Saint X Chapter Sampler

Author : Alexis Schaitkin
Publisher : Celadon Books
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250770004

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Saint X: Chapter Sampler by Alexis Schaitkin Pdf

This excerpt from Saint X, Alexis Schaitkin's riveting debut, contains the first section of the book. Hailed as a “marvel of a book” and “brilliant and unflinching,” Alexis Schaitkin’s stunning debut, Saint X, is a haunting portrait of grief, obsession, and the bond between two sisters never truly given the chance to know one another. Claire is only seven years old when her college-age sister, Alison, disappears on the last night of their family vacation at a resort on the Caribbean island of Saint X. Several days later, Alison’s body is found in a remote spot on a nearby cay, and two local men–employees at the resort–are arrested. But the evidence is slim, the timeline against it, and the men are soon released. The story turns into national tabloid news, a lurid mystery that will go unsolved. For Claire and her parents, there is only the return home to broken lives. Years later, Claire is living and working in New York City when a brief but fateful encounter brings her together with Clive Richardson, one of the men originally suspected of murdering her sister. It is a moment that sets Claire on an obsessive pursuit of the truth–not only to find out what happened the night of Alison’s death but also to answer the elusive question: Who exactly was her sister? At seven, Claire had been barely old enough to know her: a beautiful, changeable, provocative girl of eighteen at a turbulent moment of identity formation. As Claire doggedly shadows Clive, hoping to gain his trust, waiting for the slip that will reveal the truth, an unlikely attachment develops between them, two people whose lives were forever marked by the same tragedy. For readers of Emma Cline’s The Girls and Lauren Groff’s Fates and Furies, Saint X is a flawlessly drawn and deeply moving story that culminates in an emotionally powerful ending.

Author : Alexis Schaitkin
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781529014303

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Saint X by Alexis Schaitkin Pdf

'Hypnotic, delivering acute social commentary on everything from class and race to familial bonds and community . . . I devoured Saint X in a day.' —New York Times, Oyinkan Braithwaite (author of My Sister, The Serial Killer) Claire is only seven years old when her college-age sister Alison vanishes from the luxury resort on the Caribbean island of Saint X on the last night of her family’s vacation. Several days later Alison’s body is found in a remote spot on a nearby cay, and two local men, employees at the resort, are arrested. But the evidence is slim, the timeline against it, and the men are soon released. It’s national tabloid news, a lurid mystery that will go unsolved, but for Claire’s family there is only the sad return home to broken lives. Years later, riding in a New York City taxicab, Claire recognizes the name on the cabbie’s licence, Clive Richardson – her driver is one of the men originally suspected of murdering her sister. The fateful encounter sets her on an obsessive pursuit of the truth, not only what happened on the night of Alison’s death, but the no less elusive question of exactly who was this sister she was barely old enough to know: a beautiful, changeable, provocative girl of eighteen at a turbulent moment of identity formation. As Claire doggedly shadows Clive, hoping to gain his trust, waiting for the slip that will uncover the truth, an unlikely intimacy develops between them, two people whose lives were forever marked by a tragedy. Alexis Schaitkin's Saint X is a flawlessly drawn and deeply moving story that hurtles to a devastating end.

Author : United States. Bureau of the Census,John S. Berube
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Manufactures
ISBN : UCR:31210024732479

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Guide to Industrial Statistics by United States. Bureau of the Census,John S. Berube Pdf

Author : United States. Bureau of the Census. International Statistical Programs Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Cost and standard of living
ISBN : UOM:39076006952399

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Atlantida; a Case Study in Household Sample Surveys by United States. Bureau of the Census. International Statistical Programs Office Pdf

Author : H. Jerome Keisler
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 1012 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780486484525

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Elementary Calculus by H. Jerome Keisler Pdf

This first-year calculus book is centered around the use of infinitesimals. It contains all the ordinary calculus topics, including the basic concepts of the derivative, continuity, and the integral, plus traditional limit concepts and approximation problems. Additional subjects include transcendental functions, series, vectors, partial derivatives, and multiple integrals. 2007 edition.

