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Spreadsheet-based introduction to mathematical programming concepts
and applications, intended for undergraduate and graduate students
in management and engineering. Its emphasis on model building and
its focus on formulation principles are key features that reinforce
its practical approach. The text also includes a comprehensive
tutorial on the use of Excel's Solver, and, at a more advanced
level, Frontline Systems' Premium Solver.
All five books of The Complete Piano Player series are published in
this single volume at a substantial savings over the price of the
five individual books. Complete with keyboard chart.
As he turns 100, the definitive monograph of Wayne Thiebaud's work
is now available in a reformatted, accessibly priced edition, and
including his most recent paintings. This is the most comprehensive
monograph to date on Wayne Thiebaud, with new works added, in a
reformatted size. Spanning the length of his career from the 1950s
to the present, the book has been made in close collaboration with
the artist. Thiebaud selected the works himself, making the book an
act of autobiography in a sense. At age 100, he looks back over his
life and his work, rich with breakthroughs in painting and
masterful individuality. Required reading for those who have a
healthy appetite for provocative art. -Bloomberg Business This
comprehensive monograph of more than 200 illustrations can
literally be considered eye candy. American artist Wayne Thiebaud
is famed for his brightly coloured canvases of cakes, diner pies,
pastries, ice cream cones, candy and brightly coloured gumball
machines. . . . Whether still lifes or landscapes, Thiebaud's
paintings are akin to visual Prozac; you simply cannot be in a bad
mood looking at them. -Kansas City Magazine While Thiebaud is best
known for his heavily pigmented still lifes of cakes, pies, and
candies, [this] book shows his broader range, from vibrant
landscapes depicting highways and farmland to portraits of solitary
figures. . . The texts examine Thiebaud's influences as well as his
impact on the art world and the individual viewers of his work.
-Architectural Digest
The aim of this book is to turn the complete piano beginner into an
accomplished performer using easy-to-follow steps. Based on popular
songs, the book uses text and diagrams so there is no need to read
music.
In this fascinating book Kenneth Baker explores how the Seven
Deadly Sins - Pride, Anger, Sloth, Envy, Avarice, Gluttony and Lust
- have shaped history from the Greek and Roman Civilisations,
through their heyday in the Middle Ages, when sinners really
believed they could go to Hell for all eternity, to the secular
world of today, where they are still an alluring and destructive
force. Today most sinners are punished in this world not the next:
* Black Pride and Gay Pride have made tens of millions more
understood and more accepted, but the overweening pride of certain
leaders - Hubris - has led to wars and devastation: Hitler in
Russia; the Japanese at Pearl Harbour; Saddam Hussein in Kuwait;
and Blair and Bush in Iraq. * Anger, when righteous, can be a
virtue, which helped to end the slave trade in the 19th century and
to expose child abuse today, but there is still personal anger in
domestic violence and Daesh terrorism. * Sloth can be an amiable
weakness as Tennyson said, 'Ah why should life all labour be', but
the rewards go to the energetic. * Envy is the mainstay of the
global advertising industry encouraging everyone to improve their
lives, but it is also a secret vice, a self-destroying morbid
appetite. * Avarice, has led to better living conditions for many
people but also to the Great Depression, the financial collapse of
2008, and to 1,800 billionaires with the combined wealth of US
$6.48 trillion. * Gluttony is not a sin but a destructive ailment
leading to obesity, bottle-noses, bleary eyes, grog-blossoms and
breath like a blowlamp. * Lust that demands immediate gratification
is clearly still a sin, whether Paris' abduction of Helen of Troy,
or websites that encourage marital infidelity, or the fate of many
politicians, as Kipling said, 'For the sins they do by two and two,
they must pay for one by one.' This book is lavishly illustrated
from Medieval manuscripts to Picasso, and Kenneth Baker has drawn
on his knowledge of cartoons down the ages to include a few by
Gillray, Rowlandson, Bateman, Eric Gill and today Peter Brookes.
