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lgli/Allen, Colin 2014. Umwelt or Umwelten? How should shared representation be understood given such diversity? *Semiotica* 198: 137-158..pdf

Umwelt or Umwelten? How should shared representation be understood given such diversity? Allen, Colin Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG; Walter de Gruyter GmbH; De Gruyter Mouton (ISSN 0037-1998), Semiotica, #198, 2014, 2014 jan 01

It is a truism among ethologists that one must not forget that animals perceive and represent the world differently from humans. Sometimes this caution is phrased in terms of von Uexküll's Umwelt concept. Yet it seems possible (perhaps even unavoidable) to adopt a common ontological framework when comparing different species of mind. For some purposes it seems sufficient to anchor comparative cognition in common-sense categories; bats echolocate insects (or a subset of them) after all. But for other purposes it seems necessary to find out more about how organisms organize their perceptions into biologically significant and perhaps cognitively meaningful states. Complex animals have high bandwidth sensory channels that feed into large nerve networks with very complex dynamics. Even for relatively simple animals belonging to species believed to have a small, fixed number of neurons, the odds are very much against any two animals of the same species, let alone different species, having exactly the same couplings to the environment, the same dimensionality in their nervous systems, or the same dynamics. Given such diversity (which von Uexküll himself recognized), how should we think about shared representation, shared meaning, and cognitive similarity between individuals and species? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Moral Machines : Teaching Robots Right From Wrong Wendell Wallach & Colin Allen Oxford University Press, Incorporated, New York, 2010

"An invaluable guide to avoiding the stuff of science-fiction nightmares."--John Gilby, Times Higher Education "Moral Machines is a fine introduction to the emerging field of robot ethics. There is much here that will interest ethicists, philosophers, cognitive scientists, and roboticists."-Peter Danielson, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews "Written with an abundance of examples and lessons learned, scenarios of incidents that may happen, and elaborate discussions on existing artificial agents on the cutting edge of research/practice, Moral Machines goes beyond what is known as computer ethics into what will soon be called the discipline of machine morality. Highly recommended."-G. Trajkovski, CHOICE "...the book does succeed in making the essential point that the phrase 'moral machine' is not an oxymoron. It also provides a window onto an area of research with which psychologists are unlikely to be familiar and one from which, at some point, we may be able to learn quite a lot."-PsycCRITIQUES "Moral Machines represents a valuable addition to, and extension of, the current literature on machine morality. As the development of autonomous artificial moral agents becomes closer to being realized, I suspect that this book will only gain in importance."--MetapsychologyISBN : 9780199737970

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Moral Machines : Teaching Robots Right From Wrong Wendell Wallach; Colin Allen Oxford University Press, Incorporated, Oxford University Press USA, Oxford, 2009

Computers are already approving financial transactions, controlling electrical supplies, and driving trains. Soon, service robots will be taking care of the elderly in their homes, and military robots will have their own targeting and firing protocols. Colin Allen and Wendell Wallach argue that as robots take on more and more responsibility, they must be programmed with moral decision-making abilities, for our own safety. Taking a fast paced tour through the latest thinking about philosophical ethics and artificial intelligence, the authors argue that even if full moral agency for machines is a long way off, it is already necessary to start building a kind of functional morality, in which artificial moral agents have some basic ethical sensitivity. But the standard ethical theories don't seem adequate, and more socially engaged and engaging robots will be needed. As the authors show, the quest to build machines that are capable of telling right from wrong has begun. Moral Machines is the first book to examine the challenge of building artificial moral agents, probing deeply into the nature of human decision making and ethics.

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Logic Primer, Third Edition Colin Allen;Michael Hand;; Michael Hand The MIT Press, 3, 2022

The new edition of a comprehensive and rigorous but concise introduction to symbolic logic. Logic Primer offers a comprehensive and rigorous introduction to symbolic logic, providing concise definitions of key concepts, illustrative examples, and exercises. After presenting the definitions of validity and soundness, the book goes on to introduce a formal language, proof theory, and formal semantics for sentential logic (chapters 1–3) and for first-order predicate logic (chapters 4–6) with identity (chapter 7). For this third edition, the material has been reorganized from four chapters into seven, increasing the modularity of the text and enabling teachers to choose alternative paths through the book. New exercises have been added, and all exercises are now arranged to support students moving from easier to harder problems. Its spare and elegant treatment makes Logic Primer unique among textbooks. It presents the material with minimal chattiness, allowing students to proceed more directly from topic to topic and leaving instructors free to cover the subject matter in the way that best suits their students. The book includes more than thirty exercise sets, with answers to many of them provided in an appendix. The book’s website allows students to enter and check proofs, truth tables, and other exercises interactively.

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The Student Voice : An Introduction to Developing the Singing Voice Colin Baldy; with a foreword by Thomas Allen Liverpool University Press, Liverpool University Press / Books, Edinburgh, 2010

This book is written for students of singing. Whilst primarily designed for undergraduate and graduate level students, it will also be of use to mature singers and to those already in the singing profession, who simply want to keep their technique and knowledge alive. Over a successful career as a singing teacher for more than a quarter of a century, Colin Baldy has been frustrated by the lack of suitable reading materials aimed specifically at the student of the singing voice. He hopes that this book will be a useful resource, not only to students, but also to their teachers who undoubtedly receive frequent requests for such a book. The book includes a certain amount of physiology, enough but not too much, with suggested exercises and methods for developing the correct use of that physiology. It suggests a suitable repertoire to run alongside the exercises, and contains a large amount of trouble-shooting advice. The author's intention is to encourage the singing student and to assist them in avoiding common pitfalls. It is also hoped that the book may help singers to identify vocal problems which they may already have developed.

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Accident compensation after Pearson edited by David K. Allen, C. J. Bourn, Jon Holyoak Sweet and Maxwell, London, England, 1979

Edited By David K. Allen, C. J. Bourn, Jon Holyoak. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.

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The Evolution of Mind edited by Denise Dellarosa Cummins and Colin Allen IRL Press at Oxford University Press, New York, New York State, 1998

Our understanding of the human mind has radically changed in recent years--from the unified mind once envisioned by Ren Descartes over three hundred years ago to a new understanding of mind as a set of specialized cognitive components gradually accumulated in our evolutionary past. As a result, many scientists and philosophers now believe that our minds emerged out of the same type of evolutionary processes that have shaped our bodies. In The Evolution of Mind , outstanding figures on the cutting edge of evolutionary psychology follow clues provided by current neuroscientific evidence to illuminate many puzzling questions of human cognitive evolution. With contributions from psychologists, ethologists, anthropologists, and philosophers, the book offers a broad range of approaches to explore the mysteries of the minds evolution--from investigating the biological functions of human cognition to drawing comparisons between human and animal cognitive abilities. This interdisciplinary work presents a comparative and evolutionary perspective on a wide variety of topics, including mental algorithms for reasoning about contingencies, quantities, social norms, and the minds of others; social play and communicative abilities; thought and language, and the role of Darwin's theory of natural selection in evolutionary psychology. Written in a highly readable style, The Evolution of Mind will appeal to a broad range of researchers and students and help set the agenda for the field for years to come.

