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Until the late 1950s residents of Vancouver and Victoria negotiated a shopping landscape that would be unrecognizable to today’s consumers: most stores were closed for at least half the day on Wednesdays, prevented from opening during the evenings, and were banned from operating on Sundays. Since that decade, however, British Columbians, and Canadians generally, have made significant strides in gaining greater and easier access to consumer goo...

Selling Out or Buying In? is the first work to illuminate the process by which consumers' access to goods and services was liberalized and deregulated in Canada in the second half of the twentieth century.

The radical black left has largely disappeared from the struggle for equality and justice. Michael Dawson examines the causes and consequences, and argues that the conventional left has failed to take race seriously as a force in reshaping American institutions and civil society. Black politics needs to find its way back to its radical roots.

Michael R. W. Dawson is a professor of psychology atthe University of Alberta. He is the author of numerous scientificpapers as well as the books Understanding Cognitive Science(1998), Minds and Machines (2004), Connectionism: AHands-on Approach (2005), and From Bricks to Brains: TheEmbodied Cognitive Science of LEGO Robots (2010).

I Can See the Shore brings to life a little known world of shaman, rituals, and secret initiations of the stone-aged culture of the Yanomamö tribe. Walk with Mike Dawson as he shares the Gospel and deals with his own personal life and death situations.

Connectionism" is a "hands on" introduction to connectionist modeling through practical exercises in different types of connectionist architectures. explores three different types of connectionist architectures - distributed associative memory, perceptron, and multilayer perceptron provides a brief overview of each architecture, a detailed introduction on how to use a program to explore this network, and a series of practical exercises that ar...

Minds and Machines: Connectionism and Psychological Modeling "examines different kinds of models and investigates some of the basic properties of connectionism in the context of synthetic psychology, including detailed accounts of how the internal structure of connectionist networks can be interpreted. Introduces connectionist models as tools that are both synthetic and representational and which can be used as the basis for conducting synthe...

This concise introduction to cognitive science provides undergraduate and graduate students with the theoretical foundations of classical and connectionist cognitive science to explain and teach the underlying unity of the field.

This stunning book represents the most comprehensive analysis to date of the complex relationships between black political thought and black political identity and behavior. Ranging from Frederick Douglass to rap artist Ice Cube, Michael C. Dawson brilliantly illuminates the history and current role of black political thought in shaping political debate in America.

An entertaining and illustrated account of the development of BC's tourist industry between 1890 and 1970, examining how BC's history of colonialism was deftly marketed to potential tourists.

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This stunning book represents the most comprehensive analysis to date of the complex relationships between black political thought and black political identity and behavior. Ranging from Frederick Douglass to rap artist Ice Cube, Michael C. Dawson brilliantly illuminates the history and current role of black political thought in shaping political debate in America.

From Bricks to Brains introduces embodied cognitive science and illustrates its foundational ideas through the construction and observation of LEGO Mindstorms robots.

¿Michael Dawson is an adjunct lecturer in the department of sociology at Portland State University

Recalibrating our understanding of the history of Canada at war

Since the events of September 11, 2001, security for the nation's Intercontinental Ballistic Missile force has become a prominent concern for personnel in the highest levels of government. This has resulted in many physical security upgrades and new methods to counter hostile activities. This research seeks to find the optimal placement for one layer of the security net protecting these crucial assets, the daily-deployed security forces Fire T...

Michael Dawson teaches in the Department of History at St. Thomas University in Fredericton, New Brunswick.

Ein Forschungsteam rund um den Wissenschaftler Frank (Mark Duplass) und seine Verlobte Zoe (Olivia Wilde) hat das Unvorstellbare erreicht: Sie erwecken die Toten wieder zum Leben. Als Zoe versehentlich bei einem schrecklichen Unfall durch einen Stromschlag stirbt, nutzen Frank und sein Team ihr experimentelles Serum, um sie wiederzubeleben. Aber ihr Versuch geht fürchterlich schief und sie entfesseln grausame Kräfte in Zoe, die ihrer aller Leb...

Ein Forschungsteam rund um den Wissenschaftler Frank (Mark Duplass) und seine Verlobte Zoe (Olivia Wilde) hat das Unvorstellbare erreicht: Sie erwecken die Toten wieder zum Leben. Als Zoe versehentlich bei einem schrecklichen Unfall durch einen Stromschlag stirbt, nutzen Frank und sein Team ihr experimentelles Serum, um sie wiederzubeleben. Aber ihr Versuch geht fürchterlich schief und sie entfesseln grausame Kräfte in Zoe, die ihrer aller Leb...

If you are new to programming with Python and are looking for a solid introduction, this is the book for you. Developed by computer science instructors, books in the "for the absolute beginner" series teach the principles of programming through simple game creation. You will acquire the skills that you need for practical Python programming applications and will learn how these skills can be put to use in real-world scenarios. Throughout the ch...