In this revealing look at the history of assassinations, Kenneth
Baker examines over a hundred political and religious murders or
attempted murders, ranging from Julius Caesar to President Kennedy
to Osama bin Laden. Assassins hope to change the world, but rarely
succeed: Baker concludes that the assassination of Franz Ferdinand
in Sarajevo in June 1914 was the only one that changed the history
of the world. Other assassinations, whether of monarchs,
politicians, dissidents, clerics, journalists or others at best
give only a glancing blow at history. The author concludes that, in
Macbeth's words, an assassination `is a poisoned chalice.' Kenneth
Baker also reveals that since 1945 there have been fewer individual
assassins working alone; now assassinations are more likely to be
carried out by political and religious terrorists, or by the
security services of certain states to eliminate dissidents. Not
only Russia and Israel, but the USA, the UK and others have
resorted to targeted killings when they consider their security is
under threat. On Assassinations shows how we have moved from the
era of individual assassinations, through to terror groups' murders
and now onto state-sponsored targeted killings
Sir Cyril Taylor has been at the heart of English education for
over two decades, serving as an adviser to ten successive UK
Education Secretaries and Four Prime Ministers, both Conservative
and Labour, including Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair.
His passion for education has led directly to real school
improvement, from the creation of City Technology Colleges to
specialist schools and academies, which together now constitute
over nine in ten secondary schools in England. The Specialist
Schools and Academies Trust, the body he founded, is now a leading
force in school improvement worldwide.
A Good School for Every Child draws on that wealth of
experience. While offering an insider's look at some of the key
challenges in education, it is also an invaluable guide for parents
and teachers interested in how our schools work today. There is a
particular focus on how to raise standards in low attaining
schools, improving levels of literacy and numeracy and teaching our
children the skills they need for the 21st Century.
This book is also a clarion call to our political leaders about
the challenges that still remain: the education of children in
care, the failure to stretch able youngsters and the problems
recruiting enough good science teachers.
Education is more open today than ever before, with league
tables and inspection reports. Yet for many outsiders, it can seem
a world clouded by its own language and rituals. Cyril Taylor opens
the door to that world, through stories of inspirational
headteachers and successful schools. By doing so he offers a vision
that is both instructive and inspirational, one that shows how
schools working with parents and the wider community can raise the
standards of achievement for all their pupils.
Teach yourself to play any make of electric keyboard .Based on
popular songs and with easy to follow text and clear diagrams, it
assumes no previous knowledge of the keyboard or music. The CD
contains full band backing and demonstrations of all songs.
An ingenious system of simplified notation enables the complete
beginner to play from the very first lesson. Easy to follow text
and diagrams mean there is no need to be able to read music. The
selections are based on popular songs and classical music.
An ingenious system of simplified notation enables the complete
beginner to play from the very first lesson. Easy to follow text
and diagrams mean there is no need to be able to read music. The
selections are based on popular songs and classical music.
A profoundly timely and moving personal essay by one of America's
leading art critics Walter De Maria's Lightning Field (1977) is one
of the 20th century's most significant works of art. Situated in a
remote area of desert in southwestern New Mexico, it comprises 400
polished, stainless-steel poles (spaced 220 feet apart) installed
in a grid measuring one mile by one kilometer. A sculpture to be
explored on foot, The Lightning Field is intended to be experienced
over an extended period of time. Critic Kenneth Baker visited The
Lightning Field numerous times over the course of the past 30 years
in order to write this text. Inspired and challenged by this
remarkable artwork, Baker speculates on the course of our
contemporary human condition. But, rather than building on ideas in
narrative sequence, he deploys quotation to effect multiple
perspectives and points of view. Baker's citations and elegantly
crafted prose are arrayed--in a metaphorical parallel to De Maria's
choreographing of the vast landscape of the American Southwest--to
create a compelling text.
Former Secretary of State for Education Kenneth Baker claims that
secondary education has become a five-year programme with a single,
narrow aim: to prepare pupils for high-stakes GCSE exams at 16.
From 2015, all young people will be legally required to stay in
education or training until they are 18. Kenneth Baker sees this as
a historic opportunity to re-think the aims and structure of
English education. He argues that the National Curriculum should
extend only to the age of 14 and that there should be four distinct
pathways from 14-18 to take account of young people's emerging
interests talents and ambitions: Liberal Arts; Technical; Sports
and Creative Arts; and Career. All pathways will provide a broad
education, but each will have a distinctive character matched to
the talents and ambitions of individual students. In 14-18 - A New
Vision for Secondary Education, Kenneth Baker builds a compelling
case for reform, with contributions from a range of educationalists
who draw on the history of English education, practice elsewhere in
the world, and their experiences. An essential read for anyone
interested in the future of secondary education.