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ALCOHOL AND ENTERTAINMENT LICENSING LAW SECOND EDITION,COLIN MANCHESTER,SUSANNA POPPLESTON,JEREMY ALLEN ROUTLEDGE·CAVENDISH, Manchester, Colin, Poppleston, Susanna, Allen, Jeremy, Colin Manchester, Jeremy Allen, Susanna Poppleston, Colin Manchester, Susanna Poppleston, Jeremy Allen, Colin Manchester, 1952- Routledge Cavendish, Routledge-Cavendish, 2008, 2008

Written by the UK’s only Professor of licensing law, this book provides a comprehensive and authoritative exposition of the law and practice in relation to Alcohol and Entertainment Licensing law. Providing comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of the licensing legislation in England and Wales, this title is a suitable text for both professionals and students.

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Nature's Purposes: Analyses of Function and Design in Biology (Bradford Book) edited by Colin Allen, Marc Bekoff, and George Lauder Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, A Bradford book, Cambridge, Mass, 1998

Within the natural sciences, only biologists take seriously teleological statements about design, purpose, and adaptive function. Some biologists claim that to understand the complex morphological and behavioral traits of organisms we must say what they are for, which is to give a teleological explanation of why organisms have them. Others argue that the theory of natural selection, in providing statistical explanations for the same phenomena, obviates any need for teleological thinking. If teleology cannot be eliminated from biology, it raises fundamental questions about the nature of biological explanation and about the relationship of biology to the rest of science. To account for "Nature's purposes" is arguably the most important basic issue in the philosophy of biology. This volume provides a guide to the discussion among biologists and philosophers about the role of concepts such as function and design in an evolutionary understanding of life. All of the contributors examine biological teleology from a naturalistic perspective. Most of them maintain that teleological claims in biology both describe and explain something--but opinions vary as to exactly what is explained and how. Fred Adams, Colin Allen, Ron Amundson, Francisco J. Ayala, Mark Bedau, Marc Bekoff, John Bigelow, Walter J. Bock, Robert N. Brandon, Robert Cummins, Berent En, Carl Gans, Peter Godfrey-Smith, Stephen Jay Gould, Paul E. Griffiths, R. A. Hinde, Philip Kitcher, George V. Lauder, Ruth Garrett Millikan, S. D. Mitchell, Ernest Nagel, Karen Neander, Robert Pargetter, M. J. S. Rudwick, Gerd von Wahlert, Elisabeth S. Vrba, Larry Wright.

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Comprehensive polymer science the synthesis, characterization, reactions & applications of polymers ; [in 7 vol.] 1 Polymer characterization Geoffrey Allen; Colin Booth; J. C. Bevington Elsevier Science Publishing Company, 1st ed, Oxford, England, 1989

The earliest classification into condensation and addition polymers, proposed by Carothers and used for a long time, was based on the classical definitions given in organic chemistry of condensation and addition reactions, through which polymers are synthesized from suitable monomers or reactants.

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Moral Machines : Teaching Robots Right From Wrong Wendell Wallach and Colin Allen Oxford University Press, USA, Illustrated, 2008-11-19

This book combines the ideas of leading commentators on ethics, methods of implementing AI, and the risks of AI, into a set of ideas on how machines ought to achieve ethical behavior. The book mostly provides an accurate survey of what those commentators agree and disagree about. But there's enough disagreement that we need some insights into which views are correct (especially about theories of ethics) in order to produce useful advice to AI designers, and the authors don't have those kinds of insights. The book focuses more on near term risks of software that is much less intelligent than humans, and is complacent about the risks of superhuman AI. The implications of superhuman AIs for theories of ethics ought to illuminate flaws in them that aren't obvious when considering purely human-level intelligence. For example, they mention an argument that any AI would value humans for their diversity of ideas, which would help AIs to search the space of possible ideas. This seems to have serious problems, such as what stops an AI from fiddling with human minds to increase their diversity? Yet the authors are too focused on human-like minds to imagine an intelligence which would do that. Their discussion of the advocates friendly AI seems a bit confused. The authors wonder if those advocates are trying to quell apprehension about AI risks, when I've observed pretty consistent efforts by those advocates to create apprehension among AI researchers.

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Logic Primer - 2nd Edition Colin Allen; Michael Hand; NetLibrary, Inc MIT Press; The MIT Press, 2nd ed., Cambridge, Mass, Massachusetts, 2001

Logic Primer presents a rigorous introduction to natural deduction systems of sentential and first-order logic. Logic Primer presents a rigorous introduction to natural deduction systems of sentential and first-order logic. The text is designed to foster the student-instructor relationship. The key concepts are laid out in concise definitions and comments, with the expectation that the instructor will elaborate upon them. New to the second edition is the addition of material on the logic of identity in chapters 3 and 4. An innovative interactive Web site, consisting of a "Logic Daemon" and a "Quizmaster," encourages students to formulate their own proofs and links them to appropriate explanations in the book.

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Kastom, Property and Ideology : Land Transformations in Melanesia Siobhan McDonnell; Matthew G. Allen; Colin Filer ANU Press, State, Society and Governance in Melanesia, 10.22459/KPI.03.2017, 1, 2017

The relationship between customary land tenure and ‘modern’ forms of landed property has been a major political issue in the ‘Spearhead’ states of Melanesia since the late colonial period, and is even more pressing today, as the region is subject to its own version of what is described in the international literature as a new ‘land rush’ or ‘land grab’ in developing countries. -This volume aims to test the application of one particular theoretical framework to the Melanesian version of this phenomenon, which is the framework put forward by Derek Hall, Philip Hirsch and Tania Murray Li in their 2011 book, Powers of Exclusion: Land Dilemmas in Southeast Asia. -Since that framework emerged from studies of the agrarian transition in Southeast Asia, the key question addressed in this volume is whether ‘land transformations’ in Melanesia are proceeding in a similar direction, or whether they take a somewhat different form because of the particular nature of Melanesian political economies or social institutions. -The contributors to this volume all deal with this question from the point of view of their own direct engagement with different aspects of the land policy process in particular countries. Aside from discussion of the agrarian transition in Melanesia, particular attention is also paid to the growing problem of land access in urban areas and the gendered nature of landed property relations in this region.

