A fictionalized story of Denmark Vesey, a slave who was able to buy his freedom after winning the lottery, and who later planned a slave rebellion in South Carolina in 1822.
This book examines US President Barack Obama’s characterizations in the Brazilian media, with a specific focus on political cartoons and internet memes. Brazilians celebrate their country as a racial democracy; thus the US works as its nemesis. The rise of a black president to the office of the most prominent country in the global, political, and economic landscape led some analysts to postulate that the US was living in a post-racial era. President Obama’s election also had a tremendous impact on the imaginary of the African Diaspora, and this volume investigates how the election of the first black US president complicates Brazilians’ own racial discourses. By focusing on three events—Barack Obama's election in 2008, his visit to Brazil in March 2011, and the aftermath of the US espionage on the Brazilian government in 2013—Emanuelle K. F. Oliveira-Monte analyzes Barack Obama's shifting portrayals that confirm and challenge Brazilian racial conceptions projected upon his figure.
The ?Fuzzy Explosion? emanating from Japan has compelled more people than ever to ponder the meaning and potential of fuzzy engineering. Scientists all over are now beginning to harness the power of fuzzy recognition and decision-making ? reminescent of the way the human mind works ? in computer applications.In this book a blue-ribbon list of contributors discusses the latest developments in topics such as possibility logic programming, truth-valued flow inference, fuzzy neural-logic networks and default knowledge representation. This volume is the first in a series aiming to document advances in fuzzy set theory and its applications.
In October 1972, our Czech-written book Literatury eerne Afriky (Literatures of Black Mrica) was published in Prague, presenting a survey of an extensive field. The publication, which was signed at that time by all three authors, differed from most contemporary introductions to the study of Mrican literatures in a threefold way: a) The authors attempted to cover various literacy and literary efforts in the area roughly delimited by Senegal in the west, Kenya in the east, Lake Chad in the north and the Cape in the south. We were well aware-even at that time-that neither technically nor linguistically would it be possible to cover all literary efforts within that area. We did try, however, to include in our survey both the literacies and literatures written in the Indo-European linguae francae (English, French, Portuguese) and in at least several of the major African languages of the area. We did not attempt an exhaustive description, but wished, rather, to show the mutual relationships which emerge, if the literatures of thii\ area, written either in the major linguae francae or in the African languages, are studied not as isolated phenomena, but as mutually complementary features. b) As two of us were linguists and one was a literary historian, we did not limit our analysis of the developing literacies and literatures to the purely cultural and literary aspects. Our intention waR to deal-whcre and if it was relevant-not only with the process of African literary development, but also with the simultaneous, complementar.
Readers witness as a woman's entire ideal life crumbles around her and she must pick up the pieces, find inner-peace and harmony, and if possible, once again find love and happiness.
The technology of the next few decades could possibly allow us to explore with robotic probes the closest stars outside our Solar System, and maybe even observe some of the recently discovered planets circling these stars. This book looks at the reasons for exploring our stellar neighbors and at the technologies we are developing to build space probes that can traverse the enormous distances between the stars. In order to reach the nearest stars, we must first develop a propulsion technology that would take our robotic probes there in a reasonable time. Such propulsion technology has radically different requirements from conventional chemical rockets, because of the enormous distances that must be crossed. Surprisingly, many propulsion schemes for interstellar travel have been suggested and await only practical engineering solutions and the political will to make them a reality. This is a result of the tremendous advances in astrophysics that have been made in recent decades and the perseverance and imagination of tenacious theoretical physicists. This book explores these different propulsion schemes – all based on current physics – and the challenges they present to physicists, engineers, and space exploration entrepreneurs. This book will be helpful to anyone who really wants to understand the principles behind and likely future course of interstellar travel and who wants to recognizes the distinctions between pure fantasy (such as Star Trek’s ‘warp drive’) and methods that are grounded in real physics and offer practical technological solutions for exploring the stars in the decades to come.
After seven years of marriage, it appears that April and Steve’s love has grown cold. Ever since April accepted Christ, their relationship hasn’t been the same. Now she’s worried that Steve is having an affair. Tired of being in a loveless marriage, April makes a decision that could lead to real trouble and, even worse yet, end her marriage. In an effort to satisfy her curiosity and find out the truth once and for all, April creates a profile on the dating web site, findmysoulmate.org. Three months earlier, Steve had mentioned the site while contemplating aloud if he and April would still match, especially after his wife’s commitment to God. But when April receives a message from Bob357, she is propelled down an uncertain path where, with help from a rescue dog and God, she discovers the truth about herself and her husband, forever changing the course of their lives and marriage. In this inspirational tale, a Christian wife desperate to learn whether her husband still loves her creates a dating site profile that leads her to make amazing discoveries about herself, her husband, and her marriage.
