Harnessing Chaos

Author : James G. Crossley
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-28
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 9780567655516

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Harnessing Chaos by James G. Crossley Pdf

Harnessing Chaos is an explanation of changes in dominant politicized assumptions about what the Bible 'really means' in English culture since the 1960s. James G. Crossley looks at how the social upheavals of the 1960s, and the economic shift from the post-war dominance of Keynesianism to the post-1970s dominance of neoliberalism, brought about certain emphases and nuances in the ways in which the Bible is popularly understood, particularly in relation to dominant political ideas. This book examines the decline of politically radical biblical interpretation in parliamentary politics and the victory of (a modified form of) Margaret Thatcher's re-reading of the liberal Bible tradition, following the normalisation of (a modified form of) Thatcherism more generally. Part I looks at the potential options for politicized readings of the Bible at the end of the the1960s, focussing on the examples of Christopher Hill and Enoch Powell. Part II analyses the role of Thatcher's specific contribution to political interpretation of the Bible and assumptions about 'religion'. Part III highlights the importance of (often unintended) ideological changes towards forms of Thatcherite interpretation in popular culture and with particular reference to Monty Python's Life of Brian and the Manchester music scene between 1976 and 1994. Part IV concerns the modification of Thatcher's Bible, particularly with reference to the embrace of socially liberal values, by looking at the electoral decline of the Conservative Party through the work of Jeffrey Archer on Judas and the final victory of Thatcherism through Tony Blair's exegesis. Some consideration is then given to the Bible in an Age of Coalition and how politically radical biblical interpretations retain a presence outside parliamentary politics. Harnessing Chaos concludes with reflections on why politicians in English politicians bother using the Bible at all.

Author : Masaya Yamaguchi
Publisher : Elsevier Science & Technology
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Computers
ISBN : UOM:39015034854102

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Towards the Harnessing of Chaos by Masaya Yamaguchi Pdf

This collection of papers presents a review of the various applications of chaos in mathematics, physics, biology, chemistry and engineering.

Author : Brad E. Kelle
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781793606860

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Moral Injury by Brad E. Kelle Pdf

Moral injury has developed in earnest since 2009 within psychology and military studies, especially through work with veterans of the U.S. military’s wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. A major part of this work is the attempt to identify means of healing, recovery, and repair for those morally injured by their experiences in combat (or similar situations). What this volume does is to provide insight into the identification of moral injury, the development of the notion, attempts to work with those affected, emerging ideas about moral injury, portraits of moral injury in the past and present, and, especially, what creative engagement with moral injury might look like from a variety of perspectives. As such, it will be an important resource for Christian ministers, chaplains, health care workers, and other providers and caregivers who serve afflicted communities.

Author : Ori Brafman,Judah Pollack
Publisher : Crown Currency
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780307886699

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The Chaos Imperative by Ori Brafman,Judah Pollack Pdf

In the bestselling tradition of Switch and Made to Stick, Ori Brafman reveals how organizations can drive growth and profits by allowing contained chaos and disruption the space to flourish, generating new ideas that trigger innovation. In The Chaos Imperative, organizational expert and bestselling author Ori Brafman (Sway, The Starfish and the Spider) shows how even the best and most efficient organizations, from Fortune 500 companies to today's US Army, benefit from allowing a little unstructured space and disruption into their planning and decision-making.

Author : Marianne Bjelland Kartzow,Kasper Bro Larsen,Outi Lehtipuu
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-05
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 9783110686043

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The Nordic Bible by Marianne Bjelland Kartzow,Kasper Bro Larsen,Outi Lehtipuu Pdf

Author : Brian Clegg
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780262539692

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Everyday Chaos by Brian Clegg Pdf

Chaos and complexity explained, with illuminating examples ranging from unpredictable pendulums to London's wobbly Millennium Bridge. The math we are taught in school is precise and only deals with simple situations. Reality is far more complex. Trying to understand a system with multiple interacting components—the weather, for example, or the human body, or the stock market—means dealing with two factors: chaos and complexity. If we don't understand these two essential subjects, we can't understand the real world. In Everyday Chaos, Brian Clegg explains chaos and complexity for the general reader, with an accessible, engaging text and striking full-color illustrations. By chaos, Clegg means a system where complex interactions make predicting long-term outcomes nearly impossible; complexity means complex interacting systems that have new emergent properties that make them more than the sum of their parts. Clegg illustrates these phenomena with discussions of predictable randomness, the power of probability, and the behavior of pendulums. He describes what Newton got wrong about gravity; how feedback kept steam engines from exploding; and why weather produces chaos. He considers the stock market, politics, bestseller lists, big data, and London's wobbling Millennium Bridge as examples of chaotic systems, and he explains how a better understanding of chaos helps scientists predict more accurately the risk of catastrophic Earth-asteroid collisions. We learn that our brains are complex, self-organizing systems; that the structure of snowflakes exemplifies emergence; and that life itself has been shown to be an emergent property of a complex system.

