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I'll help my chums learn about systems! / by Beck, Esther,author.(CARDINAL)480871;
Horn Book, October 2007Describes creative, educational, and entertaining approaches to basic concepts of science.2.0.Pre K-3.0.XAccelerated Reader ARAccelerated Reader
Subjects: AR bl 3.2 / pt 0.5.; AR pt 0.5 / bl 3.2.; Science; System theory;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Universal : a guide to the cosmos / by Cox, Brian,1968-author.(CARDINAL)344217; Forshaw, J. R.(Jeffrey Robert),1968-author.(CARDINAL)344216;
Includes bibliographical reference and index.The story of the universe -- How old are things? -- Weighing the Earth -- The distance to the stars -- Einstein's theory of gravity -- The Big Bang -- Weighing the universe -- What happened before the Big Bang? -- Our place -- Evolution of the universe.Universal takes us on an epic journey of scientific exploration. It reveals how we can all come to grips with some of the most fundamental questions about our earth, sun, and solar system--and the star-filled galaxies beyond. How big is our solar system? How quickly is space expanding? How big is the universe? What is it made of? Some of these questions can be answered on the basis of observations you can make in your own backyard. Other answers draw on the astonishing information now being gathered by teams of astronomers operating at the frontiers of the known universe.
Subjects: Cosmology; Big bang theory;
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Systems / by Shanken, Edward A.,1964-editor.(CARDINAL)350007;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction -- FOUNDATIONS. Systems theory and new paradigm, 1988 / Fritjof Capra -- To know and to let know: An applied theory of knowledge / Heinz von Foerster -- A mathematical theory of communication, 1948 / Claude E. Shannon -- Recent contributions to the mathematical theory of communication, 1949 / Warren Weaver -- The use of human beings, 1950 / Norbert Wiener -- Contesting for the body of information: The Macy Conference on Cybernetics (1946 and 1953), 1999 / N. Katherine Hayles -- Style, grace and information in primitive art, 1967 / Gregory Bateson -- Our own metaphor, 1972 / Mary Catherine Bateson -- Cybernetics of cybernetics, 1973 / Heinz von Foerster -- The tree of knowledge: Biological roots of human understanding, 1984 / Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela -- Dancing with systems, 2001 / Donella H. Meadows -- CYBERNETIC ART, ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN. Cybernated art, 1966 / Nam June Paik -- The cybernetic stance: My process and purpose, 1968 / Roy Ascott -- Art society feedback: In conversation with Emily Pethick, 2011 / Stephen Willats -- Woody's famous feedback rap, 1973 / Steina and Woody Vasulka -- Notes for a proposal on conceptual gaming, 1973 / Frank Gillette -- From the gun controller to the mandala: The cybernetic cinema of John and James Whitney, 2009 / Zabet Patterson -- Art and telematics: Towards a network consciousness, 1981 / Roy Ascott -- The architectural relevance of cybernetics, 1969 / Gordon Pask -- The fun palace project (1961-64), 2000 / Mary Louise Lobsinger -- The architectural relevance of Gordon Pask, 2007 / Usman Haque -- Intelligent cities, 2007 / William J. Mitchell -- Morphogenesis and the mathematics of emergence, 2004 / Michael WeinstockSYSTEMS AESTHETICS. Systems aesthetics, 1968 / Jack Burnham -- Real time systems, 1969 / Jack Burnham -- In conversation with Jeanne Siegel, 1971 / Hans Haacke -- Reprogramming systems aesthetics, 2009-14 / Edward A. Shanken -- Systems of art, 2008 / Francis Halsall -- Systems symptoms: Jack Burnham's 'Systems aesthetics', 2011 / Caroline A. Jones -- The mimesis of thinking, 2005 / Boris Groys -- A cultural systems approach to collaboration in art and technology, 2005 / Stephen Jones -- GENERATIVE SYSTEMS. Lines of development, 1943-84 / Richard Paul Lohse -- Free stochastic music, 1965 / Iannis Xenakis -- Iannis Xenakis and systems thinking, 2011 / Phivos-Angelos Kollias -- Statement, 1971 / Manfred Mohr -- Mind/Senses/Hand: The generative systems program at the Art Institute of Chicago 1970-80, 1990 / Sonia Landy Sheridan -- Generating and organizing variety in the arts, 1976 / Brian Eno -- Statement, c. 