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Logic Primer, second edition Colin Allen; Michael Hand; NetLibrary, Inc MIT Press; The MIT Press, 2nd ed., Cambridge, Mass, Massachusetts, 2001

Logic Primer presents a rigorous introduction to natural deduction systems of sentential and first-order logic. The text is designed to foster the student-instructor relationship. The key concepts are laid out in concise definitions and comments, with the expectation that the instructor will elaborate upon them. New to the second edition is the addition of material on the logic of identity in chapters 3 and 4. An innovative interactive Web site, consisting of a "Logic Daemon" and a "Quizmaster," encourages students to formulate their own proofs and links them to appropriate explanations in the book. Logic Daemon and Quizmaster

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Moral Machines : Teaching Robots Right From Wrong Wendell Wallach and Colin Allen Oxford University Press, USA, Illustrated, 2008-11-19

This book combines the ideas of leading commentators on ethics, methods of implementing AI, and the risks of AI, into a set of ideas on how machines ought to achieve ethical behavior. The book mostly provides an accurate survey of what those commentators agree and disagree about. But there's enough disagreement that we need some insights into which views are correct (especially about theories of ethics) in order to produce useful advice to AI designers, and the authors don't have those kinds of insights. The book focuses more on near term risks of software that is much less intelligent than humans, and is complacent about the risks of superhuman AI. The implications of superhuman AIs for theories of ethics ought to illuminate flaws in them that aren't obvious when considering purely human-level intelligence. For example, they mention an argument that any AI would value humans for their diversity of ideas, which would help AIs to search the space of possible ideas. This seems to have serious problems, such as what stops an AI from fiddling with human minds to increase their diversity? Yet the authors are too focused on human-like minds to imagine an intelligence which would do that. Their discussion of the advocates friendly AI seems a bit confused. The authors wonder if those advocates are trying to quell apprehension about AI risks, when I've observed pretty consistent efforts by those advocates to create apprehension among AI researchers.

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Comprehensive polymer science. Volume 2 : the synthesis, characterization, reactions & applications of polymers / Polymer properties / volume editors Colin Booth & Colin Price chairman of the editorial board, Sir Geoffrey Allen; deputy chairman of the editorial board John C. Bevington. Vol.7, Speciality polymers & polymer processing / volume editor, Sundar L. Aggarwal Elsevier Science Publishing Company, Comprehensive polymer science, v. 7, Oxford, England, 1989

One of the most important achievements in the field of synthetic polymer chemistry during the past 50 years has been the discovery in 1953 by Ziegler and his co-workers that aluminum alkyl compounds used along with many transition metal halides in an inert hydrocarbon medium could polymerize ethylene under conditions of normal temperatures and pressures to yield a solid polymer of high molecular weight and of linear structure.

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Comprehensive polymer science. Volume 2 : the synthesis, characterization, reactions & applications of polymers / Polymer properties / volume editors Colin Booth & Colin Price chairman of the editorial board, Sir Geoffrey Allen; deputy chairman of the editorial board John C. Bevington. Vol.7, Speciality polymers & polymer processing / volume editor, Sundar L. Aggarwal Elsevier Science Publishing Company, Comprehensive polymer science, v. 7, Oxford, England, 1989

One of the most important achievements in the field of synthetic polymer chemistry during the past 50 years has been the discovery in 1953 by Ziegler and his co-workers that aluminum alkyl compounds used along with many transition metal halides in an inert hydrocarbon medium could polymerize ethylene under conditions of normal temperatures and pressures to yield a solid polymer of high molecular weight and of linear structure.

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Comprehensive polymer science. Volume 4 : the synthesis, characterization, reactions & applications of polymersiChain polymerization II JOHN C.BEVINGTON GEOFFREY C.EASTMOND, Geoffrey Allen, John C. Bevington, G Allen, Geoffrey C Eastmond, J. C Bevington, G Allen, G Allen, J. C Bevington, Author Unknown Pergamon Press Inc, 1989, 1989

One of the most important achievements in the field of synthetic polymer chemistry during the past 50 years has been the discovery in 1953 by Ziegler and his co-workers that aluminum alkyl compounds used along with many transition metal halides in an inert hydrocarbon medium could polymerize ethylene under conditions of normal temperatures and pressures to yield a solid polymer of high molecular weight and of linear structure.

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Comprehensive polymer science. Volume 2 : the synthesis, characterization, reactions & applications of polymers / Polymer properties / volume editors Colin Booth & Colin Price chairman of the editorial board, Sir Geoffrey Allen; deputy chairman of the editorial board John C. Bevington. Vol.7, Speciality polymers & polymer processing / volume editor, Sundar L. Aggarwal Elsevier Science Publishing Company, Comprehensive polymer science, v. 7, Oxford, England, 1989

One of the most important achievements in the field of synthetic polymer chemistry during the past 50 years has been the discovery in 1953 by Ziegler and his co-workers that aluminum alkyl compounds used along with many transition metal halides in an inert hydrocarbon medium could polymerize ethylene under conditions of normal temperatures and pressures to yield a solid polymer of high molecular weight and of linear structure.

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Logic primer Colin Allen and Michael Hand Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass, Massachusetts, 1992

1 online resource (xiv, 171 pages) "A Bradford book." Includes index Print version record

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A Guide to the Licensing Act 2001( Alcohol & Entertainment Licensing law ) Manchester, Colin, 1952-; Poppleston, Susanna, 1948-; Allen, Jeremy, 1944- Routledge-Cavendish, 1 edition, April 2002

This comprehensive and authoritative guide to licensing law is co-authored by the UK’s only professor of licensing law and two eminent licensing practitioners. It provides a detailed exposition and contextual analysis of the legal provisions governing the licensing of alcohol and entertainment under the Licensing Act 2003, encompassing both the legislative and decision-making framework of the Act as well as its implications for human rights. Fully updated and revised, it covers the various forms of authorization for licensable activities and licence and certificate conditions that might be attached as well as the enforcement and appeal provisions of the Act. This new edition, building on the highly acclaimed original work published in 2005, includes subsequent legislative changes and case law decisions. New additions to this edition include: <ul> <li>expanded coverage of enforcement provisions and police powers</li> <li class="null1"> </li> <li>a revised and extended chapter on appeals, in light of the practical and procedural developments that have evolved in the appeal process</li> <li class="null1"> </li> <li>amendments to existing regulations and the revised Statutory Guidance issued in 2007.</li> </ul> This book is essential reading for all local authorities, legal advisers, licensing policy advisors, operators and the police as well as those applying for licences.

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Master drawings from the Courtauld Gallery : [to accompany the exhibition "Mantegna to Matisse : master drawings from the Courtauld Gallery London", the Courtauld Gallery, London 14 June - 9 September 2012, the Frick Collection, New York, 2 October 2012-27 January 2013 Denise Allen; Colin B Bailey; Stephanie Buck; Courtauld Institute Galleries; Frick Collection; Exhibition Mantegna to Rubens: Drawings from the Liverpool Weld-Blundell Collection Revealed Courtauld Gallery in association with Paul Holberton Publishing ; Frick Collection, London, New York (N.Y.), cop. 2012

"The Courtauld Gallery holds one of the most important collections of drawings and watercolours in Britain. This publication presents a magnificent selection of some sixty of its finest works, ranging from the Renaissance to the twentieth century. It offers a rare opportunity to consider the art of drawing in the hands of its greatest masters, including Dürer, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Rembrandt, Turner, Seurat, Cézanne and Matisse. Featuring contributions by numerous leading scholars, this catalogue presents fresh perspectives on important individual works and illustrates the rich diversity of approaches to the study of drawings."--Jacket.