Author : Addison Heard
Publisher : Archway Publishing
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-24
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781480864436

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Chaos Chaser by Addison Heard Pdf

Risk and chaos are fundamental to the makeup of the world. Peoples lives are deeply grounded in and affected by them. In Chaos Chaser, author Addison Heard offers basic tools to help you navigate the chaotic world and even benefit from harnessing chaos creative power. Heard, who has spent his life learning about and exploring the good and bad of risk, chaos, and creativity, presents a guide to understanding the fundamental theories, analytical techniques, and philosophies behind risk, chaos, and decision-making. He then offers a compilation of industry-specific examples, including exploring NASA by investigating the development of spaceflight as a mechanism for understanding innovation processes and catastrophic failures. He focuses on how innovation materialized and on the various high-profile tragedies that have shaped the industry. Geared for both experts and non-experts who desire a practical background of risk and chaos and their roles in innovation and decision-making, Chaos Chaser gives an understanding of the fundamental impact of chaos on daily life and how you can use its power to create your own run-away successes.

Author : Rabinder N Madan
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 1088 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1993-11-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789814504317

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Chua's Circuit: A Paradigm for Chaos by Rabinder N Madan Pdf

For uninitiated researchers, engineers, and scientists interested in a quick entry into the subject of chaos, this book offers a timely collection of 55 carefully selected papers covering almost every aspect of this subject. Because Chua's circuit is endowed with virtually every bifurcation phenomena reported in the extensive literature on chaos, and because it is the only chaotic system which can be easily built by a novice, simulated in a personal computer, and tractable mathematically, it has become a paradigm for chaos, and a vehicle for illustrating this ubiquitous phenomenon. Its supreme simplicity and robustness has made it the circuit of choice for generating chaotic signals for practical applications. In addition to the 48 illuminating papers drawn from a recent two-part Special Issue (March and June, 1993) of the Journal of Circuits, Systems, and Computers devoted exclusively to Chua's circuit, several highly illustrative tutorials and incisive state-of-the-art reviews on the latest experimental, computational, and analytical investigations on chaos are also included. To enhance its pedagogical value, a diskette containing a user-friendly software and data base on many basic chaotic phenomena is attached to the book, as well as a gallery of stunningly colorful strange attractors. Beginning with an elementary (freshman-level physics) introduction on experimental chaos, the book presents a step-by-step guided tour, with papers of increasing complexity, which covers almost every conceivable aspects of bifurcation and chaos. The second half of the book contains many original materials contributed by world-renowned authorities on chaos, including L P Shil'nikov, A N Sharkovsky, M Misiurewicz, A I Mees, R Lozi, L O Chua and V S Afraimovich. The scope of topics covered is quite comprehensive, including at least one paper on each of the following topics: routes to chaos, 1-D maps, universality, self-similarity, 2-parameter renormalization group analysis, piecewise-linear dynamics, slow-fast dynamics, confinor analysis, symmetry breaking, strange attractors, basins of attraction, geometric invariants, time-series reconstruction, Lyapunov exponents, bispectral analysis, homoclinic bifurcation, stochastic resonance, synchronization, and control of chaos, as well as several novel applications of chaos, including secure communications, visual sensing, neural networks, dry turbulence, nonlinear waves and music. Contents:Bifurcation PhenomenaResonance, Synchronization, and WavesApplications of Chua's CircuitControlling ChaosOne-Dimensional Poincaré Maps From Chua's CircuitStrange AttractorsPiecewise-Linear AnalysisTime Series AnalysisGeneralizations of Chua's Circuit Readership: Physicists, biologists, mathematicians, chemists, engineers and researchers on nonlinear science. keywords:

Author : Tingwen Huang,Zhigang Zeng,Chuandong Li,Chi Sing Leung
Publisher : Springer
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-05
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783642344817

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Neural Information Processing by Tingwen Huang,Zhigang Zeng,Chuandong Li,Chi Sing Leung Pdf

The five volume set LNCS 7663, LNCS 7664, LNCS 7665, LNCS 7666 and LNCS 7667 constitutes the proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, ICONIP 2012, held in Doha, Qatar, in November 2012. The 423 regular session papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. These papers cover all major topics of theoretical research, empirical study and applications of neural information processing research. The 5 volumes represent 5 topical sections containing articles on theoretical analysis, neural modeling, algorithms, applications, as well as simulation and synthesis.

