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1870.17-year-old apprentice bookbinder Etienne Bonin travels from
revolutionary Lyon to even more revolutionary Paris seeking
excitement and professional opportunity. By the spring of 1871 he
is deeply committed to the insurrection for workers' power, to a
new lover - Rose Durand, 16-year-old coworker and budding feminist
from Belleville-and to his new comrades. Together they experience
festive celebrations, institutional innovations, military disasters
and the final "week of blood." Etienne and Rose's coming of age in
the midst of a revolution is also the story of the growth of a
powerful working-class movement. The tradesmen and women involved
in creating and defending the Paris Commune of 1871were not just
bookbinders, but also bronze workers, tin smiths, shoemakers,
typographers, printers, laundresses, clothing and textile workers,
carpenters and many others. "Rabble" is the closest English
equivalent to "canaille", the way the privileged classes described
the rough and ready workers who had seized the city and were
remaking it as a bastion of liberty, equality and fraternity. Those
tradesmen and women managed to create the first self-governing,
proto-communist society in the modern world, in what was the most
advanced capitalist city of its age. They then had to defend it
against massive bombardment and attacks, which would finally
annihilate the Commune but not its ideals. These would be reborn in
revolutions from 1917, and to our present day.
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Parallel and Distributed Computing, Applications and Technologies - 22nd International Conference, PDCAT 2021, Guangzhou, China, December 17-19, 2021, Proceedings (Paperback, 1st ed. 2022)
Hong Shen, Yingpeng Sang, Yong Zhang, Nong Xiao, Hamid R Arabnia, …
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This book constitutes the proceedings of the 22nd International
Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, Applications, and
Technologies, PDCAT 2021, which took place in Guangzhou, China,
during December 17-19, 2021. The 24 full papers and 34 short papers
included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from
97 submissions. The papers are categorized into the following
topical sub-headings: networking and architectures, software
systems and technologies, algorithms and applications, and security
and privacy.
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Benchmarking, Measuring, and Optimizing - Second BenchCouncil International Symposium, Bench 2019, Denver, CO, USA, November 14-16, 2019, Revised Selected Papers (Paperback, 1st ed. 2020)
Wanling Gao, Jianfeng Zhan, Geoffrey Fox, Xiaoyi Lu, Dan Stanzione
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second
International Symposium on Benchmarking, Measuring, and
Optimization, Bench 2019, held in Denver, CO, USA, in November
2019. The 20 full papers and 11 short papers presented were
carefully reviewed and selected from 79 submissions. The papers are
organized in topical sections named: Best Paper Session; AI
Challenges on Cambircon using AIBenc; AI Challenges on RISC-V using
AIBench; AI Challenges on X86 using AIBench; AI Challenges on 3D
Face Recognition using AIBench; Benchmark; AI and Edge; Big Data;
Datacenter; Performance Analysis; Scientific Computing.
In 1402, the Christian city of Constantinople is under attack by a
Muslim army. With surrender in the wind, the spoils are to be the
key to the city and the 14-year-old Princess Theodota. In the
twists and turns of historical fact, Geoffrey Fox delivers A Gift
for the Sultan, a dramatic, fact-based novel that probes the
cultural and religious life of the early 15th century and the
leaders-royals, military figures, and politicians-who engaged in a
religious conflict to the death. Weaving into his story a cast of
historical figures-Emperor Manuel II Palaiologos, his nephew
Ioannes, the vezir Ali Pasha, Ottoman Sultan Bayezid, and Muslim
khan Timur, among others-Fox entices readers into an era that shone
a harsh light on a level of Christian-Muslim discord that changed
the course of world history. Fox deftly writes of a complicated
time, yet with such clarity that readers feel themselves in
Constantinople and observing first-hand the unfolding drama.
A new ethnic identity is being constructed in the United States:
the Hispanic nation. Overcoming age-old racial, regional, and
political differences, Americans of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban,
and other Spanish-language origins are beginning to imagine
themselves as a single ethnic community - which by the turn of the
century may become the United States' largest and most influential
minority. Only in recent years have great numbers of Hispanics
begun to consider themselves as related within a single culture.
Hispanics are redefining their own images and agendas, shaping a
population, and paving wider pathways to power. In the process,
they are changing both themselves and the culture, government, and
urban habits of the communities around them. In this
ground-breaking book, Geoffrey Fox shows how and why Hispanics are
changing the United States. Based on interviews, observations, and
extensive research, Hispanic Nation examines why such diverse
people are imagining themselves as one; the politics of turning a
statistical fiction into a social reality; the impact of the
Spanish-language media on Hispanics' self-images; ethnic
consciousness and political movements (Cesar Chavez and the farm
workers movement, the Young Lords and La Raza Unida, Puerto Rican
and Mexican encounters in the Midwest); controversies surrounding
"high" and popular Hispanic/Latino art, music, and literature; and
the institutionalization of the movement everywhere - from local
school boards to the U.S. Congress.
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