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The Making of a Neuromorphic Visual System
Springer 2005; US$ 129.99The reader is presented an approach to the construction of a visual system, which is behaviorally, computationally and neurally motivated. The central goal is to characterize the process of visual categorization and to find a suitable representation format that can successfully deal with the structural variability existent within visual categories.... more...
Defending Albion
Palgrave Macmillan 2005; US$ 115.00Defending Albion is the first published study of Britain's response to the threat of invasion from across the North Sea in the first two decades of the Twentieth Century. It examines the emergency schemes designed to confront an enemy landing and the problems associated with raising and maintaining the often derided Territorial Force. It also explores... more...
Pausanias' Greece
Cambridge University Press 1996; US$ 46.00A study of Pausanias' chronicles of his extensive travels in Greece in the second century AD. more...
Gentlemen and Officers
Andrews UK 2012; US$ 13.99An impressive work of research which is not so much a regimental history as a social study of the three battalions of the 5th (London Rifle Brigade) London Regiment: 1/5th, 2/5th and 3/5th. The first two served on the Western Front, the third (3/5th) did not leave the UK. LRB was a battalion which required an entrance fee from its members and excluded... more...
Fiendish Schemes
Tom Doherty Associates 2013; US$ 14.99The long-awaited stand-alone sequel to the seminal novel Infernal Devices by one of the founding fathers of steampunk more...
Humanism in an Age of Science
BRILL 2009; US$ 147.00Drawing on letters, orations and disputations, this book argues that during the seventeenth century, the Amsterdam Athenaeum, despite the revolutionary debates of the time, and despite the intellectual liberalism characteristic of Amsterdam, remained traditional in its teaching. more...
Aristotle's Theory of Language and Meaning
Cambridge University Press 2000; US$ 37.00This is a book about Aristotle's philosophy of language. more...









