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A cat's-eye view of history! Discover secrets, stories and facts
about history’s most fascinating felines! Young historians may
never look at the past - or cats! - in quite the same way again.
Cats have prowled Earth for millennia, yet the history of the world
has always been told through the eyes of humans. But now it's time
to - finally! - set the record straight and uncover the key role
that cats have played in shaping the course of history. Did you
know that ancient Egyptians loved cats so much that they had
special laws to protect them? Or that Isaac Newton's cat helped him
develop the theory of gravity? How about that FĂ©liette, a French
street cat, was the first cat to go into space in 1963? A History
of the World (According to Cats!) introduces us to fur-raising
facts and adventures from around the world and across the
centuries. Discover unknown stories about real-life felines,
including WWII heroes, courageous adventurers and even an astrocat
that travelled in space (and made it back to Earth to tell the
tale), this book places cats as the heroes of their own stories.
Full of real-life stories, with all the boring stuff left out, this
book takes a look at the world's history through feline eyes.
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The Rock in My Throat
Kao Kalia Yang; Illustrated by Jiemei Lin
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R587
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A mesmerizing and hauntingly beautiful memoir about a Hmong
family's epic journey to safety told from the perspective of the
author's incredible mother who survived, and helped her family
escape, against all odds. Born in 1961 in war-torn Laos, Tswb's
childhood was marked by the violence of America's Secret War and
the CIA recruitment of the Hmong and other ethnic minorities into
the lost cause. By the time Tswb was a teenager, the US had
completely vacated Laos, and the country erupted into genocidal
attacks on the Hmong people, who were labeled as traitors. Fearing
for their lives, Tswb and her family left everything they knew
behind and fled their village for the jungle. Perpetually on the
run and on the brink of starvation, Tswb eventually crossed paths
with the man who would become her future husband. Leaving her own
mother behind, she joined his family at a refugee camp, a choice
that would haunt her for the rest of her life. Eventually becoming
a mother herself, Tswb raised her daughters in a state of constant
fear and hunger until they were able to emigrate to the US, where
the determined couple enrolled in high school even though they were
both nearly thirty, and worked grueling jobs to provide for their
children. Now, her daughter, Kao Kalia Yang, reveals her mother's
astonishing saga with tenderness and unvarnished clarity, giving
voice to the countless resilient refugees who are often overlooked
as one of the essential foundations of this country. Evocative,
stirring, and unforgettable, Where Rivers Part is destined to
become a classic.
In this isekai tale, a male scientist from Earth is reborn as an
orphan girl in a world of swords and sorcery. Ren is a young girl
in a primitive world of magic and brutality. Sold as a slave and
about to be delivered to an unscrupulous merchant, she suddenly
awakens to vivid memories of a past life: a world called Earth,
where Ren was both a grown man and a research scientist. Now, she
must learn to survive, combining her knowledge of science from her
past life with her talent in magic from this life.
A breathtakingly imaginative fantasy series starring Max - a trans
high school student who has to save the world as a Magical Girl ...
as a boy! Although he was assigned female at birth, Max is your
average trans man trying to get through high school as himself. But
on top of classes, crushes and coming out, Max's life is turned
upside down when his mom reveals an eons old family secret: he's
descended from a long line of Magical Girls tasked with defending
humanity from a dark, ancient evil! With a sassy feline sidekick
and loyal gang of friends by his side, can Max take on his destiny,
save the world and become the next Magical Boy? A hilarious and
heartfelt riff on the magical girl genre made popular by teen manga
series, Magical Boy is a one-of-a-kind fantasy series that comic
readers of all ages will love.
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Rampart (DVD)
Woody Harrelson, Jon Bernthal, Steve Buscemi, Robin Wright, Sigourney Weaver, …
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Woody Harrelson stars in this drama co-written by James Ellroy, telling the story of a corrupt cop whose destructive streak is wreaking havoc in both his personal and professional life. The film tracks the downward spiral of Dave 'Date Rape' Brown (Harrelson), a veteran police officer who has become infamous for his repeated misconduct while working for the LAPD's infamous Rampart Division. But despite being proud of his reputation as a compulsive womaniser, alcoholic, racist and all-round manipulator and bully, Dave does show a flicker of humanity when it comes to his two daughters, who live in the house next door with his two ex-wives (Anne Heche and Cynthia Nixon).
