Elastic

Author : Leonard Mlodinow
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1101870931
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elastic written by Leonard Mlodinow and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2018-03-20 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best-selling author of Subliminal and The Drunkard’s Walk teaches you how to tap into the hidden power of your brain. “Elastic is a book that will help you survive the whirlwind.” —Daniel H. Pink, author of When and A Whole New Mind Named to the 800-CEO-READ Business Book Awards Longlist In this startling and provocative look at how the human mind deals with change, Leonard Mlodinow shows us to unleash the natural abilities we all possess so we can thrive in dynamic and troubled times. Truly original minds capitalize when everyone else struggles. And most of us assume that these abilities are innate, reserved for a select few. But Mlodinow reveals that we all possess them, that we all have encoded in our brains a skill he terms elastic thinking—and he guides us in how to harness it. Drawing on groundbreaking research, Mlodinow outlines how we can learn to let go of comfortable ideas and become accustomed to ambiguity and contradiction; how we can rise above conventional mindsets and reframe the questions we ask; and how we can improve our ability to solve problems and generate new ideas—critical skills for achieving professional and personal success in our quickly morphing world.

Author : Johanne Bille
Publisher : New Scandinavian Literature
ISBN 13 : 9781999992804
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elastic written by Johanne Bille and published by New Scandinavian Literature. This book was released on 2019-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Alice is with Mathilde, her experience of the world shifts, as though Mathilde brings with her a force that charges everything around her: the park bench, the sticky linoleum floor of the supermarket, their interlocked hands, the buttons on a winter coat. But Mathilde is also mercurial and "perfectly" married to Alexander, and Alice is moving into a bigger flat with Simon who has just returned to her life. Alice's precarious solution is to proceed into a quadrilateral relationship, impatient to define her own outline in the eyes of others. Elastic is a novel about being a woman. About being a woman among other women, among men, and about being alone with one's female body. Alice doesn't like being a woman. She feels estranged from her own body, from her gender. At the same time, Elastic is also a modern love story. About Alice's silenced yet stormy crush on the enigmatic Mathilde. A crush that has no place neither in Alice's relationship with Simon, in Mathilde's marriage, or even in Alice herself. Bille cleanly gleans the nebulous distinctions between love, sex and intimacy, exerting a softly fragmentary style that underpins Alice's vacillations. She explores what it means to refuse settling - in a relationship, in society, and within oneself - and to want both love and community without being able to detach from the selfishness that brought us there in the first place. Praise for Elastic The tone of the novel is set from the very first page. Alice, a brilliantly honest main character, narrates the novel in a uniquely fragmented style. Bille uses creative imagery that is sometimes disturbing, but always poetic - Buzz Magazine Alice in Wonderland like you've never seen her before - Octavia Bright Bille's Alice has relatives or even sisters in Françoise Sagan's 1950s novels - there is something Saganesque about Elastic and its depiction of open love affairs and the complicated triangulations, mirroring and conflicts they might entail - Politiken A novel that speaks quietly and yet insistently of the loneliness of being in love and the feeling of being trapped in one's own body - Information Elastic is difficult to let go of. It left me with the feeling of being seen. And not just seen: seen through - POV International Elastic is first and foremost a tale of Alice and her fumbling attempts to set love free. But it is the novel's lonely, heartfelt voice and its unromantic depiction of love that gets stuck into your bones - ATLAS JOHANNE BILLE (b.1993) is a Danish novelist based in Copenhagen. Elastic is her second novel, originally published in Danish by Forlaget Gladiator in 2018. SHERYLIN NICOLETTE HELLBERG is a literary translator. She has published translations of Tove Ditlevsen, Jonas Eika, and Ida Marie Hede. In 2018, she received an American-Scandinavian Foundation Award for her translation of Caspar Eric's Nike.

Author : Stephen Guise
Publisher : Selective Entertainment LLC
ISBN 13 : 9780996435475
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elastic Habits written by Stephen Guise and published by Selective Entertainment LLC. This book was released on 2019-11-20 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Habits That Bend Don't Break Why do so many sincere attempts to build good habits fail? We try our best to be consistent, but some days are better than others. Inevitably, we fail when "life happens," because each day we try to hit the same targets regardless of the situation. How, then, can we make our habits more resilient to the turbulence of life? By making them elastic.Most people associate "elastic" with yoga pants and rubber bands. But the word also means "resilient" - the ability to withstand pressure. Elastic materials are far more durable than rigid and brittle ones, which will shatter under the slightest pressure. The same is true for habits.Traditional habits are unchanging: the same behavior is done at the same time to the same level every day. They work well until the pressures of modern life break their rigid and brittle shell. Elastic habits are fluid: they can change their form and intensity to suit each unique day. They survive busy, tired, bad days. They thrive in better days. If you're tired of the repetitive and exhausting grind to develop good habits, it's time give your habits the refreshing superpower of elasticity. Read Elastic Habits now, and you'll soon discover the life-changing difference of good habits that adapt to your day.

Author : Henryk Petryk
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3709125626
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Material Instabilities in Elastic and Plastic Solids written by Henryk Petryk and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-05-04 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book collects recent theoretical developments in the area of material instability in elastic and plastic solids along with related analytical and numerical methods and applications. The existing different approaches to instability phenomena in metal single crystals, polycristals and in geomaterials are presented with the emphasis laid on mutual relations and on unifying concepts, including elliptictly loss and the energy criterion. Quasi-static bifurcation, initiation of single or multiple shear bands and post-critical strain localization are examined along with dynamic phenomena as wave propagation, moving shocks, internal snap-through and instability of flutter type. This gives an overview of a variety of material instability problems, methods and applications.

