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How magicians exploit the natural functioning of our brains to astonish and amaze usHow do magicians make us see the impossible? The Illusionist Brain takes you on an unforgettable journey through the inner workings of the human mind, revealing how magicians achieve their spectacular and seemingly impossible effects by interfering with your cognitive processes. Along the way, this lively and informative book provides a guided tour of modern neuroscience, using magic as a lens for understanding the unconscious and automatic functioning of our brains.We construct reality from the information stored in our memories and received through our senses, and our brains are remarkably adept at tricking us into believing that our experience is continuous. In fact, our minds create our perception of reality by elaborating meanings and continuities from incomplete information, and while this strategy carries clear benefits for survival, it comes with blind spots that magicians know how to exploit. Jordi Camí and Luis Martínez explore the many different ways illusionists manipulate our attention—making us look but not see—and take advantage of our individual predispositions and fragile memories.The Illusionist Brain draws on the latest findings in neuroscience to explain how magic deceives us, surprises us, and amazes us, and demonstrates how illusionists skillfully “hack” our brains to alter how we perceive things and influence what we imagine.

Optical illusions. --- Magic tricks. --- Neurosciences. --- Algeria. --- Analysis. --- Behavior. --- Cerebral cortex. --- Cognition. --- Cognitive dissonance. --- Cognitive neuroscience. --- Cryptography. --- Decision-making. --- Everyday life. --- Explanation. --- Fred Kaps. --- French Colonial. --- Genre. --- Grammar. --- Handkerchief. --- Human brain. --- Hypothesis. --- Inference. --- Instance (computer science). --- Learning. --- Long-term memory. --- Magic (illusion). --- Mathematics. --- Metabolism. --- Methods of divination. --- Napoleon III. --- Naturalness (physics). --- Neuron. --- Neuroscience. --- Neuroscientist. --- Opportunism. --- Perception. --- Persi Diaconis. --- Phenomenon. --- Planning. --- Practical reason. --- Problem solving. --- Processing (Chinese materia medica). --- Processing (programming language). --- Psychic. --- Quantity. --- Reason. --- Result. --- Retina. --- Scientist. --- Sense. --- Short-term memory. --- Statistic. --- Theoretician (Marxism). --- Theory. --- Trial and error. --- Visual perception. --- Visual system. --- Western culture. --- Neural sciences --- Neurological sciences --- Neuroscience --- Medical sciences --- Nervous system --- Conjuring --- Legerdemain --- Parlor magic --- Prestidigitation --- Sleight of hand --- Tricks --- Illusions, Optical --- Hallucinations and illusions --- Physiological optics --- Visual perception --- SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Neuroscience --- PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Neuroscience & Cognitive Neuropsychology

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"A few short decades ago, we were informed by the smooth signals of analog television and radio; we communicated using our analog telephones; and we even computed with analog computers. Today our world is digital, built with zeros and ones. Why did this revolution occur? The Discrete Charm of the Machine explains, in an engaging and accessible manner, the varied physical and logical reasons behind this radical transformation. The spark of individual genius shines through this story of innovation: the stored program of Jacquard’s loom; Charles Babbage’s logical branching; Alan Turing’s brilliant abstraction of the discrete machine; Harry Nyquist’s foundation for digital signal processing; Claude Shannon’s breakthrough insights into the meaning of information and bandwidth; and Richard Feynman’s prescient proposals for nanotechnology and quantum computing. Ken Steiglitz follows the progression of these ideas in the building of our digital world, from the internet and artificial intelligence to the edge of the unknown. Are questions like the famous traveling salesman problem truly beyond the reach of ordinary digital computers? Can quantum computers transcend these barriers? Does a mysterious magical power reside in the analog mechanisms of the brain? Steiglitz concludes by confronting the moral and aesthetic questions raised by the development of artificial intelligence and autonomous robots. The Discrete Charm of the Machine examines why our information technology, the lifeblood of our civilization, became digital, and challenges us to think about where its future trajectory may lead." -- Publisher's description.

