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Apeirogon - Grand Prix des Lectrices ELLE

Autor: Colum Mccann

Número de Páginas: 496

Rentrée littéraire 2020 Apeirogon, n.m. : figure géométrique au nombre infini de côtés. Rami Elhanan est israélien, fils d'un rescapé de la Shoah, ancien soldat de la guerre du Kippour ; Bassam Aramin est palestinien, et n'a connu que la dépossession, la prison et les humiliations. Tous deux ont perdu une fille. Abir avait dix ans, Smadar, treize ans. Passés le choc, la douleur, les souvenirs, le deuil, il y a l'envie de sauver des vies. Eux qui étaient nés pour se haïr décident de raconter leur histoire et de se battre pour la paix. Afin de restituer cette tragédie immense, de rendre hommage à l'histoire vraie de cette amitié, Colum McCann nous offre une œuvre totale à la forme inédite ; une exploration tout à la fois historique, politique, philosophique, religieuse, musicale, cinématographique et géographique d'un conflit infini. Porté par la grâce d'une écriture, flirtant avec la poésie et la non-fiction, un roman protéiforme qui nous engage à comprendre, à échanger et, peut-être, à entrevoir un nouvel avenir.

Apeirogon

Autor: Colum Mccann

Número de Páginas: 481

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE PRIX FEMINA AND THE PRIX MEDICIS SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSBORO BOOKS GLASS BELL AWARD WINNER OF THE PRIX DU MEILLEUR LIVRES ETRANGER WINNER OF THE 2020 NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARDS CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF 2020 BY THE SUNDAY TIMES, OBSERVER, GUARDIAN, i PAPER, FINANCIAL TIMES, NEW STATESMAN, SCOTSMAN, IRISH TIMES, BBC.COM, WATERSTONES.COM 'A wondrous book. It left me hopeful; this is its gift' Elizabeth Strout 'An empathy engine ... It is, itself, an agent of change' New York Times Book Review 'A quite extraordinary novel' Kamila Shamsie ______________________ How do we continue living once we have lost our reason to live? Rami and Bassam live in the city of Jerusalem – but exist worlds apart, divided by an age-old conflict. And yet they have one thing in common. Both are fathers; both are fathers of daughters – and both daughters are now lost. When Rami and Bassam meet, and tell one another the story of their grief, the most unexpected thing of all happens: they become best of friends. And their stories become one story, a story with the power to heal – and...

Polytopes

Autor: Tibor Bisztriczky , Peter Mcmullen , Rolf Schneider , Asia Ivic Weiss

Número de Páginas: 515

The aim of this volume is to reinforce the interaction between the three main branches (abstract, convex and computational) of the theory of polytopes. The articles include contributions from many of the leading experts in the field, and their topics of concern are expositions of recent results and in-depth analyses of the development (past and future) of the subject. The subject matter of the book ranges from algorithms for assignment and transportation problems to the introduction of a geometric theory of polyhedra which need not be convex. With polytopes as the main topic of interest, there are articles on realizations, classifications, Eulerian posets, polyhedral subdivisions, generalized stress, the Brunn--Minkowski theory, asymptotic approximations and the computation of volumes and mixed volumes. For researchers in applied and computational convexity, convex geometry and discrete geometry at the graduate and postgraduate levels.

Abstract Regular Polytopes

Autor: Peter Mcmullen , Egon Schulte

Número de Páginas: 580

Abstract regular polytopes stand at the end of more than two millennia of geometrical research, which began with regular polygons and polyhedra. They are highly symmetric combinatorial structures with distinctive geometric, algebraic or topological properties; in many ways more fascinating than traditional regular polytopes and tessellations. The rapid development of the subject in the past 20 years has resulted in a rich new theory, featuring an attractive interplay of mathematical areas, including geometry, combinatorics, group theory and topology. Abstract regular polytopes and their groups provide an appealing new approach to understanding geometric and combinatorial symmetry. This is the first comprehensive up-to-date account of the subject and its ramifications, and meets a critical need for such a text, because no book has been published in this area of classical and modern discrete geometry since Coxeter's Regular Polytopes (1948) and Regular Complex Polytopes (1974). The book should be of interest to researchers and graduate students in discrete geometry, combinatorics and group theory.

