Artificial Intelligence in Accounting and Auditing: Knowledge Representation, Accounting Applications and the Future (Rutgers Series in Accounting I)

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For thousands of years, one scientific puzzle has fascinated and perplexed the greatest philosophers, mathematicians, physicists, and psychologists - why do the moon and sun appear so much larger on the horizon than when high up in the sky? Now, two leading psychologists have provided a compelling account of this fascinating illusion. Taking us through the history, the characters involved, the attempts made to explain the illusion, through to modern day studies of visual perception, the book is the most comprehensive account of this puzzle so far. This is a work which will remain, for some time to come, the definitive book on a mystery that has fascinated and tested the greatest minds throughout the ages. Accessibly written, it will appeal to readers of popular science, along with those within the disciplines of psychology, mathematics, astronomy, and philosophy, from undergraduate upwards.

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Machine vision technology has revolutionised the process of automated inspection in manufacturing. The specialist techniques required for inspection of natural products, such as food, leather, textiles and stone is still a challenging area of research. Topological variations make image processing algorithm development, system integration and mechanical handling issues much more complex. The practical issues of making machine vision systems operate robustly in often hostile environments together with the latest technological advancements are reviewed in this volume. Features:
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Machine Vision for the Inspection of Natural Products will be a valuable resource for researchers developing innovative machine vision systems in collaboration with food technology, textile and agriculture sectors. It will also appeal to practising engineers and managers in industries where the application of machine vision can enhance product safety and process efficiency.

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Published here for the first time is the earliest completed version of the novel regarded as Lawrence's greatest: Women in Love. Lawrence wrote it in 1916 and did his best to have it published then; but his previous novel had been banned and The First Women in Love was rejected. It shares much of its material with the final version of the novel but its central relationships are dissimilar and the ending radically different. Arguably one of Lawrence's greatest works in its own right, it is a novel searingly addressed to the world of the First World War.

Women in Love: Cambridge Lawrence Edition (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)

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The charming, hilarious, and throught provoking story of two sisters.
Women in Love: A Classic Novel by the first Freudian novelists who plumbed the human id
Everything is here
EFFING THE INEFFABLE
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Women in Love: Cambridge Lawrence Edition (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
D. H. Lawrence , and Mark Kinkead-Weekes
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Women in Love was written in the years before and during World War I. Criticized for its exploration of human sexuality, the novel is filled with symbolism and poetry--and is compulsively entertaining.

The story opens with sisters Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen, characters who also appeared in The Rainbow, discussing marriage, then walking through a haunting landscape ruined by coal mines, smoking factories, and sooty dwellings. Soon Gudrun will choose Gerald, the icily handsome mining industrialist, as her lover; Ursula will become involved with Birkin, a school inspector--and an erotic interweaving of souls and bodies begins. One couple will find love, the other death, in Lawrence's lush, powerfully crafted fifth novel, one of his masterpieces and the work that may best convey his beliefs about sex, love, and humankind's ongoing struggle between the forces of destruction and life.

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Privately printed in 1920 and published commercially in 1921, Women in Love is the novel Lawrence himself considered his masterpiece. Set in the English Midlands, the novel traces the lives of two sisters, Ursula and Gudrun, and the men with whom they fall in love. All four yearn for fufillment in their romantic lives, yet struggle in a world that is increasingly violent and destructive. Commenting on the novel, which was composed in the midst of the First World War in 1916, Lawrence wrote, "The bitterness of the war may be taken for granted in the characters." Rich in symbolism and lyrical prose, Women in Love is a complex meditation on the meaning of love in the modern world.

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The charming, hilarious, and throught provoking story of two sisters. .......2007-08-23

This book is beautifully written. You could randomly pick almost any paragraph and read it and close the book and think to your self "wow, that was beautiful." It tells the story of sisters Gudrun and Brangwen, two young women in England who stand apart from the crowd and struggle with their quirky independence in a classist society.

Of course it isn't a gripper or a page turner. It took me over a year to finish reading this book. That's not to say it's not good-- on the contrary I say it's a testament to how good it is that I ever finished it. How many times have you put a book down for months and then returned to pick it up where you left off? I can think of one other book I did that with, but I did it several times with Women in Love.

It's slow, and in the beginning I couldn't really keep all the characters straight. But it's beautiful and it's hilarious! The langauge of the day, comsbined with the melodrama of Gudrun and Bragwen as they discuss the banal horror of spending the rest of their life with any of the men they know, is both charming and laugh-out-loud funny.

The book works as a period piece; you can see the structured class system of the England of the day nad the sisters who simply don't fit in with anyone.

The book also works as a philosophical piece; at times it reminds me of Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged. The chapters dedicated to the coal mines and the machine-like endeavors of the men who runs them must have inspired Ayn Rand's work.

This book is deifnitely worth reading, but perhaps best along side another book (or 10).

