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The fall of Baghdad
Literary reportage about the experience of ordinary Iraqis living through the endgame of the Hussein regime, its violent fall, and the troubled American occupation.
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Within and Beyond Religious Boundaries: Welcoming the ‘Uninvited Visitor’ through a Curriculum of Hospitality
Graduate students (who are also educators) sometimes make spontaneous statements regarding their religious identities. In making these declarations, they appear to invoke boundaries that exclude certain already marginalized groups. Another implication is that “liberal” education is divesting them of their religious faith. This paper suggests that while religions create boundaries, they also mandate the crossing of those boundaries to support others with whom they significantly differ and, further, that Derrida’s notion of “hospitality” offers possibilities for welcoming what he calls the “uninvited visitor,” for whose arrival we have not planned but whom we must embrace through acts of the impossible. A theoretical framework for fostering a curriculum of hospitality is offered and includes themes of deconstructing the Judeo-Christian narrative, difference as a human right, secularization, the welcoming experience, and forgiveness. The author’s pedagogical experiences in light of this framework are woven throughout.
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Che : a revolutionary life
\"The graphic novel adaptation of the groundbreaking and definitive biography of Che Guevara. Che Guevara's legend is unmatched in the modern world. Since his assassination in 1967 at the age of thirty-nine, the Argentine revolutionary has become an internationally recognized icon, as revered as he is controversial. As a Marxist ideologue who sought to end global inequality by bringing down the American capitalist empire through armed guerrilla warfare, Che has few rivals in the Cold War era as an apostle of revolutionary change. In Che: A Revolutionary Life, Jon Lee Anderson and Josâe Hernâandez present the man behind the myth, creating a complex and human portrait of this passionate idealist. Adapted from Jon Lee Anderson's definitive masterwork, Che vividly transports us from young Ernesto's medical school days as a sensitive asthmatic to the battlefields of the Cuban revolution, from his place of power alongside Castro, to his disastrous sojourn in the Congo, and his violent end in Bolivia. Through renowned Mexican artist Josâe Hernâandez's drawings we feel the bullets wing past the head of the young rebel in Cuba, we smell the thick smoke of Castro's cigars, and scrutinize the face of the weary guerrilla as he's called 'Comandante' for the first time\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Batman/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles adventures
\"Villains start to mysteriously escape Arkham and Batman seeks to track them down, but he discovers that they have left Gotham completely--and gone to the New York City of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles\"--Back cover.
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Submodular Maximization over Multiple Matroids via Generalized Exchange Properties
Submodular function maximization is a central problem in combinatorial optimization, generalizing many important NP-hard problems including max cut in digraphs, graphs, and hypergraphs; certain constraint satisfaction problems; maximum entropy sampling; and maximum facility location problems. Our main result is that for any
k
≥ 2 and any
> 0, there is a natural local search algorithm that has approximation guarantee of 1/(
k
+
) for the problem of maximizing a monotone submodular function subject to
k
matroid constraints. This improves upon the 1/(
k
+ 1)-approximation of Fisher, Nemhauser, and Wolsey obtained in 1978 [Fisher, M., G. Nemhauser, L. Wolsey. 1978. An analysis of approximations for maximizing submodular set functions-II.
Math. Programming Stud.
8
73-87]. Also, our analysis can be applied to the problem of maximizing a linear objective function and even a general nonmonotone submodular function subject to
k
matroid constraints. We show that, in these cases, the approximation guarantees of our algorithms are 1/(
k
− 1 +
) and 1/(
k
+ 1 + 1/(
k
− 1) +
), respectively.
Our analyses are based on two new exchange properties for matroids. One is a generalization of the classical Rota exchange property for matroid bases, and another is an exchange property for two matroids based on the structure of matroid intersection.
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Divine right : the adventures of Max Faraday
\"Max Faraday was an ordinary college student who spent all his time on the Internet - until the day he accidentally downloaded the Creation Equation. Suddenly able to access the limitless powers of the universe itself, this pizza delivery boy found himself the target of a secret government agency! Now, aided by a band of warriors sworn to protect the formula, Max, his sister, and his best friend must stay one step ahead of the deadly assassins and horrific demons that are hunting them down. But when his actions begin to wreak havoc across the globe, Max turns from messiah to megalomaniac\" -- summary from forbiddenplanet.com.
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On the optimal design of water distribution networks: a practical MINLP approach
We propose a practical solution method for real-world instances of a water-network optimization problem with fixed topology using a nonconvex continuous NLP (NonLinear Programming) relaxation and a MINLP (Mixed Integer NonLinear Programming) search. Our approach employs a relatively simple and accurate model that pays some attention to the requirements of the solvers that we employ. Our view is that in doing so, with the goal of calculating only good feasible solutions, complicated algorithmics can be confined to the MINLP solver. We report successful computational experience using available open-source MINLP software on problems from the literature and on difficult real-world instances. An important contribution of this paper is that the solutions obtained, besides being low cost, are immediately usable in practice because they are characterized by an allocation of diameters to pipes that leads to a correct hydraulic operation of the network. This is not the case for most of the other methods presented in the literature.
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Rexodus
\"With the aid of Kelvin, a dinosaur from the past, Amber must save her father--and the rest of us--from the very same danger that caused the dinosaurs to flee--and from the dinosaurs themselves as they return to Earth\"-- Back cover.
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Three-dimensional Variation of Wave Transmission around the Artificial Reefs: An Experimental Study
Shin, S.; Bae, I., and Lee, J.-I., 2018. Three-dimensional variation of wave transmission around the artificial reefs: experimental and numerical studies. In: Shim, J.-S.; Chun, I., and Lim, H.S. (eds.), Proceedings from the International Coastal Symposium (ICS) 2018 (Busan, Republic of Korea). Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue No. 85, pp. 1011–1015. Coconut Creek (Florida), ISSN 0749-0208. In this study, three-dimensional experiments were conducted to investigate the spatial variation of wave transmission characteristics under the different types and configurations of the artificial reefs. Partially permeable armored by tetrapods and impermeable structures were deployed with the different gaps. Incident wave conditions included both breaking and non-breaking conditions over the structures. Transmitted wave heights in cross-shore and alongshore directions were compared with the empirical formula. The results showed that the wave transmission phenomena were dependent of the structural type, layout, and gap distance. In the case of single structure, as the length of the structure increased, the transmission coefficient decreased. In the case of multiple structures with a gap, the length of the structures and the gap were inversely proportional to the transmission coefficient.
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