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"An important contribution to understanding our culinary journey in
Ireland from a time when food was regarded merely as sustenance. As
a nation, we have grown in confidence. Up to relatively recently in
Ireland, we had a serious inferiority complex and not just about
our food and food culture. Brian documents through various prisms
the growing pride in our tradition, the quality of our produce and
the growing skills of our chefs. At last, we appreciate what we
have here in Ireland and serve our Irish food proudly." (Darina
Allen, Ballymaloe Cookery School) Through concepts such as place
and story, this work considers the cultural importance of the foods
we eat and the drinks we imbibe in Irish society. While providing
us with the necessary sustenance to survive, they also have
something to say in terms of how we relate to each other and the
world around us. The book examines the products we associate with
gastronomy in Ireland and the uniquely Irish places in which they
are consumed. Places considered include the Irish pub, the
traditional Irish butcher shop and the Irish whiskey distillery.
Both products and places are explored through the lens of terroir,
experience and the impact of Third Place and Fourth Space
paradigms. Though much of what is discussed here is anchored in the
past, the book also examines how that past has impacted on more
contemporary phenomena such as Irish cafe culture and social
gastronomy. While the work is primarily focused on Ireland, it
draws insights from lessons learned in countries like France that
possess a widely renowned gastronomic legacy. In addition to the
obvious food connections, the chapters in this work are all linked
by a common thread of personal engagement that stems from a
lifetime spent working in and around the food and drink sector.
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The Devils (DVD)
Oliver Reed, Vanessa Redgrave, Dudley Sutton, Gemma Jones, Murray Melvin, …
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Ken Russell helms this graphic 1971 adaptation of a documented
witchcraft case, which took place in France in 1634. Outspoken
priest Urbain Grandier (Oliver Reed) finds himself accused of
seducing a group of hysterical nuns while in demon form by Mother
Superior Sister Jeanne (Vanessa Redgrave), who is obsessed with
Grandier and driven into a fit of envy when he marries another
woman. With the involvement of charismatic exorcist Father Barre
(Michael Gothard), the affair turns into a sordid mass exorcism of
the tainted convent. With much controversy surrounding its subject
matter of religion combined with violence and sex, many cuts were
made to the film in order for it to attain certification.
General chemistry textbooks are usually lengthy and present
chemistry to the student as an unconnected list of facts. In
inorganic chemistry, emphasis should be placed on the connections
between valence shell electron configuration and the physical and
chemical properties of the element. Basic Principles of Inorganic
Chemistry: Making the Connections is a short, concise book that
emphasises these connections, in particular the chemistry of the
Main Group compounds. With reference to chemical properties, Lewis
Structures, stoichiometry and spider diagrams, students will be
able to predict or calculate the chemistry of simple polyatomic
compounds from the valence shell configuration and will no longer
be required to memorise vast amounts of factual chemistry. This
book is ideal for students taking chemistry as a subsidiary subject
as well as honours degree students.
These documents were collected from the archives in Rostov-on-Don,
and this book makes them available for the first time in print.
Since becoming freely accessible Soviet archives have provided a
rich source for understanding the hopes, fears and strivings of the
Russians during the greatest crisis in their history. Both Reds and
Whites realized Rostov's vital strategic importance, and the city
changed hands six times between 1917 and 1920. These newly
published personal stories fill out the social background to its
complex mix of classes and nationalities. They convey the daily
experience of life in the streets, and the perils faced by either
side when changing fortunes forced them to escape across the River
Don. Over the last century the slogans of the Revolution have
become stale for us. But if we seek to understand the spirit of
those years we must remember that these beliefs gave fresh hope to
many individuals, presenting a cause for which they were prepared
to endure great suffering, and even to sacrifice their lives.
Perhaps the passionate enthusiasm of these revolutionaries may give
us some insight into the psychology of young men and women who are
called 'terrorists' today?
