Bound by Distance

Bound by Distance
Author: Pasquale Verdicchio
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Total Pages: 204
Release: 1997
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780838636831

Bound by Distance takes its place among a growing body of scholarship the goal of which is to challenge the kind of thinking that reproduces the "West" as a stable and homogenous political and discursive entity. The Italian nation, with its peculiar process of formation, the continuous tensions between its own northern and southern regions, and its history of emigration, provides an important case for complicating and reassessing concepts of national, racial, economic, and cultural dominance. The author analyzes the interactive space of the history of Italian state formation, Italian subaltern literature, Italian emigrant writing, and the current situation of North African and Asian immigrants to Italy, in order to contest the "feigned homogeneity" of the Italian nation and to complicate and reassess concepts of national, racial, economic, and cultural dominance.

Scale and Distance in Maps

Scale and Distance in Maps
Author: Julia J. Quinlan
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Total Pages: 26
Release: 2012-01-15
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 144886156X

Explains how to interpret and understand scales and distances on maps.

In the Distance

In the Distance
Author: Hernan Diaz
Publisher: Penguin Group
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2024-10-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0593850572

FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST FOR THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD WINNER OF THE WHITING AWARD WINNER OF THE SAROYAN INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR WRITING WINNTER OF THE VCU CABELL FIRST NOVELIST AWARD WINNER OF THE NEW AMERICAN VOICES AWARD A PUBLISHERS WEEKLY TOP 10 BOOK OF THE YEAR The first novel by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Trust, an exquisite and blisteringly intelligent story of a young Swedish boy, separated from his brother, who becomes a legend and an outlaw A young Swedish immigrant finds himself penniless and alone in California. The boy travels east in search of his brother, moving on foot against the great current of emigrants pushing west. Driven back again and again, he meets criminals, naturalists, religious fanatics, swindlers, American Indians, and lawmen, and his exploits turn him into a legend. Diaz defies the conventions of historical fiction and genre, offering a probing look at the stereotypes that populate our past and a portrait of radical foreignness.

Computer Algebra in Scientific Computing

Computer Algebra in Scientific Computing
Author: François Boulier
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 485
Release: 2021-08-16
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3030851656

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 23rd International Workshop on Computer Algebra in Scientific Computing, CASC 2021, held in Sochi, Russia, in September 2021. The 24 full papers presented together with 1 invited talk were carefully reviewed and selected from 40 submissions. The papers cover theoretical computer algebra and its applications in scientific computing.

Advances in Cryptology – EUROCRYPT ’93

Advances in Cryptology – EUROCRYPT ’93
Author: Tor Helleseth
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 476
Release: 2003-05-13
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3540482857

Eurocrypt is a series of open workshops on the theory and application of cryptographic techniques. These meetings have taken place in Europe every year since 1982 and are sponsored by the International Association for Cryptologic Research. Eurocrypt '93 was held in the village of Lofthus in Norway in May 1993. The call for papers resulted in 117 submissions with authors representing 27 different countries. The 36 accepted papers were selected by the program committee after a blind refereeing process. The papers are grouped into parts on authentication, public key, block ciphers, secret sharing, stream ciphers, digital signatures, protocols, hash functions, payment systems, and cryptanalysis. The volume includes 6 further rump session papers.

Visualization in Medicine

Visualization in Medicine
Author: Bernhard Preim
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 677
Release: 2007-06-21
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0080549055

Visualization in Medicine is the first book on visualization and its application to problems in medical diagnosis, education, and treatment. The book describes the algorithms, the applications and their validation (how reliable are the results?), and the clinical evaluation of the applications (are the techniques useful?). It discusses visualization techniques from research literature as well as the compromises required to solve practical clinical problems. The book covers image acquisition, image analysis, and interaction techniques designed to explore and analyze the data. The final chapter shows how visualization is used for planning liver surgery, one of the most demanding surgical disciplines. The book is based on several years of the authors' teaching and research experience. Both authors have initiated and lead a variety of interdisciplinary projects involving computer scientists and medical doctors, primarily radiologists and surgeons.* A core field of visualization and graphics missing a dedicated book until now* Written by pioneers in the field and illustrated in full color* Covers theory as well as practice

Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming - CP 2001

Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming - CP 2001
Author: Toby Walsh
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 802
Release: 2003-06-30
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3540455787

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming, CP 2001, held in Paphos, Cyprus, in November/December 2001. The 37 revised full papers, 9 innovative applications presentations, and 14 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 135 submissions. All current issues in constraint processing are addressed, ranging from theoretical and foundational issues to advanced and innovative applications in a variety of fields.