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Format: 511 S. : , Ill.

Edition: 1. Aufl.

ISBN: 978-3-455-50304-3 , 3-455-50304-7

Uniform Title: In the garden of beasts

Language: German

Subjects: American Studies

Keywords: 1869-1940 Dodd, William Edward ; 1869-1940 Dodd, William Edward ; Embassy ; Biografie ; Biografie ; Biografie ; Biographie ; Biografie

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Author information: Larson, Erik 1954-

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Format: XIV, 448 S. : , Ill.

Edition: 1. ed.

ISBN: 978-0-307-40884-6 , 978-0-307-40885-3

Note: Includes bibliographical references

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe ISBN 978-0-307-88795-5

Language: English

Keywords: 1869-1940 Dodd, William Edward ; Biografie

URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis

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Format: 371 S.

ISBN: 9783596150960

Language: German

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Format: 275 S.

ISBN: 0-8050-1755-0

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Format: XI, 447 S. : Ill., Kt.

Edition: 1. ed.

ISBN: 0-609-60844-4

Content: Two men, each handsome and unusually adept at his chosen work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized America₂s rush toward the twentieth century. The architect was Daniel Hudson Burnham, the fair's brilliant director of works and the builder of many of the country's most important structures, including the Flatiron Building in New York and Union Station in Washington, D.C. The murderer was Henry H. Holmes, a young doctor who, in a malign parody of the White City, built his "World's Fair Hotel" just west of the fairgrounds₇a torture palace complete with dissection table, gas chamber, and 3,000-degree crematorium. Burnham overcame tremendous obstacles and tragedies as he organized the talents of Frederick Law Olmsted, Charles McKim, Louis Sullivan, and others to transform swampy Jackson Park into the White City, while Holmes used the attraction of the great fair and his own satanic charms to lure scores of young women to their deaths. What makes the story all the more chilling is that Holmes really lived, walking the grounds of that dream city by the lake. The Devil in the White City draws the reader into a time of magic and majesty, made all the more appealing by a supporting cast of real-life characters, including Buffalo Bill, Theodore Dreiser, Susan B. Anthony, Thomas Edison, Archduke Francis Ferdinand, and others. In this book the smoke, romance, and mystery of the Gilded Age come alive as never before. Erik Larson's gifts as a storyteller are magnificently displayed in this rich narrative of the master builder, the killer, and the great fair that obsessed them both.

Language: English

Subjects: American Studies

Keywords: Mörder ; Mehrfachtäter ; 1861-1896 Mudgett, Herman W. ; Chicago, Ill. 1893 ; Biografie ; Fallstudiensammlung ; Fiktionale Darstellung

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Author information: Larson, Erik 1954-

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Format: 272 S.

Edition: 1. ed.

ISBN: 0-517-59677-6

Language: English

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Format: XI, 323 S. : , Ill., Kt.

Edition: 1. ed.

ISBN: 0-375-70827-8 , 0-609-60233-0 , 978-0-375-70827-5

Language: English

Keywords: Biografie

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Format: 1 online resource

ISBN: 9780814789339

Content: Law and society scholars challenge thecommon belief that law is simply a neutral tool by which society sets standardsand resolves disputes. Decades of research shows how much the nature ofcommunities, organizations, and the people inhabiting them affect how lawworks. Just as much, law shapes beliefs, behaviors, and wider socialstructures, but the connections are much more nuanced—and surprising—than manyexpect.Law and SocietyReader IIprovides readers an accessible overview to the breadth of recent developmentsin this research tradition, bringing to life the developments in this dynamicfield. Following up a first Law andSociety Reader published in 1995, editors Erik W. Larson and Patrick D.Schmidt have compiled excerpts of 43 illuminating articles published since 1993in The Law & Society Review, theflagship journal of the Law and Society Association.By its organizationand approach, this volume enables readers to join in discussing the key ideasof law and society research. The selections highlight the core insights anddevelopments in this research tradition, making these works indispensable forthose exploring the field and ideal for classroom use. Across sixconcisely-introduced sections, this volume analyzes inequality, lawyering, therelation between law and organizations, and the place of law in relation toother social institutions.

