Edges Of The Rainbow

Author : Michel Delsol,Haruku Shinozaki
Publisher : The New Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781620972908

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Edges of the Rainbow by Michel Delsol,Haruku Shinozaki Pdf

An intimate photographic glimpse into the queer world behind the closed doors of modern Japanese society The LGBTQ community in Japan has faced its challenges. Even as some religious and warrior orders have a long and recognized tradition of same-sex love, to be considered different, to be “the nail that sticks out,” makes coming out difficult. Despite the conservative strain within Japanese society that encourages the LGBTQ community to remain unseen, a welcome change is happening on the ground. A number of queer cultural figures are opening up new horizons, and a growing majority of Japanese people believe that homosexuality should be an integral and open part of society. The latest in a series of beautiful, affordable photobooks that look at LGBTQ communities around the world, Edges of the Rainbow is a photographic celebration of the queer community in Japan. In a set of more than 150 color and black-and-white photographs, acclaimed photographer Michel Delsol and journalist Haruku Shinozaki have brought together a fascinating group of individuals to create an unforgettable and uplifting look at a proud and resilient community on the margins of Japanese society. Edges of the Rainbow was designed by Emerson, Wajdowicz Studios (EWS).

Author : Leland Dirks,Angelo Dirks
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1530886813

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Rainbow's Edge by Leland Dirks,Angelo Dirks Pdf

It's 1958. Gas is 25 cents a gallon. The USA has just launched its first satellite into orbit. Elvis Presley has been inducted into the US Army. And a little boy named Buddy has just been born into a black and white world. Twenty-four years later, that boy, now a young man, is left in a coma by a car accident. When his father-a devout Nebraska farmer-visits Buddy in the hospital, he discovers they are able to communicate telepathically. Through a week of mental conversations and time travel, they revisit the events and secrets of two decades that made them strangers to each other. A dog with two names shepherds them through the path of betrayal, abuse, and-eventually-reconciliation. Told with devastating simplicity and magic, this small novel will change the way you look at rainbows forever.

Author : Michel Delsol,Haruku Shinozaki
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1620972891

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Edges of the Rainbow by Michel Delsol,Haruku Shinozaki Pdf

An intimate photographic glimpse into the queer world behind the closed doors of modern Japanese society. The latest in a series of beautiful, affordable photo books that look at LGBTQ communities around the world, Edges of the Rainbow is a photographic celebration of the queer community in Japan. In more than 150 colour and black-and-white photographs, acclaimed photographer Michel Delsol and journalist Haruku Shinozaki have brought together a fascinating group of individuals to create an unforgettable and uplifting look at a proud and resilient community on the margins of Japanese society.

Author : Manindra Agrawal
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2002-11-29
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540002253

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FST TCS 2002: Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science by Manindra Agrawal Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 22nd Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science, FST TCS 2002, held in Kanpur, India in December 2002. The 26 revised full papers presented together with 5 invited contributions were carefully reviewed and selected from 108 submissions. A broad variety of topics from the theory of computing are addressed, from algorithmics and discrete mathematics as well as from logics and programming theory.

Author : Walter Lewin,Warren Goldstein
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011-05-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781439123546

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For the Love of Physics by Walter Lewin,Warren Goldstein Pdf

“YOU HAVE CHANGED MY LIFE” is a common refrain in the emails Walter Lewin receives daily from fans who have been enthralled by his world-famous video lectures about the wonders of physics. “I walk with a new spring in my step and I look at life through physics-colored eyes,” wrote one such fan. When Lewin’s lectures were made available online, he became an instant YouTube celebrity, and The New York Times declared, “Walter Lewin delivers his lectures with the panache of Julia Child bringing French cooking to amateurs and the zany theatricality of YouTube’s greatest hits.” For more than thirty years as a beloved professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lewin honed his singular craft of making physics not only accessible but truly fun, whether putting his head in the path of a wrecking ball, supercharging himself with three hundred thousand volts of electricity, or demonstrating why the sky is blue and why clouds are white. Now, as Carl Sagan did for astronomy and Brian Green did for cosmology, Lewin takes readers on a marvelous journey in For the Love of Physics, opening our eyes as never before to the amazing beauty and power with which physics can reveal the hidden workings of the world all around us. “I introduce people to their own world,” writes Lewin, “the world they live in and are familiar with but don’t approach like a physicist—yet.” Could it be true that we are shorter standing up than lying down? Why can we snorkel no deeper than about one foot below the surface? Why are the colors of a rainbow always in the same order, and would it be possible to put our hand out and touch one? Whether introducing why the air smells so fresh after a lightning storm, why we briefly lose (and gain) weight when we ride in an elevator, or what the big bang would have sounded like had anyone existed to hear it, Lewin never ceases to surprise and delight with the extraordinary ability of physics to answer even the most elusive questions. Recounting his own exciting discoveries as a pioneer in the field of X-ray astronomy—arriving at MIT right at the start of an astonishing revolution in astronomy—he also brings to life the power of physics to reach into the vastness of space and unveil exotic uncharted territories, from the marvels of a supernova explosion in the Large Magellanic Cloud to the unseeable depths of black holes. “For me,” Lewin writes, “physics is a way of seeing—the spectacular and the mundane, the immense and the minute—as a beautiful, thrillingly interwoven whole.” His wonderfully inventive and vivid ways of introducing us to the revelations of physics impart to us a new appreciation of the remarkable beauty and intricate harmonies of the forces that govern our lives.

