Parallel Lines

Author : Guy Westwell
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780231850728

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Parallel Lines describes how post-9/11 cinema, from Spike Lee's 25th Hour (2002) to Kathryn Bigelow's Zero Dark Thirty (2012), relates to different, and competing, versions of US national identity in the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks. The book combines readings of individual films (World Trade Center, United 93, Fahrenheit 9/11, Loose Change) and cycles of films (depicting revenge, conspiracy, torture and war) with extended commentary on recurring themes, including the relationship between the US and the rest of the world, narratives of therapeutic recovery, questions of ethical obligation. The volume argues that post-9/11 cinema is varied and dynamic, registering shock and upheaval in the immediate aftermath of the attacks, displaying capacity for critique following the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal mid-decade, and seeking to reestablish consensus during Obama's troubled second term of office.

Author : Ian Marchant
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-11
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781408866221

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_________________ 'Compelling... Part Bill Bryson, part Nick Hornby, part memoir and part pastiche ... Light, lively and, above all, right: what every enthusiast should be expected to know' - The Times 'Michael Palin meets Nick Hornby meets What the Victorians Did for Us ... wacky and amiable' - Independent on Sunday 'A gloriously disingenuous front for the most acerbic and humorous criticism of public transport policy ... a more entertaining and incisive read will not be found this year' - Glasgow Herald _________________ A brilliantly witty story of one man's encounter with the British railways For 175 years the British have lived with the railway, and for a long while it was a love affair - the grandeur of the Victorian heyday, the glorious age of steam, the romance of Brief Encounter. Then the love affair turned sour - strikes, bad food, delays, disasters... Parallel Lines tells the story of these two railways: the real railway and the railway of our dreams. Travelling all over Britain, Ian Marchant examines the history of the British railway and meets those who still hold the railways close to their hearts - the model railway enthusiasts, the train-spotters and bashers (a hybrid of train-spotting where the individual - usually male - has to travel behind a certain locomotive in order to catalogue it), the steam enthusiasts. He swaps stories with commuters at the far reaches of London suburbia, he travels to deserted railway museums, and smokes cigarettes on remote, windswept stations in the furthest corners of Scotland, turning his characteristic eye for character, humour and surprise to one of the great shared experiences of the British nation. _________________ 'The trip keeps its pace and purpose, fuelled by the genial, flexible rhythms of the prose and enriched by two centuries of railway-culture hinterland' - Independent

Author : Steven Savile
Publisher : Titan Books (US, CA)
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781783297924

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How far would you go to provide for your child? Adam Shaw is dying, and knows he’ll leave his disabled son with nothing. His solution? Rob a bank. It’s no surprise that things go wrong. What is surprising is that when another customer is accidentally shot, no one in the bank is in a hurry to hand Adam over to the police. There’s the manager who’s desperate to avoid an audit, the security guard with a serious grudge, and the woman who knows exactly how bad the victim really was… Eight people, twelve hours, one chance to cover up a murder. But it’s not just the police they have to fool. When many lives intersect, the results can be explosive.--

Author : Leonard Mlodinow
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2010-09-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781439135372

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Euclid's Window by Leonard Mlodinow Pdf

Through Euclid's Window Leonard Mlodinow brilliantly and delightfully leads us on a journey through five revolutions in geometry, from the Greek concept of parallel lines to the latest notions of hyperspace. Here is an altogether new, refreshing, alternative history of math revealing how simple questions anyone might ask about space -- in the living room or in some other galaxy -- have been the hidden engine of the highest achievements in science and technology. Based on Mlodinow's extensive historical research; his studies alongside colleagues such as Richard Feynman and Kip Thorne; and interviews with leading physicists and mathematicians such as Murray Gell-Mann, Edward Witten, and Brian Greene, Euclid's Window is an extraordinary blend of rigorous, authoritative investigation and accessible, good-humored storytelling that makes a stunningly original argument asserting the primacy of geometry. For those who have looked through Euclid's Window, no space, no thing, and no time will ever be quite the same.