Literary Materialisations and Interferential Reading

Autor: Ingrid Hotz-davies , Martin Middeke , Christoph Reinfandt

Número de Páginas: 280

This book traces literature’s long history of repurposing representational language use for performative, “material” effects. It brings this tradition into dialogue with the recent material turn in literary and cultural theory, which seeks to supplant or at least rethink the foundational influence of the linguistic turn in the field. Drawing on a variety of cutting‐edge new‐materialist theories, this book programmatically outlines the contours of a methodology of Interferential Reading that is then brought to bear on examples ranging from Shakespeare, Donne, Keats and Tennyson to Northern Irish poets Colette Bryce and Sinéad Morrissey and Scottish poet Kathleen Jamie; from British thing essays to J. G. Ballard, John Berger, Nicola Barker, Richard Powers, Colum McCann, Tim Crouch, Hanya Yanagihara and Korean writer Han Kang, winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize for literature, and from the history of theatrical bodies to the intermedial as well as affective textures in very recent experimental theatre, live theatre broadcasting and media art.

Wallace Stevens and the Contemporary Irish Novel

Autor: Ian Tan

Número de Páginas: 159

Wallace Stevens and the Contemporary Irish Novel is a major contribution to the study of the literary influence of the American modernist poet Wallace Stevens. Stevens’s lifelong poetic quest for order and the championing of the creative affordances of the imagination finds compelling articulation in the positioning of the Irish novel as a response to larger legacies of Anglo-American modernism, and how aesthetic re-imagining can be possible in the aftermath of the destruction of certainties and literary tradition heralded by postmodern practice and metatextual consciousness. It is this book’s argument that intertextual influences flowing from Stevens’s poetry towards the vitality of the novelistic imagination enact robust dialectical exchanges between existential chaos and artistic order, contemporary form and poetic precursors. Through readings of novels by important contemporary Irish novelists John Banville, Colum McCann, Ed O’Loughlin, Iris Murdoch, and Emma Donoghue, this book contemporizes Stevens’s literary influence with refence to novelistic style, themes, and thematic preoccupations that stake the claim for the international status of the contemporary Irish...

Geometric Regular Polytopes

Autor: Peter Mcmullen

Número de Páginas: 617

Regular polytopes and their symmetry have a long history stretching back two and a half millennia, to the classical regular polygons and polyhedra. Much of modern research focuses on abstract regular polytopes, but significant recent developments have been made on the geometric side, including the exploration of new topics such as realizations and rigidity, which offer a different way of understanding the geometric and combinatorial symmetry of polytopes. This is the first comprehensive account of the modern geometric theory, and includes a wide range of applications, along with new techniques. While the author explores the subject in depth, his elementary approach to traditional areas such as finite reflexion groups makes this book suitable for beginning graduate students as well as more experienced researchers.

Math Mystic's Guide to Creative Spirituality

Autor: Sarah Voss

Número de Páginas: 377

The Math Mystic’s Guide to Creative Spirituality is unique, provocative, engaging, and a masterpiece of philosophical and mystical exploration. It offers gourmet treats for those with spiritual hunger, a feast of innovative perspectives on building social collateral (trust, forgiveness, resilience . . .), and intellectual desserts for the mathematically inclined. User-friendly for the non-mathematician, the book also provides a smorgasbord of resources for those who want to know more about the math. Deeply personal but also scholarly, with an unprecedented use of mathematical metaphors, this book will appeal to mathematicians, scientists, teachers, philosophers, religious educators, and spiritual seekers of many persuasions. A math professor before becoming a Unitarian Universalist minister, the author has compiled herein a lifetime of creative study about the relationship between math and religion. She has pioneered ways to use mathematics to help clarify such spiritual ideas as God, fairness, equality, redemption, and the nature of things. In the process she coined the terms “matheology” and “mathaphor,” introduced the notion of math sermons, and has expanded the...

The Words of Mathematics

Autor: Steven Schwartzman

Número de Páginas: 276

This book explains the origins of over 1500 mathematical terms used in English.

Regular Complex Polytopes

Autor: Coxeter

Número de Páginas: 204

The properties of regular solids exercise a fascination which often appeals strongly to the mathematically inclined, whether they are professionals, students or amateurs. In this classic book Professor Coxeter explores these properties in easy stages, introducing the reader to complex polyhedra (a beautiful generalization of regular solids derived from complex numbers) and unexpected relationships with concepts from various branches of mathematics: magic squares, frieze patterns, kaleidoscopes, Cayley diagrams, Clifford surfaces, crystallographic and non-crystallographic groups, kinematics, spherical trigonometry, and algebraic geometry. In the latter half of the book, these preliminary ideas are put together to describe a natural generalization of the Five Platonic Solids. This updated second edition contains a new chapter on Almost Regular Polytopes, with beautiful 'abstract art' drawings. New exercises and discussions have been added throughout the book, including an introduction to Hopf fibration and real representations for two complex polyhedra.

