Robert Friedman Boeken

Set in a beachfront guesthouse in Puerto Rico during 1987, the narrative unfolds through interconnected stories of quirky characters seeking to navigate their tumultuous lives. Each character shares a distinct tale that delves into themes of love, sexuality, and survival. With a blend of dark humor and keen observation, the book examines the complexities of human struggles while also addressing broader issues such as the Puerto Rico/U.S. relationship and Cuban exile politics, highlighting the interplay between personal experiences and political realities.

Updated with sixteen new pages of quips, remarks and exchanges from the creators of overheardinnewyork.com. The streets of New York are full of characters who don't mince words-or care who hears them. This collection presents some of the most outlandish real life conversations overheard on the sidewalk, in the subway, and at the next table. It's the Big Apple peeled, a hysterically unvarnished portrait of the city that never sleeps-and often neglects to think before it speaks in public.

The book delves into the advancements in topology and geometry initiated by Smale's establishment of the generalized Poincare Conjecture in higher dimensions and the h-cobordism theorem. It outlines the classification of smooth and topological structures on manifolds of dimension 5 and above, highlighting significant results regarding simply connected manifolds. As the theory matured, focus shifted to the more complex and unique challenges posed by 3 and 4-dimensional manifolds, necessitating innovative approaches due to the limitations inherent in these lower dimensions.

Exploring the rich narratives woven into the lives of pianos, the author, Bob Friedman, shares his decades-long journey of discovering the unique tales each instrument holds. Through his passion for music and storytelling, he delves into the histories and experiences associated with pianos, offering readers a captivating glimpse into the world of these beloved instruments.

A guide to making the U.S. economy work for everyone, by a leading advocate of asset development.

A novel feature of the book is its integrated approach to algebraic surface theory and the study of vector bundle theory on both curves and surfaces. While the two subjects remain separate through the first few chapters, they become much more tightly interconnected as the book progresses. Thus vector bundles over curves are studied to understand ruled surfaces, and then reappear in the proof of Bogomolov's inequality for stable bundles, which is itself applied to study canonical embeddings of surfaces via Reider's method. Similarly, ruled and elliptic surfaces are discussed in detail, before the geometry of vector bundles over such surfaces is analysed. Many of the results on vector bundles appear for the first time in book form, backed by many examples, both of surfaces and vector bundles, and over 100 exercises forming an integral part of the text. Aimed at graduates with a thorough first-year course in algebraic geometry, as well as more advanced students and researchers in the areas of algebraic geometry, gauge theory, or 4-manifold topology, many of the results on vector bundles will also be of interest to physicists studying string theory.