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Author : Robert P. Amico
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0847680347
Selected by CHOICE as an Outstanding Academic Book for 1995,
Author : Eric Skillman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Commercial art
ISBN : 160465936X
This book features a selection of DVD and Blu-ray disc covers, supplemental art, and never-before-seen sketches and concept art commissioned for Criterion releases, plus a gallery of every Criterion DVD and Blu-ray disc cover since the collection's first laserdisc thirty years ago.
Author : David Lynch,Chris Rodley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Motion picture producers and directors
ISBN : 0571195482
David Lynch erupted on to the cinema landscape with Eraserhead, establishing himself as one of the most original, imaginative and truly personal directors at work in contemporary cinema. He is a surrealist in the tradition of the great Spanish flm-maker, Luis Bunuel.
Author : Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad
Publisher : Islam International
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781853728631
The Criterion for Religions, the English translation of Mi'yarul Madhahib written by Hadrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (as) of Qadian in 1895 makes a detailed comparison of three major religions - Hinduism, Christianity and Islam - from the standpoint of natural criterion as to why Hinduism and Christianity fail to present the Perfect and Omnipotent God as proclaimed by Islam. God of Hinduism has only limited powers. His role is just like that of a mason who joins only already existing things and enjoys no role as a Creator. God of Christianity went through all the travails of life. That their God died for the sins of his followers is yet another invention of Christians. The idea of deifying humans was invented by Brahmans from whom the idea was borrowed by Greeks and was in turn borrowed by Christians from Greeks. The Christian dogma of Atonement only encourages to commit sins, to freely spread sinfulness, impiety and every kind of evil. As against the views of Hinduism and Christianity about God. 'Islam's understanding of God', according to the author, 'is very simple and clear, and is in keeping with human nature. Even if the books of all other religions were to disappear along with all their teachings and concepts, God — towards Whom the Holy Quran leads would still be clearly reflected in the mirror of the laws of nature and His might and wisdom shall be found glowing in every particle. This claim is fully substantiated in the book which covers many important aspects of Islamic concept of God.
Author : Leonard C. MacLean,Edward O. Thorp,W. T. Ziemba
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 883 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789814293495
This volume provides the definitive treatment of fortune's formula or the Kelly capital growth criterion as it is often called. The strategy is to maximize long run wealth of the investor by maximizing the period by period expected utility of wealth with a logarithmic utility function. Mathematical theorems show that only the log utility function maximizes asymptotic long run wealth and minimizes the expected time to arbitrary large goals. In general, the strategy is risky in the short term but as the number of bets increase, the Kelly bettor's wealth tends to be much larger than those with essentially different strategies. So most of the time, the Kelly bettor will have much more wealth than these other bettors but the Kelly strategy can lead to considerable losses a small percent of the time. There are ways to reduce this risk at the cost of lower expected final wealth using fractional Kelly strategies that blend the Kelly suggested wager with cash. The various classic reprinted papers and the new ones written specifically for this volume cover various aspects of the theory and practice of dynamic investing. Good and bad properties are discussed, as are fixed-mix and volatility induced growth strategies. The relationships with utility theory and the use of these ideas by great investors are featured.
Author : Hilton Kramer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Arts
ISBN : 9780029176412
Gathers essays about modernism, Marxist criticism art patronage, Wallace Stevens, Picasso, Aaron Copland, Michel Foucault, Barbara Pym, Richard Serra, and Cindy Sherman.
Author : Timo Eskola
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 493 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004258037
Reading Heikki Räisänen’s hermeneutics in context, Timo Eskola explores the development of Western New Testament interpretation. Reclaiming a Wredean approach to the Scriptures, Räisänen focuses on tradition and interpretation. He builds on Weberian sociology, adopted through Peter Berger’s theories, and substitutes sacralized culturalism for biblical theology. After examining fourteenth century Quran-criticism and its impact on Reimarus, Eskola discusses the genesis of the revised history-of-religion theory that Räisänen developed when investigating the Quran’s relationship to the Bible. Sociology then becomes a link between standard historicism and poststructuralism as Räisänen reinterprets Berger’s sociology of knowledge. Räisänen’s sacralized culturalism finally becomes the theory from which his magnum opus The Rise of Christian Beliefs has been written.
Author : Chris Keith,Anthony Le Donne
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567499554
This volume discusses the new approaches regarding the criteria of authenticity and their relevance in the quest for the historical Jesus studies.
