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A First Course in Combinatorial Optimization is a text for a one-semester introductory graduate-level course for students of operations research, mathematics, and computer science. It is a self-contained treatment of the subject, requiring only some mathematical maturity. Topics include: linear and integer programming, polytopes, matroids and matroid optimization, shortest paths, and network flows. Central to the exposition is the polyhedral viewpoint, which is the key principle underlying the successful integer-programming approach to combinatorial-optimization problems. Another key unifying topic is matroids. The author does not dwell on data structures and implementation details, preferring to focus on the key mathematical ideas that lead to useful models and algorithms. Problems and exercises are included throughout as well as references for further study.
Prior to gaining international renown for his definitive biography of Che Guevara and first-hand reporting on the war in Iraq for the New Yorker, Jon Lee Anderson wrote Guerrillas, a pioneering account of five diverse insurgent movements around the world--the mujahedin of Afghanistan, the FMLN of El Salvador, the Karen of Burma, the Polisario of Western Sahara, and a group of young Palestinians fighting against Israel in the Gaza Strip. Making the most of unprecedented, direct access to his subjects, Anderson combines powerful, firsthand storytelling with balanced, penetrating analysis of each situation. A work of phenomenal range, analytical acuity, and human empathy, Guerrillas amply demonstrates why Jon Lee Anderson is one of our most important chroniclers of societies in crisis.
"Reminiscent of the best war literature, such as John Hersey's Hiroshima, Michael Herr's Dispatches, and Michael Kelly's Martyr's Day." --The Washington Post The Fall of Baghdad is a masterpiece of literary reportage about the experience of ordinary Iraqis living through the endgame of the Saddam Hussein regime, its violent fall, and the troubled American occupation. In channeling a tragedy of epic dimensions through the stories of real people caught up in the whirlwind of history, Jon Lee Anderson has written a book of timeless significance.
Prior to gaining international renown for his definitive biography of Che Guevara and his firsthand reports on the war in Iraq in the acclaimed THE FALL OF BAGHDAD, Jon Lee Anderson wrote GUERRILLAS, a daring on-the-ground account of five diverse insurgent movements around the world: the mujahedin of Afghanistan, the FMLN of El Salvador, the Karen of Burma, the Polisario of Western Sahara, and a group of young Palestines fighting against Israel in the Gaza Strip. Making the most of unprecedented, direct access to his subjects, Anderson combines powerful storytelling with a balanced, penetrating analysis of each situation. A work of phenomenal range, analytical acuity, and human empathy, GUERRILLAS amply demonstrates why Jon Lee Anderson is one of our most important chroniclers of societies in crisis.
Che Guevara's dream was an epic one - to unite Latin America and the rest of the developing world through armed revolution, and to end once and for all the poverty, injustice and petty nationalisms that had bled it for centuries. This work tells the tale of revolution, international intrigue and covert operations.
Che Guevara's legend is unmatched in the modern world. Since his assassination in 1967 at the age of 39, the Argentine revolutionary has become an internationally famed icon, as revered as he is controversial. A Marxist ideologue, he sought to end global inequality by bringing down the American capitalist empire through armed guerrilla warfare - and has few rivals in the Cold War era as an apostle of change. In Che: A Revolutionary Life, Jon Lee Anderson and José Hernández reveal the man behind the myth, creating a complex portrait of this passionate idealist. Adapted from Anderson's masterwork, Che transports us from young Ernesto's medical school days to the battlefields of the Cuban revolution; from his place of power alongside Castro to his disastrous sojourn in the Congo, and his violent end in Bolivia. Through renowned Mexican artist José Hernández's drawings, we feel the bullets fly past in Cuba; smell the smoke of Castro's cigars; and scrutinize the face of the weary guerrilla as he is called 'Comandante' for the first time. With astonishing precision, colour, and drama, Che makes us first-hand witnesses to the revolutionary life and times of this historic figure. Combining Anderson's unprecedented access and research with Hernández's emotionally gripping artwork, Che resurrects the man for a new generation of readers.
From one of the great foreign correspondents of our time, author of some of the most essential reporting from Afghanistan from before 9/11 to the return of the Taliban to power in 2021, the first full accounting of that entire era, combining previously published dispatches and new reporting into a single epic tapestry Jon Lee Anderson first reported from Afghanistan in the late 1980s, covering the US-backed mujahideen's insurrection against the Soviet-backed regime in Kabul. Within days of the 9/11 attacks, he was again on the ground as an early eyewitness to the new war launched by the US against the Taliban and their Al Qaeda allies. His reportage from the first year of the war won a number of awards and was published in book form as The Lion's Grave: Dispatches from Afghanistan. At the time, the American military had prevailed on the battlefield, and the newfound peace seemed to offer a precious space for Afghan society to restore itself and to forge a democratic future. But all was not well: Osama bin Laden was still in hiding, the Taliban were stealthily reorganizing for a comeback, and the United States was about to turn its attention to Iraq. To Lose a War collects Anderson's writing from Afghanistan over a near-quarter-century span. Containing the stories from The Lion's Grave and all of those he published since, as well as important writing appearing here for the first time, the book offers a chronological account of a monumental tragedy as it unfolds. The colossal waste, missed signals, and wishful thinking that characterized the twenty-year arc of the US-led war in Afghanistan have consecrated it as one of the greatest foreign policy failures of the modern era, and a bellwether of a larger American imperial decline.
