Bøger af Kurt Jensen

A proud Armenian who claimed a distant link to nobility, born in what was then part of czarist Russia, Rouben Mamoulian (1897-1987) was one of the most astonishing and confounding figures in American film and theater, directing the original stage productions of Porgy and Bess, Carousel, and Oklahoma!, as well as films including Love Me Tonight, Queen Christina, City Streets, and Silk Stockings. He was famously fired from the film version of Porgy and Bess in a dispute over publicity and quit Cleopatra after arguments over a single scene. Mamoulian's mercurial confidence and autocratic tendencies were among the reasons he had a reputation for being uncompromising. This frustrating mix of genius and stubbornness, of critical successes and financial flops, has proven challenging for biographers.Kurt Jensen's magisterial volume, extensively researched and filled with trenchant observations, brings to life this charming, flawed, and fascinating man-and demonstrates how the wellspring of his art contained the seeds of his own destruction. Drawing upon Mamoulian's unfinished memoir and voluminous diaries, as well as interviews with the director's surviving collaborators, Jensen delivers fresh and informative insider stories from seminal productions. Meanwhile, he explores Mamoulian's aesthetic principles and strategies as manifested in lighting, choreography, and sound design. A tour de force, Peerless offers readers a multifaceted, in-depth look at an idiosyncratic genius.

A serial killer is often chronically aggressive and they seem to have an over-controlled hostility towards others. Often they have been hurt and are resentful and traumatized. They become obsessive, paranoid and then insane. At this point they have lost control and can no longer control their needs. It is disturbing to note that serial killers are actually very rational and calculating. When it comes to serial killers many were physically or emotionally abused by parents, as children, fledgling serial killers often set fires, torture animals, and wet their beds. Surprisingly many have either attempted to become police, but were rejected, worked as security guards, or served in the military. In this book we will look at many aspects of the serial killer; for instance what qualifies as a serial killer? How do they choose their victims? Who are some of the most famous serial killers? And, we will look more closely at the unsolved murders by serial killers.

Whether you are a believer or not into the phenomena of alien abductions, the stories are a fascinating read. This book takes you back with a little bit of ancient history of science and astronomy and through the years of man's curiosity about the stars and heavenly bodies, advancing into the invention of the telescope. Then there are the stories of Alien Abductions, the first of which began in Brazil October 1957. With many books and films recounting these events, you may recognize some of the more popular stories, but we never seem to get tired of unusual, bizarre and unanswered questions about these events. Inside you will find of bit of ancient history up to the present time covering many of the bizarre stories of Alien Abductions ...

Why Makes a Spree Killer Create Terror Among Innocent Victims? There is no specific classification for some of the vilest acts in society that are above murder in the first degree. The person committing these crimes is known as a spree killer. They pick off their victims at random most of the time, but they do so in large numbers all at once or over a very short time period. This book contains 10 names and stories of people that have committed such a horrendous crime. You might remember the tragedy that they perpetrated but not be familiar with their personal story.

The volume presents the most important ideas and experiences from the projects, in a way which is useful also for readers who do not yet have personal experience with the construction and analysis of large CPN models. The presentation of the projects is based upon material provided by the per sons who have accomplished the individual projects.

Coloured Petri Nets (CPN) is a graphical language for modelling and validating concurrent and distributed systems, and other systems in which concurrency plays a major role.

They allow the modeller to investigate dynamic properties of CP-nets. The main ideas behind the analysis methods are described as well as the mathematics on which they are based and also how the methods are supported by computer tools.

This book presents a coherent description of the theoretical and practical aspects of Coloured Petri Nets (CP-nets or CPN).