Perceptrons: An Introduction to Computational Geometry
Marvin Minsky, Seymour A. Papert and Leon Bottou
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In 1969, ten years after the discovery of the perceptron -- which showed that a machine could be...
Bodies at War: Genealogies of Militarism in Chicana Literature and Culture
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In the wake of U.S. military intervention abroad and collapsing domestic economies, scholars have...
Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence
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Timothy Morton argues that ecological awareness in the present Anthropocene era takes the form of a...
In the Name of the Mother: Reflections on Writers and Empire
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Renowned worldwide, as novelist and dramatist, Ngugi wa Thiongo's contributions to the body of...
Lovecidal: Walking with the Disappeared
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In this new work, renowned feminist filmmaker and postcolonial theorist Trinh T. Minh-ha offers a...
Poems: 1962-1997
Robert Lax and John Beer
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"One of the great original voices of our times--a pilgrim in search of beautiful innocence."--Jack...
Table Talk: Sweet and Sour, Salt and Bitter
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The first collection of food writing by Britain's funniest and most feared critic A.A. Gill knows...
The Catcher in the Rye
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The Catcher in the Rye is J . D. Salinger's world-famous novel of disaffected youth. Holden...
The Sporting World of Lewis Carroll
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Charles Dodgson (or Lewis Carroll as he was usually known) lived through a period of rapid change....
A Handful of Dust
Evelyn Waugh and Robert Murray Davis
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Taking its title from T.S. Eliot's modernist poem The Waste Land, Evelyn Waugh's A Handful of Dust...