Author : Vincenzo De Risi
Publisher : Birkhäuser
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-28
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9783319198637

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Leibniz on the Parallel Postulate and the Foundations of Geometry by Vincenzo De Risi Pdf

This book offers a general introduction to the geometrical studies of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) and his mathematical epistemology. In particular, it focuses on his theory of parallel lines and his attempts to prove the famous Parallel Postulate. Furthermore it explains the role that Leibniz’s work played in the development of non-Euclidean geometry. The first part is an overview of his epistemology of geometry and a few of his geometrical findings, which puts them in the context of the seventeenth-century studies on the foundations of geometry. It also provides a detailed mathematical and philosophical commentary on his writings on the theory of parallels, and discusses how they were received in the eighteenth century as well as their relevance for the non-Euclidean revolution in mathematics. The second part offers a collection of Leibniz’s essays on the theory of parallels and an English translation of them. While a few of these papers have already been published (in Latin) in the standard Leibniz editions, most of them are transcribed from Leibniz’s manuscripts written in Hannover, and published here for the first time. The book provides new material on the history of non-Euclidean geometry, stressing the previously neglected role of Leibniz in these developments. This volume will be of interest to historians in mathematics, philosophy or logic, as well as mathematicians interested in non-Euclidean geometry.

Author : John Gunn
Publisher : john gunn
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Railroads
ISBN : 0522843875

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Along Parallel Lines by John Gunn Pdf

Railways have played an immense part in the history of New South Wales. The parallel lines extended as the population grew and themselves made possible new settlement and new industries. Railways crossed the mountain barriers that surround Sydney and opened up both the vast hinterland and the northern and southern coasts. Railways joined every part of New South Wales to Sydney in a distinctive, centralized pattern. They also joined New South Wales to the neighbouring colonies and states.

Author : Kembrew McLeod
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-24
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781501302381

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Blondie's Parallel Lines by Kembrew McLeod Pdf

Blondie's Parallel Lines mixed punk, disco and radio-friendly FM rock with nostalgic influences from 1960s pop and girl group hits. This 1978 album kept one foot planted firmly in the past while remaining quite forward-looking, an impulse that can be heard in its electronic dance music hit “Heart of Glass.” Bubblegum music maven Mike Chapman produced Parallel Lines, which was the first massive hit by a group from the CBGB punk underworld. By embracing the diversity of New York City's varied music scenes, Blondie embodied many of the tensions that played out at the time between fans of disco, punk, pop and mainstream rock. Debbie Harry's campy glamor and sassy snarl shook up the rock'n'roll boy's club during a growing backlash against the women's and gay liberation movements, which helped fuel the “disco sucks” battle cry in the late 1970s. Despite disco's roots in a queer, black and Latino underground scene that began in downtown New York, punk is usually celebrated by critics and scholars as the quintessential subculture. This book challenges the conventional wisdom that dismissed disco as fluffy prefab schlock while also recuperating punk's unhip pop influences, revealing how these two genres were more closely connected than most people assume. Even Blondie's album title, Parallel Lines, evokes the parallel development of punk and disco-along with their eventual crossover into the mainstream.

Author : Mannis Charosh
Publisher : A & C Black
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Geometry
ISBN : 0713612495

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Straight Lines, Parallel Lines, Perpendicular Lines by Mannis Charosh Pdf

By making believe there are no straight edges or rulers in the world, the reader learns the geometric principles of straight, parallel, and perpendicular lines.

Author : United States. Bureau of Mines
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1935
Category : Mineral industries
ISBN : UCAL:B3031411

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Flow of Natural Gas Through High-pressure Transmission Lines by United States. Bureau of Mines Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Trope Emerging Photographers
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-30
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1732061890

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Ope Odueyungbo: Parallel Lines by Anonim Pdf

Parallel Lines is the visual journal of emerging photographer Ope Odueyungbo: artist, social influencer, and traveler.

Author : Anonymous
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2024-04-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783385403703

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The American Text-books for Art Education. Revised Edition. Teachers' Manual for The Primary Course of Instruction in Drawing by Anonymous Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 995 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781119582946

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Young, Precalculus, Third Edition by Anonim Pdf

Author : Sherif Ghali
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2008-07-05
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781848001152

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Introduction to Geometric Computing by Sherif Ghali Pdf

Computing is quickly making much of geometry intriguing not only for philosophers and mathematicians, but also for scientists and engineers. What is the core set of topics that a practitioner needs to study before embarking on the design and implementation of a geometric system in a specialized discipline? This book attempts to find the answer. Every programmer tackling a geometric computing problem encounters design decisions that need to be solved. This book reviews the geometric theory then applies it in an attempt to find that elusive "right" design.

Author : H.K. Dass, Rama Verma & Bhagwat S. Sharma
Publisher : S. Chand Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-26
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9788121938464

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S.Chand’S Mathematics For Class IX Term II by H.K. Dass, Rama Verma & Bhagwat S. Sharma Pdf

S. Chand’s Mathematics books for Classes IX and X are completely based on CCE pattern of CBSE. The book for Term I covers the syllabus from April to September and the book for Term II covers the syllabus from October to March.

Author : USA Patent Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2126 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Electronic
ISBN : DMM:057002656445

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Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office by USA Patent Office Pdf