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The Mystic Quest - David S. Ariel - Bog - Jason Aronson Publishers - Plusbog.dk

The Mystic Quest - David S. Ariel - Bog - Jason Aronson Publishers - Plusbog.dk

The Mystic Quest explains the major ideas and concepts of Jewish mystical thought in a way that the general reader can clearly understand. Drawing upon his own extensive research as well as on the growing body of scholarly material on the subject, Dr. David Ariel, president of the Cleveland College of Jewish Studies, presents the extremely difficult and complex elements of Jewish mysticism in language that makes it accessible to the layperson. Jewish mysticism is as old as the Bible itself. It is a rich and subtle web of secret teachings and practices that has been part of Judaism since antiquity and has sought to keep the original spark of religious experience alive through the centuries. It is the relatively unknown, esoteric dimension of Judaism that has nourished a deep spiritual power within a tradition of law, ritual, and observance. A central element in Judaism, the "mystic quest" has shaped both Judaism and Jews throughout history, generating the kabbalistic tradition and Hasidism, which continue to thrive today, As Ariel says, "This book is concerned primarily with the development and meaning of the Kabbalah, the principal tradition of mystical Jewish thought." The Mystic Quest begins with an examination of the variety of phenomena known in different cultures as "mysticism." Ariel then located the Jewish mystical tradition within the context of Jewish history and traces its evolution throughout the ages. Jewish mystical theories about the hidden and revealed God, the feminine aspects of divinity, the mystical Torah, and the concepts of the soul and human destiny are then explored in detail. Finally, the author considers Hasidism and modern Jewish mystical thought, discussing the role of mysticism in contemporary Judaism. In language accessible to the beginner, yet sophisticated enough to captivate the advanced student, The Mystic Quest fills an important gap in our knowledge of mysticism by bringing a comprehensive and fresh understanding of the subject to a new generation of

DKK 830.00
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The Joy of Religion - Ariel Glucklich - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

Never Good Enough - Ariel Ducey - Bog - Cornell University Press - Plusbog.dk

Never Good Enough - Ariel Ducey - Bog - Cornell University Press - Plusbog.dk

Frontline health care workers have always been especially vulnerable to the perpetual tides of health care ''reform,'' but in the mid-1990s in New York City, they bore the brunt of change in a new way. They were obliged to take on additional work, take lessons in recalibrating their attitudes, and, when those steps failed to bring about the desired improvements, take advantage of training programs that would ostensibly lead to better jobs. Such health care workers not only became targets of pro-market and restructuring policies but also were blamed for many of the problems created by those policies, from the deteriorating conditions of patient care to the financial vulnerability of entire institutions. In Never Good Enough, Ariel Ducey describes some of the most heavily funded training programs, arguing that both the content of many training and education programs and the sheer commitment of time they require pressure individual health care workers to compensate for the irrationalities of America''s health care system, for the fact that caring labor is devalued, and for the inequities of an economy driven by the relentless creation of underpaid service jobs. In so doing, the book also analyzes the roles that unions—particularly SEIU 1199 in New York—and the city''s academic institutions have played in this problematic phenomenon. In her thoughtful and provocative critique of job training in the health care sector, Ariel Ducey explores the history and the extent of job training initiatives for health care workers and lays out the political and economic significance of these programs beyond the obvious goal of career advancement. Questioning whether job training improves either the lives of workers or the quality of health care, she explains why such training persists, focusing in particular on the wide scope of its "emotional" benefits. The book is based on Ducey''s three years as an ethnographer in several hospitals and in-depth interviews with key players in health care training. It argues that training and education cannot be a panacea for restructuring—whether in the health care sector or the economy as a whole.

DKK 1219.00
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Body Impossible - Ariel Osterweis - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

Body Impossible - Ariel Osterweis - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

Body Impossible theorizes the concept of virtuosity in contemporary dance and performance through a study of the career of dancer Desmond Richardson. A virtuoso for the ages, Richardson is renowned for delivering commanding performances over decades in contexts ranging from the stages of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and Ballett Frankfurt to featured appearances with Michael Jackson and Prince, along with his work as co-founder of Complexions Contemporary Ballet, inaugurating a virtuosic queer black aesthetic with choreographer Dwight Rhoden. Focusing on Richardson''s creative insistence on improvisatory fun and excellence throughout the decades approaching the millennium (shaped by Reaganism, the Culture Wars, the AIDS epidemic, the New Jim Crow, and MTV), this book brings dance into conversation with paradigms of blackness, queerness, masculinity, and class in order to generate a socioculturally attentive understanding of virtuosity. Virtuosity obscures the border between popular and concert performance, and Richardson''s versatility epitomizes the demands on the contemporary virtuosic dance artist. Author Ariel Osterweis suggests that discourses of virtuosity are linked to connotations of excess, and that an examination of the formal and socio-cultural aspects of virtuosic performance reveals under-recognized heterogeneity in which we detect “vernacular” influences on “high art.” In doing so, Body Impossible accounts for the constitutive relationship between disciplined perceptions of virtuosity''s excess and the disciplining of the racialized body in national and transnational contexts.

