An Interview with bell hooks, author of "Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics"SOUTH END PRESS: Your work on radical black feminism has been an inspiration for many young feminists of color, and you yourself were in your early 20s when you wrote your first book, "Ain't I a Woman." What differences do you see in the political and cultural climate that young progressive ...(展开全部)

In Code Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan reconstructs how Progressive Era technocracy as well as crises of industrial democracy and colonialism shaped early accounts of cybernetics and digital media by theorists including Norbert Wiener, Warren Weaver, Margaret Mead, Gregory Bateson, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Roman Jakobson, Jacques Lacan, Roland Barthes, and Luce Irigaray. His analysis ...(展开全部)

Valentine Cunninghama s controversial manifesto asks what will and should happen to reading in the post--theory era.

“Peter Szendy offers a subtle, persuasive, and unprecedented account of the time of reading and its scene of address, one that is as archaic as it is contemporary. When we read, are we listening to a voice or being read to? If it is not a private and monologic exercise, how do we understand the populated scene of reading? What reads when we read, and how does reading push and p...(展开全部)

Here is a natural companion to Christopher Booker`s bestselling The Seven Basic Plots (Continuum) and John Gross`s seminal study The Rise and Fall of the Man of Letters (Weidenfeld and Nicolson). The most eminent cultural and social historian Frank Furedi presents an eclectic and entirely original history of reading. The very act of reading and the choice of reading material en...(展开全部)

这本热情洋溢的信息理论基础入门书从经典香农理论到统计学习中的现代应用，为学生进一步学习打下了独特、全面而严谨的基础。本书使用独特的有限块长度方法介绍了数据压缩、信道编码和速率失真理论等核心主题。本书通过超过 210 个课后练习和大量示例，向学生介绍了统计学、机器学习和现代通信理论的当代应用。本书介绍了信息理论方法在统计学习和计算机科学中的应用，例如 f 散度、PAC Bayes 和变分原理、Kolmogorov 度量熵、强数据处理不等式和统计估计的熵上界。本书附有教师解决方案手册和关于信息理论中更专业主题的额外独立章节，是电气工程、统计学和计算机科学专业高年级本科生和研究生的理想入门教科书。 ·系统地处理统计学习和高维统计中的信息论技术 ·为连续和离散变量开发信息论，提供与统计和机器学习应用相关的示例 ·重点关注有限块长度（非渐近）结果，让学生掌握 ...(展开全部)