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Luminous essays on translation and self-translation by the award-winning writer and literary translatorTranslating Myself and Others is a collection of candid and disarmingly personal essays by Pulitzer Prize–winning author Jhumpa Lahiri, who reflects on her emerging identity as a translator as well as a writer in two languages.With subtlety and emotional immediacy, Lahiri draws on Ovid’s myth of Echo and Narcissus to explore the distinction between writing and translating, and provides a close reading of passages from Aristotle’s Poetics to talk more broadly about writing, desire, and freedom. She traces the theme of translation in Antonio Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks and takes up the question of Italo Calvino’s popularity as a translated author. Lahiri considers the unique challenge of translating her own work from Italian to English, the question “Why Italian?,” and the singular pleasures of translating contemporary and ancient writers.Featuring essays originally written in Italian and published in English for the first time, as well as essays written in English, Translating Myself and Others brings together Lahiri’s most lyrical and eloquently observed meditations on the translator’s art as a sublime act of both linguistic and personal metamorphosis.

Self-translation. --- Translating and interpreting. --- Translators --- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Translating & Interpreting. --- Adjective. --- Adverb. --- Aestheticism. --- Afterword. --- Anaphora (rhetoric). --- Anatole Broyard. --- Ancient Greek. --- Annotation. --- Antonio Gramsci. --- Audiobook. --- Author. --- Awareness. --- Between the Acts. --- Catullus. --- Close reading. --- Clothing. --- Communication. --- Contraction (grammar). --- Cultural diversity. --- Cultural translation. --- Depiction. --- Dictionary. --- Discernment. --- Editing. --- Edition (book). --- Elena Ferrante. --- Emoticon. --- Essay. --- Fiction. --- First Things. --- Grammar. --- Hairstyle. --- Headline. --- Idiom. --- Imagism. --- Implementation. --- Interpreter of Maladies. --- Intertextuality. --- Italo Calvino. --- Jhumpa Lahiri. --- Jorge Luis Borges. --- Kate Lechmere. --- Lament. --- Language. --- Latin poetry. --- Lecture. --- Lingua (journal). --- Lingua (play). --- Linguistics. --- Listening. --- Literature. --- Metaphor. --- Mneme. --- Monologue. --- Note (typography). --- Noun. --- Novelist. --- Observation. --- Orbe. --- Osbert Sitwell. --- Parody. --- Paul Muldoon. --- Philosophy. --- Poetry. --- Precedent. --- Preposition and postposition. --- Processing (programming language). --- Pronunciation. --- Proofreading. --- Prose. --- Proverb. --- Publication. --- Publishing. --- Reading (process). --- Recipe. --- Repetition (rhetorical device). --- Romance languages. --- Satire. --- Semiotics. --- Sensibility. --- Sincerity. --- Storytelling. --- Subjectivity. --- Subjunctive mood. --- Suggestion. --- Supplement (publishing). --- Temporality. --- The Other Hand. --- The Translator. --- The Various. --- Thought. --- Translation. --- Transliteration. --- Treatise. --- Understanding. --- Verb. --- Writer. --- Writing. --- Wyndham Lewis. --- Interpreters --- Linguists --- Translating services --- Interpretation and translation --- Interpreting and translating --- Language and languages --- Literature --- Translation and interpretation --- Auto-translation (Self-translation) --- Translating and interpreting --- Translating --- Lahiri, Jhumpa. --- Jhumpa Lahiri --- להירי, ג׳ומפה --- Lahiri, Nilanjana Svadeshna --- Lahiri, Nilanjana Sudeshna --- Lahiri, Jhumpa --- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Translating & Interpreting --- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women

