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How we can get more joy from our machines by telling them what our hearts desire.In this informative, accessible, and very funny book, Michael L. Littman inspires readers to learn how to tell machines what to do for us. Rather than give in to the fear that computers will steal our jobs, spy on us, control what we buy and whom we vote for, we can improve our relationship with them just by learning basic programming skills. Our devices will help us, Littman writes, if we can say what we want in a way they can understand.Each chapter of the book focuses on a particular element of what can be said, providing examples of how we use similar communication in our daily interactions with people. Littman offers ways readers can experiment with these ideas right away, using publicly available systems that might also make us more productive as a welcome side effect. Each chapter also reflects on how the use of these programming components can be expedited by machine learning. With humor and teacherly guidance, Code to Joy brings into view a future where programming is like reading—something everyone can learn.

All women living in Okinawa, formerly the Ryukyu Kingdom had tattoos on their hands until the Meiji Restoration. Once the practice was banned by the Japanese government the tradition began to fade and by the 1930s the youngest women with tattoos were in their 60s or 70s. Tattooing in Okinawa Volume two is a translation of Obara Kazuo's research in Okinawa. He travelled extensively in Okinawa in the early 1930's recording many examples of tattoos. Due to the Second World War he was unable to publish his findings until 1962. Obara was able to find and catalogue a great number of tattoos from the majority of the Okinawan islands in addition to noting songs, legends and many interesting details about the tattooing ceremony.

This volume celebrates the lives, careers, and contributions of over one hundred American pianists, including collaborative pianists and pedagogues. In addition to household names, it also spotlights historical women, people of color, and LGBTQ+ pianists who were top-notch performers or had important careers but were soon forgotten.

Earth's endemic life exists on an active planet, and its physical characteristics shape its development by affecting it in many ways. The planet's magnetic field plays its part in that scenario. In this new book, the author concentrates on this little-understood aspect of terrestrial life's existence. In an all-pervasive way, Earth's natural magnetism imparts a pulse to the life forms that exist on the planet. From the very simplest to the most complex, organisms cannot ignore their natural magnetic environment. A lot of recent research into this phenomenon has been collated and reviewed by the author. In this book, he appraises the evidence from that research in a scientific yet interesting manner.

Von der "Kashaxn" bis zur "Hundshitn": Das Münchnerische ist weit mehr als ein regionaler Ableger des bairischen Dialekts. Seine faszinierenden, oft amüsanten Eigenheiten und sein unverwechselbarer Klang haben das Interesse an dieser Mundart gerade in den letzten Jahren steigen lassen. Dabei wird das echte Münchnerisch von immer weniger Menschen gesprochen!Alfred Bammesberger, Münchner von Geburt und Sprachwissenschaftler von Beruf, widmet sich dem Dialekt seiner Heimatstadt nach allen Regeln der linguistischen Kunst, die er anhand einer vereinfachten Lautschrift auch ungeübten Mundartsprechern näherbringt. In 12 Kapiteln stellt er die Grammatik des Münchnerischen, seine Herkunft und sämtliche Besonderheiten vor.Eine nostalgische Erinnerung an jene Zeit, in der man "amoi so gredt" hat, und gleichzeitig ein Buch für alle, die fundiert in das sprachliche Leben der Landeshauptstadt eintauchen wollen.

This handbook is a timely intervention into the field of global urban studies, coming as comparison is being more widely used as a method for global urban studies, and as a number of methodological experiments and comparative research projects are being brought to fruition.

Der Band enthält die Lehnwörter aus dem "Wörterbuch Palästinensisch- Deutsch" nach Sprachen geordnet.

