ALICE-AN INTERACTIVE MUSEUM (ISO)
The game begins in a living room, which was modeled after the one in
painter Kuniyoshi Kaneko's own house. From there you enter a museum and
the world of Alice. There is very little story here, but there is very
much a purpose to the game that you uncover as you explore, which is to
find all of a deck of 53 cards and thus find your way out of the
museum. The game is very much designed to have the feel of a modern-day
Alice in Wonderland, which is one of the more unusual aspects to the
game. It also offers myriad images signifying this relationship, not
the least of which is the white rabbit and Alice herself. This is not
to say that this is a child's game—it actually is not. There are a
number of adult images here, some a bit suggestive, which really work
well for the piece; it's just that I wouldn't hand it to a 10-year-old
to play. Finding the cards is tricky. They are cleverly hidden,
although some are easier to find than others. The hiding of them seems
to fall well in line with some of the more abstract aspects of Lewis
Carroll's own Alice. There are twelve rooms to explore, divided into
four sections, one each for the four suits in a deck of cards. Once
found, some of the cards provide the player with clues to unlock the
secret of Alice. I guess you could say this was one of the first
'hidden object' games and is extremely rare to find.
This Guide to English Grammar is a systematic account of grammatical forms and the way they are used in standard British English today. The emphasis is on meanings and how they govern the choice of grammatical pattern.
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Princeton University Press 1995
ISBN 0691037760
1 MB
325 pages
This investigation of the overwhelming appeal of quantification in the modern world discusses the development of cultural meanings of objectivity over two centuries. How are we to account for the current prestige and power of quantitative methods? The usual answer is that quantification is seen as desirable in social and economic investigation as a result of its successes in the study of nature. Theodore Porter is not content with this. Why should the kind of success achieved in the study of stars, molecules, or cells be an attractive model for research on human societies? he asks. And, indeed, how should we understand the pervasiveness of quantification in the sciences of nature? In his view, we should look in the reverse direction: comprehending the attractions of quantification in business, government, and social research will teach us something new about its role in psychology, physics, and medicine.
Subtle Is the Lord: The Science and the Life of Albert Einstein
Oxford University Press 2005
“ Subtle is the Lord is widely recognized as the definitive scientific biography of Albert Einstein. The late Abraham Pais was a distinguished physicist turned historian who knew Einstein both professionally and personally in the last years of his life. His biography combines a profound understanding of Einstein's work with personal recollections from their years of acquaintance, illuminating the man through the development of his scientific thought. Pais examines the formulation of Einstein's theories of relativity, his work on Brownian motion, and his response to quantum theory with authority and precision.
The profound transformation Einstein's ideas effected on the physics of the turn of the century is here laid out for the serious reader. Pais also fills many gaps in what we know of Einstein's life - his interest in philosophy, his concern with Jewish destiny, and his opinions of great figures from Newton to Freud. This remarkable volume, written by a physicist who mingled in Einstein's scientific circle, forms a timeless and classic biography of the towering figure of twentieth-century science. ”
