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Designing Beauty: The Art of Cellular Automata

Table of Contents: “…Self-Organizing Two-Dimensional Cellular Automata: 10 Still Frames -- Is it Art or Science? -- Larger than Life -- Three Favorite Cellular Automata -- Cellular Automata: Dying to Live Again, Architecture, Art, Design -- In Search of Movement and Life on a Static Grid -- Some Beautiful and Difficult Questions about Cellular Automata -- Hyperbolic Gallery -- Evolved Gliders and Waves on a Geodesic Grid -- Constructing Counters through Evolution -- Biological Lattice-Gas Cellular Automata -- The Enlightened Game of Life -- Small Synchronizers and Prime Generators -- Ecological Patterns of Self-Replicators -- The Art of Penrose Life -- Asynchronous Cellular Automata Simulating Complex Phenomena -- A Multiparticle Lattice-Gas Cellular Automaton Simulating a Piston Motion -- Two Layer Asynchronous Cellular Automata -- Cellular Automata Simulation of Bacterial Cell Growth and Division -- Seismic Cellular Automata -- DNA Cellular Automata -- Reversibility, Simulation and Dynamical Behaviour -- Aesthetics and Randomness in Cellular Automata -- Cellular Automata with Memory -- Turing Machine in Conway Game of Life -- Aperiodicity and Reversibility -- Cardiac Pacemaker Tissue by Cellular Automata. …”
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Dance and the Quality of Life

Table of Contents: “…Ellis -- Drawing and Dancing: Exbodying the Unknowable; Molly Shanahan -- Beauty in Disability: An Aesthetics for Dance and Quality of Life; Aili Bresnahan -- DANCING THE LIFE SPAN -- Dance and Quality in Young Children's Lives: A Perspective from Aotearoa; Adrienne Sansom -- "Daddy, root me in!" …”
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Death Across Cultures Death and Dying in Non-Western Cultures /

Table of Contents: “…Secularism and Politics of Death Space in Hong Kong -- Death and Dying: Belief, Fear and Ritual in Vietnamese Culture -- Negotiating Traditions and Modernity: Chinese Death Rituals in Singapore -- The Bureaucratic Professionalization of Funeral Rites in Tehran's Behesht-e Zahra Cemetery -- Death and Burial Practices in Contemporary Zulu Culture, South Africa -- Death in Botswana: Life Among the Ashes -- Ancestors and Death: From West Africa to Southwest Europe -- Living Coffins and Death Among the Ga of Ghana -- The Yoruba of Nigeria and the Ontology of Death and Burial -- Transformation of Funeral Rituals in Togo -- Rituals Around Life and Death in Mexico; The Day of the Dead -- Continuity and Ruptures in Brazilian Funeral Rites -- The Right to a Dignified Death in Argentina -- Superstar-Saints and Wandering Souls: The Cemetery as a Cultural Hotspot in Latin American Cities -- He taonga tuku iho: Indigenous End of Life and Death Care Customs of New Zealand Māori -- Communicating with the Dead in an Australian Aboriginal Culture: The Tiwi from Melville and Bathurst Islands -- Death and Dying in American Indian Cultures -- The Beauty of the Afterlife Among the Inuit of Nunavut -- Eternity Calling: Modernity and the Revival of Death and the Afterlife.…”
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Copenhagenize The Definitive Guide to Global Bicycle Urbanism / by Colville-Andersen, Mikael

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Wilhelm Ostwald The Autobiography /

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Porcelain to Silica Bricks The Extreme Ceramics of William Weston Young (1776-1847) / by Edwards, Howell G.M

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Interactions and intersections of gendered bodies at work, at home and at play

Table of Contents: “…Interactions and intersections of gendered bodies at work, at home, and at play: an introduction / Marcia Texler Segal -- Living marked: tattooed women and perceptions of beauty and femininity / Desiré J.M. Anastasia -- 'Soul food': emotional abuse in childhood and the important role of food / Marjorie C. …”
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