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Courteney Cox directs this comedy drama starring Seann William
Scott. Just before he plans to end his life, 41-year-old divorced
pet shop owner Ted Morgan (Scott) travels back to his hometown to
confront all those who have wronged him in the past. As he revisits
the scarring traumas of his youth by taking on former teacher Mrs.
Lawrence (Beth Grant) and his highschool bully Rowley (Rob Riggle),
Ted's plans begin to change as he forms a close bond with local
girl Greta (Olivia Thirlby), who documents his journey.
Springfield has launched a lot of history, from the career of
Abraham Lincoln to the wagon train that bore the Donner party to
their fate. While taking this tour with Garret Moffett, you will
come face to face with the history that has refused to leave. Meet
the Gibson Girl who turned society circles into s ances during her
life and the vengeful actor who held down a leading role as
mischief-maker after death. And maybe you should pause before you
shake the hand of a Civil War re-enactor at Camp Butler, just to
make sure that his skin isn't as gray as his coat.
This volume is distinctive for its extraordinarily
interdisciplinary investigations into a little discussed topic, the
spatial imagination. It probes the exercise of the spatial
imagination in pre-modern China across five general areas:
pictorial representation, literary description, cartographic
mappings, and the intertwining of heavenly and earthly space. It
recommends that the spatial imagination in the pre-modern world
cannot adequately be captured using a linear, militarily framed
conceptualization. The scope and varying perspectives on the
spatial imagination analyzed in the volume's essays reveal a
complex range of aspects that informs how space was designed and
utilized. Due to the complexity and advanced scholarly level of the
papers, the primary readership will be other scholars and advanced
graduate students in history, history of science, geography, art
history, religious studies, literature, and, broadly, sinology.
The first book of its kind, "New Foundations in Mathematics: The
Geometric Concept of Number" uses geometric algebra to present an
innovative approach to elementary and advanced mathematics.
Geometric algebra offers a simple and robust means of expressing a
wide range of ideas in mathematics, physics, and engineering. In
particular, geometric algebra extends the real number system to
include the concept of direction, which underpins much of modern
mathematics and physics. Much of the material presented has been
developed from undergraduate courses taught by the author over the
years in linear algebra, theory of numbers, advanced calculus and
vector calculus, numerical analysis, modern abstract algebra, and
differential geometry. The principal aim of this book is to present
these ideas in a freshly coherent and accessible manner.
"New Foundations in Mathematics" will be of interest to
undergraduate and graduate students of mathematics and physics who
are looking for a unified treatment of many important geometric
ideas arising in these subjects at all levels. The material can
also serve as a supplemental textbook in some or all of the areas
mentioned above and as a reference book for professionals who apply
mathematics to engineering and computational areas of mathematics
and physics.
French President Charles de Gaulle (1958-1969) has consistently
fascinated contemporaries and historians. His vision conceived out
of national interest of uniting Europe under French leadership and
overcoming the Cold War still remains relevant and appealing. De
Gaulle's towering personality and his challenge to US hegemony in
the Cold War have inspired a vast number of political biographies
and analyses of the foreign policies of the Fifth Republic mostly
from French or US angle. In contrast, this book serves to
rediscover de Gaulle's global policies how they changed the Cold
War. Offering truly global perspectives on France's approach to the
world during de Gaulle's presidency, the 13 well-matched essays by
leading experts in the field tap into newly available sources drawn
from US, European, Asian, African and Latin American archives.
Together, the contributions integrate previously neglected regions,
actors and topics with more familiar and newly approached phenomena
into a global picture of the General's international policy-making.
The volume at hand is an example of how cutting-edge research
benefits from multipolar and multi-archival approaches and from
attention to big, middle and smaller powers as well as
institutions.
This book conceptualises the novel notion of ‘digital
displacement’: the sudden pivoting to online technology in
education caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. The book documents this
historical phenomenon in education and discusses the consequences
for educator practice and educational strategies, in particular
arts-based educators. Its content and scope cover both
practice-based and academic frameworks, offering a scholarly
investigation of the effect of the pandemic on embodied work,
including drama, music, voice, dance and film, through a series of
seven case stud-ies. The book also examines embodied online
practice with a view to how COVID-19 has changed this in the long
term.
The greatest threat to the Western alliance in the 1960s did not
come from an enemy, but from an ally. France, led by its mercurial
leader General Charles de Gaulle, launched a global and
comprehensive challenge to the United State's leadership of the
Free World, tackling not only the political but also the military,
economic, and monetary spheres. Successive American administrations
fretted about de Gaulle, whom they viewed as an irresponsible
nationalist at best and a threat to their presence in Europe at
worst. Based on extensive international research, this book is an
original analysis of France's ambitious grand strategy during the
1960s and why it eventually failed. De Gaulle's failed attempt to
overcome the Cold War order reveals important insights about why
the bipolar international system was able to survive for so long,
and why the General's legacy remains significant to current French
foreign policy.