Author : Paulinus of Milan
Publisher : Arx Publishing, LLC
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Life of Saint Ambrose by Paulinus of Milan Pdf

Saint Ambrose of Milan is one of the towering figures of the late 4th century AD. A high official in the western Roman government, Ambrose was conscripted against his will by the people of Milan to serve as their bishop. He would go on to become one of the most important fathers of the Western Church: a fierce opponent of heretics, admonisher of emperors, voluminous writer, worker of miracles, and the spiritual father of other great saints. This biography of Ambrose was written by one of the deacons who served under him: Paulinus of Milan. Paulinus was encouraged in this biographical effort by none other than Saint Augustine of Hippo, Ambrose's most famous disciple. Written in a style similar to other works of hagiography from the same time, such as the Life of Saint Anthony by Saint Athanasius, Paulinus places Ambrose in his historical and spiritual context, drawing an enduring picture of the man and his times that has helped to cement Ambrose as one of the great holy men of the ancient Church. As a primary source, The Life of Saint Ambrose includes numerous first-hand accounts which were witnessed by Paulinus himself or related to him by those close to Ambrose. The important figures whose lives intersected with that of Ambrose included the Roman emperors Gratian, Theodosius the Great, and Valentinian II; the Arian empress Justina; usurpers Eugenius and Arbogast; the magister militum Stilicho, and saints like Marcellina, Simplicianus, Bassianus, Venerius, and many others. This version of the Vita Sancti Ambrosii was rendered into English by Sr. Mary Kaniecka in 1928. It has been completely re-typeset for the modern reader with simplified punctuation, expanded bibliography, updated citations, and an index. It retains Sr. Kaniecka's introduction and historical commentary, and includes numerous additional notes added by the modern editor. (Note: this edition does not include Sr. Kaniecka's revised Latin text nor her commentary specific to the translation.)

Author : Myoung-jae Lee
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780190258733

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Matching, Regression Discontinuity, Difference in Differences, and Beyond by Myoung-jae Lee Pdf

Machine generated contents note: -- Chapter 1: Basics of Treatment Effect Analysis -- Chapter 2: Matching -- Chapter 3: Non-Matching and Sample Selection -- Chapter 4: Regression Discontinuity (RD) -- Chapter 5: Difference in Differences (DD) -- Chapter 6: Triple Difference (TD) and Beyond -- Appendix -- Online GAUSS Programs (PS for Propensity Score) -- References

Author : David de la Croix,Philippe Michel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2002-10-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521001153

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A Theory of Economic Growth by David de la Croix,Philippe Michel Pdf

This book provides an in-depth treatment of the overlapping generations model in economics incorporating production.

Author : Raymond A. Ryan
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2002-01-15
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 1852334371

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Introduction to Tensor Products of Banach Spaces by Raymond A. Ryan Pdf

This is the first ever truly introductory text to the theory of tensor products of Banach spaces. Coverage includes a full treatment of the Grothendieck theory of tensor norms, approximation property and the Radon-Nikodym Property, Bochner and Pettis integrals. Each chapter contains worked examples and a set of exercises, and two appendices offer material on summability in Banach spaces and properties of spaces of measures.

Author : R. Carroll
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2000-11-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 0080540082

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Quantum Theory, Deformation and Integrability by R. Carroll Pdf

About four years ago a prominent string theorist was quoted as saying that it might be possible to understand quantum mechanics by the year 2000. Sometimes new mathematical developments make such understanding appear possible and even close, but on the other hand, increasing lack of experimental verification make it seem to be further distant. In any event one seems to arrive at new revolutions in physics and mathematics every year. This book hopes to convey some of the excitment of this period, but will adopt a relatively pedestrian approach designed to illuminate the relations between quantum and classical. There will be some discussion of philosophical matters such as measurement, uncertainty, decoherence, etc. but philosophy will not be emphasized; generally we want to enjoy the fruits of computation based on the operator formulation of QM and quantum field theory. In Chapter 1 connections of QM to deterministic behavior are exhibited in the trajectory representations of Faraggi-Matone. Chapter 1 also includes a review of KP theory and some preliminary remarks on coherent states, density matrices, etc. and more on deterministic theory. We develop in Chapter 4 relations between quantization and integrability based on Moyal brackets, discretizations, KP, strings and Hirota formulas, and in Chapter 2 we study the QM of embedded curves and surfaces illustrating some QM effects of geometry. Chapter 3 is on quantum integrable systems, quantum groups, and modern deformation quantization. Chapter 5 involves the Whitham equations in various roles mediating between QM and classical behavior. In particular, connections to Seiberg-Witten theory (arising in N = 2 supersymmetric (susy) Yang-Mills (YM) theory) are discussed and we would still like to understand more deeply what is going on. Thus in Chapter 5 we will try to give some conceptual background for susy, gauge theories, renormalization, etc. from both a physical and mathematical point of view. In Chapter 6 we continue the deformation quantization then by exhibiting material based on and related to noncommutative geometry and gauge theory.

