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The Broom of the System

Author	: David Foster Wallace
Publisher	: Penguin
Release Date	: 2004-05-25
ISBN	: 1101153539
Pages	: 480 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book The Broom of the System written by David Foster Wallace and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-05-25 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published when Wallace was just twenty-four years old, The Broom of the System stunned critics and marked the emergence of an extraordinary new talent. At the center of this outlandishly funny, fiercely intelligent novel is the bewitching heroine, Lenore Stonecipher Beadsman. The year is 1990 and the place is a slightly altered Cleveland, Ohio. Lenore’s great-grandmother has disappeared with twenty-five other inmates of the Shaker Heights Nursing Home. Her beau, and boss, Rick Vigorous, is insanely jealous, and her cockatiel, Vlad the Impaler, has suddenly started spouting a mixture of psycho-babble, Auden, and the King James Bible. Ingenious and entertaining, this debut from one of the most innovative writers of his generation brilliantly explores the paradoxes of language, storytelling, and reality.

Understanding David Foster Wallace

Author	: Marshall Boswell
Publisher	: Univ of South Carolina Press
Release Date	: 2003
ISBN	: 9781570035173
Pages	: 232 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (351 download)

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Download or read book Understanding David Foster Wallace written by Marshall Boswell and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marshall Boswell examines the four major works of fiction David Foster Wallace has produced thus far: the novels The Broom of the System and Infinite Jest and the story collections Girl with Curious Hair and Brief Interviews with Hideous Men.

Existentialist Engagement in Wallace, Eggers and Foer

Author	: Allard den Dulk
Publisher	: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date	: 2014-12-18
ISBN	: 1628923334
Pages	: 288 pages
Rating	: 4.6/5 (289 download)

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Download or read book Existentialist Engagement in Wallace, Eggers and Foer written by Allard den Dulk and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-12-18 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The novels of David Foster Wallace, Dave Eggers and Jonathan Safran Foer are increasingly regarded as representing a new trend, an 'aesthetic sea change' in contemporary American literature. 'Post-postmodernism' and 'New Sincerity' are just two of the labels that have been attached to this trend. But what do these labels mean? What characterizes and connects these novels? Den Dulk shows that the connection between these works lies in their shared philosophical dimension. On the one hand, they portray excessive self-reflection and endless irony as the two main problems of contemporary Western life. On the other hand, the novels embody an attempt to overcome these problems: sincerity, reality-commitment and community are portrayed as the virtues needed to achieve a meaningful life. This shared philosophical dimension is analyzed by viewing the novels in light of the existentialist philosophies of Søren Kierkegaard, Jean-Paul Sartre, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Albert Camus.

David Foster Wallace and Religion

Author	: Michael McGowan
Publisher	: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date	: 2019-11-14
ISBN	: 150134529X
Pages	: 224 pages
Rating	: 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book David Foster Wallace and Religion written by Michael McGowan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2019-11-14 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the years since his suicide, scholars have explored David Foster Wallace's writing in transdisciplinary ways. This is the first book of its kind to discuss how Wallace understood and wrote about religion. At present, the scholarly community is sharply divided on how best to read Wallace on religious questions. Some interpret him to be a Nietzschean nihilist, while others see in him a profoundly spiritual, even mystical thinker. Some read Wallace as a Buddhist thinker, and others as a Christian existentialist. Involved at every level of this discussion are Wallace's experiences in Twelve Step recovery programs, according to which only a higher power can help one remove unwanted defects of character. The multifarious essays in this volume by literature, religion, and philosophy scholars in the Wallace community delve into Wallace's life and writings to advance the conversation about Wallace and religion. While they may disagree with one another in substantial ways, the contributors argue that Wallace was not only deliberate in his writings on religious themes, but also displayed an impressive level of theological nuance.