Do you struggle to learn new French words and phrases? Are you tired of sifting through dense, text-heavy language dictionaries?Our French picture dictionary is here to help! Featuring over 1,000 vivid illustrations, this dictionary offers an intuitive and visually engaging way to learn French vocabulary. Each entry includes the French word, its English translation, and a high-quality picture that illustrates its meaning in context.With our picture dictionary, you can easily learn new words and phrases and expand your French vocabulary with confidence. Say goodbye to the frustration of memorizing lists of words and the confusion of trying to understand their meanings without context.Don't miss out on this valuable tool for French language learners. Order your copy of our French picture dictionary today and start improving your French vocabulary in a fun and effective way!The Interactive French Picture Dictionary: Learn words, test your knowledge, and color your way to fluencyTake your French language learning to the next level with our interactive picture dictionary. This unique resource features not only thousands of French words and their corresponding illustrations but also interactive quizzes and coloring pages to test your knowledge and enhance retention. Perfect for students, travelers, and language learners of all levels.Inside the bookFrench Alphabet Pronunciation A to ZPicture dictionary for 65+ themeEach French word with a pronunciation guide in EnglishQuiz, Fill in the blanks, MCQs,Colour the pictureConnect Dot to DotFrench Verbs, Adverbs, AdjectivesThree steps to construct a French sentenceThis will be the best gift for the kid's birthday & Christmas present who loves to learn a language, especially French.Thank you ¿¿¿¿Don't think muchBuy now

Are you struggling to learn German words and phrases? Do you find traditional language dictionaries difficult to understand?Our German picture dictionary is the solution you've been looking for! With over 1,000 colorful illustrations, this dictionary provides a visual and interactive approach to learning German vocabulary. Each entry includes the German word, its English translation, and a high-quality picture that helps you understand the word in context.With our picture dictionary, you'll be able to learn German vocabulary with ease and confidence. The clear illustrations and user-friendly layout make learning German a fun and enjoyable experience, while the contextual examples help you remember the words more easily.Order your copy of our German picture dictionary today and take the first step towards improving your German language skills! Whether you're a beginner or an advanced learner, our picture dictionary is a valuable tool that can help you achieve your language goals. With its engaging visual aids and easy-to-follow explanations, you'll be on your way to fluency in no time.The Interactive German Picture Dictionary: Learn words, test your knowledge, and color your way to fluencyTake your German language learning to the next level with our interactive picture dictionary. This unique resource features not only thousands of German words and their corresponding illustrations but also interactive quizzes and coloring pages to test your knowledge and enhance retention. Perfect for students, travelers, and language learners of all levels.Inside the bookGerman Alphabet Pronunciation A to ZPicture dictionary for 65+ themeEach German word with a pronunciation guide in EnglishQuiz, Fill in the blanks, MCQs,Color the pictureConnect Dot to DotGerman Verbs, Adverbs, AdjectivesThree steps to construct a German sentenceThis will be the best gift for the kid's birthday & Christmas present who loves to learn a language, especially German.Thank you ¿¿¿¿Don't think muchBuy now

Are you struggling to learn Russian words and phrases? Do you find traditional language dictionaries dense and overwhelming?Our Russian picture dictionary is the perfect solution! With over 1,000 colorful illustrations, this dictionary offers a fun and engaging way to learn new vocabulary. Each entry includes the Russian word, its English translation, and a high-quality picture that helps you understand the word in context.With our picture dictionary, you'll be able to learn Russian vocabulary with ease and confidence. Say goodbye to the frustration of memorizing lists of words and the confusion of trying to understand their meanings without visual aids.Order your copy of our Russian picture dictionary today and start your journey toward Russian language proficiency! Whether you're a beginner or an advanced learner, our picture dictionary is a valuable tool that can help you achieve your language goals. With its clear illustrations and user-friendly layout, learning Russian has never been so enjoyable.The Interactive Russian Picture Dictionary: Learn words, test your knowledge, and color your way to fluencyTake your Russian language learning to the next level with our interactive picture dictionary. This unique resource features not only thousands of Italian words and their corresponding illustrations but also interactive quizzes and coloring pages to test your knowledge and enhance retention. Perfect for students, travelers, and language learners of all levels.Inside the bookRussian Alphabet Pronunciation A to ZPicture dictionary for 65+ themeEach Russian word with a pronunciation guide in EnglishQuiz, Fill in the blanks, MCQs,Color the pictureConnect Dot to DotRussian Verbs, Adverbs, AdjectivesThree steps to construct a Russian sentence.This will be the best gift for the kid's birthday & Christmas present who loves to learn a language, especially Russian. (Russian gift ideas)Thank you ¿¿¿¿Don't think muchBuy now

