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Sinking Bell

Stories

By: Bojan Louis

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Potent stories that offer a forceful vision of contemporary Navajo life, by an American Book Award winner An ex-con hired to fix up a school bus for a couple living off the grid in the desert finds himself in the middle of their tattered relationship. An electrician’s plan to take his young nephew on a hike in the mountains, as a break from the motel room where they live, goes awry thanks to an untrustworthy new coworker. A night custodian makes the mistake of revealing too much about his work at a medical research facility to a girl who shares his passion for death metal. A relapsing addict struggles to square his desire for a white woman he meets in a writing class with family expectations and traditions. Set in and around Flagstaff, the stories in Sinking Bell depict violent collisions of love, cultures, and racism. In his gritty and searching fiction debut, Bojan Louis draws empathetic portraits of day laborers, metalheads, motel managers, aspiring writers and musicians, construction workers, people passing through with the hope of something better somewhere else. His characters strain to temper predatory or self-destructive impulses; they raise families, choose families, and abandon families; they endeavor to end cycles of abuse and remake themselves anew.

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Graywolf Press

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1644451867

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Currents

Poems

By: Bojan Louis

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Currents

Poems

By: Bojan Louis

These poems explore contemporary America especially in the Southwest, Navajo/Diné identity, and the powers of myth, faith, doubt, and the environment, with hints of the Spanish and Diné (Navajo) languages in its English text.

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BkMk Press of the University of Missouri-Kansas City

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1943491119

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9781943491117

Sinking Bell

Stories

By: Bojan Louis

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Complex Sports Biodynamics

With Practical Applications in Tennis

By: Tijana T. Ivancevic,Bojan Jovanovic,Swetta Djukic,Milorad Djukic,Sasa Markovic

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Complex Sports Biodynamics

With Practical Applications in Tennis

By: Tijana T. Ivancevic,Bojan Jovanovic,Swetta Djukic,Milorad Djukic,Sasa Markovic

What are motor abilities of Olympic champions? What are essential psyc- logical characteristics of Mark Spitz, Carl Lewis and Roger Federer? How to discover and maximally develop motor intelligence? How to develop - domitable will power of Olympic champions? What are the secrets of sel- tion for the future Olympic champions? Does for every sport exist a unique model of an Olympic champion? This book gives a modern scienti?c answers to the above questions. Its purpose is to give you the answer to everything you ever wanted to ask about sport champions, but didn’t know who or how to ask. In particular, the purpose of this book is to give you the answer to eve- thing you ever wanted to ask about advanced tennis, but didn’t know who or how to ask. Its aim is to dispel classical myths of a “biomechanically sound” serve, forehand, and backhand, as well as provide methods for developing superior tennis weapons,a lightning–fast game,and unrivaled mental speed and strength – essential qualities of a future tennis champion.

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331

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3540899715

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9783540899716

Paradigm Shift for Future Tennis

The Art of Tennis Physiology, Biomechanics and Psychology

By: Tijana T. Ivancevic,Bojan Jovanovic,Sasa Jovanovic,Milka Djukic,Natalia Djukic,Alexandar Lukman

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Paradigm Shift for Future Tennis

The Art of Tennis Physiology, Biomechanics and Psychology

By: Tijana T. Ivancevic,Bojan Jovanovic,Sasa Jovanovic,Milka Djukic,Natalia Djukic,Alexandar Lukman

The book “Paradigm Shift for Future Tennis” starts with revelations that make obvious the limitations of today’s tennis, which does not use the laws of modern Biomechanics and Neurophysiology. The second part of the book includes a new approach to the quantum mind of a champion. It will reveal the secret weapon of Roger Federer and the blueprint of a future tennis champion. This book will expose the new tennis shot emerging from the field of sports science. It is a real weapon, which can generate a ball-speed similar to that of the first serve: the Power High-Forehand. Its aim is to generate maximal possible racket-head speed while players do not wait for the ball to bounce. This is both a tactical and psychological basis for the future tennis game. This aggressive interceptive psychology will shape the minds of future tennis champions. High racket-head speed can be achieved using the stretch-reflex, without big loops and swings. Weapons of a future tennis game will comprise of whip-like tennis serves and ground strokes, based on the stretch–reflex, and using the whole body in a fluid and integrated manner, thus manifesting a superb combination of speed and strength. Restructure your brain and apply the power of state of the art biomechanical, mathematical, medical, neural, cognitive, and quantum computational intelligence to understand the tennis of today and the future!

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3642170951

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9783642170959

Žižek Reading Bonhoeffer

Towards a Radical Critical Theology

By: Bojan Koltaj

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Žižek Reading Bonhoeffer

Towards a Radical Critical Theology

By: Bojan Koltaj

This book critically examines Bonhoeffer’s social theology in Sanctorum Communio from the perspective of Žižek’s theological materialism. Specifically, it refers to Žižek’s struggling universality of abandonment and its ethic of indifference in consideration of Bonhoeffer’s transcendental personalist community of saints and its ethic of universal love. As such, it represents an attempt to reflect on the content, act, and implication of theological thought without presuppositions and an argument for the necessity of such an approach—a radical approach that is true to theology’s critical character of challenging narratives and revealing exceptions in search of truth.