Angles morts du numérique ubiquitaire

Autor: Collectif

Número de Páginas: 408

Si le numérique est désormais ubiquitaire, s’il s’infiltre partout - pour nous connecter, nous assister, nous augmenter, nous surveiller - quels sont les angles morts de ce regard dont le centre est partout et la circonférence nulle part ? C’est à cette question qu’essaient de répondre les 145 entrées de ce glossaire. On y trouvera des expressions-clés, familières ou inattendues, des réflexions originales et des synthèses pédagogiques sur les profondes ambivalences dont ces angles morts sont le lieu. Ces zones d’ombre marquent en effet à la fois des limites et des lacunes des meilleurs efforts de programmation, condamnant certaines réalités à rester exclues de ce qui (se) compte dans notre monde numérisé. Ces angles morts constituent du même coup de précieuses zones d’opacité, qui sont parfois à défendre comme autant de marges de liberté.C’est pour nous permettre de mieux naviguer parmi ces ambivalences que cet ouvrage propose quelques éléments d’un vocabulaire commun du numérique ubiquitaire. Il se veut critique, parce que les formes prises par les exploitations actuelles du numérique sont souvent inquiétantes et demandent à être...

Letters from Nazareth

Autor: Richard Carter

Número de Páginas: 254

The Nazareth Community, based at London’s St Martin in the Fields, is a contemplative community patterned on monastic life for people from all walks of life. Its rule has seven guiding spiritual principles: Silence, Service, Scripture, Sacrament, Sharing, Sabbath Time and Staying. Founded by Richard Carter in 2018, it now draws members from across the country and from overseas. Letters are a classic genre of spiritual writing and Richard has written a monthly spiritual letter to the Community since its inception. Collected here, his letters aim to encourage readers to live out a simple rule of life, to reflect, pray and live with compassion despite the challenges of modern life. Rich in biblical reflection, poetic meditation and practical guidance for living in demanding times, Letters from Nazareth abounds in simple yet profound wisdom for our world today.

Rigidity and Symmetry

Autor: Robert Connelly , Asia Ivić Weiss , Walter Whiteley

Número de Páginas: 378

This book contains recent contributions to the fields of rigidity and symmetry with two primary focuses: to present the mathematically rigorous treatment of rigidity of structures and to explore the interaction of geometry, algebra and combinatorics. Contributions present recent trends and advances in discrete geometry, particularly in the theory of polytopes. The rapid development of abstract polytope theory has resulted in a rich theory featuring an attractive interplay of methods and tools from discrete geometry, group theory, classical geometry, hyperbolic geometry and topology. Overall, the book shows how researchers from diverse backgrounds explore connections among the various discrete structures with symmetry as the unifying theme. The volume will be a valuable source as an introduction to the ideas of both combinatorial and geometric rigidity theory and its applications, incorporating the surprising impact of symmetry. It will appeal to students at both the advanced undergraduate and graduate levels, as well as post docs, structural engineers and chemists.

Proceedings of International Conference on Recent Trends in Computing

Autor: Rajendra Prasad Mahapatra , Sateesh Kumar Peddoju , Sudip Roy , Pritee Parwekar , Lavika Goel

Número de Páginas: 826

This book is a collection of high-quality peer-reviewed research papers presented at International Conference on Recent Trends in Computing (ICRTC 2021) held at SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Ghaziabad, Delhi, India, during 4 – 5 June 2021. The book discusses a wide variety of industrial, engineering and scientific applications of the emerging techniques. The book presents original works from researchers from academic and industry in the field of networking, security, big data and the Internet of things.

The Geometric Vein

Autor: C. Davis , B. Grünbaum , F.a. Sherk

Número de Páginas: 590

Geometry has been defined as that part of mathematics which makes appeal to the sense of sight; but this definition is thrown in doubt by the existence of great geometers who were blind or nearly so, such as Leonhard Euler. Sometimes it seems that geometric methods in analysis, so-called, consist in having recourse to notions outside those apparently relevant, so that geometry must be the joining of unlike strands; but then what shall we say of the importance of axiomatic programmes in geometry, where reference to notions outside a restricted reper tory is banned? Whatever its definition, geometry clearly has been more than the sum of its results, more than the consequences of some few axiom sets. It has been a major current in mathematics, with a distinctive approach and a distinc ti v e spirit. A current, furthermore, which has not been constant. In the 1930s, after a period of pervasive prominence, it appeared to be in decline, even passe. These same years were those in which H. S. M. Coxeter was beginning his scientific work. Undeterred by the unfashionability of geometry, Coxeter pursued it with devotion and inspiration. By the 1950s he appeared to the broader mathematical...

