Product Description: John R. Searle’s 1995 publication The Construction of Social Reality is the foundation of this collection of scholarly papers examining Searle's philosophical theories. The book works to reconstruct the ontology of the social sciences through an analysis of linguistic practices in the context of John Searle's celebrated work on intentionality...read more

With the proliferation of computer software and media, controversies have arisen around copyright and patent law. This book is based on the idea that the cyberworld encompasses all computer-mediated phenomena. Koepsell proposes intellectual property protection to cope with the complexities of the virtual world, and argues that the subjects of patents and copyrights are essentially the same — they are all manmade, intentionally produced objects, and all “expressions” of some kind.

Product Description: A high-tech thriller set in the near future. The SETI@Home project, linking tens of thousands of ordinary people's home-computers, leads an eclectic group into a plausible, if fantastic, adventure involving high-speed computation, the search for intelligent life in space, a drug which promises to eliminate sleep, the purpose of dreams, and Hopi mythology...read more