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Alien, Correspondent
by Antony Di NardoThese astute, generous poems give us contemporary Beirut in all its ravaged and incongruent beauty. This arresting first collection is, in part, a delicately balanced look at Beirut from the perspective of a Westerner who lives and works in that remarkable city. Whether writing about the Middle East or about domestic life, Di Nardo refuses to romanticize; he doesn’t moralize about the causes of perennial conflicts. He is that rare thing: a clear-eyed witness. Here and there Starbucks coffee cups collide with service taxis and re-assign the chaos, litter the brittle landscape of the coast, while the world command picks through the sands of lawlessness for just a grain of what remains of itself, the little air of familiarity defunct, despised and fed to those on foot like scraps to gutter cats in the shade of too many parked cars that took the place of date palms standing on the sidewalks. Yet no one would ever leave their shift at the wheel, or turn home in the grim belief life’s purpose is that unreal. (from “Oh the streets of West Beirut”) “Time and space are lenses Di Nardo overlays to bring Beirut into historic and personal focus… Evidence of violence abounds here, as does love, and Di Nardo epitomizes, like Cavafy, the empathy required to be its perfect correspondent.” –John Barton
The Life of the Author: Graham Greene (The Life of the Author)
by Andrew JamesExploring the creative mind of Graham Greene, a metafictional study of a literary icon Graham Greene's novels offer more than gripping narratives—they are a window into the author's creative obsessions. The Life of the Author: Graham Greene presents a groundbreaking study that unveils the intimate connection between Greene's life and work, using metafictional analysis to reveal the evolution of his views on authorship and storytelling. Moving beyond conventional critical interpretations, literary scholar Andrew James invites readers to discover how Greene saw himself within his fiction and how his self-perception shaped his literary masterpieces. Written with both depth and accessibility, this illuminating book delves into Greene's disciplined creative process, his struggles with self-doubt, and his playful yet profound engagement with the craft of writing. Organized thematically, The Life of the Author focuses on Greene's post-1940 works, where his identity as a writer solidified, making his novels rich with autobiographical undertones. Throughout the text, James offers new insights into Greene's novels while connecting recurring themes to his personal and creative growth. An innovative exploration of one of the twentieth century's most enigmatic authors, The Life of the Author: Graham Greene: Examines Greene's novels through the lens of metafiction to offer a fresh perspective on his craft Presents detailed literary analyses that reveal the self-reflective nature of Greene's storytelling Focuses on Greene's authorial identity, tracing his growth as a writer from neutral observer to committed advocate Concentrates on Greene's major novels while avoiding exhaustive academic overviews to promote independent critical discovery Discusses the metafictional significance of Greene's novels and "entertainments" Enriching appreciation for Greene's artistry while exploring metafictional approaches in literary biography, The Life of the Author: Graham Greene is ideal for university courses in 20th-century British literature, biography, and literary theory, particularly at introductory and intermediate levels. Scholars, students, and avid readers of Greene will find it an invaluable resource for understanding the interplay between an author's life and their creative output.
Hydrogen Storage: A Wide Range of Solutions (ISTE Invoiced)
by Patricia de Rango Fermin CuevasHydrogen storage plays a central role in the hydrogen energy value chain. Efficient, economical and safe methods are essential to increase the gas' volume density and enable the sector's deployment. Hydrogen Storage analyzes the various ways of storing hydrogen, whether in a gaseous state in pressurized reservoirs or geological structures, in a liquid state through the formation of ammonia or hydrogen-carrying organic liquids, or in a solid state in hydrogen-containing inorganic compounds such as metal hydrides and regenerable hydrides, or by adsorption into porous materials. For each method, concepts are presented according to the processes used or the storage materials involved. Their advantages and disadvantages, as well as the main obstacles and challenges to be overcome, are analyzed. This book provides an overview of the various storage solutions currently available, helping operators to choose the most appropriate method for a given application.
