Michael Wheeler

Shedding new light on the improvisational nature of negotiation, explains how diplomats, deal-makers, and Hollywood producers apply their best practices to everyday transactions.

How to Improvise Agreement in a Chaotic World

The Art of Negotiation

A 'Arte da Negociação' revela como os grandes negociadores prosperaram diante do caos e da incerteza. Eles não caem na armadilha de planos rígidos. Em vez disso, entendem a negociação como um processo de exploração que exige aprendizado contínuo, adaptação e influência. Sua agilidade lhes permite chegar a um acordo quando outros estariam em um impasse. Michael Wheeler traz clareza à natureza imprevisível da negociação, com base em sua própria pesquisa e em seu trabalho com seus colegas do Programa de Negociação. Ele explica como as melhores práticas de diplomatas como George J. Mitchell, o negociador Bruce Wasserstein e o produtor de Hollywood Jerry Weintraub se aplicam a operações cotidianas, como vender uma casa, comprar um carro ou conseguir um novo contrato. Wheeler também apresenta uma série de lições sobre agilidade e criatividade a partir de áreas como a música, os esportes, o teatro e até mesmo a ciência militar.

A arte da negociação

A book that discusses the general problems of poll taking.

The Manipulation of Public Opinion in America

Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics

Owen Holland

Phil Husbands

The idea of intelligent machines has become part of popular culture. But tracing thehistory of the actual science of machine intelligence reveals a rich network of cross-disciplinarycontributions--the unrecognized origins of ideas now central to artificial intelligence, artificiallife, cognitive science, and neuroscience. In The Mechanization of Mind in History, scientists,artists, historians, and philosophers discuss the multidisciplinary quest to formalize andunderstand the generation of intelligent behavior in natural and artificial systems as a whollymechanical process. The contributions illustrate the diverse and interacting notions that chart theevolution of the idea of the mechanical mind. They describe the mechanized mind as, among otherthings, an analogue system, an organized suite of chemical interactions, a self-organizingelectromechanical device, an automated general-purpose information processor, and an integratedcollection of symbol manipulating mechanisms. They investigate the views of pivotal figures thatrange from Descartes and Heidegger to Alan Turing and Charles Babbage, and they emphasize suchfrequently overlooked areas as British cybernetic and pre-cybernetic thinkers. The volume concludeswith the personal insights of five highly influential figures in the field: John Maynard Smith, JohnHolland, Oliver Selfridge, Horace Barlow, and Jack Cowan.Philip Husbands is Professor of ComputerScience and Artificial Intelligence in the Department of Informatics at the University of Sussex andCodirector of the Sussex Centre for Computational Neuroscience and Robotics. Owen Holland isProfessor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Essex. Michael Wheeler isReader in Philosophy at the University of Stirling. He is the author of Reconstructing the CognitiveWorld: The Next Step (MIT Press, 2005).ContributorsPeter Asaro, Horace Barlow, Andy Beckett,Margaret Boden, Jon Bird, Paul Brown, Seth Bullock, Roberto Cordeschi, Jack Cowan, Ezequiel DiPaolo, Hubert Dreyfus, Andrew Hodges, Owen Holland, Jana Horáková, Philip Husbands, Jozef Kelemen,John Maynard Smith, Donald Michie, Oliver Selfridge, Michael Wheeler

The Mechanical Mind in History

A compelling history of the famous London club and its members’ impact on Britain’s scientific, creative, and official life When it was founded in 1824, the Athenæum broke the mold. Unlike in other preeminent clubs, its members were chosen on the basis of their achievements rather than on their background or political affiliation. Public rather than private life dominated the agenda. The club, with its tradition of hospitality to conflicting views, has attracted leading scientists, writers, artists, and intellectuals throughout its history, including Charles Darwin and Matthew Arnold, Edward Burne-Jones and Yehudi Menuhin, Winston Churchill and Gore Vidal. This book is not presented in the traditional, insular style of club histories, but devotes attention to the influence of Athenians on the scientific, creative, and official life of the nation. From the unwitting recruitment of a Cold War spy to the welcome admittance of women, this lively and original account explores the corridors and characters of the club; its wider political, intellectual, and cultural influence; and its recent reinvention.

More Than Just Another London Club

The Athenaeum

David Carroll

This is a thought-provoking synthesis of the Victorian period, focusing on the themes of science, religion, politics and art. It examines the developments which radically changed the intellectual climate and illustrates how their manifestations permeated Victorian literature. The author begins by establishing the social and institutional framework in which intellectual and cultural life developed. Special attention is paid to the reform agenda of new groups which challenged traditional society, and this perspective informs Gilmour's discussion throughout the book. He assesses Victorian religion, science and politics in their own terms and in relation to the larger cultural politics of the middle-class challenge to traditionalism. Familiar topics, such as the Oxford Movement and Darwinism, are seen afresh, and those once neglected areas which are now increasingly important to modern scholars are brought into clear focus, such as Victorian agnosticism, the politics of gender, 'Englishness', and photography. The most innovative feature of this compelling study is the prominence given to the contemporary preoccupation with time. The Victorians' time-hauntedness emerges as the defining feature of their civilisation - the remote time of geology and evolution, the public time of history, the private time of autobiography.

The Intellectual and Cultural Context of English Literature, 1830 - 1890

The Victorian Period

Nigel Whiteley

Ruskin, Tradition, and Architecture

The Lamp of Memory

The Art of Allusion in Victorian Fiction

Ian Tod

Explores the nature of a perfect society as visualized and prophesized by history's great utopian philosophers, architects, writers, painters, and poets

Utopia

The Gospel according to St John, often regarded as the most important of the gospels in the account it gives of Jesus' life and divinity, received close attention from nineteenth-century biblical scholars and prompted a significant response in the arts. This original interdisciplinary study of the cultural afterlife of John in Victorian Britain places literature, the visual arts and music in their religious context. Discussion of the Evangelist, the Gospel and its famous prologue is followed by an examination of particular episodes that are unique to John. Michael Wheeler's research reveals the depth of biblical influence on British culture and on individuals such as Ruskin, Holman Hunt and Tennyson. He makes a significant contribution to the understanding of culture, religion and scholarship in the period.

St John and the Victorians

Professor Wheeler's widely-acclaimed survey of the nineteenth-century fiction covers both the major writers and their works and encompasses the genres and "minor" fiction of the period. This excellent introduction and reference source has been revised for this second edition to include new material on lesser-known writers and a comprehensively updated bibliography.

English Fiction of the Victorian Period

The Victorians were obsessed with death, bereavement, and funeral rituals, and speculated vigorously on the nature of heaven, hell and divine judgment. This popular abridgement of Michael Wheeler's award-winning Death and the Future Life in Victorian Literature and Theology looks at the literary implications of Victorian views of death and the life beyond, and recreates vividly the fear and hope embodied in the theological positions of the novelists and the poets of the age. -- Book cover.

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