A Promising Problem
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A Promising Problem
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Author : Carlos Kevin Blanton
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2016-03-08
A Promising Problem written by Carlos Kevin Blanton and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-08 with Social Science categories.
Chicana/o history has reached an intriguing juncture. While academic and intellectual studies are embracing new, highly nuanced perspectives on race, class, gender, education, identity, and community, the field itself continues to be viewed as a battleground, subject to attacks from outside academia by those who claim that the discipline promotes racial hatred and anti-Americanism. Against a backdrop of deportations and voter suppression targeting Latinos, A Promising Problem presents the optimistic voices of scholars who call for sophisticated solutions while embracing transnationalism and the reality of multiple, overlapping identities. Showcasing a variety of new directions, this anthology spans topics such as growth and reassessment in Chicana/o history manifested in a disruption of nationalism and geographic essentialism, the impact of legal history, interracial relations and the experiences of Latino subpopulations in the US South, race and the politics of religious history, transborder feminism in the early twentieth century, and aspirations for a field that increasingly demonstrates the relational dynamics of cultural production. As they reflect on the state of their field, the contributors offer significant insights into sociology, psychology, anthropology, political science, education, and literature, while tracing the history of activism throughout the last century and debating the very concepts of “Chicano” and “Chicano history.” Although the political landscape is fraught with closed-off rhetoric, A Promising Problem encourages diversity of thought and opens the possibilities of historical imagination.
A Good Problem To Have
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Author : Joseph Britt
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2011-11-23
A Good Problem To Have written by Joseph Britt and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-23 with Fiction categories.
It is the seventies. Tom Phillips is a fugitive from the Navy and involved romantically with his best friend’s mother. What he doesn’t know is that he is bi-polar and headed for a crash. This coming of age story tells of a young man’s adventures as he struggles to wake up from the dream of his life.
The Tragedy Of Almightiness
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Author : Sybe Schaap
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2016-01-06
The Tragedy Of Almightiness written by Sybe Schaap and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-06 with Philosophy categories.
The Tragedy of Almightiness encircles the theme of human yearning for omnipotence, as expressed in religion and various ideologies. The central question revolves around the matter of what--in pursuing such an extreme power of the will--man seeks to achieve. While exploring the question, a thought-provoking link is made between religion and atheism; between the Biblical longing for God's promise and the Marxist appeal for man to realize that same promise. Omnipotence must vouch for the fulfilling of the promise, for justice and for man's dream of redemption. However that is not where it ends. The longing for salvation turns out to have a dangerous reverse side to it because it encourages a turning away from the actual world and the all-pervading evil. Omnipotence also facilitates the avenging of such evil. History has shown what this kind of yearning can lead to. The book demonstrates how modernity translates Biblical longings into ideologically justified revengefulness. The description of this process leads to a plea for renewed ethical purpose in life. It is a challenge that also extends to religion. Hence the reason that it is necessary to depart from the idea of omnipotence.
Handbook Of Combinatorial Optimization
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Author : Ding-Zhu Du
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2013-12-01
Handbook Of Combinatorial Optimization written by Ding-Zhu Du and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-01 with Mathematics categories.
Combinatorial (or discrete) optimization is one of the most active fields in the interface of operations research, computer science, and applied math ematics. Combinatorial optimization problems arise in various applications, including communications network design, VLSI design, machine vision, air line crew scheduling, corporate planning, computer-aided design and man ufacturing, database query design, cellular telephone frequency assignment, constraint directed reasoning, and computational biology. Furthermore, combinatorial optimization problems occur in many diverse areas such as linear and integer programming, graph theory, artificial intelligence, and number theory. All these problems, when formulated mathematically as the minimization or maximization of a certain function defined on some domain, have a commonality of discreteness. Historically, combinatorial optimization starts with linear programming. Linear programming has an entire range of important applications including production planning and distribution, personnel assignment, finance, alloca tion of economic resources, circuit simulation, and control systems. Leonid Kantorovich and Tjalling Koopmans received the Nobel Prize (1975) for their work on the optimal allocation of resources. Two important discover ies, the ellipsoid method (1979) and interior point approaches (1984) both provide polynomial time algorithms for linear programming. These algo rithms have had a profound effect in combinatorial optimization. Many polynomial-time solvable combinatorial optimization problems are special cases of linear programming (e.g. matching and maximum flow). In addi tion, linear programming relaxations are often the basis for many approxi mation algorithms for solving NP-hard problems (e.g. dualheuristics).
Introduction To Property Testing
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Author : Oded Goldreich
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2017-11-23
Introduction To Property Testing written by Oded Goldreich and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-23 with Computers categories.