The Broom of the System

Author	: David Foster Wallace
Publisher	: Penguin Books
Release Date	: 1987-01
ISBN	: 9780140098686
Pages	: 467 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (986 download)

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Download or read book The Broom of the System written by David Foster Wallace and published by Penguin Books. This book was released on 1987-01 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An original and exciting debut, set in 1990 Cleveland, where a bewitching heroine who works for a screwed-up publishing firm is caught up with her not-so-hot lover/boss, her grandmother--who has just run away from her nursing home--and her pet cockatiel, whose verbal banter makes him a target for religious fundamentalists.

The David Foster Wallace Reader

Author	: David Foster Wallace
Publisher	: Penguin UK
Release Date	: 2014-11-06
ISBN	: 0241961971
Pages	: 976 pages
Rating	: 4.2/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book The David Foster Wallace Reader written by David Foster Wallace and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2014-11-06 with total page 976 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The David Foster Wallace Reader is a selection of David Foster Wallace's work, introducing readers to his humour, kindness, sweeping intellect and versatility as a writer. A compilation from the one of the most original writers of our age, featuring: · the very best of his fiction and non-fiction; · previously unpublished writing · and original contributions from 12 prominent authors and critics about his work From classic short fiction to genre-defining reportage, this book is a must for new readers and confirmed David Foster Wallace fans alike'One of the most dazzling luminaries of contemporary American fiction' Sunday Times 'There are times, reading his work, when you get halfway through a sentence and gasp involuntarily, and for a second you feel lucky that there was, at least for a time, someone who could make sense like no other of what it is to be a human in our era' Daily Telegraph 'A prose magician, Mr. Wallace was capable of writing . . .about subjects from tennis to politics to lobsters, from the horrors of drug withdrawal to the small terrors of life aboard a luxury cruise ship, with humour and fervour and verve' Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times David Foster Wallace wrote the novels The Pale King, Infinite Jest, and The Broom of the System and three story collections. His nonfiction includes Consider the Lobster and A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again. He died in 2008.

Back to the Core

Author	: Emma Cohen de Lara
Publisher	: Vernon Press
Release Date	: 2020-10-06
ISBN	: 1622739795
Pages	: 270 pages
Rating	: 4.6/5 (227 download)

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Download or read book Back to the Core written by Emma Cohen de Lara and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whereas liberal arts and sciences education arguably has European roots, European universities have evolved over the last century to become advanced research institutions, mainly offering academic training in specialized disciplines. The Bologna process, started by the European Union in the late nineties, encouraged European institutions of higher education to broaden their curricula and to commit to undergraduate education with increased vigor. One of the results is that Europe is currently witnessing a proliferation of liberal arts and sciences colleges and broad bachelor degrees. This edited volume fills a gap in the literature by providing reflections on the recent developments in Europe with regard to higher education in the liberal arts and sciences. The first section includes reflections from either side of the Atlantic about the nature and aims of liberal arts and sciences education and the way in which it takes shape, or should take shape in European institutions of higher learning. The edited volume takes as a distinct approach to liberal arts and sciences education by focusing on the unique way in which core texts – i.e. classic texts from philosophical, historical, literary or cultural traditions involving “the best that has been written” – meet the challenges of modern higher education in general and in Europe in particular. This approach is manifested explicitly in the second section that focuses on how specific core texts promote the goals of liberal arts and sciences education, including the teaching methods, curricular reflections, and personal experiences of teaching core texts. The edited volume is based on a selection of papers presented at a conference held in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, in September 2015. It is meant to impart the passion that teachers and administrators share about developing the liberal arts and sciences in Europe with the help of core texts in order to provide students with a well-rounded, formative, and genuinely liberal education.

Girl With Curious Hair

Author	: David Foster Wallace
Publisher	: Hachette UK
Release Date	: 2014-09-23
ISBN	: 0316338893
Pages	: 384 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (163 download)

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Download or read book Girl With Curious Hair written by David Foster Wallace and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2014-09-23 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Remarkable, hilarious, and unsettling re-imaginations of reality by "a dynamic writer of extraordinary talent" (New York Times Book Review). David Foster Wallace was one of America's most prodigiously talented and original young writers, and Girl with Curious Hair displays the full range of his gifts. From the eerily "real," almost holographic evocations of historical figures such as Lyndon Johnson and overtelevised game-show hosts and late-night comedians to the title story, in which terminal punk nihilism meets Young Republicanism, Wallace renders the incredible comprehensible, the bizarre normal, the absurd hilarious, the familiar strange.

