Author: Lawrence Hunter File Type: pdf The enormous amount of data generated by the Human Genome Project and other large-scale biological research has created a rich and challenging domain for research in artificial intelligence. These original contributions provide a current sampling of AI approaches to problems of biological significance they are the first to treat the computational needs of the biology community hand-in-hand with appropriate advances in artificial intelligence. Focusing on novel technologies and approaches, rather than on proven applications, they cover genetic sequence analysis, protein structure representation and prediction, automated data analysis aids, and simulation of biological systems. A brief introductory primer on molecular biology and Al gives computer scientists sufficient background to understand much of the biology discussed in the book.Lawrence Hunter is Director of the Machine Learning Project at the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health.**
Author: Sarah Davies
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The recent declassification of a substantial portion of Stalins archive has made possible this fundamental new assessment of the controversial Soviet leader. Leading international experts accordingly challenge many assumptions about Stalin from his early life in Georgia to the Cold War years--with contributions ranging across the political, economic, social, cultural, ideological and international history of the Stalin era. The volume provides a more profound understanding of Stalins power and one of the most important leaders of the twentieth century.ReviewEditors Sarah Davies and James Harris have done students of twentieth-century Russian history a real service by compiling these essays. -Robert Himmer, The Russian ReviewWith this outstanding collection, Davies and Harris not only present a more compelling and comprehensive individual but greatly advance our understanding the Soviet state under Stalin. Golfo Alexopoulos, American Historical Reviewthe book will be of interest and value for students of Russian history. -The NYMAS Review Book DescriptionThe figure of Joseph Stalin has always provoked heated and often polarized debate. The recent declassification of a substantial portion of Stalins archive has made possible this fundamental new assessment of the Soviet leader. In this groundbreaking study, leading international experts challenge many assumptions about Stalin from his early life in Georgia to the Cold War years with contributions ranging across the political, economic, social, cultural, ideological and international history of the Stalin era. This study will prove invaluable reading for students of Stalin and Stalinism.
Author: Marion Meade
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Marion Meade portrays Eleanor of Aquitaine as a woman of great intelligence and titanic energy who lived in a passionate and creative age. A comprehensive account of the life of Eleanor of Aquitaine. The wife of King Louis VII of France and then of King Henry II of England, and mother to Richard Coeur de Lion and King John, she became the key political figure of the 12th century. Eleanors long life inspired a number of legends. At twenty-five she set out for the Holy Land as a Crusader and at seventy-eight she crossed the Pyreness to Spain to fetch the granddaughter whose marriage would be, she hoped, a pledge of peace between England and France. This is a compassionate biography of this charismatic queen and the world she ruled over.**
Author: Colin Lawson
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This volume offers an up-to-date overview of historical performance, surveying the various current issues (such as the influence of recording) and suggesting possible future developments. Its core comprises discussion of the period performers myriad primary source materials and their interpretation, the various aspects of style and general technique that combine to make up a well-grounded, period interpretation, and a survey of performance conditions and practices, focusing on the period c. 1700-c. 1900. Many of the principles outlined are illustrated in case studies of works by Bach, Mozart, Berlioz and Brahms.**
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Author: Leonard M. Hammer
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Foucaults challenging view of power and knowledge as the basis for interpreting the international system forms the central themes of this book. As the application of international law expands and develops this book considers how Foucaults approach may create a viable framework that is not beset by ontological issues. With International law essentially stuck within an older framework of outmoded statist approaches, and overly broad understanding of the significance of external actors such as international organizations current interpretations are either rooted in a narrow attempt to demonstrate a functioning normative structure or interpret developments as reflective of some emerging and somewhat unwieldy ethical order. This book therefore aims to ameliorate the approaches of a number of different schools within the disciplines of international law and international relations, without being wedded to a single concept. Current scholarship in international law tends to favour an unresolved critique, a utopian vision, or to refer to other disciplines like international relations without fully explaining the significance or importance of taking such a step. This book analyses a variety of problems and issues that have surfaced within the international system and provides a framework for consideration of these issues, with a view towards accounting for ongoing developments in the international arena. **Review This book presents an innovative and interesting approach to international law. It addresses some fundamental issues and problems within international law, offering a fresh perspective on state power via the ideas of Foucault. It should serve as the means for deepening our understanding of the international legal framework. Ruth Lapidoth, Hebrew University, Israel and Recipient of the 2006 Israel Prize in Law For those who are unravelling the intricacies of international law, it will serve them well to consider Leonard M. Hammers well-researched book...Anyone dealing with international law and politics should consider contemplating the ideas and reflections on Foucault that Hammer has presented in this book. Law and Politics Book Review This work urges a de-coupling of international law from the traditional Westphalian notions of state sovereignty, allowing for the interaction and influence of actors above and below the state level. By doing so, the author makes an important contribution to the discussion of a more accommodating framework of international law and international relations. He argues convincingly for a transgressive framework, suggesting that the focus should be on the fluidity emanating from on-going discourse rather than on a more static outcome-based apporoach. Singapore Yearbook of International Law Prozorovs text gives us a resonant reading of the constituent possibilities of freedom in Foucaults work. The Leiden Journal of International Law About the Author Leonard Hammer is Senior Lecturer at Zefat College, Israel. He holds the following qualifications JD from Georgetown University, LLM from NYU, and PhD from University of London (SOAS). Dr Hammer has published books and articles in the area of international law and international human rights, including the 2001 book The International Human Right to Freedom of Conscience (Ashgate). He has received a number of research grants and fellowships and is currently involved in a long-term project concerning holy places as well as developing programmes for Zefat Law School.