2004 / Michael Joaquin Grey -- Art as a living system, 1999 / Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau -- Autopoiesis, 2000 / Ken Rinaldo -- Context machines, 2013 / Benjamin Bogart and Philippe Pasquier -- Google will eat itself, 2005 / Ubermorgen.com, with Paolo Cirio and Alessandro Ludovico -- Systems stories and model worlds, 2005 / Mitchell Whitelaw -- Generator: The value of software art, 2007 / Geoff Cox -- ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL SYSTEMS. Operating manual for spaceship earth, 1969 / R. Buckminster Fuller -- Geophysiology: The science of Gaia, 1989 / James Lovelock -- Shifting positions towards the earth: Art and environmental awareness, 1993 / Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison -- Entomogenic climate change: Insect bio-acoustics and future forest ecology, 2009 / David Dunn and Jim Crutchfield -- The field of cultural production, or the economic world reversed, 1983 / Pierre Bourdieu -- Putting a glitch in the field: Bourdieu, actor network theory and contemporary music, 2008 / Nick Prior -- The function of art and the differentiation of the art system, 1995 / Niklas Luhmann -- Systematically observing surveillance: Paradoxes of observation according to Niklas Luhmann's systems theory, 1999 / Christian Katti -- Some experiments in art and politics, 2011 / Bruno Latour.In the late 1950s, experiments such as the cybernetic sculptures of Nicolas Schöffer or the programmatic music compositions of John Cage and Iannis Xenakis transposed systems theory from the sciences to the arts. By the 1960s, artists as diverse as Roy Ascott, Hans Haacke, Robert Morris, Sonia Sheridan, and Stephen Willats were breaking with accepted aesthetics to embrace open systems that emphasized organism over mechanism, dynamic processes of interaction among elements, and the observer's role as an inextricable part of the system. Jack Burnham's 1968 Artforum essay "Systems Aesthetics" and his 1970 "Software" exhibition marked the high point of systems-based art until its resurgence in the changed conditions of the twenty-first century. Systems traces this radical shift in aesthetics from its roots in mid twentieth-century general systems theory, cybernetics, and artificial intelligence to the cutting-edge science of the present. The collected texts examine the connections between advanced technological systems, our bodies and minds; the relation of musical to spatial and architectural structures; and the ways in which systems-based art projects can create self-generating entities and networks, alter our experience of time, change the configurations of social relations, cross cultural borders, and interact with threatened ecosystems.
Subjects: Arts, Modern; Arts, Modern; System theory.;
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The universe. [videorecording] / by Cohen, Douglas J.director.; Thompson, Erik,1959-;
Secrets of the sun -- Mars : the red planet -- The end of the Earth : deep space threats to our planet -- Jupiter : the giant planet -- The moon -- Spaceship Earth -- The inner planets : Mercury & Venus.Erik Thompson, narrator.Explores the history of man's expanding knowledge of the universe, including the most recent celestial discoveries.TV rating: Not rated.DVDs, Dolby digital stereo.
Subjects: Documentary television programs.; Nonfiction television programs.; Science television programs.; Big bang theory.; Cosmology; Planets;
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Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 7
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The universe. [videorecording] / by Cohen, Douglas J.,director.; Thompson, Erik,1959-;
Secrets of the sun -- Mars : the red planet -- The end of the Earth : deep space threats to our planet -- Jupiter : the giant planet -- The moon -- Spaceship Earth -- The inner planets : Mercury & Venus -- Saturn : lord of the rings -- Alien galaxies -- Life and death of a star -- The outer planets -- The most dangerous place in the universe -- Search for ET -- Beyond the Big Bang. Erik Thompson, narrator.Originally broadcast on television on the History Channel in 2007.Explores the history of man's expanding knowledge of the universe, including the most recent celestial discoveries.TV rating: Not rated.DVDs.