Educator Bandwidth

Autor: Jane A. G. Kise , Ann Holm

Número de Páginas: 193

It's time to make your mental bandwidth work for you. Being an educator is more stressful than ever, and teachers and administrators must constantly shift gears to stay on top of the newest initiatives and students' ever-changing needs. Educator Bandwidth: How to Reclaim Your Energy, Passion, and Time provides the tools and strategies to reduce stress, avoid burnout, and regain the time that gets lost to interruptions, temptations, competing demands, and task-switching. The first step is to understand how much stress is weighing on your own mental bandwidth. Professional development experts Jane A. G. Kise and Ann Holm have developed the Brain Energy and Bandwidth Survey to help you self-assess the six key factors that contribute to bandwidth: * Balance between priorities * Filtering through possibilities * Mental habits that improve focus * Physical habits that fuel the brain * Connection with others * Workload and time management Kise and Holm combine the latest neuroscience research with their own extensive experience working with educators to bring the most effective strategies and habits that help you manage your mental bandwidth and prioritize drains on mental energy. When...

Du finalisme en biologie

Autor: Mathilde Tahar

Número de Páginas: 200

« L’œil est fait pour voir », « seuls les plus adaptés survivent », « l’évolution est un progrès ». Autant d’affirmations qui assimilent implicitement le travail de la nature à celui d’un ingénieur. La biologie est la seule science qui, encore aujourd’hui, accorde une telle place au finalisme, banni depuis l’époque moderne en raison de son anthropomorphisme. N’est-ce là qu’une métaphore pédagogique ? Henri Bergson y voyait au contraire le symptôme de l’échec de la pensée mécaniste. En 1907, il écrit L’Évolution créatrice dans lequel, tout en défendant l’évolutionnisme, il en critique l’approche trop mécaniste. La théorie de l’évolution, telle qu’elle est formulée à son époque, est incapable de prendre en compte l’histoire et l’action créatrice des vivants ; elle est donc condamnée à attribuer tacitement à la nature des intentions et à se charger ainsi de présupposés lourds de métaphysique. Qu’en est-il aujourd’hui ? Le néodarwinisme échappe-t-il aux accusations bergsoniennes ? Peut-on comprendre l’évolution par-delà tout finalisme ? Mêlant histoire des sciences, philosophie et biologie contemporaine, ...

American Mother

Autor: Colum Mccann , Diane Foley

Número de Páginas: 242

'An extraordinary story of grace, forgiveness and moral courage' Patrick Radden Keefe A 2024 HIGHLIGHT IN THE OBSERVER, GUARDIAN AND IRISH TIMES SHORTLISTED FOR THE AN POST IRISH BOOK AWARDS AN IMMEDIATE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER The English language has no specific word for the parent that has lost a child. There exist words for orphan, widow and widower, but there is no word that captures and conveys this tragic type of loss. It has been eleven years since Diane Foley's son, the American journalist James Foley, was kidnapped in northern Syria, and nearly ten since that day in August 2014 when she would learn that he had been murdered by ISIS in a public beheading that would ricochet in video around the world. A whole decade. Time rushes past. And yet, for Diane, that moment is unending. In American Mother, legendary author Colum McCann tells Diane's story as she recalls the months of his captivity, the efforts made to bring him home and the days following his death, in which Diane came face to face with one of the men responsible for her son's kidnapping and torture. A testament to the power of radical empathy and moral courage, American Mother takes us inside one woman's...

Songdogs

Autor: Colum Mccann

Número de Páginas: 241

The debut novel from National Book Award winner and Booker nominee Colum McCann 'Colum McCann conjures a hugely inventive debut' Observer 'McCann writes equally well about Ireland, America and Mexico, and he links past and present in a finely woven narrative: Songdogs is a vivid, beautifully measured book' Sunday Times __________________ Colum McCann's first novel goes back to the years before the Spanish Civil War, following the adventures of a peripatetic Irish photographer from the war-strewn shores of Europe to the exotic plains of Mexico. The story is told in the words of the photographer's only son, a wanderer himself, who uses his father's unreliable memories and the fading remnants of his art to piece together his family history and explain the mystery surrounding his mother - a Mexican beauty brought back by his father to Ireland.

