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The Tao of Wing Chun : the history and principles of China's most explosive martial art / by Xuan, Danny,author.(CARDINAL)815646; Little John(Author of The history of Little Dick),author.(CARDINAL)813615;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Wing Chun is the most popular form of Chinese Kung Fu in the world today, with over 4 million practitioners. The art as it is presently understood has been handed down from teacher to student for more than 300 years. It was also designed with economy, efficiency, and productivity in mind. Unlike other martial arts, Wing Chun doesn't focus on making a person larger, more rugged, acrobatic or animal-like; rather, it focuses on one's making optimal use of their own bodily structure and power potential by applying the sciences of biomechanics and physics. Thus, it is possible for males and females of all ages and sizes to excel in this art. Foremost, this book offers the reader the means by which to apply Wing Chun principles in daily life. Featuring photographs from locales as exotic as China's revered Shaolin Temple in addition to precise step-by-step photos of the Siu Nim Tao form and key exercises and self-defense techniques from the art.
Subjects: Hand-to-hand fighting, Oriental.; Kung fu.; Martial arts;
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Story physics : harnessing the underlying forces of storytelling / by Brooks, Larry,1952-(CARDINAL)461225;
Introduces six important literary techniques that can be used to craft a successful story.
Subjects: Authorship.; Storytelling.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Beetle : the life of General Walter Bedell Smith / by Crosswell, D. K. R.(Daniel K. R.)(CARDINAL)359459;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 1045-1052) and index.Epilogue as prologue : soldier, diplomat, spymaster. Soldier turned diplomat ; Expecting the worse ; Dulles's number two ; The Geneva Conference ; "Ike's prat boy" -- Officership in the army of the "long generation," 1917-1939. Born to be a soldier ; The summons to war ; "They don't make 'em any better than Smith" ; "Expunge the bunk, complications, and ponderosities" ; The other class stars fell on ; "No one ever graduates" -- The towering figure : George C. Marshall. The chief's apprentice ; Forging the mold ; "Exceptionally qualified for service as Chief of Staff" -- The Mediterranean campaign. "Smith will save Ike" ; "We are on the threshold of a magnificent success" ; "Thank God you are in London" ; "We shall continue to flounder" ; "Allies are very difficult people to fight with" ; The many travails of an Allied Chief of Staff ; The road to Messina ; The Italian job ; "A feeling of restrained optimism" ; "We conduct our wars in a most curious way" -- France 1944. The Supreme Command ; "Enough to drive you mad" ; "It's go" ; Normandy deadlock ; What has the Supreme Command amounted to? ; End the War in '44 ; "The logistical bottleneck now dictates strategy" ; Après le déluge -- The victory campaign. One desperate blow ; Déjà vu all over again ; The German is a whipped enemy ; Mission fulfilled -- Appendixes. Marshall's reorganized War Department General Staff ; AFHQ command and staff structure ; SHAEF command and staff structure.The first full biography of Smith, a fascinating American soldier and diplomat who began his career in 1911 as a private in the Indiana National Guard, and retired as a four-star general.
Subjects: Biographies.; Smith, Walter Bedell, 1895-1961.; United States. Army; Generals; Statesmen;
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Development of performance and deterioration curves as a rational basis for a maintenance management system for structures / by McGhee, Kevin K.(CARDINAL)310373; Allen, Gary R.(CARDINAL)314528; McKeel, Wallace T.(CARDINAL)314477; Virginia Transportation Research Council.(CARDINAL)195142;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 29-30).Final report.The Virginia Department of Transportation is deeply committed to the development and implementation of an efficient, cost-effective maintenance management system for its bridges. Much effort is being applied towards the development of a management system that will ensure that appropriate maintenance takes place at the optimum times. Within such systems, the ability to anticipate with reasonable accuracy how rapidly and in what fashion bridges will deteriorate is essential in optimizing expenditures of limited maintenance funds. The research described in this report was undertaken to provide this predictive capability. Specifically, the objective was to use existing bridge inspection data in conjunction with multiple regression analyses to develop models relating the rate of deterioration of structural components with variables such as age, loadings, and environmental factors and to evaluate the relative importance of these variables. In addition, these efforts include a discussion of current bridge management activities and recommendations on needed modifications to the VDOT record-keeping system.Sponsored by Virginia Department of Transportation, under contract no.
