Trainspotting is the hilarious, appalling, riveting, bestselling, and altogether masterful first novel that launched the spectacular career of Irvine Welsh. It is an authentic, unrelenting, and strangely exhilarating group portrait of blasted lives in Edinburgh — as unforgettable a clutch of junkies, rude boys, and nutters as readers will ever encounter.
These notes were developed from a course taught at Rice University in the spring of 1976 and again at the University of Hawaii in the spring of 1977. It is assumed that the students know some linear algebra and a little about differentiation of vector-valued functions. The idea is to introduce some students to some of the concepts of Lie group theory--all done at the concrete level of matrix groups.
"Bryon here helps people prepare for tests of advanced numerical skills that are used extensively to weed out candidates for management and graduate jobs and for places in postgraduate courses. The main tests are the ABLE Financial Appraisal, GMAT, SHL Graduate Battery, and McKinsey Problem Solving, but they are similar enough that he takes them as a group rather than distinguishing between them.
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Balthazar (Alexandria Quartet; Book 2) by Lawrence Durrel
Set amid the corrupt glamour and multiplying intrigues of Alexandria in the 1930s and 1940s, the novels of Durrell's "Alexandria Quartet" (of which this is the second) follow the shifting alliances - sexual, cultural and political - of a group of quite varied characters.
