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Fluctuating Life is a book of 60 poems by Joshua Spencer, depicting, symbolically, the struggles, triumphs and jubilations of the author. Joshua Spencer, a teacher with the Toronto District School Board (TDSB), highlights the challenges, triumphs and jubilations experienced through his forty-seven years of existence both in the Caribbean and North America. The work is perforated throughout with symbols, metaphors, personifications, similes, etc.

He eloquently and touchingly entraps, captivates and motivates his audience's thought processes, to share in his challenges of love, perceived discrimination, economic deprivation and his will in overcoming a serious illness experienced. These poems, a direct experience of his winding life´s journey, serve as great motivational tools for all who have encountered or are currently facing numerous struggles and setbacks in life. You will learn how to triumph, how to be resilient! It is also a terrific vehicle of education for adolescents, young adults and the inexperienced of society.

Students of Literature and History will gain significantly from reading and studying from Fluctuating Life as will scholars and individuals of varying backgrounds and cultures..
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In this study extending classical Markov chain theory to handle fluctuating transition matrices, the author develops a theory of Markov set-chains and provides numerous examples showing how that theory can be applied. Chapters are concluded with a discussion of related research. Readers who can benefit from this monograph are those interested in, or involved with, systems whose data is imprecise or that fluctuate with time. A background equivalent to a course in linear algebra and one in probability theory should be sufficient..
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Fluctuating Borders is a publication which re-considers the possibilities for international borders. In this volume designers and theorists from multiple but cognate disciplines such as Planning, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Urban Design and the Visual Arts have reflected on and critiqued notions of memory, fluctuation and emergence. This publication begins with examining how Mexico, America and Australia are conceptualised not just in terms of how border spaces are remembered but how they represented and organised. These countries share a common thread - a colonial past. Australia and America are part of the Western world, and are regarded as developed nations. Mexico, on the other hand, is positioned on the fringes of the Western world and is commonly understood as a developing nation. Our investigation, here, aims at interrogating and confusing, theoretically and practically, the polarised structure and rigidity of these territorial and national representations by forming connections along lines of difference thus discovering how the outside can be implicated in the inside. Extending the complexity involved in border conditions to other parts of the world, we have also included one example from Israel as expressive of another voice in conundrum. We acknowledge that the material presented in this publication is only a beginning, but nonetheless felt compelled to publish it now to contribute to this on-going dialogue about the possibilities of international borders..
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There are books that tell you how to handle a down market. There are books that tell you how to invest as if the stock market operates in a straight line—up. Unfortunately, these books operate in a vacuum. In reality, markets fluctuate. To truly outperform the market, an investor cannot simply ride the waves—they must learn to see the world differently than the herd. They must learn to filter the daily fog and noise and see markets with clarity. The winning investor must look in unconventional places for investing insight—from timeless (but often shunned) investing wisdom to cutting edge scientific discoveries. That’s what 20/20 Money is all about. While many believe markets are completely random, by taking a closer look it is possible to see differently than the crowd and identify the important features of difficult markets. In 20/20 Money, readers will learn how a unique mixture of neuroscience, psychology, physical sciences, stock market theory, and history can allow investors to see clearly in today’s market. With this information in hand, investors will discover what it takes to think differently than the herd and profit in volatile markets. Understanding how to navigate through panics and manias—and everything in between—is one of the most important skills any investor can learn. With the right approach, it is possible to achieve this difficult goal, and with 20/20 Money as their guide, readers will gain the sharp focus needed to protect their portfolios and produce superior long-term returns in even the most difficult market conditions..
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This volume discusses some of the major legal effects of fluctuating exchange rates in both public international law and national law. The problems and similarities in the solutions are reviewed, and the author recommends further developments in the law..
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Signer of the Declaration of Independence attacks paper money..
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From the foreword to this 2004 reprinting:

"In the Introduction to Modelling Fluctuating Populations, published in 1982, we characterized the state-of-the-art in theoretical ecology as being that "at present we can make quantitative, testable models only of laboratory systems which are themselves caricatures of reality." This unattractive situation no longer holds, as ecological theory has made spectacular advances over the past two decades. Thanks to new approaches to modelling, and to advances in time series analysis, mechanistically based models are now well-established tools for elucidating the dynamics of natural populations.

So why reprint a 20-year old book?

The primary reason is that the book takes a distinctive approach to population dynamics, by emphasizing from the earliest chapters that all populations fluctuate continuously. Traditional themes in theoretical ecology such as equilibrium and population stability are linked to analyses of the response of a population to environmental fluctuations and to extinction probabilities. Thus, the book’s approach confronts head-on one common criticism of simple ecological models – the mismatch between the mathematical mechanisms studied and the questions of top ecological concern.

Second, the book demonstrates the power of techniques based on linear mathematics. It has become fashionable to emphasize the importance of nonlinearity in ecological models, and there are some situations, notably those involving competition in fluctuating environments, where fundamentally nonlinear phenomena are critical to ecological understanding. But the importance in the real world of other nonlinear phenomena that attract much excitement among theorists, such as deterministic chaos, is much more doubtful. Many properties of fluctuations in nonlinear systems are well described by mathematical approaches that use linear equations to describe dynamics in the vicinity of an equilibrium state. The book gives a thorough introduction to these approaches, with particular focus on methods that exploit Fourier analysis.

Third, chapters 6 and 7 of the book take an unconventional approach to the formulation and analysis of stochastic population models. The starting point is a rigorous treatment of "demographic stochasticity", the randomness that occurs because population change is caused by a sequence of individual births and deaths. We introduce the concept of "white noise" in a manner appropriate for ecologists, develop powerful approximate methods for predicting the intensity of fluctuating populations, and offer a systematic approach to modeling the probability of extinction.".
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