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The primary goal of this text is a practical one. Equipping
students with the enough knowledge and creating an independent
research platform, the author strives to prepare students for
professional careers. Providing students with a marketable skill
set requires topics from many areas of optimization. The initial
goal of this text is to develop marketable skill set for
mathematics majors but also for students of engineering, computer
science, economics, statistics, and business. Optimization reaches
into many different fields. This text provides a balance where one
is needed. Mathematics optimization books are often too heavy on
theory without enough applications; texts aimed at business
students are often strong on applications, but weak on math. The
book represents an attempt at overcoming this imbalance for all
students taking such a course. The book contains many applications
but also explains the mathematics behind the techniques. There are
even definitions and theorems. Optimization techniques are at the
heart of the first spam filters, are used in self-driving cars,
play a great role in machine learning and can be used in such
places as determining a batting order in a Major League Baseball
game. Additionally, it has seemingly limitless other applications
in business and industry. In short, knowledge of this subject
offers an individual both a very marketable skill set for a wealth
of jobs as well as useful tools for research in many academic
disciplines. Many of the problems rely on using a computer.
Microsoft’s Excelis most often used as this is common in
business, but Python and other languages are considered. The reason
for this is to experience mathematics and engineering students
using MatLab or Mathematica, the economics and business majors
using Excel, and the computer science students writing their own
programs in Java or Python.
In The Medicine of Peace, Jeffrey Ansloos explores the complex
intersections of colonial violence, the current status of
Indigenous youth in Canada in regards to violence and the
possibilities of critical-Indigenous psychologies of nonviolence.
Indigenous youth are disproportionately at risk for violent
victimization and incarceration within the justice system. They are
also marginalized and oppressed within our systems of academia,
mental health and social work. By linking the contemporary
experiences of Indigenous youth with broader contexts of
intergenerational colonial violence in Canadian society and
history, Ansloos highlights the colonial nature of current
approaches to Indigenous youth care. Using a critical-Indigenous
discourse to critique, deconstruct and de-legitimize the hegemony
of Western social science, Ansloos advances an Indigenous peace
psychology to promote the revitalization of Indigenous identity for
these youth.
I never thought I'd get divorced, but I did. Most of us don't plan
for this life-changing event, so we often ask: What do I do now?
How do I let go? What about the wasted years? How do I live as a
single person?... If you've ever asked these questions, this book
is for you. This book will bring a direct but compassionate voice
to the hardest experience in your life. I know it will help you
lift your head up and Work Through Your Crisis like it has for
thousands of others.
Here it is: the first-time look at the remarkable American
multinational mass media empire and its century of
entertainment-the story of Twentieth Century Fox (1915-2015). Or,
to borrow the title of a classic 1959 Fox film, The Best of
Everything. This is the complete revelatory story-bookended by
empire builders William Fox and Rupert Murdoch-aimed as both a
grand, entertaining, nostalgic and picture-filled interactive read
and the ultimate guide to all things Twentieth Century Fox. The
controversies and scandals are here, as are the extraordinary
achievements. Among other firsts, the book offers fun tours of its
historic production and ranch facilities including
never-before-told stories about its stars and creative
personalities (Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, James Dean, and
Shirley Temple got started there). Finally, it is the first such
work approved by the company and utilizing its own unique
resources. The authors primarily tell a celebratory tale, but most
importantly, an accurate one.
Two of the largest minority groups in modern Japan-Koreans, who
emigrated to the metropole as colonial subjects, and a social
minority known as the Burakumin, who descended from former
outcastes-share a history of discrimination and marginalization
that spans the decades of the nation's modern transformation, from
the relatively liberal decade of the 1920s, through the militarism
and nationalism of the 1930s, to the empire's demise in 1945.
Through an analysis of the stereotypes of Koreans and Burakumin
that were constructed in tandem with Japan's modernization and
imperial expansion, Jeffrey Bayliss explores the historical
processes that cast both groups as the antithesis of the emerging
image of the proper Japanese citizen/subject. This study provides
new insights into the majority prejudices, social and political
movements, and state policies that influenced not only their
perceived positions as "others" on the margins of the Japanese
empire, but also the minorities' views of themselves, their place
in the nation, and the often strained relations between the two
groups.
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Mania (Paperback)
Jeffrey-Paul Horn
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R246
R198
Discovery Miles 1 980
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In the early days of the Civil War, a group of very different young
men gathered in Philadelphia to become members of the 95th
Pennsylvania Volunteers--one of those very special units of
fighting men called the Zouaves. Twenty five members of that group
recognized that they shared a special bond, and called themselves
the Original Twenty Five. Now it is May of 1864. The war that would
be over soon is now in its fourth year, and the Original Twenty
Five is now down to twelve. They are moving South yet again, under
a new commander with a new strategy for finally ending this endless
war. But to end the war, these surviving friends must endure a
forty-day orgy of slaughter that History's greatest butchers could
not have conceived--and nine endless months of a new type of
warfare that carries with it mind-numbing boredom, the constant
threat of sudden death, their all-consuming fears and dreams--and
the madness growing within them all . . . An epic in the oldest,
truest sense of the word, this is an unflinching look at outward
butchery and inward suffering--and the hard-won compassion that
sustains, even in defeat.
To some, Loch Ness is a joke. To some, it is the most important
thing in the world. A major new expedition has been formed to
locate the elusive creature of Loch Ness. Suddenly it seems as if
everyone in the world is rushing to join the expedition, and for
every conceivable reason. For each of them, it will be a journey
into wonder--and a plunge into mystery, terror, and his own
personal heart of darkness. A grand symbolic adventure in the
tradition of Moby Dick and The Hunting of the Snark.
Hair is a woman's crowning glory, and our society makes it seem all
is indeed glorious. But more than 30 million women are losing their
hair and, with it, a vital part of themselves. Enter Jeffrey Paul -
creator of the Restoring Beautiful Hair Program and international
expert in Women's Hair Restoration and Replacement. In this book,
he puts his life's passion to print and gives women solutions for
all stages of hair loss - a subject typically reserved for men. He
empowers women to summon their invaluable inner beauty as they use
this book to restore their hair and, consequently, transform their
lives. Jeffrey Paul was styling hair for runways and royalty 30
years ago when his niece - who was losing hair to chemotherapy -
needed a wig for gymnastics. Therein, he found a calling. Jeffrey
Paul's Center for Hair Restoration and Replacement has since
assisted women of all ages, aided medical centers, and trained
thousands of professionals nationwide. The Center and his
nonprofit, Wigs For Kids, have helped countless women and children
restore their hair and truly live again.
What if you could find out information on who you were in your
last/previous life? In his debut short story, author Jeffrey Paul
Howard writes of how he discovered just such a means to do so, and
how he came to learn of his previous self, a man only to be known
as, The Hermit. Follow along on both The Hermit's, and author's,
journey, as he shares right along with the reader, how it is he
came to be knowledgeable of his prior self, and the story of his
oft heartbreaking past life. From his early days as an orphan in
New York City, The Hermit's odyssey of struggles to get by and
survive, usually by any means possible, even adapting his
appearance in order to do so, leading to a life of isolation,
interspersed by recurring brushes with the law, and loves found,
how did his life end up? What remnants of his life still exists
with the author now? What lessons are to be taken away from, and
applied to the author's current life today? From the life he once
lived, the man he once was, The Hermit.
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Nadine Gordimer
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