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'Psycho' meets 'Hotel California' horror in which a young couple
are trapped, awaiting their fate. For young couple Amy and David
Fox (Kate Beckinsale and Luke Wilson), a long day bickering in
their car suddenly gets much worse when they break down in the
middle of nowhere. Luckily for them they find a motel and settle
down to watch some TV. Concern rises when they realise the 'snuff'
movies the motel thoughtfully supply for their guests seem vaguely
familiar. Discovering hidden cameras, they realise that they are
about to star in the performance of their lives, or rather the end
of it, unless they can somehow escape.
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.
This book analyzes the Reagan administration's Middle East policy
during its first four-year term of office. It deals with security
assistance, bilateral strategic cooperation, military
collaboration, crisis management in Lebanon, and the Reagan Plan
employed by the administration.
Studying Muslim fundamentalisms, this book compares key movements,
examining their commonalities, differences, and intricate
relations, as well as their achievements and failures. Muslim
fundamentalisms have the sympathy of approximately half of the
Muslim population in the world. Yet, they are divided among
themselves and are in a constant state of controversy. The research
dwells on the leading fundamentalist movements, such as the Muslim
Brothers, Tablighi-Jama'at, al-Qaeda, and ISIS, and illustrates how
differently they think about the West and its culture, democracy,
and women's presence in the public sphere. By identifying these
trends, and studying them comparatively, the book enables the
interested reader to make sense of the plethora of fundamentalist
movements, which are otherwise lumped together by the media and are
barely discernible for the reader. Whereas most studies of Muslim
fundamentalism focus on organizational or militant actions that the
movements perform, this study concentrates on their efforts to
Islamize society through everyday life in a peaceful manner.
Identifying the different strands of Muslim fundamentalisms, the
book will be a key resource to a wide range of readers including
researchers and students interested in politics, religious, Islamic
and Middle Eastern Studies.
Ahmad Ibn Hanbal (d. 855) was the eponymous founder of a school of
law, and an influential intellectual who led the Baghdadi masses
during the Inquisition. Owing to his status as a jurist, to the
religious ideas he propounded and to his model way of life, he is
perceived as one of the pivotal figures in the history of Islam and
a revered hero to this day. The ninth-century juror Ahmad Ibn
Hanbal was a central figure in early Islam whose influence on
succeeding generations is widely recognized. Drawing on historical
anthropology and micro-history, this study moves beyond
conventional biography to integrate the story of Ibn Hanbal's life
with the main events during a crucial formative period in Islamic
history. The main theme of this study is Ibn Hanbal's prestige, the
disciples he drew to his study circle and the political power that
evolved from it. It proposes new approaches and novel
interpretations that call into question prevalent views about moral
outlook, school formation and the dynamics of the Inquisition. In
the inquiry into the formation of the Hanbali school of law, it
takes into consideration a wide variety of issues such as
jurisprudence, theology and social networks.
The education of any US administration to the complexities of the
ever-changing Middle East is an on-going experience. It ends only
with the termination of that administration's tenure. In order for
any earlier analysis of this evolutionary process to take place,
the observer must take advantage of the most viable boundary in
time. None seems less artificial than the deadline imposed by
presidential elections. Moreover, the juxtaposition of the need to
demonstrate accomplishments and suggest a course for four more
years, with the potential of personnel reshuffles, suggests a
possible turning point worthy of note. Hence the present study
traces and attempts to analyze the Reagan administration's Middle
East policy during its first four-year term of office.
Ahmad ibn Hanbal (d. 855) was the eponymous founder of a school of law, and an influential intellectual who led the Baghdadi masses during the Inquisition. Owing to his status as a jurist, to the religious ideas he propounded and to his model way of life, he is perceived as one of the pivotal figures in the history of Islam and a revered hero to this day. The ninth-century juror Ahmad ibn Hanbal was a central figure in early Islam whose influence on succeeding generations is widely recognized. Drawing on historical anthropology and micro-history, this study moves beyond conventional biography to integrate the story of ibn Hanbal's life with the main events during a crucial formative period in Islamic history. The main theme of this study is ibn Hanbal's prestige, the disciples he drew to his study circle and the political power that evolved from it. It proposes new approaches and novel interpretations that call into question prevalent views about moral outlook, school formation and the dynamics of the Inquisition. In the inquiry into the formation of the Hanbali school of law, it takes into consideration a wide variety of issues such as jurisprudence, theology and social networks.
Studying Muslim fundamentalisms, this book compares key movements,
examining their commonalities, differences, and intricate
relations, as well as their achievements and failures. Muslim
fundamentalisms have the sympathy of approximately half of the
Muslim population in the world. Yet, they are divided among
themselves and are in a constant state of controversy. The research
dwells on the leading fundamentalist movements, such as the Muslim
Brothers, Tablighi-Jama'at, al-Qaeda, and ISIS, and illustrates how
differently they think about the West and its culture, democracy,
and women's presence in the public sphere. By identifying these
trends, and studying them comparatively, the book enables the
interested reader to make sense of the plethora of fundamentalist
movements, which are otherwise lumped together by the media and are
barely discernible for the reader. Whereas most studies of Muslim
fundamentalism focus on organizational or militant actions that the
movements perform, this study concentrates on their efforts to
Islamize society through everyday life in a peaceful manner.
