Bøker av MIchael Harris

Being alone - really alone - could be the only antidote to the frenzy of our digital age.

What do pure mathematicians do, and why do they do it? Looking beyond the conventional answersfor the sake of truth, beauty, and practical applicationsthis book offers an eclectic panorama of the lives and values and hopes and fears of mathematicians in the twenty-first century, assembling material from a startlingly diverse assortment of scholarly, journalistic, and pop culture sources.Drawing on his personal experiences and obsessions as well as the thoughts and opinions of mathematicians from Archimedes and Omar Khayym to such contemporary giants as Alexander Grothendieck and Robert Langlands, Michael Harris reveals the charisma and romance of mathematics as well as its darker side. In this portrait of mathematics as a community united around a set of common intellectual, ethical, and existential challenges, he touches on a wide variety of questions, such as: Are mathematicians to blame for the 2008 financial crisis? How can we talk about the ideas we were born too soon to understand? And how should you react if you are asked to explain number theory at a dinner party?Disarmingly candid, relentlessly intelligent, and richly entertaining, Mathematics without Apologies takes readers on an unapologetic guided tour of the mathematical life, from the philosophy and sociology of mathematics to its reflections in film and popular music, with detours through the mathematical and mystical traditions of Russia, India, medieval Islam, the Bronx, and beyond.

If our near future sometimes feels like a dystopian sci-fi movie, that¿s because it is. Come With Me If You Want to Live reveals how great science fiction films predicted the world we¿re increasingly living in, but how we can still avoid the worst of what they warned us about. [50]

Discover the Power Within YouForget about what's propelling your life or the 26 expert contributing authors' revealing and inspirational essays in this book. This is about YOU and finding balance in your life. Within these pages, you'll find 80+ easy-to-follow tips that will unlock your true potential and help you live the life you've always wanted. The answers you seek are already within you.Whether your life feels like a raging success or a dumpster fire, you have the power to choose what you want and experience inner peace. Don't worry about unbridled success or leaving a big legacy. Happiness is within reach right now. After all, the biggest myth in life, is that there's some kind of destination. What if it's really about relishing your journey and feeling empowered with every moment you have?Are you ready to take control of your life? Embark on a wild and wonderful voyage of self-discovery by purchasing this book today. You won't regret it!Featuring contributions from 26 expert contributing authors including doctors, therapists, actors, musicians, ballerinas, yoga teachers and more -Dr. Adam Chipiuk, Adrianne "Ajax" Jackson, Amy Kreminski, Angelica Daniele & Zeb Homison, Anurag Choudhury, Dr. Avi Sharma, Balwan Singh, Brad Colwell, BridgettAne Goddard, Bynay Blosberg, Cat Koo, Danelle Denstone, Deborah Small, Donna Rubin, Donna Wikio, Emily & Eddie Garner, Gretchen Olsen, John Salvatore, Judy Louie, Kay Forrester, Leo Eisenstein, Mica Fish, Michele Vennard, Nadine Faitas, Rowena Jayne ND, and Spencer Larson.

“Farley and Claire is a love story, a biography, a Tale of Two Farleys, or perhaps three: the public one, the private one, and the secret one.â€?‿Margaret AtwoodThe tumultuous, enduring love story between iconic writer Farley Mowat and his wife Claire, including excerpts from their passionate letters, published here for the first time. When Farley Mowat met Claire Wheeler in August 1960, the attraction was immediate, and within days they were lovers, despite the fact that Farley was already married. Their affair‿partly aided and abetted by publisher Jack McClelland‿included an extended correspondence until several years later, when Farley finally obtained a Mexican divorce and the two were married in Texas. They were together until Farley‿s death 54 years later. Claire, a brilliant diarist, has given author Michael Harris complete access to her journals and letters, as well as Farley‿s letters, and Harris has conducted extensive interviews with her and original research. The result is a literary love story for the ages, complete with photos of the couple who defied conventions of their time to be together. Published in partnership with the David Suzuki Institute.

Key statistics principles for anyone studying or working in medicine and healthcare who needs a basic overview of the subject. Now in its fourth edition Medical Statistics Made Easy, is the perennial bestseller in its field and is widely used on a variety of courses and programmes worldwide.

Stay Alive reveals the hidden revolution at the heart of The Hunger Games and what it means for our age of defiant youth-led revolt.

I wrote this book as a form of communication with people who experience negativity in life. Whether it be depression, mistreatment in relationships or family, mistreatment just because they are different or just dealing with defeat on a somewhat regular basis. My goal is to let these people know that I understand their pain and that they shall not worry. Remember that the sky can be dark and grey for many days, but the sun will always shine again soon.

In the first book to present Star Wars as a mirror for contemporary politics, Michael Harris reveals Star Wars' new Left roots.

A look at the fascinating history of the narrow gauge, including as passenger carrier, industrial motive power and on preserved tourist lines.

The essays cover girlhood around the world and cover such key areas as schooling, sexuality, popular culture and identity.

This book aims first to prove the local Langlands conjecture for GLn over a p-adic field and, second, to identify the action of the decomposition group at a prime of bad reduction on the l-adic cohomology of the "e;simple"e; Shimura varieties. These two problems go hand in hand. The results represent a major advance in algebraic number theory, finally proving the conjecture first proposed in Langlands's 1969 Washington lecture as a non-abelian generalization of local class field theory. The local Langlands conjecture for GLn(K), where K is a p-adic field, asserts the existence of a correspondence, with certain formal properties, relating n-dimensional representations of the Galois group of K with the representation theory of the locally compact group GLn(K). This book constructs a candidate for such a local Langlands correspondence on the vanishing cycles attached to the bad reduction over the integer ring of K of a certain family of Shimura varieties. And it proves that this is roughly compatible with the global Galois correspondence realized on the cohomology of the same Shimura varieties. The local Langlands conjecture is obtained as a corollary. Certain techniques developed in this book should extend to more general Shimura varieties, providing new instances of the local Langlands conjecture. Moreover, the geometry of the special fibers is strictly analogous to that of Shimura curves and can be expected to have applications to a variety of questions in number theory.

"Falling Down Getting Up" is about an incredible journey in life. It begins with a personal and revealing story of the author, Michael Harris, and his falling down in life. There were a few big falls like losing more than half of his liver in an accident at 12 years old, becoming an alcoholic by 16, and nearly losing his legs from vascular disease at 27. Once Michael gets you through the gory details of the mess he found himself in, he'll tell you what he did to get back up out of that mess. Perhaps as you read "Falling Down Getting Up," you will chuckle a little (or a lot) and be entertained as Michael shares his journey of falling down and getting back up. If you find yourself falling down in life, hopefully the suggestions in "Falling Down Getting Up" just might help you get back up too.

This second annual review of international newspaper and periodical history is a further continuation of the Journal of Newspaper and Periodical History. This annual also describes important sources, gives a succinct annual review of newspaper history, and reviews noteworthy new books in newspaper and periodical history.

Institutional diversity serves as one of the fundamental hallmarks of American higher education. After a long history of support for many institutional types, the past 40 years have seen a decline in institutional variety.

Not all students are the same. Choose the learning pathway that best suits your class. Choices gives teachers the flexibility to adjust the course to their teenage students' individual needs

Not all students are the same. Choose the learning pathway that best suits your class. Choices gives teachers the flexibility to adjust the course to their teenage students' individual needs