A Guide to Library Research in Music introduces the process and techniques for researching and writing about music, providing concrete examples and offering a thorough introduction to music literature. This second edition addresses new matters in digital technology and the expansion in musical genres for library research.

Cuando pensé escribir este libro mi vida marcaba un giro de trescientos sesenta grados y mi único equipaje eran la fe y la esperanza. Paradójicamente con este cambio se marcaba el inicio de un nuevo siglo y con él quedaban atrás los recuerdos de momentos felices pero que por las circunstancias sólo deberían convertirse en sueños para construir con cada presente un futuro pleno de vida y de amor.De mis padres e hijos aprendí las mejores lecciones de la vida y armado con éstas empecé a recorrer mi camino iluminándome con sus enseñanzas e inscribiendo en mi mente que las mejores lecciones son las que se pronuncian con el testimonio de vida y no con las palabras; Fue entonces cuando en la madurez de mi vida decidí establecer tres prioridades:Dios, Familia y Trabajo.La vida ha sido muy generosa conmigo pues me ha regalado la Gloria de construir una familia, me ha dado el mayor privilegio que es ser padre en cuatro oportunidades. De cada uno de mis hijos Alejandro, Angela, Diana he aprendido muchas cosas, mi hija menor Victoria, por ejemplo, permanentemente me actualiza con su inocencia y naturalidad; Adicionalmente trabajo por el desarrollo integral de las familias en un país donde los adelantos científicos y técnicos han dejado rezagado el avance humanístico por lo que este proyecto se convierte en una necesidad sentida. Durante los cinco últimos años he logrado recopilar una gran información, algunos datos estadísticos pero lo que es más importante he tenido de cerca las vivencias y testimonios de familias que han extraviado su ruta pero que a partir de su sensibilización han re-andado sus pasos, rectificado sus errores y encontrado una luz en el camino.Este libro pretende ser esa luz que todos necesitamos en el camino de la vida. Si al leerlo iluminas tu sendero mi vocación tiene juicio y juntos podremos exclamar desde lo más profundo de nuestra alma.No ha sido en vano.Nuestra existencia tiene sentido.About the Book When I decided to write this book, my life made a three hundred and sixty degree turn, and all I had to go on was faith and hope. A new century was also commencing along with my new life, and I was leaving behind happy memories in order to go forward with a new future full of life and love.The best lessons of life are those I have learned from my parents and my children. Equipped with this wisdom I started on my new road in life, aware that the best lessons are those taught by the testimony of life, not with words. It was then that I set the three priorities in my life:God, family and work.God has been generous to me. He has given me the chance to be a father of four children; my youngest daughter Victoria for example continually rejuvenates me with her innocence and spontaneity, and I am working to enhance overall development of families in a country where scientific and technical progress has outdistanced humanistic advances, making this project an authentic necessity.For the last three years, I have gathered a large amount of information, some of it statistical, but more importantly, I have been involved with the experiences and testimonies of families that have lost their way and found it again by their willingness to change and to learn from their mistakes.With this book, I hope to shed some light on the road of life. If reading it lights your way, my work will not be in vain and together we can say that it wasn't in vain; that there a reason for our existence.