Women in Love: A Classic Novel by the first Freudian novelists who plumbed the human id.......2007-08-21

DH Lawrence was born in the coaltown of Eastwood located eight miles from Nottingham, England in the Midlands region of Great Britain. His father was feckless; his mother worshipped young Bert who was sensitive, reserved and bookish.
Lawrence grew up to leave this repressed environment to wander the world with his German wife Frieda. He remembered how the miners would enter the coalmines with clean clothes emerging hours later covered with black coal dust. Like those miners, Lawrence would also go "underground" exploring those human emotions we keep repressed. His themes were communication between the sexes concluding that we are basically alone in a godless universe. Plot and story are minimal in a Lawrence novel. The iconoclastic novelist was more interested in examining our motivations through stream of consciousness and dialgoue between his complex characters. These themes are evinced in "Women in Love" his brilliant sequel to "The Rainbow" dealingwith several generations of the Brangwen family.
The main characters in this 1920 novel are:
1. Ursula Brangwen: The plainer of the two Brangwen daughters. Ursula is a 26 year old teacher in a Midlands school. Her life is mundane. She is an intellectual who falls in love with the mecurial Rupert Birken.
Ursula is said to be a fictional recreation of Lawrence's wife Frieda.
She is fiercly independent but craves the warmth of a sexual/spiritual relationship with a man.
2. Gudrun Brangwen is the artistic sister of Brangwen. She is an art teacher in a local school. Gudrun has studied and worked abroad as a sculptress. She is artsy,loving life. Gudrun enters into a tempestuous affair with the owner of the town mining company. Her affair with the aristocratic Gerald Brangwen will end in tragedy. Gudrun wears bright clothing and is more outgoing than her sister Ursula. She too is independent wanting to go beyond sex or domestic life with a life partner.
She may have been based on Lawrence's New Zealand writer friend Katherine Mansfield.
3. Rupert Birkin is the fictionalized portrait of the author. Birkin is a school inspector who has a desire to create a new world free of the harsh Victorian conventional society he despises. His longtime lover is the wealthy Hermione. Birkin jilts the superficial Hermione for the enchanting and engimatic Ursula. As the novel ends he and Ursula are married, The Birkins leave England for a life of wandering much as did Frieda and D.H. Lawrence. Birkin, as well as Lawrence, hated modern industrialized society which made men and women into automatic machines in a souless society.
4. Gerald Crich is the owner of a large mining company in the area. Gerald can be very cruel as when he forces a horse he is astride to sit still while a train (the symbol of industrialized life) roars by to the dismay of the frightened creature. Crich is also seen strangling a rabbit. He has been a playboy with a mistress named Pussums. Crich has a torrid affair with Gudrud which ends in a tragedy. Crich is a handsome man who wants power in busines and his affair with Gudrud. He attempts to strangle her and control her every move. Crich is the least sympathetic and most tortured of the four major characters.
D.H. Lawrence's prose in this major novel is lyrical, poetic and detailed in its description of moods, nature and the emotions inherent to love. Lawrence knew the human psyche is a mine which needed exploration by a perceptive novelist. Lawrence is still worthy reading all of these years after the Brangwen girls story was first spun into gold by a literary giant.

Everything is here.......2007-08-21

this is definitely a five star book for david herbert. the only knock is it's a bit meandering, but thematically it encompasses so many things. i loved the character Loerke in the end as a foil to Gerald and perhaps a more succinct explanation for what Birkin was trying to get across all along.

EFFING THE INEFFABLE.......2007-03-05

I did not read this book as it was assigned. However for my exam I had to have the book read and I finished it within 2-3 days. i loved this book. Some sentences did drag on and were long but this is very much Lawrence like. He goes on to explain the same things in detail to stress the importance. This repetition also gave a certain rhythm that sounds almost poetic like. Ultimately the book is about effing the ineffable. It is those things that are inexpressible that Lawrence tries to bring to to the expressible.

Good read..........2007-03-05

This book can be quite disturbing in regards to how the main characters view the world and feel about the human race, but it is a very good book to read. This book makes me think about life and all that it has to offer, believe it or not.

Women in Love (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of D. H. Lawrence)

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Women in Love (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of D. H. Lawrence)
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ASIN: 0521280419

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D. H. Lawrence’s Women in Love - ‘the beginning of a new world’, as he called it - suffered in the course of its revision, transcription, and publication some of the most spectacular damage ever inflicted upon one of his books. Until now no text of Women in Love has ever been published which is faithful to all of Lawrence’s revisions. This edition, edited by scholars in England and America, clears the text of literally thousands of accumulated errors allowing its readers to read and understand the novelist’s work as he himself created it. The edition includes the ‘Foreword’ Lawrence wrote in 1919 and two preliminary and discarded chapters which have attracted widespread critical and biographical discussion. The introduction gives a full history of the novel’s composition, revision, publication and reception, and notes explain allusions and references; the textual apparatus records all variants between the base-text and the first printed editions.

Women in Love: Cambridge Lawrence Edition (Penguin Classics)

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Women in Love: Cambridge Lawrence Edition (Penguin Classics)
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ASIN: 0141441542

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Two of D. H. Lawrence's most renowned novels—now with new packages and new introductions

Widely regarded as D. H. Lawrence's greatest novel, Women in Love continues where The Rainbow left off, with the third generation of the Brangwens. Focusing on Ursula Brangwen and her sister Gudrun's relationships—the former with a school inspector and the latter with an industrialist and then a sculptor—Women in Love is a powerful, sexually explicit depiction of the destructiveness of human relations.

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Cross Frontier Insolvency of Insurance Companies.......2003-10-30

If you are ever faced with issues relating to failing international insurance companies, this book is an indispensable guide. It covers all of the major jurisdictions, as well as some obscure ones (Belgium, Russia). The writing is clear and concise and the authors are the leaders in their field.

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