Download or read book Metarepresentations written by Dan Sperber and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2000 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume concerns metarepresentation: the construction and use of representations that represent other representations. It collects studies on the subject by an interdisciplinary group of contributors.

Download or read book Do You Remember written by Alice Taylor and published by The O'Brien Press. This book was released on 2014-10-27 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alice Taylor remembers her childhood home – the farm with all its tools and animals, the home with its equipment for living, its daily challenges, constant hard work, and its comforts too. She describes the huge open fireplace where all the cooking was done, where the big black kettle hung permanently from the crane over the flames; here the family sat in the evenings, talking, knitting, going over the events of the day, saying the rosary. She experienced the sow being brought indoors to have her precious brood of bonhams. She recalls the faithful, beloved horses and their wonderfully varied outfits – one set of tackle for each job they did on the farm; the ritual of lighting the oil lamps – from the fancy one in the parlour to the tiny one under the Sacred Heart picture; the excitement of threshing day and the satisfaction of a good harvest – the stations, the neighbours, and later the local dancehall and cinema. All the jobs and tools of a way of life long gone live on in the hearts of those who were formed by it. Here Alice Taylor celebrates them all with love. 'magical ... reading the book, I felt a faint ache in my heart ... I find myself longing for those days ... it is essential reading.' Irish Independent

Download or read book Hide and Seeker written by Daka Hermon and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of our most iconic childhood games receives a creepy twist as it becomes the gateway to a nightmare world. Don't let the Seeker find you!Twelve-year-old Zee is back now. He disappeared for a year and nobody knows where he went or what happened to him. Not even his best friends Justin, Nia, and Lyric. But ever since Zee has been back, he's been... different. After Zee freaks out at his friends playing hide-and-seek at an odd party in his backyard -- the first time his friends are back together since his reappearance -- strange things begin to occur. Everyone who played in the game has a mark on their wrist. And then they disappear.The kids are pulled into a shadow world -- the Nowhere -- ruled by the monstrous, shape-shifting Seeker. Justin and his friends will have to band together and face their worst nightmares to defeat the Seeker or lose themselves to the Nowhere forever.

Download or read book Animal Camouflage written by Martin Stevens and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-07-07 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last decade, research on the previously dormant field of camouflage has advanced rapidly, with numerous studies challenging traditional concepts, investigating previously untested theories and incorporating a greater appreciation of the visual and cognitive systems of the observer. Using studies of both real animals and artificial systems, this book synthesises the current state of play in camouflage research and understanding. It introduces the different types of camouflage and how they work, including background matching, disruptive coloration and obliterative shading. It also demonstrates the methodologies used to study them and discusses how camouflage relates to other subjects, particularly with regard to what it can tell us about visual perception. The mixture of primary research and reviews shows students and researchers where the field currently stands and where exciting and important problems remain to be solved, illustrating how the study of camouflage is likely to progress in the future.

Download or read book The Hider written by Loren D. Estleman and published by Large Print Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To eighteen-year old Jeff Curry, the old hider and the buffalo he hunted was something of a myth, like a ghost from the past stalking a dream. The old man claimed to have tracked the last of the mighty beasts all the way from Arizona to Oregon, where buffalo hadn't been seen in ten years. It was the chance for adventure that Jeff had ached for. But when these two men help an Indian framed for murder, the buffalo hunt turns into a manhunt -- and Jeff is one of the prey...

Download or read book Original Knowing written by J. Bradley Wigger and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2012-10-17 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did Lucy know God? Could Neanderthals talk? Was Ardi self-conscious? These are the strange new breed of questions emerging as we discover more and more about our prehistoric origins--questions about knowing. While fossil digs and carbon dating tell a remarkable story about the bones and times of our ancient ancestors, we cannot help wondering what they knew, and when. Exploring such questions Original Knowing takes contemporary science as seriously as religious tradition and searches for the story behind this odd creature who senses more to the universe than meets the eye. In limestone bluffs and butterfly migrations, from Stone Age tool-making to Sumerian beer-making, clues are sought to better understand this strange mind that ponders the origins of its own existence. When do babies point, and why does it matter? What does throwing a Frisbee reveal about our distant ancestors? Is language the key to our minds as many believe? Or perhaps the heart of knowing rests in something more basic, in a smile, and the powerful social abilities at work allowing us to sense a depth to life--to our own lives--a depth that our minds help us glimpse if only through a glass darkly.

Download or read book Scouting written by and published by . This book was released on 1992-10 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published by the Boy Scouts of America for all BSA registered adult volunteers and professionals, Scouting magazine offers editorial content that is a mixture of information, instruction, and inspiration, designed to strengthen readers' abilities to better perform their leadership roles in Scouting and also to assist them as parents in strengthening families.