In a world where magic is forbidden, Detective Wulf Vaillancourt becomes entangled in a homocide investigation sparked by magic. Teaming up with the town's main suspect Morgan Ashborne, he unearths the town's secrets and shatters the illusion of a peaceful village. During his fight to find the truth, he must not only walk the thin, blurred line between right and wrong, but also face his own moral shortcomings.
This book analyzes the historical elements of Henry Liu's murder, his involvement with the Kuomintang, and the nefarious ways in which the Taiwanese secret police have infiltrated America. It is my intention that American readers who are unfamiliar with Chinese ways and customs will be inspired by this book, especially when observing the present crisis and mounting tensions between the U.S. and mainland China.
This book will strengthen a student's grasp of the laws of physics by applying them to practical situations, and problems that yield more easily to intuitive insight than brute-force methods and complex mathematics. These intriguing problems, chosen almost exclusively from classical (non-quantum) physics, are posed in accessible non-technical language requiring the student to select the right framework in which to analyse the situation and decide which branches of physics are involved. The level of sophistication needed to tackle most of the two hundred problems is that of the exceptional school student, the good undergraduate, or competent graduate student. The book will be valuable to undergraduates preparing for 'general physics' papers. It is hoped that even some physics professors will find the more difficult questions challenging. By contrast, mathematical demands are minimal, and do not go beyond elementary calculus. This intriguing book of physics problems should prove instructive, challenging and fun.
Zeke and his brother Anthony are being constantly bullied on the school bus and at school but are afraid to tell their teachers and the school dean, Mr. Witherspoon. They have been warned by the bullies what happens to snitches and are certain the bullies will carry out their vicious threats. When Mr. Witherspoon learns of the problems between the boys and the bullies, he calls them into his office. Zeke and Anthony are filled with dread and are more terrified of the dean than they are of the bullies, as rumors circulate about what lurks behind Mr. Witherspoons dark glasses and the disappearance of one of the students at Berkshire Xavier School. But upon the sudden return of the missing student, Sherman Buckley everyone is forced to deal with the tragedy of bullying and the consequences of their silence. Frustrated and angry at the bullying, the name callings, the bathroom wedgies, being beaten up on the school bus, Zeke and Anthony finally take a stand. But when their courage and strength failed to ward off the bullies, Zeke begins to seek super powers from a crystal bottle. As he seeks divine help, he is faced with a life changing decisionhe must decide whether to get revenge or to forgive.
* A non-rigourous, accurate presentation of precalc topics as applied to the technologies.* Examples are worked in great detail; second color is used to explain concepts, and margin annotations explain the steps in the examples; cumulative review exercises.
My Life in Secret is a memoir of an adult child of an alcoholic parent and how she finds her light; realizing it was always within her.Whom It May Concern: It's not easy being me.My heart has been broken.I'm living in hell.No one loves me.No one cares.I fear. I fear. I fear.What's with all the stares? To Whom It May Concern: Having no friends is no easy matter.For the sake of my well-being, please, please, please be kind.Yes, I'm going to try.It seems I've been frozen in time.I get queasy wishing it were all so easy. To Whom It May Concern: My soul has scars.People are cruel.I don't know what to do.I'm all alone, often put in a corner for all to see.I cry and cry and cry and cry, even though I don't know why.If God is real, why can't I heal?
The first book to focus on jumping genes outside bioscience and medicine, Multiobjective Optimization Methodology: A Jumping Gene Approach introduces jumping gene algorithms designed to supply adequate, viable solutions to multiobjective problems quickly and with low computational cost. Better Convergence and a Wider Spread of Nondominated Solutions The book begins with a thorough review of state-of-the-art multiobjective optimization techniques. For readers who may not be familiar with the bioscience behind the jumping gene, it then outlines the basic biological gene transposition process and explains the translation of the copy-and-paste and cut-and-paste operations into a computable language. To justify the scientific standing of the jumping genes algorithms, the book provides rigorous mathematical derivations of the jumping genes operations based on schema theory. It also discusses a number of convergence and diversity performance metrics for measuring the usefulness of the algorithms. Practical Applications of Jumping Gene Algorithms Three practical engineering applications showcase the effectiveness of the jumping gene algorithms in terms of the crucial trade-off between convergence and diversity. The examples deal with the placement of radio-to-fiber repeaters in wireless local-loop systems, the management of resources in WCDMA systems, and the placement of base stations in wireless local-area networks. Offering insight into multiobjective optimization, the authors show how jumping gene algorithms are a useful addition to existing evolutionary algorithms, particularly to obtain quick convergence solutions and solutions to outliers.
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