Author : Vernor Vinge
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2007-04-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1429991895

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Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge Pdf

Four time Hugo Award winner Vernor Vinge has taken readers to the depths of space and into the far future in his bestselling novels A Fire Upon the Deep and A Deepness in the Sky. Now, he has written a science-fiction thriller set in a place and time as exciting and strange as any far-future world: San Diego, California, 2025. Robert Gu is a recovering Alzheimer's patient. The world that he remembers was much as we know it today. Now, as he regains his faculties through a cure developed during the years of his near-fatal decline, he discovers that the world has changed and so has his place in it. He was a world-renowned poet. Now he is seventy-five years old, though by a medical miracle he looks much younger, and he's starting over, for the first time unsure of his poetic gifts. Living with his son's family, he has no choice but to learn how to cope with a new information age in which the virtual and the real are a seamless continuum, layers of reality built on digital views seen by a single person or millions, depending on your choice. But the consensus reality of the digital world is available only if, like his thirteen-year-old granddaughter Miri, you know how to wear your wireless access—through nodes designed into smart clothes—and to see the digital context—through smart contact lenses. With knowledge comes risk. When Robert begins to re-train at Fairmont High, learning with other older people what is second nature to Miri and other teens at school, he unwittingly becomes part of a wide-ranging conspiracy to use technology as a tool for world domination. In a world where every computer chip has Homeland Security built-in, this conspiracy is something that baffles even the most sophisticated security analysts, including Robert's son and daughter-in law, two top people in the U.S. military. And even Miri, in her attempts to protect her grandfather, may be entangled in the plot. As Robert becomes more deeply involved in conspiracy, he is shocked to learn of a radical change planned for the UCSD Geisel Library; all the books there, and worldwide, would cease to physically exist. He and his fellow re-trainees feel compelled to join protests against the change. With forces around the world converging on San Diego, both the conspiracy and the protest climax in a spectacular moment as unique and satisfying as it is unexpected. This is science fiction at its very best, by a master storyteller at his peak. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Silvie Vargas
Publisher : Vantage Press, Inc
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2008-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0533157382

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On Rainbow's Edge by Silvie Vargas Pdf

" ... captures with great humor, sensitivity, and nuance one women's journey through a year of cultural dislocation, family crisis, and self-discovery."--Jacket front flap

Author : Kenny Anthony
Publisher : Ian Randle Publishers
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Campaign speeches
ISBN : 9789766371579

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At the Rainbow's Edge by Kenny Anthony Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 905 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031474170

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by Anonim Pdf

Author : Nikki Gemmell
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062191472

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The Bride Stripped Bare by Nikki Gemmell Pdf

A woman disappears, leaving behind an incendiary diary chronicling a journey of sexual awakening. To all who knew her, she was the good wife: happy, devoted, content. But the diary reveals a secret self, one who's discovered that her new marriage contains mysteries of its own. She has discovered a forgotten Elizabethan manuscript that dares to speak of what women truly desire, and inspired by its revelations, she tastes for the first time the intoxicating power of knowing what she wants and how to get it. The question is: How long can she sustain a perilous double life?

Author : János Pach
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-15
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9781461401100

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Thirty Essays on Geometric Graph Theory by János Pach Pdf

In many applications of graph theory, graphs are regarded as geometric objects drawn in the plane or in some other surface. The traditional methods of "abstract" graph theory are often incapable of providing satisfactory answers to questions arising in such applications. In the past couple of decades, many powerful new combinatorial and topological techniques have been developed to tackle these problems. Today geometric graph theory is a burgeoning field with many striking results and appealing open questions. This contributed volume contains thirty original survey and research papers on important recent developments in geometric graph theory. The contributions were thoroughly reviewed and written by excellent researchers in this field.

