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Focusing on innovative modeling techniques, this music theory reference introduces graph theoretical models for analyzing musical transformations. It serves both theorists and composers by classifying and enumerating these models, facilitating precompositional relationships. The book aims to bridge music theory and graph theory, providing practical applications for students and scholars alike. By presenting a novel notation method for transformational relationships, it enhances the understanding and expression of musical concepts without being tied to specific systems.

Exploring the global influence of haiku, this book delves into its evolution within twentieth-century avant-garde poetry. It examines the Buddhist roots of haiku poetics and conducts in-depth analyses of contemporary poems that reference traditional Japanese elements and the broader haiku tradition. Through a multicultural and multilingual lens, it highlights the form's widespread practice and significance in modern poetry, offering critical insights into its thematic and imagistic connections across cultures.

Exploring John Donne as a distinctive religious thinker, this book delves into his personal theology through an analysis of his surviving sermons. It highlights his unique perspectives and insights, showcasing how his beliefs are intricately woven into his sermons, revealing the depth of his spiritual reflections and contributions to religious thought.

Exploring the theme of death, this study delves into the perspectives of contemporary poets, offering insights through the author's commentary. It emphasizes a Christian appreciation of death, framed within a rich context of tradition and the various circumstances that shape poetic expression. The analysis highlights how these poets navigate the complexities of mortality, providing a thoughtful reflection on the significance of death in their works.

Consider the moments in this collection - a mother is buried, a son is born, Alaska melts - each event a signpost. Reflect on the signs of rest and restlessness, simplicity and complexity, life given and taken and throbbing. This is the way of faith. We watch for truth's brilliant appearance, and in the midst of our heartbreak-while-waiting, we pray. Jeffrey Johnson's poems listen to the angels, they sing the doxologies, they pay loving attention to life. They are prayers. They will help you feel the power of life. They will teach you to pray.

The book critiques the arguments of agnostics and atheists, labeling their belief systems as fundamentally flawed. Through a systematic examination, the author dismantles the credibility of unbelief and presents a compelling case for the supremacy of biblical faith over other philosophical and religious viewpoints. Each chapter aims to clarify and reinforce the biblical perspective, making it a valuable resource for readers seeking to understand or defend their beliefs against contemporary skepticism.

Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Series Introduction -- Acknowledgments -- Timeline -- Introduction -- 1 "Perpetuated Hatred and Suspicion": Labor and Capital at Odds -- 2 "The Wrath of Man": Anarchism Comes to the United States -- 3 "Assassins, Murderers, Conspirators": The March of Progressive Era Radicalism and Violence -- 4 "The Road to Universal Slaughter" and "This Dastardly Act": The Preparedness Debate and Bombing -- 5 "The Fanatic Demon": The Manhunt -- 6 "The Act of One Is the Act of All": The Trials -- 7 "Fighting Anarchists of America": The Attacks of 1919 and 1920, and the Mooney Defense Onward -- Epilogue -- Documents -- Bibliography -- Index

The overall aim of this book, an outcome of the European FP7 FET Open NESS project, is to contribute to the ongoing effort to put the quantitative social sciences on a proper footing for the 21st century. A key focus is economics, and its implications on policy making, where the still dominant traditional approach increasingly struggles to capture the economic realities we observe in the world today - with vested interests getting too often in the way of real advances. Insights into behavioral economics and modern computing techniques have made possible both the integration of larger information sets and the exploration of disequilibrium behavior. The domain-based chapters of this work illustrate how economic theory is the only branch of social sciences which still holds to its old paradigm of an equilibrium science - an assumption that has already been relaxed in all related fields of research in the light of recent advances in complex and dynamical systems theory and relateddata mining. The other chapters give various takes on policy and decision making in this context. Written in nontechnical style throughout, with a mix of tutorial and essay-like contributions, this book will benefit all researchers, scientists, professionals and practitioners interested in learning about the 'thinking in complexity' to understand how socio-economic systems really work.

This book focuses on creative development and empowerment in Marcel Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu. It demonstrates Proust's proof of the Romantic notion that art originates in the self of the artist. Approached as a Bildungsroman, the psychological aspects of this development in Marcel, the principal character, are considered in terms of the stimulus/response mechanism in living organisms. It verifies Proust's argument that time in the body, including all that one experiences unconsciously, is present within us whether it is accessible to memory or not. Through involuntary memories and inspiration at the end of the novel, Marcel finds the means to write the book he has long wished to write. Inspiration provides a link between Marcel, the novel's protagonist, and Proust, its author. This volume balances its analysis of Marcel's creative development and empowerment through inspiration with Proust's experiences in May 1909, when he realized that the concept of the fourth dimension would serve as the unifying thread for his novel. Modernity is viewed as a crucial influence in the transformation of society that Proust's novel chronicles. This study posits an allegorical reading of the novel in the relationship of the birth of the modern citizen to the making of an artist in an era of doubt.