Author : Roy Osherove
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1638351082
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elastic Leadership written by Roy Osherove and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-10-18 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Summary Elastic leadership is a framework and philosophy that can help you as you manage day-to-day and long-term challenges and strive to create the elusive self-organizing team. It is about understanding that your leadership needs to change based on which phase you discover that your team is in. This book provides you with a set of values, techniques, and practices to use in your leadership role. Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications. About the Technology Your team looks to you for guidance. You have to mediate heated debates. The team is constantly putting out fires instead of doing the right things, the right way. Everyone seems to want to do things correctly, but nobody seems to be doing so. This is where leaders get stuck. It's time to get unstuck! Elastic leadership is a novel approach that helps you adapt your leadership style to the phase your team is in, so you can stay in step as things change. About the Book Elastic Leadership is a practical, experience-driven guide to team leadership. In it, you'll discover a set of values, techniques, and practices to lead your team to success. First, you'll learn what elastic leadership is and explore the phases of this results-oriented framework. Then, you'll see it in practice through stories, anecdotes, and advice provided by successful leaders in a variety of disciplines, all annotated by author and experienced team leader, Roy Osherove. What's Inside Understanding why people do what they do Effective coaching Influencing team members and managers Advice from industry leaders About the Reader This book is for anyone with a year or more of experience working on a team as a lead or team member. About the Author Roy Osherove is the DevOps process lead for the West Coast at EMC, based in California. He is also the author of The Art of Unit Testing (Manning, 2013) and Enterprise DevOps. He consults and trains teams worldwide on the gentle art of leadership, unit testing, test-driven development, and continuous-delivery automation. He frequently speaks at international conferences on these topics and others. Table of Contents PART 1 - UNDERSTANDING ELASTIC LEADERSHIP Striving toward a Team Leader Manifesto Matching leadership styles to team phases Dealing with bus factors PART 2 - SURVIVAL MODE Dealing with survival mode PART 3 - LEARNING MODE Learning to learn Commitment language Growing people PART 4 - SELF-ORGANIZATION MODE Using clearing meetings to advance self-organization Influence patterns The Line Manager Manifesto PART 5 - NOTES TO A SOFTWARE TEAM LEADER Feeding back Channel conflict into learning It's probably not a technical problem Review the code Document your air, food, and water Appraisals and agile don't play nicely Leading through learning: the responsibilities of a team leader Introduction to the Core Protocols Change your mind: your product is your team Leadership and the mature team Spread your workload Making your team manage their own work Go see, ask why, show respect Keep developers happy, reap high-quality work Stop doing their work Write code, but not too much Evolving from manager to leader Affecting the pace of change Proximity management Babel Fish You're the lead, not the know-it-all Actions speak louder than words

Author : Philippe G. Ciarlet
Publisher : SIAM
ISBN 13 : 1611976820
Total Pages : 686 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mathematical Elasticity written by Philippe G. Ciarlet and published by SIAM. This book was released on 2022-01-22 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The objective of Theory of Shells, the third book of a three-volume set, is to show how asymptotic methods provide a rigorous mathematical justification of the classical two-dimensional linear shell theories: membrane, generalized membrane, and flexural. The book also shows how asymptotic methods justify nonlinear elastic shell theories and gives a detailed presentation of the Koiter equations for a nonlinearly elastic shell. An extended preface and extensive bibliography have been added to highlight the progress that has been made since the volume’s original publication. While each one of the three volumes is self-contained, together the Mathematical Elasticity set provides the only modern treatise on elasticity; introduces contemporary research on three-dimensional elasticity, the theory of plates, and the theory of shells; and contains proofs, detailed surveys of all mathematical prerequisites, and many problems for teaching and self-study These classic textbooks are for advanced undergraduates, first-year graduate students, and researchers in pure or applied mathematics or continuum mechanics. They are appropriate for courses in mathematical elasticity, theory of plates and shells, continuum mechanics, computational mechanics, and applied mathematics in general.

Author : Chao-cheng Wang
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9789001937102
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Introduction to Rational Elasticity written by Chao-cheng Wang and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1973-12-31 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Paolo Vannucci
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9811054398
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anisotropic Elasticity written by Paolo Vannucci and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-07-10 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a modern and unconventional introduction to anisotropy. The first part presents a general description of Anisotropic Elasticity theories while the second part focuses on the polar formalism: the theoretical bases and results are completely developed along with applications to design problems of laminated anisotropic structures. The book is based on lectures on anisotropy which have been held at Ecole Polytechnique in Paris.

Author : Robert William Soutas-Little
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486150070
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elasticity written by Robert William Soutas-Little and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-04-26 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive survey of the methods and theories of linear elasticity, this three-part introductory treatment covers general theory, two-dimensional elasticity, and three-dimensional elasticity. Ideal text for a two-course sequence on elasticity. 1984 edition.

Author : Yakov M Tseytlin
Publisher : Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 0128020369
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Advanced Mechanical Models of DNA Elasticity written by Yakov M Tseytlin and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2016-07-29 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advanced Mechanical Models of DNA Elasticity includes coverage on 17 different DNA models and the role of elasticity in biological functions with extensive references. The novel advanced helicoidal model described reflects the direct connection between the molecule helix structure and its specific properties, including nonlinear features and transitions. It provides an introduction to the state of the field of DNA mechanics, known and widely used models with their short analysis, as well as coverage on experimental methods and data, the influence of electrical, magnetic, ionic conditions on the persistence length, and dynamics with viscosity influence. It then addresses the need to understand the nature of the non-linear overstretching transition of DNA under force and why DNA has a negative twist-stretch coupling. Includes coverage of 17 contemporary models of DNA mechanics with analysis Provides comparison of DNA and RNA mechanical features Covers advances in experimental techniques including AFM, X-ray, and optical tweezers Contains extensive references for further reading