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Column Generation is an insightful overview of the state-of-the-art in integer programming column generation and its many applications. The volume begins with "A Primer in Column Generation" which outlines the theory and ideas necessary to solve large-scale practical problems, illustrated with a variety of examples. Other chapters follow this introduction on "Shortest Path Problems with Resource Constraints," "Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Window," "Branch-and-Price Heuristics," "Cutting Stock Problems," each dealing with methodological aspects of the field. Three chapters deal with transportation applications: "Large-scale Models in the Airline Industry," "Robust Inventory Ship Routing by Column Generation," and "Ship Scheduling with Recurring Visits and Visit Separation Requirements." Production is the focus of another three chapters: "Combining Column Generation and Lagrangian Relaxation," "Dantzig-Wolfe Decomposition for Job Shop Scheduling," and "Applying Column Generation to Machine Scheduling." The final chapter by François Vanderbeck, "Implementing Mixed Integer Column Generation," reviews how to set-up the Dantzig-Wolfe reformulation, adapt standard MIP techniques to the column generation context (branching, preprocessing, primal heuristics), and deal with specific column generation issues (initialization, stabilization, column management strategies).
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Combining the insight of Anna Quindlen and the comic storytelling of Garrison Keillor with her own singularly outrageous humor, Marion Winik has captivated thousands of listeners on NPR's All Things Considered. Now, in Telling, she takes us on a journey both personal and universal, a tour of the minefield of chance and circumstance that make up a life. Along the way, she offers razor-sharp takes on everything from adolescence in suburban New Jersey ("Yes, I wanted to be a wild teenage rebel, but I wanted to do it with my parents' blessing") to hellish houseguests and bad-news boyfriends; from the joys of breastfeeding in public to the sometimes-salvation of motherhood.
Candid, passionate, and breathtakingly funny, Marion Winik maintains an unshaken belief that following one's heart is more important than following the rules -- and a conviction that the secrets we try to hide often contain the deepest truths.
"A born iconoclast, an aspiring artiste, a feminist vegetarian prodigal daughter, from early youth I considered myself destined to lead a startling life far outside the bounds of convention. I would be famous, dangerous, brilliant and relentlessly cool: a sort of cross between Emma Goldman, Jack Kerouac, and Georgia O'Keeffe.... So where did this station wagon come from?" -- from Telling
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Customer Reviews:
Marion Winik rocks!.......2001-07-05
Marion Winik is one of the best authors I personally have ever read. I've read (consumed might be a better word..lol) all of her books now and each one only furthers my belief in her writing. She even took the time to personally answer a letter I had written her, which only made me like her more. She's a great author and I will continue to read her works over and over again..
Baby-boomer memoirs without shame, remorse, or guilt.......1998-04-21
This book could have been written by Irma Bombeck . . . except that Irma Bomback would never have written about having an abortion, shooting heroin, or oral sex in the front seat of a car. Essentially, Winik writes about what happens when the generation who never trusted anyone over thirty now finds itself trapped at forty-something. Her reflections and insights are remarkable for their transparancy. Winik neither takes us on a nostalgic romp through "Gee, wasn't it great back then!", nor does she moralize from hindsight with "Here's what I did; here's what I learned; maybe you can benefit from my experience." Instead she just describes what is: what it's like to be forty-something and come to grips with one's history. I laughed, I cried, and I couldn't put the book down.
I must have writen this book one night while sleeping........1997-06-21
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I must have writen this book one night while sleeping........1997-06-21
I picked up "telling" only yesterday from Barnes n nobles bargin stacks. (I was only searching non-fiction in my quest to learn more about the history of why).
Even though I am already operating on sleep deprivation from my one year old and working all night and day lifestyle I could not put "telling" down (a RARE RARE, so RARE i can't even remember when I plowed through a book with such joy and amazement). I'm endlessly searching for those voices of comradioure (sp?), and have sifted through zillions of books looking for it, for that voice that speaks as if it were my own.
Marion winik is this voice, but she's not, she appears to be 'just like me', but it's really just the seductiveness of her writing style, the ease at which she tells it, the way she's managed to take all of the hopeless fiascos we make of our lives and laugh them into o.k. now-ness. There is tradgedy, which she doesn't hide from, and small bits of philosophizing, but most of all its just a back and forth journey through the times of her life (which is so similar to our lives-from the fat and awkward childhood, to the artsy drug-rebelling adolescent, to the station-wagon driving mom in a condominium with a microwave).
The real stuff is here, the events of life, unfolding through the ages, just like us. Even though my father is still alive, I'm not jewish and i've never been to new orleans, I'm still just like Marion Winik.
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So you're in your second half (or final quarter). You may even be hearing the 2-minute warning. So what? You're not dead yet! Stop saying "I'm too old" and start enjoying your maturity!
