Phantom Of Chance

Author : John D Lyons
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748645160
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Phantom of Chance written by John D Lyons and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2011-11-30 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the classical and medieval conceptions of Fortune shifted to the modern notion of chanceIs chance nothing more than a projection of human desire on to the world? In this fascinating new study, John Lyons argues that the idea of chance assumed new vigour in the late Renaissance, when converging philosophical and literary currents demystified the powerful concept of Fortune, sensitizing writers to the relationship between human desire and the world's apparent randomness. Up to now, the story of chance has been written by historians of mathematical thought and has focused on calculation, probability and gambling. Lyons, by contrast, highlights the ethical, aesthetic and even erotic aspects of chance. He offers detailed readings of the works of major French authors - Montaigne, Corneille, Lafayette, Scudery, Pascal, Racine, Bossuet, and La Bruyere.

Author : Lisa Brown
Publisher : First Second
ISBN 13 : 1250780543
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Phantom Twin written by Lisa Brown and published by First Second. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young woman is haunted by the ghost of her conjoined twin, in Lisa Brown's The Phantom Twin, a sweetly spooky graphic novel set in a turn-of-the-century sideshow. Isabel and Jane are the Extraordinary Peabody Sisters, conjoined twins in a traveling carnival freak show—until an ambitious surgeon tries to separate them and fails, causing Jane's death. Isabel has lost an arm and a leg but gained a ghostly companion: Her dead twin is now her phantom limb. Haunted, altered, and alone for the first time, can Isabel build a new life that's truly her own?

Author : Dianne Duvall
Publisher : Zebra Books
ISBN 13 : 1420128361
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Phantom Shadows written by Dianne Duvall and published by Zebra Books . This book was released on 2011-10-24 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A doctor and a reformed bad-boy vampire struggle with danger and their desires in this New York Times–bestselling paranormal romantic suspense novel. Dr. Melanie Lipton is no stranger to the supernatural. She knows immortals better than they know themselves, right down to their stubborn little genes. So although a handsome rogue immortal seems suspicious to her colleagues, Sebastien Newcombe intrigues Melanie. His history is checkered, his scars are impressive, and his ideas are daring. But it's not his ideas that have Melanie fighting off surges of desire… Bastien is used to being the bad guy. In fact, he can't remember the last time he had an ally he could trust. But Melanie is different—and under her calm, professional exterior he senses a passion beyond anything in his centuries of experience. Giving in to temptation is out of the question—he can't put her in danger. But she isn't asking him… RT Book Reviews“With this excellent entry, rising star Duvall is fast proving to be a major player in paranormal romance!”— “With a deeply emotional love story, two beautiful, complex main characters, and a pulse-pounding adventure that won’t let up, this book was haunting and addictive.”—The Romance Reviews

Author : Frederick Forsyth
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312975852
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Phantom of Manhattan written by Frederick Forsyth and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2000-12-15 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sequel to Gaston Leroux's The Phantom of the Opera in which the disfigured Phantom goes to America. He builds the world's greatest opera house, hoping to lure his love, the opera diva who rejected him in Paris. By the author of The Day of the Jackal.

Author : Susan Kay
Publisher : Llumina Press
ISBN 13 : 1605948454
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Phantom written by Susan Kay and published by Llumina Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An imaginative and sensitive story of the life of the Phantom of the Opera; winner of the Boots Romantic Novel Award.

Author : Luka Peternel
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
ISBN 13 : 2889633128
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Human-in-the-Loop Robot Control and Learning written by Luka Peternel and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2020-01-22 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the past years there has been considerable effort to move robots from industrial environments to our daily lives where they can collaborate and interact with humans to improve our life quality. One of the key challenges in this direction is to make a suitable robot control system that can adapt to humans and interactively learn from humans to facilitate the efficient and safe co-existence of the two. The applications of such robotic systems include: service robotics and physical human-robot collaboration, assistive and rehabilitation robotics, semi-autonomous cars, etc. To achieve the goal of integrating robotic systems into these applications, several important research directions must be explored. One such direction is the study of skill transfer, where a human operator’s skilled executions are used to obtain an autonomous controller. Another important direction is shared control, where a robotic controller and humans control the same body, tool, mechanism, car, etc. Shared control, in turn invokes very rich research questions such as co-adaptation between the human and the robot, where the two agents can benefit from each other’s skills or must adapt to each other’s behavior to achieve effective cooperative task executions. The aim of this Research Topic is to help bridge the gap between the state-of-the-art and above-mentioned goals through novel multidisciplinary approaches in human-in-the-loop robot control and learning.

Author : Jake Tyson
Publisher : Ambassador International
ISBN 13 : 1649605501
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Phantom's Blade written by Jake Tyson and published by Ambassador International. This book was released on 2023-10-24 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With Gideon's loss of his superpowers and the scattering of his friends, it seems the days of the Vindicators are over for good. Gideon and Jolie are settling into married life, Dean is brokering a deal with the government in D.C., and Carter is working security at Sterling Enterprises. But, with a mysterious thief causing mayhem, a deadly swordsman haunting the Brooks, and organized crime rising all around them, Sojourn City needs a hero—or heroes—fast. With no super powers among them, it is up to Gideon, Carter, and their friends to find what God has put inside of them to protect their city.

Author : Herman Landon
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gray Phantom's Return written by Herman Landon and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-04-25 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Gray Phantom's Return" by Herman Landon. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Author : Michael Beetz
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3540672419
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Concurrent Reactive Plans written by Michael Beetz and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2000-03-08 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, the author presents a new computational model of forestalling common flaws in autonomous robot behavior. To this end, robots are equipped with structured reactive plans (SRPs) which are concurrent control programs that can not only be interpreted but also be reasoned about and manipulated. The author develops a representation for SRPs in which declarative statements for goals, perceptions, and beliefs make the structure and purpose of SRPs explicit and thereby simplify and speed up reasoning about SRPs and their projections; furthermore a notation is introduced allowing for transforming and manipulating SRPs. Using this notation, a planning system can diagnose and forestall common flaws in robot plans that cannot be dealt with in other planning representations. Finally the language for writing SRPs is extended into a high-level language that can handle both planning and execution actions.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 598 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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