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To the Unborn Peoples, and Other Poems
Ellen Maria Huntington Gates
Hutson Street Press
2025
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To the Unborn Peoples, and Other Poems
Ellen Maria Huntington Gates
Hutson Street Press
2025
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Winner of the Southeastern Society of Architectural Historians Award of ExcellenceRobert R. Taylor and Tuskegee interweaves the life of the first academically trained African American architect with his life’s work—the campus of Booker T. Washington’s Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute. In this richly illustrated architectural history, the author delves into such questions of how a black boy born in North Carolina shortly after the Civil War could earn a professional architecture degree at MIT, and how he then used his design and administrative skills to further Booker T. Washington’s agenda of community solidarity and, in defiance of strengthening Jim Crow, the public expression of racial pride and progress. The book also considers such issues as architectural education for African Americans at the turn of the twentieth century, the white donors who funded Tuskegee’s buildings, other Tuskegee architects, and Taylor’s buildings elsewhere. Individual narratives of Taylor’s Tuskegee buildings conclude the volume.
Under the Big Tree
Ellen Agler; Mojie Crigler; Bill Gates
Johns Hopkins University Press
2019
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Powerful stories of the debilitating effects of neglected tropical diseases throughout the world, highlighting the successes and challenges of those fighting to eliminate them.Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) affect over one billion of the world's poorest people. More than 170,000 people die from NTDs each year, and many more suffer from blindness, disability, disfigurement, cognitive impairment, and stunted growth. Yet NTDs are treatable and preventable, and the annual cost of treatment is incredibly low.In Under the Big Tree, public health leader Ellen Agler and award-winning writer Mojie Crigler tell the moving stories of those struggling with these diseases and the life-saving work that can be—and has been—done to combat NTDs. They introduce readers to people from all walks of life—from car washers in Lake Victoria and surgeons on motorbikes to under-resourced local nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and Big Pharma scientists—as they chronicle what has been called the largest public health program in the world. On the one hand, the solutions are simple: deliver medication to people who need it and leverage local systems to offer prevention, treatment, and education. On the other hand, solutions are complex: navigating local and national politics, delivering treatment to some of the most remote, vulnerable communities, and coordinating global and local donors, international NGOs, thousands of health workers, and millions of citizens. Drawing on interviews with major players in the NTD world who share their cutting-edge research and frontline experiences, Under the Big Tree is a moving introduction to the science, the tactics, and the partnerships working to address these terrible diseases that affect the most vulnerable people in the world. With a foreword by Bill Gates, this book fascinates, inspires, and gives readers concrete steps for further engagement.
Tom Gates är tillbaka i en ny bok, full med galna och pinsamma händelser! Det är vinter, och det snöar så mycket att skolan blir tvungen att stänga. Vilket inte gör Tom något, om det inte vore för att han tvingas tillbringa eftermiddagen med Marcus. Marcus som har fått ett stjärnelevmärke av magister Fullerman. Ett sånt vill Tom också ha, och han tänker jobba hårt för att få ett.Liz Pichon är en engelsk författare och illustratör. Med serien om Tom Gates har hon vunnit en rad priser. Bland annat Roald Dahl Funny Prize, Waterstone s Children s Book Prize och Blue Peter Book Award.
Tom Gates er tilbage med flere tegninger, kruseduller og skøre fortællinger om sit liv! Denne gang lærer Tom sine nye bedsteforældre at kende. De har været på jordomrejse i flere år – eller var det en hemmelig mission? Toms nye bedsteforældre er blevet en del af hans hverdag – og det er GENIALT. De har hele tiden nye gaver med fra deres rejser og får sjove idéer – og så er de måske endda hemmelige spioner! De giver i hvert fald Tom et sejt spionur, der kan sige sjove lyde, og et helt særligt instrument, han kan bruge sammen med sit band DOGZOMBIES: en vuvuzela! Men bedst af alt vil de tage Tom og familien med på et episk eventyr til Crambly Castle, som selv Delia glæder sig til.
Games Some People Play!: Like When You're Tied-Up Bare-Ass
Ellen Pierce Melville
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2014
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Varför finns vi fortfarande kvar på jorden medan andra varelser har dött ut och förvandlats till sten? "Utvecklas eller dö" gräver upp intressanta fakta om överlevnad och arters utrotning. Ta reda på ... - varför muterande myggor är människans värsta fiende - hur du gör ditt eget fossil - varför det inte finns några giraffer i Sydamerika. Gå miljontals år tillbaka i tiden och läs om skorpioner stora som krokodiler, om dinosauriernas undergång och om varför schimpanser kan vara släkt med just dig. Här finns spännande faktalistor, frågesporter och allt du skulle vilja veta om evolutionens mest fascinerande upptäckter. En bok i serien Förfärliga fakta.
