Bøger af Michael O'Neill

Natural Computing Algorithms

Presenting revolving perspectives, with wheels and circles everywhere - a tramp muses on the wheel of fortune, a boy's arm brushes his ear as he bowls, a merry-go-round melts into a hoop of light, the rings of a tree reveal its age, this collection of poems turn on an axis of opposites: self and others, here and there, present and past.

The outlines of contemporary critical theory are now often taught as a standard feature of a degree in literary studies. This text aims to explore the theoretical issues and conflicts embodied in selected poems of Percy Shelley and locate areas of disagreement between positions.

In 'Percy Bysshe Shelly: A Literary Life' , Michael O'Neill gives a knowledgeable and balanced account of Shelley's literary career from his earliest published work to his last unfinished masterpiece, The Triumph of Life . For Shelley, a poet was the 'combined product' of 'internal powers' and 'external influences' (Preface to Prometheus Unbound );

When Michael O'Neill senses "e;gangs / of shadow halfbeckoning from twilit water"e;, the moment is eerily alluring as well as scary. Fusions of feeling recur throughout a book that has something of the 'dash' and 'darkness' praised in 'Louis MacNeice', along with a strong responsiveness to the physical and visual experience of living. Formally adventurous and alert to change and movement, combining memorable phrasing with a reaching towards the unsayable, Gangs of Shadow brims with imagery of past, present and future; its poems "e;seek to bear witness, and above all sing"e;.

An inner-city English Catholic parish, close to Liverpool docks, which embodies two hundred years of Liverpool's heritage and history. Using documentary evidence and the reminiscences of the people who have lived and worked there, this book tells the fascinating story of the parish, from its origins in the aftermath of the French Revolution with the mission of Fr Jean Baptiste Antoine Gerardot. Woven into its rich history are the threads of Recusancy, of Portuguese, Lithuanian, Italian and Irish influences, of the Great Famine, Immigration, Epidemics, Riots, the Blitz and the baleful impact of the urban planners' post-1945 dreams, the divided loyalties of the parishioners split between supporting Liverpool and Everton football clubs, and even Cilla Black, who attended the parish school.

In Crash & Burn, Michael O'Neill describes his treatment for cancer of the oesophagus. Everywhere life and death are in close contact in a volume that is uncompromisingly unafraid to deal with the realities of illness while retaining humour, grace and eloquence.

First Published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor amp Francis, an informa company.

Striking photography of the classic rock band at the height of their popularity, in a hardcover special edition.

Predicting the future for financial gain is a difficult, sometimes profitable activity. This book focuses on the application of biologically inspired algorithms (BIAs) to financial modelling. It explains computer trading on financial markets and the difficulties faced in financial market modelling.

Dynamic environments encompass many real-world problems in fields as diverse as finance, engineering and biology. This book describes the state-of-the-art in applying grammar-based evolutionary computation to solve real-world problems in dynamic environments.

Provides the comprehensive introduction to Grammatical Evolution, a novel approach to Genetic Programming that adopts principles from molecular biology. This approach to Genetic Programming represents a powerful new weapon in the Machine Learning toolkit that can be applied to a diverse set of problem domains.