Author: Katharine Britton
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780996535410
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Cama Truesdale's ex-husband and young son leave Boston for a "boys only" fishing trip in South Carolina's Low Country. In the early morning hours, Cama is jolted awake by a phone call. There's been a fire on board the boat. Her ex-husband is dead. Her son is missing and presumed dead. As she sets off for South Carolina, Cama's belief that her son Tate is alive is unwavering. But her frantic search soon stirs up painful memories that send her reeling back to her childhood and the mysterious car crash that killed her Gullah mother and white father. As the clock ticks down, exhausted, haunted by dreams, and stymied by the police and local community, she enters a world in which she must rely on instinct over fact, and where no one and nothing is what it seems--not even the boundary between the living and the dead.Vanishing Time is a tale about how grief can shape reality and the power of a mother's love.
Vanishing Time
Author: Katharine Britton
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780996535410
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Cama Truesdale's ex-husband and young son leave Boston for a "boys only" fishing trip in South Carolina's Low Country. In the early morning hours, Cama is jolted awake by a phone call. There's been a fire on board the boat. Her ex-husband is dead. Her son is missing and presumed dead. As she sets off for South Carolina, Cama's belief that her son Tate is alive is unwavering. But her frantic search soon stirs up painful memories that send her reeling back to her childhood and the mysterious car crash that killed her Gullah mother and white father. As the clock ticks down, exhausted, haunted by dreams, and stymied by the police and local community, she enters a world in which she must rely on instinct over fact, and where no one and nothing is what it seems--not even the boundary between the living and the dead.Vanishing Time is a tale about how grief can shape reality and the power of a mother's love.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780996535410
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Cama Truesdale's ex-husband and young son leave Boston for a "boys only" fishing trip in South Carolina's Low Country. In the early morning hours, Cama is jolted awake by a phone call. There's been a fire on board the boat. Her ex-husband is dead. Her son is missing and presumed dead. As she sets off for South Carolina, Cama's belief that her son Tate is alive is unwavering. But her frantic search soon stirs up painful memories that send her reeling back to her childhood and the mysterious car crash that killed her Gullah mother and white father. As the clock ticks down, exhausted, haunted by dreams, and stymied by the police and local community, she enters a world in which she must rely on instinct over fact, and where no one and nothing is what it seems--not even the boundary between the living and the dead.Vanishing Time is a tale about how grief can shape reality and the power of a mother's love.
Vanishing Species
Author: Time-Life Books
Publisher: Time Life Medical
ISBN: 9780809416349
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Publisher: Time Life Medical
ISBN: 9780809416349
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
The Point of Vanishing
Author: Howard Axelrod
Publisher: Beacon Press
ISBN: 0807075477
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
Into the Wild meets Walden—a lyrical memoir for nature lovers and for anyone who has wondered what it would be like to disconnect from our hyper-connected culture and seek more meaningful connections After losing vision in one eye and becoming estranged from his family and friends, a young man spent two years searching for identity in self-imposed solitude in the backwoods of northern Vermont, where he embarked on a project of stripping away facades and all social ties--and learned to face himself. On a clear May afternoon at the end of his junior year at Harvard, Howard Axelrod played a pick-up game of basketball. In a skirmish for a loose ball, a boy’s finger hooked behind Axelrod’s eyeball and left him permanently blinded in his right eye. A week later, he returned to the same dorm room, but to a different world. A world where nothing looked solid, where the distance between how people saw him and how he saw had widened into a gulf. Desperate for a sense of orientation he could trust, he retreated to a jerry-rigged house in the Vermont woods, where he lived without a computer or television, and largely without human contact, for two years. He needed to find a more lasting sense of meaning away from society’s pressures and rush. Named one of the best books of the year by Slate, Chicago Tribune, Entropy Magazine, and named one of the top 10 memoirs by Library Journal
Publisher: Beacon Press
ISBN: 0807075477
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
Into the Wild meets Walden—a lyrical memoir for nature lovers and for anyone who has wondered what it would be like to disconnect from our hyper-connected culture and seek more meaningful connections After losing vision in one eye and becoming estranged from his family and friends, a young man spent two years searching for identity in self-imposed solitude in the backwoods of northern Vermont, where he embarked on a project of stripping away facades and all social ties--and learned to face himself. On a clear May afternoon at the end of his junior year at Harvard, Howard Axelrod played a pick-up game of basketball. In a skirmish for a loose ball, a boy’s finger hooked behind Axelrod’s eyeball and left him permanently blinded in his right eye. A week later, he returned to the same dorm room, but to a different world. A world where nothing looked solid, where the distance between how people saw him and how he saw had widened into a gulf. Desperate for a sense of orientation he could trust, he retreated to a jerry-rigged house in the Vermont woods, where he lived without a computer or television, and largely without human contact, for two years. He needed to find a more lasting sense of meaning away from society’s pressures and rush. Named one of the best books of the year by Slate, Chicago Tribune, Entropy Magazine, and named one of the top 10 memoirs by Library Journal