This is a book about the practice of a healing ministry in a faith community. The concept of parish nursing is a burgeoning field in nursing practice today and this book offers practical guidelines, tips, and wonderful stories of parish nursing ministry.This book is intended for faith communities, nurses, nursing instructors, faith community leaders, physicians in family practice, and anyone interested in the field of parish nursing. There is useful information for everyone.Barbara's role evolved from her ongoing recognition of changing health care needs. At the same time as the Reverend Granger Westberg began a similar movement in the United States, and before his work was known in Canada, Barbara envisioned how a nurse could promote health and healing in the congregation and the community. As a respected member of a committed, caring ministry team, she developed a practice that included education, advocacy, empowerment, emotional and spiritual support, and connection with community services.Emerging out of her 15 years of experience, this book promotes excellent, practical, "how to" aspects of parish nursing. It is a uniquely Canadian, uniquely nursing, experiential perspective on parish nursing, and a must for anyone interested in this field.

A guide to the temperate zone and high altitude ginger varieties that are perfectly at home in cooler climates. This is a black-and-white edition.

Learn and explore the most fascinating facts about your body with '51 Must Know Facts about Human Body'. Discover the sensational systems and senses, and magnificent structures, all revealed in an exciting, simplified, and intriguing approach. You will be impelled to care for your wonderful body, once you find out the amazing things it does for you!The human body is an incredible living, breathing, moving, eating, thinking, and interactive machine. Your body is an unimaginable gift, inside which there are millions of profound parts working together amazingly to keep you alive in a healthy and active way. The human body is pretty smart when you think about all the things it does. Human beings are unlike most other creatures-walk upright on two legs and create ideas using brains and hands. The body grows bigger, builds new body parts to replace old ones, repairs itself if it gets injured, has special parts to sense light, sounds, smells, tastes, and objects.Other Books in this Series:51 Must Know Facts About Brain, ISBN : 978935499465451 Must Know Facts About Albert Einstein, ISBN : 9789354992285

Dieses Buch enthält mehr als 6000 Vokabeln, die nach der Häufigkeit ihres Vorkommens sortiert sind. So kann man die wichtigsten Wörter zuerst lernen. Für die Ermittlung der Worthäufigkeiten wurden alle Wörter des englischen Teils von Wikipedia ausgezählt; weit über eine Milliarde Wörter. Die Sprachstufen A1 bis C1 des Gemeinsamen Europäischen Referenzrahmens für Sprachen CEFR werden weitgehend berücksichtigt.Das Buch ist kein alphabetisch sortiertes Nachschlagewerk, sondern eine Auswahl der wichtigsten englischen Vokabeln zum effektiven Erlernen eines aktiven Wortschatzes. Unterschiedliche Schreibweisen des britischen und amerikanischen Englisch werden aufgeführt. Es ist für Schule, Studium und Beruf einsetzbar.Zusätzlich enthält das Buch Ratschläge, wie man das Erlernen der Vokabeln und der Aussprache durch das Internet unterstützen kann.

An A to Z of video games; 300 entries showcasing the most influential and celebrated games, consoles, publishers, and more

The Routledge Handbook of South Asian Religions presents critical research, overviews and case studies on religion in historical South Asia and in the seven nation states of contemporary South Asia: India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, and the Maldives.

From the PREFACE.THIS translation was made at the suggestion of my friend, Dr. W. R. Newbold, Professor of Greek Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania, in the hope of interesting here and there a student of thought or a lover of poetry. The introduction and notes are intended merely to illustrate the text: they touch only incidentally on the doxographical material and give thus by no means a complete account of all it is possible to know about Empedocles's philosophy. My indebtedness to the critics is frequently attested in the references, but I have in all points tried to exercise an independent judgment. Most citations from works not accessible in English are given in translation.

Dieser Einsteiger- und Entdeckerkurs führt in die faszinierende Sprache und Kultur Chinas ein. Schritt für Schritt wird erklärt, was die chinesischen Schriftzeichen bedeuten und wie sie gemalt werden. Der unterhaltsam gestaltete Kurs behandelt in einfachen Sprachübungen Themen wie Begrüßung, Einkaufen, Familie oder Zahlen. Aussprache und grammatikalische Grundlagen werden anschaulich erklärt. Nebenbei erfährt man viel Interessantes über Land und Leute: Was isst man in China? Welche Feiertage gibt es? Was bedeuten die Namen und die Tierkreiszeichen? Auf der begleitenden Audio-CD kann man sich jede Lektion anhören und so die Aussprache üben.

