Bruce Alan Clarke

Hunter's Marjory

"[...]for friends, and tell me a little about this trouble of yours? Won't you let me try to help you out of it?" "No, you can't help me; nobody can. It's very kind of you," stammered Marjory, "but it's no use." "Suppose you tell me, and let me judge whether I can help you or not." And Mrs. Forester...

Probability and Random Processes: A First Course with Applications, 2nd Edition (Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics)

A comprehensive textbook for undergraduate courses in introductory probability. Offers a case study approach, with examples from engineering and the social and life sciences. Updated second edition includes advanced material on stochastic processes. Suitable for junior and senior level courses in in...

The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Posthuman (Cambridge Companions to Literature)

The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Posthuman is the first work of its kind to gather diverse critical treatments of the posthuman and posthumanism together in a single volume. Fifteen scholars from six different countries address the historical and aesthetic dimensions of posthuman figure...

Emergence and Embodiment: New Essays on Second-Order Systems Theory (Science and Cultural Theory)

Emerging in the 1940s, the first cybernetics—the study of communication and control systems—was mainstreamed under the names artificial intelligence and computer science and taken up by the social sciences, the humanities, and the creative arts. In Emergence and Embodiment, Bruce Clarke and Mark B. ...

Earth, Life, and System: Evolution and Ecology on a Gaian Planet (Meaning Systems (FUP))

Exploring the broad implications of evolutionary theorist Lynn Margulis's work, this collection brings together specialists across a range of disciplines, from paleontology, molecular biology, evolutionary theory, and geobiology to developmental systems theory, archaeology, history of science, cultu...

Posthuman Metamorphosis: Narrative and Systems

From Dr. Moreau's Beast People to David Cronenberg's Brundlefly, Stanislaw Lem's robot constructors in the Cyberiad to Octavia Butler's human/alien constructs in the Xenogenesis trilogy, Posthuman Metamorphosis examines modern and postmodern stories of corporeal transformation through interlocking f...

Neocybernetics and Narrative (Posthumanities)

Neocybernetics and Narrative opens a new chapter in Bruce Clarke’s project of rethinking narrative and media through systems theory. Reconceiving interrelations among subjects, media, significations, and the social, this study demonstrates second-order systems theory’s potential to provide fresh ins...

Hunter's Marjory A Story for Girls

This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.

Compendium of Turfgrass Diseases

Music and Medicine: Haydn Mozart Beethoven Schubert Notes on Their Lives, Works, and Medical Histories

The Mozart Starter: Exploring the Universe of Mozart's Music

Dora Marsden and Early Modernism: Gender, Individualism, Science

Energy Forms: Allegory and Science in the Era of Classical Thermodynamics

From Energy to Information: Representation in Science and Technology, Art, and Literature

Allegories of Writing: The Subject of Metamorphosis

Allegories of Writing: The Subject of Metamorphosis