Author : Talia Leman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,1 MB
Release : 2012-10-02
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1451664842
Describes the author's efforts with other activist youths to provide relief in countries throughout the world, revealing the methods that enabled her successes and discussing how to network for effective philanthropic results.
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Author : Jen Campbell
Publisher : Constable
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 32,75 MB
Release : 2014-10-02
Category : Humor
ISBN : 1472116704
Every bookshop has a story We're not talking about rooms that are just full of books. We're talking about bookshops in barns, disused factories, converted churches and underground car parks. Bookshops on boats, on buses, and in old run-down train stations. Fold-out bookshops, undercover bookshops, this-is-the-best-place-I've-ever-been-to-bookshops. Meet Sarah and her Book Barge sailing across the sea to France; meet Sebastien, in Mongolia, who sells books to herders of the Altai mountains; meet the bookshop in Canada that's invented the world's first antiquarian book vending machine. And that's just the beginning. From the oldest bookshop in the world, to the smallest you could imagine, The Bookshop Book examines the history of books, talks to authors about their favourite places, and looks at over three hundred weirdly wonderful bookshops across six continents (sadly, we've yet to build a bookshop down in the South Pole). The Bookshop Book is a love letter to bookshops all around the world. 'A good bookshop is not just about selling books from shelves, but reaching out into the world and making a difference' David Almond (The Bookshop Book includes interviews and quotes from David Almond, Ian Rankin, Tracy Chevalier, Audrey Niffenegger, Jacqueline Wilson, Jeanette Winterson and many, many others.)
Author : Chantal Cherifi
Publisher : Springer
Page : 1290 pages
File Size : 44,15 MB
Release : 2017-11-24
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 331972150X
This book highlights cutting-edge research in the field of network science, offering scientists, researchers, students and practitioners a unique update on the latest advances in theory and a multitude of applications. It presents the peer-reviewed proceedings of the VI International Conference on Complex Networks and their Applications (COMPLEX NETWORKS 2017), which took place in Lyon on November 29 – December 1, 2017. The carefully selected papers cover a wide range of theoretical topics such as network models and measures; community structure, network dynamics; diffusion, epidemics and spreading processes; resilience and control as well as all the main network applications, including social and political networks; networks in finance and economics; biological and ecological networks and technological networks.
Author : John Herbert Slater
Publisher : London, Harper
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 45,77 MB
Release : 1898
Category : Bibliomania
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Author : Lukasz Debowski
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 49,52 MB
Release : 2020-12-10
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1119625270
Discover new theoretical connections between stochastic phenomena and the structure of natural language with this powerful volume! Information Theory Meets Power Laws: Stochastic Processes and Language Models presents readers with a novel subtype of a probabilistic approach to language, which is based on statistical laws of texts and their analysis by means of information theory. The distinguished author insightfully and rigorously examines the linguistic and mathematical subject matter while eschewing needlessly abstract and superfluous constructions. The book begins with a less formal treatment of its subjects in the first chapter, introducing its concepts to readers without mathematical training and allowing those unfamiliar with linguistics to learn the book’s motivations. Despite its inherent complexity, Information Theory Meets Power Laws: Stochastic Processes and Language Models is a surprisingly approachable treatment of idealized mathematical models of human language. The author succeeds in developing some of the theory underlying fundamental stochastic and semantic phenomena, like strong nonergodicity, in a way that has not previously been seriously attempted. In doing so, he covers topics including: Zipf’s and Herdan’s laws for natural language Power laws for information, repetitions, and correlations Markov, finite-state,and Santa Fe processes Bayesian and frequentist interpretations of probability Ergodic decomposition, Kolmogorov complexity, and universal coding Theorems about facts and words Information measures for fields Rényi entropies, recurrence times, and subword complexity Asymptotically mean stationary processes Written primarily for mathematics graduate students and professionals interested in information theory or discrete stochastic processes, Information Theory Meets Power Laws: Stochastic Processes and Language Models also belongs on the bookshelves of doctoral students and researchers in artificial intelligence, computational and quantitative linguistics as well as physics of complex systems.
Author : Pamela Bellarose
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 37,40 MB
Release : 2010-07-25
Category : Humor
ISBN : 0557532574
Fired from her first real job, Pam thinks it will be a piece of cake to find a new one. After all, she has a Masters degree! She soon realizes, however, that she has a far greater task at hand. From committing massive conversational idiocy when first combating the question "So what do you do?", to contemplating her role in the world of work, to developing an acute case of "The Nasties," Pam's journey into this new phase of her life is never a dull one.Based on the author's experience as a budding young professional, Between Jobs: A Novel is a charming lemons-to-lemonade tale. Pam's trials and tribulations, as well as her unique perspective and style, will leave you laughing long after you've put the book down.
Author : Ana Arregui
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 18,30 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0198718209
This volume explores the linguistic expression of modality in natural language from a cross-linguistic perspective. Modal expressions provide the basic tools that allow us to dissociate what we say from what is actually going on, allowing us to talk about what might happen or might have happened, as well as what is required, desirable, or permitted. Chapters in the book demonstrate that modality involves many more syntactic categories and levels of syntactic structure than traditionally assumed. The volume distinguishes between three types of modality: 'low modality', which concerns modal interpretations associated with the verbal and nominal cartographies in syntax; 'middle modality', or modal interpretation associated with the syntactic cartography internal to the clause; and 'high modality', relating to the left periphery. It combines cross-linguistic discussions of the more widely studied sources of modality with analyses of novel or unexpected sources, and shows how the meanings associated with the three types of modality are realized across a wide range of languages.
Author : Kelvin Smith
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 10,18 MB
Release : 2018-02-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1474249531
The Publishing Business, is an invaluable guide to understanding what book publishing is and what it might become. Using popular and current examples, this second edition demonstrates that, to succeed, publishers must prove their commitment to producing accurate, attractive and well edited content, their ability to innovate pioneering digital technologies and their dedication to promoting their titles to new audiences. This book explains the responsibilities at each stage of the publishing process, describes current roles and practices, and provides much food for thought on how publishers can ensure their skills remain relevant in the digital age. Fully updated to take into account recent developments in the publishing world, this new edition also includes additional real-world examples from a variety of publishing sectors, insightful interviews with industry experts and new and updated activities throughout. Beautifully designed, thoroughly illustrated and packed with examples of publishing practice, The Publishing Business is an essential introduction to a dynamic industry.
Author : Stacey Lane
Publisher : SkinnyMissS.WasVeryDepressed
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,81 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781890427115
The concept behind "Skinny Miss S. Was Very Depressed" is that of a confused, yet ever evolving girl displaying and reacting to the debilitating symptoms of clinical depression and other mental struggles. In coming to terms with mental illness she seeks the appropriate channels towards recovery. "Skinny Miss S. Was Very Depressed" explores the differences between true mental anguish and societal judgments placed upon creative persons who exhibit non-conventional ways of thought. Stacey Lane delivers thought provoking material where each and every reader is entitled to their own opinions of what possibilities the mind unfolds without disregard to the seriousness of the reality of mental illness
