Parallel Encounters

Author : Gillian Roberts,David Stirrup
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781554589999

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Parallel Encounters by Gillian Roberts,David Stirrup Pdf

The essays collected in offer close analysis of an array of cultural representations of the Canada–US border, in both site-specificity and in the ways in which they reveal and conceal cultural similarities and differences. Contributors focus on a range of regional sites along the border and examine a rich variety of expressive forms, including poetry, fiction, drama, visual art, television, and cinema produced on both sides of the 49th parallel. The field of border studies has hitherto neglected the Canada–US border as a site of cultural interest, tending to examine only its role in transnational policy, economic cycles, and legal and political frameworks. Border studies has long been rooted in the US–Mexico divide; shifting the locus of that discussion north to the 49th parallel, the contributors ask what added complications a site-specific analysis of culture at the Canada–US border can bring to the conversation. In so doing, this collection responds to the demands of Hemispheric American Studies to broaden considerations of the significance of American culture to the Americas as a whole—bringing Canadian Studies into dialogue with the dominantly US-centric critical theory in questions of citizenship, globalization, Indigenous mobilization, hemispheric exchange, and transnationalism.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1422291963

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איה אדמון מייזלס: קווים מקבילים by Anonim Pdf

Author : David Carle,Janet Carle
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780520954557

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Traveling the 38th Parallel by David Carle,Janet Carle Pdf

Between extremes of climate farther north and south, the 38th North parallel line marks a temperate, middle latitude where human societies have thrived since the beginning of civilization. It divides North and South Korea, passes through Athens and San Francisco, and bisects Mono Lake in the eastern Sierra Nevada, where authors David and Janet Carle make their home. Former park rangers, the authors set out on an around-the-world journey in search of water-related environmental and cultural intersections along the 38th parallel. This book is a chronicle of their adventures as they meet people confronting challenges in water supply, pollution, wetlands loss, and habitat protection. At the heart of the narrative are the riveting stories of the passionate individuals—scientists, educators, and local activists—who are struggling to preserve some of the world's most amazing, yet threatened, landscapes. Traveling largely outside of cities, away from well-beaten tourist tracks, the authors cross Japan, Korea, China, Turkmenistan, Turkey, Greece, Sicily, Spain, Portugal, the Azores Islands, and the United States—from Chesapeake Bay to San Francisco Bay. The stories they gather provide stark contrasts as well as reaffirming similarities across diverse cultures. Generously illustrated with maps and photos, Traveling the 38th Parallel documents devastating environmental losses but also inspiring gains made through the efforts of dedicated individuals working against the odds to protect these fragile places.

Author : Olivier Schrauwen
Publisher : Fantagraphics Books
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-21
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781683961406

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Parallel Lives by Olivier Schrauwen Pdf

This collects six wildly inventive short comics stories that might collectively be dubbed “speculative memoir.” Schrauwen’s deadpan depictions of his and his offspring's upcoming lives include alien abduction, dialogue with future agents, and coded messages in envelopes at breakfast.

Author : Michael Klemm,Jim Cownie
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-08
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783110632897

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High Performance Parallel Runtimes by Michael Klemm,Jim Cownie Pdf

This book focuses on the theoretical and practical aspects of parallel programming systems for today's high performance multi-core processors and discusses the efficient implementation of key algorithms needed to implement parallel programming models. Such implementations need to take into account the specific architectural aspects of the underlying computer architecture and the features offered by the execution environment. This book briefly reviews key concepts of modern computer architecture, focusing particularly on the performance of parallel codes as well as the relevant concepts in parallel programming models. The book then turns towards the fundamental algorithms used to implement the parallel programming models and discusses how they interact with modern processors. While the book will focus on the general mechanisms, we will mostly use the Intel processor architecture to exemplify the implementation concepts discussed but will present other processor architectures where appropriate. All algorithms and concepts are discussed in an easy to understand way with many illustrative examples, figures, and source code fragments. The target audience of the book is students in Computer Science who are studying compiler construction, parallel programming, or programming systems. Software developers who have an interest in the core algorithms used to implement a parallel runtime system, or who need to educate themselves for projects that require the algorithms and concepts discussed in this book will also benefit from reading it. You can find the source code for this book at https://github.com/parallel-runtimes/lomp.

