unconventional vision of the world as ultimately unknowable, a place where genuine novelty is always emerging. And thus, Pickering avers, the history of cybernetics provides us with an imaginative model of open-ended experimentation in stark opposition to the modern urge to achieve domination over nature and each other.
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Analyse statistique des risques agro-environnementaux
Cet ouvrage constitue un manuel pratique qui s'adresse aux ing nieurs, scientifiques et tudiants travaillant sur les risques agro-environnementaux. Il constitue une bonne introduction aux principaux types de mod le et aux principales m thodes statistiques utiles pour l analyse de ces risques. L utilisation de chaque m thode est illustr e par une ou plusieurs applications traitant de probl mes concrets (pollution de l eau par les nitrates, invasion par des esp ces nuisibles, flux de g nes d une culture OGM vers une culture non OGM etc.). Les programmes informatiques utilis?'s pour d velopper les mod les et appliquer les m thodes statistiques sont pr sent?'s et comment?'s en d tail. Ils ont tous t r alis?'s avec des logiciels libres facilement t l chargeables (type R).
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