This book argues that Catholicism informs a major genre of African American literature in ways and with a significance that has gone largely unrecognized. Sacraments of Memory thus proposes a new framework for understanding the revisionist aims of these works, contextualizing the skepticism they exhibit towards historical realism in terms of a Catholic counter-tradition in American literature that has long been associated with superstition and irrationality.

Applications of Heat, Mass and Fluid Boundary Layers brings together the latest research on boundary layers where there has been remarkable advancements in recent years. This book highlights relevant concepts and solutions to energy issues and environmental sustainability by combining fundamental theory on boundary layers with real-world industrial applications from, among others, the thermal, nuclear and chemical industries. The book's editors and their team of expert contributors discuss many core themes, including advanced heat transfer fluids and boundary layer analysis, physics of fluid motion and viscous flow, thermodynamics and transport phenomena, alongside key methods of analysis such as the Merk-Chao-Fagbenle method. This book's multidisciplinary coverage will give engineers, scientists, researchers and graduate students in the areas of heat, mass, fluid flow and transfer a thorough understanding of the technicalities, methods and applications of boundary layers, with a unified approach to energy, climate change and a sustainable future.

Catholic themes and imagery in the work of writers including Toni Morrison, Leon Forrest, Phyllis Alesia Perry, and Charles Johnson Sacraments of Memory is the first book to focus on Catholic themes and imagery in African American literature. Erin Michael Salius discovers striking elements of the religion in neo-slave narratives written by Toni Morrison, Leon Forrest, Phyllis Alesia Perry, and Charles Johnson, among others. Examining the emergence of this major literary genre following Vatican II and amidst the Black Power and civil rights movements, she uncovers the presence of Catholic rituals and mysteries-including references to the Eucharist, Augustinian theology, spirit possession, and stigmata. These textual references occur alongside and in tension with criticisms of the Church's political and social policies. Salius offers a nuanced reading of Beloved that interprets the novel in light of Toni Morrison's affiliation with the religion. She argues that Morrison, and the other novelists in this study, draw on a Catholic countertradition in American literature that resists Enlightenment rationality. She highlights allusions to Catholic tropes such as the connections between spirit possession and the hijacking of Jane's narrative voice in Ernest Gaines's The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman. Salius also identifies Augustinian theology on the prescience of God in the flash-forward narrative techniques used in Edward P. Jones's The Known World. These authors use Catholicism to challenge the historical realism of past slave autobiographies and the conventional story of American slavery. Ultimately, Salius contends that this tradition enables these novelists to imagine and express radically different ways of remembering the past. Publication of the paperback edition made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

A Book of True Discoveries in Mathematics The book "Probability Theory, Live " represents a most thorough introduction to the Theory of Probability, a branch of mathematics. The presentation is scholarly precise, but in an easy-to-understand language. The book is a lot more than gambling and lottery The author, Ion Saliu, has made important discoveries in probability theory and mathematics in general. For example, the most natural way to calculate e (the base of the ... natural logarithm). They will be studied in schools down the road, despite intense attempts to pirate such ideas. The author takes credit for the Fundamental Formula of Gambling (FFG). He has always recognized that FFG started in the 18th century with Abraham de Moivre. The author, however, was the first to bring to light a new law of mathematics: "The degree of certainty increases with the increase in the number of trials, while the probability is a constant." The "odds" never change, but the degree of certainty always changes. But there is a surprising limit: Absolute certainty is a mathematical absurdity. Nothing is absolutely certain - not even Divinity. Everything comes in degrees of certainty. Not only formulas, but the author has written also appropriate software to do the calculations - most of the software is still unique today and the source code intensely sought-after. Yes, gambling is studied extensively in this book. After all, theory of probability has its birth certificate signed in gambling (Blaise Pascal advising Chevalier de Mere). As of "gambling fallacies" - again, Ion Saliu was the first to demonstrate that the "gambler's fallacy" and what he calls the "reversed gambling fallacy" are simply mathematical absurdities. The "live" factor: The book analyzes thoroughly repetition of genetic code sequences and chances of repetition of intelligent life in the Universe. The mathematical - and philosophical - analyses are totally unique. The revised 2012 version corrects the display of formulas and fixes typos (especially created by the superscript or the "raise to power" operator).

Large software systems evolve because of the need to extend their functionality by adding new features or modifying existing ones. Release planning for such systems can be extremely challenging. There are both business and technical perspectives to this challenge. From a business perspective, new feature requests originate from stakeholders with diverse (and often conflicting) business interests, who all want their needs to be met, in spite of resource, schedule and other project constraints. From a technical perspective, incorporating a new feature into an existing software system, without breaking old features, can be a tough balancing act. This book discusses a novel and rigorous decision support technique known as SoRPES that addresses these two perspectives. The work provides a theoretical foundation for, and a novel formulation of, release planning as a multi-objective optimization problem. Using results from empirical validation studies conducted on real-world projects, the book presents software practitioners with a useful tool to generate release plans that are often more optimal and more practical than could be obtained by existing techniques.

There is more to our world than meets the eye. There is a whole other world beyond it. With this in mind, this unique guide places at the fingertips of the beginner a wealth of valuable information about many of the things that are beyond our direct sensory perception. Explained in simple terms, the Spiritual Stuff section offers meanings for concepts such as: The Law of Attraction, White Light, Chakras, Reincarnation, Spirit Guides. Discover what each concept pertains to, its energetic makeup and, in most cases, how it affects our physical world. The Alternative Healing section offers explanations on different healing modalities such as: Aromatherapy, Breathwork and Rebirthing, Reflexology, Aura, Chakra and Spiritual Healing. Each method is defined, followed by how it's dispensed or administered and what the physical, spiritual, emotional and mental benefits are. Spirit is a world of its own, with its own language. This guide gives meaning to that language.