A Working Method Approach for Introductory Physical Chemistry
Calculations is a concise inexpensive introduction to first year
chemistry that is aimed at students who are weak in chemistry or
have no chemistry on entry to university. Such students usually
find physical chemistry the most difficult part of the chemistry
course, and within this section numerical problem solving is an
additional difficulty. The text should also be invaluable to first
year intending chemists. This text provides an introduction to
physical chemistry and the gas laws, followed by chapters on
thermodynamics, chemical equilibrium, electrochemistry and chemical
kinetics. Each section involves a brief introduction followed by a
representative examination question, which is broken down into a
proposed working method. Both short multiple-choice questions and
related full examination-type questions are included. This book
will prove invaluable to students who need encouragement in a
logical approach to problem solving in physical chemistry, teaching
them to think for themselves when faced with a problem.
These documents were collected from the archives in Rostov-on-Don,
and this book makes them available for the first time in print.
Since becoming freely accessible Soviet archives have provided a
rich source for understanding the hopes, fears and strivings of the
Russians during the greatest crisis in their history. Both Reds and
Whites realized Rostov's vital strategic importance, and the city
changed hands six times between 1917 and 1920. These newly
published personal stories fill out the social background to its
complex mix of classes and nationalities. They convey the daily
experience of life in the streets, and the perils faced by either
side when changing fortunes forced them to escape across the River
Don.
Over the last century the slogans of the Revolution have become
stale for us. But if we seek to understand the spirit of those
years we must remember that these beliefs gave fresh hope to many
individuals, presenting a cause for which they were prepared to
endure great suffering, and even to sacrifice their lives. Perhaps
the passionate enthusiasm of these revolutionaries may give us some
insight into the psychology of young men and women who are called
'terrorists' today?
This book explores the transatlantic relationship between the US
and Europe from multiple perspectives and disciplines. Since the
end of the Cold War, a multi-polar world has replaced the dual
power economic and political stranglehold previously shared by the
US and Russia. Amid the shift in power politics, the transatlantic
partnership between the US and Europe has retained its importance
in shaping the outcome of future global developments. With the rise
of the US as a major world power and the tremendous economic
growths witnessed by countries such as China, India and Brazil, the
political power structures within and outside the transatlantic
relations have gradually undergone shifts that are important to
recognise, understand and critically assess on a consistent basis.
Transatlantic Relations and Modern Diplomacy assesses the strengths
and weaknesses of this enduring transatlantic relationship from
multiple perspectives and disciplines at a time when the US and
European countries are facing increasing economic pressures,
significant political changes and substantial security concerns.
Examining this relationship through a range of different lenses
including historical, economic and cultural, this book highlights
the importance of examining the transatlantic relationship from a
variety of different contextual and historical perspectives in
order to herald the future changes as informed global citizens.
This book will be of interest to students of transatlantic studies,
diplomacy, political science and IR in general.
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Machine Learning and Interpretation in Neuroimaging - International Workshop, MLINI 2011, Held at NIPS 2011, Sierra Nevada, Spain, December 16-17, 2011, Revised Selected and Invited Contributions (Paperback, 2012 ed.)
Georg Langs, Irina Rish, Moritz Grosse-Wentrup, Brian Murphy
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Brain imaging brings together the technology, methodology, research
questions and approaches of a wide range of scientific fields
including physics, statistics, computer science, neuroscience,
biology, and engineering. Thus, methodological and technological
advances that enable us to obtain measurements, examine
relationships across observations, and link these data to
neuroscientific hypotheses happen in a highly interdisciplinary
environment. The dynamic field of machine learning with its modern
approach to data mining provides many relevant approaches for
neuroscience and enables the exploration of open questions. This
state-of-the-art survey offers a collection of papers from the
Workshop on Machine Learning and Interpretation in Neuroimaging,
MLINI 2011, held at the 25th Annual Conference on Neural
Information Processing, NIPS 2011, in the Sierra Nevada, Spain, in
December 2011. Additionally, invited speakers agreed to contribute
reviews on various aspects of the field, adding breadth and
perspective to the volume. The 32 revised papers were carefully
selected from 48 submissions. At the interface between machine
learning and neuroimaging the papers aim at shedding some light on
the state of the art in this interdisciplinary field. They are
organized in topical sections on coding and decoding, neuroscience,
dynamcis, connectivity, and probabilistic models and machine
learning.
