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Away from Chaos

Author : Gilles Kepel
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231551940
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Away from Chaos written by Gilles Kepel and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Middle East is one of the world’s most volatile regions. In recent years, from the optimism and then crushing disappointment of the Arab uprisings through the rise and fall of the Islamic State, it has presented key international security challenges. With the resilient jihadi terror threat, large-scale migration due to warfare and climate change, and fierce competition for control over oil, it promises to continue to be a powder keg. What ignited this instability? Away from Chaos is a sweeping political history of four decades of Middle East conflict and its worldwide ramifications. Gilles Kepel, called “France’s most famous scholar of Islam” by the New York Times, offers a clear and persuasive narrative of the long-term causes of tension while seamlessly incorporating on-the-ground observations and personal experiences from the people who lived through them. From the Yom Kippur/Ramadan war of 1973 to the aftermath of the Arab Spring, Away from Chaos weaves together the various threads that run through Middle East politics and ties them to their implications on the global stage. With keen insight stemming from decades of experience in the region, Kepel puts these chaotic decades in perspective and illuminates their underlying dynamics. He also considers the prospects of emerging from this long-lasting turmoil and for the people of the Middle East and the world to achieve a more stable future.

China Hands

Author : Peter Rand
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book China Hands written by Peter Rand and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rand tells the untold story of the men and women who covered first-hand the Chinese Revolution--legendary names such as Agnes Smedley, Rayna Prohme, Edgar Snow, Theodore White, and Thomas Milard. These journalists brought the world's attention to the plight of a land in chaos. of photos.

Chaos Imagined

Author : Martin Meisel
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231540469
Total Pages : 604 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Chaos Imagined written by Martin Meisel and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-05 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stories we tell in our attempt to make sense of the world—our myths and religion, literature and philosophy, science and art—are the comforting vehicles we use to transmit ideas of order. But beneath the quest for order lies the uneasy dread of fundamental disorder. True chaos is hard to imagine and even harder to represent. In this book, Martin Meisel considers the long effort to conjure, depict, and rationalize extreme disorder, with all the passion, excitement, and compromises the act provokes. Meisel builds a rough history from major social, psychological, and cosmological turning points in the imagining of chaos. He uses examples from literature, philosophy, painting, graphic art, science, linguistics, music, and film, particularly exploring the remarkable shift in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries from conceiving of chaos as disruptive to celebrating its liberating and energizing potential. Discussions of Sophocles, Plato, Lucretius, Calderon, Milton, Haydn, Blake, Faraday, Chekhov, Faulkner, Wells, and Beckett, among others, are matched with incisive readings of art by Brueghel, Rubens, Goya, Turner, Dix, Dada, and the futurists. Meisel addresses the revolution in mapping energy and entropy and the manifold effect of thermodynamics. He then uses this chaotic frame to elaborate on purpose, mortality, meaning, and mind.

Chaos and Fractals

Author : C.A. Pickover
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0080528864
Total Pages : 469 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book Chaos and Fractals written by C.A. Pickover and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 1998-08-03 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These days computer-generated fractal patterns are everywhere, from squiggly designs on computer art posters to illustrations in the most serious of physics journals. Interest continues to grow among scientists and, rather surprisingly, artists and designers. This book provides visual demonstrations of complicated and beautiful structures that can arise in systems, based on simple rules. It also presents papers on seemingly paradoxical combinations of randomness and structure in systems of mathematical, physical, biological, electrical, chemical, and artistic interest. Topics include: iteration, cellular automata, bifurcation maps, fractals, dynamical systems, patterns of nature created through simple rules, and aesthetic graphics drawn from the universe of mathematics and art.Chaos and Fractals is divided into six parts: Geometry and Nature; Attractors; Cellular Automata, Gaskets, and Koch Curves; Mandelbrot, Julia and Other Complex Maps; Iterated Function Systems; and Computer Art.Additionally, information on the latest practical applications of fractals and on the use of fractals in commercial products such as the antennas and reaction vessels is presented. In short, fractals are increasingly finding application in practical products where computer graphics and simulations are integral to the design process. Each of the six sections has an introduction by the editor including the latest research, references, and updates in the field. This book is enhanced with numerous color illustrations, a comprehensive index, and the many computer program examples encourage reader involvement.

The Student's Guide to Marching

Author : Christopher Prevics
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1412202795
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book The Student's Guide to Marching written by Christopher Prevics and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2007-10-02 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Informational and inspirational. The Student's Guide to Marching is an exceptional aid for any marcher. Beginners can learn basic marching terms, skills, and exercises that will easily integrate them into any marching group from coast to coast, continent to continent. Mature marchers will get a fresh look at their activity, learning how to better understand their body and getting a peak at a new system of drill cleaning. Over 150 graphics help you along the way. More than just a users' manual, this book will teach you how to teach yourself.

