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Shortlisted for the 2023 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in
Fiction A dazzling, debut novel-within-a-novel in the vein of The
Prophets and Memorial, about a young author writing about the
secret love affair between E.M. Forster and Mohammed el Adl-in
which Mohammed's story collides with his own, blending fact and
fiction. In 1919, Mohammed el Adl, the young Egyptian lover of
British author E. M. Forster, spent six months in a jail cell. A
century later, Kip Starling has locked himself in his Brooklyn
basement study with a pistol and twenty-one gallons of Poland
Spring to write Mohammed's story. Kip has only three weeks until
his publisher's deadline to immerse himself in the mind of Mohammed
who, like Kip, is Black, queer, an Other. The similarities don't
end there. Both of their lives have been deeply affected by their
confrontations with Whiteness, homophobia, their upper crust
education, and their white romantic partners. As Kip immerses
himself in his writing, Mohammed's story - and then Mohammed
himself - begins to speak to him, and his life becomes a Proustian
portal into Kip's own memories and psyche. Greenland seamlessly
conjures two distinct yet overlapping worlds where the past mirrors
the present, and the artist's journey transforms into a quest for
truth that offers a world of possibility. Electric and
unforgettable, David Santos Donaldson's tour de force excavates the
dream of white assimilation, the foibles of interracial
relationships, and not only the legacy of a literary giant, but
literature itself.
Shortlisted for the 2023 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in
Fiction A dazzling, debut novel-within-a-novel in the vein of The
Prophets and Memorial, about a young author writing about the
secret love affair between E.M. Forster and Mohammed el Adl-in
which Mohammed's story collides with his own, blending fact and
fiction. In 1919, Mohammed el Adl, the young Egyptian lover of
British author E. M. Forster, spent six months in a jail cell. A
century later, Kip Starling has locked himself in his Brooklyn
basement study with a pistol and twenty-one gallons of Poland
Spring to write Mohammed's story. Kip has only three weeks until
his publisher's deadline to immerse himself in the mind of Mohammed
who, like Kip, is Black, queer, an Other. The similarities don't
end there. Both of their lives have been deeply affected by their
confrontations with Whiteness, homophobia, their upper crust
education, and their white romantic partners. As Kip immerses
himself in his writing, Mohammed's story - and then Mohammed
himself - begins to speak to him, and his life becomes a Proustian
portal into Kip's own memories and psyche. Greenland seamlessly
conjures two distinct yet overlapping worlds where the past mirrors
the present, and the artist's journey transforms into a quest for
truth that offers a world of possibility. Electric and
unforgettable, David Santos Donaldson's tour de force excavates the
dream of white assimilation, the foibles of interracial
relationships, and not only the legacy of a literary giant, but
literature itself.
This book is designed primarily for undergraduates in mathematics,
engineering, and the physical sciences. Rather than concentrating
on technical skills, it focuses on a deeper understanding of the
subject by providing many unusual and challenging examples. The
basic topics of vector geometry, differentiation and integration in
several variables are explored. It also provides numerous computer
illustrations and tutorials using MATLAB (R) and Maple (R), that
bridge the gap between analysis and computation. Features: Includes
numerous computer illustrations and tutorials using MATLAB (R) and
Maple (R) Covers the major topics of vector geometry,
differentiation, and integration in several variables Instructors'
ancillaries available upon adoption
En este libro aprenderas desde confiar en LaTeX como "maquetador
inteligente", pero independiente, hasta a tomar el control de la
estetica y la presentacion de tus documentos a bajo nivel: que
LaTeX sea un "maquetador obediente", al que nosotros le diremos
exactamente que queremos -ponme tantos milimetros de margen, ponme
tantos puntos de espaciado entre lineas- e incluso en que punto lo
queremos -ponme ahi un espacio horizontal de tantos milimetros-.
Aprenderas desde cero a instalar LaTeX, a hacer articulos, trabajos
fin de grado, tesis doctorales, libros, presentaciones o cartas en
LaTeX; formulas y bibliografias, imagenes y tablas, hasta definir a
bajo nivel el formato de la pagina, e incluso programar tus propios
comandos y macros en LaTeX, desde un enfoque didactico, paso a
paso, con multitud de ejemplos y muy practico, sin saltos. Una
autentica "biblia" con todo lo que necesitas saber de LaTeX para
ser productivo y sacarle todo el partido posible; y comenzando
desde cero.
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