The New Yorker correspondent and author of Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life shares a series of reports from Afghanistan in the wake of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, describing a dangerous world of violence, feudal society, conspiracy, religious fanaticism, hardship, and war. Reprint.
Acclaimed around the world and a national best-seller, this is the definitive work on Che Guevara, the dashing rebel whose epic dream was to end poverty and injustice in Latin America and the developing world through armed revolution. Jon Lee Anderson's biography traces Che's extraordinary life, from his comfortable Argentine upbringing to the battlefields of the Cuban revolution, from the halls of power in Castro's government to his failed campaign in the Congo and assassination in the Bolivian jungle. Anderson has had unprecedented access to the personal archives maintained by Guevara's widow and carefully guarded Cuban government documents. He has conducted extensive interviews with Che's comrades--some of whom speak here for the first time--and with the CIA men and Bolivian officers who hunted him down. Anderson broke the story of where Guevara's body was buried, which led to the exhumation and state burial of the bones. Many of the details of Che's life have long been cloaked in secrecy and intrigue. Meticulously researched and full of exclusive information, Che Guevara illuminates as never before this mythic figure who embodied the high-water mark of revolutionary communism as a force in history.
'Intelligent and unpretentious Modern Poetry for intelligent, unpretentious and modern-minded people.'Barn Swallow.In groups: a mad woman'shyperactive Tourette'stearing at her hair;her flailing fists, and rapid arm-weaving, everywhere and nowhere;alone: a Tartar's arrow-bolt fletched with blue steel...This masterful collection brings exquisite high-art poetry to ordinarily educated readers. Each poem comes with a set of explanatory notes, written by the author himself; and this edition also includes an informative essay to explain what makes free-verse successful. The few technical terms that are employed in the essay are clearly explained in an informative glossary. Here is the poetry book for the 2020's. At over two-hundred pages - the collection is more than twice the length of other poetry books. It is a sister publication of 'Rhyming Poetry for Today', yet also entirely self-standing.This is the book that will gently coach you to understand and enjoy both modern poetry and the highest artistic literature
Complete 144 poems all in one book created over a few years that have been inspired and truly dedicated by brief moments in peoples lives.
A Coward in Modern China: the first Professor Runworth adventure
Jon Lee Junior
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2012
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"This is the story of a knowing scoundrel, and of what became of him."A Coward in Modern China is a travel comedy, crime caper and adventure - based on the escapades of a willful rascal: bogus professor Robert Runworth. Set largely in contemporary Beijing, and partly in California, it is raunchy and mischievous in its plot and action. Yet the pages are also classically stylish; and historically detailed in their account of life in China today. The book is always entertaining, by its exotic setting and fascinating insights as much as its farcical humor.Here is a good old-fashioned yarn in the tradition of the Flashman series. Indeed, Runworth is of mixed American and British ancestry. The narrator's voice has both an up-to-date quality and the timeless feel of more classical literature. Its main character is a thoughtful villain, rather like Dexter.Therefore, like all truly entertaining but serious literature, and laugh-out-loud comedies, the 'A Coward in. . .' series is not for the politically correct. Written by British author, Jon Lee Junior, who has lived and taught in Asia for 12 years. Plot SummaryMain Plot: Runworth was originally a trainee police officer with LAPD. However, he was fired and had to turn to teaching English abroad because he was an "accidental and peripheral" figure in the Rodney King incident. This book sees him twenty years on, and in need of settling down and getting married. As an ex-pat in China, the laughable scoundrel hopes for a few more un-threatening years of 'living like a lord' amongst the local poor. Professor Runworth has two more secrets. One is that he continues to (fraudulently) claim a disability benefit from the State of California, for an alleged back injury. The second is that although Robert Runworth is a big man physically - he is also a born coward. His bad luck, then, is that he always seems to find himself in confrontations which he'd rather avoid. At one point, the hefty and rotund westerner is faced down by a Chinese peasant with restricted growth syndrome.Sub-plot: The college in which Runworth is teaching is involved in an illegal immigration scam for Chinese students entering the US. Of course, the rascally Professor Runworth would not hold any ethical issues with this. However, the campus mailman accidentally confuses some letters containing Runworth's disability checks from California with a package of forged US passports. Also, the Beijing Police and immigration authorities are suspicious that something is afoot in the college. When they look into Runworth's background, they realize that they can blackmail him with the threat of disclosing his past in America. Runworth has no choice but to help them, as a stoolie.The Plots Intertwine: The criminal gang which operate the illegal visa scheme decide to ice the bungling professor who has accidentally intercepted their mail. Runworth is caught three times by the gang of conmen. However, they underestimate his cowardliness and ability to run fast. The first time, he flees from an intended trap of a bar brawl. The second time, the gang capture Runworth and decide to feed him to a herd of racing pigs. But, to the shock of the slender Chinese, the overweight Westerner outruns both the pigs and his human pursuers. Indeed, one of the humorous themes of the book is how the (usually slim) Chinese see us (often overweight) westerners.Runworth's Women: The bogus Professor of English is an old-fashioned "licentious rake", and proud of the fact. However, because he is also a well-paid academic with US citizenship, the Chinese women he dates always intend to marry him - rather than only to sleep with him. Eventually, Runworth uses the on-going scam of illegal student visas at his college to marry two women: one for money & one for affection.