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"An incisive history of the controversial Google Books project and the ongoing quest for a universal digital library. Libraries have long talked about providing comprehensive access to information for everyone. But when Google announced in 2004 that it planned to digitize books to make the world's knowledge accessible to all, questions were raised about the roles and responsibilities of libraries, the rights of authors and publishers, and whether a powerful corporation should to be the conveyor of such a fundamental public good. Along Came Google traces the history of Google's book digitization project and its implications for us today. Deanna Marcum and Roger Schonfeld draw on in-depth interviews with those who both embraced and resisted Google's plans, from librarians and technologists to university leaders, tech executives, and the heads of leading publishing houses. They look at earlier digital initiatives to provide open access to knowledge, and describe how Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page made the case for a universal digital library and drew on their company's considerable financial resources to make it a reality. Marcum and Schonfeld examine how librarians and scholars organized a legal response to Google, and reveals the missed opportunities when a settlement with the tech giant failed. Along Came Google sheds light on the transformational effects of the Google Books project on scholarship and discusses how we can continue to think imaginatively and collaboratively about advancing the widespread digital availability of knowledge."--

Google. --- Google --- 09 <08> --- 681.3*I41 --- 681.3*I41 Digitization; quantization; sampling; scanning (Image processing) --- Digitization; quantization; sampling; scanning (Image processing) --- 09 <08> Handschriften. Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Curiosa--Verzamelwerken. Reeksen--Boekwetenschap. Sociale aspecten van het boek. Boek en media. Toekomst van het boek --- Handschriften. Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Curiosa--Verzamelwerken. Reeksen--Boekwetenschap. Sociale aspecten van het boek. Boek en media. Toekomst van het boek --- Book acquisition --- Library automation --- Information systems --- library science --- digitizing --- Google [Mountain View, Calif.] --- Digitization. --- Numérisation --- Documentation de bibliothèque --- Libraries --- Library materials --- Academic journal. --- Academic library. --- Academic publishing. --- Advertising. --- Alumnus. --- American Memory. --- Archivist. --- Artstor. --- Association of American Publishers. --- Association of Research Libraries. --- Author. --- Bibliography. --- Book. --- Brewster Kahle. --- Business model. --- Business plan. --- Cataloging. --- Center for Research Libraries. --- Clifford Lynch. --- Collaboration. --- Computer scientist. --- Consideration. --- Copyright. --- Criticism. --- Digital Library Federation. --- Digital Public Library of America. --- Digital library. --- Digital preservation. --- Dissemination. --- E-book. --- Ecosystem. --- Electronic publishing. --- Elsevier. --- European Library. --- Europeana. --- Executive director. --- Funding. --- Google Books. --- Government agency. --- Harvard University. --- HathiTrust. --- Henriette Avram. --- Historical society. --- Infrastructure. --- Institute of Museum and Library Services. --- Institution. --- Intellectual property. --- Internet Archive. --- JSTOR. --- John Palfrey. --- Larry Page. --- Librarian of Congress. --- Librarian. --- Librarians. --- Library acquisitions. --- Library of Congress. --- Library science. --- Library. --- Manuscript. --- Microsoft. --- Monograph. --- National Endowment for the Humanities. --- National library. --- Newsletter. --- Newspaper. --- Non-disclosure agreement. --- Nonprofit organization. --- OCLC. --- Open Content Alliance. --- Outreach. --- Paul Courant. --- Philanthropy. --- Preprint. --- Princeton University Press. --- ProQuest. --- Processing (programming language). --- PubMed Central. --- Public library. --- Publication. --- Publishing. --- Purchasing. --- Requirement. --- Research Libraries Group. --- Scholarly communication. --- Scientific journal. --- Scientific literature. --- Sergey Brin. --- Special collections. --- Technology company. --- Technology. --- The Google Book. --- The New York Times. --- Thought. --- United States National Library of Medicine. --- Universal library. --- Vendor. --- Website. --- World Digital Library. --- WorldCat. --- Writing. --- Numérisation --- Documentation de bibliothèque --- Digital libraries --- History. --- Digitization --- Automation. --- Google (Firm) --- Scholarly publishing.