Imperialisms: The International Circulation of Ideas and the Struggle for the Universal
by Pierre BourdieuWhile Bourdieu’s work on cultural production, the reproduction of inequality and the rise of the modern state is well known, his writings on the phenomena of internationalization and imperialism have received much less attention. Bourdieu’s analyses of the international circulation of ideas and the imperialisms of the universal – where two political powers, such as the United States and France, clash on matters of cultural legitimacy – generated multiple research programmes on topics ranging from translation and scientific exchange to global economic policy. The constitution of globalized domains where national problems like unemployment, ethnicity and poverty are subjected to international import-export processes serves to naturalize the dominant vision of dominant countries and impose it on national political contexts. Freedom, democracy and human rights have been constituted as universal values and some countries claim to embody these values more than others. However, historical analysis shows that things are not so simple and that the actual content given to these values does not necessarily have the universality they claim. For example, the claim to universality of past colonial or imperial policies arouses suspicion in the eyes of some, to the point of calling into question the very idea of universality. But it is possible to move beyond the alternative between, on the one hand, a naïve belief in universality and, on the other, a disenchanted relativism that sees the universal as nothing more than a disingenuous way to legitimize particular interests. Bourdieu argues that the theory of fields enables us to move beyond this alternative by showing that the struggle for the universal can produce its own forms of universality that transcend particular interests. This volume of Bourdieu’s writings on internationalization, imperialism and the struggle for the universal will be of interest to students and scholars in sociology, anthropology, politics and the social sciences and humanities generally.
Thermal Battery Management System for Hybrid and Electric Vehicles
by Ashwani Kumar Mukesh Kumar Awasthi Nitesh Dutt Yogesh Kumar Singla Sivasakthivel ThangavelThermal Battery Management System for Hybrid and Electric Vehicles is essential for anyone seeking to understand the cutting-edge advancements and challenges in battery thermal management, providing valuable insights that drive innovation and improve the performance of electric and hybrid vehicles. Thermal Battery Management System for Hybrid and Electric Vehicles investigates the technological advancements, challenges, and future perspectives of battery thermal management systems (BTMS) for electric vehicles (EV) and hybrid electric vehicles (HEV). By researching BTMS, engineers can develop novel thermal management systems and cooling technologies, leading to advancements in the field of electric and hybrid vehicles. This book explores existing research on thermal management systems for EV and HEV batteries, challenges and issues related to thermal management in EV and HEV battery systems, including battery heat generation, temperature, and thermal hazards, and evaluates the impact of temperature on battery performance and the overall efficiency of EV and HEV systems. In summation, this book is a definitive compendium that delves into the intricate tapestry of BTMS applications across diverse industries. Its holistic approach underscores the pivotal role of BTMS in current industrial landscapes and explores its transformative potential as a catalyst for future advancements and innovation.
Multi-physics Optimization: Mechanics, Fluid Interaction Structure, Shaping, Stochastic Finite Elements, Random Vibrations, Fatigue (ISTE Invoiced)
by Abdelkhalak El Hami Mohamed EidThis book illustrates, in detail, the state of the art in the multidisciplinary science of multi-physics optimization. In a context of the perpetual search for improved industrial competitiveness, the evolution of product design and optimization methods and tools appears to be a strategic necessity in view of the imperative to reduce costs. In the aeronautics sector, resources are mainly focused on forecasting and controlling the costs incurred by failures that occur at commissioning, during the warranty period, and during aircraft operation. However, in the future, new contracts for the sale of aeronautical equipment will become increasingly oriented toward sales by the hour of operation. The aim of this book is to propose new methods for reliability-based optimization, enabling an analysis of a system’s life cycle. The V-cycle allows development phases to be viewed in terms of development time and levels of integration complexity. Multi-physics Optimization is dedicated to optimization methods for multi-physics problems. Each chapter clearly sets out the techniques used and developed and accompanies them with illustrative examples. The book is aimed at students but is also a valuable resource for practicing engineers and research lecturers.
