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Verdigris
Michele Mari; Translated by Brian Robert Moore
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Discovery Miles 3 700
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At the tail end of the 1960s, the thirteen-year-old Michelino
spends his summers at his grandparents' modest estate in Nasca,
near Lake Maggiore, losing himself in the tales of horror,
adventure, and mystery shelved in his grandfather's library. The
greatest mystery he's ever encountered, however, doesn't come from
a book - it's the groundskeeper, Felice, a sometimes frightening,
sometimes gentle, always colourful man of uncertain age who speaks
an enchanting dialect and whose memory gets worse with each passing
day. When Michelino volunteers to help the old man by providing him
with clever mnemonic devices to keep his memory alive, the boy soon
finds himself obsessed with piecing together the eerie hodgepodge
of Felice's biography . . . a quest that leads to the uncovering of
skeletons in Nazi uniforms in the attic, to Felice's admission that
he can hear the voices of the dead, and to a new perspective on
Felice's endless war against the insatiable local slugs, who are by
no means merely a horticultural threat. And yet nothing could be
more fascinating to Michelino than Felice's own secret origins.
Where did he come from? Is he the victim or the villain of his
story? Is he a noble hero, a holy fool, or perhaps the very thing
that Michelino most wants and fears: a real-life monster.
Italy's great chronicler of the macabre and hilarious terrors of
growing up geeky arrives in English at last. Long before the latest
vogue for autofiction, Michele Mari, one of Italy's most beloved
authors, cast his mind back to the days of his own childhood, and
found it crawling with monsters. Raised on comic books and science
fiction, the young Mari constructed an alternate universe for
himself untouched by uncomprehending grownups or sadistic peers.
Compared to the horrors of real life, Long John Silver and Cthulhu
made for positively cuddly company; but little boys raised by
beasts may well grow up beastly-or never grow up at all. Waking or
sleeping, the obsessions of Mari's youth seem to color his every
adult thought. You, Bleeding Childhood stands as his first attempt
to catalog this cabinet of wonders. Cult classics since their first
publication, these loosely connected stories stand as the ideal
introduction to an encyclopedic fantasist on a par with Kafka, Poe,
and Borges.
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Victim (DVD)
Ashley Chin, Ashley Madekwe, Jason Maza, Anna Nightingale, Michael Maris, …
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Discovery Miles 340
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This British crime drama set in London's East End is the cinematic
debut of TV director Alex Pillai. Ashley Madekwe stars as Tia, a
middle class girl from the Home Counties who becomes caught up in a
world of crime when she goes to stay in the London council flat of
her cousin, Davina (Anna Nightingale). Much to her cousin's
displeasure, Tia becomes increasingly involved with one of her
friends, Tyson (Ashley Chin). As she becomes closer to Tyson, Tia
discovers that he has his own complex and very personal reasons for
turning to a life of crime.
This 4-th edition of the leading reference volume on distance
metrics is characterized by updated and rewritten sections on some
items suggested by experts and readers, as well a general
streamlining of content and the addition of essential new topics.
Though the structure remains unchanged, the new edition also
explores recent advances in the use of distances and metrics for
e.g. generalized distances, probability theory, graph theory,
coding theory, data analysis. New topics in the purely mathematical
sections include e.g. the Vitanyi multiset-metric, algebraic
point-conic distance, triangular ratio metric, Rossi-Hamming
metric, Taneja distance, spectral semimetric between graphs,
channel metrization, and Maryland bridge distance. The
multidisciplinary sections have also been supplemented with new
topics, including: dynamic time wrapping distance, memory distance,
allometry, atmospheric depth, elliptic orbit distance, VLBI
distance measurements, the astronomical system of units, and
walkability distance. Leaving aside the practical questions that
arise during the selection of a 'good' distance function, this work
focuses on providing the research community with an invaluable
comprehensive listing of the main available distances. As well as
providing standalone introductions and definitions, the
encyclopedia facilitates swift cross-referencing with easily
navigable bold-faced textual links to core entries. In addition to
distances themselves, the authors have collated numerous
fascinating curiosities in their Who's Who of metrics, including
distance-related notions and paradigms that enable applied
mathematicians in other sectors to deploy research tools that
non-specialists justly view as arcane. In expanding access to these
techniques, and in many cases enriching the context of distances
themselves, this peerless volume is certain to stimulate fresh
research.