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Logic Primer (1st edition) Colin Allen and Michael Hand The MIT Press, MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass, 1992

This text presents a self-contained introduction to logic suitable for majors and nonmajors, and can be covered entirely in a one-semester course. Natural deduction systems of sentential logic and of first-order logic, truth tables, and the basic ideas of model theory are presented without superfluous discussion. This allows the instructor to choose various ways of presenting the material. The text is organized into definitions, comments, examples, and exercises in a modern, visually helpful format. Comments are kept to a minimum so that definitions and examples are usually on the same page, making it easy for students to compare the two. In addition, there are over 500 exercises, with solutions to more than half of them provided in an appendix. Logic Primer differs from existing texts in several important ways. The proofs are shorter and more elegant. The rules of proof are stated in terms of denials of sentences rather than negations; this results in more intuitive rules that students learn more quickly. Most important pedagogically, the authors' natural deduction systems explicitly track the assumptions on which each step in a proof depends. Colin Allen is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Michael Hand is Associate Professor of Philosophy, both at Texas A&M University.

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Logic Primer, third edition Allen, Colin & Hand, Michael The MIT Press, 3, 2022

The new edition of a comprehensive and rigorous but concise introduction to symbolic logic. Logic Primer offers a comprehensive and rigorous introduction to symbolic logic, providing concise definitions of key concepts, illustrative examples, and exercises. After presenting the definitions of validity and soundness, the book goes on to introduce a formal language, proof theory, and formal semantics for sentential logic (chapters 1–3) and for first-order predicate logic (chapters 4–6) with identity (chapter 7). For this third edition, the material has been reorganized from four chapters into seven, increasing the modularity of the text and enabling teachers to choose alternative paths through the book. New exercises have been added, and all exercises are now arranged to support students moving from easier to harder problems. Its spare and elegant treatment makes Logic Primer unique among textbooks. It presents the material with minimal chattiness, allowing students to proceed more directly from topic to topic and leaving instructors free to cover the subject matter in the way that best suits their students. The book includes more than thirty exercise sets, with answers to many of them provided in an appendix. The book’s website allows students to enter and check proofs, truth tables, and other exercises interactively.

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Kastom, Property and Ideology : Land Transformations in Melanesia Siobhan McDonnell; Matthew G. Allen; Colin Filer ANU Press, State, Society and Governance in Melanesia, 10.22459/KPI.03.2017, 1, 2017

The relationship between customary land tenure and ‘modern’ forms of landed property has been a major political issue in the ‘Spearhead’ states of Melanesia since the late colonial period, and is even more pressing today, as the region is subject to its own version of what is described in the international literature as a new ‘land rush’ or ‘land grab’ in developing countries. -This volume aims to test the application of one particular theoretical framework to the Melanesian version of this phenomenon, which is the framework put forward by Derek Hall, Philip Hirsch and Tania Murray Li in their 2011 book, Powers of Exclusion: Land Dilemmas in Southeast Asia. -Since that framework emerged from studies of the agrarian transition in Southeast Asia, the key question addressed in this volume is whether ‘land transformations’ in Melanesia are proceeding in a similar direction, or whether they take a somewhat different form because of the particular nature of Melanesian political economies or social institutions. -The contributors to this volume all deal with this question from the point of view of their own direct engagement with different aspects of the land policy process in particular countries. Aside from discussion of the agrarian transition in Melanesia, particular attention is also paid to the growing problem of land access in urban areas and the gendered nature of landed property relations in this region.

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Moral Machines : Teaching Robots Right From Wrong Wendell Wallach and Colin Allen Oxford University Press, USA, Illustrated, 2008-11-19

This book combines the ideas of leading commentators on ethics, methods of implementing AI, and the risks of AI, into a set of ideas on how machines ought to achieve ethical behavior. The book mostly provides an accurate survey of what those commentators agree and disagree about. But there's enough disagreement that we need some insights into which views are correct (especially about theories of ethics) in order to produce useful advice to AI designers, and the authors don't have those kinds of insights. The book focuses more on near term risks of software that is much less intelligent than humans, and is complacent about the risks of superhuman AI. The implications of superhuman AIs for theories of ethics ought to illuminate flaws in them that aren't obvious when considering purely human-level intelligence. For example, they mention an argument that any AI would value humans for their diversity of ideas, which would help AIs to search the space of possible ideas. This seems to have serious problems, such as what stops an AI from fiddling with human minds to increase their diversity? Yet the authors are too focused on human-like minds to imagine an intelligence which would do that. Their discussion of the advocates friendly AI seems a bit confused. The authors wonder if those advocates are trying to quell apprehension about AI risks, when I've observed pretty consistent efforts by those advocates to create apprehension among AI researchers.

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The Cognitive Animal : Empirical and Theoretical Perspectives on Animal Cognition edited by Marc Bekoff, Colin Allen, and Gordon M. Burghardt A Bradford Book, MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass, 2002

"The fifty-seven original essays in this book provide a comprehensive overview of the interdisciplinary field of animal cognition. The contributors include cognitive ethologists, behavioral ecologists, experimental and developmental psychologists, behaviorists, philosophers, neuroscientists, computer scientists and modelers, field biologists, and others. The diversity of approaches is both philosophical and methodological, with contributors demonstrating various degrees of acceptance or disdain for such terms as "consciousness" and varying degrees of concern for laboratory experimentation versus naturalistic research. In addition to primates, particularly the nonhuman great apes, the animals discussed include antelopes, bees, dogs, dolphins, earthworms, fish, hyenas, parrots, prairie dogs, rats, ravens, sea lions, snakes, spiders, and squirrels." "The topics include (but are not limited to) definitions of cognition, the role of anecdotes in the study of animal cognition, anthropomorphism, attention, perception, learning, memory, thinking, consciousness, intentionality, communication, planning, play, aggression, dominance, predation, recognition, assessment of self and others, social knowledge, empathy, conflict resolution, reproduction, parent-young interactions and caregiving, ecology, evolution, kin selection, and neuroethology."--Jacket

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Logic Primer - 2nd Edition Colin Allen; Michael Hand; NetLibrary, Inc MIT Press; The MIT Press, second edition, Subsequent, US, 2001

Logic Primer presents a rigorous introduction to natural deduction systems of sentential and first-order logic. The text is designed to foster the student-instructor relationship. The key concepts are laid out in concise definitions and comments, with the expectation that the instructor will elaborate upon them. New to the second edition is the addition of material on the logic of identity in chapters 3 and 4. An innovative interactive Web site, consisting of a "Logic Daemon" and a "Quizmaster," encourages students to formulate their own proofs and links them to appropriate explanations in the book.

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Logic Primer - 2nd Edition Colin Allen; Michael Hand; NetLibrary, Inc MIT Press; The MIT Press, 2nd ed., Cambridge, Mass, Massachusetts, 2001

Logic Primer presents a rigorous introduction to natural deduction systems of sentential and first-order logic. Logic Primer presents a rigorous introduction to natural deduction systems of sentential and first-order logic. The text is designed to foster the student-instructor relationship. The key concepts are laid out in concise definitions and comments, with the expectation that the instructor will elaborate upon them. New to the second edition is the addition of material on the logic of identity in chapters 3 and 4. An innovative interactive Web site, consisting of a "Logic Daemon" and a "Quizmaster," encourages students to formulate their own proofs and links them to appropriate explanations in the book.

