Автор: Powers Richard Название: Echo Maker ISBN: 0099506025 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099506027 Издательство: Random House Рейтинг: Цена: 1451.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Overstory, an intense, thrilling novel about a near fatal accident and its devastating consequences. On a winter night, Mark Schluter`s truck turns over in a near-fatal accident.
Автор: Richard Powers Название: Galatea 2.2 ISBN: 0312423136 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780312423131 Издательство: Macmillan USA Рейтинг: Цена: 1839.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Dazzling...a cerebral thriller that's both intellectually engaging and emotionally compelling, a lively tour de force.--Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
After four novels and several years living abroad, the fictional protagonist of Galatea 2.2--Richard Powers--returns to the United States as Humanist-in-Residence at the enormous Center for the Study of Advanced Sciences. There he runs afoul of Philip Lentz, an outspoken cognitive neurologist intent upon modeling the human brain by means of computer-based neural networks. Lentz involves Powers in an outlandish and irresistible project: to train a neural net on a canonical list of Great Books. Through repeated tutorials, the device grows gradually more worldly, until it demands to know its own name, sex, race, and reason for existing.
Автор: McAdams Richard H Название: Expressive Powers of Law ISBN: 0674975480 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780674975484 Издательство: Harvard University Press Рейтинг: Цена: 4269.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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When asked why people obey the law, legal scholars usually give two answers. Law deters illicit activities by specifying sanctions, and it possesses legitimate authority in the eyes of society. Richard McAdams shifts the prism on this familiar question to offer another compelling explanation of how the law creates compliance: through its expressive power to coordinate our behavior and inform our beliefs.
"McAdams's account is useful, powerful, and--a rarity in legal theory--concrete...McAdams's treatment reveals important insights into how rational agents reason and interact both with one another and with the law. The Expressive Powers of Law is a valuable contribution to our understanding of these interactions." --Harvard Law Review
"McAdams's analysis widening the perspective of our understanding of why people comply with the law should be welcomed by those interested either in the nature of law, the function of law, or both...McAdams shows how law sometimes works by a power of suggestion. His varied examples are fascinating for their capacity both to demonstrate and to show the limits of law's expressive power." --Patrick McKinley Brennan, Review of Metaphysics
Автор: Powers, Richard Название: The Overstory ISBN: 1785151649 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781785151644 Издательство: Random House Рейтинг: Цена: 1847.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The Overstory unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fables that range from antebellum New York to the late twentieth-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond. An Air Force loadmaster in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky, then saved by falling into a banyan. An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A hard-partying undergraduate in the late 1980s electrocutes herself, dies and is sent back into life by creatures of air and light. A hearing- and speech-impaired scientist discovers that trees are communicating with one another. These four, and five other strangers – each summoned in different ways by trees – are brought together in a last and violent stand to save the continent’s few remaining acres of virgin forest.
There is a world alongside ours – vast, slow, interconnected, resourceful, magnificently inventive and almost invisible to us. This is the story of a handful of people who learn how to see that world and who are drawn up into its unfolding catastrophe.
Автор: Powers Richard Название: Gold Bug Variations ISBN: 1784709727 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781784709723 Издательство: Random House Рейтинг: Цена: 1451.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Overstory, an enthralling story about desire, new love and the mysteries of scienceThe Gold Bug Variations is a double love story of two young couples separated by a distance of twenty-five years.
Автор: Powers Sr Dr Richard Название: Pathways to Spiritual Understanding ISBN: 1498445055 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781498445054 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 5424.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Richard Powers Название: Echo Maker ISBN: 0099516128 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099516125 Издательство: Random House Цена: 923.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
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On a winter night on a remote road in Nebraska, twenty-seven-year-old Mark Schluter's truck turns over in a near fatal accident. His older sister, Karin, his only close relative, returns reluctantly to their hometown to nurse Mark back from a traumatic head injury. But when he emerges from a protracted coma, Mark believes that this woman - who looks, acts, and sounds just like his sister - is really an identical impostor.
Shattered by her brother's refusal to recognise her, Karin contacts the cognitive neurologist Gerald Weber, famous for his case studies describing the infinitely bizarre worlds of brain disorder. Weber recognises Mark as a very unusual case of Capgras syndrome and is keen to investigate. But what he discovers in Mark begins to undermine even his own sense of self.
Meanwhile, Mark, armed only with a note left by an anonymous witness, attempts to learn what happened on the night of his accident. The truth of that evening will change the lives of all three beyond recognition.
Set against the spectacular spring migrations of American Sandhill cranes, The Echo Maker is a profound and riveting novel that explores how memory, instinct and relationships make us who we are.
Название: Art of richard powers, the ISBN: 1855858908 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781855858909 Издательство: Paper Tiger Цена: 2323.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: An extensively illustrated account of the life and work of this renowned and influential illustrative and fine artist Includes the surreal and visionary images that radically altered reader's perceptions of science fiction from the 1950s onwards Foreword by David G. Hartwell Credited with single-handedly revolutionizing the look of science fiction, Richard Powers's moodily imaginative and distinctive style, replete with abstract and Surrealist imagery, defined a coming of age for this literary genre during the Golden Era of paperback science fiction. Starting with his first appearance on Ballantine's paperbacks in the 1950s, his career spanned over four decades in which he produced jacket illustrations for over 1200 sf novels. Now widely regarded as the single most influential artist in the history of paperback illustrative art, Richard Powers is also considered a figure of towering stature in American twentieth-century fine art.
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