Download or read book Invisible Frontier written by L.B. Deyo and published by Crown. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the shadows of the city waits an invisible frontier—a wilderness thriving in the deep places, woven through dead storm drains and live subway tunnels, coursing over third rails. This frontier waits in the walls of abandoned tenements, hides on the rooftops, infiltrates the bridges’ steel. It’s a no-man’s-land, fenced off with razor wire, marked by warning signs, persisting in shadow, hidden everywhere as a parallel dimension. Crowds hurry through the bright streets, insulated by pavement, never reflecting that beneath their feet or above their heads lurks a universe. Led by its two founding agents, L. B. Deyo and David “Lefty” Leibowitz, Jinx is a stylish urban adventure out?t known for its daring—if sometimes ridiculous—forays into the hidden wonders that lurk above and beneath America’s greatest city, New York. In Invisible Frontier L. B. and Lefty chronicle Jinx’s dramatic—if sometimes absurd—exploration of a Dante-esque New York, from the depths of the city’s underground Hell (abandoned aqueducts and subway tunnels) to the pinnacles of its Paradise (rooftops and bridges) and everything in between, capturing the genius of the city’s engineering, the vibrancy of its found art, and the elegiac beauty of its ruins. Here is a true series of wittily narrated adventures into the hidden world beneath a great civilization.

Download or read book Frontier Supercomputer written by StoryBuddiesPlay and published by StoryBuddiesPlay. This book was released on 2024-05-19 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frontier: A Revolution in Scientific Computing - Unveiling the Potential of the Exascale Era Frontier, the world's first exascale supercomputer, has ushered in a new era of scientific discovery. This marvel of engineering, housed at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF), boasts a processing power exceeding one quintillion calculations per second. This immense capability is revolutionizing numerous scientific fields, from simulating complex molecules for drug discovery to modeling the formation of galaxies. This comprehensive guide delves into the many facets of Frontier and its impact on the scientific landscape. Here's a glimpse of what you'll discover: Frontier's Applications: Explore how Frontier empowers researchers across diverse disciplines, including medicine, materials science, cosmology, climate modeling, and energy production. The Power of AI and Machine Learning: Witness how Frontier accelerates advancements in AI and machine learning, leading to breakthroughs in areas like natural language processing, computer vision, and robotics. Open Science for Global Collaboration: Learn about ORNL's commitment to open science, ensuring global access to Frontier's computing power and fostering international research collaboration. A Look Ahead: The Future of Supercomputing: Peer beyond the exascale horizon and explore the exciting possibilities of zettascale computing and the potential integration of quantum technologies. The Challenges and Ethics of Exascale Computing: Consider the critical discussions surrounding responsible use, equitable access, and the environmental footprint of these powerful machines. Frontier's story extends beyond the technical specifications. This guide explores the human element behind this groundbreaking achievement, highlighting the researchers who utilize Frontier's power and the intricate process for accessing this remarkable resource. Whether you're a scientist, a tech enthusiast, or simply curious about the future of scientific exploration, this guide offers a compelling exploration of Frontier and its transformative impact on our world. Dive deeper into the chapters and discover the secrets being unlocked with the world's first exascale supercomputer.

Download or read book Invisible Geniuses Could the Knowledge Frontier Advance Faster written by Ruchir Agarwal and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2018-12-07 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The advancement of the knowledge frontier is crucial for technological innovation and human progress. Using novel data from the setting of mathematics, this paper establishes two results. First, we document that individuals who demonstrate exceptional talent in their teenage years have an irreplaceable ability to create new ideas over their lifetime, suggesting that talent is a central ingredient in the production of knowledge. Second, such talented individuals born in low- or middle-income countries are systematically less likely to become knowledge producers. Our findings suggest that policies to encourage exceptionally-talented youth to pursue scientific careers—especially those from lower income countries—could accelerate the advancement of the knowledge frontier.

Download or read book Invisible Natives written by Armando José Prats and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This incisive, provocative, and wide-ranging book casts a critical eye on the representation of Native Americans in the Western film since the genre's beginnings. Armando José Prats shows the ways in which film reflects cultural transformations in the course of America's historical encounter with "the Indian." He also explores the relation between the myth of conquest and American history. Among the films he discusses at length are Northwest Passage, Stagecoach, The Searchers, Hombre, Hondo, Ulzana's Raid, The Last of the Mohicans, and Dances With Wolves.Throughout, Prats emphasizes the irony that the Western seems to be able to represent Native Americans only by rendering them absent. In addition, he points out that Native Americans who appear in Westerns are almost always male; Native women rarely figure into the plot, and are often portrayed by white women rendered "Indian" by narrative necessity. Invisible Natives offers an intriguing view of the possibilities and consequences—as well as the historical sources and cultural origins—of the Western's strategies for evading the actual portrayal of Native Americans.