Deconstructing the Broom of the System

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Publisher	:
Release Date	: 2016
ISBN	:
Pages	: pages
Rating	: 4.:/5 (969 download)

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Harry Potter: The Broom Collection

Author	: Insight Editions
Publisher	: Insight Editions
Release Date	: 2020-10-27
ISBN	: 1647220262
Pages	: 152 pages
Rating	: 4.6/5 (472 download)

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Download or read book Harry Potter: The Broom Collection written by Insight Editions and published by Insight Editions. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the brooms of the Wizarding World in this gorgeous sequel to the best-selling Harry Potter: The Wand Collection. Every broom has a story of its own. In the Harry Potter films, wizarding broomsticks are magical artifacts that enable their riders to soar from one place to another. They can be used to dodge dragons, escape Death Eaters and other Dark forces, or take to the skies for an action-packed Quidditch match. Harry Potter: The Broom Collection is a visual guide to these magical artifacts, their makers, and their riders. Profiles of each broom feature stunning new illustrations of the original props, insights from cast and crew, and other filmmaking secrets from the Warner Bros. archive. Also included are fascinating entries on Quidditch, illustrated with prop photography and concept art, with profiles on everything from the Golden Snitch to the Quidditch World Cup. This collectible volume is an ideal resource, both for veteran fans seeking to learn the history behind these beloved items and for a new generation just beginning their journey into the wizarding world.

The Nonlinear Workbook

Author	: Willi-Hans Steeb
Publisher	: World Scientific Publishing Company
Release Date	: 2014-11-14
ISBN	: 9814583499
Pages	: 684 pages
Rating	: 4.8/5 (145 download)

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Download or read book The Nonlinear Workbook written by Willi-Hans Steeb and published by World Scientific Publishing Company. This book was released on 2014-11-14 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nonlinear Workbook provides a comprehensive treatment of all the techniques in nonlinear dynamics together with C++, Java and SymbolicC++ implementations. The book not only covers the theoretical aspects of the topics but also provides the practical tools. To understand the material, more than 100 worked out examples and 160 ready to run programs are included. Each chapter provides a collection of interesting problems. New topics added to the 6th edition are Swarm Intelligence, Quantum Cellular Automata, Hidden Markov Model and DNA, Birkhoff's ergodic theorem and chaotic maps, Banach fixed point theorem and applications, tau-wavelets of Haar, Boolean derivatives and applications, and Cartan forms and Lagrangian. Request Inspection Copy

Negotiated Learning

Author	: Irene Professor Guijt
Publisher	: Routledge
Release Date	: 2010-09-30
ISBN	: 1136527664
Pages	: 184 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (365 download)

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Download or read book Negotiated Learning written by Irene Professor Guijt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-09-30 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book to critically examine how monitoring can be an effective tool in participatory resource management, Negotiated Learning draws on the first-hand experiences of researchers and development professionals in eleven countries in Africa, Asia, and South America. Collective monitoring shifts the emphasis of development and conservation professionals from externally defined programs to a locally relevant process. It focuses on community participation in the selection of the indicators to be monitored as well as community participation in the learning and application of knowledge from the data that is collected. As with other aspects of collaborative management, collaborative monitoring emphasizes building local capacity so that communities can gradually assume full responsibility for the management of their resources. The cases in Negotiated Learning highlight best practices, but stress that collaborative monitoring is a relatively new area of theory and practice. The cases focus on four themes: the challenge of data-driven monitoring in forest systems that supply multiple products and serve diverse functions and stakeholders; the importance of building upon existing dialogue and learning systems; the need to better understand social and political differences among local users and other stakeholders; and the need to ensure the continuing adaptiveness of monitoring systems.

