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When we play the ancient and noble game of chess, we grapple with ideas about honesty, deceitfulness, bravery, fear, aggression, beauty, and creativity, which echo (or allow us to depart from) the attitudes we take in our daily lives. Chess is an activity in which we deploy almost all our available cognitive resources; therefore, it makes an ideal laboratory for investigation into the workings of the mind. Indeed, research into artificial intelligence (AI) has used chess as a model for intelligent behavior since the 1950s. In Chess Metaphors, Diego Rasskin-Gutman explores fundamental questions about memory, thought, emotion, consciousness, and other cognitive processes through the game of chess, using the moves of thirty-two pieces over sixty-four squares to map the structural and functional organization of the brain. Rasskin-Gutman focuses on the cognitive task of problem solving, exploring it from the perspectives of both biology and AI. Examining AI researchers' efforts to program a computer that could beat a flesh-and-blood grandmaster (and win a world chess championship), he finds that the results fall short when compared to the truly creative nature of the human mind.

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"A critical investigation of a massive commercial phenomenon, the so-called "Euro" or "German"-style tabletop board games whose basic goal is explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate"--

Imperialism in board games. --- Board games --- Move games --- Games --- Gameboards --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- GAMES & ACTIVITIES / Board Games --- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social --- Imperialism --- Imperialism. --- Board games. --- Social aspects.

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Trapped in Iran is the harrowing and emotionally gripping story of how a mother defied a man and a country to win freedom for her daughter.

Mothers and daughters --- Parental relocation (Child custody) --- Custody of children --- Women --- Daughters and mothers --- Daughters --- Girls --- Mother and child --- Move-away cases (Law) --- Parental relocation --- Relocation, Parental (Child custody) --- Child custody --- Children --- Children, Custody of --- Parental custody --- Divorce --- Divorce mediation --- Guardian and ward --- Parent and child (Law) --- Absentee fathers --- Absentee mothers --- Visitation rights (Domestic relations) --- Social conditions. --- Law and legislation --- Custody

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There are few places where mobility has shaped identity as widely as the American West, but some locations and populations sit at its major crossroads, maintaining control over place and mobility, labor and race. In Collisions at the Crossroads, Genevieve Carpio argues that mobility, both permission to move freely and prohibitions on movement, helped shape racial formation in the eastern suburbs of Los Angeles and the Inland Empire throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. By examining policies and forces as different as historical societies, Indian boarding schools, bicycle ordinances, immigration policy, incarceration, traffic checkpoints, and Route 66 heritage, she shows how local authorities constructed a racial hierarchy by allowing some people to move freely while placing limits on the mobility of others. Highlighting the ways people of color have negotiated their place within these systems, Carpio reveals a compelling and perceptive analysis of spatial mobility through physical movement and residence.

Migration, Internal --- Inland Empire (Calif.) --- Race relations. --- Emigration and immigration --- Government policy. --- 19th century. --- 20th century. --- american west. --- bicycle ordinances. --- eastern suburbs. --- historical societies. --- identity. --- immigration policy. --- incarceration. --- indian boarding schools. --- inland empire. --- labor. --- local authorities. --- los angels. --- major crossroads. --- mobility. --- permission to move freely. --- policies. --- prohibitions on movement. --- race. --- racial formation. --- racial hierarchy. --- residence. --- route 66 heritage. --- spatial mobility. --- traffic checkpoints.

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Mary Austin (1868-1934)-eccentric, independent, and unstoppable-was twenty years old when her mother moved the family west. Austin's first look at her new home, glimpsed from California's Tejon Pass, reset the course of her life, "changed her horizons and marked the beginning of her understanding, not only about who she was, but where she needed to be." At a time when Frederick Jackson Turner had announced the closing of the frontier, Mary Austin became the voice of the American West. In 1903, she published her first book, The Land of Little Rain, a wholly original look at the West's desert and its ethnically diverse peoples. Defined in a sense by the places she lived, Austin also defined the places themselves, whether Bishop, in the Sierra Nevada, Carmel, with its itinerant community of western writers, or Santa Fe, where she lived the last ten years of her life. By the time of her death in 1934, Austin had published over thirty books and counted as friends the leading literary and artistic lights of her day. In this rich new biography, Susan Goodman and Carl Dawson explore Austin's life and achievement with unprecedented resonance, depth, and understanding. By focusing on one extraordinary woman's life, Mary Austin and the American West tells the larger story of the emerging importance of California and the Southwest to the American consciousness.

Authors, American --- Women and literature --- Western stories --- History --- History and criticism. --- Austin, Mary Hunter, --- West (U.S.) --- In literature. --- 1903. --- american consciousness. --- american frontier. --- american history. --- american west. --- art and literature. --- biography autobiography. --- california. --- desert landscape. --- discussion books. --- engaging. --- ethnic diversity. --- frontier life. --- individual history. --- lifetime. --- literary influence. --- mary austin. --- men and women. --- move west. --- nonfiction. --- old west. --- regional history. --- retrospective. --- santa fe. --- sierra nevada. --- southwest. --- tejon pass. --- united states. --- western writers. --- wild west.