Subjects: Documentary television programs.; Nonfiction television programs.; Science television programs.; Big bang theory.; Cosmology; Planets;
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Comparative legislative systems; a reader in theory and research. / by Hirsch, Herbert,1941-(CARDINAL)148973; Hancock, M. Donald.(CARDINAL)124917;
Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects: Legislative bodies.; Comparative government.;
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Leadership and the new science : learning about organization from an orderly universe / by Wheatley, Margaret J.(CARDINAL)762014;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-160) and index.
Subjects: Science.; Organization.; Quantum theory.; Self-organizing systems.; Chaotic behavior in systems.;
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Maximum likelihood estimation for selected distributions (MLESD) / by Schreuder, Hans T.(CARDINAL)156094; North Carolina State University.School of Forest Resources.(CARDINAL)164893;
Includes bibliographical references (leaf 12).
Subjects: Parameter estimation.; Estimation theory; Stochastic systems.;
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The ascent of information : books, bits, genes, machines, and life's unending algorithm / by Scharf, Caleb,1968-author.(CARDINAL)352726;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Our eternal data -- The burden of an idea -- In sickness and in health -- An ever more tangled bank -- Genes, memes, and dreams -- The information river -- Life made machine -- The great blending -- A universe of dataomes."Your information has a life of its own, and it's using you to get what it wants. One of the most peculiar and possibly unique features of humans is the vast amount of information we carry outside our biological selves. But in our rush to build the infrastructure for the 20 quintillion bits we create every day, we've failed to ask exactly why we're expending ever-increasing amounts of energy, resources, and human effort to maintain all this data. Drawing on deep ideas and frontier thinking in evolutionary biology, computer science, information theory, and astrobiology, Caleb Scharf argues that information is, in a very real sense, alive. All the data we create-all of our emails, tweets, selfies, A.I.-generated text and funny cat videos-amounts to an aggregate lifeform. It has goals and needs. It can control our behavior and influence our well-being. And it's an organism that has evolved right alongside us. This symbiotic relationship with information offers a startling new lens for looking at the world. Data isn't just something we produce; it's the reason we exist. This powerful idea has the potential to upend the way we think about our technology, our role as humans, and the fundamental nature of life. The Ascent of Information offers a humbling vision of a universe built of and for information. Scharf explores how our relationship with data will affect our ongoing evolution as a species. Understanding this relationship will be crucial to preventing our data from becoming more of a burden than an asset, and to preserving the possibility of a human future"--
Subjects: Information theory.; Human-computer interaction.; Human-machine systems.;
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A quick history of the universe : from the big bang to just now / by Gifford, Clive,author.(CARDINAL)265470; Flowers, Rob,author.(CARDINAL)797929;
In the beginning -- Blink of an eye -- The first seconds -- What's the matter? -- Get atom! -- Getting bigger -- Time for time -- Feel the force -- A matter of gravity -- Photon booth -- In a fog -- Recombination -- Cosmic microwave background -- Dark matter -- In the dark -- You star! -- Cosmic dawn -- Here's carbon! -- Turning cloudy -- Galaxies get it together -- How many stars? -- Star quality -- The galactic zoo -- Galaxies gang up -- Looking back -- The tragic death of a star -- Live fast, die young -- What's blacker than black? -- Packing it all in -- Full speed ahead -- Hello, solar system! -- Planet plans -- The great eight -- Mooning around -- More on moons -- Asteroids -- Metero-what? -- Hairy stars -- Early Earth -- Breaking up is hard to do -- Life's a gas! -- Get more life -- Hey people, you're late! -- Planets everywhere -- Are we alone? -- The end of the world -- How will the universe end? -- Ripped or crunched? -- How we know what we know -- Sizing it up -- Space exploration timeline -- Space places -- To infinity ... and beyond!"Strap in for a rip-roaring ride through the history of the universe, starting with the Big Bang, and bringing us right up to present day. What was the universe like when it was a few seconds old? How had it changed by its millionth birthday? And when did time even start, for that matter?! The story of the last 13.8 billion years in one handy volume, you can read about the start of stars, the growth of galaxies and the production of planets. Plus, there are some great dad jokes."--Amazon.
Subjects: Big bang theory; Cosmology;
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