Bøger af John Nash

This is a study of sea power and maritime strategy in the Classical Greek world. More than just a study of navies and battles, it examines how the sea was used to influence events ashore and how the use of naval power combined with land power had a defining impact on the period. After an examination of the oft-overlooked practical issues of navigation and administration, the book explores the idea of a 'maritime consciousness' in Greece and how this shaped the way the Greeks engaged in war. Naval operations from the Persian Wars down to the rise of Thebes are examined at the operational and strategic level, including a catalogue of the hundreds of different maritime operations from the 5 th and 4 th centuries BCE. Further, while the great sea power Athens is most prominent, it looks at other city-states to examine how they utilised sea power. This new approach uses modern theory to highlight some enduring lessons of sea power. It demonstrates that Classical scholars should embrace sea power as an important concept in the Greek world. Modern scholars of naval and strategic studies should cast their gaze further back in time when looking for lessons in sea power. This book helps to bridge the scholarship between these two disciplines.

When a minister and his beautiful daughter check into a Motel in the Ozarks, just of Route 66, no one, and in particular the woman running the motel in her husbands absence, suspect the real identity of the couple or the murderous plan they have concocted to seek revenge for events that occurred years before. Following their departure the woman goes missing and suspicion of foul play falls onto her husband who has just returned from a fishing trip in Canada. The ensuing search for the missing woman and the events that led up to her abduction opens a Pandora's box of lies and deception that changes all their lives forever.

John Nash has come down from the mountain top, and he now seems determined to pull the rest of us through the looking glass with him in this wild and whacky romp through the eccentric mind. Mr. Nash has provided us with Sally, a mother image for modern living with her magic chemistry. Delivering her own shocking, unabashed morality, Sally contemptuously destroys every popularly held concept of reality.

This is a story of a gold pocket watch purchased in the late nineteenth century and its tale of travel through time and great distances over the next one hundred and forty years until the present day. The watch passes through many hands before coming into the possession of the author. This is indeed a true time travel story of a timepiece that was fortunate to survive many misadventures for over a century.

When John Nash won the Nobel prize in economics in 1994, many people were surprised to learn that he was alive and well. Since then, Sylvia Nasar's celebrated biography A Beautiful Mind, the basis of a new major motion picture, has revealed the man. The Essential John Nash reveals his work--in his own words. This book presents, for the first time, the full range of Nash's diverse contributions not only to game theory, for which he received the Nobel, but to pure mathematics--from Riemannian geometry and partial differential equations--in which he commands even greater acclaim among academics. Included are nine of Nash's most influential papers, most of them written over the decade beginning in 1949. From 1959 until his astonishing remission three decades later, the man behind the concepts "e;Nash equilibrium"e; and "e;Nash bargaining"e;--concepts that today pervade not only economics but nuclear strategy and contract talks in major league sports--had lived in the shadow of a condition diagnosed as paranoid schizophrenia. In the introduction to this book, Nasar recounts how Nash had, by the age of thirty, gone from being a wunderkind at Princeton and a rising mathematical star at MIT to the depths of mental illness. In his preface, Harold Kuhn offers personal insights on his longtime friend and colleague; and in introductions to several of Nash's papers, he provides scholarly context. In an afterword, Nash describes his current work, and he discusses an error in one of his papers. A photo essay chronicles Nash's career from his student days in Princeton to the present. Also included are Nash's Nobel citation and autobiography. The Essential John Nash makes it plain why one of Nash's colleagues termed his style of intellectual inquiry as "e;like lightning striking."e; All those inspired by Nash's dazzling ideas will welcome this unprecedented opportunity to trace these ideas back to the exceptional mind they came from.

James Joyce and the Act of Reception is a detailed account of Joyce's own engagement with the reception of his work. It shows how Joyce's writing, from the earliest fiction to Finnegans Wake, addresses the social conditions of reading (particularly in Ireland). Most notably, it echoes and transforms the responses of some of Joyce's actual readers, from family and friends to key figures such as Eglinton and Yeats. This study argues that the famous 'unreadable' quality of Joyce's writing is a crucial feature of its historical significance. Not only does Joyce engage with the cultural contexts in which he was read but, by inscribing versions of his own contemporary reception within his writing, he determines that his later readers read through the responses of earlier ones. In its focus on the local and contemporary act of reception, Joyce's work is seen to challenge critical accounts of both modernism and deconstruction.

Comedy / Characters: 3 male, 7 female, 4 extras (women)Scenery: InteriorOrphaned as a child to be raised by his scientist uncle deep in the Canadian woods, Romeo Montague has never set eyes upon a woman in his over twenty-one years. That is all about to change when two Americans - Larry McNeil and Rex Simons - stumble across him in the woods and invite him to visit them in the States. He arrives to find a house full of women, including Larry's two outgoing sisters, Connie and Billie, and

The Soul and Its Destiny explores the soul and its evolutionary journey: what it is, where it came from, and where it is going. It honors traditional religious and philosophical testimony but also draws on modern esoteric teachings. Made in the image of God, the soul is a functional and structural trinity. The soul makes us conscious, builds our external forms, and urges us forward on our journey. Two of its structural layers link us to the lower kingdoms and to overshadowing higher realities, while the middle principle expresses our distinctive humanity and divine potential. The book examines the soul's origins and development up to the present. It explores the soul's future-our future because we are souls-and offers practical advice on how to move more quickly toward our glorious destiny. The soul is alive, striving to grow, waiting to be known and embraced; yearning to reach out. We may become aware of the soul through the arts and religion. But when we respond to its call, our consciousness expands, and we are led to a life of outreach, caring relationships, and service. Like the masters who beckon, we are destined to serve both on this planet and beyond.