DKK 894.00
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The Moral Power of Money - Ariel Wilkis - Bog - Stanford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Break all the Borders - Ariel I. Ahram - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

DKK 969.00
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Cinematic Appeals - Ariel Rogers - Bog - Columbia University Press - Plusbog.dk

Organismic Animal Biology - Ariel Chipman - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Organismic Animal Biology - Ariel Chipman - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Neither cellular/molecular nor ecosystem processes can be fully understood without a detailed understanding of the biology of the whole organism. Despite this, much of modern biology teaching tends to be focused on the cellular and molecular level, with the organism often neglected. This is particularly noticeable in many undergraduate biology programs, where introductory courses in animal biology are either given with limited evolutionary context or else use an outdated view of animal phylogeny. This accessible textbook provides a general conceptual framework for understanding the organismic level. It provides a broad overview of the diversity of animal life while focusing on general organizational principles with a few, carefully chosen examples rather than providing exhaustive specific details. The book adopts two parallel tracks, with most chapters focusing on one or the other. The first follows the general principles of organismic biology and animal organization, starting with the basic terminology and definitions in evolutionary biology before introducing the evolutionary framework for comparative biology. It then describes organizational principles and specific organ systems in a sequence of increasing complexity. The second track follows a phylogenetic journey, introducing the different animal phyla. Major phyla are given their own chapter with an overview of their common features and diversity. Organismic Animal Biology is an introductory textbook for an undergraduate course in organismal animal biology in a general biology or biotechnology program. It is explicitly aimed at students who will go on to be biomedical researchers, biochemists, cell biologists etc. and who need to understand the significance of the organism to their future research careers. It will also be a useful primer or easy reference for undergraduate and graduate students in more intensive organismic animal biology programs.

DKK 912.00
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Data Science for Neuroimaging - Ariel Rokem - Bog - Princeton University Press - Plusbog.dk

Data Science for Neuroimaging - Ariel Rokem - Bog - Princeton University Press - Plusbog.dk

Data science methods and tools—including programming, data management, visualization, and machine learning—and their application to neuroimaging research As neuroimaging turns toward data-intensive discovery, researchers in the field must learn to access, manage, and analyze datasets at unprecedented scales. Concerns about reproducibility and increased rigor in reporting of scientific results also demand higher standards of computational practice. This book offers neuroimaging researchers an introduction to data science, presenting methods, tools, and approaches that facilitate automated, reproducible, and scalable analysis and understanding of data. Through guided, hands-on explorations of openly available neuroimaging datasets, the book explains such elements of data science as programming, data management, visualization, and machine learning, and describes their application to neuroimaging. Readers will come away with broadly relevant data science skills that they can easily translate to their own questions.• Fills the need for an authoritative resource on data science for neuroimaging researchers• Strong emphasis on programming• Provides extensive code examples written in the Python programming language• Draws on openly available neuroimaging datasets for examples• Written entirely in the Jupyter notebook format, so the code examples can be executed, modified, and re-executed as part of the learning process

DKK 854.00
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Artificial Intelligence Models for the Dark Universe - Ariel Fernandez - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Artificial Intelligence Models for the Dark Universe - Ariel Fernandez - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The dark universe contains matter and energy unidentifiable with current physical models, accounting for 95% of all the matter and energetic equivalent in the universe. The enormous surplus brings up daunting enigmas, such as the cosmological constant problem and the apparent distortions in the dynamics of deep space, and so coming to grips with the invisible universe has become a scientific imperative. This book addresses this need, reckoning that no cogent physical model of the dark universe can be implemented without first addressing the metaphysical hurdles along the way. The foremost problem is identifying the topology of the universe which, as argued in the book, is highly relevant to unveil the secrets of the dark universe. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a valuable tool in this effort since it can reconcile conflicting data from deep space with the extant laws of physics by building models to decipher the dark universe. This book explores the applications of AI and how it can be used to embark on a metaphysical quest to identify the topology of the universe as a prerequisite to implement a physical model of the dark sector that enables a meaningful extrapolation into the visibile sector. The book is intended for a broad readership, but a background in college-level physics and computer science is essential. The book will be a valuable guide for graduate students as well as researchers in physics, astrophysics, and computer science focusing on AI applications to elucidate the nature of the dark universe. Key Features: · Provides readers with an intellectual toolbox to understand physical arguments on dark matter and energy. · Up to date with the latest cutting-edge research. · Authored by an expert on artificial intelligence and mathematical physics.

