A model for strategic negotiation for intelligent agents.As computers advance from isolated workstations to linked elements in complex communities of systems and people, cooperation and coordination v
The first book in an ambitious middle-grade trilogy following a group of teddy bears who come to life in a garbage dump and embark on a journey to fulfill their destiny. Toy Story this is not!Buddy wa
"In his journal, Paul liked to make lists: What he ordered from Commissary(shaving cream, toothpaste, deodorant, the transistor radio he had for a week before the guards tookit away). The books he pic
Acker's life was a fable; and to describe the confusion and love and conflicting agendas behind these memorials would be to sketch an apocryphal allegory of an artistic life in the late twentieth cent
In I Love Dick, published in 1997, Chris Kraus, author of Aliens & Anorexia, Torpor, and Video Green, boldly tore away the veil that separates fiction from reality and privacy from self-expression. I
A novel set in 1991, post-MTV, pre-AOL: Sylvie, longing for a life more like the TVshow thirtysomething, sets off with her husband, Columbia University professor Jerome, to Romania toadopt a child.
In Aliens & Anorexia, Kraus argues for empathy as the ultimate perceptive tool, and reclaims anorexia from the psychoanalytic girl-ghetto of poor "self-esteem."
When Caroline Kraus leaves behind her sheltered, upper-middle-class home in St. Louis for San Francisco following the death of her mother, she is searching for clarity and a fresh perspective to help
Leo isn’t reading, or writing, or drawing, or even speaking, and his father is concerned. But Leo’s mother isn’t. She knows her son will do all those things, and more, when he’s ready.
For generations, the Irish people have lamented the loss of their traditional culture, as well as the fading of their native language, practices, and beliefs. The deaths - and the protection - of trad
The conservation threat posed by invasive alien species has become well-recognized over the past two decades, even as the problem continues to increase rapidly in scope. Research and management atten
How do we choose among all the different Bible translations available today? How do we know which is the right one to use for specific situations? And how do we understand what factors lie behind thes