Note: The Law and Society Reader II -- , Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Acknowledgments -- , Introduction -- , Part I: Inequalities -- , Introduction -- , Does Law Benefit Those with the Most Resources -- , 1. Do the “Haves” Still Come Out Ahead? -- , 2. The Rule of Law and the Litigation Process: The Paradox of Losing by Winning -- , 3. The Good Case: Decisions to Litigate at the World Trade Organization -- , How Do Authority and Power Influence the Implementation of Law -- , 4. Convictability and Discordant Locales: Reproducing Race, Class, and Gender Ideology in Prosecutorial Decisionmaking -- , 5. The Reconstitution of Law in Local Settings: Agency Discretion, Ambiguity, and a Surplus of Law in the Policing of Hate Crime -- , Can Rights-Based Litigation Address Inequalities? -- , 6. Popular Constitutionalism’s Hard When You’re Not Very Popular: Why the ACLU Turned to Courts -- , 7. Beyond Backlash: Assessing the Impact of Judicial Decisions on LGBT Rights -- , Part II: Organizations and Law -- , Introduction -- , When Is Regulation Effective -- , 8. Explaining Corporate Environmental Performance: How Does Regulation Matter? -- , 9. The “Compliance” Trap: The Moral Message in Responsive Regulatory Enforcement -- , 10. Labor Regulation, Corporate Governance, and Legal Origin: A Case of Institutional Complementarity? -- , How Do Regulated Organizations Influence Legal Outcomes -- , 11. Internal Dispute Resolution: The Transformation of Civil Rights in the Workplace -- , 12. The Privatization of Public Legal Rights: How Manufacturers Construct the Meaning of Consumer Law -- , Part III: Lawyers and Legal Work -- , Introduction -- , How Do Hierarchies Influence the Legal Profession -- , 13. Do Rankings Matter? The Effects of U.S. News & World Report Rankings on the Admissions Process of Law Schools -- , 14. Lawyer Satisfaction in the Process of Structuring Legal Careers -- , What Forces Influence Lawyers’ Practices? -- , 15. The Changing Character of Lawyers’ Work: Chicago in 1975 and 1995 -- , 16. Lawyers, Mediation, and the Management of Divorce Practice -- , Can Lawyers Address Inequalities through Service and Political Work? -- , 17. The Impact of Legal Counsel on Outcomes for Poor Tenants in New York City’s Housing Court: Results of a Randomized Experiment -- , 18. Cause Lawyering in Transnational Perspective: National Conflict and Human Rights in Israel/Palestine -- , Part IV: Legal Confrontations—Disputing and Legal Consciousness -- , Introduction -- , 19. A New Social Constructionism for Sociolegal Studies -- , Why Do People Turn to Law in Disputes -- , 20. Litigating within Relationships: Disputes and Disturbance in the Regulatory Process -- , 21. Pursuing Rights and Getting Justice on China’s Ethnic Frontier, 1949–1966 -- , How Do People Use Ideas and Ideals in Legal Disputes? -- , 22. Framing the Choice between Cash and the Courthouse: Experiences with the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund -- , 23. Justice Excused: The Deployment of Law in Everyday Political Encounters -- , How Do Ideas Influence Peoples’ Beliefs about Law? -- , 24. Three Strikes and You Are Out, but Why? The Psychology of Public Support for Punishing Rule Breakers -- , 25. Situating Legal Consciousness: Experiences and Attitudes of Ordinary Citizens about Law and Street Harassment -- , How Does Consciousness Influence the Construction of Law? -- , 26. Idle Rights: Employees’ Rights Consciousness and the Construction of Sexual Harassment Policies -- , 27. Mobilizing the Law in China: “Informed Disenchantment” and the Development of Legal Consciousness -- , Part V: Law as an Emergent Institution -- , Introduction -- , How Does Law Relate to Other Social Institutions? -- , 28. Competing Institutions: Law, Medicine, and Family in Neonatal Intensive Care -- , 29. Challenging Medicine: Law, Resistance, and the Cultural Politics of Childbirth -- , How Do Legal Orders Change When Countries Change -- , 30. Alternative Readings: The Status of the Status of Children Act in Antigua and Barbuda -- , 31. Landscapes of the Law: Injury, Remedy, and Social Change in Thailand -- , 32. Truth, Reconciliation, and the Creation of a Human Rights Culture in South Africa -- , How Has Law Become Global? -- , 33. Rights, Religion, and Community: Approaches to Violence against Women in the Context of Globalization -- , 34. Merchants of Law as Moral Entrepreneurs: Constructing International Justice from the Competition for Transnational Business Disputes -- , 35. National Politics as International Process: The Case of Anti–Female Genital Cutting Laws -- , Part VI: Law as a Productive Institution -- , Introduction -- , How Does Law Influence Group Identity? -- , 36. Through a Green Lens: The Construction of Customary Environmental Law and Community in Indonesia’s Maluku Islands -- , 37. Unsuitable Suitors: Anti-Miscegenation Laws, Naturalization Laws, and the Construction of Asian Identities -- , Can Groups Remake Identity through Law? -- , 38. Think of the Hippopotamus: Rights Consciousness in the Fat Acceptance Movement -- , 39. Legitimizing American Indian Sovereignty: Mobilizing the Constitutive Power of Law through Institutional Entrepreneurship -- , How Does Law Operate as a System of Ideas? -- , 40. Blue Jeans, Rape, and the “De-Constitutive” Power of Law -- , 41. Do Blind People See Race? Social, Legal, and Theoretical Considerations -- , Can Social Science Inform Progressive Change in Law -- , 42. From Legal Realism to Law and Society: Reshaping Law for the Last Stages of the Social Activist State -- , 43. What Counts as Knowledge? A Reflection on Race, Social Science, and the Law -- , Bibliography -- , About the Authors -- , About the Editors -- , Index , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.18574/9780814789339