Data Analysis and Related Applications, Volume 5: Models, Methods and Techniques (ISTE Invoiced)
by Christos H. Skiadas Yiannis DimotikalisThis book is a collective work by several leading scientists, analysts, engineers, mathematicians and statisticians, who have been working at the forefront of data analysis and related applications, arising from data science, operations research, engineering, machine learning or statistics. Data Analysis and Related Applications 5 represents a cross-section of current concerns and research interests in the above scientific areas. The collected material has been divided into appropriate sections to provide the reader with both theoretical and applied information on data analysis methods, models and techniques, along with appropriate applications.
African Philosophies
by Séverine Kodjo-GrandvauxFor many students of philosophy in the West, philosophy is understood as a discipline stemming from Ancient Greece, embracing the great thinkers of medieval and early modern Europe and continuing through to the present day. To the extent that other philosophical traditions are taken into account, these tend to be selected philosophical traditions of Asia. Rarely is African philosophy considered in this context, even though Africa and the West are deeply interconnected through long histories of colonialism and slavery. In this important book Séverine Kodjo-Grandvaux argues that a serious engagement with African philosophy is long overdue. She shows that there is a rich tradition of philosophical thought in Africa that addresses issues ranging from the legacies of colonialism to the nature of time, the state, responsibility, identity, dignity and personhood. An engagement with African philosophy also offers a fresh perspective on Western philosophy, prompting us to interrogate ourselves and our own history. Conceptualizing African philosophy becomes a way of conceptualizing the world and of understanding how to know ourselves through the gaze of another. African Philosophies is not so much a survey of philosophy in Africa but rather an account of how the question of African philosophy emerged in the second half of the 20th century and of what we can learn from a serious engagement with African philosophy today. It will be of great interest to students and scholars in philosophy, in colonial and postcolonial studies and throughout the humanities.
Sustainable Resource Management in Next-Generation Computational Constrained Networks (Industry 5.0 Transformation Applications)
by S. Balamurugan Manas Ranjan Lenka Subhasis Dash Amarendra Mohanty Ambika Prasad TripathyThe book provides essential insights into cutting-edge networking technologies that not only enhance performance and efficiency but also address critical sustainability challenges in an increasingly connected world. The landscape of networking and computational technologies is rapidly evolving, driven by the increasing demand for efficient and sustainable resource management. The advent of next-generation technologies such as 5G and 6G has marked a significant leap in enabling high-capacity, low-latency communication and massive connectivity. These advancements are crucial for supporting the growing number of connected devices and complex applications they run, particularly in environments with limited processing, memory, and energy capabilities. Sustainable Resource Management in Next-Generation Computational Constrained Networks provides insight into the advancements of recent cutting-edge networking technologies that cater to society’s needs more efficiently, meeting the expectations of sustainable resource management in computationally constrained networks. By exploring the practical applications of various next-generation technologies, the book addresses critical challenges such as scalability, interoperability, energy efficiency, and security. This knowledge equips professionals with the tools to enhance network performance, optimize resource management, and develop innovative solutions for sustainable and efficient computational networks, ultimately contributing to the advancement of technology and societal well-being. Readers will find this book: Provides thorough reviews on a wide range of cutting-edge network technologies contributing to resource management in computationally constrained networks; Explores the role of various network technologies for the development of sustainable applications; Details architectural viewpoints of integrating emerging network technologies with real-world applications to manage network resources efficiently; Highlights challenges in integrating the latest network technologies with sustainable real-world applications; Discusses real-world case studies of various network technologies in leveraging sustainable resource management for the fulfillment of different industrial and societal needs. Audience Software engineers, electronic engineers, and policymakers in the networking and security domain.
