Optimization problems arising in practice involve random model parameters. For the computation of robust optimal solutions, i.e., optimal solutions being insenistive with respect to random parameter v
The poems in Future Ship are largely autobiographical in the sense that they are based on personal experiences from childhood and adolescence when the personality is still in a molten form and being s
Poetry. THIS DRAWN & QUARTERED MOON makes pre-millennial San Francisco its epicenter, and from there ranges out in time and space. Characters abound. The reader will meet a plagiarist, a Vietnam v
This book explains the theory of special and general relativity in detail, without digressions such as information on Einstein's life or the historical background. However, complicated calculations ar
Poetry. "In TIME-BOUND, Kurt Brown engages with the world he inhabits, questioning it, taking nothing for granted, prizing a broad and deep knowledge of it, both past and present, local and cosmic. Th
In the '80s, when author/photographer Kurt Hollander lived in New York and published The Portable Lower East, life there was particularly rough, and cops often drove yellow cabs as a method to surpris
A boy named Flip orders a "perfect pet" from the Internet, but neither the leash nor the remote control may be enough when the robotic Motor Dog decides to go after Scoot the Cat . 25,000 first printi
A serial killer is often chronically aggressive and they seem to have an over-controlled hostility towards others. Often they have been hurt and are resentful and traumatized. They become obsessive, p
On a day like any other, millions of people vanish in the blink of an eye. Cars wreck, planes crash and the disappearance of world leaders leaves governments in chaos. But an eerie peace descends upon
Mathematics is not the most popular science. Its language and logical structure seem to be too boring to be really interesting.But it is the language that scientist and engineers use to write down the
In this book, Kurt Koffka reformulates the basic question of perception. In the past it had often been assumed that there was really no need to explain the features of veridical perception.
Poetry. This new volume of Kurt Brown's poems collects the best of his many past books, and the best of the new poems, as well as his most prevalent themes, and the "wonderment" that he was always anx
This book takes radical aim at the conventional conduct of international relations analysis. It reexamines the role of ideas, the usefulness of psychoanalysis, the rage for and at rational choice, the
Fiction. This collection of stories by Kurt Luchs pursues its comedic quarry with the ruthlessness of a pussycat trying to get out of a cardboard box. Luchs, who has written for august literary organs