Author : Atsushi Uchida
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 669 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-13
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783527408696

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Optical Communication with Chaotic Lasers by Atsushi Uchida Pdf

Starting with an introduction to the fundamental physics in chaotic instabilities in laser systems, this comprehensive and unified reference goes on to present the techniques and technology of synchronization of chaos in coupled lasers, as well as the many applications to lasers and optics, communications, security and information technology. Throughout, it presents the current state of knowledge, including encoding/decoding techniques, performance of chaotic communication systems, random number generation, and novel communication technologies.

Author : James G. Crossley,Jim West
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567670601

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History, Politics and the Bible from the Iron Age to the Media Age by James G. Crossley,Jim West Pdf

As biblical studies becomes increasingly fragmented, this collection of essays brings together a number of leading scholars in order to show how historical reconstruction, philology, metacriticism, and reception history can be part of a collective vision for the future of the field. This collection of essays focuses more specifically on critical questions surrounding the construction of ancient Israel(s), 'minimalism', the ongoing significance of lexicography, the development of early Judaism, orientalism, and the use of the Bible in contemporary political discourses. Contributors include John van Seters, Niels Peter Lemche, Ingrid Hjelm, and Philip R. Davies.

Author : Dennis McCarthy
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2007-06-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1846426286

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"If You Turned into a Monster" by Dennis McCarthy Pdf

Draw me a picture of what you would look like if you turned into a monster.' Dennis McCarthy's work with distressed or traumatized children begins with an exercise that is simple but very effective: he invites the child to communicate with him in their own way, through the non-verbal language of play. Using case studies from his clinical experience and with numerous children's monster drawings, McCarthy lets the meaningful self-expression of the child take centre stage. He demonstrates that being allowed to play, move and draw impulsively and creatively in the supportive presence of the therapist is in fact the beginning of the therapeutic process. These activities are shown to be more therapeutic for the child in practical terms than the interpretation of the clues it provides about the child's state of mind. This very accessible book will be inspiring reading for play therapists and other professionals working therapeutically with young children and their families.

Author : Junji Ohtsubo
Publisher : Springer
Page : 679 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319561387

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Semiconductor Lasers by Junji Ohtsubo Pdf

This book describes the fascinating recent advances made concerning the chaos, stability and instability of semiconductor lasers, and discusses their applications and future prospects in detail. It emphasizes the dynamics in semiconductor lasers by optical and electronic feedback, optical injection, and injection current modulation. Applications of semiconductor laser chaos, control and noise, and semiconductor lasers are also demonstrated. Semiconductor lasers with new structures, such as vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers and broad-area semiconductor lasers, are intriguing and promising devices. Current topics include fast physical number generation using chaotic semiconductor lasers for secure communication, development of chaos, quantum-dot semiconductor lasers and quantum-cascade semiconductor lasers, and vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers. This fourth edition has been significantly expanded to reflect the latest developments. The fundamental theory of laser chaos and the chaotic dynamics in semiconductor lasers are discussed, but also for example the method of self-mixing interferometry in quantum-cascade lasers, which is indispensable in practical applications. Further, this edition covers chaos synchronization between two lasers and the application to secure optical communications. Another new topic is the consistency and synchronization property of many coupled semiconductor lasers in connection with the analogy of the dynamics between synaptic neurons and chaotic semiconductor lasers, which are compatible nonlinear dynamic elements. In particular, zero-lag synchronization between distant neurons plays a crucial role for information processing in the brain. Lastly, the book presents an application of the consistency and synchronization property in chaotic semiconductor lasers, namely a type of neuro-inspired information processing referred to as reservoir computing.

Author : Ryszard Praszkier
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108422147

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Empowering Leadership of Tomorrow by Ryszard Praszkier Pdf

This book shows how Empowering Leadership (EL) can drive success in business and have an immense social impact.

Author : Lipo Wang,Ke Chen,Yew Soon Ong
Publisher : Springer
Page : 1302 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2005-08-25
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540318538

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Advances in Natural Computation by Lipo Wang,Ke Chen,Yew Soon Ong Pdf

This book and its sister volumes, i.e., LNCS vols. 3610, 3611, and 3612, are the proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Natural Computation (ICNC 2005), jointly held with the 2nd International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery (FSKD 2005, LNAI vols. 3613 and 3614) from 27 to 29 August 2005 in Changsha, Hunan, China.