Identifying the different strands of Muslim fundamentalisms, the
book will be a key resource to a wide range of readers including
researchers and students interested in politics, religious, Islamic
and Middle Eastern Studies.
This volume features forty-two essays written in honor of Joseph
Agassi. It explores the work and legacy of this influential
philosopher, an exciting and challenging advocate of critical
rationalism. Throughout six decades of stupendous intellectual
activity, Agassi called attention to rationality as the very
starting point of every notable philosophical way of life. The
essays present Agassi's own views on critical rationalism. They
also develop and expand upon his work in new and provocative ways.
The authors include Agassi's most notable pupils, friends, and
colleagues. Overall, their contributions challenge the received
view on a variety of issues concerning science, religion, and
education. Readers will find well-reasoned arguments on such topics
as the secular problem of evil, religion and critical thinking,
liberal democratic educational communities, democracy and
constitutionalism, and capitalism at a crossroad.
This book is a philosophical introduction to the field of
communication and media studies. In search of the philosophical
backgrounds of that relatively young field, the book explores why
this overwhelmingly popular discipline is in crisis. The book
discusses classic introductions on communication, provides an
update on lessons learned, and re-evaluates the work of pioneers in
the light of up-to-date philosophical standards. It summarizes
various debates surrounding the foundations of system theory and
especially its applicability to the Social Sciences in general and
to Communication Studies in particular. Communication schools
promise their students an understanding of the source of a
principal and dynamical power in their lives, a power shaping
societies and identities, molding aspirations, and deciding their
fates. They also promise students a practical benefit, a chance to
learn the secret of controlling that dynamical power, improving a
set of skills that would ensure them a critical edge in the future
job market: become better media experts for all media. Yet no one
seems to know how such promises are met. Can there be a general
theory of communication? If not, what can (should) communication
students learn? This book looks at the problem from a philosophical
perspective and proposes a framework wherein critical cases can be
tested.
This volume features forty-two essays written in honor of Joseph
Agassi. It explores the work and legacy of this influential
philosopher, an exciting and challenging advocate of critical
rationalism. Throughout six decades of stupendous intellectual
activity, Agassi called attention to rationality as the very
starting point of every notable philosophical way of life. The
essays present Agassi's own views on critical rationalism. They
also develop and expand upon his work in new and provocative ways.
The authors include Agassi's most notable pupils, friends, and
colleagues. Overall, their contributions challenge the received
view on a variety of issues concerning science, religion, and
education. Readers will find well-reasoned arguments on such topics
as the secular problem of evil, religion and critical thinking,
liberal democratic educational communities, democracy and
constitutionalism, and capitalism at a crossroad.
The Internet has dramatically altered the landscape of crime and
national security, creating new threats, such as identity theft,
computer viruses, and cyberattacks. Moreover, because cybercrimes
are often not limited to a single site or nation, crime scenes
themselves have changed. Consequently, law enforcement must
confront these new dangers and embrace novel methods of prevention,
as well as produce new tools for digital surveillance-which can
jeopardize privacy and civil liberties. Cybercrime brings together
leading experts in law, criminal justice, and security studies to
describe crime prevention and security protection in the electronic
age. Ranging from new government requirements that facilitate
spying to new methods of digital proof, the book is essential to
understand how criminal law-and even crime itself-have been
transformed in our networked world. Contributors: Jack M. Balkin,
Susan W. Brenner, Daniel E. Geer, Jr., James Grimmelmann, Emily
Hancock, Beryl A. Howell, Curtis E.A. Karnow, Eddan Katz, Orin S.
Kerr, Nimrod Kozlovski, Helen Nissenbaum, Kim A. Taipale, Lee Tien,
Shlomit Wagman, and Tal Zarsky.
This book is a philosophical introduction to the field of
communication and media studies. In search of the philosophical
backgrounds of that relatively young field, the book explores why
this overwhelmingly popular discipline is in crisis. The book
discusses classic introductions on communication, provides an
update on lessons learned, and re-evaluates the work of pioneers in
the light of up-to-date philosophical standards. It summarizes
various debates surrounding the foundations of system theory and
especially its applicability to the Social Sciences in general and
to Communication Studies in particular. Communication schools
promise their students an understanding of the source of a
principal and dynamical power in their lives, a power shaping
societies and identities, molding aspirations, and deciding their
fates. They also promise students a practical benefit, a chance to
learn the secret of controlling that dynamical power, improving a
set of skills that would ensure them a critical edge in the future
job market: become better media experts for all media. Yet no one
seems to know how such promises are met. Can there be a general
theory of communication? If not, what can (should) communication
students learn? This book looks at the problem from a philosophical
perspective and proposes a framework wherein critical cases can be
tested.