Author : Fritz Haake,Sven Gnutzmann,Marek Kuś
Publisher : Springer
Page : 659 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319975801

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Quantum Signatures of Chaos by Fritz Haake,Sven Gnutzmann,Marek Kuś Pdf

This classic text provides an excellent introduction to a new and rapidly developing field of research. Now well established as a textbook in this rapidly developing field of research, the new edition is much enlarged and covers a host of new results.

Author : Tanja Stampfl
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780429581205

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A Century of Encounters by Tanja Stampfl Pdf

A Century of Encounters analyzes Arab, American, and European literary depictions of self and other as they interact with each other in Arab North Africa throughout the twentieth century and introduces the trope of the encounter as a lens through which to read contemporary world literature comparatively. A focus on the transnational encounter allows for the in-depth study of constructions of gender, race, and national identities both for the self and the other in order to answer the seemingly simple questions: What makes up different encounters in the twentieth century, and how can we facilitate a productive and positive encounter between these groups? This book illustrates connections between literary texts that have hitherto been overlooked and establishes an intertextual genealogy of transcultural encounters throughout the twentieth century that coalesce around the themes of desire, family, and travel. In its literary analysis, A Century of Encounters aims to facilitate a better understanding of other cultures in general and contribute to constructive cross-cultural interactions between the United States, Europe, and Arab North Africa in particular.

Author : California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations (Program)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Fisheries
ISBN : UCLA:L0065288185

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California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations, Progress Report by California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations (Program) Pdf

Author : Rohit Chandra
Publisher : Morgan Kaufmann
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781558606715

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Parallel Programming in OpenMP by Rohit Chandra Pdf

Software -- Programming Techniques.

Author : Lee Axelrad,Robert A. Kagan
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2000-10-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0520222881

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Regulatory Encounters by Lee Axelrad,Robert A. Kagan Pdf

"This is a pathbreaking contribution to a much neglected area of academic study."—Bridget M. Hutter, London School of Economics "Regulatory Encounters is an extremely impressive book that contains rich, varied, and convincing case studies on an important topic, American 'adversarial legalism.'"—R. Shep Melnick, Boston College

Author : Alma Gottlieb,Philip Graham
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1994-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 0226305066

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Parallel Worlds by Alma Gottlieb,Philip Graham Pdf

This suspenseful and moving memoir of Africa recounts the experiences of Alma Gottlieb, an anthropologist, and Philip Graham, a fiction writer, as they lived in two remote villages in the rain forest of Cote d'Ivoire. With an unusual coupling of first-person narratives, their alternate voices tell a story imbued with sweeping narrative power, humility, and gentle humor. Parallel Worlds is a unique look at Africa, anthropological fieldwork, and the artistic process. "A remarkable look at a remote society [and] an engaging memoir that testifies to a loving partnership . . . compelling."—James Idema, Chicago Tribune

Author : William Allen Whitworth,Charles Taylor,James Whitbread Lee Glaisher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1920
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : CHI:63400624

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Oxford, Cambridge, and Dublin Messenger of Mathematics by William Allen Whitworth,Charles Taylor,James Whitbread Lee Glaisher Pdf

Author : Bernard Lewis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1995-01-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199774586

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Cultures in Conflict by Bernard Lewis Pdf