Battery Management Algorithm for Electric Vehicles

Author	: Rui Xiong
Publisher	: Springer Nature
Release Date	: 2019-09-23
ISBN	: 981150248X
Pages	: 297 pages
Rating	: 4.8/5 (115 download)

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Download or read book Battery Management Algorithm for Electric Vehicles written by Rui Xiong and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-09-23 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book systematically introduces readers to the core algorithms of battery management system (BMS) for electric vehicles. These algorithms cover most of the technical bottlenecks encountered in BMS applications, including battery system modeling, state of charge (SOC) and state of health (SOH) estimation, state of power (SOP) estimation, remaining useful life (RUL) prediction, heating at low temperature, and optimization of charging. The book not only presents these algorithms, but also discusses their background, as well as related experimental and hardware developments. The concise figures and program codes provided make the calculation process easy to follow and apply, while the results obtained are presented in a comparative way, allowing readers to intuitively grasp the characteristics of different algorithms. Given its scope, the book is intended for researchers, senior undergraduate and graduate students, as well as engineers in the fields of electric vehicles and energy storage.

Department Bulletin

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Publisher	:
Release Date	: 1927
ISBN	:
Pages	: pages
Rating	: 4.:/5 (3 download)

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Out of the Broom Closet

Author	: Arin Murphy-Hiscock
Publisher	: Simon and Schuster
Release Date	: 2009-08-18
ISBN	: 1440513651
Pages	: 256 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book Out of the Broom Closet written by Arin Murphy-Hiscock and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-08-18 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do you tell your mother you're a witch? Coming out as a witch isn't easy. You may feel misunderstood, rejected, even discriminated against by friends, family, and coworkers. If you haven't come out, you may be leery of criticism from those who don't really know what it means to be a witch. In this one-of-a-kind collection, you'll meet fifty witches just like you who reveal what drew them to the craft and how they dealt with coming Out of the Broom Closet. Inside you'll find inspiring stories like: Empowered by My Faith: Debra's belief in the God and Goddesses is strengthened when she asks for their guidance during energy-healing to save her son from a near-fatal gunshot wound Yes, We Are Working Professionals: Deb stands up against discrimination and shows her Wiccan pride during a meeting at work I Am Pagan and I Am Proud: Gwinevere explores her faith and strength when she becomes a published Wiccan author at sixteen years old An Exercise in Tolerance: Joshua risks at losing the woman he loves when he has to convince her strict Christian family that he doesn't worship the devil Out of the Broom Closet will give you the encouragement and inspiration you need to practice magick with pride and dignity, no matter where you are on the path.

EPA 600/2

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Publisher	:
Release Date	: 1972
ISBN	:
Pages	: pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Jumping the Broom in Style

Author	: Thony C. Anyiam
Publisher	: AuthorHouse
Release Date	: 2007-10-01
ISBN	: 1425986382
Pages	: 148 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (259 download)

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Download or read book Jumping the Broom in Style written by Thony C. Anyiam and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2007-10-01 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a personally assembled database of 13,859 classical musicians, What Killed the Great and not so Great Composers delves into the medical histories of a wide variety of composers from both a musical and medical standpoint. Biographies of musicians from Johann Sebastian Bach of the Baroque period to Benjamin Britten of the Modern era explore in depth their illnesses and the impact their diseases had on musical productivity. Other chapters referenced to specific composers are devoted to such diverse ailments as deafness, mental disorders, sexually transmitted diseases, surgery and war injuries, to name a few. A unique section of statistics and demographics analyzes various aspects of composers' lives such as their longevity related to contemporaneous nonmusical populations, the incidence of various illnesses they experienced over the centuries and the type of medical problems suffered by the so-called top 100 classical musicians. Although a precise and complete accounting of the great composers' ailments may never be possible, a general understanding of the medical problems experienced by these unique individuals, nevertheless, can heighten one's appreciation of their creative processes despite the hardships imposed by their physical and mental illnesses. Although some individuals surrendered to their disabilities for a variety of reasons, others were able to rise above their infirmities and produce the wonderful music mankind has enjoyed through the centuries.