RHYMING POETRY for TODAY: is Enjoyable if Profound
Jon Lee Junior
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2016
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''Intelligent but unpretentious rhyming poetry for intelligent but unpretentious people'.' Queenly Kitten, Rosette of SnowsWhere few dirty mortals go;Why did God grant pretty graceTo a perfect killer's face?The time is right for - and the reading public craves - a return to rhyming poetry that is both understandable to all but also 'aristocratic' in its artistic standards. When you read this poetry, you will feel as empowered as a prince. The user-friendly edition also comes with poem-by-poem explanatory notes by the author himself, an essay which defines traditional rhyming poetry in today's context, and a glossary of technical terms.In keeping with its understanding of the reader's needs, this collection includes 51 sizeable poems in all - which is nearly double the length of a standard book of poetry. There is also a variety of poetry types: from descriptive poems about birds and animals, to humorous verse and political satires, and to up-lifting contemplative poetry that makes you think. All this is conveyed in cheekily brilliant rhymes and symmetrically neat rhythms.Here, current ideas, and up-to-date language, are placed in traditional poetic verse. At points in the book, you should read what you always wanted to say, and hear it said superbly.Seriousness made fun.
The Kyoto Complex: a thriller about the Japanese Mind
Jon Lee Junior
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2016
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'The most controversial and sensational novel of the last twenty years.' This fictional conspiracy tale is about Japan's undercover operations to abduct young children of Japanese-Western marriages, in order to create a live gene-pool. These children are needed as potential scientists for Japan's future program in atomic weapons - and for the development of her military technology. The 'Kyoto Complex' is slightly similar to 'The Boys from Brazil'; though with the sub-plot that Tokyo is secretly developing a nuclear arsenal. Enigmatic Japan is dissected with a Dan-Brown interest. At the same time, though, the personal side of the story largely revolves around a single character and family. Thus, the events are believable, the plot has structural logic, and the tone is down-to-earth. With regard to its message for today, 'The Kyoto Complex' is prophetic in the way 'The Riddle of the Sands' was in predicting German rearmament, a hundred years ago. It argues that Japan could now be secretly developing nuclear weapons. The issues that are explored in 'The Kyoto Complex' are of great topical importance; and so this good old-fashioned tale has a universal appeal for now. Research was carried out in Kyoto for five years.
The WORKPLACE PRINCE: How to Win as both a Free Individual and a Successful Teamworker
Jon Lee Junior
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2017
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'One of the few books that is actually going to make a difference to your life'.As you read 'The Workplace Prince, you will feel empowered on the question of how to win back your sanity at work.What sets this book apart is that it goes way beyond the twee, 'positive thinking' basics of so many publications of self-improvement. It has a mischievous bite. The arguments are partly influenced by ideas of shrewd statecraft from Machiavelli's classic, 'The Prince'. Therefore, it enjoys both high literary standards and mental rigor. Yet the style of the writing is also accessibly humorous; and its down-to-earth examples from everyday life are straightforward. The book can be enjoyed by anyone.Here, the reader is not baffled by weak grammar and trendy psychobabble. Instead, the well-written pages often use gentle wit to draw out the deeper irony and ethical significance of routine events at work. When an argument is intellectual, it is delivered in a clear, stylish and articulate way - which keeps the book from from sounding too heavy.The topic of how to swim safely in the shark tank of the modern workplace is discussed realistically and with healthy - and very, very funny - cynicism. For Jon Lee Junior, the universe operates through morality: and to some degree every action is either wisely good or willfully bad. Therefore, this is a book for those people who want to be both morally decent and socially accepted on one hand, but also smart and successful on the other.