La lecture pour réussir sa vie professionnelle

Autor: Céline Mas

Número de Páginas: 262

ET SI UN LIVRE POUVAIT TRANSFORMER VOTRE VIE PROFESSIONNELLE ? Dans un monde où les urgences se succèdent et les informations se télescopent, réussir dans le milieu professionnel n’est pas toujours chose facile. Pourtant, la clé pourrait bien se cacher entre les pages d’un livre. Dans cet ouvrage inspirant, Céline Mas, experte en formation soft skills et bibliothérapie, vous guide à travers 20 situations clés de la vie professionnelle. Vous y découvrirez comment : prendre un nouveau départ dans un poste ; surmonter le syndrome de l’imposteur ; gagner en productivité et performance ; préserver votre santé mentale, et bien plus encore ! Chaque situation s’accompagne de conseils concrets, de témoignages et d’exercices à pratiquer seul ou en groupe, ainsi que de listes de lecture sur-mesure pour vous aider à relever les défis du quotidien. Ce guide complet est conçu pour les professionnels en quête de résultats tangibles : que vous soyez manager, employé, à votre compte ou en quête de nouvelles perspectives, plongez dans cette méthode originale et efficace pour réconcilier travail, progrès et bien-être ! Readlist : 100 livres à découvrir !

APEIROGON

Autor: Colum. Mccann

Número de Páginas: 0

Young Children Learning Mathematics

Autor: Robert Hunting , Judy Mousley , Bob Perry

Número de Páginas: 127

Can young children learn mathematics before school? What ideas and concepts are they capable of learning? How can adults develop a child's mathematical thinking from birth to five years? Early learning plays a critical role in laying a foundation for later success in schooling. Young children learning mathematics: A guide for educators and families explores the possibilities and potential for early childhood educators, parents and carers to stimulate young children's mathematical thinking. Drawing on the authors' significant research, it answers frequently asked questions about early childhood mathematics, discusses the experiences, activities and conversations that could lead to mathematics learning, and provides simple, easy-to-follow guidelines on introducing and building on the mathematical concepts underpinning play and activity in young children aged from birth to five.

Dante and the Jesuits

Autor: La Civiltà Cattolica

Número de Páginas: 129

A collection of 10 articles from the December 2020 edition of La Civiltà Cattolica, the highly respected and oldest Catholic journal published from Rome. In Italian Jesuit schools Dante was not a popular, nor recommended author. The article ‘Dante and the Jesuits’ by Giandomenico Mucci, SJ tries to explain the reason behind the popular misconception about the Jesuit’s attitude toward Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy. For centuries, theologians, philosophers, cosmologists and scientists have been asking this question: Why do the laws of nature seem to have been fine tuned so accurately that they allow the development of living beings? Paolo Beltrame, SJ discusses the concept in cosmology called the fine tuning problem. The article The Power of Forgiveness reviews the book Apeirogon. Irish author, Colum McCann, approaches the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from an original perspective and looks at the conflict in depth. But the book does not claim to offer solutions or explanations. The White-Red Revolution in Belarus, began immediately after the announcement of the result of the polls, in August 2020, revealing a deep discontent and a desire for political transformation, a...

Tales of Alyie Starstriker

Autor: Joseph Di Rienzi

Número de Páginas: 452

"Tales of Alyie Starstriker" are seven stories on the adventures of Alyie Starstriker, a young woman officer in the Sidereal Federation Fleet, who in the first story is the Commander of the Valkyrie Fighter Squadron - an elite group of four female fighter pilots. The stories take place in the 26th century when humanity has expanded to a human space colonizing over 30 planets in a sphere of nearly 60 light-years in diameter. Alyie encounters different human cultures and physical and technical challenges as she makes her ascent up the Sidereal Federation hierarchy. She needs to summon up all her skill, intelligence, insight and associations with colleagues to overcome the many crisis that face her and the Sidereal Federation.

Letters to a Young Writer

Autor: Colum Mccann

Número de Páginas: 124

From the bestselling author of the National Book Award winner Let the Great World Spin comes a lesson in how to be a writer—and so much more than that. Intriguing and inspirational, this book is a call to look outward rather than inward. McCann asks his readers to constantly push the boundaries of experience, to see empathy and wonder in the stories we craft and hear. A paean to the power of language, both by argument and by example, Letters to a Young Writer is fierce and honest in its testament to the bruises delivered by writing as both a profession and a calling. It charges aspiring writers to learn the rules and even break them. These fifty-two essays are ultimately a profound challenge to a new generation to bring truth and light to a dark world through their art.

