Patrick White

Biographies & Memoirs

Marr, David

Community & Culture

RANDOM HOUSE UK

The Letters of Patrick White

Literature & Fiction

World Literature

Available again, an influential book that offers a framework for understanding visual perception and considers fundamental questions about the brain and its functions.
David Marr's posthumously published Vision (1982) influenced a generation of brain and cognitive scientists, inspiring many to enter the field. In Vision, Marr describes a general framework for understanding visual perception and touches on broader questions about how the brain and its functions can be studied and understood. Researchers from a range of brain and cognitive sciences have long valued Marr's creativity, intellectual power, and ability to integrate insights and data from neuroscience, psychology, and computation. This MIT Press edition makes Marr's influential work available to a new generation of students and scientists. 
In Marr's framework, the process of vision constructs a set of representations, starting from a description of the input image and culminating with a description of three-dimensional objects in the surrounding environment. A central theme, and one that has had far-reaching influence in both neuroscience and cognitive science, is the notion of different levels of analysis―in Marr's framework, the computational level, the algorithmic level, and the hardware implementation level. 
Now, thirty years later, the main problems that occupied Marr remain fundamental open problems in the study of perception. Vision provides inspiration for the continuing efforts to integrate knowledge from cognition and computation to understand vision and the brain.

Vision: A Computational Investigation into the Human Representation and Processing of Visual Information (Mit Press)

Science & Math

Biological Sciences

The MIT Press

The life story of the Nobel Prize-winning author tells of his influential relationship with his Australian homeland and describes how his creative moods were often accompanied by savage fits of temper and a passion for privacy.

Patrick White: A Life

Historical

KNOPF

The Prince: Faith, Abuse and George Pell

Religion & Spirituality

Bolinda Audio

David Marr’s explosive bestseller, now expanded and updated.
The leading Catholic in the nation and spiritual adviser to Tony Abbott, Cardinal George Pell has played a key role in the greatest challenge to face his church for centuries: the scandal of child sex abuse by priests.
In The Prince, David Marr investigates the man and his career: how did he rise through the ranks? What does he stand for? How does he wield his authority? How much has he shaped his church and Australia? How has he handled the scandal?
Marr reveals a cleric at ease with power and aggressive in asserting the prerogatives of the Vatican. His account of Pell’s career focuses on his response as a man, a priest, an archbishop and prince of the church to the scandal that has engulfed the Catholic world in the last thirty years. This is the story of a cleric slow to see what was happening around him; torn by the contest between his church and its victims; and slow to realise that the Catholic Church cannot, in the end, escape secular scrutiny.
The Prince is an arresting portrait of faith, loyalty and ambition, set against a backdrop of terrible suffering and an ancient institution in turmoil.
Longlisted, 2014 Walkley Book Award
‘An indictment of Pell for blind, evasive, flint-hearted reactions…Has a more devastating portrait of a “respectable”, living, non-politician, Australian public figure ever been published?’ —Gerard Windsor, Sydney Morning Herald
‘An incisive discussion of the character and personality of Pell’ —Jack Waterford, Canberra Times
‘Descriptively superb. This is where David Marr rivals Lytton Strachey’ —Peter Craven, Weekend Australian
‘Marr makes good use of his skills as an investigative reporter as he looks at Pell's role in the scandals and analyses the Church's struggle to save its reputation … This is outstanding long-form journalism.’ —Walkley Magazine, Best Non-Fiction Book of 2014
David Marr has written for the Sydney Morning Herald, the Age and the Monthly, been editor of the National Times, a reporter for Four Corners, presenter of ABC TV’s Media Watch and now writes for the Guardian. His books include Patrick White: A Life, The High Price of Heaven, Dark Victory (with Marian Wilkinson) and five Quarterly Essays: His Master’s Voice, Power Trip, Political Animal, The Prince and Faction Man.

A computational investigation into the human representation and processing of visual information.

Vision: A Computational Investigation into the Human Representation and Processing of Visual Information

W.H.Freeman

Barwick

HarperCollins, Publishers

Examining the relation between literature and American political life, David Marr proposes that the Emersonian tradition is so central to American culture that it can serve as a means of mapping the literary and intellectual history of the United States over the last 150 years. He shows how American literary genius and political thought have been concerned with the same family of problems all prompted by the Emersonian tradition of "idealized privatism," which so rejected the possibilities of political life that it has discourages the emergence of a public discourse and a political language.
Marr shows that the decline of the political, the elusiveness of democracy, and the monumental influence of "idealized privatism" on its historiographers and critics are major themes of American literary thought and constitute a tradition that spans literature, criticism, history, philosophy, and political theory. He illustrates this through readings of Emerson's ideas of nature, culture, and politics; Walt Whitman's fantasy of the autocrat of letters; William James's critique of "vicious intellectualism;" the contrasting formulations of radical interiority in the poetry of Robinson Jeffers and the criticism of R. P. Blackmur; and two contemporary pictures of public discourse as revealed in Joseph Heller's Catch-22 and the essays of Ralph Ellison.
Discussing not only the works of classic American thinkers, but also the recent writings of such new-pragmatists as Stanley Cavell, Richard Rorty, and Nelson Goodman, Marr calls for a reassessment of the American intellectual past and of contemporary assumptions about the relations of literature to political life.

American Worlds Since Emerson

Arts & Literature

University of Massachusetts Press

Todd is a simple desert toad searching for a little moisture. He finds a lot more than moisture and its, mostly terrible. Todd and his epic journey are the creation of seven students at Penmaenrhos Education Centre and author/illustrator Jeff Gill. Through a unique project called Finding Your Voice, they invented Todd and told his story as a group. The illustration work was divided among the creators. Each one interpreted Todd's adventures in their own way. The result is this unique comic story told in many visual styles but with one collective voice.

Todd the Toad

Comics & Graphic Novels

Gill, Jeff

Bargate, Mikey

Barrington, Joel

Bryan, Dylan

Howard, Annie

Howard, Eryn

Taylor, Alfie

Graphic Novels

Vellerosus Press

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