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199

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Springer Nature

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3030260941

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Our Forgotten Volunteers

Australians and New Zealanders with Serbs in World War One

By: Bojan Pajic

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Our Forgotten Volunteers

Australians and New Zealanders with Serbs in World War One

By: Bojan Pajic

Australian and New Zealand volunteers were already in Serbia, treating wounded Serbian soldiers and fighting a typhus epidemic, before the ANZACs landed at Gallipoli in 1915. The Gallipoli Campaign sealed Serbia’s fate, however, as Germany, Austria-Hungary and Bulgaria moved to secure a land supply corridor to Turkey through Serbia. Australians and New Zealanders accompanied the Serbian Army on a deadly retreat over wintry mountains to the Adriatic coast. When the fighting shifted to the Salonika or ‘Macedonian’ Front, many served there with the British Army, the Royal Flying Corps, two AIF units and six Royal Australian Navy destroyers in the Adriatic and Aegean Seas. Some died in action, others from disease. Several hundred doctors, nurses and orderlies treated the wounded and sick in an Australian-led volunteer hospital and in British and New Zealand Army hospitals. The author Miles Franklin was a medical orderly supporting the Serbian Army; her little-known memoir is quoted extensively in this book. Fifteen hundred Australians and New Zealanders served on this little known yet crucial battlefront. Now for the first time we have an engaging and comprehensive account of what they experienced and achieved in the Great War.

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Australian Scholarly Publishing

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1925801446

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Complex Society: In the Middle of a Middle World

By: Bojan Radej,Mojca Golobič

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Complex Society: In the Middle of a Middle World

By: Bojan Radej,Mojca Golobič

The decreasing capacity to govern complex social processes results in negative trends that breach system thresholds in all main social domains with extreme economic stratification of society. Independent studies steadily report that a strong majority of the world’s population, between 60% and 80%, already feels excluded and no longer represented by their governments. The two prevailing concepts of complexity seem to overlook the central importance of mesoscopic complexity. Socially complex conditions call for a new kind of social thought specifically developed for a blinded generation that must be as different from modern and postmodern thoughts, as they were different from their middle-age precedents. 'Complex Society: In the Middle of a Middle World', addresses the concerns of the excluded majority by explaining how present complex social conditions work in favor of generational aspirations to achieve a more positive future. In the geometry of thinking, a complex matter is not comprehensible objectively, but only by evaluating overlaps between complexity domains on their periphery, which is in the area of their inconsistencies. The book first develops an evaluative methodology for studying complex social matters and then tests it with three case studies that reflect some of the most pressing problems in contemporary societies: aggregation problem, integration problem, and organization problem. The obtained findings give grounds for the depiction of an outline for the ‘anti-postmodern’ ordering of contemporary societies. This ground-breaking text will be of particular interest for graduate and post-graduate level of social sciences, evaluators of project, program and policy impact evaluation, evaluators of philosophy of science, as well as methodologists of social research and public governance.

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240

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Vernon Press

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1648891640

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9781648891649

Adaptive Control Approach for Software Quality Improvement

By: W. Eric Wong,Bojan Cukic

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Adaptive Control Approach for Software Quality Improvement

By: W. Eric Wong,Bojan Cukic

This book focuses on the topic of improving software quality using adaptive control approaches. As software systems grow in complexity, some of the central challenges include their ability to self-manage and adapt at run time, responding to changing user needs and environments, faults, and vulnerabilities. Control theory approaches presented in the book provide some of the answers to these challenges. The book weaves together diverse research topics (such as requirements engineering, software development processes, pervasive and autonomic computing, service-oriented architectures, on-line adaptation of software behavior, testing and QoS control) into a coherent whole. Written by world-renowned experts, this book is truly a noteworthy and authoritative reference for students, researchers and practitioners to better understand how the adaptive control approach can be applied to improve the quality of software systems. Book chapters also outline future theoretical and experimental challenges for researchers in this area.

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World Scientific

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981434091X

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9789814340915

Biologically Inspired Approaches for Locomotion, Anomaly Detection and Reconfiguration for Walking Robots

By: Bojan Jakimovski

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Biologically Inspired Approaches for Locomotion, Anomaly Detection and Reconfiguration for Walking Robots

By: Bojan Jakimovski

The increasing presence of mobile robots in our everyday lives introduces the requirements for their intelligent and autonomous features. Therefore the next generation of mobile robots should be more self-capable, in respect to: increasing of their functionality in unforeseen situations, decreasing of the human involvement in their everyday operations and their maintenance; being robust; fault tolerant and reliable in their operation. Although mobile robotic systems have been a topic of research for decades and aside the technology improvements nowadays, the subject on how to program and making them more autonomous in their operations is still an open field for research. Applying bio-inspired, organic approaches in robotics domain is one of the methodologies that are considered that would help on making the robots more autonomous and self-capable, i.e. having properties such as: self-reconfiguration, self-adaptation, self-optimization, etc. In this book several novel biologically inspired approaches for walking robots (multi-legged and humanoid) domain are introduced and elaborated. They are related to self-organized and self-stabilized robot walking, anomaly detection within robot systems using self-adaptation, and mitigating the faulty robot conditions by self-reconfiguration of a multi-legged walking robot. The approaches presented have been practically evaluated in various test scenarios, the results from the experiments are discussed in details and their practical usefulness is validated.

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3642225055

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Book's by Bojan Louis

Sinking Bell

Sinking Bell

Currents

Currents

Sinking Bell

Sinking Bell

Complex Sports Biodynamics

Complex Sports Biodynamics

Paradigm Shift for Future Tennis

Paradigm Shift for Future Tennis

Žižek Reading Bonhoeffer

Žižek Reading Bonhoeffer

Our Forgotten Volunteers

Our Forgotten Volunteers

Complex Society: In the Middle of a Middle World

Complex Society: In the Middle of a Middle World

Adaptive Control Approach for Software Quality Improvement

Adaptive Control Approach for Software Quality Improvement

Biologically Inspired Approaches for Locomotion, Anomaly Detection and Reconfiguration for Walking Robots

Biologically Inspired Approaches for Locomotion, Anomaly Detection and Reconfiguration for Walking Robots

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