Download or read book Beyond the Frontier written by Helen Baker and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-07-25 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A first visit to the Ukraine by a Russian-speaking tourist just before the violence erupted.

Download or read book Invisible Things written by Mat Johnson and published by One World. This book was released on 2023-04-04 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sharp allegorical novel about a hidden human civilization, a crucial election, and a mysterious invisible force that must not be named, by one of our most imaginative comic novelists LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post When sociologist Nalini Jackson joins the SS Delany for the first manned mission to Jupiter, all she wants is a career opportunity: the chance to conduct the first field study of group dynamics on long-haul cryoships. But what she discovers instead is an entire city encased in a bubble on Europa, Jupiter’s largest moon. Even more unexpected, Nalini and the rest of the crew soon find themselves abducted and joining its captive population, forced to start new lives in a place called New Roanoke. New Roanoke is a city riven by wealth inequality and governed by a feckless, predatory elite, its economy run on heedless consumption and income inequality. But in other ways it’s different from the cities we already know: it’s covered by an enormous dome, it’s populated by alien abductees, and it happens to be terrorized by an invisible entity so disturbing that no one even dares acknowledge its existence. Albuquerque chauffer Chase Eubanks is pretty darn sure aliens stole his wife. People mock him for saying that, but he doesn’t care who knows it. So when his philanthropist boss funds a top-secret rescue mission to save New Roanoke’s abductees, Chase jumps at the chance to find her. The plan: Get the astronauts out and provide the population with the tech they need to escape this alien world. The reality: Nothing is ever simple when dealing with the complex, contradictory, and contrarian impulses of everyday earthlings. This is a madcap, surreal adventure into a Jovian mirror world, one grappling with the same polarized politics, existential crises, and mass denialism that obsess and divide our own. Will New Roanoke survive? Will we?

Download or read book Frontier Passage written by Ann Bridge and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-09-14 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A story of Spain and its Civil War, and a pair of star-crossed lovers. This new novel has many virtues, all of them attractive -- picturesque montage, an appealing cast, substantial-and often exciting -- action, and her usual quality writing. - Kirkus

Download or read book The Flamenco Academy written by Sarah Bird and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Albuquerque, New Mexico, two young women become entranced by young flamenco guitarist Toms ̀Montenegro and decide to dedicate themselves to the disciplines and demands of the university's flamenco academy.

Download or read book The New Urban Frontier written by Neil Smith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-10-26 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why have so many central and inner cities in Europe, North America and Australia been so radically revamped in the last three decades, converting urban decay into new chic? Will the process continue in the twenty-first century or has it ended? What does this mean for the people who live there? Can they do anything about it? This book challenges conventional wisdom, which holds gentrification to be the simple outcome of new middle-class tastes and a demand for urban living. It reveals gentrification as part of a much larger shift in the political economy and culture of the late twentieth century. Documenting in gritty detail the conflicts that gentrification brings to the new urban 'frontiers', the author explores the interconnections of urban policy, patterns of investment, eviction, and homelessness. The failure of liberal urban policy and the end of the 1980s financial boom have made the end-of-the-century city a darker and more dangerous place. Public policy and the private market are conspiring against minorities, working people, the poor, and the homeless as never before. In the emerging revanchist city, gentrification has become part of this policy of revenge.

Download or read book The Invisible Empire written by Georgie Wemyss and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a significant and original contribution to critical race theory. Georgie Wemyss offers an anthropological account of the cultural hegemony of the West through investigations of the central and pivotal constituent of the dominant white discourse of Britishness - the Invisible Empire. She demonstrates how the repetitive burying of British Empire histories of violence in the retelling of Britain’s past works to disguise how power operates in the present, showing how other related elements have been substantially reproduced through time to accommodate the challenges of history. The book combines ethnographic and discourse analysis with the study of connected histories to reveal how the dominant discourse maintains its dominance through its flexibility and its strategic alliances with subordinate groups.

Download or read book Invisible Lines written by Maxim Samson and published by House of Anansi. This book was released on 2024-02-13 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An indispensable guide to seeing and understanding our planet through the divisions we make, find, or feel. Our world has innumerable boundaries. They range from the obvious—an ocean, or a mountain range—to subtle differences in language or climate. We cross boundaries all the time, sometimes without realizing it. They can be subjective: our perceptions of a boundary may not be shared by others. And yet they shape the way we engage with the world. Geographer Maxim Samson examines invisible lines, exploring the ways in which we divide this world—from meteorology and ecology to race and religion—and how they allow us to define “insiders” and “outsiders,” to identify places where particular attention and resources are especially urgent, to distinguish between two sides, two groups, two futures. From segregation along Detroit’s infamous 8 Mile to herds of red deer that still refuse to cross the former Iron Curtain, the existence—or perceived existence—of dividing lines has manifold implications for people, wildlife, and places. Vividly written and illustrated with maps, Invisible Lines is a compelling exploration of boundaries in all their consistency, and all their messiness too.