Analysis and Data-Based Reconstruction of Complex Nonlinear Dynamical Systems
Author: M. Reza Rahimi Tabar
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3030184722
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
This book focuses on a central question in the field of complex systems: Given a fluctuating (in time or space), uni- or multi-variant sequentially measured set of experimental data (even noisy data), how should one analyse non-parametrically the data, assess underlying trends, uncover characteristics of the fluctuations (including diffusion and jump contributions), and construct a stochastic evolution equation? Here, the term "non-parametrically" exemplifies that all the functions and parameters of the constructed stochastic evolution equation can be determined directly from the measured data. The book provides an overview of methods that have been developed for the analysis of fluctuating time series and of spatially disordered structures. Thanks to its feasibility and simplicity, it has been successfully applied to fluctuating time series and spatially disordered structures of complex systems studied in scientific fields such as physics, astrophysics, meteorology, earth science, engineering, finance, medicine and the neurosciences, and has led to a number of important results. The book also includes the numerical and analytical approaches to the analyses of complex time series that are most common in the physical and natural sciences. Further, it is self-contained and readily accessible to students, scientists, and researchers who are familiar with traditional methods of mathematics, such as ordinary, and partial differential equations. The codes for analysing continuous time series are available in an R package developed by the research group Turbulence, Wind energy and Stochastic (TWiSt) at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Joachim Peinke. This package makes it possible to extract the (stochastic) evolution equation underlying a set of data or measurements.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3030184722
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
This book focuses on a central question in the field of complex systems: Given a fluctuating (in time or space), uni- or multi-variant sequentially measured set of experimental data (even noisy data), how should one analyse non-parametrically the data, assess underlying trends, uncover characteristics of the fluctuations (including diffusion and jump contributions), and construct a stochastic evolution equation? Here, the term "non-parametrically" exemplifies that all the functions and parameters of the constructed stochastic evolution equation can be determined directly from the measured data. The book provides an overview of methods that have been developed for the analysis of fluctuating time series and of spatially disordered structures. Thanks to its feasibility and simplicity, it has been successfully applied to fluctuating time series and spatially disordered structures of complex systems studied in scientific fields such as physics, astrophysics, meteorology, earth science, engineering, finance, medicine and the neurosciences, and has led to a number of important results. The book also includes the numerical and analytical approaches to the analyses of complex time series that are most common in the physical and natural sciences. Further, it is self-contained and readily accessible to students, scientists, and researchers who are familiar with traditional methods of mathematics, such as ordinary, and partial differential equations. The codes for analysing continuous time series are available in an R package developed by the research group Turbulence, Wind energy and Stochastic (TWiSt) at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Joachim Peinke. This package makes it possible to extract the (stochastic) evolution equation underlying a set of data or measurements.
Sanctuary Everywhere
Author: Barbara Andrea Sostaita
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 1478059591
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
In Sanctuary Everywhere, Barbara Andrea Sostaita reimagines practices of sanctuary along the U.S.-Mexico border in order to explore the possibilities for radical fugitivity in the face of militarized border enforcement. After the 2016 presidential election, churches, universities, cities, and even states began declaring themselves sanctuaries. Sostaita proposes that these calls for expanded sanctuary are insufficient when dealing with the everyday workings of immigration enforcement. Through fieldwork in migrant clinics, shelters, and the Sonoran Desert, Sostaita demonstrates that, as a sacred practice, sanctuary cannot be fixed in any one destination or mandate. She turns to those working to create sanctuary on the move, from a deported nurse offering medical care on the border to incarcerated migrant women denying rules on touch in detention facilities to collectives set up to honor those who died crossing the border. Understanding sanctuary to be a set of fugitive practices that escapes the everyday, Sostaita shows us how, in the wake of extreme violence and loss, migrants create sanctuaries of their own to care for the living and the dead.
