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Author |
: Basma Abdel Aziz |
Publisher |
: Melville House |
Total Pages |
: 194 |
Release |
: 2016-05-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781612195179 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1612195172 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (79 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Queue by : Basma Abdel Aziz
“Weird and wild.” —BookRiot “An effective critique of authoritarianism.” —NPR “Equal parts dystopia, satire, and allegory. —Los Angeles Review of Books Set against the backdrop of a failed political uprising in Egypt, this chilling debut evokes Orwellian dystopia, Kafkaesque surrealism, and a very real vision of life after the Arab Spring. In a surreal, but familiar, vision of modern day Egypt, a centralized authority known as ‘the Gate’ has risen to power in the aftermath of the ‘Disgraceful Events,’ a failed popular uprising. Citizens are required to obtain permission from the Gate in order to take care of even the most basic of their daily affairs, yet the Gate never opens, and the queue in front of it grows longer. Citizens from all walks of life mix and wait in the sun: a revolutionary journalist, a sheikh, a poor woman concerned for her daughter’s health, and even the brother of a security officer killed in clashes with protestors. Among them is Yehia, a man who was shot during the Events and is waiting for permission from the Gate to remove a bullet that remains lodged in his pelvis. Yehia’s health steadily declines, yet at every turn, officials refuse to assist him, actively denying the very existence of the bullet. Ultimately it is Tarek, the principled doctor tending to Yehia’s case, who must decide whether to follow protocol as he has always done, or to disobey the law and risk his career to operate on Yehia and save his life. Written with dark, subtle humor, The Queue describes the sinister nature of authoritarianism, and illuminates the way that absolute authority manipulates information, mobilizes others in service to it, and fails to uphold the rights of even those faithful to it.
Author |
: Vladimir Sorokin |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 216 |
Release |
: 1988 |
ISBN-10 |
: UCBK:C006391436 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (36 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Queue by : Vladimir Sorokin
"Vladimir Sorokin’s first published novel, The Queue, is a sly comedy about the late Soviet “years of stagnation.” Thousands of citizens are in line for . . . nobody knows quite what, but the rumors are flying. Leather or suede? Jackets, jeans? Turkish, Swedish, maybe even American? It doesn’t matter–if anything is on sale, you better line up to buy it. Sorokin’s tour de force of ventriloquism and formal daring tells the whole story in snatches of unattributed dialogue, adding up to nothing less than the real voice of the people, overheard on the street as they joke and curse, fall in and out of love, slurp down ice cream or vodka, fill out crossword puzzles, even go to sleep and line up again in the morning as the queue drags on."--Amazon.com.
Author |
: Mary Wesley |
Publisher |
: Open Road Media |
Total Pages |
: 242 |
Release |
: 2013-11-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781480450561 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1480450561 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (61 Downloads) |
Synopsis Jumping the Queue by : Mary Wesley
A “quirky, sad, and very funny” novel about suicide, matricide, and an unlikely love, from one of England’s best-loved authors (The Guardian). Determined to end it all after the death of her husband, Matilda Poliport’s carefully laid plans to kill herself are derailed when she comes to the rescue of another potential bridge jumper—a notorious young man on the run for having murdered his mother. Faced with the choice of either turning him in to the police or continuing on with her suicide attempt, Matilda makes the obvious decision and takes Hugh Warner home to stay with her while they both sort out what to do next. As Hugh and Matilda find surprising comfort in each other, secrets about Matilda’s deceased husband are revealed, leaving Matilda to face some very uncomfortable facts about her life. And as the pair plot to help Hugh escape the law, they will both need to face the truth about themselves and how far they are willing to go for each other. This “virtuoso performance of guileful plotting, deft characterizations, and malicious wit” showcases the talents of Mary Wesley at her caustic and comical best (The Times, London).
Author |
: Mark Kelman |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 350 |
Release |
: 1997 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0674489098 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780674489097 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (98 Downloads) |
Synopsis Jumping the Queue by : Mark Kelman
This book weighs alternative conceptions of the equal opportunity principle through empirical and ethical explorations of the Federal law directing local school districts to award special educational opportunities to students classified as learning disabled. The authors examine the vexing question of how we should distribute extra education funds.
Author |
: Kay Kerr |
Publisher |
: Text Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 293 |
Release |
: 2021-09-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781922459299 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1922459291 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (99 Downloads) |
Synopsis Social Queue by : Kay Kerr
A funny and insightful novel about an autistic teen who realises she's been missing all the signs when it comes to her romantic life.