This 4-th edition of the leading reference volume on distance
metrics is characterized by updated and rewritten sections on some
items suggested by experts and readers, as well a general
streamlining of content and the addition of essential new topics.
Though the structure remains unchanged, the new edition also
explores recent advances in the use of distances and metrics for
e.g. generalized distances, probability theory, graph theory,
coding theory, data analysis. New topics in the purely mathematical
sections include e.g. the Vitanyi multiset-metric, algebraic
point-conic distance, triangular ratio metric, Rossi-Hamming
metric, Taneja distance, spectral semimetric between graphs,
channel metrization, and Maryland bridge distance. The
multidisciplinary sections have also been supplemented with new
topics, including: dynamic time wrapping distance, memory distance,
allometry, atmospheric depth, elliptic orbit distance, VLBI
distance measurements, the astronomical system of units, and
walkability distance. Leaving aside the practical questions that
arise during the selection of a 'good' distance function, this work
focuses on providing the research community with an invaluable
comprehensive listing of the main available distances. As well as
providing standalone introductions and definitions, the
encyclopedia facilitates swift cross-referencing with easily
navigable bold-faced textual links to core entries. In addition to
distances themselves, the authors have collated numerous
fascinating curiosities in their Who's Who of metrics, including
distance-related notions and paradigms that enable applied
mathematicians in other sectors to deploy research tools that
non-specialists justly view as arcane. In expanding access to these
techniques, and in many cases enriching the context of distances
themselves, this peerless volume is certain to stimulate fresh
research.
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Goldrausch 2010 (Pamphlet)
Elly Clarke, Pauline Curnier Jardin, Tatiana Echeverri Fernandez; Edited by Linda Franke, Anne Kathrin Greiner, …
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R652
Discovery Miles 6 520
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The central theme of the present book is zigzags and
central-circuits of three- or four-regular plane graphs, which
allow a double covering or covering of the edgeset to be obtained.
The book presents zigzag and central circuit structures of
geometric fullerenes and several other classes of graph of interest
in the fields of chemistry and mathematics. It also discusses the
symmetries, parameterization and the Goldberg-Coxeter construction
for those graphs. It is the first book on this subject, presenting
full structure theory of such graphs. While many previous
publications only addressed particular questions about selected
graphs, this book is based on numerous computations and presents
extensive data (tables and figures), as well as algorithmic and
computational information. It will be of interest to researchers
and students of discrete geometry, mathematical chemistry and
combinatorics, as well as to lay mathematicians.
This remarkable new guide is the first hybrid text of its kind that
adopts the traditional method of medical education and fuses it
with an evidence-based approach. It covers, in great detail, all of
the common conditions seen in primary and secondary paediatrics.
Skilfully designed for easy revision and reference, each chapter is
devoted to a symptom, commencing with the objectives and essential
relevant background material followed by history and examination.
In the management section specific questions are posed and evidence
based responses are offered, ensuring both patients and their
parents are satisfied. Uniquely, in the majority of cases, evidence
from randomized controlled trials is given. To facilitate
comprehension, revision and examination preparation, chapter
includes a series of multiple choice questions and meticulous
answers. It also includes an invaluable clinical slide and X-ray
collection outlining key radiological features of many of the
clinical conditions described to further aid understanding,
recognition and diagnosis. Diagnosing and Treating Common Problems
in Paediatrics is a highly comprehensive primer of how to learn and
evaluate knowledge and then translate that knowledge into practice.
It provides paediatric consultants and students with the
confidence, professionalism and unique communication skill required
to work effectively with both children and parents, ensuring
successful treatment and outcomes.
These powerful, contemporary monologues share the courage,
conflicts and joys of characters facing difficult decisions.
Developed through consultation with young people, they offer a
range of authentic, memorable voices to stimulate discussion and
participatory drama work.