Subjects: Technical reports.; Bridges; Bridges;
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Fixed income mathematics : analytical and statistical techniques / by Fabozzi, Frank J.(CARDINAL)506941;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Overview of fixed income securities and derivatives -- Future value -- Present value -- Yield (internal rate of return) -- The price of a bond -- Conventional yield and spread measures for bonds -- The yield curve, spot rate curve, and forward rates -- Potential sources of dollar return -- Total return -- Measuring historical performance -- Price volatility of properties of option-free bonds -- Duration as a measure of price volatility -- Combining duration and convexity to measure price volatility -- Duration and the yield curve -- Interest rate models -- Call options : investment and price characteristics -- Valuation and price volatility of bonds with embedded options -- Credit risk concepts and measures for corporate bonds -- Measures used for securitized products -- Cash flow characteristics of amortizing loans -- Cash flow characteristics of mortgage-backed securities -- Prepayment models for mortgage-backed securities -- Basics of MBS structuring -- Analysis of agency mortgage-backed securities -- Basics of probability theory and statistics -- Regresssion analysis -- Statistical techniques for credit scoring and risk factor identification -- Tracking error and multifactor risk models -- Simulation -- Optimization models.Overview of fixed income securities and derivatives (new) -- Future value -- Present value -- Yield (internal rate of return) -- The price of a bond -- Conventional yield and spread measures for bonds -- The yield curve, spot rate curve, and forward rates -- Potential sources of dollar return -- Total return -- Measuring historical performance -- Price volatility of option-free bonds -- Duration as a measure of price volatility -- Combining duration and convexity to measure price volatility -- Duration and the yield curve -- Interest rate modeling (new) -- Investment and price characteristics of options -- Valuation and price volatility of bonds with embedded options -- Credit risk concepts and measures for corporate bonds (new) -- Measures used for securitized products -- Cash flow characteristics of amortizing loans -- Cash flow characteristics of mortgage-backed securities -- Prepayment modeling (new) -- Basics of MBS structuring (new) -- Analysis of agency mortgage-backed securities -- Basics of probability theory and statistics -- Regresssion analysis -- Statistical techniques for credit scoring and risk factor identification (new) -- Tracking error and multi-factor risk models (new) -- Monte Carlo simulation -- Optimization.
Subjects: Biographies.; Fixed-income securities; Rate of return.;
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Noise [large print] : a flaw in human judgment / by Kahneman, Daniel,1934-2024,author.(CARDINAL)519674; Sibony, Olivier,author.; Sunstein, Cass R.,author.(CARDINAL)201957;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 607-655).Introduction: Two kinds of error -- Part I: Finding noise. Crime and noisy punishment -- A noisy system -- Singular decisions -- Part II: Your mind is a measuring instrument. Matters of judgment -- Measuring error -- The analysis of noise -- Occasion noise -- How groups amplify noise -- Part III: Noise in predictive judgments. Judgments and models -- Noiseless rules -- Objective ignorance -- The valley of the normal -- Part IV: How noise happens. Heuristics, biases, and noise -- The matching operation -- Scales -- Patterns -- The sources of noise -- Part V: Improving judgments. Better judges for better judgments -- Debiasing and decision hygiene -- Sequencing information in forensic science -- Selection and aggregation in forecasting -- Guidelines in medicine -- Defining the scale in performance ratings -- Structure in hiring -- The mediating assessments protocol -- Part VI: Optimal noise. The costs of noise reduction -- Dignity -- Rules or standards? -- Review and conclusion: Taking noise seriously -- Epilogue: A less noisy world -- Appendix A: How to conduct a noise audit -- Appendix B: A checklist for a decision observer -- Appendix C: Correcting predictions.Discusses why people make bad judgements and how to make better ones by reducing the influence of "noise"--variables that can cause bias in decision making--and draws on examples in many fields, including medicine, law, economic forecasting, forensic science, strategy, and personnel selection.
