Author: Paul Verhaeghe File Type: pdf A miraculous answer to the confusions surrounding Freuds and Lacans theory of feminine sexuality. . . . A must for anyone who wants to grasp what psychoanalysis has to say today.-Slavoj ZizekReviewA miraculous answer to the confusions surrounding Freuds and Lacans theory of feminine sexuality. . . . A must for anyone who wants to grasp what psychoanalysis has to say today. -Slavoj ZizekLanguage NotesText English (translation)Original Language Dutch

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Author: Samuel Logan File Type: mobi From Publishers WeeklyUsing all of the tools of a capable police investigation, Logan, a journalist based in Latin America, connects the fortunes of Brenda Paz, a Honduran-American teenager, with the ultraviolent Mara Salvatrucha gang. After family difficulties led Pazs father to send her to Texas to live with her uncle, she witnessed a friends murder by her boyfriend, the leader of the local MS-13 gang, and fled to Virginia following her boyfriends arrest. Logan probes the secretive Mara Salvatrucha, which funds its illegal activities through extortion, kidnapping, prostitution, drugs and theft, causing the FBI to label it the most dangerous of all criminal outfits. Eventually Paz informs on the gang about the national leadership and crimes, and the Feds unwisely stash the restless teenager in the witness protection program. Placing the reader in the midst of this story with harrowing detail, Logan writes of a young life wasted and an evil crime empire. (July) br Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. Like any American teenager, Brenda Paz spent much of her time with her friends. They would go to parties, listen to music, and show off their cars late into the night. But Brenda and her friends belonged to the Mara Salvatrucha--the MS-13--the most violent gang in America, and in addition to enjoying the things that all teenagers do, her friends were thieves, drug dealers, human traffickers, and murderers.A street gang that began in Los Angeles in the 1980s, the Mara Salvatrucha spread across the United States and Central America with startling speed, boasting tens of thousands of members. They dealt ruthlessly with competing gangs and any members who display disloyalty, often leaving a trail of dismembered corpses in their wake. They are poised to surpass the Mafia as the countrys most organized criminal network. And by operating within the insular Central American immigrant communities, the Mara Salvatrucha had been able to easily elude law enforcement.All that changed when Brenda Paz turned informant for the FBI, exposing the incredible scope of the gangs operations. But Brendas cooperation with the FBI was only the beginning. What followed is an extraordinary story of strength, intelligence, and incredible courage.This is for the Mara Salvatrucha takes us into a dark and violent world that few people have seen, but is closer than you think.

Author: Clifford A. Pickover File Type: pdf Do a little armchair time-travel, rub elbows with a four-dimensional intelligent life form, or stretch your mind to the furthest corner of an uncharted universe. With this astonishing guidebook, Surfing Through Hyperspace, you need not be a mathematician or an astrophysicist to explore the all-but-unfathomable concepts of hyperspace and higher-dimensional geometry.No subject in mathematics has intrigued both children and adults as much as the idea of a fourth dimension. Philosophers and parapsychologists have meditated on this mysterious space that no one can point to but may be all around us. Yet this extra dimension has a very real, practical value to mathematicians and physicists who use it every day in their calculations. In the tradtion of Flatland, and with an infectious enthusiasm, Clifford Pickover tackles the problems inherent in our 3-D brains trying to visualize a 4-D world, muses on the religious implications of the existence of higher-dimensional consciousness, and urges all curious readers to venture into the unexplored territory lying beyond the prison of the obvious. Pickover alternates sections that explain the science of hyperspace with sections that dramatize mind-expanding concepts through a fictional dialogue between two futuristic FBI agents who dabble in the fourth dimension as a matter of national security. This highly accessible and entertaining approach turns an intimidating subject into a scientific game open to all dreamers.Surfing Through Hyperspace concludes with a number of puzzles, computer experiments and formulas for further exploration, inviting readers to extend their minds across this inexhaustibly intriguing scientific terrain.Amazon.com ReviewClifford Pickover is IBMs Renaissance-guy-in-residence. His job is to play with cool ideas--time travel (Time A Travelers Guide), extraterrestrials (The Science of Aliens), and the line between genius and crackpot (Strange Brains and Genius). His latest game is an oldie but goodie trying to imagine the fourth dimension.Like a number of his other books, Surfing is structured as a fiction, in this case an X-Files romance--Pickover clearly has a deep and personal appreciation for Scully (whom he calls Sally, presumably on advice of counsel). You, dear reader, are the FBIs chief investigator of four-dimensional phenomena. As you and your cohorts chase bizarre manifestations from upsilon (4-D up) and delta (4-D down), Pickover provides explanations, paradoxes, and problems, with many helpful drawings and computer-generated illustrations.Pickovers book, like every work on higher dimensions, is something of a sequel to Edwin Abbotts classic story, Flatland. Like Abbott, Pickover doesnt just look at the mathematics I want to know if humankinds Gods could exist in the fourth dimension. Not for the theologically squeamish, this book is lively, provocative, outrageous, and fascinating. --Mary Ellen CurtinFrom Publishers WeeklyHyperbeings have kidnapped the president! Prolific Discover magazine columnist Pickover (Time A Travelers Guide, etc.) alternates expositions of math, physics and geometry with episodes of instructional science fiction while showing interested amateurs the mathematical and physical properties of higher spatial dimensions. Familiar analogies from Edwin Abbotts classic Flatland link up with odder ones from Bahai and Christian scripture, The X-Files and the superstring theories of modern cosmologists, as Pickover explains how to trap a 4-D organism or why one twirl through a fourth dimension could turn you into your mirror image. Pickovers usual whimsy is in full force here, as he focuses on what four-dimensional organisms could (or do) look like to us 4-D lifeforms, he explains, could make any 3-D object vanish (or reappear) by lifting it out of (or dropping it back into) our 3-D space. And 4-D creatures with anatomies analogous to ours would probably look, from our limited perspective, like sets of floating, unconnected flesh blobs. In the books science fictional sections, you (a Mulder-esque FBI agent) team up with a skeptic named Sally to investigate mysterious hyperbeings. These second-person adventures seem aimed at young readers, though they dont get in the way of the more sophisticated ideas. Several substantial appendices describe puzzles and games related to hyperspace, while others explain related topics (like the mathematical entities called quaternions) or suggest further reading. Line drawings throughout. (Oct.) 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.