The Nostalgic Gardens of Derek Jarman's England

Measuring the Resilience of Gardens in Yazd

Over the past decades, the horizontal growth of cities has led to the integration of rural-garden areas within the parent city. This phenomenon is more serious in the arid areas of Iran because of the limited networks of water supply (Qanat) and the proximity of settlements around this network and has caused the destruction of the gardens of these urban textures that are rural-based. This resea...

The Magnus-Derek game

We introduce a new combinatorial game between two players: Magnus and Derek. Initially, a token is placed at position 0 on a round table with n positions. In each round of the game Magnus chooses the number of positions for the token to move, and Derek decides in which direction, + (clockwise) or − (counterclockwise), the token will be moved. Magnus aims to maximize the total number of position...

Derek J

Derek J Roberts ([email protected]) Simon Leigh-Smith ([email protected]) Peter D Faris ([email protected]) Chad G Ball ([email protected]) Helen Lee Robertson ([email protected]) Christopher Blackmore ([email protected]) Elijah Dixon ([email protected]) Andrew W Kirkpatrick (Andrew.Kirkpatrick@a...

Derek Walcott " the Muse of History " (1974)

Here, Walcott argues that the “common experience of the New World . . . is colonialism” (1). This is true even for those whose “veneration of the Old is read as the idolatry of the mestizo” (1). Such writers remind us, Walcott argues, though they too are “victims of tradition” (1), “of our great debt to the great dead” (1) and that “those who break a tradition first hold it in awe” (1). Arguing...

The Gardens of the Lord