Download or read book Hider Roser written by Ben Mirov and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. "Mirov's poems are like dead soul dispatches from an emotional robot. Contained in them is the terrible recognition of the mere materiality of the universe and that somehow arising from that is an irrational attachment to friends, loves, and a man named Ben Mirov. The poems are an attempt to speak of these things, often opening into imaginative spaces tinged with the absurd. The continued disconnect between what the speaker describes and what he may or may not feel is funny, until it's revealed to also be sad." Dan Magers "Ben Mirov writes, 'The high-fives are meant to signify celebratory attitudes and reinforce the sense of comradery we feel in the wake of our semi-athletic achievement.' For the 'semi-athletic' achiever in all of us, HIDER ROSER gives free $12 high-fives." Amanda Nadelberg "It seems like HIDER ROSER was written by Ben Mirov. His name appears on the cover and in the poems the book contains. However, he did not write this book. I did. Ben Mirov's function in the process was more like an android, receiving messages from an alien source. If you ever actually meet the vessel I know as Ben Mirov, his personality and conversational capacity will underwhelm you. I hope these poems will not." the author of HIDER ROSER"

Download or read book Search Theory written by David V. Chudnovsky and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2023-05-09 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the solution of an optimal search problem with an exponential detection function. Covers one- and two-sided detection problems by furnishing continuous and discret time strategies; examines two-sided search strategies with solutions in hide and seek games in many discrete and continuous bounded

Download or read book Hopscotch Hangman Hot Potato Ha Ha Ha written by Jack Maguire and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1990-08 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the rules for more than two hundred games, including indoor, outdoor, playground, party, and travel games, and includes information on the number of players, equipment, and object of the game.

Download or read book The Right to Oblivion written by Lowry Pressly and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Constant digital surveillance has inspired a heated but also limited privacy debate. Lowry Pressly looks beyond the narrow discourse of rights and information to extol privacy as a tool for living. Privacy, he argues, not only reinforces our capacities for play, self-discovery, connection, and trust, but also is vital to the search for meaning.

Download or read book Play These Games written by Heather Swain and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using simple, everyday items found around the house, Play These Games will inspire kids and the young at heart with a spectrum of ingenious games to make and play so they’ll never be bored again! •Gather family photos to create a personalized set of Go Fish cards •Grab loose buttons for button golf, shuffle button, and button hockey •Unleash your inner pinball wizard with a clothespin and cardboard box version of the arcade classic •Get out the hula hoops and brooms for a backyard jousting tournament •Try one of fifteen variations of the classic game of Tag Whether it’s competitive or cooperative, for large groups or duos, the games in this clever guide are fun to create and a blast to play.

Download or read book Data Hiding Fundamentals and Applications written by Husrev T. Sencar and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2004-08-20 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Multimedia technologies are becoming more sophisticated, enabling the Internet to accommodate a rapidly growing audience with a full range of services and efficient delivery methods. Although the Internet now puts communication, education, commerce and socialization at our finger tips, its rapid growth has raised some weighty security concerns with respect to multimedia content. The owners of this content face enormous challenges in safeguarding their intellectual property, while still exploiting the Internet as an important resource for commerce. Data Hiding Fundamentals and Applications focuses on the theory and state-of-the-art applications of content security and data hiding in digital multimedia. One of the pillars of content security solutions is the imperceptible insertion of information into multimedia data for security purposes; the idea is that this inserted information will allow detection of unauthorized usage. Provides a theoretical framework for data hiding, in a signal processing context Realistic applications in secure, multimedia delivery Compression robust data hiding Data hiding for proof of ownership--WATERMARKING Data hiding algorithms for image and video watermarking

Download or read book Cognitive Biology written by Gennaro Auletta and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2011-07-14 with total page 880 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing a new conceptual scaffold for further research in biology and cognition, this book introduces the new field of Cognitive Biology: a systems biology approach showing that further progress in this field will depend on a deep recognition of developmental processes, as well as on the consideration of the developed organism as an agent able to modify and control its surrounding environment. The role of cognition, the means through which the organism is able to cope with its environment, cannot be underestimated. In particular, it is shown that this activity is grounded on a theory of information based on Bayesian probabilities. The organism is considered as a cybernetic system able to integrate a processor as a source of variety (the genetic system), a regulator of its own homeostasis (the metabolic system), and a selecting system separating the self from the non-self (the membrane in unicellular organisms). Any organism is a complex system that can survive only if it is able to maintain its internal order against the spontaneous tendency towards disruption. Therefore, it is forced to monitor and control its environment and so to establish feedback circuits resulting in co-adaptation. Cognitive and biological processes are shown to be inseparable.

Download or read book Unplugged Play written by Bobbi Conner and published by Workman Publishing. This book was released on 2007-07-01 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addressing the concerns of parents worried about the amount of time children spend in front of a TV or computer screen, a family-friendly resource introduces more than seven hundred games and variations for every age group, including craft projects, music activities, games, and many other types of activities. Simultaneous.

Download or read book Rule Book Color written by Michael Ventrella and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rule book for the Alliance LARP (Live Action Role-Playing) game, with full color pictures and graphs. Also includes tabletop rules. For more details, visit www.AllianceLARP.com

Download or read book The Spiders of Allah written by James Hider and published by Black Swan Books, Limited. This book was released on 2010-01-07 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bloodshed perpetrated in the name of religion in the world today is nowhere more obvious than in the Middle East. Whether we are talking about hardcore Zionist settlers still fighting ancient Biblical battles in the hills of the West Bank or Shiite death squads roaming the lawless streets of Iraq in the aftermath of Saddam; whether it's the misappropriation and martyrdom of Mickey Mouse by Gaza's Islamists, or a US president acting on God's orders, James Hider sees the hallucinatory effect of what he calls the 'crack cocaine of fanatical fundamentalism' all around him. As James Hider travels around the Middle East, from Israel to Gaza, to Iraq ­and then back to Jerusalem, he takes his doubts about religious beliefs to the very heart of the world's holy wars. He meets terrorists and their victims, soldiers and clerics, ordinary people and extraordinary people. The question in the back of his mind is: how can people not only believe in all this madness, but die and kill for it too? This timely book casts an unflinching yet compassionate eye on the very worst and most violent crimes committed in the name of religion and asks questions that the world needs to answer if we are to stand a chance of facing our own worst demons.