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1) Asymmetry
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"Told in three distinct and uniquely compelling sections, Asymmetry explores the imbalances that spark and sustain many of our most dramatic human relations: inequities in age, power, talent, wealth, fame, geography, and justice. The first section, "Folly," tells the story of Alice, a young American editor, and her relationship with the famous and much older writer Ezra Blazer. A tender and exquisite account of an unexpected romance that takes place...
2) Asymmetry
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"One of the most vibrant voices of our time, Adam Zagajewski is a modern master of the poetic form. In Asymmetry, his first collection of poems in five years, he revisits the themes that have long concerned him: the enduring imprint of history, the beauty of nature, the place of the exile. Though as sanguine as ever, Zagajewski often turns to elegy in this deeply powerful collection, remembering loved ones he's lost: a hairdresser, the philosopher...
3) Asymmetry, Askaris And Small Wars: Operational Art And The German East African Campaign, 1914-1918
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This monograph analyzed whether Lieutenant Colonel Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck used operational art to defeat British forces in the East African campaign of World War I. British forces were superior in quantity of men and equipment, but slow moving and heavily dependent on secure lines of communication. Lettow-Vorbeck's forces maintained an asymmetric advantage in mobility, knowledge of terrain, and responsive logistics. An analogy was suggested that...
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This thought-provoking work by a physicist and popular science writer explores the origins of asymmetry from the molecular level to that of the universe at large. Frank Close takes the readers on a tour of asymmetry that ranges from the development of human embryos to the mysterious Higgs boson, or "God particle," and ongoing research at Switzerland's CERN laboratory.
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In China and Its Small Neighbors, Sung Chull Kim examines the political implications of the economic asymmetry between China and its small neighbors, part of wider changes in international relations brought about by the rise of China. While being critical of the current trend that focuses on the China-U.S. rivalry alone, Kim argues that a microanalysis of China's advances toward its neighbors is a guide to understanding the trajectory of China's expanding...
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This monograph analyzes the effectiveness of operational campaign design against an asymmetrical threat during the 1968 Tet Offensive. The focus is on conceptual elements of campaign design that are derived from theory, which incorporate the particulars of military history to the general truth of warfare. Effective campaign execution is dependent, in part, on effective campaign design that set of theoretical and doctrinal precepts that define the...
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Your Upper Body, Your Yoga is the highly anticipated final book of the Your Body, Your Yoga trilogy - the definitive investigation of how your uniqueness affects your movements, postures and your yoga.
This remarkable trilogy looks at the variations of human anatomy and its effect on the body's biomechanics. Used as a standard text for many yoga teacher training programs it provides yoga students and teachers a system for exploring what asanas are...
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"The United States today is hopelessly polarized; the political Right and Left have hardened into rigid and deeply antagonistic camps, preventing any sort of progress. Amid the bickering and inertia, the promise of the 1960s-when we came together as a nation to fight for equality and universal justice-remains unfulfilled. As Shelby Steele reveals in Shame, the roots of this impasse can be traced back to that decade of protest, when in the act of uncovering...
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In Alice Walker's second story collection, women stand their ground in the midst of crisis This collection builds on Alice Walker's earlier work, the much-praised In Love & Trouble. But unlike her first collection of stories, the women in these tenderly wrought tales face their problems head on, proving powerful and self-possessed even when degraded by others-sometimes by those closest to them. But even as the female protagonists face exploitation,...
12) Summary of "Some Reflections on Globalization and Neoliberalism in Latin America and Argentina" by P
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We have summarized here the essential of this book by the author.SOME REFLECTIONS ON GLOBALIZATION AND NEOLIBERALISM IN LATIN AMERICA AND ARGENTINASince the 1980s, it has been said that the world became a GLOBAL VILLAGE, in the heat of the technological revolution, the overcoming of the limits of space and time, and social homogenization (economic, political, and cultural). Although with fragmentations and asymmetries.
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The aim of this interdisciplinary study is to reconstruct the evolution of our changing conceptions of time in the light of scientific discoveries. It will adopt a new perspective and organize the material around three central themes, which run through our history of time reckoning: cosmology and regularity, stasis and flux, symmetry and asymmetry. It is the physical criteria that humans choose — relativistic effects and time-symmetric equations...
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Symmetry and the mathematical basis of shapes create the 50 engaging and fun puzzles in this book and will help students hone their skills in understanding. All of the puzzles are carefully designed to help young readers increase their speed, confidence, and ability in identifying, analyzing, and constructing various shapes and symmetries/asymmetries, both in the classroom and in real life. Each page of the book features a different puzzle intended...
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With the incredible popularity of recent books championing agnosticism or atheism, many people might never know that such books almost completely ignore, the considerable evidence for theism uncovered in both physics and philosophy over the past four decades. New Proofs for the Existence of God responds to these glaring omissions.
From universal space-time asymmetry to cosmic coincidences to the intelligibility of reality, Robert Spitzer tackles...
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PricewaterhouseCoopers's global strategy leader offers a powerful new framework for understanding and resolving the root causes of the 21st century's most pressing problems.
As global leader for strategy for one of the largest organizations in the history of the world, Blair Sheppard sees humanity as facing four major crises: a crisis of prosperity, a crisis of technology, a crisis of institutions, and a crisis of leadership. In this book, he and...
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"On the night of June Fourth, a woman gives birth in a Beijing hospital alone. Thus begins the unraveling of Su Lan, a brilliant physicist who until this moment has successfully erased her past, fighting what she calls the mind's arrow of time. When Su Lan dies unexpectedly seventeen years later, it is her daughter Liya who inherits the silences and contradictions of her life. Liya, who grew up in America, takes her mother's ashes to China--to her,...
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Set in a multilingual cleaning company that serves Anglophone customers in the upper-(middle) class suburbs of New York City, this book presents an ethnographic study into power, language policy and communication from the perspectives of the Brazilian–American employer as well as the company's Hispanophone and Lusophone employees. Power asymmetries in internal communication demonstrate the employer's legitimated domination over her employees and...
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• Succinct accounts of 21 guerrilla conflicts in the twentieth century
• Wars covered include the Boer War, the Philippine War, World War I, the Russian Revolution, World War II, Vietnam, the Algerian War, the Afghan-Soviet War, and more
• The exploits of men like Lawrence of Arabia, Orde Wingate, Mao Zedong, and Che Guevera
In war, whenever one side outnumbers and outguns the other, the outnumbered and outgunned side often resorts to guerrilla...
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"Rakel has a rare talent for math, but she has never mastered the art of making friends. At nineteen, she moves to Oslo to attend university, and meets Jakob, a brilliant, older teacher. He is also working on a novel about Sofja Kovalevskaja, the first woman who became a professor in Mathematics. Just as Kovalevskaja was very close to her much older advisor, Rakel and Jakob are instantly drawn to each other and eventually become lovers, although he...