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hardcover. Condition: Fine. LIKE NEW!!! Has a red or black remainder mark on bottom/exterior edge of pages.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: None as Issued. First Edition, First Printing. BRAND NEW & COLLECTIBLE. First Edition, First Printing. LAID-IN: MIT Press Release. A multi-discipinary examination of how, and why, work is performed in research of living systems --- the relationships between work and the study of work across many different levels of organization, in disciplines of biology, neuroscience, psychology, electrical and computer engineering, and design. Content address the biological work of producing energy in the cell; establish inherent tradeoffs between energy and information in neural systems; relate principles of integrated circuit manufacture to work in biological systems; explore the work of photosynthesis; investigate how work shapes organisms' evolutionary niches; consider the human work of design; describe the effects of job satisfaction and dissatisfaction on work-life balance; and address the effects of environmental challenges (stress) on how humans and animals do work. Essays from Alan Blackwell, Gillian Brown, Christina De La Rocha, Kevin Laland, Simon Laughlin, Robert Levin, Michael Lightner, Steven Maier, Joseph Rosse, and Stacy Saturay.…

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Condition: Brand New. Work as fundamental to life, explored at different levels of organization from the perspectives of a variety of biological and nonbiological disciplines.

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8° , Softcover/Paperback. XXIII/242 S. Seiten am Anfang unten gering wellig, viele Abbildungen, gut erhalten Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.

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Condition: New. Peter Sterling is Professor of Neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. He is the coauthor (with Simon Laughlin) of Principles of Neural Design (MIT Press). Simon Laughlin is Emeritus Professor of Neurobiology in the.

Hardcover. Condition: Sehr gut. first edition. groß oktav hardcover. sehr gut - very fine. ungelesen, tadellos, gebundene ausgabe, fester einband, schwarzer, foto-illustrierter original-pappband, 322 seiten mit zahlreichen abbildungen und etlichen fotos im anhang; reihe: the journal of experimantal biology, volume 146, september 1989 // unread, perfect condition, hardcover, black, photo-illustrated original paperback, 322 pages with numerous illustrations and several photos in the appendix; series: the journal of experimental biology, volume 146, september 1989.…

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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Something With Bite: Poems and Stories Selected from the Poetry and Short Story Competition of 2010. Compilation of Australian school students short stories & poetry. Hundreds of contributors. Foreword by Troy Jackman. Publisher's note by Julia Woods. First three place winners (short stories): Finn Ball, David Elwood, & Simon Porro. First three place winners (poetry): Jemimah Thompson, Zechariah Laughlin, & Ashleigh North. With section at front containing first three place winners plus finalists. Numerous small thumbnail b&w photographs of contributors throughout. Includes full index. Uncommon title, with Trove showing only 6 libraries in Australia holding copies. Large format volume. Printed in China. Bound in publisher's original laminated colour pictorial boards, purple endpapers. No dustjacket issued. A very nice clean tight solid hardcover copy. 896pp. Thick heavy large volume, extra shipping may be required. Scarce title. RARE. SB-31. …

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. xxiii, 542 p. 24 cm. B&w illustrations. Black hardcover in dustjacket. Ink underlining and marginalia throughout.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine(-). Large octavo in black, color illus jacket; xxiii, 542 pages: illustrations; 24 cm. Scarec in hardcaover. "Neuroscience research has exploded, with more than fifty thousand neuroscientists applying increasingly advanced methods. A mountain of new facts and mechanisms has emerged. And yet a principled framework to organize this knowledge has been missing. In this book, Peter Sterling and Simon Laughlin, two leading neuroscientists, strive to fill this gap, outlining a set of organizing principles to explain the whys of neural design that allow the brain to compute so efficiently. Setting out to "reverse engineer" the brain--disassembling it to understand it--Sterling and Laughlin first consider why an animal should need a brain, tracing computational abilities from bacterium to protozoan to worm. They examine bigger brains and the advantages of "anticipatory regulation"; identify constraints on neural design and the need to "nanofy"; and demonstrate the routes to efficiency in an integrated molecular system, phototransduction. They show that the principles of neural design at finer scales and lower levels apply at larger scales and higher levels; describe neural wiring efficiency; and discuss learning as a principle of biological design that includes "save only what is needed." Sterling and Laughlin avoid speculation about how the brain might work and endeavor to make sense of what is already known. Their distinctive contribution is to gather a coherent set of basic rules and exemplify them across spatial and functional scales."--Publisher's descriptionContents: What engineers know about design. Why an animal needs a brain. Why a bigger brain? How bigger brains are organized. Information processing: from molecules to molecular circuits. Information processing in protein circuits. Design of neurons. How photoreceptors optimize the capture of visual information. The fly lamina: an efficient interface for high-speed vision. Design of neural circuits: recoding analogue signals to pulsatile. Principles of retinal design. Beyond the retina: pathways to perception and action. Principles of efficient wiring. Learning as design/design of learning. About near fine in near fine(-) jacket. Now in archival mylar. Shows very minor signs of exrternal wear. Biinding tight; pages free of markings. First ed., first printing (full number line).…