Download or read book The Invisible Hand written by Prince Ami and published by Enlighten89 Book Corp. This book was released on 2020-05-15 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Invisible Hand gives the reader an in-depth perspective into certain incentives that may be at stake for a person who commits crime, and many of the likely causes which may play a role in their decision to commit crime in the first place. By giving the reader a narrative in which they are able to evaluate for themselves the good, as well as the bad deeds of each and every character, what I have hoped to accomplish is give the reader a concise and fair depiction of some of the factors that might play a motivating role into why a person decides to do good; as well as give an accurate depiction into some of the evil forces that a person might encounter that pushes them to do the things that they shouldn’t! By giving the reader a preponderance of variables to consider, I have invited you all to be apart of this Grand Jury were you will be able to form your own opinions and conclusion based on the overall facts presented about each character inside this story: Is Isaiah a genius who wishes to use his talents to make the world a better place, or is he a self-centered computer whiz who'll do anything to protect what he has created? Is Frank a benevolent leader who wants to see every young child in the world with access to the internet, or a man who would do anything to get his way, including kill? Are Chauncey and Kahlil products of their environments, and if so could change ever be possible for them? This is the weight of the evidence and by the time you’ve reached the conclusion of this book you will have by no doubt made your own opinions. Each character inside this story is a reflection of some of the men and women who've had a prominent role in helping me become the man that I am today. The New Wave is intended to give hope to the kids living in single parent homes, juvenile delinquents, high school drops, and all the people out their that’s really having a hard time and just don’t know how they’re going to get through the day without falling apart. These are Gods people too, they are human just like me and you, and because they have faults it doesn’t mean that they don’t matter, and I know it’s easier to point the finger at them, or to turn your back and simply walk away than to sit down and take the time to understand what might be going on in their minds. But what if it was vice versa, things could always be different and that’s what I’ve hoped to do with The Invisible Hand, by creating a different reality from that of the grim one in which I have come to know. The naming of this book title came to mind for me after several days of thinking. I wanted a title that would not only reflect to the use of technology, but the existence of God and His plans for our lives. I chose The Invisible Hand as the title for this book because I wanted to illustrate how a young boy, living in a single parent home with his mother could use technology to create a change in his own environment, and ultimately go on to use that same technology to make the world a better place for others the world over!

Download or read book In the Carquinez Woods on the Frontier by Shore and Sedge written by Bret Harte and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Grid Computing The New Frontier of High Performance Computing written by Lucio Grandinetti and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2005-11-15 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book deals with the most recent technology of distributed computing.As Internet continues to grow and provide practical connectivity between users of computers it has become possible to consider use of computing resources which are far apart and connected by Wide Area Networks.Instead of using only local computing power it has become practical to access computing resources widely distributed. In some cases between different countries in other cases between different continents.This idea of using computer power is similar to the well known electric power utility technology. Hence the name of this distributed computing technology is the Grid Computing.Initially grid computing was used by technologically advanced scientific users.They used grid computing to experiment with large scale problems which required high performance computing facilities and collaborative work.In the next stage of development the grid computing technology has become effective and economically attractive for large and medium size commercial companies.It is expected that eventually the grid computing style of providing computing power will become universal reaching every user in industry and business.* Written by academic and industrial experts who have developed or used grid computing* Many proposed solutions have been tested in real life applications* Covers most essential and technically relevant issues in grid computing

Download or read book The Invisible Universe written by FIELD and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Invisible Government written by Dan Smoot and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-08-22 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Invisible Government" by Dan Smoot. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Download or read book The Invisible World written by Catherine Wilson and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the seventeenth century the microscope opened up a new world of observation, and, according to Catherine Wilson, profoundly revised the thinking of scientists and philosophers alike. The interior of nature, once closed off to both sympathetic intuition and direct perception, was now accessible with the help of optical instruments. The microscope led to a conception of science as an objective, procedure-driven mode of inquiry and renewed interest in atomism and mechanism. Focusing on the earliest forays into microscopical research, from 1620 to 1720, this book provides us with both a compelling technological history and a lively assessment of the new knowledge that helped launch philosophy into the modern era. Wilson argues that the discovery of the microworld--and the apparent role of living animalcula in generation, contagion, and disease--presented metaphysicians with the task of reconciling the ubiquity of life with human-centered theological systems. It was also a source of problems for philosophers concerned with essences, qualities, and the limits of human knowledge, whose positions are echoed in current debates about realism and instrument-mediated knowledge. Covering the contributions of pioneering microscopists (Leeuwenhoek, Swammerdam, Malpighi, Grew, and Hooke) and the work of philosophers interested in the microworld (Bacon, Descartes, Leibniz, Malebranche, Locke, and Berkeley), she challenges historians who view the abstract sciences as the sole catalyst of the Scientific Revolution as she stresses the importance of observational and experimental science to the modern intellect.