Author: Camille Laurens
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In a vertiginous play of mirrors between fantasy and virtual reality, Camille Laurens relates the dangerous liaisons of a woman who refuses to give up on desire. This is the story of Claire Millecam, a 48 year-old teacher and divorcee, who creates a fake social media profile to try to keep tabs on Jo, her occasional, elusive, and inconstant lover. Under the false identity of Claire Antunes, a young and beautiful 24 year-old, she starts a correspondence with Chris--pseudonym KissChris--which soon turns into an Internet love affair. WHO YOU THINK I AM is a true novel of our times that brilliantly exposes the disconnect between desire and fantasy. Social media allows us to put ourselves on display, to indulge in secrets, but above all it allows us to lie, to recreate a life, to become our own fiction--a mixture of sentimental naivety and manipulative perversity which echoes the libertine novels of the 18th century. **Review Told through documents including depositions, transcriptions, and novel fragments,Laurenss (In His Arms) intricate and cerebral novel explores the construction of identity and the politics of age, gender, and desire Laurens crafts the novels nested secrets meticulously, producing tricky and thought-provoking surprises until the very end. *PUBLISHERS WEEKLY Readers might think they know where the plot is going, but Laurens uses several sly shifts in perspective to upend the story as she questions the nature and longevity of female desire and desirability in this timely and astute novel. BOOKLIST* About the Author Camille Laurens is an award-winning French novelist and essayist. She received the Prix Femina, one of Frances most prestigious literary prizes, in 2000 for Dans ces bras-la, which was published in the United States as In His Arms in 2004. She lives in Paris. Adriana Hunter studied French and Drama at the University of London. She has translated more than fifty books including Nelly Alards Couple Mechanics and Electrico W by Herve Le Tellier (winner of the French-American Foundations 2013 Translation Prize in Fiction). She won the 2011 Scott Moncrieff Prize, and her work has been shortlisted twice for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. She lives in Norfolk, England.
Author: Liliana M. Naydan
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Rhetorics of Religion in American Fiction considers the way in which contemporary American authors address the subject of belief in the post-911 Age of Terror. Naydan suggests that after 911, fiction by Mohsin Hamid, Laila Halaby, Philip Roth, Don DeLillo, John Updike, and Barbara Kingsolver dramatizes and works to resolve impasses that exist between believers of different kinds at the extremes. These impasses emerge out of the religious paradox that shapes America as simultaneously theocratic and secular, and they exist, for instance, between liberals and fundamentalists, between liberals and certain evangelicals, between fundamentalists and artists, and between fundamentalists of different varieties. Ultimately, Naydan argues that these authors function as literary theologians of sorts and forge a relevant space beyond or between extremes. They fashion faith or lack thereof as hybridized and hence as a negotiation among secularism, atheism, faith, fundamentalism, and fanaticism. In so doing, they invite their readers into contemplations of religious difference and new ways of memorializing 911. **
Author: Alexandru Grigorescu
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This work posits that, over the past two centuries, democratic norms have spread from domestic politics to intergovernmental organizations (IGOs). Grigorescu explores how norms shaped IGO decision-making rules such as those driving state participation, voting, access to information, and the role of NGOs and transnational parliaments. The study emphasizes the role of normative pressures (the interaction between norm strength and the degree to which the status quo strays from norm prescriptions). Using primary and secondary sources to assess the plausibility of its arguments across two centuries and two dozen IGOs, the study focuses on developments in League of Nations, International Labor Organization, United Nations, World Bank, European Union, and World Trade Organization.**