Cast in Chaos

Author : Michelle Sagara
Publisher : LUNA
ISBN 13 : 1426864140
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book Cast in Chaos written by Michelle Sagara and published by LUNA. This book was released on 2010-08-01 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kaylin Neya is a Hawk, part of the elite force tasked with keeping the City of Elantra safe. Her past is dark, her magic uncontrolled and her allies unpredictable. And nothing has prepared her for what is coming, when the charlatans on Elani Street suddenly grow powerful, the Oracles are thrown into an uproar and the skies rain blood…. The powerful of Elantra believe that the mysterious markings on Kaylin's skin hold the answer, and they are not averse to using her—how ever they have to—in order to discover what it is. Something is coming, breaking through the barriers between the worlds. But is it a threat that Kaylin needs to defend her city against—or has she been chosen for another reason entirely?

The Writing Center Director's Resource Book

Author : Christina Murphy
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135600406
Total Pages : 569 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (356 download)

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Download or read book The Writing Center Director's Resource Book written by Christina Murphy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Writing Center Director's Resource Book has been developed to serve as a guide to writing center professionals in carrying out their various roles, duties, and responsibilities. It is a resource for those whose jobs not only encompass a wide range of tasks but also require a broad knowledge of multiple issues. The volume provides information on the most significant areas of writing center work that writing center professionals--both new and seasoned--are likely to encounter. It is structured for use in diverse institutional settings, providing both current knowledge as well as case studies of specific settings that represent the types of challenges and possible outcomes writing center professionals may experience. This blend of theory with actual practice provides a multi-dimensional view of writing center work. In the end, this book serves not only as a resource but also as a guide to future directions for the writing center, which will continue to evolve in response to a myriad of new challenges that will lie ahead.

The Physics of Wall Street

Author : James Owen Weatherall
Publisher : HMH
ISBN 13 : 0547618298
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (476 download)

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Download or read book The Physics of Wall Street written by James Owen Weatherall and published by HMH. This book was released on 2013-01-08 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look inside the world of “quants” and how science can (and can’t) predict financial markets: “Entertaining and enlightening” (The New York Times). After the economic meltdown of 2008, Warren Buffett famously warned, “beware of geeks bearing formulas.” But while many of the mathematicians and software engineers on Wall Street failed when their abstractions turned ugly in practice, a special breed of physicists has a much deeper history of revolutionizing finance. Taking us from fin-de-siècle Paris to Rat Pack–era Las Vegas, from wartime government labs to Yippie communes on the Pacific coast, James Owen Weatherall shows how physicists successfully brought their science to bear on some of the thorniest problems in economics, from options pricing to bubbles. The crisis was partly a failure of mathematical modeling. But even more, it was a failure of some very sophisticated financial institutions to think like physicists. Models—whether in science or finance—have limitations; they break down under certain conditions. And in 2008, sophisticated models fell into the hands of people who didn’t understand their purpose, and didn’t care. It was a catastrophic misuse of science. The solution, however, is not to give up on models; it’s to make them better. This book reveals the people and ideas on the cusp of a new era in finance, from a geophysicist using a model designed for earthquakes to predict a massive stock market crash to a physicist-run hedge fund earning 2,478.6% over the course of the 1990s. Weatherall shows how an obscure idea from quantum theory might soon be used to create a far more accurate Consumer Price Index. The Physics of Wall Street will change how we think about our economic future. “Fascinating history . . . Happily, the author has a gift for making complex concepts clear to lay readers.” —Booklist

From Chaos To Order: Methodologies, Perspectives And Applications

Author : Guanrong Chen
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9814499293
Total Pages : 777 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (144 download)

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Download or read book From Chaos To Order: Methodologies, Perspectives And Applications written by Guanrong Chen and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1998-06-06 with total page 777 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chaos control has become a fast-developing interdisciplinary research field in recent years. This book is for engineers and applied scientists who want to have a broad understanding of the emerging field of chaos control. It describes fundamental concepts, outlines representative techniques, provides case studies, and highlights recent developments, putting the reader at the forefront of current research.Important topics presented in the book include:

The Grateful Dead in Concert

Author : Jim Tuedio
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786458283
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book The Grateful Dead in Concert written by Jim Tuedio and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2010-03-10 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a spirited analysis of the unique improvisational character of Grateful Dead music and its impact on appreciative fans. The 20 essays capture distinct facets of the Grateful Dead phenomenon from a broad range of scholarly angles. The band's trademark synergizing focus is discussed as a function of complex musical improvisation interlaced with the band members' collective assimilation of an impressive range of marginal musical forms and lyrical traditions. These facets are shown to produce a vibrant Deadhead experience, resulting in community influences still morphing in new directions 45 years after the band's initial impact.

