http://www.metafilter.com/tags/reference+books Posts tagged with 'reference' and 'books' at MetaFilter. Tue, 13 Dec 2005 17:43:01 -0800 Tue, 13 Dec 2005 17:43:01 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/47580/The%2Dconcept%2Dof%2Dthe%2DTranshuman%2Dhuman%2Dthe%2Dself%2Dconsciousness%2Dand%2Dtheir%2Deffects%2Don%2Dthe%2Dlaw <a href="http://www.transhumanlaw.org/index.html">The first Transhuman Conference On the Law of Transhuman Persons:</a> Whether or not you believe humans are set to evolve into gods, or AI is destined to achieve <a href="http://www.transhumanist.com/volume1/moravec.htm">self-awareness</a> the idea of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transhuman">Transhuman</a> is a thought provoking concept. Philosophers have debated <a href="http://www.philosophy.ucf.edu/texts.html">the nature of the self</a>, of the human for millennia. Is it time to start drafting new laws to govern <em>all</em> possible sentient beings on this planet? or is it all just a <a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/jstrout/uploading/MUHomePage.html">science</a> of <a href="http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=505">fiction</a>? <a href="http://www.granta.com/books/chapters/979">a comfortable humanist illusion</a>? tag:metafilter.com,2005:site.47580 Tue, 13 Dec 2005 17:43:01 -0800 ai awareness biology books brain computers consciousness evolution existence future human humanism mind news philosophy reference science scifi sf self sf singularity technology transhuman weird 0bvious http://www.metafilter.com/45405/Classic%2Dtexts%2Din%2Dpsychology <a href="http://psychclassics.yorku.ca">Classics in the History of Psychology</a> tag:metafilter.com,2005:site.45405 Mon, 26 Sep 2005 11:31:41 -0800 books classics history mind psychology reference resource texts Gyan http://www.metafilter.com/25269/Writers%2DRead%2Dand%2DWrite <a href="http://www.writerswrite.com/">Writer's Write.</a> "Your one-stop resource for information about books, writing and publishing." An excellent resource site, filled with many links that may be useful to new writers. I especially liked their article titled <a href="http://www.writerswrite.com/journal/jul99/luff.htm">"Writing Sketch Comedy That Sells"</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2003:site.25269 Mon, 21 Apr 2003 18:58:43 -0800 authors books comedy reference writing Joey Michaels http://www.metafilter.com/24861/University%2Dof%2DCalifornia%2DPress%2DPublic%2DOnly%2DSubject%2DList <a href="http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft267nb1f9/" title="Until now, there has been no comprehensive study of religion in Athens from the end of the classical period to the time of Rome's domination of the city. Jon D. Mikalson provides a chronological approach to religion in Hellenistic Athens, disproving the widely held belief that Hellenistic religion during this period represented a decline from the classical era.">Religion in Hellenistic Athens</a><b>, </b><a href="http://ark.cdlib.org/?mode=ucpress;bsubject=%22Architecture%22;nrights=uconly" title="The Speculum Humanae Salvationis or ''Mirror of Human Salvation,'' is the only medieval work that exists in illuminated manuscripts, in blockbook editions of the mid-fifteenth century, and in sixteen later incunabula. The authors have provided lavishly illustrated accounts of the manuscripts and included reproductions of all 116 woodcuts of the blockbooks, accompanied by a description of the typography and production and an interpretation of each scene. ">A Medieval Mirror</a><b>,</b> <a href="http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft7h4nb4rx/" title="How does a ''homogeneous'' society like Japan treat the problem of social inequality? Losing Face looks beyond conventional structural categories (race, class, ethnicity) to focus on conflicts based on differences in social status. Three rich and revealing case studies explore crucial asymmetries of age, sex, and former caste. ">Losing Face: Status Politics in Japan</a><b>,</b> <a href="http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft7b69p12h/" title="Few people are more respected or better positioned to speak on the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan than M. Hassan Kakar. A professor at Kabul University and scholar of Afghanistan affairs at the time of the 1978 coup d'&#0233;tat, Kakar vividly describes the events surrounding the Soviet invasion in 1979 and the encounter between the military superpower and the poorly armed Afghans. The events that followed are carefully detailed, with eyewitness accounts and authoritative documentation that provide an unparalleled view of this historical moment.">Afghanistan: The Soviet Invasion and the Afghan Response, 1979-1982 </a><b>, </b><a href="http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft5q2nb3w6/" title="This powerful study shows how America's biggest export, rock and roll, became a major influence in Mexican politics, society, and culture. From the arrival of Elvis in Mexico during the 1950s to the emergence of a full-blown counterculture movement by the late 1960s, Eric Zolov uses rock and roll to illuminate Mexican history through these charged decades and into the 1970s. This fascinating narrative traces the rechanneling of youth energies away from political protest in the wake of the 1968 student movement and into counterculture rebellion, known as La Onda (The Wave). ">Refried Elvis: The Rise of the Mexican Counterculture </a><b>, </b><a href="http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft4w10062x/" title="Wars against Freud have been waged along virtually every front during the past decade. Now Paul Robinson takes on three of Freud's most formidable critics, mounting a thoughtful, witty, and ultimately devastating critique of the historian of science Frank Sulloway, the psychoanalyst Jeffrey Masson, and the philosopher Adolf Gr&#0252;nbaum.">Freud and His Critics </a> and <a href="http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft1z09n7g7/" title="One of the Arab world's greatest living poets uses the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon and the shelling of Beirut as the setting for this sequence of prose poems. Mahmoud Darwish vividly recreates the sights and sounds of a city under terrible siege. As fighter jets scream overhead, he explores the war-ravaged streets of Beirut on August 6th (Hiroshima Day). Memory for Forgetfulness is an extended reflection on the invasion and its political and historical dimensions. It is also a journey into personal and collective memory. What is the meaning of exile? What is the role of the writer in time of war? What is the relationship of writing (memory) to history (forgetfulness)? In raising these questions, Darwish implicitly connects writing, homeland, meaning, and resistance in an ironic, condensed work that combines wit with rage. Ibrahim Muhawi's translation beautifully renders Darwish's testament to the heroism of a people under siege, and to Palestinian creativity and continuity.">Memory for Forgetfulness: August, Beirut, 1982 </a>--all are entire online books from the<a href="http://escholarship.cdlib.org/ucpress/subjects_public.html"> public section</a> of the University of California Press.<br><br>I am, like, going so nutso--Jackpot! tag:metafilter.com,2003:site.24861 Thu, 03 Apr 2003 18:47:16 -0800 books history library reference research resources universityofcalifornia y2karl http://www.metafilter.com/9796/ Aren’t there some topics where the "E-Z", at-a-glance, bullet-point riddled, dummies/idiot's format seems <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0028639936/metafilter-20/ref=nosim/">terribly ironic</a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0028619579/metafilter-20/ref=nosim/">rather inappropriate</a>, or <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0764551167/metafilter-20/ref=nosim/">fundamentally at odds</a> with the subject matter? Not to mention <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0764552767/metafilter-20/ref=nosim/">random</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2001:site.9796 Fri, 31 Aug 2001 19:26:33 -0800 books CompleteIdiotsGuide guide guides reference katexmcfly