Subjects: Self-help publications.; Large print books.; Decision making.; Reasoning (Psychology); Judgment.; Cognitive styles.;
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Having it all : what data tells us about women's lives and getting the most out of yours / by Low, Corinne,author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-248) and index.A Wharton economist's radical framework for empowering women to design a life that goes beyond the work-life binary to create true joy, balance, and fulfillment. To be a woman in America today is to be chronically tired. We face unsustainable demands on our time and efforts in every sphere. Traditional advice urges us work harder, optimize better, and, when all else fails, "self-care." The implicit message is that it is our fault that we are overwhelmed, that we must be doing something wrong. This, says economist and professor Corrine Low, couldn't be further from reality. At Wharton, she studies the decisions that shape women's lives and the economic and societal constraints they face when making them. And what her research has demonstrated, time and again, is that unseen economic forces have created an environment that is openly hostile to the needs of women. Indeed, her research highlights just how many additional factors women must consider as they navigate a future. Because of a few biological realities, and a lot of imbalanced cultural and institutional norms, women face a unique level of complexity and potential repercussions when making decisions such as whether or not to obtain an advanced degree, what type of career to pursue, when or whether to get married and/or have kids, or even where they should live. Now, in Having It All, Low poses a radical new framework for navigating these decisions. For too long, Low says, women have been expected to accept labor-intensive, unsustainable deals in all areas of work and life. This book asks the question: What would it look like if we stopped assuming the problems in women's lives are caused by women's choices, and started looking instead at the structural, economic, and biological factors that are forcing and constraining those choices in the first place? And what if, in doing so, we could learn to negotiate new deals that don't leave us feeling so depleted? In the same way that behavioral psychologists like Daniel Kahneman and Dan Ariely have sought to understand the hidden factors and biases that cause people make mistakes at the bank or the grocery store, economist Corinne Low investigates how the most significant decisions in women's lives are shaped by overlooked internal and external factors. The result is a book that offers readers a guide to getting the best deal for their lives and careers in a world full of constraints. It is also a call to action for firms, policymakers, and anyone else with an iota of power to get to work on the tough job of changing these constraints instead of the easier one we seem to default to: criticizing women. This book is not about optimizing. Women are already optimized. Consider it the essential economic textbook for life as a woman-but hopefully, a little more fun.
Subjects: Women; Work-life balance; Women; Quality of life; Self-actualization (Psychology) in women.;
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Python QuickStart guide : the simplified beginner's guide to Python programming using hands-on projects and real-world applications / by Oliver, Robert,1980-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Learning Python opens the door to a world of programming possibilities. From AI and machine learning to full stack, app, and web development, Python i sa critical behind-the-scenes component of everyday technology. In Python QuickStart Guide, senior developer and programmer Robert Oliver lays out the quickest and most accessible path yet to the mastery of Python fundamentals. Readers will learn: how to use Python; how to use Python for web design and interfacing with GitHub, SQL, and other applications; object-oriented programming principles; debugging, producing clean code, and best practices; testing, optimization, speed improvements, and integrations with other applications. --Adapted from back cover.
Subjects: Handbooks and manuals.; Python (Computer program language); Computer programming.;
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Principles of programming & coding / by Franceschetti, Donald R.,1947-editor.(CARDINAL)651222;
Includes bibliographical references and index3D printing -- Algorithms -- American Standard Code for Information -- Interchange (ASCII) -- Android OS -- Application -- Autonomic computing -- Avatars and simulation -- Binary hexadecimal representations -- Boolean operators -- Branching logic -- Characters and strings -- Cloud computing -- Coding and encryption -- Color coding -- Combinatorics -- Comment programming -- Comparison operators -- Computer animation -- Computer memory -- Computer modeling -- Computer security -- Computer-aided design (CAD) -- Computer-aided design and computer-aided manufacturing software (CAD/CAM) -- Computer-assisted instruction (CAI) -- Conditional operators -- Constraint programming -- Control systems -- Cowboy coding -- CPU design -- Crowdfunding -- Crowdsourcing -- Cryptography -- Data mining -- Data warehouse -- Database design -- Database structuring conventions -- Debugging -- Device drivers -- Diffusion of innovations -- Digital divide -- Digital forensics -- Digital libraries -- Digital native -- Digital photography -- Digital signal processors (DSP) -- Digital watermarking -- Disk operating system (DOS) -- Drone warfare -- Drones -- E-banking -- E-learning -- Electronic circuits -- Electronic communication software -- Encryption -- Error handling -- Event-driven marketing (EDM) -- Expectancy theory -- Experimenter's bias -- Extreme programming -- Firewalls -- Firmware -- Functional electrical stimulation (FES) -- Game programming -- Gamification -- Graphical user interface (GUI) -- Graphics formats -- Guard clause -- HTTP cookie -- Imagined communities -- Incremental development -- Informational technology (IT) -- Information visualization -- Internet Protocol (IP) -- Inversion of control (Hollywood Principle) -- iOS -- Iterative constructs -- Java programming language -- JavaScript -- Knowledge worker -- Levels of processing theory -- Logic synthesis -- Logistics -- Machine learning -- Malware -- Massive open online course (MOOC) -- Meta-analysis -- Metacomputing -- Metadata -- Microprocessors -- Mixed methods research (MMR) -- Mobile apps -- Mobile technology -- Motherboards -- Multiprocessing operating systems (OS) -- Multi-user operating system (OS) -- Naming conventions -- Net neutrality -- Network security -- Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) -- Neuromarketing -- Neuromorphic chips -- Objectivity -- Object-oriented design (OOD) -- Object-oriented programming (OOP) -- Privacy rights -- Programming languages -- Prototyping -- Quantum computing -- Random access memory (RAM) -- Rapid application development (RAD) -- Rational choice theory -- Search engine optimization (SEO) -- Semantic memory -- Semantics -- Signal processing -- Source code comments -- Spiral development -- Standard deviation -- Standpoint theory -- Statistical inference -- String-oriented symbolic languages (SNOBOL) -- Structural equation modeling (SEM) -- Technology in education -- Test doubles -- Theory of multiple intelligences -- Theory X and Theory Y -- Transformation priority premise (TPP) -- Tree structures -- Turing test -- Uncertainty reduction theory (URT) -- Unicode -- UNIX -- Variables and values -- Waterfall development -- Web design -- Web graphic design -- Working memory -- Worse-is-better -- Time Line of Inventions and Advancements in Programming and CodingThis new volume makes sense of the jumble of techno-jargon and programming acronyms for high school and undergraduate students. More than 125 entries explain the fundamental concepts, popular languages, systems, and protocols that go into computer programming.
Subjects: Computer programming.; Coding theory.;
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Pathologies of power : health, human rights, and the new war on the poor : with a new preface by the author / by Farmer, Paul,1959-2022.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-378) and index.On suffering and structural violence : social and economic rights in the global era -- Pestilence and restraint : Guantánamo, AIDS, and the logic of quarantine -- Lessons from Chiapas -- A plague in all our houses? : resurgent tuberculosis inside Russia's prisons -- Health, healing and social justice : insights from liberation theology -- Listening for prophetic voices : a critique of market-based medicine -- Cruel and unusual : drug-resistant tuberculosis as punishment -- New malaise : medical ethics and social rights in the global era -- Rethinking health and human rights : time for a paradigm shift.Pathologies of Power uses harrowing stories of life--and death--in extreme situations to interrogate our understanding of human rights. Paul Farmer, a physician and anthropologist with twenty years of experience working in Haiti, Peru, and Russia, argues that promoting the social and economic rights of the world's poor is the most important human rights struggle of our times. With passionate eyewitness accounts from the prisons of Russia and the beleaguered villages of Haiti and Chiapas, this book links the lived experiences of individual victims to a broader analysis of structural violence. Farmer challenges conventional thinking within human rights circles and exposes the relationships between political and economic injustice, on one hand, and the suffering and illness of the powerless, on the other. Farmer shows that the same social forces that give rise to epidemic diseases such as HIV and tuberculosis also sculpt risk for human rights violations. He illustrates the ways that racism and gender inequality in the United States are embodied as disease and death. Yet this book is far from a hopeless inventory of abuse. Farmer's disturbing examples are linked to a guarded optimism that new medical and social technologies will develop in tandem with a more informed sense of social justice. Otherwise, he concludes, we will be guilty of managing social inequality rather than addressing structural violence. Farmer's urgent plea to think about human rights in the context of global public health and to consider critical issues of quality and access for the world's poor should be of fundamental concern to a world characterized by the bizarre proximity of surfeit and suffering.1360L
Subjects: Social stratification.; Equality.; Poor; Discrimination in medical care.; Right to health.; Human rights.; Human rights.;
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