Navigate Your Career: Strategies for Success in New Roles and Promotions
by Shveta MiglaniIncrease your impact in your next job and accelerate your career with straightforward and proven workplace techniques In Navigate Your Career: Strategies for Success in New Roles and Promotions, career, organization, and leadership development expert Shveta Miglani delivers an original and exciting new guide to navigating your career. With anecdotes and real-life experiences from leaders at Amazon, the Boston Celtics, Mastercard and Adobe, the author walks you through seven key ways you can make your professional journey more rewarding and successful at every stage. You'll find easy-to-implement advice you can use today to help you realize your work goals, including setting appropriate, realistic, and measurable goals to working with your organization's proprietary technology as a new hire. You'll discover how to learn about the business of your new company, understand your firm's culture, and how to meet your professional and personal development benchmarks. Inside the book: How to develop and maintain a sense of authenticity in the workplace that allows you to thrive without pretense Strategies for navigating remote, on-site, and hybrid work roles, and how to handle the unique challenges that come with each type of position Ways to build strong relationships with people at your new job, including how to find the right mentors Perfect for professionals stepping into a new role at a new company, Navigate Your Career: Strategies for Success in New Roles and Promotions is also a must-read book for every ambitious person—at any stage of their career—who wants to maximize the impact they have on their organization and make their professional lives more rewarding.
Reasons for Winter
by Naomi GuttmanWinner of the 1992 A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry (QSPELL, now the Quebec Writers Federation) and shortlisted for the 1991 Pat Lowther Award Naomi Guttman's first collection of poems marks the appearance of a deeply emotional, highly intelligent new voice. Its theme is intimacy -- ours, especially women's, experience of intimacy in many forms, how it marks us, how we long for it, the ways in which it is both our fulfilment and our undoing. The personae range from children to old men and women, jailbirds to schoolgirls; the language is chosen without ever becoming deliberate, precise but always musical. These are poems from and of the heart, chastened by experience, taut with craft.
Autodidactic
by Don KerrShortlisted for the 1998 Saskatchewan Book Award for Poetry Don Kerr's fifth poetry collection is a verbal joyride, an exuberant celebration of a book: a celebration of mountains and plains, of growing up and of being young, of being alive in the present moment and absorbing the feel of the road through the palms of your hands on the wheel. Autodidactic represents an erotics of the everyday, a tribute to place (and movement) and to family (and friends). This is not to say that Kerr sentimentalizes the ordinary, but rather that by examining it in the bright prairie sunlight, he is able to reveal its true extraordinariness. The deep-felt humour that is in many of the poems here does not arise from gilding events with comedy, but from the poet's seeing and drawing out of events what is truly and inherently comic within them. In this book Kerr is able to demonstrate the many shades of his voice and the many facets of his craft.
Abraham
by Colin BrowneIn these passionate poems, this long poem, there is a story (there are stories) which a reader mines out of a landscape of language moulded under great pressure and eloquent of the stresses that formed it. This is non-representational work of great concentration and beauty.
Grey All Over
by Andrea Actis“Please stay with me, please stay here, please cause poltergeists in my stupid apartment…” Late in the evening of December 13, 2007, Andrea Actis found her father, Jeff, facedown dead in her East Vancouver apartment. So began her passage through grief, self-reckoning, and graduate school in Providence, Rhode Island, where the poetics she studied (and sometimes repudiated) became integral to her gradual reconstruction of wholeness. An assemblage of “evidence” recovered from emails about paranormal encounters sent and received by Jeff (greyallover@yahoo.com), junk mail from false prophets, an annotated excerpt from Laura (Riding) Jackson’s “The Serious Angels: A True Story,” and transcripts of Actis’ dreams, conversations, and messages to the dead, Grey All Over not only celebrates a rare, close, complicated father-daughter bond, it also boldly expands the empathetic and critical capacities of poetry itself. In pulling us outside the comfort zones of received aesthetics and social norms, Actis asks us to embrace with whole seriousness “the pragmatics of intuition” in all the ways we read, live, and love. “When a loved one dies, there’s all this stuff to deal with, and in the midst of grief we begin to collect, sort, document, store, and discard. Andrea Actis has taken the stuff surrounding her father’s death and created a book that is, like grief, in turns heartbreaking, wise, chaotic, drunk, wry, and always unflinchingly honest. This powerful testament of survival is for anyone who has felt the ‘déjà vu in reverse’ of grief. It is for the living.” —Sachiko Murakami, author of Render “Love letter, experimental poem, meditation, conversation with the dead—Andrea Actis’s compelling debut is unlike any memoir I’ve ever read. In one passage, Actis digs out the biggest piece of bone she can find in the vessel of her father’s ashes and gently bites on it. Reading Grey All Over I had a similar sensation. Ash. Bone. Love.” —Jen Currin, author of Hider/Seeker “This absolutely beautiful work makes plain that seriousness feels like love.” —Aisha Sasha John, author of I have to live.
