Zolitude

Author : Paige Cooper
Publisher : Biblioasis
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781771962186

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Zolitude by Paige Cooper Pdf

WINNER OF THE 2018 QUEBEC WRITERS' FEDERATION CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY FIRST BOOK PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE 2018 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE FINALIST FOR THE 2018 DANUTA GLEED LITERARY AWARD FINALIST FOR THE 2018 GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARD FOR FICTION A GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK OF 2018 A QUILL & QUIRE BOOK OF THE YEAR Fantastical, magnetic, and harsh—these are the women in Paige Cooper’s debut short story collection Zolitude. They are women who built time machines when they were nine, who buy plane tickets for lovers who won’t arrive. They are sisters writhing with dreams, blasé about sex but beggared by love—while the police horses have talons and vengeance is wrought by eagles the size of airplanes. Broken-down motorbikes and housebroken tyrannosaurs, cheap cigarettes and mail bombs—Cooper finds the beautiful and the disturbing in both the surreal and the everyday. Troubling, carnal, and haunting, these stories are otherworldly travelogues through banal, eco-fabulist dystopias. Zolitude is a gorgeous, sad, and sexy work of slipstream and an atlas of fantastic isolation. The monstrous is human here, and tender.

Author : Rita Laima
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9783838268545

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Skylarks and Rebels by Rita Laima Pdf

Skylarks and Rebels is a story about the fate of Latvia in the 20th century as told by Rita Laima. Laima, a Latvian-American, chose to leave behind the comforts of life in America to explore the land of her ancestors, which in the 1980s languished behind the Iron Curtain. In writing about her own experiences in a totalitarian state, Soviet-occupied Latvia, Laima delves into her family’s past to understand what happened to her fatherland and its people during and after World War II. She also pays tribute to some of Latvia’s remarkable people of integrity who risked their lives to oppose the brutal and destructive Soviet state.

Author : Magued Iskander
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 613 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2008-08-20
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781402087394

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Innovative Techniques in Instruction Technology, E-learning, E-assessment and Education by Magued Iskander Pdf

Innovative Techniques in Instruction Technology, E-Learning, E-Assessment and Education is a collection of world-class paper articles addressing the following topics: (1) E-Learning including development of courses and systems for technical and liberal studies programs; online laboratories; intelligent testing using fuzzy logic; evaluation of on line courses in comparison to traditional courses; mediation in virtual environments; and methods for speaker verification. (2) Instruction Technology including internet textbooks; pedagogy-oriented markup languages; graphic design possibilities; open source classroom management software; automatic email response systems; tablet-pcs; personalization using web mining technology; intelligent digital chalkboards; virtual room concepts for cooperative scientific work; and network technologies, management, and architecture. (3) Science and Engineering Research Assessment Methods including assessment of K-12 and university level programs; adaptive assessments; auto assessments; assessment of virtual environments and e-learning. (4) Engineering and Technical Education including cap stone and case study course design; virtual laboratories; bioinformatics; robotics; metallurgy; building information modeling; statistical mechanics; thermodynamics; information technology; occupational stress and stress prevention; web enhanced courses; and promoting engineering careers. (5) Pedagogy including benchmarking; group-learning; active learning; teaching of multiple subjects together; ontology; and knowledge representation. (6) Issues in K-12 Education including 3D virtual learning environment for children; e-learning tools for children; game playing and systems thinking; and tools to learn how to write foreign languages.

Author : Daniel Baldwin Hess,Tiit Tammaru
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030233921

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Housing Estates in the Baltic Countries by Daniel Baldwin Hess,Tiit Tammaru Pdf

This open access book focuses on the formation and later socio-spatial trajectories of large housing estates in the Baltic countries—Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. It also explores claims that a distinctly “westward-looking orientation” in their design produced housing estates that were superior in design to those produced elsewhere in the Soviet Union (between 1944 and 1991, Estonia was a member republic of the USSR). The first two parts of the book provide contextual material to help readers understand the vision behind housing estates in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. These sections present the background of housing estates in the Baltic Republics as well as challenges and debates concerning their formation, evolution, and present condition and importance. Subsequent parts of the book consist of: demographic analyses of the socioeconomic characteristics and ethnicity of housing estate residents (past and present) in the three Baltic capital cities, case studies of people and places related to housing estates in the Baltic countries, and chapters exploring relevant special topics and themes. This book will be of interest to students, scholars, and advocates interested in understanding the past, present, and future importance of housing estates in the Baltic countries.