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814789339

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Format: 1 online resource (288 p.)

ISBN: 0-674-25992-0 , 0-674-25993-9

Content: “Artificial intelligence has always inspired outlandish visions—that AI is going to destroy us, save us, or at the very least radically transform us. Erik Larson exposes the vast gap between the actual science underlying AI and the dramatic claims being made for it. This is a timely, important, and even essential book.” —John Horgan, author of The End of Science Many futurists insist that AI will soon achieve human levels of intelligence. From there, it will quickly eclipse the most gifted human mind. The Myth of Artificial Intelligence argues that such claims are just that: myths. We are not on the path to developing truly intelligent machines. We don’t even know where that path might be. Erik Larson charts a journey through the landscape of AI, from Alan Turing’s early work to today’s dominant models of machine learning. Since the beginning, AI researchers and enthusiasts have equated the reasoning approaches of AI with those of human intelligence. But this is a profound mistake. Even cutting-edge AI looks nothing like human intelligence. Modern AI is based on inductive reasoning: computers make statistical correlations to determine which answer is likely to be right, allowing software to, say, detect a particular face in an image. But human reasoning is entirely different. Humans do not correlate data sets; we make conjectures sensitive to context—the best guess, given our observations and what we already know about the world. We haven’t a clue how to program this kind of reasoning, known as abduction. Yet it is the heart of common sense. Larson argues that all this AI hype is bad science and bad for science. A culture of invention thrives on exploring unknowns, not overselling existing methods. Inductive AI will continue to improve at narrow tasks, but if we are to make real progress, we must abandon futuristic talk and learn to better appreciate the only true intelligence we know—our own.

Note: Frontmatter -- , CONTENTS -- , Introduction -- , Part I: THE SIMPLIFIED WORLD -- , 1 The Intelligence Error -- , 2 Turing at Bletchley -- , 3 The Superintelligence Error -- , 4 The Singularity, Then and Now -- , 5 Natural Language Understanding -- , 6 AI as Technological Kitsch -- , 7 Simplifications and Mysteries -- , Part II: THE PROBLEM OF INFERENCE -- , 8 Don’t Calculate, Analyze -- , 9 The Puzzle of Peirce (and Peirce’s Puzzle) -- , 10 Problems with Deduction and Induction -- , 11 Machine Learning and Big Data -- , 12 Abductive Inference -- , 13 Inference and Language I -- , 14 Inference and Language II -- , Part III: THE FUTURE OF THE MYTH -- , 15 Myths and Heroes -- , 16 AI Mythology Invades Neuroscience -- , 17 Neocortical Theories of Human Intelligence -- , 18 The End of Science? -- , Notes -- , Acknowledgments -- , Index , In English.

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-674-98351-3

Language: English

Subjects: Computer Science

DOI: 10.4159/9780674259935

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Format: 1 online resource (24 pages)

ISBN: 1-4623-3068-1 , 1-4527-7944-9 , 1-282-10672-4 , 1-4519-0466-5 , 9786613800077

Series Statement: IMF Working Papers

Content: This paper analyzes the stochastic inventory control problem when the demand distribution is not known. In contrast to previous Bayesian inventory models, this paper adopts a non-parametric Bayesian approach in which the firm’s prior information is characterized by a Dirichlet process prior. This provides considerable freedom in the specification of prior information about demand and it permits the accommodation of fixed order costs. As information on the demand distribution accumulates, optimal history-dependent (s,S) rules are shown to converge to an (s,S) rule that is optimal when the underlying demand distribution is known.

Note: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph , English

Additional Edition: ISBN 1-4518-5930-9

Language: English