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 1478059591
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
In Sanctuary Everywhere, Barbara Andrea Sostaita reimagines practices of sanctuary along the U.S.-Mexico border in order to explore the possibilities for radical fugitivity in the face of militarized border enforcement. After the 2016 presidential election, churches, universities, cities, and even states began declaring themselves sanctuaries. Sostaita proposes that these calls for expanded sanctuary are insufficient when dealing with the everyday workings of immigration enforcement. Through fieldwork in migrant clinics, shelters, and the Sonoran Desert, Sostaita demonstrates that, as a sacred practice, sanctuary cannot be fixed in any one destination or mandate. She turns to those working to create sanctuary on the move, from a deported nurse offering medical care on the border to incarcerated migrant women denying rules on touch in detention facilities to collectives set up to honor those who died crossing the border. Understanding sanctuary to be a set of fugitive practices that escapes the everyday, Sostaita shows us how, in the wake of extreme violence and loss, migrants create sanctuaries of their own to care for the living and the dead.
Trapped
Author: Ninie Hammon
Publisher: Sterling & Stone LLC
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
The sorceress of psychological suspense is back with the third book in her highly-anticipated new Nowhere USA series. Ninie Hammon is at her career-best in Trapped — a story that will have you sleeping with the lights on. Stuart McClintock comes to Nowhere County looking for his wife, Charlie, and their daughter, but when he gets to her mother's house it's is empty—no people or furniture only what's on the walls. In frustration, Stuart writes on the blackboard on the wall in the kitchen: "Where Are You?" Slowly, words scrawl back to him: "I'm trapped. It won't let me go." Inside the Jabberwock, Charlie saw his words and responded, hoping he could see her words too. The next day, she writes "I want to go home!" on the blackboard. New letters immediately appear beneath hers, one at a time, all caps block letters, as though they were written by a child: "NO! STAY HERE AND PLAY WITH ME." Meanwhile, multiple murders make the trapped residents fear for their lives and long for a sense of law and order. Which is not at all what they get when Viola Tackett kills the country's only law enforcement officer and takes over. ★★★★★ "This story has more twists and turns than the winding mountain roads of Nower County, and you don’t want to miss a single curve or dip!" -- Phyllis W ★★★★★ "the more books I read in this series, the more I get caught up in the story and the more I love the characters, feeling like they have become my best friends – or enemies. There are so many dimensions to the action that I know these are books I’ll read over and over again and see something new each time." -- Bonsterblack ★★★★★ "I am so hooked on the Nowhere series! Trapped, book #3 is as exciting and heart pounding as the previous books, with people disappearing and houses aging to the point of dilapidation and a surprise ending that left me with my mouth gaping open. The books get more awesome as each new one is published. I can’t wait for what book #4 will bring." -- Lynn Geth ★★★★★ "Is this really only book 3? Man, how has Ninie Hammon managed to twist my brain into so many knots in only three short novels? I don't know if I should be looking for the Boogie Man under my bed, watching the skies for aliens, or Googling mental health facilities in my area (which strangely, would only be about 45 minutes away from the fictional Nowhere, KY)!" -- Kentucky Bohemian Trapped is the third book in Ninie Hammon's new series, Nowhere USA, a riveting psychological thriller about the residents of a forgotten county that inexplicably sinks through reality to find itself in the middle of Nowhere. Fans of Justified, Under The Dome, and LOST will find themselves right at home in Nowhere USA.