Domestic Economy
by John DonlanA sequence of fifty dated poems, four quatrains each; lyrical arguments; quick thinking amid the rational absurdity of everyday machinery; intuitive explorations of unknown energies; a diary of the unconscious.
Variations on Herb
by John B. LeeWinner of the 1995 Milton Acorn Memorial People’s Poetry Prize Variations on Herb is the latest in a lengthening series of books that emanate from the south-western Ontario farm of John B. Lee's childhood. The focus of Variations is Herb Lee, John B's grandfather (and an absolutely unforgettable curmudgeon) but the background of rural Ontario is also made palpable entirely without indulgent explanation. This grain, this rich vein that appears in book after book, may well be inexhaustible; the cumulative effect certainly has few parallels in Canadian writing.
echolalia echolalia
by Jane ShiRelentlessly inventive poetry that proclaims a diasporic, queer, and disabled self-hood.In Jane Shi's echolalia echolalia, commitment and comedy work together to critique ongoing inequities, dehumanizing ideologies, and the body politic. Here are playful and transformative narratives of friendship and estrangement, survival and self-forgiveness. Writing against inherited violence and scarcity-producing colonial projects, Shi expresses a deep belief in one's chosen family, love and justice."Shi extends her poetics in all directions with silky skill. Language flourishes in the realm of a poet like this." - T. Liem, author of Slows: Twice and Obits.
If You Discover a Fire
by Shaun RobinsonPrecision-built poems that attempt CPR on their own irregular meter, on their own unreliable meaning.Vancouver poet Shaun Robinson’s If You Discover a Fire is a debut collection of poems that make a virtue of their failure to communicate. They forage through the syntax and vocabulary of late-night voicemails, letters to the editor, songs invented in the shower, professional jargon, “Witness Wanted” signs, technical manuals, and text-message typos to assemble verbal collages that raise more questions than they answer. In settings ranging from Montreal's Mile End to a commercial flight above the Midwest to a wildfire in the mountains of British Columbia, these are poems rooted in working-class Canadian experience, poems that flirt with both safety and danger, that drone on like drunken strangers in a bar. Gathering reference from weather reports, football announcers, aerial disappearances, and the movie Groundhog Day, these poems sound their forlorn yawp through the alleys of East Vancouver. Out on the porch, between shots, he tells you / things you've always known, how the past / and the future are lovers spooning / in bed, and the present is how they don't / quite fit together. (from "Carpe Dos and Carpe Don'ts (FT. Panda Bear)").
Bear Bones & Feathers
by Louise B. HalfeWinner of the Milton Acorn People’s Poet AwardEmploying Indigenous spirituality, black comedy, and the memories of her own childhood as healing arts, celebrated poet Louise B. Halfe – Sky Dancer finds an irrepressible source of strength and dignity in her people. Bear Bones and Feathers offers moving portraits of Halfe’s grandmother (a medicine woman whose life straddled old and new worlds), her parents (both trapped in a cycle of jealousy and abuse), and the people whose pain she witnessed on the reserve and at residential school.Originally published by Coteau Books in 1994, Bear Bones and Feathers won the Milton Acorn People’s Poet Award, and was a finalist for the Spirit of Saskatchewan Award, the Pat Lowther Award, and the Gerald Lampert Award.
