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A Christmas Carol (DVD)
George C Scott, Nigel Davenport, Frank Finley, Edward Woodward, Lucy Gutteridge, …
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George C. Scott plays the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge in this version
of the Dickens Christmas classic. Scrooge is a misanthrope
unimpressed by the fuss everyone makes during the festive season.
That is, until his sleep is disturbed one Christmas Eve by the
ghosts of Christmas past, present and future, each of which takes
him on a journey which helps him to open his heart to his fellow
man and to thereby learn the joy of Christmas. Filmed entirely on
location in the historic town of Shrewsbury.
Modern Written Arabic: A Comprehensive Grammar is a complete
reference guide to Arabic grammar. The Grammar presents a fresh and
accessible description of the language, concentrating on the real
patterns of use in contemporary written Arabic. Data is taken from
actual written Arabic, both literary and non-literary, observed or
published since 1990. Sources range from street signs to high
literature. This comprehensive work is an invaluable resource for
anyone at the intermediate to advanced level, from students through
to teachers and linguists. It is ideal for use in colleges,
universities and adult classes of all types. The volume is
organized to promote a thorough understanding of Arabic grammar. It
offers a stimulating analysis of the complexities of the language,
and provides full and clear explanations. Features include:
detailed treatment of the common grammatical structures and parts
of speech extensive exemplification particular attention to areas
of confusion and difficulty Arabic-English parallels highlighted
throughout the book an extensive index and numbered paragraphs for
ease-of-reference Elsaid Badawi was Professor of Arabic Language
and Linguistics at the American University in Cairo. Michael G.
Carter is Honorary Professor at Sydney University. Adrian Gully is
an Independent Professional Interpreter and Translator. Maher Awad
is Senior Lecturer of Arabic at Rice University.
Vienna's 'respectable' antisemites offers a radical challenge to
conventional accounts of one of the darkest periods in the city's
history: the rise of organised, politically directed antisemitism
between the late-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries. Drawing on
original research into the Christian Social movement, the book
analyses how issues such as nationalism, mass poverty and social
unrest enabled the gestation in 'respectable' society of
antisemitism, an ideology that seemed to be dying in the 1860s, but
which was given new strength from the 1880s. It delivers a riposte
to portrayals of the lower clergy as a marginalised group that was
driven to defend itself from liberal attacks by turning to
anti-liberal, antisemitic action, as well as exposing the nurturing
role played by senior clergy. As the book reveals, the Church in
Vienna as a whole was determined to counter liberalism, to the
point of welcoming any authoritarian regime that would do so. -- .
Modern Written Arabic: A Comprehensive Grammar is a complete
reference guide to Arabic grammar. The Grammar presents a fresh and
accessible description of the language, concentrating on the real
patterns of use in contemporary written Arabic. Data is taken from
actual written Arabic, both literary and non-literary, observed or
published since 1990. Sources range from street signs to high
literature. This comprehensive work is an invaluable resource for
anyone at the intermediate to advanced level, from students through
to teachers and linguists. It is ideal for use in colleges,
universities and adult classes of all types. The volume is
organized to promote a thorough understanding of Arabic grammar. It
offers a stimulating analysis of the complexities of the language,
and provides full and clear explanations. Features include:
detailed treatment of the common grammatical structures and parts
of speech extensive exemplification particular attention to areas
of confusion and difficulty Arabic-English parallels highlighted
throughout the book an extensive index and numbered paragraphs for
ease-of-reference Elsaid Badawi was Professor of Arabic Language
and Linguistics at the American University in Cairo. Michael G.
Carter is Honorary Professor at Sydney University. Adrian Gully is
an Independent Professional Interpreter and Translator. Maher Awad
is Senior Lecturer of Arabic at Rice University.
Prior work has shown that there is a significant amount of turnover
amongst the African poor as households exit and enter poverty. Some
of this mobility can be attributed to regular movement back and
forth in response to exogenous variability in climate, prices,
health, etc. ('churning'). Other crossings of the poverty line
reflect permanent shifts in long-term well-being associated with
gains or losses of productive assets or permanent changes in asset
productivity due, for example, to adoption of improved technologies
or access to new, higher-value markets. Distinguishing true
structural mobility from simple churning is important because it
clarifies the factors that facilitate such important structural
change. Conversely, it also helps identify the constraints that may
leave other households caught in a trap of persistent, structural
poverty. The papers in this book help to distinguish the types of
poverty and to deepen understanding of the structural features and
constraints that create poverty traps. Such an understanding allows
communities, local governments and donors to take proactive,
effective steps to combat persistent poverty in Africa. This book
was previously published as a special issue of the Journal of
Development Studies.
Prior work has shown that there is a significant amount of turnover
amongst the African poor as households exit and enter poverty. Some
of this mobility can be attributed to regular movement back and
forth in response to exogenous variability in climate, prices,
health, etc. ('churning'). Other crossings of the poverty line
reflect permanent shifts in long-term well-being associated with
gains or losses of productive assets or permanent changes in asset
productivity due, for example, to adoption of improved technologies
or access to new, higher-value markets. Distinguishing true
structural mobility from simple churning is important because it
clarifies the factors that facilitate such important structural
change. Conversely, it also helps identify the constraints that may
leave other households caught in a trap of persistent, structural
poverty. The papers in this book help to distinguish the types of
poverty and to deepen understanding of the structural features and
constraints that create poverty traps. Such an understanding allows
communities, local governments and donors to take proactive,
effective steps to combat persistent poverty in Africa. This book
was previously published as a special issue of the Journal of
Development Studies.