This collection of stories from Mary Hanna, popular speaker and humor columnist for the San Mateo County Times, fires gentle zingers at the absurdities of everyday life.
This book is for you if:
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• You are embarrassed by your high-school hairdo.
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Mary Hanna's lighthearted approach to the particular joys of being an aging Baby Boomer have her readers responding with comments like, "You're the best thing to read since we lost Erma Bombeck."
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I cannot stop laughing.......2006-05-10
This book is something that most everyone can relate to. It is so funny and relaxing to read. I would recommend this book to everyone. My husband makes me read it to him when he catches me laughing my head off. I plan to give it as gifts to my friends for birthdays, and christmas. Mary is a very talented writer and humorist. I hope she does not stop with just this book.
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A laugh machine.......2006-04-15
If the FDA ever elects to review books for their mood altering properties, this book will be an early candidate. If you are looking for something you can read in silence, slouched in a deep chair in the library, this might not be the best choice for you. Those who read it complain of spontaneous giggles, outright irresistible laughter, and an occasional "harrumph". Readers of Mary's weekly humor column in an SF Bay area newspaper can get a major fix: dozens of Mary's favorite columns all in one place.
This book is the one for you if:
You don't know how your feet got so old.
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The heartwarming sequel to the best-selling The Old Man and the Boy is a moving, nostalgic tale that will transport the reader back to a time when going fishing was not about fish, but the stories told afterward.
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another great hunting book by Robert Ruark.......2006-08-03
"The Old Man's Boy Grows Older" is the wonderful sequel to "The Old Man and the Boy". As the author grows up and moves away from his grandfather, he remembers more of the things his grandfather taught him. Being hungry, miserable and mistreated in his first job as crew on a cargo ship brings memories of hunting for ducks and the wonderful food prepared in hunting camp. The reader can see how the grandfather started teaching Ruark to be a man, and dealing with adversity on his own taught him more. As with "The Old Man and the Boy", this book contains some really beautiful hunting and food writing. A book not to be missed by old men, boys, and anyone else who loves the outdoors.
WONDERFUL WORK - OWN THIS ONE.......2004-09-16
I hate sequels, but in this case it worked! The Old Man and The Boy was great, this one is too. I would recommend this one for any age. I am a big "rereader" and this one is certainly on my list of rereads. In my opinion, these two books are the author's best work, much better than most of his fiction.
The Old Man's Boy Grows Older.......2000-06-08
A brilliant sequel to the book "The Old Man and the Boy. Very moving, an excellent account of a man's memories of the lessons taught to him by his Grandfather, "The Old Man". We were moved to tears, both my husband and our grandson have a copy. Marvellous!
The second-best Hunting book I've ever read........1998-07-20
The reason it's second-best, is that the first book, "The Old Man and the Boy", is the best. Buy them both, read the other one first. If you can, read them when you're 13 or 14 and you're just starting to get good at hunting. If you can't, then just read them anytime, anywhere.
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Not so long ago Emilio Brentani was a promising young author. Now he is an insurance agent on the fast track to forty. He gains a new lease on life, though, when he falls for the young and gorgeous Angiolina-except that his angel just happens to be an unapologetic cheat. But what begins as a comedy of infatuated misunderstanding ends in tragedy, as Emilio's jealous persistence in his folly-against his friends' and devoted sister's advice, and even his own best knowledge-leads to the loss of the one person who, too late, he realizes he truly loves. Marked by deep humanity and earthy humor, by psychological insight and an elegant simplicity of style, As a Man Grows Older (Senilità, in Italian; the English title was the suggestion of Svevo's great friend and admirer, James Joyce) is a brilliant study of hopeless love and hapless indecision. It is a masterwork of Italian literature, here beautifully rendered into English in Beryl de Zoete's classic translation.
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Love Labor's Cost.......2007-06-28
Emilio, a retiring, cautious insurance clerk with some literary pretensions, decides he needs to broaden the scope of his life. He figures he knows all about love and affairs because he's read a lot. He decides his "amour" shall be the blonde, luscious Angiolina, full of life. He launches on his affair, ignoring the disapproval of his friend, Stefano. Emilio lives alone with his mousy sister, Amalia. A man may grow older, but he doesn't often grow wiser. Svevo's novel, written in 1898, definitely bears out this observation. Emilio's love connection goes from bad to worse, fouled up not only by the unfaithful, sluttish behavior of his paramour, but by his own immaturity, lack of worldly experience, and psychological hangups. His casual love affair balloons into an obsession. Meanwhile, sister Amalia falls hopelessly in love with Stefano, who hardly even notices her. Things do not end well.