Every Persian carpet has a story to tell -- from the remote
villages of Afghanistan and Iran, down the ancient trade routes
traveled for centuries, to the bazaars of Tehran and the markets of
the Western world. Carpet-making is one of this tumultuous region's
few constants, an art form that transcends religious and political
turmoil. Part travelogue and part exploration into the meaning and
worth of these mystical artifacts, "The Root of Wild Madder"
presents practical information about carpets while exploring the
artistic, religious, and cultural complexities of these enigmatic
lands.
Shortly before Christmas in 1943, five Army aviators left Alaska's
Ladd Field on a routine flight to test their hastily retrofitted
B-24 Liberator in harsh winter conditions. The mission ended in a
crash that claimed all but one- Leon Crane, a city kid from
Philadelphia with no wilderness experience. With little more than a
parachute for cover and an old Boy Scout knife in his pocket, Crane
found himself alone in subzero temperatures. 81 Days Below Zero
recounts, for the first time, the full story of Crane's remarkable
twelve-week saga.
The small ship making the Liverpool-to-New York trip in the early
months of 1856 carried mail, crates of dry goods, and more than one
hundred passengers, mostly Irish emigrants. Suddenly an iceberg
tore the ship asunder and five lifeboats were lowered. As four
lifeboats drifted into the fog and icy water, never to be heard
from again, the last boat wrenched away from the sinking ship with
a few blankets, some water and biscuits, and thirteen souls. Only
one would survive. This is his story. As they started their nine
days adrift more than four hundred miles off Newfoundland, the
castaways--an Irish couple and their two boys, an English woman and
her daughter, newlyweds from Ireland, and several crewmen,
including Thomas W. Nye from Bedford, Massachusetts--began fighting
over food and water. One by one, though, day by day, they died.
Some from exposure, others from madness and panic. In the end, only
Nye and his journal survived. Using Nye's journal and his later
newspaper accounts, ship's logs, assorted diaries, and family
archives, Brian Murphy chronicles the horrific nine days that
thirteen people suffered adrift on the cold gray Atlantic sea. In
the tradition of bestsellers such as Into Thin Air and In the Heart
of the Sea, Adrift brings readers to the edge of human limits,
where every frantic decision and every desperate act is a potential
life saver or life taker
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Sisters of the Cross (Paperback)
Alexei Remizov; Translated by Roger Keys, Brian Murphy
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Thirty-year-old Piotr Alekseevich Marakulin lives a contented, if
humdrum life as a financial clerk in a Petersburg trading company.
He is jolted out of his daily routine when, quite unexpectedly, he
is accused of embezzlement and loses his job. This change of status
brings him into contact with a number of women-the titular "sisters
of the cross"-whose sufferings will lead him to question the
ultimate meaning of the universe. The first English translation of
this remarkable 1910 novel by Alexei Remizov, one of the most
influential members of the Russian Symbolist movement, Sisters of
the Cross is a masterpiece of early modernist fiction. In the
tradition of Gogol's Petersburg Tales and Dostoyevsky's Crime and
Punishment, it deploys densely packed psychological prose and
fluctuating narrative perspective to tell the story of a "poor
clerk" who rebels against the suffering and humiliation afflicting
both his own life and the lives of the remarkable women whom he
encounters in the tenement building where he lives in Petersburg.
The novel reaches its haunting climax at the beginning of the
Whitsuntide festival, when Marakulin thinks he glimpses the coming
of salvation both for himself and for the "fallen" actress
Verochka, the unacknowledged love of his life, in one of the most
powerfully drawn scenes in Symbolist literature. Remizov is best
known as a writer of short stories and fairy tales, but this early
novel, masterfully translated by Roger Keys and Brian Murphy, is
perhaps his most significant work of sustained artistic prose.
Written by and for teens and young adults with Nonverbal Learning
Disabilities (NLD), as well as for their parents, teachers,
therapists, and others who care about them, and backed by the
latest neuropsychological research, NLD from the Inside Out offers
hundreds of useful tips on: - Organization and planning, including
study skills - How to successfully navigate the transition from
dependent child to independent adult - Creating more harmonious
family and peer relationships - Changing disabling attitudes. The
book will help teens and young adults to avoid the angst and
pitfalls often associated with NLD. More than that, it offers real
stories from now-thriving young adults who grew up with NLD - proof
that a full and rewarding life lies ahead for those who are now
struggling.