An ingenious system of simplified notation enables the complete
beginner to play from the very first lesson. Easy to follow text
and diagrams mean there is no need to be able to read music. The
selections are based on popular songs and classical music.
"In giving these meditations, my desire was to explain the
Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius; I was not attempting to
present pious meditations and theological considerations, no matter
how useful they may be. I attempted to give these meditations on
the Spiritual Exercises the kind of theological foundation that my
listeners had the right to expect, without falling into the kind of
theological investigations that really have nothing directly to
contribute to the purpose of spiritual exercises." These words are
used by the author who is probably the greatest theologian the
Catholic Church has produced in recent centuries. He brings his
enormous learning and his unequaled theological acumen to bear on
what is probably one of the most influential spiritual works of
Roman Catholicism. The combination is as fascinating as it is
important. The subject matter is, of course, very controversial.
Has St. Ignatius anything to say for modern Christians? Jesuits the
world over maintain that he has, others suggest that his writing is
totally confined to a particular, and unfortunate, period of Church
history. Karl Rahner has been compelled to write with a force and
simplicity we do not usually associate with him. Here is a
compelling series of meditations which take us out of the stodgy
surroundings of so much Christian spirituality, and certainly one
of Rahner's greatest works.
Former Secretary of State for Education Kenneth Baker claims that
secondary education has become a five-year programme with a single,
narrow aim: to prepare pupils for high-stakes GCSE exams at 16.
From 2015, all young people will be legally required to stay in
education or training until they are 18. Kenneth Baker sees this as
a historic opportunity to re-think the aims and structure of
English education. He argues that the National Curriculum should
extend only to the age of 14 and that there should be four distinct
pathways from 14-18 to take account of young people's emerging
interests talents and ambitions: Liberal Arts; Technical; Sports
and Creative Arts; and Career. All pathways will provide a broad
education, but each will have a distinctive character matched to
the talents and ambitions of individual students. In 14-18 - A New
Vision for Secondary Education, Kenneth Baker builds a compelling
case for reform, with contributions from a range of educationalists
who draw on the history of English education, practice elsewhere in
the world, and their experiences. An essential read for anyone
interested in the future of secondary education.
The purpose of this little book is to answer certain questions that
many people have about the nature of death. Most people feel that
there is something wrong about death. We all want to live a happy
life and we do not want to die. Life is experienced as something
very good and we want to preserve it. But the reality is that man
is by nature mortal, which means that he is destined to die sooner
or later. The fact is that we begin to die the moment we are
conceived in our mother's womb. Man is unlike all other animals,
because he has a soul endowed with intelligence and free will.
Because man's soul is spiritual, it is immortal. Death is the
separation of that soul from the body; the body decays and returns
to the dust from which it was taken, but the soul continues to live
and is in the hands of God. But what happens to the soul after
death? There are two possibilities-heaven or hell. We know from
divine revelation and from the infallible teaching of the Church
that the soul after death goes immediately to heaven (perhaps first
for a time to purgatory to be totally cleansed and sanctified), or
immediately to hell, a state or place of eternal misery. The next
life is a life without time-it is a perpetual now, with no before
and after. It has a beginning but not end. It is also unchangeable,
that is, souls in heaven are there forever and they cannot lose it;
souls in hell are there forever and they can never be freed from
it. This is a very serious and certain reality for each one of us.
The most important thing we will ever do is to die, and to die in
the state of God's grace so that we are his friends and will be
admitted to his presence, which is what is meant by heaven.
Therefore we must prepare ourselves to die in the grace of God,
which is our ticket to heaven. We do that by doing God's will for
us, which means to keep his commandments, especially to love God
above all things and practice love of neighbor. This short book
will help people think about their death and how important it is
for their permanent happiness. It will help them to arrange their
life in such a way that they will live it as God wants them to live
it and so ultimately obtain eternal life with God because: "no eye
has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man conceived, what God
has prepared for those who love him" (1 Cor. 2:9).
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