Author |
: J.W. Cohen |
Publisher |
: Elsevier |
Total Pages |
: 709 |
Release |
: 2012-12-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780444596246 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0444596240 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (46 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Single Server Queue by : J.W. Cohen
This classic work, now available in paperback, concentrates on the basic models of queueing theory. It has a dual aim: to describe relevant mathematical techniques and to analyse the single server queue and its most important variants.
Author |
: Refael Hassin |
Publisher |
: Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages |
: 212 |
Release |
: 2003 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1402072031 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781402072031 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (31 Downloads) |
Synopsis To Queue or Not to Queue by : Refael Hassin
To Queue Or Not To Queue: Equilibrium Behavior in Queueing Systems focuses on the highly interesting, practical viewpoint of customer behavior and its effect on the performance of the queueing system. The book's objectives are threefold: (1) It is a comprehensive survey of the literature on equilibrium behavior of customers and servers in queueing systems. The literature is rich and considerable, but lacks continuity. This book will provide the needed continuity and cover some issues that have not been adequately treated. (2) In addition, it will examine the known results of the field, classify them and identify where and how they relate to each other. (3) And finally, it seeks to fill a number of the gaps in the literature with new results while explicitly outlining open problems in other areas. With this book, it is the authors' paramount purpose is to motivate further research and to help researchers identify new and interesting open problems.
Author |
: Sandi Toksvig |
Publisher |
: Profile Books |
Total Pages |
: 272 |
Release |
: 2013-10-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781847658661 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1847658660 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (61 Downloads) |
Synopsis Peas & Queues by : Sandi Toksvig
How do you get rid of unwanted guests? What do you do if there's a racket in the quiet carriage? How should you eat peas, and behave in queues? How to behave, like how to punctuate, is an aspect of life that many are no longer taught - and getting it wrong is the stuff of comedy at best and humiliation at worst. Thankfully, Sandi Toksvig has come to the rescue with her entertaining guide to modern manners,with tips on what to do whether you're talking to a bore, or forgot their name in the first place. (Just call them 'darling'.) The award-winning Radio 4 broadcaster and writer offers guidance on the social pitfalls of every phase of life, from christenings to condolence letters. With characteristic wit and perceptiveness, and revealing the trickiest of her encounters along the way, she highlights decency rather than convention and provides an essential guide to twenty-first century behaviour. Now this down-to-earth, hilarious guide is available in perfect pocket-sized paperback size.
Author |
: Natarajan Gautam |
Publisher |
: CRC Press |
Total Pages |
: 804 |
Release |
: 2012-04-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781439806586 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1439806586 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (86 Downloads) |
Synopsis Analysis of Queues by : Natarajan Gautam
Written with students and professors in mind, Analysis of Queues: Methods and Applications combines coverage of classical queueing theory with recent advances in studying stochastic networks. Exploring a broad range of applications, the book contains plenty of solved problems, exercises, case studies, paradoxes, and numerical examples. In addition to the standard single-station and single class discrete queues, the book discusses models for multi-class queues and queueing networks as well as methods based on fluid scaling, stochastic fluid flows, continuous parameter Markov processes, and quasi-birth-and-death processes, to name a few. It describes a variety of applications including computer-communication networks, information systems, production operations, transportation, and service systems such as healthcare, call centers and restaurants.
Author |
: Narahari U. Prabhu |
Publisher |
: Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages |
: 148 |
Release |
: 2012-12-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781468401134 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1468401130 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (34 Downloads) |
Synopsis Stochastic Storage Processes by : Narahari U. Prabhu
This book is based on a course I have taught at Cornell University since 1965. The primary topic of this course was queueing theory, but related topics such as inventories, insurance risk, and dams were also included. As a text I used my earlier book, Queues and Inventories (John Wiley, New York, 1965). Over the years the emphasis in this course shifted from detailed analysis of probability models to the study of stochastic processes that arise from them, and the subtitle of the text, "A Study of Their Basic Stochastic Processes," became a more appropriate description of the course. My own research into the fluctuation theory for U:vy processes provided a new perspective on the topics discussed, and enabled me to reorganize the material. The lecture notes used for the course went through several versions, and the final version became this book. A detailed description of my approach will be found in the Introduction. I have not attempted to give credit to authors of individual results. Readers interested in the historical literature should consult the Selected Bibliography given at the end of the Introduction. The original work in this area is presented here with simpler proofs that make full use of the special features of the underlying stochastic processes. The same approach makes it possible to provide several new results. Thanks are due to Kathy King for her excellent typing of the manuscript.