Washington DC Inspire Us
Washington DC Inspire Us

Author: Adam Gamble

Publisher: Good Night books

Published: 2020-07-28

Total Pages: 99

ISBN-13: 1602199450

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Washington DC's best photos inspire us in this dazzling collection, perfect to display in home or office, to give as a gift, or keep as a treasured souvenir. Teaming with fresh perspectives of the culture, people, food, natural beauty, art, and architecture of our nation's capital, readers will return time and again to lift spirits and to be awed. Every dazzling photograph captures an essential aspect of Washington DC in a manner that is guaranteed to yield new insight. An unparalleled collection of images of our great city, a sampling of topics includes cherry blossoms, the National Mall, Washington Monument, White House, Lincoln Memorial, US Capitol, Tidal Basin, Arlington Notational Cemetery, Alexandria, Georgetown, the Smithsonian, the Potomac River, and the list goes on and on.

Horror Television in the Age of Consumption
Horror Television in the Age of Consumption

Author: Kimberly Jackson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-11-15

Total Pages: 331

ISBN-13: 1351716271

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Characterized as it is by its interest in and engagement with the supernatural, psycho-social formations, the gothic, and issues of identity and subjectivity, horror has long functioned as an allegorical device for interrogations into the seamier side of cultural foundations. This collection, therefore, explores both the cultural landscape of this recent phenomenon and the reasons for these television series’ wide appeal, focusing on televisual aesthetics, technological novelties, the role of adaptation and seriality, questions of gender, identity and subjectivity, and the ways in which the shows’ themes comment on the culture that consumes them. Featuring new work by many of the field’s leading scholars, this collection offers innovative readings and rigorous theoretical analyses of some of our most significant contemporary texts in the genre of Horror Television.

The Inspiration Code
The Inspiration Code

Author: Kristi Hedges

Publisher: AMACOM

Published: 2017-06-01

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 0814437907

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Everyone wants to be the kind of leader who energizes and mobilizes others-yet too few are. Why is it so challenging to crack the code? All it takes is the right conversation…great leaders inspire action with their words. They spark enthusiasm and commitment. With a single conversation, they can change the direction of someone's life. Executive coach Kristi Hedges spent years studying exactly what inspiring leaders do differently. Informed by quantitative research and thousands of responses from leaders at all levels, she reveals that inspiring communication isn't about grand gestures. Instead, those who motivate us most do a few things routinely, consistently, and intentionally. In Inspiration Code, Kristi explains: Present: investing their attention carefully and guiding the flow of conversations Personal: speaking genuinely, listening generously, and bringing out the potential of those around the Passionate: exhibiting sincere emotion and exuding energy attuned to the situation Purposeful: helping others find meaning and see their place in the bigger picture Eye-opening and accessible, The Inspiration Code dispels common myths about how leaders communicate-and guides them in cultivating qualities that authentically excite. Inspired companies need inspirational leaders. Learn to unlock motivation, lift peoples ‘sights, and lead them into the future.

Crisis in the Village
Crisis in the Village

Author: Robert Michael Franklin

Publisher: Fortress Press

Published: 2007-01-17

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 9781451417401

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Robert M. Franklin provides first-person advice and insight as he identifies the crises resident within three anchor institutions that have played key roles in the black struggle for freedom. Black families face a "crisis of commitment" evident in the rising rates of father absence, births to unmarried parents, divorce, and domestic abuse or relationship violence. Black churches face a "mission crisis" as they struggle to serve their upwardly mobile and/or established middle class "paying customers" alongside the poorest of the poor. Historically black colleges and universities face a crisis of "relevance and purpose" as they now compete for the best students and faculty with the broad marketplace of colleges. With clarity and passion, Franklin calls for practical and comprehensive action for change from within the African American community and from all Americans.

Music-Inspired Harmony Search Algorithm
Music-Inspired Harmony Search Algorithm

Author: Zong Woo Geem

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2009-05-12

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 364200184X

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Calculus has been used in solving many scientific and engineering problems. For optimization problems, however, the differential calculus technique sometimes has a drawback when the objective function is step-wise, discontinuous, or multi-modal, or when decision variables are discrete rather than continuous. Thus, researchers have recently turned their interests into metaheuristic algorithms that have been inspired by natural phenomena such as evolution, animal behavior, or metallic annealing. This book especially focuses on a music-inspired metaheuristic algorithm, harmony search. Interestingly, there exists an analogy between music and optimization: each musical instrument corresponds to each decision variable; musical note corresponds to variable value; and harmony corresponds to solution vector. Just like musicians in Jazz improvisation play notes randomly or based on experiences in order to find fantastic harmony, variables in the harmony search algorithm have random values or previously-memorized good values in order to find optimal solution.