Bestselling author Bader hilariously sums up 100 "Great Books"--from Aristotle to Zola--in haiku forms and unites the literary traditions of East and West in one slim volume.
The author of the popular "Haiku for Jews" returns with this hilarious combination of the ancient teachings of Buddhism with the common sense of contemporary Jewish "noodging."
In the sixteenth century, Japanese monks developed the haiku, a poem consisting of three unrhymed lines of five, seven and five syllables. Now, in "The Loose Canon", David Bader applies this ancient poetic form to "100 Great Books". From Homer to Milton to Dostoyevsky, the entire literary canon is finally within reach of even the shortest ...
Includes: - 15 mini-tests, featuring every type of test question- An up-to-date list of nations of the world and mythology and math terminology that most often appear on the test- 7 bonus analogy tests for the GRE CAT
Petascale computers, which are expected to come to fruition around 2008 to 2012, will have an order of magnitude faster than today's speediest supercomputer. Along with this magnificent feat of engineering, however, comes anticipation of a greater challenge: scaling up algorithms and applications for these leadership class supercomputing systems. ...
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on High-Performance Computing, HiPC 2005, held in Goa, India in December 2005. The 50 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 362 submissions. After the keynote section and the presentation of the 2 awarded best contributions the ...
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