Publisher: Sterling & Stone LLC
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
The sorceress of psychological suspense is back with the third book in her highly-anticipated new Nowhere USA series. Ninie Hammon is at her career-best in Trapped — a story that will have you sleeping with the lights on. Stuart McClintock comes to Nowhere County looking for his wife, Charlie, and their daughter, but when he gets to her mother's house it's is empty—no people or furniture only what's on the walls. In frustration, Stuart writes on the blackboard on the wall in the kitchen: "Where Are You?" Slowly, words scrawl back to him: "I'm trapped. It won't let me go." Inside the Jabberwock, Charlie saw his words and responded, hoping he could see her words too. The next day, she writes "I want to go home!" on the blackboard. New letters immediately appear beneath hers, one at a time, all caps block letters, as though they were written by a child: "NO! STAY HERE AND PLAY WITH ME." Meanwhile, multiple murders make the trapped residents fear for their lives and long for a sense of law and order. Which is not at all what they get when Viola Tackett kills the country's only law enforcement officer and takes over. ★★★★★ "This story has more twists and turns than the winding mountain roads of Nower County, and you don’t want to miss a single curve or dip!" -- Phyllis W ★★★★★ "the more books I read in this series, the more I get caught up in the story and the more I love the characters, feeling like they have become my best friends – or enemies. There are so many dimensions to the action that I know these are books I’ll read over and over again and see something new each time." -- Bonsterblack ★★★★★ "I am so hooked on the Nowhere series! Trapped, book #3 is as exciting and heart pounding as the previous books, with people disappearing and houses aging to the point of dilapidation and a surprise ending that left me with my mouth gaping open. The books get more awesome as each new one is published. I can’t wait for what book #4 will bring." -- Lynn Geth ★★★★★ "Is this really only book 3? Man, how has Ninie Hammon managed to twist my brain into so many knots in only three short novels? I don't know if I should be looking for the Boogie Man under my bed, watching the skies for aliens, or Googling mental health facilities in my area (which strangely, would only be about 45 minutes away from the fictional Nowhere, KY)!" -- Kentucky Bohemian Trapped is the third book in Ninie Hammon's new series, Nowhere USA, a riveting psychological thriller about the residents of a forgotten county that inexplicably sinks through reality to find itself in the middle of Nowhere. Fans of Justified, Under The Dome, and LOST will find themselves right at home in Nowhere USA.
The Beautiful Invisible
Author: Giovanni Vignale
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199574847
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Presents an account of the fundamental topics of theoretical physics from the viewpoint of imagination and beauty.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199574847
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Presents an account of the fundamental topics of theoretical physics from the viewpoint of imagination and beauty.
Asymptotic Behavior of Dynamical and Control Systems Under Perturbation and Discretization
Author: Lars Grüne
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780540433919
Category : Asymptotes
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
This text provides an approach to the study of perturbation and discretization effects on the long-time behaviour of dynamical and control systems. It analyzes the impact of time and space discretizations on asymptotically stable attracting sets, attractors and asumptotically controllable sets.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780540433919
Category : Asymptotes
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
This text provides an approach to the study of perturbation and discretization effects on the long-time behaviour of dynamical and control systems. It analyzes the impact of time and space discretizations on asymptotically stable attracting sets, attractors and asumptotically controllable sets.
Asymptotic Behavior of Dynamical and Control Systems under Pertubation and Discretization
Author: Lars Grüne
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3540367845
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
This book provides an approach to the study of perturbation and discretization effects on the long-time behavior of dynamical and control systems. It analyzes the impact of time and space discretizations on asymptotically stable attracting sets, attractors, asumptotically controllable sets and their respective domains of attractions and reachable sets. Combining robust stability concepts from nonlinear control theory, techniques from optimal control and differential games and methods from nonsmooth analysis, both qualitative and quantitative results are obtained and new algorithms are developed, analyzed and illustrated by examples.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3540367845
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
This book provides an approach to the study of perturbation and discretization effects on the long-time behavior of dynamical and control systems. It analyzes the impact of time and space discretizations on asymptotically stable attracting sets, attractors, asumptotically controllable sets and their respective domains of attractions and reachable sets. Combining robust stability concepts from nonlinear control theory, techniques from optimal control and differential games and methods from nonsmooth analysis, both qualitative and quantitative results are obtained and new algorithms are developed, analyzed and illustrated by examples.
Supplement to the Sanguine System Final Environmental Impact Statement for Research, Development, Test and Evaluation
Author: United States. Naval Electronic Systems Command. Sanguine Division
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Communications, Military
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Communications, Military
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description