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Species of Mind : The Philosophy and Biology of Cognitive Ethology Colin Allen, Marc Bekoff The MIT Press, First Edition, PS, 1997

Colin Allen (a philosopher) and Marc Bekoff (a cognitive ethologist) approach their work from a perspective that considers arguments about evolutionary continuity to be as applicable to the study of animal minds and brains as they are to comparative studies of kidneys, stomachs, and hearts. Cognitive ethologists study the comparative, evolutionary, and ecological aspects of the mental phenomena of animals. Philosophy can provide cognitive ethology with an analytical basis for attributing cognition to nonhuman animals and for studying it, and cognitive ethology can help philosophy to explain mentality in naturalistic terms by providing data on the evolution of cognition. The heart of Allen and Bekoff's book is this reciprocal relationship between philosophical theories of mind and empirical studies of animal cognition. The interdisciplinary approach reveals flaws in common objections to the view that animals have minds. All the theoretical discussions in the book are carefully tied to case studies - particularly in the areas of antipredatory vigilance and social play, where there are many points of contact with philosophical discussions of intentionality and representation. Allen and Bekoff make specific suggestions about how to use philosophical theories of intentionality as starting points for empirical investigations of animal minds, and they stress the importance of studying animals other than primates.

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Species of Mind : The Philosophy and Biology of Cognitive Ethology Colin Allen, Marc Bekoff The MIT Press, First MIT Press paperback edition, Cambridge Massachusetts ; London England, 1999

The heart of this book is the reciprocal relationship between philosophical theories of mind and empirical studies of animal cognition.Colin Allen (a philosopher) and Marc Bekoff (a cognitive ethologist) approach their work from a perspective that considers arguments about evolutionary continuity to be as applicable to the study of animal minds and brains as they are to comparative studies of kidneys, stomachs, and hearts. Cognitive ethologists study the comparative, evolutionary, and ecological aspects of the mental phenomena of animals. Philosophy can provide cognitive ethology with an analytical basis for attributing cognition to nonhuman animals and for studying it, and cognitive ethology can help philosophy to explain mentality in naturalistic terms by providing data on the evolution of cognition. This interdiscipinary approach reveals flaws in common objections to the view that animals have minds.The heart of the book is this reciprocal relationship between philosophical theories of mind and empirical studies of animal cognition. All theoretical discussion is carefully tied to case studies, particularly in the areas of antipredatory vigilance and social play, where there are many points of contact with philosophical discussions of intentionality and representation. Allen and Bekoff make specific suggestions about how to use philosophical theories of intentionality as starting points for empirical investigation of animal minds, and they stress the importance of studying animals other than nonhuman primates.

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Species of Mind : The Philosophy and Biology of Cognitive Ethology Colin Allen, Marc Bekoff The MIT Press, First MIT Press paperback edition, Cambridge Massachusetts ; London England, 1999

Colin Allen (a philosopher) and Marc Bekoff (a cognitive ethologist) approach their work from a perspective that considers arguments about evolutionary continuity to be as applicable to the study of animal minds and brains as they are to comparative studies of kidneys, stomachs, and hearts. Cognitive ethologists study the comparative, evolutionary, and ecological aspects of the mental phenomena of animals. Philosophy can provide cognitive ethology with an analytical basis for attributing cognition to nonhuman animals and for studying it, and cognitive ethology can help philosophy to explain mentality in naturalistic terms by providing data on the evolution of cognition. This interdiscipinary approach reveals flaws in common objections to the view that animals have minds.The heart of the book is this reciprocal relationship between philosophical theories of mind and empirical studies of animal cognition. All theoretical discussion is carefully tied to case studies, particularly in the areas of antipredatory vigilance and social play, where there are many points of contact with philosophical discussions of intentionality and representation. Allen and Bekoff make specific suggestions about how to use philosophical theories of intentionality as starting points for empirical investigation of animal minds, and they stress the importance of studying animals other than nonhuman primates.

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Comprehensive polymer science. Volume 2 : the synthesis, characterization, reactions & applications of polymers / Polymer properties / volume editors Colin Booth & Colin Price chairman of the editorial board, Sir Geoffrey Allen; deputy chairman of the editorial board John C. Bevington. Vol.7, Speciality polymers & polymer processing / volume editor, Sundar L. Aggarwal Elsevier Science Publishing Company, Comprehensive polymer science, v. 7, Oxford, England, 1989

One of the most important achievements in the field of synthetic polymer chemistry during the past 50 years has been the discovery in 1953 by Ziegler and his co-workers that aluminum alkyl compounds used along with many transition metal halides in an inert hydrocarbon medium could polymerize ethylene under conditions of normal temperatures and pressures to yield a solid polymer of high molecular weight and of linear structure.

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Comprehensive polymer science. Volume 2 : the synthesis, characterization, reactions & applications of polymers / Polymer properties / volume editors Colin Booth & Colin Price chairman of the editorial board, Sir Geoffrey Allen; deputy chairman of the editorial board John C. Bevington. Vol.7, Speciality polymers & polymer processing / volume editor, Sundar L. Aggarwal Elsevier Science Publishing Company, Comprehensive polymer science, v. 7, Oxford, England, 1989

One of the most important achievements in the field of synthetic polymer chemistry during the past 50 years has been the discovery in 1953 by Ziegler and his co-workers that aluminum alkyl compounds used along with many transition metal halides in an inert hydrocarbon medium could polymerize ethylene under conditions of normal temperatures and pressures to yield a solid polymer of high molecular weight and of linear structure.

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The Secret Life of Trees Colin Tudge, Allen Lane Penguin Books, The Secret Life of Trees, 2005