First
by Arleen ParéGovernor General’s Award–winning poet Arleen Paré combines the story of two first best friends with questions of the mystery of cosmic first cause. The poems in First, Arleen Paré’s seventh collection, search for a long-lost first friend. They conjure the subtle layers of meaning in that early friendship to riff on to a search for how we might possibly understand the primal First: the beginnings of the cosmos that contains our own particular lives, beginnings and longings. This layered evocation of the past—of childhood in 1950s Dorval, “a green mesh of girls friendships and fights”—and the intensity of the desire to know, give First its haunting beauty. “[T]he word though old fashioned,” Paré writes, “is whence . . . unconditioned origins” when “no worthy question is ever answered on the same plane that it was asked; how to frame the question not knowing the plane on which I must ask it.” “Arleen Paré’s First is an intriguing Gertrude Stein as Nancy Drew mystery. Using prose poem narrative and an intense syntactic poetics, Paré discovers the cracks in memory as she documents the search for her first best friend. The cracks in this lyrical puzzle are heightened by a very active and assertive poetic language that compels as it decodes the investigation of childhood memory and desire. The writing in First demonstrates a powerful juxtaposition of the continuous present with the continuous past.” —Fred Wah “This brilliant collection revolves around firsts, especially a first friend, ‘the impress of her never gone.’ So too with these poems—tough, sweet and poignant, so surely rendered and musically rich—the impress of these poems never gone.” —Lorna Crozier
A Sudden Sky: Selected Poems
by Ulrikka GernesA Sudden Sky is a book of northern poems with crystalline images and lines, fragile graceful poems that speak of fragments, of the moment between open and closed eyes, of the human need for embrace. These poems note the spaces between things -- always a gap, a failed connection, like radio waves caught in the sky. Gernes has called poetry "a resistance movement," explaining, "A poem gives us the possibility of hearing our own voices. While the media offer us the world in small pieces, which are experienced as chaos, poetry seeks connections."
The Rapids
by Susan GillisUrgent and precarious, the poems in The Rapids, Susan Gillis’ third collection, take us to places lost and reclaimed: a balcony high over the St. Lawrence River in downtown Montreal, upstream to the Lachine Rapids, and beyond, to landscapes as far apart as Greece and the B.C. coast.
Edge Effects
by Jan ConnReading Edge Effects, Jan Conn’s masterful eighth collection, is a little like looking at Edward Burtynsky’s photographs of real industrial wastelands; both visions are as gorgeous as they are terrifying, platforms for thought, even for activism, depending as they do on the energy of the viewer/reader for completion.
Riffs
by Dennis LeeDeluxe redesign of an aching solo situated at the mid-point of a long, melodious career. On the occasion of the press's 40th anniversary, Brick Books is proud to present the third of six new editions of classic books from our back catalogue. This edition of Riffs features a new introduction by the poet Paul Vermeersch, a reprint of an extended interview with Dennis Lee about the book, and a new cover and design by the renowned typographer Robert Bringhurst. Riffs is a story of a passionate love affair, told in vintage Lee style—with whoops, deep chords, and headlong improvisational arcs. We hear Bach, Bo Diddley, Bird; the news is heartache and being. Celebratory, claustrophobic, the poem tracks ways in which eros and our lives are made mutually accountable.
Thin Moon Psalm
by Sheri BenningWinner of the 2007 Anne Szumigalski Award for Poetry and the 2007 City of Saskatoon Prize and nominated for Book of the Year (Saskatchewan Book Awards) and longlisted for the 2008 ReLit Awards Fierce and delicate poems from a young poet reminiscent of Jane Hirshfield and Jan Zwicky Rapt, musical, passionately engaged, the poems in Thin Moon Psalm move towards their own inner stillness, while also bearing witness to the power of relatedness -- to family, lovers, and the prairie landscape itself. Many of them are poems of remembrance and deep grieving, recalling in etched details the rigours and joys of life on a prairie farm, and those iconic moments which are alive with the unspoken -- moments between father and daughter, mother and child, sister and sister, lover and lover, poet and friend. Especially they take on the burden of what is lost, knowing "There is always a room we will never return to" and "we return only through loss: the place where we began."