Author : Jeffrey Sommers,Charles Woolfson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317800156

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The Contradictions of Austerity by Jeffrey Sommers,Charles Woolfson Pdf

The great financial crisis of 2008 and the ensuing global economic and financial turmoil have launched a search for "models" for recovery. The advocates of austerity present the Baltic States as countries that through discipline and sacrifice showed the way out of crisis. They have proposed the "Baltic model" of radical public sector cuts, wage reductions, labor market reforms and reductions in living standards for other troubled Eurozone countries to emulate. Yet, the reality of the Baltic "austerity fix" has been neither fully accepted by its peoples, nor is it fully a success. This book explains why and what are the real social and economic costs of the Baltic austerity model. We examine each of the Baltic States by connecting national level studies within a European and global political economy, thereby delivering comparative breadth that supersedes localized understandings of the crisis. Thus for each of the three Baltic states, individual chapters explore the different economic and social dimensions of neo-liberal post-communism and the subsequent wider global economic and financial crisis in which these newly financialized economies have found themselves especially vulnerable. The "austerity model" adopted by Baltic national governments in response to the crisis reveals the profound vulnerabilities created by their unwavering commitment to liberalized economies, not least in terms of the significant "exit" of their labor forces and consequent population loss. This book looks beyond basic financial metrics claiming a success story for the Baltic austerity model to reveal the damaging economic and social consequences, first of neo-liberal policies adopted during transition, and latterly of austerity measures based on "internal devaluation." Combined these policies undermine the possibility of longer-term recovery and even social and economic sustainability, not to mention prospects for successful integration in the now-faltering European project that has departed from its "Social Model" roots.

Author : United States. Federal Communications Commission
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1000 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Telecommunication
ISBN : MINN:30000010450959

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FCC Record by United States. Federal Communications Commission Pdf

Author : Virginia Jensen
Publisher : Fox Chapel Publishing
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-15
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781637411766

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Best of Two-Hole Bead Stitching by Virginia Jensen Pdf

An intermediate-level guide to making beautiful and timeless beaded jewelry projects for bracelets, necklaces, and earrings that will inspire bead enthusiasts to step out of their comfort zone Includes expert guidance on tools, techniques, and materials, as well as easy-to-follow instructions with coordinating photography Features more than 25 step-by-step projects that were created specifically for two-hole shaped beads Designs experiment with layering to create a bold, architectural style and statement piece Author and jewelry making instructor Virginia Jensen has been a bead designer for more than 15 years and her work has been featured in Bead & Button and Perlen Poesie magazines

Author : D. M. Dubois
Publisher : American Institute of Physics
Page : 650 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2004-08-23
Category : Computers
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119449580

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Computing Anticipatory Systems by D. M. Dubois Pdf

The scope of these proceedings is the study, research, and development in the new frontier of science dealing with the paradigm of computing anticipatory systems. A computing anticipatory system is a system which computes its current states in taking into account its anticipatory states. Strong anticipation refers to an anticipation of events built by or embedded in a system. Weak anticipation refers to an anticipation of events predicted or forecast from a model of a system. These proceedings include all the papers by invited speakers who received awards at CASYS'03 as well as a selection of invited papers. Topics include: relativity, quantum mechanics and biophysical systems; anticipatory systems, adaptation and hyperincursion; mathematical models, chaos and soft computing; logic, algorithms and computing systems; living systems, evolution and cognitive models; decision support, enterprise and management models and control systems, simulation and chaos.

Author : Paige Cooper
Publisher : Biblioasis
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-20
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781771963633

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Best Canadian Stories 2020 by Paige Cooper Pdf

“The right story, at the right time, if you happen to be open to it ... can perhaps move you so far outside of yourself that you will not consider going back.” “Like meeting a stranger, much of the pleasure of a story is its unknown power,” writes Best Canadian Stories 2020 guest editor Paige Cooper. “The right story, at the right time, if you happen to be open to it ... can perhaps move you so far outside of yourself that you will not consider going back.” From Festival du Voyageur to the shores of Lake Erie, Tbilisi to Toronto, the Amisk River to a hotel-turned-hospital in the midst of a mysterious pandemic, this wide-ranging anthology brings together the real and the speculative, small towns and big cities, grief and humour, introducing readers to stories that startle us into new understanding—of ourselves and each other, the worlds we inhabit and the ones they help us to imagine. Featuring work by: Maxime Raymond Bock • Lynn Coady • Kristyn Dunnion • Omar El Akkad • Camilla Grudova • Conor Kerr • Alex Leslie • Thea Lim • Madeleine Maillet • Cassidy McFadzean • Michael Melgaard • Jeff Noh • Casey Plett • Eden Robinson • Naben Ruthnum • Pablo Strauss • Souvankham Thammavongsa