About the Author......Page 3 Title Page......Page 4 Dedication......Page 5 Copyright Page......Page 6 Contents......Page 8 List of Illustrations and Figures......Page 10 Acknowledgements and Author’s Note......Page 13 Preface......Page 17 1: Trees in Mind......Page 29 WHAT IS A TREE?......Page 30 WHY BE A TREE?......Page 34 HOW MANY KINDS OF TREE ARE THERE?......Page 40 STILL COUNTING......Page 49 2: Keeping Track......Page 55 WHO’S WHO?......Page 56 WHAT’S IN A NAME?......Page 65 THE PROS AND CONS OF LATIN AND GREEK......Page 71 GETTING SORTED......Page 73 THE FINAL ROAD TO MODERNITY......Page 82 3: How Trees Became......Page 96 TRANSFORMATION I: LIFE......Page 99 TRANSFORMATION 2: ORGANISMS......Page 102 TRANSFORMATION 3: MODERN-STYLE CELLS......Page 103 TRANSFORMATION 4: ORGANISMS WITH MANY CELLS......Page 105 TRANSFORMATION 5: PLANTS COME ON TO LAND......Page 107 TRANSFORMATION 6: PLANTS WITH ‘VESSELS’ – AND THE FIRST STIRRINGS OF WOOD......Page 109 The Two Great Lineages of Big Land Plants......Page 111 TRANSFORMATION 7: PLANTS WITH SEEDS......Page 114 CYCADS, THE GINKGO AND THE MYSTERIOUS GNETALES: THREE NOBLE ALSO-RANS......Page 116 4: Wood......Page 122 5: Trees Without Flowers: The Conifers......Page 137 WHO’S WHO AMONG THE CONIFERS......Page 144 Kauris, the Monkey-puzzle and the Long-lost Wollemia: FAMILY ARAUCARIACEAE......Page 146 The Plum Yew and Other East Asians: FAMILY CEPHALOTAXACEAE......Page 149 Cypresses, Junipers, Swamp Cypresses and Redwoods: FAMILY CUPRESSACEAE......Page 150 Pines, Firs, Spruces, True Cedars, Larches and Hemlocks: FAMILY PINACEAE......Page 161 Rimu, Totara, Kahikatea – the Most Various Conifers of All: FAMILY PODOCARPACEAE......Page 169 The Celery Pines: FAMILY PHYLLOCLADACEAE......Page 172 The Yews: FAMILY TAXACEAE......Page 173 6: Trees With Flowers......Page 176 Magnolias, Custard Apples and Nutmeg: ORDER MAGNOLIALES......Page 185 Greenheart, Stinkwood and the Green Bay Tree: ORDER LAURALES......Page 189 Winter’s Bark and White Cinnamon: ORDER CANELLALES......Page 192 Black Peppers, White Peppers and Dutchman’s Pipe: ORDER PIPERALES......Page 193 7: From Palms and Screw Pines to Yuccas and Bamboos......Page 195 Joshua Trees and Dragon Trees: ORDER ASPARAGALES......Page 199 The‘Screw Pines’: ORDER PANDANALES......Page 201 The Palms: ORDER ARECALES......Page 202 Pineapples, Sedges and Grasses – Including Bamboos: ORDER POALES......Page 212 Bananas and the Traveller’s Palm: ORDER ZINGIBERALES......Page 216 8: Thoroughly Modern Broadleaves......Page 219 Grevilleas, Macadamias, Planes and Box: ORDER PROTEALES......Page 221 An Oddball from Japan and Taiwan: ORDER TROCHODENDRALES......Page 224 Prickly Trees from Madagascar and ‘Tree’ Cacti: ORDER CARYOPHYLLALES......Page 225 Sandalwood and the Mistletoes: ORDER SANTALALES......Page 227 9: From Oaks to Mangoes......Page 231 Witch Hazels, Katsura and Sweet-gums: ORDER SAXIFRAGALES......Page 232 Creosote Bushes and the Wood of Life: ORDER ZYGOPHYLLALES......Page 234 Spindle trees and Khat: ORDER CELASTRALES......Page 235 Rubber Trees, Mangroves, Willows, Poplars, and Some Truly Prodigious Hardwoods: ORDER MALPIGHIALES......Page 236 Trees for Fodder, Fuel, Flowers and Beautiful Timbers: ORDER FABALES......Page 247 Apples, Plums, Elms, Figs and Cecropias: ORDER ROSALES......Page 259 Oaks, Beeches, Birches, Hazelnuts and Walnuts: ORDER FAGALES......Page 270 Terminalia, Myrtles and Eucalypts: ORDER MYRTALES......Page 288 Lindens, Cocoa and Baobabs: ORDER MALVALES......Page 294 Frankincense and Myrrh, Oranges and Lemons, Maples, Mahogany and Neem: ORDER SAPINDALES......Page 303 10: From Handkerchief Trees To Teak......Page 314 Dogwood, Tupelo and the Handkerchief Tree: ORDER CORNALES......Page 315 Persimmons, Ebony, Chewing Gum, Tea, Heather and Brazil Nuts: ORDER ERICALES......Page 316 Nightshade, Borage – and Some Very Fine Trees: ORDER SOLANALES......Page 327 Coffee, Quinine and Some Excellent Timber: ORDER GENTIANALES......Page 328 Olive, Ash, Jacaranda and Teak: ORDER LAMIALES......Page 332 Holly: ORDER AQUIFOLIALES......Page 339 Daisies and Just a Few Trees: ORDER ASTERALES......Page 340 11: How Trees Live......Page 342 EARTH, WATER, AIR AND FIRE......Page 344 THE PROBLEMS OF WATER......Page 347 THE SOIL......Page 351 STRANGE SOILS: MANGROVES AND OUTRIGHT TOXICITY......Page 358 HOW TREES KNOW WHAT TO DO (AND WHAT TO DO NEXT)......Page 364 HOW TREES SHAPE THEMSELVES......Page 366 THE PAST AND THE FUTURE: MEMORY AND ANTICIPATION......Page 374 12: Which Trees Live Where, and Why......Page 380 WHY TREES LIVE WHERE THEY DO......Page 383 AND YET THEY MOVED......Page 387 REALITY: A FEW CASE HISTORIES......Page 395 WHY SO MANY TREES IN THE TROPICS?......Page 401 Heat, Light and Logistics......Page 403 History......Page 414 A TALE OF THREE NORTHERNERS......Page 421 13: The Social Life of Trees......Page 437 ANIMALS AS GO-BETWEENS......Page 442 OF FIGS AND WASPS......Page 455 ENTER THE NEMATODES......Page 468 COOL FIGS AND HOT FIGS......Page 471 SCATTERING OF SEED......Page 473 WHY SOME FIGS HAVE BIG FRUITS DESPITE EVERYTHING: THE MYSTERY SOLVED......Page 479 THE DODO AND THE TAMBALACOQUE: A SAD TALE WITH A FAIRLY HAPPY ENDING......Page 481 LIFE’S TORMENTS – AND AUTUMN COLOURS......Page 484 14: The Future With Trees......Page 501 THE BIGGEST CHALLENGE OF ALL: CLIMATE......Page 507 WATER AND SOIL: THE PARTICULARITIES OF RAIN AND FLOOD......Page 524 A WORLD BUILT ON TREES......Page 528 FORESTS AND FARMING IN TANDEM: THE PROMISE OF AGROFORESTRY......Page 531 HOW TO GROW TREES......Page 540 THE RIGHT KIND OF SCIENCE......Page 549 WANGARI MAATHAI AND THE GREEN BELT MOVEMENT......Page 554 Page 121......Page 662 Notes and Further Reading......Page 558 1 TREES IN MIND......Page 559 2 KEEPING TRACK......Page 562 7 FROM PALMS AND SCREW PINES TO YUCCAS AND BAMBOOS......Page 563 9 FROM OAKS TO MANGOES: THE GLORIOUS INVENTORY OF ROSE-LIKE EUDICOTS......Page 564 11 HOW TREES LIVE......Page 566 13 THE SOCIAL LIFE OF TREES......Page 568 14 THE FUTURE WITH TREES......Page 569 Glossary......Page 571 Index......Page 599

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Peter Brock : road to glory : the amazing story of a legend's rise to fame Fulton, Colin; Russell, Terry Allen & Unwin, Allen & Unwin, [N.p.], 2010