World War II was the largest and most costly conflict in history, the first true global war. Fought on land, on sea, and in the air, it involved numerous countries and killed, maimed, or displaced millions of people, both civilian and military, around the world. In spite of the alliances that bound many of the same participants, the war was essentially two separate but simultaneous conflicts: one involved Japan as the major antagonist and took place mostly in Asia and the Pacific; and the other, initiated by Germany and Italy, was contested mainly in Europe, North Africa, the Mediterranean, and the Atlantic. This book focuses on the lesser known war, the war with Japan. It begins with Japan¿s seizure of Manchuria from China in 1931 and covers Japan¿s ambitious attacks on Pearl Harbor and other territories ten years later, the use of atomic bombs on Japan¿s cities, and the end of the Allied occupation of Japan in 1952. Although Japan renounced war in its 1947 constitution, conflict continued across Asia, as former colonies fought for independence and civil war engulfed other areas.Historical Dictionary of World War II: The War Against Japan, Second Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 500 cross-referenced entries the military, diplomatic, political, social, economic, and scientific aspects of the war, in addition to the lives of the people who participated in and directed the war. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the war against Japan during World War II.

«Dariush Borbor has created an impressive lexicographical reference work with zeal and passion for over three decades, having collected the largest possible assemblage of alternatives for every single reduplicate. Linguists from many scientific fields must be grateful to him for his pioneering work.»(Adriano V. Rossi, Professor Emeritus of Iranian Philology, DAAM, University of Naples L¿Orientale and ISMEO, Rome)«The author has created a truly remarkable work on a very strange and little studied area of linguistics. The book contains a wealth of fascinating information and I can only congratulate him on the care and assiduity which he has devoted to it.»(Nicholas Sims-Williams, Professor Emeritus of Iranian and Central Asian Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London)«I had an occasion to look again at your Dictionary of Reduplication. I realized once again how much useful work you have put into compiling it. Your bibliography is comprehensive and very useful. I should like to congratulate you on your assiduous effort to investigate so comprehensively a complex morphological aspect of the Middle Eastern Languages.»(¿ Ehsan Yarshater, Professor Emeritus, Center for Iranian Studies, Columbia University)The present dictionary is an analytical, comparative and etymological presentation of reduplication over a wide spectrum of languages. The range of featured languages ¿ Arabic, Armenian, Kurdish, Persian and Turkish ¿ include three separate families connected only by geographical proximity, each with an extremely rich literary tradition. The dictionary covers multiple independent phenomena in several unrelated languages, the underlying idea being that their reduplications are all somehow connected, and that there exists a general «field» of reduplication. The book is not limited to a single field, but rather for several largely separate ones, such as linguistic relations, the theory of reduplication and etymology. Several other related or unrelated languages such as Icelandic, Japanese, Egyptian Hieroglyphics, Hittite, etc. have been included for comparative purposes.The preliminary findings of this study indicate that reduplication in the languages under study, and in nearly all other languages, deal mostly with the fundamental, primary human requirements. Another strong proof of the «universality» of reduplicates are that they closely follow the same and similar formation, development and rule in most related and unrelated languages. In consequence of the universality of reduplication and its near identical development in all related or unrelated languages, it even legitimizes the creation of a grammar of reduplication in the future. A few of the essential features of this book include: a complete revision and updating of the semantics; a particular attention to the cognitive aspects; and, many etymologies that cannot be found elsewhere.

Best of Quotes is a compilation of about 3000 time tested quotes over last many centuries worldwide which are still relevant today and guide us to live a happy, peaceful, meaningful and contented life. Quotes have been categorised topic wise for easy reference. Writers of Many quotes are unknown,.Readers are welcome to convey writer's name for these.

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