Thirty-year-old Piotr Alekseevich Marakulin lives a contented, if
humdrum life as a financial clerk in a Petersburg trading company.
He is jolted out of his daily routine when, quite unexpectedly, he
is accused of embezzlement and loses his job. This change of status
brings him into contact with a number of women-the titular "sisters
of the cross"-whose sufferings will lead him to question the
ultimate meaning of the universe. The first English translation of
this remarkable 1910 novel by Alexei Remizov, one of the most
influential members of the Russian Symbolist movement, Sisters of
the Cross is a masterpiece of early modernist fiction. In the
tradition of Gogol's Petersburg Tales and Dostoyevsky's Crime and
Punishment, it deploys densely packed psychological prose and
fluctuating narrative perspective to tell the story of a "poor
clerk" who rebels against the suffering and humiliation afflicting
both his own life and the lives of the remarkable women whom he
encounters in the tenement building where he lives in Petersburg.
The novel reaches its haunting climax at the beginning of the
Whitsuntide festival, when Marakulin thinks he glimpses the coming
of salvation both for himself and for the "fallen" actress
Verochka, the unacknowledged love of his life, in one of the most
powerfully drawn scenes in Symbolist literature. Remizov is best
known as a writer of short stories and fairy tales, but this early
novel, masterfully translated by Roger Keys and Brian Murphy, is
perhaps his most significant work of sustained artistic prose.
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Machine Learning and Interpretation in Neuroimaging - 4th International Workshop, MLINI 2014, Held at NIPS 2014, Montreal, QC, Canada, December 13, 2014, Revised Selected Papers (Paperback, 1st ed. 2016)
Irina Rish, Georg Langs, Leila Wehbe, Guillermo Cecchi, Kai-min Kevin Chang, …
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This book constitutes the revised selected papers from the 4th
International Workshop on Machine Learning and Interpretation in
Neuroimaging, MLINI 2014, held in Montreal, QC, Canada, in December
2014 as a satellite event of the 11th annual conference on Neural
Information Processing Systems, NIPS 2014. The 10 MLINI 2014 papers
presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from
17 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named:
networks and decoding; speech; clinics and cognition; and causality
and time-series. In addition, the book contains the 3 best papers
presented at MLINI 2013.
Dr Murphy traces the patterns and impact of immigration to
Australia since 1945, focusing on immigrants from non-English
speaking backgrounds who came to New South Wales. Australia has
been diversified by the range of immigrants who have come to its
shores, a diversification that has been welcomed by some and
vehemently opposed by others. He describes the personal experience
of many newcomers to Australia, who came as displaced persons,
refugees, on business migration programmes or independently. Their
testaments show that while some were invited and encouraged to
share in the Australian experiment, others have been treated as
intruders. The book contains incisive analysis of government policy
on immigration and looks at the important role played by the Ethnic
Affairs Commission of New South Wales, which was established in
1976.
The most comprehensive coverage of the 2014 syllabus, this resource
pack includes a print and online Chemistry Course Book, for fully
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topic, alongside TOK to drive inquiry and independent learning.
Assessment support directly from the IB includes practice questions
and worked examples in each topic, along with focused support for
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accessible for seven years from syllabus release date, to be used
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Course Books are essential resource materials designed in
cooperation with the IB to provide students with extra support
through their IB studies. Course Books provide advice and guidance
on specific course assessment requirements, mirroring the IB
philosophy and providing opportunities for critical thinking.
Dr Murphy traces the patterns and impact of immigration to
Australia since 1945, focusing on immigrants from non-English
speaking backgrounds who came to New South Wales. Australia has
been diversified by the range of immigrants who have come to its
shores, a diversification that has been welcomed by some and
vehemently opposed by others. He describes the personal experience
of many newcomers to Australia, who came as displaced persons,
refugees, on business migration programmes or independently. Their
testaments show that while some were invited and encouraged to
share in the Australian experiment, others have been treated as
intruders. The book contains incisive analysis of government policy
on immigration and looks at the important role played by the Ethnic
Affairs Commission of New South Wales, which was established in
1976.
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