AS A MAN GROWS OLDER, a novel I first read in Southeast Asia 26 years ago and recently read again, may not have a thrilling plot line. It is overwhelmingly a psychological study of lovers and as that, a brilliant piece of writing which has held its power for over a hundred years. The evocations of Trieste, of the society that surrounded the love story is equally excellent. Emilio's plan to be more or less a casual playboy comes to grief as he is consumed by love and jealousy. It takes him a long time to get Angiolina into bed, which in turn opens up a new page for doubts, regrets, unfulfilled vows, and momentary steadfastness, always undermined by both desire and hatred. The double nature of love affairs---bringing out both passion and anger, love combined with hesitation, desire for approval, wild swings of emotion and inability to leave---has never been better described. At the same time, the purely imaginary love of Amalia for Stefano adds a further dimension to this veritable catalogue of realistic romance. Italo Svevo, who died in a car crash back in 1928, certainly left behind a classic with this novel. It does not seem to be widely read, which is a shame. A gem for anyone interested in a novel of the kind I've described.
There's no fool like an old fool.......2006-10-14
But by about a quarter of the way through this novel, I realized that I was mesmerized by it. Emilio's obsession with Angiolina is less long-winded than Proust's obsession with Albertine, but the two stories have much in common. They both are about men involved with women from a slightly lower rung of the social caste system. Both women are inveterate liars and both men are adept at fooling themselves. Both stories employ a mixture of emotion and irony. I thought Beryl deZoerte's translation was serviceable and unobtrusive, which is what a good translation should be. I'm sure that it's missing a lot of the subtleties of Italian, but that's something one has to deal with in any translation. The flow of the words seemed natural and I didn't detect any Britishisms.
Svevo is quite adept had economically drawing fully realized characters who have the power to engage the emotions. Emilio (the man in younger middle-age who naively thinks he'll have a painless romantic fling), his spinster sister Amalia (whose silent suffering is almost unbearable), his artist friend Balli who does not see his own foolishness and Angiolina, the object of his obsession are all riveting characters. I quote my favorite passage in the book:
"She [Angiolina] lied obstinately, though she had not really mastered the art of lying. It was easy to make her contradict herself. But when the contradiction had been proved she would return with unruffled brow to her previous assertion, for in her heart of heats she did not really believe in logic. And it was perhaps this simplicity of hers which redeemed her in Emilio's sight."
AS A MAN GROWS OLDER is ultimately unexpectedly powerful. This is another outstanding novel I'd especially recommend to older readers. I think younger people can enjoy the book but it will mean more to the over-40 reader.
A Great Novel: This Is The Translation to Read!!!!!.......2005-11-30
This review complements a review I posted on the other available translation of this work, published by Yale University Press:
Italo Svevo's novel Senilita is one of the great achievements in the bourgeoning era of early Modernism. It has rightly been credited as a forerunner and influence on James Joyce, and any fan of Flaubert, Chekhov, Proust, or Fontane (as well as less celebrated figures such as the Yiddish writer Dovid Bergelson or the Brazilian novelist Machado de Assis) will find much that is familiar, edifying, and entertaining in this intimate and masterfully observed novel. It is a book full of irony and empathy, artful paradox and plain-spoken truth; it stands half-way between romantic decadence and modernist realism, poised on the cusp of the 19th and the 20th centuries.
It is also representative of the most interesting trends in High Modernism precisely because of the self-consciousness of its atttiude toward narrative and language. Svevo, as is well-known from any synopsis of his career, was an Italian Jew brought up primarily in a German-speaking milieu. He is therefore demonstrably and purposefully uncomfortable in his use of Italian (just as Kafka in Czech-speaking Prague is deliberately not quite at home with German, or many post-colonial authors from Africa or India are fluent writers of English but nonetheless not native speakers of the language--this disparity is by definition and design a feature of their writing). And although there is no explicit reference to Jews or Judaism anywhere in this novel, it is not difficult to extrapolate his anamolous presence as a Jew in Catholic Italy as a motivation for his estranged, alienated, detatched mode of storytelling and social observation.
All of these factors account both for what's interesting about this novel, and what's difficult about trying to translate it--starting with the title, which nobody seems to understand or care for. There are two available translations in English: this one, and the one published by Yale University Press as Emilio's Carnival. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE buy and read this version!!!!!
This is a reprint of the original English translation first published in 1932. It is well produced and idiomatic; it captures the strange and indelible spirit of the original, without compromising its fidelity to the letter of the text. It also benefits from an unusually helpful and insightful introduction (in conspicuous contrast again to the Yale UP version) that is so well-observed and persuasive that I would recommend readers to do as I did and save it until after completing the novel itself.
Best of all, this is the less expensive of the two versions! Case closed--who could ask for anything more?! Only that more people read, think, and talk about Italo Svevo, and that more people purchase and read this version of his first great novel.