Cuts and metrics are well-known objects that arise - independently, but with many deep and fascinating connections - in diverse fields: in graph theory, combinatorial optimization, geometry of numbers, combinatorial matrix theory, statistical physics, VLSI design etc. This book offers a comprehensive summary together with a global view, establishing both old and new links. Its treatment ranges from classical theorems of Menger and Schoenberg to recent developments such as approximation results for multicommodity flow and max-cut problems, metric aspects of Delaunay polytopes, isometric graph embeddings, and matrix completion problems. The discussion leads to many interesting subjects that cannot be found elsewhere, providing a unique and invaluable source for researchers and graduate students.
Sounds Irish, Acts Global critically examines both the history of
Ireland's popular music industry as well as the current music scene
in the country. By placing recent industry developments in the
context of that history, the authors present a new way of examining
any nation state's music industry - to understand the industry, the
local scene must be examined. This approach highlights the multiple
and changing ways by which the local scene prepares artists for
both domestic and international success. In Ireland's case the
scene, with its supportive network of friends, families and fans,
has developed the artists who then sign with the major
transnational music firms. This book is of interest to business
students as well as popular music scholars in addition to
non-academic readers.
An in-depth look at some of the best and most influential French
films of all time, "The Cinema of France" contains 24 essays, each
on an individual film. The book features works from the silent
period and poetic realism, through the stylistic developments of
the New Wave, and up to more contemporary challenging films, from
directors such as Abel Gance, Jean Renoir, Marcel Carn?, Fran?ois
Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Alain Resnais, Agn's Varda and Luc
Besson. Set in chronological order, "The Cinema of France" provides
an illuminating history of this essential national cinema and
includes in-depth studies of films such as "Un Chien Andalou"
(1929), "Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot" (1953), "Le Samoura?"
(1967), "Shoah" (1985), "Jean de Florette" (1986), "Les Visiteurs"
(1993) and "La Haine" (1995).
This book comes out of need and urgency (expressed especially in
areas of Information Retrieval with respect to Image, Audio,
Internet and Biology) to have a working tool to compare data.
The book will provide powerful resource for all researchers using
Mathematics as well as for mathematicians themselves. In the time
when over-specialization and terminology fences isolate
researchers, this Dictionary try to be "centripedal" and
"oikoumeni," providing some access and altitude of vision but
without taking the route of scientific vulgarisation. This
attempted balance is the main philosophy of this Dictionary which
defined its structure and style.
Key features:
- Unicity: it is the first book treating the basic notion of
Distance in whole generality.
- Interdisciplinarity: this Dictionary is larger in scope than
majority of thematic dictionaries.
- Encyclopedicity: while an Encyclopedia of Distances seems now too
difficult to produce, this book (by its scope, short introductions
and organization) provides the main material for it and for future
tutorials on some parts of this material.
- Applicability: the distances, as well as distance-related notions
and paradigms, are provided in ready-to-use fashion.
- Worthiness: the need and urgency for such dictionary was great in
several huge areas, esp. Information Retrieval, Image Analysis,
Speech Recognition and Biology.
- Accessibility: the definitions are easy to locate by subject or,
in Index, by alphabetic order; the introductions and definitions
are reader-friendly and maximally independent one from another;
still the text is structured, in the 3D HTML style, by
hyperlink-like boldfaced references to similar definitions.
* Covers a large range of subjects in pure and applied
mathematics
* Designed to be easily applied--the distances and distance-related
notions and paradigms are ready to use
* Helps users quickly locate definitions by subject or in
alphabetical order; stand-alone entries include references to other
entries and sources for further investigation
An in-depth look at some of the best and most influential French
films of all time, "The Cinema of France" contains 24 essays, each
on an individual film. The book features works from the silent
period and poetic realism, through the stylistic developments of
the New Wave, and up to more contemporary challenging films, from
directors such as Abel Gance, Jean Renoir, Marcel Carn?, Fran?ois
Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Alain Resnais, Agn's Varda and Luc
Besson. Set in chronological order, "The Cinema of France" provides
an illuminating history of this essential national cinema and
includes in-depth studies of films such as "Un Chien Andalou"
(1929), "Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot" (1953), "Le Samoura?"
(1967), "Shoah" (1985), "Jean de Florette" (1986), "Les Visiteurs"
(1993) and "La Haine" (1995).
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