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1	Conquest of Abundance: A Tale of Abstraction Versus the Richness of Being more books like this by Paul Feyerabend, Bert Terpstra (Editor) add to wishlist In this posthumous book, intended for general readers, Feyerabend focuses on the ways human beings abstract principles from a world too abundant for them to understand--or even truly apprehend--in its more natural state. Looking at the history of science's attempts to describe the world through theorems and laws, Feyerabend tallies the gains and ... see all copies from $4.56! new only from $14.10! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Levels of Abstraction in Logic and Human Action: A Theory of Discontinuity in the Structure of Mathematical Logic, Psychological Behaviour, and Social Organization more books like this by Elliott Jaques add to wishlist see all copies from $71.83! new only from $75.00!
3	Abstraction, Relation, and Induction: Three Essays in the History of Thought more books like this by Julius R. Weinberg add to wishlist see all copies from $17.50! first editions
4	Computational Visualization more books like this by Thomas Strothotte (Editor), Hubert Wagener add to wishlist A unified and coherent introduction to the notion of abstraction in interactive computer graphics is provided by this book. Abstraction entails refinement of images based on geometric models so as to reflect the importance of the features of the model for the dialog context and the visualization goal. This may require leaving out irrelevant ... see all copies from $11.43! new only from $15.00! \| first editions
5	The Limits of Abstraction more books like this by Kit Fine add to wishlist What is abstraction? To what extent can it account for the existence and identity of abstract objects? And to what extent can it be used as a foundation for mathematics? Kit Fine provides rigorous and systematic answers to these questions along the lines proposed by Frege, in a book concerned both with the technical development of the subject and ... see all copies from $23.84! new only from $23.84! \| SVS
6	Virtualism: A New Political Economy more books like this by James G Carrier (Editor), Daniel Miller (Editor) add to wishlist We live in a time of economic virtualism, whereby our lives are made to conform to the virtual reality of economic thought. Globalization, transnational capitalism, structural adjustment programmes and the decay of welfare are all signs of the growing power of economics, one of the most potent forces of recent decades. In the last thirty years, ... see all copies from $15.98! new only from $30.75! \| SVS
7	Challenging Liberalism: Feminism as Political Critique more books like this by Lisa H Schwartzman add to wishlist Questions about the relevance and value of various liberal concepts are at the heart of important debates among feminist philosophers and social theorists. Although many feminists invoke concepts such as rights, equality, autonomy, and freedom in arguments for liberation, some attempt to avoid them, noting that they can also reinforce and ... see all copies from $18.50! new only from $18.50! \| SVS
8	Painterly Abstraction in Modernist American Poetry: The Contemporaneity of Modernism more books like this by Charles Altieri add to wishlist Charles Altieri's book sets modernist American poetry in a precise cultural context by analysing how major poets reacted to the challenge posed by modernist painting's radical critique of traditional representational models for art. It argues that modernist poets have tended to resist the received values of their contemporary culture by finding ... see all copies from $44.67! new only from $44.83! \| SVS
9	Understanding Behavioral Synthesis: A Practical Guide to High-Level Design more books like this by John P Elliott add to wishlist "Behavioral Synthesis: A Practical Guide to High-Level Design" includes details on new material and new interpretations of old material with an emphasis on practical information. The intended audience is the ASIC (or high-end FPGA) designer who will be using behavioral synthesis, the manager who will be working with those designers, or the ... see all copies from $96.25! new only from $113.80! \| first editions
10	Generating Abstraction Hierarchies, an Automated Approach to Reducing Search in Planning more books like this by Craig A Knoblock add to wishlist Generating Abstraction Hierarchies presents a completely automated approach to generating abstractions for problem solving. The abstractions are generated using a tractable, domain-independent algorithm whose only inputs are the definition of a problem space and the problem to be solved and whose output is an abstraction hierarchy that is tailored ... see all copies from $15.40! new only from $235.03! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11	The Nature of Things more books like this by Anthony Quinton add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
12	When Formality Works: Authority and Abstraction in Law and Organizations more books like this by Arthur L Stinchcombe add to wishlist In this exploration of the concept of formality, or governing by abstraction, Arthur Stinchcombe breathes new life into an idea that scholars have all but ignored in recent years. We have come to assume that governing our social activities by advance planning--by creating abstract descriptions of what ought to happen and adjusting these ... see all copies from $16.97! new only from $16.97! \| SVS
13	Abstraction and Aging: A Social Psychological Analysis more books like this by Jason S. Lee add to wishlist see all copies from $55.95! new only from $80.00! \| first editions
14	Abstraction and Representation, Essays on the Cultural Evolution of Thinking more books like this by Peter Damerow add to wishlist The book deals with the development of thinking under different cultural conditions, focusing on the evolution of mathematical thinking in the history of science and education. History of science is concerned with the acquisition, accumulation and structuring of knowledge. It is therefore intimately linked to psychological and epistemological ... see all copies from $180.01! new only from $180.01! \| SVS
15	Better Reasoning: Techniques for Handling Argument, Evidence, and Abstraction more books like this by Larry Wright add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99!
16	Abstraction in Science and Morals more books like this by Stephan Korner add to wishlist see all copies from $13.01! first editions
17 view cover	What is Abstraction? more books like this by Andrew Benjamin, JD, PhD add to wishlist This text addresses the question of abstraction, one of the most significant and influential schools of criticism, by looking at three interconnected projects. The first argues that developments within abstraction have rendered the traditional theoretical and philosophical understandings of abstraction inadequate. The second develops the ... see all copies from $41.43! new only from $56.24!
18 view cover	Painterly Abstraction in Modernist American Poetry: The more books like this by Charles Altieri (Editor) add to wishlist This is an exploration of the modernist movement in both painting and American poetry. It explores the challenges posed to poetry by modernist painting, and asks how poets can adapt to painters' ability to recast our understanding of the psyche's needs, powers and social dependencies. see all copies from $44.00!
19	Abstraction for programmers more books like this by J Adrian Zimmer add to wishlist see all copies from $2.75! new only from $74.50! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Abstraction in Avant-Garde Films more books like this by Maureen C. Turim add to wishlist see all copies from $40.50!
21	Beckett l'abstracteur : anatomie d'une révolution littéraire more books like this by Pascale Casanova add to wishlist see all copies from $20.70! new only from $61.30!
22	Recent Essays, 1990-1996 more books like this by Peter Halley add to wishlist see all copies from $15.00!
23	Language and thinking; a philosophical introduction more books like this by Hubert Griggs Alexander add to wishlist see all copies from $12.00! first editions
24	The Campaign Against Abstractionism more books like this by Colin Blundell add to wishlist see all copies from $14.76! new only from $14.76!
25	L'apprentissage de l'abstraction more books like this by Britt-Mari Barth add to wishlist see all copies from $16.00! first editions

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