Almost There..........2005-11-18
This is the book whose relative failure made Svevo abandon his literary career for a decade or two until a young Irishman named James Joyce happened upon it while tutoring the then old man in English and realized its greatness. It's a wonderful story, the one of the future luminary resuscitating the old, broken spirit and it gave me the impetus to even pick up a Svevo book (that one being The Confessions of Zeno). But what is here? It is a very engaging, very biting, very vivid story, and one that is told with wit, grace and style. But (and there is usually a but) it clearly pales against his later masterpiece. If given a choice, I would definitely recommend Zeno over this one, but this is still a truly excellent read. The story of liasons gone awry, psychological musings and other problems of that then new creature, the Modern Neurotic, are the spine of this story, and they provide sturdy support... even if they get a better treatment in his next book.
Compassionate and clear-eyed: a masterpiece.......2003-11-14
I don't think Svevo is an artist that can be ruined or even significantly damaged by a translation, any more than Tolstoy can be messed up by Constance Garnett - it may not be as true to the quality of their prose, but for the most part I think their rare value is communicated as long as the translation is accurate: and this one is. The comparison to Tolstoy is apt, because I think Svevo is sort of a bridge between that tradition and Proust, where the writing starts drawing a great deal more attention to itself - and the internal workings of consciousness come to the forefront.
Svevo strikes the perfect balance between the 19th century's skill at construction complete characters (well, at least the Russians and George Eliot) and the 20th century's desire to focus intensely on processes of thinking, to lay bare the way they function. What Joyce did by actually splitting up and writing Bloom's individual thoughts, Svevo accomplishes with sentences that have the precision and wit of a French aphorist, while retaining a level of compassion that can coexist with his irony.
I remember a passage in The Confessions of Zeno (I read the Zoete translation on that one too) where, after a hilarious sequence when Zeno ends up marrying a woman that he has no interest in marrying, he comes to realize - many years later - just how much he's come to love her. Svevo is, I think, the most warm-hearted of great 20th century writers, even though all of his books are supposed to be merciless unmaskings of ineffectual men.
As much as I loved The Confessions (or Conscience) of Zeno, this is the more complete work of art. The five linked stories in Zeno didn't really cohere (especially the last chapter), but this book is beautifully paced and constructed, the work of a young man who is already a master - funny and sad and wonderful. A book to treasure.
(Incidentally: I like Joyce's title, As a Man Grows Older, but it would have been nice to have Svevo's original title back - which was only abandoned because they didn't think anyone would buy a book called Senility - certainly very few people bought Senilita when it was in Italian. And people were, understandably, confused, since there's no one in this book who is old, or any discussion in it of aging or senility.
But the whole book is filled with an atmosphere of last things: it is also about virility, and the lack of it, and the desire to both have and get away from the mental clarity that comes with intelligence. Senility: a great writer knows how to come up with a great title. But this is still a lovely book in a beautiful edition: another wonderful reissue from NYRB.)
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Well worth reading again & again!!!.......1999-09-19
I've owned this book for a number of years & I find it is DEFINITELY a "keeper". My wife can"t understand why I drag it out & re-read it every Fall. I'd read & enjoyed Ruark's fiction in my younger days, but when I stumbled across "The Old Man & The Boy" it reminded me of times in the woods & on the water with my own father & the life lessons I was taught at those times. Both books together are simply a double treasure.
Probably the finest piece of classic sporting literature........1999-07-29
My grandfather gave me a paperback edition of the "The Old Man and The Boy" when I was about twelve. I am thirty three now and this book has never left my side. I have since acquired "The Old Man's Boy Grows Older." This work has similiar flavour. For those sporting people who long for the days of ethics and morality in the field and in the home this book is a must read. You can virtually smell the campfire, hear the Quail calling and learn some important lessons on life and sport.
Read as a boy, this book shaped my adult life........1998-05-01
As a success in my field, I was questioned by my trade organization what management books I kept on my desk. Only one: The Old Man and the Boy.
Fathers should read and pass on to their sons........1997-11-30
My mother gave this to me to read when I was 8 or 9. I have since grown up to be an avid hunter with respect for my elders and the great outdoors. I now have a son who is approaching 19 who has also read the book. He has been fortunate to have an "Old Man" by his side.
One of my favorite books. Any outdoorsman would love........1997-10-25
My father and I have read this book over and over. Now that I live in a large city, reading "The Old Man and The Boy" reminds me of my childhood, life in a rural community and the satisfaction of learning proper etiquette in the outdoors from someone older and wiser than I.
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- We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For: Light in a Time of Darkness
- The Hidden Heart of the Cosmos: Humanity and the New Story
- Hypothalmic Pathway of Endocrine Pancreas Regulation: Histopathological Aspects
- Linear and Nonlinear Waves
- On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo
- Quicken Willmaker Plus 2007 Edition: Estate Planning Essentials
- Step-By-Step Book About Chinchillas
- The Artful Journal: A Spiritual Quest
- Leicht Weit/Light Structures
- Introduction to Trees of the San Francisco Bay Region
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