A dramatic look at Peter Brock's life - in particular the period which fashioned his character, created the legend and made him a household name in Australia - as told by people who knew him from the start.Long regarded as one of the best touring car racers in the world Peter Brock was a legend in Australian sporting lore. Much has been written about him but like many famous people his early life has never been accurately documented. Writer, Colin Fulton, with help from the Brock family and many people who knew Peter in his early days have chronicled the racer's early life; from his childhood to his first victory in The Great Race in 1972.Peter was sometimes a controversial figure and this book reveals little known facts about his life in the army as a National Serviceman, the failure of his first marriage and the gestation of the famous A30 racer which launched his career.All the central figures in his story are here: his brothers and key family members, the legendary head of the Holden Dealer Team, Harry Firth; his Chief Mechanic and friend for many years, Ian Tate; fellow racer and HDT team member, Colin Bond; the man who actually instigated the Holden Dealer Team, Peter Lewis-Williams, childhood and school friends, plus many more.Both photographer, Terry Russell, and writer, Colin Fulton, knew Peter in his youth and their work reveals much about his childhood and teenage years.Colin Fulton was a journalist and as a racing driver and long time friend of Peter Brock has used his knowledge to write a vivid and accurate portrayal of this unique Australian legend's Road to Glory. Most of Terry Russell's photographs are published here for the first time.

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To Capture What We Cannot Keep Colin, Beatrice Allen & Unwin, 2016

As the Eiffel Tower rises, a marvel of steel and air and light, the subject of extreme controversy and a symbol of the future, a young Scottish widow and the Tower's engineer fall in love. In February 1887, Caitriona Wallace and Emile Nouguier meet in a hot air balloon, floating high above Paris—a moment of pure possibility. But back on firm ground their vastly different social strata become clear. Cait is a widow who, because of her precarious financial situation, is forced to chaperone two wealthy Scottish charges. Emile is expected to take on the bourgeois stability of his family's business and choose a suitable wife. With these constraints of class and wealth, Cait and Emile must decide what their love is worth. Seamlessly weaving historical detail and vivid invention, Beatrice Colin evokes the revolutionary time in which Cait and Emile live—one of corsets and secret trysts, duels and bohemian independence, strict tradition and Impressionist experimentation....

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The secret life of trees : how they live and why they matter Colin Hiram Tudge Penguin Books, Limited, London, 2006

'everyone Interested In The Natural World Will Enjoy The Secret Life Of Trees. I Found Myself Reading Out Whole Chunks To Friends' The Times, Books Of The Year What Is A Tree? As This Celebration Of The Trees Shows, They Are Our Countryside; Our Ancestors Descended From Them; They Gave Us Air To Breathe. Yet While The Stories Of Trees Are As Plentiful As Leaves In A Forest, They Are Rarely Told. Here, Colin Tudge Travels From His Own Back Garden Round The World To Explore The Beauty, Variety And Ingenuity Of Trees Everywhere: From How They Live So Long To How They Talk To Each Other And Why They Came To Exist In The First Place. Lyrical And Evocative, This Book Will Make Everyone Fall In Love With The Trees Around Them.

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The secret life of trees : how they live and why they matter Tudge, Colin Penguin Books, Limited, London, 2006

'everyone Interested In The Natural World Will Enjoy The Secret Life Of Trees. I Found Myself Reading Out Whole Chunks To Friends' The Times, Books Of The Year What Is A Tree? As This Celebration Of The Trees Shows, They Are Our Countryside; Our Ancestors Descended From Them; They Gave Us Air To Breathe. Yet While The Stories Of Trees Are As Plentiful As Leaves In A Forest, They Are Rarely Told. Here, Colin Tudge Travels From His Own Back Garden Round The World To Explore The Beauty, Variety And Ingenuity Of Trees Everywhere: From How They Live So Long To How They Talk To Each Other And Why They Came To Exist In The First Place. Lyrical And Evocative, This Book Will Make Everyone Fall In Love With The Trees Around Them.

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Peter Brock: Road to Glory: The Amazing Story of a Legend's Rise to Fame Colin / Russell, Terry Fulton Allen & Unwin Pty Ltd, Allen & Unwin, [N.p.], 2010

A dramatic look at Peter Brock's life - in particular the period which fashioned his character, created the legend and made him a household name in Australia - as told by people who knew him from the start. Long regarded as one of the best touring car racers in the world Peter Brock was a legend in Australian sporting lore. Much has been written about him but like many famous people his early life has never been accurately documented. Writer, Colin Fulton, with help from the Brock family and many people who knew Peter in his early days have chronicled the racer's early life; from his childhood to his first victory in The Great Race in 1972. Peter was sometimes a controversial figure and this book reveals little known facts about his life in the army as a National Serviceman, the failure of his first marriage and the gestation of the famous A30 racer which launched his career. All the central figures in his story are here: his brothers and key family members, the legendary head of the Holden Dealer Team, Harry Firth; his Chief Mechanic and friend for many years, Ian Tate; fellow racer and HDT team member, Colin Bond; the man who actually instigated the Holden Dealer Team, Peter Lewis-Williams, childhood and school friends, plus many more. Both photographer, Terry Russell, and writer, Colin Fulton, knew Peter in his youth and their work reveals much about his childhood and teenage years. Colin Fulton was a journalist and as a racing driver and long time friend of Peter Brock has used his knowledge to write a vivid and accurate portrayal of this unique Australian legend's Road to Glory . Most of Terry Russell's photographs are published here for the first time.

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The year we seized the day : a true story of friendship and renewal on the Camino Best, Elizabeth; Bowles, Colin Allen & Unwin Pty Ltd, 2009;2014

The utterly compelling and inspirational account of how two very different Australian writers tackle their demons walking the Camino de Santiago de Compostela, the legendary medieval pilgrimage across Spain.Two writers, barely acquainted, decide - pretty much on the spur of the moment - to seize the day and go on an 800-kilometre hike along the ancient Camino de Santiago pilgrim trail. With its history and legends of Templar Knights, Holy Grails and bandits, there's bound to be a book in it!But what happens when two vastly different people find themselves confronting their pasts - and each other - beneath the stark glare of mid-summer heat-waves? Bound by a promise and fuelled by lashings of local vino, what might have been a travelogue soon becomes an epic tale of tragedy, triumph and fierce loyalty as a scenic walk through mystic lands gives rise to far greater personal journeys.Set amidst the olive groves, rolling hills, castles and cathedrals of Northern Spain; and featuring a supporting cast of eccentrics - from mad monks to angry nuns, lycra-clad cyclists, international soul seekers and boisterous boy scouts - The Year We Seized the Day is the inspiring, moving and blackly funny account of two hapless pilgrims on an extraordinary journey to the end of the earth...and beyond.'...a gripping tale of endurance laced with heartache and wry humour.' Sun-Herald'Their courage and honesty in facing their demons makes this book a compelling read.' Woman's Day

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Sign Dray, Colin Allen & Unwin Pty Ltd, 2017

A captivating novel full of strength, quiet courage and the struggle to overcome silence. Sam is a young boy recovering from an operation that has left him unable to speak ever again. He lives with his mother and sister Katie, all dutifully cared for by Aunt Dettie, their father's sister, who believes herself sympathetic to his pain. Their father abandoned the family some time ago, but when their mother begins to date again, Aunt Dettie reacts very badly. After an unexpected phone call, Aunt Dettie packs Sam and Katie into the backseat of her car and tells them that she's taking them to Perth to be reunited with their father. As Dettie drives the children across Australia in the middle of a sweltering and dangerous bushfire season, her behaviour becomes increasingly erratic, and the children begin to realise that there is something very wrong. Voiceless, Sam can only watch helplessly as the family trip becomes a smoke-filled nightmare.