Author : Cristina A. Bejan
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030201654
In 1930s Bucharest, some of the country’s most brilliant young intellectuals converged to form the Criterion Association. Bound by friendship and the dream of a new, modern Romania, their members included historian Mircea Eliade, critic Petru Comarnescu, Jewish playwright Mihail Sebastian and a host of other philosophers and artists. Together, they built a vibrant cultural scene that flourished for a few short years, before fascism and scandal splintered their ranks. Cristina A. Bejan asks how the far-right Iron Guard came to eclipse the appeal of liberalism for so many of Romania’s intellectual elite, drawing on diaries, memoirs and other writings to examine the collision of culture and extremism in the interwar years. The first English-language study of Criterion and the most thorough to date in any language, this book grapples with the complexities of Romanian intellectual life in the moments before collapse.
Author : G. Cennamo,N. Rosa
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-29
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789401158022
When in the early 60s echography was introduced into the field of ophthalmol ogy, very few ophthalmologists realized the enormous potential of this procedure, the fundamental impact it would have on our branch of medicine or the innovations it would spawn. From its hesitant beginnings, echography has led to revolution in the field of ophthalmology and to our way of examining, treating and monitoring patients affected by eye disorders. This technique has brought untold benefits to patients worldwide. A crucial element in fostering the advance of the application of ultrasound in ophthalmology has been and is the biannual conference of the Societas Internationalis pro Diagnostica Ultrasonica in Ophthalmologia (SIDUO), and incidentally, the Latin name reflects the wish of the founding members that SIDUO be truly international, and even though the instruments and apparatus used in the discipline are highly innovative, the underlying philosophy is one that traces back to Hippocrates, i.e., the healing of man and the improvement of man's quality of life. The first SIDUO conference was held in 1964 in Berlin.
Author : Matthew Specktor
Publisher : Tin House Books
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781951142636
A Best Book of the Year at The Atlantic Los Angeles Times Bestseller "[An] absorbing and revealing book. . . . nestling in the fruitful terrain between memoir and criticism." —Geoff Dyer, author of Out of Sheer Rage Blending memoir and cultural criticism, Matthew Specktor explores family legacy, the lives of artists, and a city that embodies both dreams and disillusionment. In 2006, Matthew Specktor moved into a crumbling Los Angeles apartment opposite the one in which F. Scott Fitzgerald spent the last moments of his life. Fitz had been Specktor’s first literary idol, someone whose own passage through Hollywood had, allegedly, broken him. Freshly divorced, professionally flailing, and reeling from his mother’s cancer diagnosis, Specktor was feeling unmoored. But rather than giving in or “cracking up,” he embarked on an obsessive journey to make sense of the mythologies of “success” and “failure” that haunt the artist’s life and the American imagination. Part memoir, part cultural history, part portrait of place, Always Crashing in the Same Car explores Hollywood through a certain kind of collapse. It’s a vibrant and intimate inspection of failure told through the lives of iconic, if under-sung, artists—Carole Eastman, Eleanor Perry, Warren Zevon, Tuesday Weld, and Hal Ashby, among others—and the author’s own family history. Through this constellation of Hollywood figures, he unearths a fascinating alternate history of the city that raised him and explores the ways in which curtailed ambition, insufficiency, and loss shape all our lives. At once deeply personal and broadly erudite, it is a story of an art form (the movies), a city (Los Angeles), and one person’s attempt to create meaning out of both. Above all, Specktor creates a moving search for optimism alongside the inevitability of failure and reveals the still-resonant power of art to help us navigate the beautiful ruins that await us all.
Author : Sir Lewis Amherst Selby-Bigge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Ethics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105025671533
Author : Shadworth Hollway Hodgson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Experience
ISBN : HARVARD:HNTYUY
Author : Shadworth Hollway Hodgson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Experience
ISBN : WISC:89094578879
Author : Jeff C. Carter
Publisher : Crossroad Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Criterion is the world’s mightiest hero. His sidekicks just found his body. The Cadets are shattered by the death of their idol. Unable to maintain their brave and plucky façade, they are consumed by strife and jealousy. The only thing keeping them together is terror. Once protected from on high, they are now isolated and vulnerable. Can they cover up Criterion’s death and avoid a global meltdown while his murderer is still on the loose? What hope do they have against an enemy that can kill anyone? Who killed Criterion? Who will die next?