This book explores the continuous British fascination with the
American Civil War from the 1870s to the present. Analysing the
War's place in British political discourse, military writing,
intellectual life and popular culture, it traces the sources of
Britons' appeal to the American conflict and their use of its
representations at home and abroad.
The starting point of this volume was a conference entitled
"Progress in Mathematical Programming," held at the Asilomar
Conference Center in Pacific Grove, California, March 1-4, 1987.
The main topic of the conference was developments in the theory and
practice of linear programming since Karmarkar's algorithm. There
were thirty presentations and approximately fifty people attended.
Presentations included new algorithms, new analyses of algorithms,
reports on computational experience, and some other topics related
to the practice of mathematical programming. Interestingly, most of
the progress reported at the conference was on the theoretical
side. Several new polynomial algorithms for linear program- ming
were presented (Barnes-Chopra-Jensen, Goldfarb-Mehrotra, Gonzaga,
Kojima-Mizuno-Yoshise, Renegar, Todd, Vaidya, and Ye). Other
algorithms presented were by Betke-Gritzmann, Blum,
Gill-Murray-Saunders-Wright, Nazareth, Vial, and Zikan-Cottle.
Efforts in the theoretical analysis of algo- rithms were also
reported (Anstreicher, Bayer-Lagarias, Imai, Lagarias,
Megiddo-Shub, Lagarias, Smale, and Vanderbei). Computational
experiences were reported by Lustig, Tomlin, Todd, Tone, Ye, and
Zikan-Cottle. Of special interest, although not in the main
direction discussed at the conference, was the report by Rinaldi on
the practical solution of some large traveling salesman problems.
At the time of the conference, it was still not clear whether the
new algorithms developed since Karmarkar's algorithm would replace
the simplex method in practice. Alan Hoffman presented results on
conditions under which linear programming problems can be solved by
greedy algorithms.
This volume presents a collection of papers on game theory
dedicated to Michael Maschler. Through his dedication and
contributions to game theory, Maschler has become an important
figure particularly in the area of cooperative games. Game theory
has since become an important subject in operations research,
economics and management science. As befits such a volume, the main
themes covered are cooperative games, coalitions, repeated games,
and a cost allocation games. All the contributions are
authoritative surveys of a particular topic, so together they will
present an invaluable overview of the field to all those working on
game theory problems.
a single life-span. Philosophers, then, do not see more or know
more, and they do not see less or know less. They aim to see less
detail and more of the abstract. Their details, if you like, are
abstractions. Walking on God's earth as a pedestrian, as a farmer
working his fields or as a passer-by, one's picture of one's
surroundings is every bit as intelligent as that of the pilot
riding the sky. The views of the field are radically different,
however. One sees only a specific field and in all lively detail:
the exact pattern of the land, or even the exact outline of a given
leaf, grasshopper, grain of sand even. Acquaintance with minute
detail is not without its price: details may stand in the way of
conjuring the big picture. It may be difficult to compare whichever
field one happens to be in with far off fields, with respect to
their size or shape or any other quality. One may wish to inquire
if far off fields were already planted, harvested, or even if they
exist. A pedestrian may find it hard or even impossible to do so.
The pedestrian view contains fine points that the pilot's map never
would, but it does not necessarily contain more information, for it
lacks the general context. After all, there are only so many items
that one can observe and account for at a single glance, a single
map, a single book, a single life-span.
Following Karmarkar's 1984 linear programming algorithm, numerous
interior-point algorithms have been proposed for various
mathematical programming problems such as linear programming,
convex quadratic programming and convex programming in general.
This monograph presents a study of interior-point algorithms for
the linear complementarity problem (LCP) which is known as a
mathematical model for primal-dual pairs of linear programs and
convex quadratic programs. A large family of potential reduction
algorithms is presented in a unified way for the class of LCPs
where the underlying matrix has nonnegative principal minors
(P0-matrix). This class includes various important subclasses such
as positive semi-definite matrices, P-matrices, P*-matrices
introduced in this monograph, and column sufficient matrices. The
family contains not only the usual potential reduction algorithms
but also path following algorithms and a damped Newton method for
the LCP. The main topics are global convergence, global linear
convergence, and the polynomial-time convergence of potential
reduction algorithms included in the family.
"Over the last two decades, medical researchers have become more
comfortable wit the idea that serious attention must be given to
ethical issues when the tests of new technologies are being
designed. They have come to see that experimental trials must meet
certain standards, not only of scientific rigour, but also of moral
acceptability." (Introduction)
Presented by an international group of experts, the eight
essays included in this volume evaluate the new technologies in
fetal care and also wrestle with the new problems, often moral
ones, that have accompanied techonological advancement. The opening
chapters review state-of-the-art ultrasound imaging and molecular
genetics and focus on the new patient--the fetus. From here, the
efficacy of fetal therapy, the problem of assessing long-term
viability, the ethical issues involved in both clinical practice
and medical research, and the legal rights of the new patients and
their parents are examined. The final chapter "Are Fetuses Becoming
Children?" brings a fresh philosophical perspective to the question
of a fetus's status and rights.
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