Writing Brexit

Autor: Caroline Koegler , Pavan Kumar Malreddy , Marlena Tronicke

Número de Páginas: 244

Drawing from a rich corpus of British cultural production and postcolonial theory, this book positions Brexit in the historical nexus of colonialism, colonial nostalgia, and the rise of narcissistic nationalism in contemporary Europe. This collection moves away from existing literary discourses framing Brexit as a 'novel' event that ushered in a new genre of British fiction. It challenges the hackneyed public discourses that depict the results of the 2016 Referendum as the catalyst of regional instability as well as sociopolitical emergency in Europe. This book traces and critiques populist myth-making in the current United Kingdom through engagement with a wide range of literary and cultural productions, and reminds readers of the proleptic potential of postcolonial theorists and authors – Paul Gilroy, Austin Clarke, Mohsin Hamid, Ali Smith, to name a few – in identifying the residual ideologies of imperialism in the lead up to and after the Brexit campaign. The articles featured here extend Brexit’s figurative geography towards India, Britain, Pakistan, Ireland, Palestine, Barbados, and Eastern Europe, amongst others. They engage with films, media representations, and...

Handbook of Discrete and Computational Geometry, Second Edition

Autor: Csaba D. Toth , Joseph O'rourke , Jacob E. Goodman

Número de Páginas: 1557

While high-quality books and journals in this field continue to proliferate, none has yet come close to matching the Handbook of Discrete and Computational Geometry, which in its first edition, quickly became the definitive reference work in its field. But with the rapid growth of the discipline and the many advances made over the past seven years, it's time to bring this standard-setting reference up to date. Editors Jacob E. Goodman and Joseph O'Rourke reassembled their stellar panel of contributors, added manymore, and together thoroughly revised their work to make the most important results and methods, both classic and cutting-edge, accessible in one convenient volume. Now over more then 1500 pages, the Handbook of Discrete and Computational Geometry, Second Edition once again provides unparalleled, authoritative coverage of theory, methods, and applications. Highlights of the Second Edition: Thirteen new chapters: Five on applications and others on collision detection, nearest neighbors in high-dimensional spaces, curve and surface reconstruction, embeddings of finite metric spaces, polygonal linkages, the discrepancy method, and geometric graph theory Thorough revisions of...

TransAtlantic

Autor: Colum Mccann

Número de Páginas: 292

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY KIRKUS REVIEWS In the National Book Award–winning Let the Great World Spin, Colum McCann thrilled readers with a marvelous high-wire act of fiction that The New York Times Book Review called “an emotional tour de force.” Now McCann demonstrates once again why he is one of the most acclaimed and essential authors of his generation with a soaring novel that spans continents, leaps centuries, and unites a cast of deftly rendered characters, both real and imagined. Newfoundland, 1919. Two aviators—Jack Alcock and Arthur Brown—set course for Ireland as they attempt the first nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean, placing their trust in a modified bomber to heal the wounds of the Great War. Dublin, 1845 and ’46. On an international lecture tour in support of his subversive autobiography, Frederick Douglass finds the Irish people sympathetic to the abolitionist cause—despite the fact that, as famine ravages the countryside, the poor suffer from hardships that are astonishing even to an American slave. New York, 1998. Leaving behind a young wife and newborn...

Handbook of Discrete and Computational Geometry

Autor: Csaba D. Toth , Joseph O'rourke , Jacob E. Goodman

Número de Páginas: 2354

The Handbook of Discrete and Computational Geometry is intended as a reference book fully accessible to nonspecialists as well as specialists, covering all major aspects of both fields. The book offers the most important results and methods in discrete and computational geometry to those who use them in their work, both in the academic world—as researchers in mathematics and computer science—and in the professional world—as practitioners in fields as diverse as operations research, molecular biology, and robotics. Discrete geometry has contributed significantly to the growth of discrete mathematics in recent years. This has been fueled partly by the advent of powerful computers and by the recent explosion of activity in the relatively young field of computational geometry. This synthesis between discrete and computational geometry lies at the heart of this Handbook. A growing list of application fields includes combinatorial optimization, computer-aided design, computer graphics, crystallography, data analysis, error-correcting codes, geographic information systems, motion planning, operations research, pattern recognition, robotics, solid modeling, and tomography.