Operations Research: A Practical Introduction is just that: a
hands-on approach to the field of operations research (OR) and a
useful guide for using OR techniques in scientific decision making,
design, analysis and management. The text accomplishes two goals.
First, it provides readers with an introduction to standard
mathematical models and algorithms. Second, it is a thorough
examination of practical issues relevant to the development and use
of computational methods for problem solving. Highlights: All
chapters contain up-to-date topics and summaries A succinct
presentation to fit a one-term course Each chapter has references,
readings, and list of key terms Includes illustrative and current
applications New exercises are added throughout the text Software
tools have been updated with the newest and most popular software
Many students of various disciplines such as mathematics,
economics, industrial engineering and computer science often take
one course in operations research. This book is written to provide
a succinct and efficient introduction to the subject for these
students, while offering a sound and fundamental preparation for
more advanced courses in linear and nonlinear optimization, and
many stochastic models and analyses. It provides relevant
analytical tools for this varied audience and will also serve
professionals, corporate managers, and technical consultants.
At the same time that the Civil Rights Movement brought increasing
opportunities for blacks, the United States liberalized its
immigration policy. While the broadening of the United States's
borders to non-European immigrants fits with a black political
agenda of social justice, recent waves of immigration have
presented a dilemma for blacks, prompting ambivalent or even
negative attitudes toward migrants. What has an expanded
immigration regime meant for how blacks express national
attachment? In this book, Niambi Michele Carter argues that
immigration, both historically and in the contemporary moment, has
served as a reminder of the limited inclusion of African Americans
in the body politic. As Carter contends, blacks use the issue of
immigration as a way to understand the nature and meaning of their
American citizenship-specifically the way that white supremacy
structures and constrains not just their place in the American
political landscape, but their political opinions as well. White
supremacy gaslights black people, and others, into critiquing
themselves and each other instead of white supremacy itself. But
what may appear to be a conflict between blacks and other
minorities is about self-preservation. Carter draws on original
interview material and empirical data on African American political
opinion to offer the first theory of black public opinion toward
immigration.
Operations Research: A Practical Introduction is just that: a
hands-on approach to the field of operations research (OR) and a
useful guide for using OR techniques in scientific decision making,
design, analysis and management. The text accomplishes two goals.
First, it provides readers with an introduction to standard
mathematical models and algorithms. Second, it is a thorough
examination of practical issues relevant to the development and use
of computational methods for problem solving. Highlights: All
chapters contain up-to-date topics and summaries A succinct
presentation to fit a one-term course Each chapter has references,
readings, and list of key terms Includes illustrative and current
applications New exercises are added throughout the text Software
tools have been updated with the newest and most popular software
Many students of various disciplines such as mathematics,
economics, industrial engineering and computer science often take
one course in operations research. This book is written to provide
a succinct and efficient introduction to the subject for these
students, while offering a sound and fundamental preparation for
more advanced courses in linear and nonlinear optimization, and
many stochastic models and analyses. It provides relevant
analytical tools for this varied audience and will also serve
professionals, corporate managers, and technical consultants.
At the same time that the Civil Rights Movement brought increasing
opportunities for blacks, the United States liberalized its
immigration policy. While the broadening of the United States's
borders to non-European immigrants fits with a black political
agenda of social justice, recent waves of immigration have
presented a dilemma for blacks, prompting ambivalent or even
negative attitudes toward migrants. What has an expanded
immigration regime meant for how blacks express national
attachment? In this book, Niambi Michele Carter argues that
immigration, both historically and in the contemporary moment, has
served as a reminder of the limited inclusion of African Americans
in the body politic. As Carter contends, blacks use the issue of
immigration as a way to understand the nature and meaning of their
American citizenship-specifically the way that white supremacy
structures and constrains not just their place in the American
political landscape, but their political opinions as well. White
supremacy gaslights black people, and others, into critiquing
themselves and each other instead of white supremacy itself. But
what may appear to be a conflict between blacks and other
minorities is about self-preservation. Carter draws on original
interview material and empirical data on African American political
opinion to offer the first theory of black public opinion toward
immigration.
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop
proceedings of the Second International Conference on the Practice
and Theory of Automated Timetabling, PATAT'97, held in Toronto,
Canada, in August 1997.
The 17 revised full papers presented were carefully selected for
presentation at the conference and then had to pass a second round
of reviewing. The book is divided into topical sections on surveys,
tabu search and simulated annealing, evolutionary computation
(population-based methods), constraint-based methods, graph theory,
and practical issues.
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The Secret Bird
Michael Carter
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R236
Discovery Miles 2 360
Save R43 (15%)
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A mother, having suffered two cot deaths, was wrongly accused of
murdering her babies. "What if I had been on the jury...?" Things
heat up in the courtroom when a juror is invited by the judge to
cross examine the expert witness, a professor who says the chances
of cot deaths are only one in seventy-two million. "Thus, it has to
be murder." But, there's more to this case than meets the eye...
Readers must depict fact from fiction in this compelling venture
into the inner workings of a courtroom. Inspired by the teachings
of Nassim Taleb, it is also an entertaining layman's introduction
to probability and the use and misuse of mathematical evidence in a
court of law.
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