Author : Daniel M. Dubois
Publisher : American Institute of Physics
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2004-08-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 0735401985

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Computing Anticipatory Systems by Daniel M. Dubois Pdf

The scope of these proceedings is the study, research, and development in the new frontier of science dealing with the paradigm of computing anticipatory systems. A computing anticipatory system is a system which computes its current states in taking into account its anticipatory states. Strong anticipation refers to an anticipation of events built by or embedded in a system. Weak anticipation refers to an anticipation of events predicted or forecast from a model of a system. These proceedings include all the papers by invited speakers who received awards at CASYS'03 as well as a selection of invited papers. Topics include: relativity, quantum mechanics and biophysical systems; anticipatory systems, adaptation and hyperincursion; mathematical models, chaos and soft computing; logic, algorithms and computing systems; living systems, evolution and cognitive models; decision support, enterprise and management models and control systems, simulation and chaos.

Author : André Forget
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781459749092

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In the City of Pigs by André Forget Pdf

Alexander Otkazov is a failed pianist trying to start a new life in journalism. But when he starts reporting on a mysterious group of avant-garde musicians, the story takes him into a shadowy world of obscure composers, megalomaniac artists, and real estate barons, where the lines between art, finance, and fraud blur and the stakes are existential.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Baltic States
ISBN : WISC:89061859328

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Baltic States by Anonim Pdf

Author : Aislinn Hunter
Publisher : Doubleday Canada
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780385680653

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The World Before Us by Aislinn Hunter Pdf

The brilliant, hauntingly beautiful second novel, twelve years in the making, from a writer whose previous novel Stay was a Globe and Mail Top 100 pick, a finalist for the Amazon First Novel Award, and made into a feature film. When she was just fifteen, smart, sensitive Jane Standen lived through a nightmare: she lost the sweet five-year-old girl she was minding during a walk in the woods. The little girl was never found, leaving her family, and Jane, devastated. Now the grown-up Jane is an archivist at a small London museum that is about to close for lack of funding. As her one last project, she is searching the archives for scraps of information related to another missing person--a woman who disappeared some 125 years ago from a Victorian asylum. As the novel moves back and forth between the museum in contemporary London, the Victorian asylum, and a dilapidated country house that seems to connect both missing people, it unforgettably explores the repercussions of small acts, the power of affection, and the irrepressible vitality of everyday objects and events. Here is a rivetting, gorgeously written novel that powerfully reminds us of the possibility that we are less alone than we might think.

Author : David Bergen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1773102168

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Out of Mind by David Bergen Pdf

"Bergen's power as a writer pulls like an undertow... An uncanny, discerning, merciful algebra on what love takes, and where it leaves us." -- Paige Cooper In Out of Mind, David Bergen delves into the psyche of Lucille Black, mother, grandmother, lover, psychiatrist, and analyst of self, who first appeared in Bergen's bestselling novel The Matter with Morris. Although adept at probing the lives of others, Lucille has become untethered, caught between duty and desire, between the demands of family and her own longing. Her ex-husband Morris betrays her by publishing a memoir about the aftermath of their son Martin's death in Afghanistan. She travels to Thailand to attempt to extricate her youngest daughter from the clutches of an apparent cult leader. And she is invited to the south of France to attend the marriage of a man whom she rejected a year earlier. Negotiating with herself about her altered role in the lives of her family and friends, Lucille circles the globe -- and herself. In this brilliant and subtle evocation of vulnerability and loss, Bergen traces one woman's quest to reform her identity, reminding us that the unexpected is always lying in wait.

Author : Stéfanie Clermont
Publisher : Biblioasis International Trans
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1771963786

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The Music Game by Stéfanie Clermont Pdf

From French Ontario to the anarchist camps of California, three young women come of age in a tumultuous 21st century.