Author : Hans Sagan
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-26
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780486138022

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Introduction to the Calculus of Variations by Hans Sagan Pdf

Provides a thorough understanding of calculus of variations and prepares readers for the study of modern optimal control theory. Selected variational problems and over 400 exercises. Bibliography. 1969 edition.

Author : Beatrice Lazzerini,Lakhmi C. Jain,D. Dumitrescu
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2000-03-24
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0849305896

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Fuzzy Sets & their Application to Clustering & Training by Beatrice Lazzerini,Lakhmi C. Jain,D. Dumitrescu Pdf

Fuzzy set theory - and its underlying fuzzy logic - represents one of the most significant scientific and cultural paradigms to emerge in the last half-century. Its theoretical and technological promise is vast, and we are only beginning to experience its potential. Clustering is the first and most basic application of fuzzy set theory, but forms the basis of many, more sophisticated, intelligent computational models, particularly in pattern recognition, data mining, adaptive and hierarchical clustering, and classifier design. Fuzzy Sets and their Application to Clustering and Training offers a comprehensive introduction to fuzzy set theory, focusing on the concepts and results needed for training and clustering applications. It provides a unified mathematical framework for fuzzy classification and clustering, a methodology for developing training and classification methods, and a general method for obtaining a variety of fuzzy clustering algorithms. The authors - top experts from around the world - combine their talents to lay a solid foundation for applications of this powerful tool, from the basic concepts and mathematics through the study of various algorithms, to validity functionals and hierarchical clustering. The result is Fuzzy Sets and their Application to Clustering and Training - an outstanding initiation into the world of fuzzy learning classifiers and fuzzy clustering.

Author : Reverend G. A. Chadwick D.D.
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781773562025

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The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel According to St. Mark by Reverend G. A. Chadwick D.D. Pdf

Author : N.U. Prabhu
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0387982485

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Stochastic Storage Processes by N.U. Prabhu Pdf

A self-contained treatment of stochastic processes arising from models for queues, insurance risk, and dams and data communication, using their sample function properties. The approach is based on the fluctuation theory of random walks, L vy processes, and Markov-additive processes, in which Wiener-Hopf factorisation plays a central role. This second edition includes results for the virtual waiting time and queue length in single server queues, while the treatment of continuous time storage processes is thoroughly revised and simplified. With its prerequisite of a graduate-level course in probability and stochastic processes, this book can be used as a text for an advanced course on applied probability models.

Author : Jati Sengupta
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1988-12-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0792300289

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Efficiency Analysis by Production Frontiers by Jati Sengupta Pdf

Measuring productive efficiency for nonprofit organizations has posed a great challenge to applied researchers today. The problem has many facets and diverse implications for a number of disciplines such as economics, applied statistics, management science and information theory. This monograph discusses four major areas, which emphasize the applied economic and econometric as. pects of the production frontier analysis: A. Stochastic frontier theory, B. Data envelopment analysis, C. Clustering and estimation theory, D. Economic and managerial applications Besides containing an up-to-date survey of the mos. t recent developments in the field, the monograph presents several new results and theorems from my own research. These include but are not limited to the following: (1) interface with parametric theory, (2) minimax and robust concepts of production frontier, (3) game-theoretic extension of the Farrell and Johansen models, (4) optimal clustering techniques for data envelopment analysis and (5) the dynamic and stochastic generalizations of the efficiency frontier at the micro and macro levels. In my research work in this field I have received great support and inspiration from Professor Abraham Charnes of the University of Texas at Austin, who has basically founded the technique of data envelopment analysis, developed it and is still expanding it. My interactions with him have been most fruitful and productive. I am deeply grateful to him. Finally, I must record my deep appreciation to my wife and two children for their loving and enduring support. But for their support this work would not have been completed.