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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
As the operations of the world become more and more dependent on
highly interconnected, massively complex, networked systems of
computational devices, the need to develop a mathematical
understanding of their properties and behaviours is increasingly
pressing. Our approach, described in this monograph, is to combine
the compositionality of formal specification -- using techniques
from algebra, computation theory, logic, and probability theory --
with the control of level of abstraction afforded by the classical
mathematical modelling method.
Drawn from the author's ongoing column in TrueWest Magazine, this
cookbook combines myths, nostalgia, and legends with usable,
delicious, and fun recipes for use at home or on the trail--all
with a western theme. Readers will be surprised to learn the
stories behind some of their favorite recipes, and they'll find
inspiration from the days of cooking along the trail or in the old
iron cook stove in these dishes interpreted for a modern cook's
kitchen.
How Behavioral Economics Influences Management Decision-Making: A
New Paradigm critically reexamines the management function in 21st
century workplaces. The book seeks to examine and explain the
real-world behaviors of employees and acknowledge the human nature
that binds us all together and how to appeal to these
characteristics in order to help organizations prosper. It explores
well-observed but rarely understood features of employee cognition
and irrationality, challenging the dominant discourse and offering
an alternative to gain greater competitive advantage in today's
complex markets. It also provides an effective new framework on the
best ways to develop relevant management skills as they pertain to
hiring, performance management, change management, employee
engagement, and goal setting. As the knowledge economy continues to
grow, the social bonds within companies will prove to be a key
differentiation to deliver on the next big idea. Developing
productive decisions with staff in the talent-driven global economy
increasingly requires the development of "intrinsic" meaning in
work, a human-centered work-place culture, and human-focused
working practices. This book tackles these topics in comprehensive
and efficient detail.
Schools under Surveillance gathers together some of the very best
researchers studying surveillance and discipline in contemporary
public schools. Surveillance is not simply about monitoring or
tracking individuals and their data - it is about the structuring
of power relations through human, technical, or hybrid control
mechanisms. Essays cover a broad range of topics including police
and military recruiters on campus, testing and accountability
regimes such as No Child Left Behind, and efforts by students and
teachers to circumvent the most egregious forms of surveillance in
public education. Each contributor is committed to the continued
critique of the disparity and inequality in the use of surveillance
to target and sort students along lines of race, class, and gender.
Special topics covered in this title include: security systems;
police officers; audit cultures; standardized tests; marketing
research; and, military recruiters.
In what was the most devastating event of their lives, Tom and
Pat Monahan lost their nine-year-old grandson, Tommy, in a house
fire in December of 2007. This unimaginable tragedy rocked their
lives with pain and sorrow beyond description, of a kind and
strength they had never dreamed of.
As a way of dealing with this unspeakable grief, Pat Monahan
practiced what she preached as a professional bereavement
counselor: she began journaling her feelings to work through the
pain. Following the depression that comes with grief, she realized
that this process was a major key to lifting her depression. In
hopes of helping others whose faith has been shattered following
the loss of a loved one, Pat presents her recorded thoughts and
struggles in "To Thee We Do Cry."
She describes the impact her grandson Tommy's life and death had
on the entire community of Staten Island; she also emphasizes the
importance of coping with the struggle with spirituality while
faced with such trauma. In the end, it is faith that will guide
someone suffering from a loss back to living a full life once
more.
Filled with more than 150 recipes, anecdotes, and stories from some
of America's most popular writers and personalities, this
collaborative effort has a writerly sensibility and a Western point
of view. Including recipes for drinks, appetizers, main dishes,
side dishes, desserts, and fun extras-as well as stories from and
profiles of the contributors, this is both a Western book and a
cookbook that moves beyond the genre.
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The Gambler (DVD)
Mark Wahlberg, Emory Cohen, Brie Larson, Michael K. Williams, John Goodman, …
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Discovery Miles 3 240
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Mark Wahlberg and Brie Larson star in this American crime drama
directed by Rupert Wyatt. The film follows privileged literature
professor and high stakes gambler Jim Bennett (Wahlberg) as he
embarks on a relationship with his student Amy (Larson) while
running up huge amounts of debt to numerous casino owners and
gangsters. The supporting cast includes Jessica Lange as Bennett's
mother Roberta, John Goodman as paternally inclined lender Frank,
and Michael K. Williams as loan shark Neville Baraka.
Why would Gustav Mahler (1860-1911), modernist titan and so-called
prophet of the New Music, commit himself time and again to the
venerable sonata-allegro form of Mozart and Beethoven? How could so
gifted a symphonic storyteller be drawn to a framework that many
have dismissed as antiquated and dramatically inert? Mahler's
Symphonic Sonatas offers a striking new take on this old dilemma.
Indeed, it poses these questions seriously for the first time.
Rather than downplaying Mahler's sonata designs as distracting
anachronisms or innocuous groundplans, author Seth Monahan argues
that for much of his career, Mahler used the inner, goal-directed
dynamics of sonata form as the basis for some of his most gripping
symphonic stories. Laying bare the deeper narrative/processual
grammar of Mahler's evolving sonata corpus, Monahan pays particular
attention to its recycling of large-scale rhetorical devices and
its consistent linkage of tonal plot and affect. He then sets forth
an interpretive framework that combines the visionary insights of
Theodor W. Adorno-whose Mahler writings are examined here lucidly
and at length-with elements of Hepokoski and Darcy's renowned
Sonata Theory. What emerges is a tensely dialectical image of
Mahler's sonata forms, one that hears the genre's compulsion for
tonal/rhetorical closure in full collision with the spontaneous
narrative needs of the surrounding music and of the overarching
symphonic totality. It is a practice that calls forth sonata form
not as a rigid mold, but as a dynamic process-rich with historical
resonances and subject to a vast range of complications,
curtailments, and catastrophes. With its expert balance of riveting
analytical narration and thoughtful methodological reflection,
Mahler's Symphonic Sonatas promises to be a landmark text of Mahler
reception, and one that will reward scholars and students of the
late-Romantic symphony for years to come.
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