The greatest threat to the Western alliance in the 1960s did not
come from an enemy, but from an ally. France, led by its mercurial
leader General Charles de Gaulle, launched a global and
comprehensive challenge to the United State's leadership of the
Free World, tackling not only the political but also the military,
economic, and monetary spheres. Successive American administrations
fretted about de Gaulle, whom they viewed as an irresponsible
nationalist at best and a threat to their presence in Europe at
worst. Based on extensive international research, this book is an
original analysis of France's ambitious grand strategy during the
1960s and why it eventually failed. De Gaulle's failed attempt to
overcome the Cold War order reveals important insights about why
the bipolar international system was able to survive for so long,
and why the General's legacy remains significant to current French
foreign policy.
Garret Joseph Martin is an Editor-at-Large at the European
Institute in Washington, DC. He obtained his PhD in International
History at the London School of Economics. He co-edited
"Globalizing de Gaulle: International Perspectives on French
Foreign Policies, 1958-1969" (with Christian Nuenlist and Anna
Locher, 2011). He currently teaches courses on the Cold War at
George Washington University and on transatlantic security at
American University.
- The place of nature and environment is increasingly recognized in
therapeutic theory and practice. - Co-edited by the originator of
the theory of Terrapsychology. - Builds on his successful 2020
title, Terrapsychological Inquiry, which we also published.
What were the intentions of early China s historians? Modern
readers must contend with the tension between the narrators
moralizing commentary and their description of events. Although
these historians had notions of evidence, it is not clear to what
extent they valued what contemporary scholars would deem hard
facts. Offering an innovative approach to premodern historical
documents, Garret P. S. Olberding argues that the speeches of court
advisors reveal subtle strategies of information management in the
early monarchic context. Olberding focuses on those addresses
concerning military campaigns where evidence would be important in
guiding immediate social and political policy. His analysis reveals
the sophisticated conventions that governed the imperial advisor s
logic and suasion in critical state discussions, which were
specifically intended to counter anticipated doubts. Dubious Facts
illuminates both the decision-making processes that informed early
Chinese military campaigns and the historical records that
represent them."
Matrix algebra has been called "the arithmetic of higher
mathematics" [Be]. We think the basis for a better arithmetic has
long been available, but its versatility has hardly been
appreciated, and it has not yet been integrated into the mainstream
of mathematics. We refer to the system commonly called 'Clifford
Algebra', though we prefer the name 'Geometric Algebm' suggested by
Clifford himself. Many distinct algebraic systems have been adapted
or developed to express geometric relations and describe geometric
structures. Especially notable are those algebras which have been
used for this purpose in physics, in particular, the system of
complex numbers, the quatemions, matrix algebra, vector, tensor and
spinor algebras and the algebra of differential forms. Each of
these geometric algebras has some significant advantage over the
others in certain applications, so no one of them provides an
adequate algebraic structure for all purposes of geometry and
physics. At the same time, the algebras overlap considerably, so
they provide several different mathematical representations for
individual geometrical or physical ideas.
- The place of nature and environment is increasingly recognized in
therapeutic theory and practice. - Co-edited by the originator of
the theory of Terrapsychology. - Builds on his successful 2020
title, Terrapsychological Inquiry, which we also published.
This book concerns two major topics, smart antenna systems and
wireless local-area-networks (LANs). For smart antenna systems, it
d- cusses the mechanics behind a smart antenna system, the setup of
a smart antenna experimental testbed, and experimental and computer
simulation results of various issues relating to smart antenna
systems. For wireless LAN systems, it discusses the IEEE 802.11
worldwide wi- less LAN standard, the operation of a wireless LAN
system, and some of the technical considerations that must be
overcome by a wireless LAN system designer. These two topics are
combined in the discussion of the Smart Wireless LAN (SWL) system,
which was designed to achieve the benefits which smart antenna
systems can provide for wireless LAN systems while still remaining
compatible with the 802.11 wireless LAN standard. The design of SWL
calls for the replacement of the conv- tional wireless LAN base
station (which are called access points in the 802.11
documentation) with an SWL base station, while leaving the -
dividual terminal operation as unchanged as possible.
Rectenna Solar Cells discusses antenna-coupled diode solar cells,
an emerging technology that has the potential to provide ultra-high
efficiency, low-cost solar energy conversion. This book will
provide an overview of solar rectennas, and provide thorough
descriptions of the two main components: the diode, and the optical
antenna. The editors discuss the science, design, modeling, and
manufacturing of the antennas coupled with the diodes. The book
will provide concepts to understanding the challenges, fabrication
technologies, and materials required to develop rectenna
structures. Written by experts in their specialized fields.
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