602 research outputs found
Marty on the Edge
No full textMarty Kaden can fly. A champion Taekwondoist with serious hopes and a good chance of making the United States team, propelling him all the way to the Olympic Games one day, he takes his chosen martial art seriously. Trouble looms on the horizon, however, and soon brings Marty down to Earth. After suffering defeat at the hands of an arch-rival, Marty spins out of control. Worse, his master instructor disappears under what Marty believes are mysterious circumstances. Yet no one will take him seriously—the police, his mother, his master\u27s assistant. None of them shares his concern. Marty\u27s despair sends him on a wild journey that threatens his life and his dream.
Watching her son suffer, his mother, Sarah, who hides a terrible secret about the tragic death of Marty\u27s father, finally joins forces with her estranged son. This leads the two on yet another journey, fraught with hope and despair, but ultimately pulls the two closer together.
Marty was written for young adult males, those who enjoy action novels, yet anyone of any age can find truths in the plight of a single mother and her 15-year-old son struggling to make it in a world gone mad.
The comprehensive introduction covers the process of the writing of the novel, the author\u27s background and a survey of literature important to the subgenre of boys\u27 action novels and novels outside the genre, including a book from the Harry Potter series, as well as books on the craft of fiction writing. Among others, these include Earnest Hemingway\u27s Death in the Afternoon and Eudora Welty\u27s One Writer\u27s Beginnings, both books on writing and fine embodiments of their own advice
A Guide to Mireille Delmas-Marty\u27s “Compass”
No full textThis essay appears as the Afterword (pp. 55-64) to a volume featuring an important work by the late Mireille Delmas-Marty (1941-2022) titled A Compass of Possibilities: Global Governance and Legal Humanism. A Collège de France de Paris law professor and one of the pre-eminent legal thinkers of her generation, Delmas-Marty and the essay’s author were longtime colleagues and collaborators. The volume contains an English translation of a 2011 lecture by Delmas-Marty, originally titled “Une boussole des possibles: Gouvernance mondiale et humanismes juridiques.” Amann’s essay surveys that writing, in a manner designed to acquaint non-francophone lawyers and academics with Delmas-Marty’s vast and visionary œuvre
A Guide to Mireille Delmas-Marty\u27s “Compass”
No full textThis essay appears as the Afterword (pp. 55-64) to a volume featuring an important work by the late Mireille Delmas-Marty (1941-2022) titled A Compass of Possibilities: Global Governance and Legal Humanism. A Collège de France de Paris law professor and one of the pre-eminent legal thinkers of her generation, Delmas-Marty and the essay’s author were longtime colleagues and collaborators. The volume contains an English translation of a 2011 lecture by Delmas-Marty, originally titled “Une boussole des possibles: Gouvernance mondiale et humanismes juridiques.” Amann’s essay surveys that writing, in a manner designed to acquaint non-francophone lawyers and academics with Delmas-Marty’s vast and visionary œuvre
Old Fashioned Ice Cream Social at the U of M, Crookston Features Author Gayla Marty on Wed., Aug. 18, 2010, from 2-4 p.m.
No full textTollefson, Elizabeth. (2010). Old Fashioned Ice Cream Social at the U of M, Crookston Features Author Gayla Marty on Wed., Aug. 18, 2010, from 2-4 p.m.. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/222491
Pourquoi le XXe siècle a-t-il pris le sexe au sérieux ?: A propos du "Sexe des Modernes" (Eric Marty)
No full textInternational audienceDans "Le sexe des Modernes", Éric Marty démêle les racines intellectuelles qui sont à l’origine de l’expansion du concept de « genre » dans l’univers culturel de la fin du XXe siècle. À cheval entre l’Europe et les États-Unis, cette enquête constitue la première cartographie complète des territoires théoriques sur lesquels a germé une pensée du sexe qui brouille l’ordre classique des représentations
Pourquoi le XXe siècle a-t-il pris le sexe au sérieux ?: A propos du "Sexe des Modernes" (Eric Marty)
No full textInternational audienceDans "Le sexe des Modernes", Éric Marty démêle les racines intellectuelles qui sont à l’origine de l’expansion du concept de « genre » dans l’univers culturel de la fin du XXe siècle. À cheval entre l’Europe et les États-Unis, cette enquête constitue la première cartographie complète des territoires théoriques sur lesquels a germé une pensée du sexe qui brouille l’ordre classique des représentations
Pourquoi le XXe siècle a-t-il pris le sexe au sérieux ?: A propos du "Sexe des Modernes" (Eric Marty)
No full textInternational audienceDans "Le sexe des Modernes", Éric Marty démêle les racines intellectuelles qui sont à l’origine de l’expansion du concept de « genre » dans l’univers culturel de la fin du XXe siècle. À cheval entre l’Europe et les États-Unis, cette enquête constitue la première cartographie complète des territoires théoriques sur lesquels a germé une pensée du sexe qui brouille l’ordre classique des représentations
Power sources and supplies : world class designs /
No full textNewnes has worked with Marty Brown, a leader in the field of power design to select the very best design-specific material from the Newnes portfolio. Marty selected material for its timelessness, its relevance to current power supply design needs, and its real-world approach to design issues. Special attention is given to switching power supplies and their design issues, including component selection, minimization of EMI, toroid selection, and breadboarding of designs. Emphasis is also placed on design strategies for power supplies, including case histories and design examples. This is a book that belongs on the workbench of every power supply designer! *Marty Brown, author and power supply design consultant, has personally selected all content for its relevance and usefulness *Covers best design practices for switching power supplies and power converters *Emphasis is on pragmatic solutions to commonly encountered design problems and tasks.Newnes has worked with Marty Brown, a leader in the field of power design to select the very best design-specific material from the Newnes portfolio. Marty selected material for its timelessness, its relevance to current power supply design needs, and its real-world approach to design issues. Special attention is given to switching power supplies and their design issues, including component selection, minimization of EMI, toroid selection, and breadboarding of designs. Emphasis is also placed on design strategies for power supplies, including case histories and design examples. This is a book that belongs on the workbench of every power supply designer! *Marty Brown, author and power supply design consultant, has personally selected all content for its relevance and usefulness *Covers best design practices for switching power supplies and power converters *Emphasis is on pragmatic solutions to commonly encountered design problems and tasks.Chapter 1. An Introduction to the Linear Regulator -- Chapter 2. Basic Switching Circuits -- Chapter 3 DC-DC Converter Design and Magnetics -- Chapter 4 Control Circuits -- Chapter 5 Non-Isolated Circuits -- Chapter 6 Transformer Isolated Circuits -- Chapter 7 Power Semiconductors -- Chapter 8 Conduction and Switching Losses -- Chapter 9 Power Factor Correction -- Chapter 10 Off-line Converter Design and Magnetics -- Chapter 11 A True Sine Wave Inverter Design Example -- Chapter 12 Thermal Analysis and Design.Includes bibliographical references and index.Print version record.Elsevie
Description et formalisation mathématique
No full textExposé des rapports qu'entretiennent les sciences humaines, dont la sémiotique fait partie, avec les sciences exactes auxquelles appartient la mathématique. La production actuelle rangée sous les vocables «sémiotique » ou « sémiologie» relèverait de la théorie de l'informe. Par le recours à la mathématisation, l'auteur entend jeter les bases d'une sémiotique scientifique.An account of the relationship between human sciences, within which semiotics has been firmly established, and pure sciences to which mathernatics belongs. According to the author, current research labeled as «semiotics » or « semiology » would pertain to the theory of « formlessness ». Through mathematization, Robert Marty proposes a theoretical basis for the developmentof a scientific semiotic
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