Hailed as "the doyen of Middle Eastern studies" in The New York Times Book Review, Bernard Lewis stands at the height of his field. "To read Mr. Lewis," wrote Fouad Ajami in The Wall Street Journal, "is to be taken through a treacherous terrain by the coolest and most reassuring of guides. You are in the hands of the Islamic world's foremost living historian." Now this sure-handed guide takes us through treacherous terrain indeed--the events of 1492, a year laden with epic events and riven by political debate. With elegance and erudition, Lewis explores that climactic year as a clash of civilizations--a clash not only of the New World and the Old, but also of Christendom and Islam, of Europe and the rest. In the same year that Columbus set sail across the Atlantic, he reminds us, the Spanish monarchy captured Granada, the last Muslim stronghold on the peninsula, and also expelled the Jews. Lewis uses these three epochal events to explore the nature of the European-Islamic conflict, placing the voyages of discovery in a striking new context. He traces Christian Europe's path from being a primitive backwater on the edges of the vast, cosmopolitan Caliphate, through the heightening rivalry of the two religions, to the triumph of the West over Islam, examining the factors behind their changing fortunes and cultural qualities. Balanced and insightful, this far-reaching discussion of the encounters between Islam, the West, and the globe provides a new understanding of the distant events that gave shape to the modern world.

Author : David Fields
Publisher : Thrive Christian Press
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 069235235X

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Parallel Encounters - Salvage by David Fields Pdf

The race is on! The Prism's Echo has unlocked an endless expanse of alternate realities for Scotty and the Starananians, but the question remains - do those parallel universes cease to exist the instant the book's ancient cover is snapped shut? That's a question Emperor Scotty can't seem to shake, and the fate of his friends in the Nazi controlled universe weighs heavily on his mind. He and Gloria ponder what might have happened to the rebels, and their imaginings are nothing short of extraordinary. Four tense, but quiet years have passed for the rebels since they captured the Nazi Space Port, and Captain Brooks wonders when the inevitable retaliation will come. As the station's supplies and energy draw near to total depletion, hope comes in the form of a mysterious and evidently abandoned alien spacecraft floating dead in space. Called the Rimcha, Brooks hopes to salvage the alien vessel and incorporate its resources into those of the rebellion. But there's a problem; the Nazis have spotted the alien ship too, and now the race is on to see who will capture the vessel first. If it's the rebellion, Earth may finally be liberated, but if it's the Nazis, any hope of further resistance may be crushed forever.

Author : David A. Livermore
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2009-02-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1441210636

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Cultural Intelligence (Youth, Family, and Culture) by David A. Livermore Pdf

Twenty-first-century society is diverse, and Christians must be able to understand other cultures and communicate effectively between and among them. Following up on the bestselling Hurt: Inside the World of Today's Teenagers, this new addition to the Youth, Family, and Culture series explores the much-needed skill of Cultural Intelligence (CQ), the ability to work effectively across national, ethnic, and even organizational cultures. While rooted in sound, scholarly research, Cultural Intelligence is highly practical and accessible to general readers. It will benefit students as well as guide ministry leaders interested in increasing their cultural awareness and sensitivity. Packed with assessment tools, simulations, case studies, and exercises, Cultural Intelligence will help transform individuals and organizations into effective intercultural communicators of the gospel. EXCERPT What do you do when you encounter someone who isn't like you? How do you feel? What goes on inside you? How do you relate to him or her? These are the kinds of questions we want to explore in this book. Few things are more basic to life than expressing love and respect for people who look, think, believe, act, and see differently than we do. We want to adapt to the barrage of cultures around us while still remaining true to ourselves. We want to let the world change us so that we can be part of changing the world. And we want to move from the desire to love across the chasm of cultural difference to the ability to express our love for people of difference. Relating lovingly to our fellow human beings is central to what it means to be human. And when it comes down to it, Christian ministry at its core is interacting with all kinds of people in ways that give them glimpses of Jesus in us. The billions of us sharing planet Earth together have so much in common. We're all born. We all die. We're all created in the image of God. We eat, sleep, persevere, and care for our young. We long for meaning and purpose, and we develop societies with those around us. But the way we go about the many things we have in common is deeply rooted in our unique personalities and cultures. So although we have so much in common, we have as much or more about us that's different.