Author : Ioannis G. Tollis,Maurizio Patrignani
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2009-02-13
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783642002182

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Graph Drawing by Ioannis G. Tollis,Maurizio Patrignani Pdf

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 16th International Symposium on Graph Drawing, GD 2008, held in Heraklion, Crete, Greece, during September 21-24, 2008. The 31 long papers and 8 short papers presented together with 10 posters and two invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 83 submissions. The volume also includes a report on the Graph Drawing Contest which was held during the conference. An important aspect of the conference is bridging the gap between theoretical advances and implemented solutions of geometric representation of graphs and networks. It is motivated by those applications where it is crucial to visualize structural information as graphs.

Author : Wade Davis
Publisher : D & M Publishers
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2009-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1926706897

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Light at the Edge of the World by Wade Davis Pdf

For more than 30 years, renowned anthropologist Wade Davis has traveled the globe, studying the mysteries of sacred plants and celebrating the world’s traditional cultures. His passion as an ethnobotanist has brought him to the very center of indigenous life in places as remote and diverse as the Canadian Arctic, the deserts of North Africa, the rain forests of Borneo, the mountains of Tibet, and the surreal cultural landscape of Haiti. In Light at the Edge of the World, Davis explores the idea that these distinct cultures represent unique visions of life itself and have much to teach the rest of the world about different ways of living and thinking. As he investigates the dark undercurrents tearing people from their past and propelling them into an uncertain future, Davis reiterates that the threats faced by indigenous cultures endanger and diminish all cultures.

Author : Anderson Cooper,Gloria Vanderbilt
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780062674593

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The Rainbow Comes and Goes by Anderson Cooper,Gloria Vanderbilt Pdf

#1 New York Times Bestseller A touching and intimate correspondence between Anderson Cooper and his mother, Gloria Vanderbilt, offering timeless wisdom and a revealing glimpse into their lives The Rainbow Comes and Goes is a charming, intimate and fascinating collection of correspondence between broadcaster and #1 New York Times bestselling author Anderson Cooper and his mother, the celebrated Gloria Vanderbilt. Anderson Cooper’s intensely busy career as a journalist for CNN and CBS’ 60 Minutes affords him little time to spend with his ninety-one year old mother. After she briefly fell ill, he and Gloria began a conversation through e-mail unlike any they had ever had before —a correspondence of surprising honesty and depth in which they discussed their lives, the things that matter to them and what they still want to learn about each other. Both a son’s love letter to his mother in her final years and an unconventional mother’s life lessons for her grown son, The Rainbow Comes and Goes offers a rare window into their close relationship and fascinating lives. In these often hilarious and touching exchanges, they share their most private thoughts and the hard-earned truths they’ve learned along the way. Throughout, their distinctive personalities shine through—Anderson’s darker outlook on the world is a brilliant contrast to his mother’s idealism and unwavering optimism. An appealing blend of memoir and inspirational advice, The Rainbow Comes and Goes is a beautiful and affectionate celebration of the profound and universal bond between a parent and child, and, like Tuesdays with Morrie, a thoughtful reflection on life and love, reminding us of the precious knowledge and insight that remains to be shared, no matter what age we are.

Author : Xueliang Li,Yuefang Sun
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 103 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-23
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9781461431190

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Rainbow Connections of Graphs by Xueliang Li,Yuefang Sun Pdf

Rainbow connections are natural combinatorial measures that are used in applications to secure the transfer of classified information between agencies in communication networks. Rainbow Connections of Graphs covers this new and emerging topic in graph theory and brings together a majority of the results that deal with the concept of rainbow connections, first introduced by Chartrand et al. in 2006. The authors begin with an introduction to rainbow connectedness, rainbow coloring, and rainbow connection number. The work is organized into the following categories, computation of the exact values of the rainbow connection numbers for some special graphs, algorithms and complexity analysis, upper bounds in terms of other graph parameters, rainbow connection for dense and sparse graphs, for some graph classes and graph products, rainbow k-connectivity and k-rainbow index, and, rainbow vertex-connection number. Rainbow Connections of Graphs appeals to researchers and graduate students in the field of graph theory. Conjectures, open problems and questions are given throughout the text with the hope for motivating young graph theorists and graduate students to do further study in this subject.