An extensive and authoritative introduction to property testing, the study of super-fast algorithms for the structural analysis of large quantities of data in order to determine global properties. This book can be used both as a reference book and a textbook, and includes numerous exercises.
The Problems And Promise Of Commercial Society
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Author : Dennis Carl Rasmussen
language : en
Publisher: Penn State Press
Release Date : 2010-11
The Problems And Promise Of Commercial Society written by Dennis Carl Rasmussen and has been published by Penn State Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11 with Business & Economics categories.
Adam Smith is popularly regarded as the ideological forefather of laissez-faire capitalism, while Rousseau is seen as the passionate advocate of the life of virtue in small, harmonious communities and as a sharp critic of the ills of commercial society. But, in fact, Smith had many of the same worries about commercial society that Rousseau did and was strongly influenced by his critique. In this first book-length comparative study of these leading eighteenth-century thinkers, Dennis Rasmussen highlights Smith&’s sympathy with Rousseau&’s concerns and analyzes in depth the ways in which Smith crafted his arguments to defend commercial society against these charges. These arguments, Rasmussen emphasizes, were pragmatic in nature, not ideological: it was Smith&’s view that, all things considered, commercial society offered more benefits than the alternatives. Just because of this pragmatic orientation, Smith&’s approach can be useful to us in assessing the pros and cons of commercial society today and thus contributes to a debate that is too much dominated by both dogmatic critics and doctrinaire champions of our modern commercial society.
A Promise To The Past
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Author : James G. Brown
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2000-12-20
A Promise To The Past written by James G. Brown and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-12-20 with Fiction categories.
Facing the approach of middle age, David Baker finds himself bored, uninspired and just going through the motions. Then another failed romance and a family tragedy cause him to return from Boston to his home in Iowa where he discovers a family tradition of a "stolen fortune". This discovery motivates him to begin a search for the story behind the family tradition and for his own roots. With the help of a friend, he works his way back into the past and discovers a link to an event that changed his family forever. This leads him farther back into time and along the way he meets Abigail Palmer, a young woman with similar interests. Together they work to solve the 200-year old mystery and discover a modern day secret linked to events from long ago. Then, a mysterious woman who seems to know some of the answers they seek helps them find the truth. But, the truth leads David and Abby into new danger and a final confrontation with a legacy of the past. Can they finally solve the mystery, or will they be consumed by the same treachery of the past?
Principles And Practice Of Constraint Programming Cp 2005
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Author : Peter van Beek
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2005-09-22
Principles And Practice Of Constraint Programming Cp 2005 written by Peter van Beek and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-09-22 with Computers categories.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming, CP 2005, held in Sitges, Spain, in October 2005. The 48 revised full papers and 22 revised short papers presented together with extended abstracts of 4 invited talks and 40 abstracts of contributions to the doctoral students program as well as 7 abstracts of contributions to a systems demonstration session were carefully reviewed and selected from 164 submissions. All current issues of computing with constraints are addressed, ranging from methodological and foundational aspects to solving real-world problems in various application fields.
The Enforceability Of Promises In European Contract Law
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Author : James Gordley
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2001-07-12
The Enforceability Of Promises In European Contract Law written by James Gordley and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-07-12 with Law categories.
Civil law and common law systems are held to enforce promises differently: civil law, in principle, will enforce any promise, while common law will enforce only those with 'consideration'. In that respect, modern civil law supposedly differs from the Roman law from which it descended, where a promise was enforced depending on the type of contract the parties had made. This 2001 volume is concerned with the extent to which these characterizations are true, and how these and other differences affect the enforceability of promises. Beginning with a concise history of these distinctions, the volume then considers how twelve European legal systems would deal with fifteen concrete situations. Finally, a comparative section considers why legal systems enforce certain promises and not others, and what promises should be enforced. This is the second completed project of The Common Core of European Private Law launched at the University of Trento.
Computational Complexity And Local Algorithms
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Author : Oded Goldreich
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2025-07-11
Computational Complexity And Local Algorithms written by Oded Goldreich and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-07-11 with Computers categories.
This volume contains a collection of studies in the areas of complexity theory and local algorithms. A common theme in most of the papers is the interplay between randomness and computation. This interplay is pivotal to some parts of complexity theory and is essential for local algorithms. The works included address a variety of topics in the areas of complexity theory and local algorithms. Within complexity theory the topics include approximation algorithms, counting problems, enumeration problems, explicit construction of expander graphs, fine grained complexity, interactive proof systems, PPT-search and pseudodeterminism, space complexity, and worst-case to average-case reductions. Within local algorithms the focus is mostly on property testing and on locally testable and decodable codes. In particular, many of the works seek to advance the study of testing graph properties in the bounded-degree graph model. Other topics in property testing include testing group properties and testing properties of affine subspaces.