Under The Net

Author : Iris Murdoch
Publisher : Vintage Books USA
ISBN 13 : 9780099458449
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Under the Net written by Iris Murdoch and published by Vintage Books USA. This book was released on 2003 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sea: turbulent and leaden, transparent and opaque, magician and mother... When Charles Arrowby, over sixty, a demi god of the theatre- director, playwright and actor - retires from his glittering London world in order to `abjure magic and become a hermit', it is to the sea that he turns. He hopes at least to escape from `the woman' - but unexpectedly meets one whom he loved long ago. His Buddhist cousin, James, also arrives. He is menaced by a monster from the deep. Charles finds his `solitude' peopled by the drama of his own fantasies and obsessions.

Author : Iris Murdoch
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101495804
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Under the Net written by Iris Murdoch and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1977-10-27 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Iris Murdoch's debut—a comic novel about work and love, wealth and fame Jake Donaghue, garrulous artist, meets Hugo Bellfounder, silent philosopher. Jake, hack writer and sponger, now penniless flat-hunter, seeks out an old girlfriend, Anna Quentin, and her glamorous actress sister, Sadie. He resumes acquaintance with the formidable Hugo, whose ‘philosophy’ he once presumptuously dared to interpret. These meetings involve Jake and his eccentric servant-companion, Finn, in a series of adventures that include the kidnapping of a film-star dog and a political riot on a film set of ancient Rome. Jake, fascinated, longs to learn Hugo’s secret. Perhaps Hugo’s secret is Hugo himself? Admonished, enlightened, Jake hopes at last to become a real writer.

Author : Jason Bock
Publisher : Apress
ISBN 13 : 1430208457
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book CIL Programming written by Jason Bock and published by Apress. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most .NET developers will use a high-level language, such as C# or VB .NET, to develop their systems. However, the core language of .NET is the Common Intermediate Language, or CIL. This language is the language of .NET-whatever is allowed by the .NET specifications can be done in CIL, and it can do much that C# and VB .NET cannot. Understanding how the CIL works will give .NET developers a deep, language-independent insight into the core parts of .NET. Furthermore, such knowledge is essential for creating dynamic types, a powerful part of the .NET Framework. In this book, Bock covers the essentials of programming the CIL. First, he discusses the basics of what .NET: assemblies are, how manifests fit into the picture, and much more. Bock then shows how to create assemblies in .NET-this will cover the ilasm directives and CIL opcodes, and how these are used to define assemblies, classes, field, methods, and method definitions. Bock also covers how C# and VB .NET and other non-MS languages emit CIL and how they differ. Finally, Bock shows how one can create dynamic assemblies at runtime via the Emitter classes.

Author : Philip W. Brickner
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393028850
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Under the Safety Net written by Philip W. Brickner and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1990 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major study drawing on the work of nineteen programs across the nation devoted to the care of the homeless. Describes the dimensions of the problem and discusses remedies and strategies for its solution.

Author : Chris Farrell
Publisher : Red Gate Books
ISBN 13 : 9781906434755
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Under the Hood of .Net Memory Management written by Chris Farrell and published by Red Gate Books. This book was released on 2011 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book starts with an introduction to the core concepts of .NET memory management and garbage collection, and then quickly layers on additional details and intricacies. Once you're up to speed, you can dive into the guided troubleshooting tour, and tips for engineering your application to maximise performance. And to finish off, take a look at some more sophisticated considerations, and even a peek inside the Windows memory model.

Author : Guy Gavriel Kay
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 110118700X
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Under Heaven written by Guy Gavriel Kay and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-04-27 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning author Guy Gavriel Kay evokes the dazzling Tang Dynasty of 8th-century China in an masterful story of honor and power. It begins simply. Shen Tai, son of an illustrious general serving the Emperor of Kitai, has spent two years honoring the memory of his late father by burying the bones of the dead from both armies at the site of one of his father's last great battles. In recognition of his labors and his filial piety, an unlikely source has sent him a dangerous gift: 250 Sardian horses. You give a man one of the famed Sardian horses to reward him greatly. You give him four or five to exalt him above his fellows, propel him towards rank, and earn him jealousy, possibly mortal jealousy. Two hundred and fifty is an unthinkable gift, a gift to overwhelm an emperor. Wisely, the gift comes with the stipulation that Tai must claim the horses in person. Otherwise he would probably be dead already...

Author : Riccardo Rebonato
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107048117
Total Pages : 519 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Portfolio Management under Stress written by Riccardo Rebonato and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 519 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rigorous presentation of a novel methodology for asset allocation in financial portfolios under conditions of market distress.

Author : Nick Huntington-Klein
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1000509141
Total Pages : 646 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Effect written by Nick Huntington-Klein and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2021-12-20 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extensive code examples in R, Stata, and Python Chapters on overlooked topics in econometrics classes: heterogeneous treatment effects, simulation and power analysis, new cutting-edge methods, and uncomfortable ignored assumptions An easy-to-read conversational tone Up-to-date coverage of methods with fast-moving literatures like difference-in-differences

Author : E. B. White
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062406787
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Charlotte's Web written by E. B. White and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2015-03-17 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don’t miss one of America’s top 100 most-loved novels, selected by PBS’s The Great American Read. This beloved book by E. B. White, author of Stuart Little and The Trumpet of the Swan, is a classic of children's literature that is "just about perfect." Illustrations in this ebook appear in vibrant full color on a full-color device and in rich black-and-white on all other devices. Some Pig. Humble. Radiant. These are the words in Charlotte's Web, high up in Zuckerman's barn. Charlotte's spiderweb tells of her feelings for a little pig named Wilbur, who simply wants a friend. They also express the love of a girl named Fern, who saved Wilbur's life when he was born the runt of his litter. E. B. White's Newbery Honor Book is a tender novel of friendship, love, life, and death that will continue to be enjoyed by generations to come. It contains illustrations by Garth Williams, the acclaimed illustrator of E. B. White's Stuart Little and Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House series, among many other books. Whether enjoyed in the classroom or for homeschooling or independent reading, Charlotte's Web is a proven favorite.

Author : Saskia Bachner
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3640154533
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contingency in Iris Murdoch's "Under the Net" written by Saskia Bachner and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2008-09 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, University of Mannheim, course: British Literature of the 50's, 22 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: All human beings have a deep need for necessity in their lives. We want to know why we exist, we want to understand the world and its secrets, and we want to know our place in the world. Concepts like religion and philosophy are concerned with those questions and try to provide answers to them. Nevertheless, there are still no satisfying explanations. This is due to the fact that "our actual lived experience has no form or unity in itself, but is full of contingent rubble, accident, and unsystematized detail which may resist our attempts at unity" (Antonaccio & Schweiker, Human Goodness 111). As our world is contingent, it cannot be completely understood. Consequently, we should accept its contingency instead of denying it by trying to find an explanation to everything. The stress ratio between contingency and necessity is also the theme of Iris Murdoch's first novel Under the Net. Throughout the novel, the protagonist Jake Donaghue searches for his own identity and for a master theory which is able to explain the world (cf. Porter, Leitmotiv 379). In the end, he realizes that he has to change his attitude towards contingency. In the following, I will try to find reasons for the change of Jake's attitude, and I will describe the consequences of this change. In order to be able to do this, I will first provide a definition of the term 'contingency' and place it in the context of philosophy in chapter 2. Afterwards, I will explain some essential aspects of contingency in the novel in chapter 3. In chapter 4, I will have a look at Jake's changing attitude towards contingency in the course of the novel in order to, finally, be able to find reasons for the change and to describe its consequences in chapter 5 and 6.