Apeirogon

Autor: Colum Mccann

Número de Páginas: 608

Apeirogon

Autor: Colum Mccann

Número de Páginas: 0

"Bassam Aramin is Palestinian. Rami Elhanan is Israeli. They inhabit a world of intractable conflict that colors every aspect of their daily lives, from the roads they are allowed to take to the schools their daughters, Abir and Smadar, each attend. Theirs is a life in which children from both sides of the wall throw stones at one another. But their worlds shift irreparably when ten-year-old Abir is killed by a rubber bullet meant to quell unruly crowds, and again when thirteen-year-old Smadar becomes the victim of suicide bombers. When Bassam and Rami learn one another's stories and the loss that connects them, they become part of a much larger tale that ranges over centuries and continents. Apeirogon is a novel that balances on the knife edge of fiction and nonfiction. Bassam and Rami are real men and their actual words are a part of this narrative, one that builds through thousands of moments and images into one grand, unforgettable crescendo"--

Widerstand und Befreiung

Autor: Jenny Farrell

Número de Páginas: 237

Fragt man im persönlichen Umfeld auch unter deutschen Linken spontan nach irischen Schriftstellern, geraten selbst Belesene nach Beckett, Joyce, Shaw oder Wilde ins Stocken. Fragt man nach Schriftstellerinnen, herrscht meist peinliches Schweigen im Walde (den Autor dieser Zeilen inbegriffen). Hier will das vorliegende Buch Abhilfe schaffen. Es ist die Auskoppelung aus einer umfangreicheren Essay-Sammlung unserer Autorin mit dem Titel „Kunst und Befreiung – Essays zu Literatur, Musik und Malerei“ (Neue Impulse 2024) und in zweierlei Hinsicht besonders: Erstens schaut die Autorin mit marxistisch geschultem Blick auch auf die Werke der oben genannten „Promis“. Zweitens erweitert sie den Horizont um Schriftsteller, auch um solche aus der Arbeiterbewegung, die in Deutschland weit weniger bekannt sind. (Aus dem Vorwort des Verlages)

Revue Etudes : Télétravail, à distance du monde - par Fanny Lederlin

Autor: Collectif Auteur

Número de Páginas: 196

ÉDITORIAL En « télétravail » ou en « présentiel » ? - Nathalie Sarthou-Lajus INTERNATIONAL Les États-Unis au-delà des élections - Laurence Nardon Les impasses de la politique nataliste en Russie - Cécile Vaissié SOCIÉTÉ Télétravail : un travail à distance du monde - Fanny Lederlin La conversion écologique - Xavier de Bénazé et Cécile Renouard La compétition dans la recherche universitaire - C. Musselin RELIGION L’Église face à la pédophilie, 2010-2020 - Pierre de Charentenay Joseph Moingt : « Penser la foi dans la vérité » - Zbigniew Kubacki CULTURE Le Paradis de Dante - Emmanuel Godo Sans oublier les chroniques, expos, films, livres...

Dancer

Autor: Colum Mccann

Número de Páginas: 401

'Remarkable ... nimble, lyrical and wispy' Sunday Times 'An utterly riveting, frequently moving, and staggeringly well-written book' Daily Mail 'Breathtaking' Guardian ________________________ This novel opens on a battlefield: trudging back from the front through a ravaged and icy wasteland, their horses dying around them, their own hunger rendering them almost savage, the Russian soldiers are exhausted as they reach the city of Ufa, desperate for food and shelter. They find both, and then music and dance. And there, spinning unafraid among them, dancing for the soldiers and anyone else who'll watch him, is one small pale boy, Rudolf. This is Colum McCann's dancer: Rudolf, a prodigy at six years old, who became the greatest dancer of the century, who redefined dance, rewrote his own life, and died of AIDS before anyone knew he had it. This is an extraordinary life transformed into extraordinary fiction by one of the most acclaimed writers of his generation. One kind of masculine grace is perfectly matched to another in Colum McCann's beautiful and daring new novel.

