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Story Machines: How Computers Have Become Creative Writers
This fascinating book explores machines as authors of fiction, past, present, and future. For centuries, writers have dreamed of mechanical storytellers. We can now build these devices. What will be the impact on society of AI programs that generate original stories to entertain and persuade? What can we learn about human creativity from probing how they work? In Story Machines, two pioneers of creative artificial intelligence explore the design and impact of AI story generators. The book covers three themes: language generators that compose coherent text, storyworlds with believable characters, and AI models of human storytellers. Providing examples of story machines through the ages, it covers the history, recent developments, and future implications of automated story generation. Anyone with an interest in story writing will gain a new perspective on what it means to be a creative writer, what parts of creativity can be mechanized, and what is essentially human. Story Machines is for those who have ever wondered what makes a good story, why stories are important to us, and what the future holds for storytelling.
On the Road and Off the Record with Leonard Bernstein
Celebrating Leonard Bernstein's centenary with an intimate and detailed look at the public and private life of the Maestro written by his former assistant. Foreword by Broadway legend Harold Prince. "An affectionate portrait of an eminent musician who was driven by demons." —Kirkus Reviews "Harmon’s personable and warm account of what it was like to work for one of the twentieth century’s musical giants casts new light on Bernstein and his world." —Booklist "This multifaceted perspective gives readers plenty of salacious gossip paired with insight into Leonard Bernstein’s remarkable artistic achievements later in life." —Library Journal On the Road is a colorfully written, unforg...
Red Hot Erotic
Rot steht für Liebe, Sünde, die Glut der Leidenschaft. Das alles und noch vieles mehr hält diese lustvolle Sammlung freizügig erotischer Kurzgeschichten für Sie bereit. In 69 scharfen Erzählungen wird Begehren geschürt und Verlangen, das gestillt werden will.
Betriebliche Sozialberatung im Kontext von Corporate Social Responsibility
Die Dissertation ist eine empirisch fundierte Bestandsaufnahme der Arbeitsaufgaben, Qualifikations- und Kompetenzanforderungen in der betrieblichen Sozialberatung und schafft Anschlussmöglichkeiten für die Konzeption von Aus- und Weiterbildungsangeboten. Theoretische Grundlage der Untersuchung ist der Diskurs um Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) als mögliche Legitimationsgrundlage für die Einführung betrieblicher Sozialberatung in Unternehmen und anderen Organisationen. Auf Basis von 16 qualitativen Interviews mit betrieblichen Sozialberatenden entwickelt der Autor ein geschärftes Bild des beruflichen Tätigkeitsfeldes, das als Teilgebiet der Sozialen Arbeit bisher wenig erforscht ist. Die interdisziplinär ausgerichtete Studie an der Schnittstelle von Qualifikationsforschung, Sozialarbeitsforschung, Hochschul- und Weiterbildung, Wirtschaftsethik, BWL und Politikwissenschaft schließt Forschungslücken. Sie richtet sich an Studierende der Sozialen Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik und Praktiker:innen.
Middlebrow Modernism
Eleanor Dark (1901–85) is one of Australia’s most innovative 20th-century writers. Her extensive oeuvre includes ten novels published from the early 1930s to the late 1950s, and represents a significant engagement with global modernity from a unique position within settler culture. Yet Dark’s contribution to 20th-century literature has been undervalued in the fields of both Australian literary studies and world literature. Although two biographies have been written about her life, there has been no book-length critical study of her writing published since 1976. Middlebrow Modernism counters this neglect by providing the first full-length critical survey of Eleanor Dark’s writing to b...
How Corruption and Anti-Corruption Policies Sustain Hybrid Regimes
Leaders of hybrid regimes in pursuit of political domination and material gain instrumentalize both hidden forms of corruption and public anti-corruption policies. Corruption is pursued for different purposes including cooperation with strategic partners and exclusion of opponents. Presidents use anti-corruption policies to legitimize and institutionalize political domination. Corrupt practices and anti-corruption policies become two sides of the same coin and are exercised to maintain an uneven political playing field. This study combines empirical analysis and social constructivism for an investigation into the presidencies of Leonid Kuchma (1994–2005), Viktor Yushchenko (2005–2010), and Viktor Yanukovych (2010–2014). Explorative expert interviews, press surveys, content analysis of presidential speeches, as well as critical assessment of anti-corruption legislation are used for comparison and process tracing of the utilization of corruption under three Ukrainian presidents.
