We readily recognize the faces of our friends and the objects around us. We do so effortlessly, but these cannot be simple tasks for our visual systems. Faces are all extremely similar as visual patterns. We see objects from different viewpoints and in different arrangements. How does the visual system solve these problems? The contributors to this volume attempt to answer this question by cons…

Dr. Miller provides the reader with a comprehensive view of one of Jung?s most important early works. In addition to tracing its vital and central role in Jung?s analytical psychology, Miller links the transcendent function to other psychological theories, as well as to ancient and contemporary philosophical, scientific, social, artistic, and religious traditions. He gives examples of ways it a…

Managerial wisdom probably begins with the recognition that there is no one ?right? style of leading or managing. Leadership, especially, is very much about doing what is right for the situation and the people involved in it. Underlying such flexibility and differentiation of response, however, must be a consistency of values and ground rules, if the leader?s professional credibility is to rema…

Tahun Terbit

2009

ISBN/ISSN

978-979-033-585-1

Deskripsi Fisik

xii, 448p. : ilus. ; 26 cm.

No. Panggil

547/RIS/k

This book is the result of nearly fifty years of study and meditation upon philosophy and philosophical issues as seen in light of the realities revealed through prophecy both objective and inward in the form of illumination. In a world in which philosophy has become so divorced from revealed realities and secular thought has sought to marginalize and even annihilate knowledge imbued with the s…

the This volume is intended to complement our earlier volume Key Concepts in Cultural Theory. It provides introductions to the work of a range of authors who have contributed to the development of what we now understand as cultural theory. We have selected those whom we regard as the most influential contemporary thinkers, such as Derrida, Habermas and Rorty. We have included major thinkers of …

The Matrix trilogy continues to split opinions widely, polarising the downright dismissive and the wildly enthusiastic. This includes reactions within academic circles and from film and cultural critics who have been all too eager to pronounce themselves on all kinds of issues relating to the Matrix.1 Significantly, some kind of uneasiness quickly surfaces in most contributions to the debate. F…

Semiotics is a field of research involved in the study of meaning processes and communication practices within the fields of natural and social sciences, linguistics, and philosophy. Ideas and concepts from semiotics increasingly are being used by different researchers in computer science as a source of both theoritical insights and practical methodology. I

Eugenics, a vision of human betterment, with real scientific and then social-policy potential for enhancing the evolutionary future of our species, is buried within a demonization of language and misunderstanding. Critical to the linguistic and semantic morass that surrounds this paralysis of understanding are the spectral memories of the German and European perpetration of the Holocaust.

Tahun Terbit

-

ISBN/ISSN

978-0-32-174183-7

Deskripsi Fisik

ill : 337 p