Everything in this Country Must

Autor: Colum Mccann

Número de Páginas: 145

'McCann returns to Ireland with this collection, turning his measured gaze and incisive prose to the country's recent history with devastating effect' Maggie O'Farrell 'McCann once again shows why he is one of the best writers in the world ... Deeply moving and powerfully written, these are likely to become classics' Big Issue ___________________ One powerful novella, with two thematically linked short stories on either side of it, forms the basis of Everything in This Country Must. Although these are stories about Ireland and the Troubles, they have an almost mythical rather than a political feel. In the title story, four young soldiers help a farmer and his daughter free their horse from a stream in flood, unable to understand that their help will never be anything but an insult. In the novella, Hunger Strike, a young boy and his mother flee to Galway as the boy's uncle succumbs to a hunger strike in a Derry gaol. In Wood, a ten-year-old boy is asked by his mother to make poles for the marching season. ___________________ 'Colum McCann's stories are brooding, meditative and lyrically controlled to that delicate point where the emotion within them intensifies with each succeeding ...

Fishing the Sloe-Black River

Autor: Colum Mccann

Número de Páginas: 193

'A gifted and determined stylist, Colum McCann seems to have taken a vow never to write a dull line' New York Times Book Review 'Orwell would have been proud to journey with a writer as good as Colum McCann' Irish Sunday Independent ______________________ An ageing nun is tracked to ground by her sister; a garrulous beautician must lay out the corpse of a loved one. These are eloquent tales of exile and displacement, of characters always in search of a way back home or of a way to leave it. Mischievous, assured and versatile, Colum McCann's collection of short stories marks him out as one of our best contemporary writers.

The Carousel of Indignation and Outrage

Autor: Arist Von Schlippe

Número de Páginas: 261

Conflicts have accompanied mankind since time immemorial, and for almost as long people have been trying to limit and deal with them – whether as those affected by them or as professionals with more or less success. For once a system of conflict has developed, once negative expectation structures and with them negative self-evident truths and inherent laws have developed, it becomes increasingly difficult for those involved to escape them: The complexity of our social world, in which it is not easy for communication to find its way, remains unseen. A violated sense of justice, misunderstandings and unfortunate attempts to correct them alternate. One begins to attribute the causes of the conflict to the "person" ("It's you! It's your fault!") and to attribute negative motives to the conflict partner ("You're only doing this because ...!"), who in turn does the same – just like a carousel that slowly gets going. A number of well-studied but little-known psychological processes occur within us when we are in conflict. Outrage at the other person grows, usually unfortunately on both sides. Slowly, the "carousel of outrage and indignation" begins to spin - faster and faster,...

Amazingly Avoidable Adventures of Hammerbang and Rice

Autor: Michael G. Temple

Número de Páginas: 333

A freelance thief, who unwittingly has magical powers and can turn herself invisible, teams up with a wizard who offers to teach her more spells in exchange for the opportunity to observe how she manages her disappearing act, but when a particular incantation repeatedly has calamitous impact on their island they must work together to save its inhabitants and set things right. Thrill seekers of wizardry and mischief will be CONFOUNDED and STUPEFIED as Hammerbang and Rice square off against various extra-dimensional creatures including the FEARSOME Octo-skull and the HIDEOUS, indestructible imp! Readers will be SHOCKED when the land of Precarious becomes DOMINATED by vampires and THREATENED WITH ANNIHILATION by always hungry hydra of DOOM! Tuck in tight and be prepared for adventures that may well BLOW YOUR MIND OUT THE BACK OF YOUR HEAD!

The Math Teachers Know

Autor: Brent Davis , Moshe Renert

Número de Páginas: 150

What sorts of mathematics competencies must teachers have in order to teach the discipline well? This book offers a novel take on the question. Most research is focused on explicit knowledge–that is, on the sorts of insights that might be specified, catalogued, taught, and tested. In contrast, this book focuses on the tacit dimensions of teachers’ mathematics knowledge that precede and enable their competencies with formal mathematics. It highlights the complexity of this knowledge and offers strategies to uncover it, analyze it, and re-synthesize it in ways that will make it more available for teaching. Emerging from 10 years of collaborative inquiry with practicing teachers, it is simultaneously informed by the most recent research and anchored to the realities of teachers’ lives in classrooms.

Zoli

Autor: Colum Mccann

Número de Páginas: 337

'Beautiful, thoughtful ... sharp and scintillatingly sensual' Independent 'With this haunting, poetic work McCann has surely earned his place among the country's greats' Metro __________________ The life of Zoli Novotna begins on the leafy backroads of Slovakia, when she and her grandfather come upon a quiet lake where their family has been drowned by Fascist guards. Zoli and her grandfather flee to join up with another clan of travelling harpists. So begins an epic tale of song, intimacy and betrayal. Based loosely on the true story of the Gypsy poet Papusza, and set against the backdrop of the Second World War, Zoli is a love story, a tale of loss, and a parable of modern-day Europe.