DKK 806.00
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De Novo Quantum Cosmology with Artificial Intelligence - Ariel Fernandez - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

De Novo Quantum Cosmology with Artificial Intelligence - Ariel Fernandez - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Experiments attempting to recreate the big bang and measurements in deep space point to the tantalizing possibility that our universe may be the relic of something simple, powerful and highly symmetric. The evidence suggests an entity where matter and energy cannot be told apart and the four fundamental forces are unified into one. Empowered by artificial intelligence this book seeks to unravel the mystery as it searches for an encompassing physical picture where it all falls into place at the aftermath of creation from a quantum void. From the outset, AI reckons that the problem cannot be tackled without proper contextualization, that is, without dealing with other intimately related problems in particle cosmology including: the nature of dark matter and dark energy, the hierarchy problem of particle masses, the incommensurably weak coupling strength of gravity, the universe topology, the cosmological constant problem, and the vacuum catastrophe. Accordingly, the book addresses the matter in its full conceptual richness. This monograph addresses a broad readership that includes a nonhuman audience involving AI systems. A background in college-level physics and computer science would be essential. Although informal in the approach, the material is presented with scientific rigor, so that readers gain hands-on experience on the subject. The book is geared at graduate students as well as professional physicists, mathematicians, cosmologists and big data scientists that seek to venture into some of the core problems in particle cosmology empowered by AI. Notably, the book is also geared at nonhuman audiences, since AI systems may incorporate its fundamental operational tenets and take the matter to unfathomable heights. Key Features: · Introduces an artificial intelligence system to tackle core problems in particle cosmology. · Describes a grand unification scheme to explain the common origin of the fundamental forces. · Identifies the origin of matter as a phase transition from the quantum vacuum.

DKK 1189.00
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The Elections in Israel 2006 - Asher Arian - Bog - Taylor & Francis Inc - Plusbog.dk

Topological Dynamics in Metamodel Discovery with Artificial Intelligence - Ariel Fernandez - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Topological Dynamics in Metamodel Discovery with Artificial Intelligence - Ariel Fernandez - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The leveraging of artificial intelligence (AI) for model discovery in dynamical systems is cross-fertilizing and revolutionizing both disciplines, heralding a new era of data-driven science. This book is placed at the forefront of this endeavor, taking model discovery to the next level. Dealing with artificial intelligence, this book delineates AI’s role in model discovery for dynamical systems. With the implementation of topological methods to construct metamodels, it engages with levels of complexity and multiscale hierarchies hitherto considered off limits for data science. Key Features: - Introduces new and advanced methods of model discovery for time series data using artificial intelligence - Implements topological approaches to distill "machine-intuitive" models from complex dynamics data - Introduces a new paradigm for a parsimonious model of a dynamical system without resorting to differential equations - Heralds a new era in data-driven science and engineering based on the operational concept of "computational intuition" Intended for graduate students, researchers, and practitioners interested in dynamical systems empowered by AI or machine learning and in their biological, engineering, and biomedical applications , this book will represent a significant educational resource for people engaged in AI-related cross-disciplinary projects.

DKK 901.00
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Artificial Intelligence on Dark Matter and Dark Energy - Ariel Fernandez - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Artificial Intelligence on Dark Matter and Dark Energy - Ariel Fernandez - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

As we prod the cosmos at very large scales, basic tenets of physics seem to crumble under the weight of contradicting evidence. This book helps mitigate the crisis. It resorts to artificial intelligence (AI) for answers and describes the outcome of this quest in terms of an ur-universe, a quintessential compact multiply connected space that incorporates a fifth dimension to encode space-time as a latent manifold. In some ways, AI is bolder than humans because the huge corpus of knowledge, starting with the prodigious Standard Model (SM) of particle physics, poses almost no burden to its conjecture-framing processes. Why not feed AI with the SM enriched by the troubling cosmological phenomenology on dark matter and dark energy and see where AI takes us vis-à-vis reconciling the conflicting data with the laws of physics? This is precisely the intellectual adventure described in this book and – to the best of our knowledge – in no other book on the shelf. As the reader will discover, many AI conjectures and validations ultimately make a lot of sense, even if their boldness does not feel altogether "human" yet. This book is written for a broad readership. Prerequisites are minimal, but a background in college math/physics/computer science is desirable. This book does not merely describe what is known about dark matter and dark energy but also provides readers with intellectual tools to engage in a quest for the deepest cosmological mystery.

DKK 976.00
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The Israeli Nation-State - - Bog - Academic Studies Press - Plusbog.dk

Great Power Competition in the Southern Oceans - Ariel Gonzalez Levaggi - Bog - Springer International Publishing AG - Plusbog.dk