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  • Queer Theatre and the Legacy of Cal Yeomans

    by R. Schanke ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    A forgotten yet award-winning playwright, Cal Yeomans was one of the founders of gay theater whose work was fueled by gay liberation and extinguished by the AIDS epidemic. Schanke's examination of his life and legacy allows a rare exploration into this pivotal moment of gay American history. ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

  • The Future of Decision Making

    How Revolutionary Software Can Improve the Ability to Decide

    by R. Schank, D. Lyras, E. Soloway ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    We now possess the capability to make great business decisions in even the most difficult situations with the use of today's advanced software capability. The authors, who are experts in the field, explain the new science of decision-making and offer examples and advice that will enable readers put it to use in their organizations. ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

  • The Ambition Decisions

    What Women Know About Work, Family, and the Path to Building a Life

    by Hana Schank, Elizabeth Wallace ...
    "These are the 'know your value' conversations that we need to have. These women--their challenges, choices, and successes--are all of us." --Mika BrzezinskiOver the last sixty years, women's lives have transformed radically from generation to generation. Without a template to follow--a way to peek into the future to catch a glimpse of what leaving this job or marrying that person might mean to us ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • Inside Computer Understanding

    Five Programs Plus Miniatures

    by R. C. Schank, C. K. Riesbeck ...
    Series series Artificial Intelligence Series
    First published in 1981. This book has been written for those who want to comprehend how a large natural language-understanding program works. Thirty-five professionals in Cognitive Science, mostly psychologists by training, in a summer school were taught to grapple with the details of programming in Artificial Intelligence. As a part of the curriculum designed for this project the authors created ... Read more

    $107.17 CAD

  • Explanation Patterns

    Understanding Mechanically and Creatively

    by R. P. Schank ...
    First Published in 1986. In the age of the computer, conjecture about things mechanical has naturally led to the question of whether machines can think. As the emphasis on Artificial Intelligence (AI) has grown rapidly, questions about machine intelligence have begun to have a certain urgency. The question we are concerned with in this book is: If we can find a set of processes that machines can ... Read more

    $107.17 CAD

  • Beliefs, Reasoning, and Decision Making

    Psycho-Logic in Honor of Bob Abelson

    Edited by Roger C. Schank, Ellen Langer ...
    It is not unusual for a festschrift to include offerings from several areas of study, but it is highly unusual for those areas to cross disciplinary lines. This book, in doing just that, is a testimony to Bob Abelson's impact on the disciplines of social psychology, artificial intelligence and cognitive science, and the applied areas of political psychology and decision-making. The contributors ... Read more

    $101.68 CAD

  • The Architect as Magician

    by Albert C. Smith, Kendra Schank Smith ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Architecture
    The Architect as Magician explores the connection between magic and architecture. There is a belief that a greater understanding of the meaning of magic provides insights about architecture and architects’ design processes. Architects influence the effects of nature through the making of their buildings. In an analogous condition, magicians perform rituals in an attempt to influence the forces of ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • Inside Multi-Media Case Based Instruction

    Edited by Roger C. Schank ...
    The fourth in the Inside series, this volume includes four theses completed under the editor's direction at the Institute for the Learning Sciences at Northwestern University. This series bridges the gap between Schank's books introducing (for a popular audience) the theories behind his work in artificial intelligence (AI) and the many articles and books written by Schank and other AI researchers ... Read more

    $119.54 CAD

  • Inside Case-Based Explanation

    Edited by Roger C. Schank, Alex Kass, Christopher K. Riesbeck ...
    Series series Artificial Intelligence Series
    This book is the third volume in a series that provides a hands-on perspective on the evolving theories associated with Roger Schank and his students. The primary focus of this volume is on constructing explanations. All of the chapters relate to the problem of building computer programs that can develop hypotheses about what might have caused an observed event. Because most researchers in natural ... Read more

    Was $39.84 CAD Now $35.72 CAD

  • That Furious Lesbian

    The Story of Mercedes de Acosta

    by Robert A Schanke ...
    Series series Theater in the Americas
    In this first book-length biography of Mercedes de Acosta, theatre historian Robert A. Schanke adroitly mines lost archival materials and mixes in his own interviews with de Acosta’s intimates to correct established myths and at last construct an accurate, detailed, and vibrant portrait of the flamboyantly uninhibited early-twentieth-century author, poet, and playwright.Born to wealthy Spanish ... Read more

    $25.29 CAD

  • Power to the Public

    The Promise of Public Interest Technology

    by Tara Dawson McGuinness, Hana Schank, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Darren Walker ...
    “Worth a read for anyone who cares about making change happen.”—Barack ObamaA powerful new blueprint for how governments and nonprofits can harness the power of digital technology to help solve the most serious problems of the twenty-first centuryAs the speed and complexity of the world increases, governments and nonprofit organizations need new ways to effectively tackle the critical challenges ... Read more

    $18.69 CAD

  • Developing Your Design Process

    Six Key Concepts for Studio

    by Albert Smith, Kendra Schank Smith ...
    Developing Your Design Process is your primary source for learning how and why you design. It will help you understand how architects think and learn why you should educate yourself about design culture. You'll explore the spark of imagination that leads to a strong concept, realize the importance of sketching and rough drafts, focus your original concept to make your abstract idea visible, and ... Read more

    $71.44 CAD