Author : Eric Skillman
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 12,56 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Commercial art
ISBN : 9781604659368
This book features a selection of DVD and Blu-ray disc covers, supplemental art, and never-before-seen sketches and concept art commissioned for Criterion releases, plus a gallery of every Criterion DVD and Blu-ray disc cover since the collection's first laserdisc thirty years ago.
Author : Robert P. Amico
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 46,27 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780847680344
Selected by CHOICE as an Outstanding Academic Book for 1995,
Author : Hilton Kramer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 13,88 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Arts
ISBN : 0029176417
Gathers essays about modernism, Marxist criticism art patronage, Wallace Stevens, Picasso, Aaron Copland, Michel Foucault, Barbara Pym, Richard Serra, and Cindy Sherman.
Author : Leonard C. MacLean
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 883 pages
File Size : 48,79 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9814293490
This volume provides the definitive treatment of fortune's formula or the Kelly capital growth criterion as it is often called. The strategy is to maximize long run wealth of the investor by maximizing the period by period expected utility of wealth with a logarithmic utility function. Mathematical theorems show that only the log utility function maximizes asymptotic long run wealth and minimizes the expected time to arbitrary large goals. In general, the strategy is risky in the short term but as the number of bets increase, the Kelly bettor's wealth tends to be much larger than those with essentially different strategies. So most of the time, the Kelly bettor will have much more wealth than these other bettors but the Kelly strategy can lead to considerable losses a small percent of the time. There are ways to reduce this risk at the cost of lower expected final wealth using fractional Kelly strategies that blend the Kelly suggested wager with cash. The various classic reprinted papers and the new ones written specifically for this volume cover various aspects of the theory and practice of dynamic investing. Good and bad properties are discussed, as are fixed-mix and volatility induced growth strategies. The relationships with utility theory and the use of these ideas by great investors are featured.
Author : Thomas Stearns Eliot
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,96 MB
Release : 1966
Category : Criterion (London, England : 1922)
ISBN :
Author : Peter Pettus
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,10 MB
Release : 2015-07
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 9780692328576
These photographs were taken during the 1965 Civil Rights March from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. Never before published, this is the work of an artist photographer who wanted to tell the story directly and simply, not as a photojournalist, but as a participant in this national and political demonstration. The camera looks deep into the faces of those who were there -- black, white, old, young, Northern, and Southern -- at the time when America approached one of its greatest times of crisis. The pictures unfold here as a narrative. As the March moves along, we see participants and bystanders depicted in dramatic shades of black and white. Passing through the towns, people gather to wave, not quite believing what they are seeing. The expressions on these faces reflect a vast range of emotions: hope, fear, doubt, and joy. We see, as the March approaches Montgomery, the hundreds who have spontaneously joined up. The final photographs of the huge crowd streaming into the Capitol express the power of those words: "I Have a Dream."
Author : Cristina A. Bejan
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 15,17 MB
Release : 2019-08-23
Category : History
ISBN : 3030201651
In 1930s Bucharest, some of the country’s most brilliant young intellectuals converged to form the Criterion Association. Bound by friendship and the dream of a new, modern Romania, their members included historian Mircea Eliade, critic Petru Comarnescu, Jewish playwright Mihail Sebastian and a host of other philosophers and artists. Together, they built a vibrant cultural scene that flourished for a few short years, before fascism and scandal splintered their ranks. Cristina A. Bejan asks how the far-right Iron Guard came to eclipse the appeal of liberalism for so many of Romania’s intellectual elite, drawing on diaries, memoirs and other writings to examine the collision of culture and extremism in the interwar years. The first English-language study of Criterion and the most thorough to date in any language, this book grapples with the complexities of Romanian intellectual life in the moments before collapse.
Author : William James Abraham
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 43,2 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199250035
This is a study of canon in the Christian tradition. Standard accounts locate the canonical heritage of the church within epistemology. The author explores the consquences of this move, from the Fathers to modern feminist theology.
Author : Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad
Publisher : Islam International
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 42,78 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1853728632
The Criterion for Religions, the English translation of Mi'yarul Madhahib written by Hadrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (as) of Qadian in 1895 makes a detailed comparison of three major religions - Hinduism, Christianity and Islam - from the standpoint of natural criterion as to why Hinduism and Christianity fail to present the Perfect and Omnipotent God as proclaimed by Islam. God of Hinduism has only limited powers. His role is just like that of a mason who joins only already existing things and enjoys no role as a Creator. God of Christianity went through all the travails of life. That their God died for the sins of his followers is yet another invention of Christians. The idea of deifying humans was invented by Brahmans from whom the idea was borrowed by Greeks and was in turn borrowed by Christians from Greeks. The Christian dogma of Atonement only encourages to commit sins, to freely spread sinfulness, impiety and every kind of evil. As against the views of Hinduism and Christianity about God. 'Islam's understanding of God', according to the author, 'is very simple and clear, and is in keeping with human nature. Even if the books of all other religions were to disappear along with all their teachings and concepts, God — towards Whom the Holy Quran leads would still be clearly reflected in the mirror of the laws of nature and His might and wisdom shall be found glowing in every particle. This claim is fully substantiated in the book which covers many important aspects of Islamic concept of God.
Author : David Lynch
Publisher :
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 43,1 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Motion picture producers and directors
ISBN : 9780571195480
David Lynch erupted on to the cinema landscape with Eraserhead, establishing himself as one of the most original, imaginative and truly personal directors at work in contemporary cinema. He is a surrealist in the tradition of the great Spanish flm-maker, Luis Bunuel.
