Author: Iain M. BanksPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1982156104
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Originally published: London: Orbit, 1998.
Inversions
Author: Scott KimPublisher:
ISBN: 9781559532808
Category : Calligraphy
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Word Designs Demonstrate Symmetry Introduce your students to the basic concepts of symmetry with more than 60 mind-boggling lettering designs by Scott Kim, whom Isaac Asimov called "the Escher of the alphabet." Each word in Inversions exhibits striking geometrical symmetry. For instance, the word mirror is written with reflectional symmetry; symmetry reads the same upside down; and infinity spirals off to infinity. The accompanying essays connect mathematics and symmetry with art, psychology, and music. One of the sections shows students how to create their own inversions.
The Complete Guide to Yoga Inversions
Author: Jennifer DeCurtinsPublisher: Fair Winds Press
ISBN: 1627887598
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Turn your yoga routine on its head! Designed to take you from a beginner to an advanced yoga student, this helpful guide will help you to progress from downward dog to even the more intricate of handstand poses. Improve focus and ability as you tone your upper body and core. The Complete Guide to Yoga Inversions is the ultimate collection of the most common arm balance poses and yoga inversions that are found in a variety of styles of yoga including ashtanga, bikram, power, hatha and more. Challenge yourself with XX arm balances and yoga poses with detailed step-by-step instructions from fitness and yoga instructor Jennifer DeCurtins. Each pose includes a helpful photo along with modifications and progressions. Learn to do pivotal, foundational poses such headstand, handstand and crow. The Complete Guide to Yoga Inversions is the perfect guide to improve your ability.
Inversions
Author: I. IA BakelmanPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226034992
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
In this book, I. Ya. Bakel'man introduces inversion transformations in the Euclidean plane and discusses the interrelationships among more general mathematical concepts. The author begins by defining and giving examples of the concept of a transformation in the Euclidean plane, and then explains the "point of infinity" and the "stereographic projection" of the sphere onto the plane. With this preparation, the student is capable of applying the theory of inversions to classical construction problems in the plane. The author also discusses the theory of pencils of circles, and he uses the acquired techniques in a proof of Ptolemy's theorem. In the final chapter, the idea of a group is introduced with applications of group theory to geometry. The author demonstrates the group-theoretic basis for the distinction between Euclidean and Lobachevskian geometry.
Inversion in Modern English
Author: Heidrun DorgelohPublisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027275823
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
The book offers a comprehensive study of the different forms of subject-verb and subject-auxiliary-inversion in Modern English declarative sentences. It treats inversion as a speaker-based decision for reordering within a fairly rigid word order system and identifies the meaning of the construction in terms of point of view and speaker subjectivity. This semantic claim is tested against the occurrence, as well as the absence, of the different forms of inversion in natural discourse. The analysis of the pragmatics and discourse function of inversion is based on the LOB and the Brown corpus and takes into account various textual relations: British and American English, written mode, style, text type, genre. The results suggest a strong affinity with the greater or lesser subjectivity of a text: the construction is a marker of interpersonal meaning. Provided the context is one of relative unexpectedness, it additionally becomes a discourse marker, which points to the limited value of quantitative corpus data in functional syntax.
Anatomy for Arm Balances and Inversions
Author: Ray LongPublisher: Bandha Yoga Publications LLC
ISBN: 160743945X
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Master the science behind the arm balances and inversions of Hatha Yoga through a series of step-by-step practical instructions illustrated with over twelve hundred full-color anatomical images.
Primary Inversion
Author: Catherine AsaroPublisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504079566
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
The first book in the Skolian Empire saga by the Nebula Award–winning author. “Fast, smart, speculative . . . another stellar debut.” —Los Angeles Daily News Soz Valdoria, a bioengineered fighter pilot—and first in line for the military command of her people—has found refuge with her squad on the sanctuary planet of Delos. It offers a respite from the war that rages between her Skolian people and their enemies, the Traders. Looking for rest and relaxation, they must still be on their guard for the Trader soldiers who also visit the sanctuary. In a bar, they confront the worst of the worst: an Aristo from the Trader ruling caste, seemingly on the prowl for a “provider” he can use for his barbaric impulses. His presence takes Soz back to her days as a prisoner of war, when she became the plaything of a sadistic and soulless Aristo. And yet something is off about this Aristo. Unable to ignore her instincts, Soz searches the city until she finds him in a secured mansion. Breaching its fortifications and eluding its guards, she discovers a devastating truth: this man is no true Aristo. He is a genetic anomaly like Soz, one of the few people who can handle the massive neurological demands of the psibernet, the technological marvel that gives the Skolians their only advantage over the Traders. This false Aristo, this sheep in a wolf’s clothing, is heir to the Trader throne. The emperor created him for one reason—to take control of the Skolian network and conquer Soz’s people. But Soz has never felt such a connection as she does to this Trader heir. It may prove her—and the universe’s—undoing . . . “This is one of the best SF first novels in years.” —Booklist
The Inversion Factor
Author: Linda BernardiPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262037270
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Introduction: things aren't what they used to be -- From products to needs to experiences -- Inversion -- An inversion vocabulary -- The internet of things : how things became connected -- The intelligence of things : how things became smart -- The immersion of things : how things are becoming experiences -- Inversion in practice : reinventing your market and your business -- Conversations with inversion players -- A culture of inversion
Introduction to Seismic Inversion Methods
Author: Brian H. RussellPublisher: SEG Books
ISBN: 0931830656
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
An overview of the current techniques used in the inversion of seismic data is provided. Inversion is defined as mapping the physical structure and properties of the subsurface of the earth using measurements made on the surface, creating a model of the earth using seismic data as input.
The Culture Series of Iain M. Banks
Author: Simone CarotiPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476620407
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
This critical history of Iain M. Banks' Culture novels covers the series from its inception in the 1970s to the The Hydrogen Sonata (2012), published less than a year before Banks' death. It considers Banks' origins as a writer, the development of his politics and ethics, his struggles to become a published author, his eventual success with The Wasp Factory (1984) and the publication of the first Culture novel, Consider Phlebas (1987). His 1994 essay "A Few Notes on the Culture" is included, along with a range of critical responses to the 10 Culture books he published in his lifetime and a discussion of the series' status as utopian literature. Banks was a complex man, both in his everyday life and on the page. This work aims at understanding the Culture series not only as a fundamental contribution to science fiction but also as a product of its creator's responses to the turbulent times he lived in.
