Forced to resign after retaliating against a senior officer for having an affair with his wife, former New York cop Vince Conte takes a job with a private security firm and finds himself targeted during an investigation involving a former star tennis player whose marriage and credibility have been destroyed by incriminating tabloid photos. By the author of The Enemy of God. Reprint.
Nonlinear differential or difference equations are encountered not only in mathematics, but also in many areas of physics (evolution equations, propagation of a signal in an optical fiber), chemistry (reaction-diffusion systems), and biology (competition of species). This book introduces the reader to methods allowing one to build explicit solutions to these equations. A prerequisite task is to investigate whether the chances of success are high or low, and this can be achieved without any a priori knowledge of the solutions, with a powerful algorithm presented in detail called the Painlevé test. If the equation under study passes the Painlevé test, the equation is presumed integrable. If on the contrary the test fails, the system is nonintegrable or even chaotic, but it may still be possible to find solutions. The examples chosen to illustrate these methods are mostly taken from physics. These include on the integrable side the nonlinear Schrödinger equation (continuous and discrete), the Korteweg-de Vries equation, the Hénon-Heiles Hamiltonians, on the nonintegrable side the complex Ginzburg-Landau equation (encountered in optical fibers, turbulence, etc), the Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equation (phase turbulence), the Kolmogorov-Petrovski-Piskunov equation (KPP, a reaction-diffusion model), the Lorenz model of atmospheric circulation and the Bianchi IX cosmological model. Written at a graduate level, the book contains tutorial text as well as detailed examples and the state of the art on some current research.
In 1940 the Museum sponsored excavations at the necropolis of Sitio Conte on the Pacific coastal plain 100 miles southwest of Panama City. The cemetery had been used by the local elite and their subordinates for over seven hundred years, until its abandonment during the tenth to twelfth centuries A.D. The focus is on Burial 11, whose main occupant was buried with fantastic gold objects. Included are essays on the excavations, the goldworking techniques, and the significance of the decorative motifs, as well as a catalogue of the gold objects. Illustrations include many color photographs along with archival photographs of the original excavations.
Theories of Democracy builds on Robert Dahl's observation that there is no single theory of democracy; only theories. Beyond the broad commitment to rule by the majority, democracy involves a set of contentious debates concerning the proper function and scope of power, equality, freedom, justice, and interests. In this anthology, Ronald J. Terchek and Thomas C. Conte have brilliantly assembled the works of classical, modern, and contemporary commentators to illustrate the deep and diverse roots of the democratic ideal, as well as to provide materials for thinking about the way some contemporary theories build on different traditions of democratic theorizing. The arguments addressed in Theories of Democracy appear in the voices of authors who have championed influential theories concerning the opportunities and dangers associated with democratic politics. In this collection, Terchek and Conte have selected excerpts not as a means for promoting a particular way of looking at democracy, but rather they have wisely chosen works that will enable students to carry on an informed discourse on the meaning and purposes of democratic principles and practices. Theories of Democracy is a must for every student of democracy's past, present, and future.
Samuel est un auteur qui, depuis toujours, se pose des questions sur le sens et le pourquoi de la vie. Il raconte ici l'histoire de son retour en Irlande, de son premier séjour sur l'Île de Coll et, surtout, de sa rencontres avec Petit Samuel, sons enfant intérieur. Samuel est un auteur qui, depuis toujours, se pose des questions sur le sens et le pourquoi de la vie. Il raconte ici l’histoire de son retour en Irlande, de son premier séjour sur l’île de Coll et, surtout, de sa rencontre avec Petit Samuel, son enfant intérieur. Tous deux doivent se réconcilier et ne faire qu’un. Qu’est-ce que cela signifie ? Samuel n’en sait rien de rien jusqu’à ce que son bon ami Monsieur Jacquot, un vieux sage, invite Petit-Samuel à jouer au jeu vidéo « Vingt mille lieues sous les mers ». Voici le récit de leur voyage sous les flots à la recherche du plus précieux des trésors... Comme « Le Voyage » et « Kaya », Samuel plaira aux lecteurs, grands et petits, à la recherche de belles histoires et de pistes de réflexion sur la vie. « Jolie, grand et brillant, comme le reste de l’œuvre de Robert Blake. » Julie Niquette, Partout Ici « Samuel fut un enchantement de bout en bout. J’y ai aussi puisé des leçons de vie personnelles qui sont arrivées pile-poil au bon moment dans la mienne. » Louise Deschâtelets
The landmark history of France and French culture in the eighteenth-century, a winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize When the apprentices of a Paris printing shop in the 1730s held a series of mock trials and then hanged all the cats they could lay their hands on, why did they find it so hilariously funny that they choked with laughter when they reenacted it in pantomime some twenty times? Why in the eighteenth-century version of Little Red Riding Hood did the wolf eat the child at the end? What did the anonymous townsman of Montpelier have in mind when he kept an exhaustive dossier on all the activities of his native city? These are some of the provocative questions the distinguished Harvard historian Robert Darnton answers The Great Cat Massacre, a kaleidoscopic view of European culture during in what we like to call "The Age of Enlightenment." A classic of European history, it is an essential starting point for understanding Enlightenment France.
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