Adjustment Processes for Exchange Economies and Noncooperative Games
Antoon van den Elzen
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH Co. K
1993
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This monograph is a treatise on adjustment processes. We consider price adjustment processes in exchange economies and strategy adjustment processes in noncooperative games. In the most simple version of an exchange economy, i.e. a pure exchange economy, there exist markets on which prices are determined by the demand and supply created by a finite number of consumers willing to exchange their initial endowments in order to maximize their utilities. An equilibrium situation is attained if, for some price vector, demand equals supply in all markets. Starting from a situation not being an equi librium an adjustment process reaches an equilibrium via adaptations of prices. The advantage of the adjustment processes we will present in this monograph is that they exist and converge under far weaker assumptions than existing processes. The second subject concerns the problem of finding Nash equilibria in noncooperative games. A Nash equilibrium is a situation from which no player can improve his position by unilaterally changing his strategy. We present a new algorithm for finding such equilibria. The sequence of stra tegy vectors generated by the algorithm can be interpreted as the path followed by a strategy adjustment process.
Gates reveals the guiding genius behind the unparalleled success of the Microsoft Corporation-- the biggest and most profitable personal computer software company in history-- and exposes the intensely competitive tactics that help it dominate the desktops of America. Chairman and co-founder of Microsoft, Bill Gates is the most powerful person in the computer industry and the youngest self-made billionaire in history. His company's DOS and Windows programs are such universal standards that more than nine out of ten personal computers depend on Microsoft software. Under the "Microsoft Everywhere" rallying cry, Gates intends to expand his company's worldwide dominance to office equipment, communications, and home entertainment. Vivid and definitive, Gates details the behind the scenes history of the personal computer industry and its movers and shakers, from Apple to IBM, from Steve Jobs to Ross Perot. Uncovering the inside stories of the bitter battle for control of the expanding personal computing market, Gates is a bracing, comprehensive portrait of the industry, the company, and the man-- and what they mean for a future where software is everything.
Action-packed Occult/Dark Fantasy Disclaimer: Non-religious. Can a condemned soul become God's weapon? A death row inmate, known as The Brit, on an isolated island is able to escape from his execution during a freak thunderstorm. Now, he finds himself fighting his way through the prison and protecting the very people who jailed him. Pursued by prisoners and guards that will not die and a mysterious inmate from his nightmares, The Brit has to lead the others to escape in order to save their souls and possibly his own. Fun, Quick Series Opener - Hack Dandy, 4 Stars "The Brit, a death row inmate, escapes his electric-chair execution thanks to a major thunderstorm that knocks out the power at his island-prison. The Pastor, a quasi-friend on the inside, helps him out of the chair and they seem to be the only prisoners around. The Brit has a plan to escape, which is hindered as he faces off against prisoners and inmates that are hell-bent on capturing him by the commands of the Courier. This was a fun read and reminded me of The Rock (1996), in that I envisioned Alcatraz and Sean Connery. But no, there are no missiles or scientists-turned-hero. There is one specific scene that ends the action-packed and brutal man-against-the-odds thriller, and flips the switch on a paranormal sci-fi tale. Don't worry; there is still brutal action throughout. To tell more would risk entry into the spoiler-zone. This is the first I've heard of G.S. Luckett. The writing and editing are quite good and the story flows well from scene to scene. The book has a conclusion (as it should) and can stand alone as a full story. However, this is the intro to a set/series. A short read . Although this is subtitled as "Can a condemned soul become God's weapon", it isn't a Christian or preachy book." Five Stars from Readers' Favorite - Dinorah Blackman "If you love suspense, you're definitely going to love Gates by G.S. Luckett....G.S. Luckett is an extremely creative writer. In this book, he turns a prison into a haunted house where many macabre secrets are hidden. Gates presents an exciting but unusual plot played out by very interesting characters who are thrown together in a desperate attempt to escape a tragedy....If you've ever wondered about evil and spiritual forces, you'll enjoy this book." Fantastic Read - mizztara71, 5 Stars "I read this story in one sitting. The action is non-stop. The scenes are very detailed and vivid. The characters are very well fleshed out. The author did a wonderful job of humanizing "The Brit" and telling his back story. I can see why he was chosen as a Reaper. I would recommend Gates and look forward to reading the next book in the series." The Reaper Book 1 is the first installment of a series where we find out how, The Reaper, is chosen and that he does more than shepherd lost souls. He maintains the balance between Heaven and Hell, that is threatened to be destroyed by an ongoing war. Some of God's instruments are tarnished.
If you open Sahar Muradi’ s [ G A T E S ] and follow each line into the entryways and departures, passed “ convention centers and expos / and festivals that begin at sunset,” you will witness the poet’ s memories as tiny explosions of intimacies that devastate with their precision and candor. On images of Ferris wheels and “ prayer on the side of the road,” the poet “ kneels and spreads [her] picnic” of wonder. Sahar Muradi makes sense of the fragments of memory, the broken buildings of Kabul, Mazar, and Panjsher, the innocence of childhood punctured by journey, a father’ s illness, losing a language, and the politics of a war uninvited. Muradi beckons you, asks how you “ authored poorer nations with the hope of freeing / others. The architects of what’ s left.” Indeed the political act of poetry in this fierce collection is a pained beauty that does not look away as it rebuilds the human starting with the heart.— Rajiv Mohabir