The book offers you a window into some exciting teaching experiences for someone thinking of becoming a teacher, who is a teacher, or just wants to reminisce about teaching activities in which they were involved. The humorous anecdotes offer suggestions for a teacher to use to maximize the students learning from these occurrences. The multidisciplinary variety of the activities are there to help you realize that your subject can involve many other disciplines. The goal of this text also is to suggest you use the outside world in your teaching. Finally, the book irradiates you with stories, trying to show the reader, what a wonderful career teaching really can be.

Backpacker brings the outdoors straight to the reader's doorstep, inspiring and enabling them to go more places and enjoy nature more often. The authority on active adventure, Backpacker is the world's first GPS-enabled magazine, and the only magazine whose editors personally test the hiking trails, camping gear, and survival tips they publish. Backpacker's Editors' Choice Awards, an industry honor recognizing design, feature and product innovation, has become the gold standard against which all other outdoor-industry awards are measured.

Dr Alan J Hoffman is a pioneer in linear programming, combinatorial optimization, and the study of graph spectra. In his principal research interests, which include the fields of linear inequalities, combinatorics, and matrix theory, he and his collaborators have contributed fundamental concepts and theorems, many of which bear their names. This volume of Dr Hoffman's selected papers is divided into seven sections: geometry; combinatorics; matrix inequalities and eigenvalues; linear inequalities and linear programming; combinatorial optimization; greedy algorithms; graph spectra. Dr Hoffman has supplied background commentary and anecdotal remarks for each of the selected papers. He has also provided autobiographical notes showing how he chose mathematics as his profession, and the influences and motivations which shaped his career. Contents: The Variation of the Spectrum of a Normal Matrix (with H W Wielandt); Integral Boundary Points of Convex Polyhedra (with J Kruskal); On Moore Graphs with Diameters 2 and 3 (with R R Singleton); Cycling in the Simplex Algorithm; On Approximate Solutions of Systems of Linear Inequalities; On the Polynomial of a Graph; Some Recent Applications of the Theory of Linear Inequalities of Extremal Combinatorial Analysis; On Simple Linear Programming Problems; Self-Orthogonal Latin Squares (with R K Brayton & D Coppersmith); On the Nonsingularity of Complex Matrices (with P Camion); A Generalization of Max Flow-Min Cut; A Characterization of Comparability Graphs and of Interval Graphs (with P C Gilmore); and 33 other papers. Readership: Researchers in linear programming and inequalities, combinatorics, combinatorial optimization, graph theory, matrix theory and operations research.

Mark Hanlon considers himself an ordinary man who carved a unique path in life based on his beliefs. In a fascinating account, Hanlon shares a first-hand glimpse into an adventure initiated in 1976 as he began to gravitate toward Rev. Sun Myung Moon and the Unification Church movement. It was November 1976 while working in a music store in Nashua, New Hampshire, when Hanlon, who was a reborn Christian at the time, first heard about this controversial organization through his co-workers. As he leads others through his spiritual journey to eventually become an active member and leader of one of the most controversial new religious movements of our time, Hanlon shares an ultimate story of faith versus reality as he learned to embrace the illuminating effect the teachings had on him and others around him, and deal with the mystical, theological questions of life in a distinctive and fascinating way. Uncle Marks Amazing Adventures shares an in-depth look into a unique, modern religion in a personal account that touches the heart and mind.