The Mustard Seed

Author : Osho
Publisher : Osho Media International
ISBN 13 : 0880507713
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book The Mustard Seed written by Osho and published by Osho Media International. This book was released on 2010-02-01 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely book explores the wisdom of the Gnostic Jesus, who challenges our preconceptions about the world and ourselves. Based on the Gospel of Thomas, the book recounts the missing years in Jesus’ life and his time in Egypt and India, learning from Egyptian secret societies, then Buddhist schools, then Hindu Vedanta. Each of Jesus' original sayings is the "seed" for a chapter of the book; each examines one aspect of life — birth, death, love, fear, anger, and more — counterpointed by Osho’s penetrating comments and responses to questions from his audience.

Blake's Nostos

Author : Kathryn S. Freeman
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791432976
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (329 download)

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Download or read book Blake's Nostos written by Kathryn S. Freeman and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Establishes Blake's controversial, unfinished epic, The Four Zoas, as the culmination of his mythos.

Everyday Chaos

Author : David Weinberger
Publisher : Harvard Business Press
ISBN 13 : 1633693961
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (336 download)

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Download or read book Everyday Chaos written by David Weinberger and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 2019-04-23 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Make. More. Future. Artificial intelligence, big data, modern science, and the internet are all revealing a fundamental truth: The world is vastly more complex and unpredictable than we've allowed ourselves to see. Now that technology is enabling us to take advantage of all the chaos it's revealing, our understanding of how things happen is changing--and with it our deepest strategies for predicting, preparing for, and managing our world. This affects everything, from how we approach our everyday lives to how we make moral decisions and how we run our businesses. Take machine learning, which makes better predictions about weather, medical diagnoses, and product performance than we do--but often does so at the expense of our understanding of how it arrived at those predictions. While this can be dangerous, accepting it is also liberating, for it enables us to harness the complexity of an immense amount of data around us. We are also turning to strategies that avoid anticipating the future altogether, such as A/B testing, Minimum Viable Products, open platforms, and user-modifiable video games. We even take for granted that a simple hashtag can organize unplanned, leaderless movements such as #MeToo. Through stories from history, business, and technology, philosopher and technologist David Weinberger finds the unifying truths lying below the surface of the tools we take for granted--and a future in which our best strategy often requires holding back from anticipating and instead creating as many possibilities as we can. The book’s imperative for business and beyond is simple: Make. More. Future. The result is a world no longer focused on limitations but optimized for possibilities.

The Poetical Works of John Milton

Author : John Milton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Poetical Works of John Milton written by John Milton and published by . This book was released on 1826 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

From Chaos to Coherence

Author : Doc Lew Childre
Publisher : Butterworth-Heinemann
ISBN 13 : 9780750670074
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book From Chaos to Coherence written by Doc Lew Childre and published by Butterworth-Heinemann. This book was released on 1998-12-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Chaos to Coherence is about the future of organizations and the potential of people. It covers themes of coherence, leadership, self-management, authentic communication, emotional virus, overcare and emotional mismanagement. This timely book addresses the increasing strain that people and organizations, both private and public, are under. This is a book of tools, insights and common sense intelligence

Data Center Handbook

Author : Hwaiyu Geng
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118436636
Total Pages : 720 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (184 download)

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Download or read book Data Center Handbook written by Hwaiyu Geng and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-12-22 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides the fundamentals, technologies, and best practices in designing, constructing and managing mission critical, energy efficient data centers Organizations in need of high-speed connectivity and nonstop systems operations depend upon data centers for a range of deployment solutions. A data center is a facility used to house computer systems and associated components, such as telecommunications and storage systems. It generally includes multiple power sources, redundant data communications connections, environmental controls (e.g., air conditioning, fire suppression) and security devices. With contributions from an international list of experts, The Data Center Handbook instructs readers to: Prepare strategic plan that includes location plan, site selection, roadmap and capacity planning Design and build "green" data centers, with mission critical and energy-efficient infrastructure Apply best practices to reduce energy consumption and carbon emissions Apply IT technologies such as cloud and virtualization Manage data centers in order to sustain operations with minimum costs Prepare and practice disaster reovery and business continuity plan The book imparts essential knowledge needed to implement data center design and construction, apply IT technologies, and continually improve data center operations.

Mircea Eliade's Vision for a New Humanism

Author : David Cave
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195360737
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Mircea Eliade's Vision for a New Humanism written by David Cave and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1993-01-28 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The influential scholar of religion Mircea Eliade envisioned a spiritually destitute modern culture coming into renewed meaning through the recovery of archetypal myths and symbols. Eliade defined this restoration of meaning as a "new humanism" of existential meaning and cultural-religious unity. Through a biographical exegesis of Eliade's life and writings from his earliest years in Romania to his final ones as professor of the history of religions at the University of Chicago, Cave sets forward a structural description of what this "new humanism" might have meant for Eliade, and what it signifies for modern culture. Cave concludes by endorsing Eliade's radically pluralistic vision which, he argues, offers a key to the revitalization of our demythologized and material culture. This study repositions previous Eliadean studies and places the "new humanism" as the paradigm in relation to which future readings of Eliade should be evaluated.