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Sign Dray, Colin Allen & Unwin Pty Ltd, 2017

A captivating novel full of strength, quiet courage and the struggle to overcome silence. Sam is a young boy recovering from an operation that has left him unable to speak ever again. He lives with his mother and sister Katie, all dutifully cared for by Aunt Dettie, their father's sister, who believes herself sympathetic to his pain. Their father abandoned the family some time ago, but when their mother begins to date again, Aunt Dettie reacts very badly. After an unexpected phone call, Aunt Dettie packs Sam and Katie into the backseat of her car and tells them that she's taking them to Perth to be reunited with their father. As Dettie drives the children across Australia in the middle of a sweltering and dangerous bushfire season, her behaviour becomes increasingly erratic, and the children begin to realise that there is something very wrong. Voiceless, Sam can only watch helplessly as the family trip becomes a smoke-filled nightmare.

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Sign Colin Dray Allen & Unwin Pty Ltd, 2017

Sometimes even the best intentions can lead you down a very dangerous road.A captivating novel full of strength, quiet courage and the struggle to overcome silence.Sam is a young boy recovering from an operation that has left him unable to speak ever again. He lives with his mother and sister Katie, all dutifully cared for by Aunt Dettie, their father's sister, who believes herself sympathetic to his pain. Their father abandoned the family some time ago, but when their mother begins to date again, Aunt Dettie reacts very badly. After an unexpected phone call, Aunt Dettie packs Sam and Katie into the backseat of her car and tells them that she's taking them to Perth to be reunited with their father. As Dettie drives the children across Australia in the middle of a sweltering and dangerous bushfire season, her behaviour becomes increasingly erratic, and the children begin to realise that there is something very wrong. Voiceless, Sam can only watch helplessly as the family trip becomes a smoke-filled nightmare.

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Tom Jones : the boy from nowhere MacFarlane, Colin. Allen; The Crowood Press, London, England, 1988

172 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : 24 cm Includes index

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Cities of the classical world : an atlas and gazetteer of 120 centuries of ancient civilization Colin McEvedy,Douglas Stuart Oles Penguin Books Ltd, Nov 03, 2011

From Alexandria to York, this unique illustrated guide allows us to see the great centres of classical civilization afresh. The key feature of Cities of the Classical World is 120 specially drawn maps tracing each city's thoroughfares and defences, monuments and places of worship. Every map is to the same scale, allowing readers for the first time to appreciate visually the relative sizes of Babylon and Paris, London and Constantinople. There is also a clear, incisive commentary on each city's development, strategic importance, rulers and ordinary inhabitants. This compelling and elegant atlas opens a new window on to the ancient world, and will transform the way we see it.

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Full Tilt Colin Bond & John Smailes Allen & Unwin, 2025

‘Bond is a true pioneer of our sport. Growing up in a motorsport family I knew the strong rivalry between Holden and Ford. Not many drivers have managed to cross over and be successful. Colin Bond was one of the first drivers to make the change and show it works.’ Craig Lowndes, three-time Australian Touring Car Champion Bathurst winner, Australian Touring Car Champion, and the only man to have won on both sides of racing’s most iconic rivalry – Ford versus Holden – this is the high-octane story of motor-racing legend Colin Bond. From his rallying crowns to his extraordinary Bathurst victory and his Touring Car Championship triumph, to the hugely controversial 1–2 Bathurst win with Allan Moffat in ’77, Bond’s career spanned the most thrilling decades of Australian motorsport. At the heart of it all was the fierce tribal battle between Ford and Holden – a rivalry Bond knew better than anyone. Against the backdrop of the golden age of motorsport, Full Tilt is packed with accounts of racing with and against other superstars like Peter Brock and Allan Moffat. It captures the drama, danger and intense competition of the sixties to the nineties, the incredibly engineered Monaros, Toranas, Falcons and Commodores, the dirty tricks, dodgy deals and maverick team managers. A celebration of speed, skill and the defining era of motor-racing, Full Tilt is essential reading for any lover of the sport. Written with bestselling motorsport journalist John Smailes, this is the incredible story of a life raced at full tilt. ‘Colin Bond is one of the all-time greats of Australia’s unique Ford vs. Holden battle. I don’t recall ever having as much fun when working, and riding, with him.’ Edsel Ford II, Chairman of the Henry Ford Estate PRAISE FOR JOHN SMAILES’ BOOKS ‘This book is a delight to read. Perhaps, dare we say it, even more enthralling than the races themselves.’ Highlife Magazine on Formula One ‘you need to read Speed Kings’ The Sunday Telegraph on Speed Kings ‘In a highly read

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Cities of the classical world : an atlas and gazetteer of 120 centuries of ancient civilization Colin McEvedy Penguin Books Ltd, 2017

From Alexandria to York, this unique illustrated guide allows us to see the great centres of classical civilization afresh. The key feature of Cities of the Classical World is 120 specially drawn maps tracing each city's thoroughfares and defences, monuments and places of worship. Every map is to the same scale, allowing readers for the first time to appreciate visually the relative sizes of Babylon and Paris, London and Constantinople. There is also a clear, incisive commentary on each city's development, strategic importance, rulers and ordinary inhabitants. This compelling and elegant atlas opens a new window on to the ancient world, and will transform the way we see it.

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Sign Colin Dray Allen & Unwin Pty Ltd, AU retail, 2018

Sometimes even the best intentions can lead you down a very dangerous road.A captivating novel full of strength, quiet courage and the struggle to overcome silence.Sam is a young boy recovering from an operation that has left him unable to speak ever again. He lives with his mother and sister Katie, all dutifully cared for by Aunt Dettie, their father's sister, who believes herself sympathetic to his pain. Their father abandoned the family some time ago, but when their mother begins to date again, Aunt Dettie reacts very badly. After an unexpected phone call, Aunt Dettie packs Sam and Katie into the backseat of her car and tells them that she's taking them to Perth to be reunited with their father. As Dettie drives the children across Australia in the middle of a sweltering and dangerous bushfire season, her behaviour becomes increasingly erratic, and the children begin to realise that there is something very wrong. Voiceless, Sam can only watch helplessly as the family trip becomes a smoke-filled nightmare.

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Comprehensive Polymer Science: The Synthesis, Characterization, Reactions and Applications of Polymers chairman of the editorial board, Sir Geoffrey Allen; deputy chairman of the editorial board John C. Bevington. Vol.2, Polymer properties / volume editors, Colin Booth & Colin Price Pergamon, Oxford, England, 1989

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