In this vibrant and affirming comics anthology, 29 trans &
nonbinary comic artists share their personal journeys of
self-discovery and acceptance. Featuring the work of Sage Coffey,
Kyla Aiko, and Coco Ouwerkerk, The Out Side: Trans & Nonbinary
Comics includes 29 creators' tales of self-love and affirmation and
detailing their experiences with gender and identity. Originally
published as a successful Kickstarter campaign, this expanded
edition includes comics by Dana Simpson (bestselling author of
Phoebe and Her Unicorn), Aidyn Huynh (Snailords), Wren Chavers, and
more. Equal parts encouraging, comforting, and life-affirming, The
Out Side is a love letter to the trans and nonbinary community,
designed to inspire anyone who may be struggling with their own
identity and to help educate those who seek greater understanding.
As artist Julia Kaye writes in the book's introduction: "I’m so
glad this book exists. It’s a loud proclamation of our existence
in the face of a culture that has for too long ignored our
experiences." Â
Focusing on Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, and Mainland China, the
contributors to this book analyze various cases of air pollution
within East Asia. Air pollution in East Asia is a major health
risk, which also has damaging impacts on the environment leading to
impacts on society, economic growth, and welfare. While existing
laws and policies have made progress in alleviating air pollution
in each country in the region, the protection of favorable
environments and the resolution of transboundary air pollution
problems have become major targets of regional cooperation.
Combining perspectives from social sciences and science,
technology, and society studies, the contributors to this book
examine both the technical and socioeconomic-political aspects of
these challenges through a range of case studies from around the
region. The book is a valuable read for researchers and
policymakers looking at air pollution and transboundary governance
challenges within and beyond East Asia.
This edited collection positions writing at the center of
interdisciplinary higher education, and explores how writing
instruction, writing scholarship, and writing program
administration bring STEM and the humanities together in
meaningful, creative, and beneficial ways. Writing professionals
are at the forefront of a cross-pollination between STEM (Science,
Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) and the arts and
humanities. In their work as educators, scholars, and
administrators, they collaborate with colleagues in engineering,
scientific, technical, and health disciplines, offer new degree
programs that allow students to bring the humanities to bear on
design experiments, and build an academic culture that promotes a
vision of the humanities in the twenty-first century, as well as a
vision of technology that is decidedly human. This collection
surveys and promotes that work through chapters focused on writing
instruction, writing scholarship, and writing program
administration, covering topics that include data-driven writing
courses, public science communication, non-traditional college
students, creative writing, gamification, skills transfer, and
Writing Across the Curriculum programs. Writing STEAM will be
essential reading for scholars, instructors, and administrators in
writing studies, rhetoric and composition, STEM, and a variety of
interdisciplinary programs; it will aid in teacher training for
both humanities and STEM courses focused on writing and
communication.
Machine Learning for Knowledge Discovery with R contains
methodologies and examples for statistical modelling, inference,
and prediction of data analysis. It includes many recent supervised
and unsupervised machine learning methodologies such as recursive
partitioning modelling, regularized regression, support vector
machine, neural network, clustering, and causal-effect inference.
Additionally, it emphasizes statistical thinking of data analysis,
use of statistical graphs for data structure exploration, and
result presentations. The book includes many real-world data
examples from life-science, finance, etc. to illustrate the
applications of the methods described therein. Key Features:
Contains statistical theory for the most recent supervised and
unsupervised machine learning methodologies. Emphasizes broad
statistical thinking, judgment, graphical methods, and
collaboration with subject-matter-experts in analysis,
interpretation, and presentations. Written by statistical data
analysis practitioner for practitioners. The book is suitable for
upper-level-undergraduate or graduate-level data analysis course.
It also serves as a useful desk-reference for data analysts in
scientific research or industrial applications.
Everything you need to know about technical services--in one handy
volume!For library technicians working in technical services and
students in library technology programs, Introduction to Technical
Services for Library Technicians is a practical, how-to-do-it text
that shows how to perform the behind-the-scenes tasks the job
requires. This essential volume comes complete with a suggested
reading list, helpful charts and tables, a look at trends and
issues to consider, and review questions at the end of each
chapter.From the Preface: "Budgetary constraints and the
computerization of library functions and routines have changed the
composition of library personnel forever. Library technicians are
being hired to replace librarians in many library areas,
particularly in technical services. What has not kept up with this
trend are the training and education of library technicians, a
necessary component of a successfully operating library."This book
examines terminology, organization, and the practical aspects of
the tasks that technical services workers deal with every day.
Here's a sample of what is explored in Introduction to Technical
Services for Library Technicians: computers and library automation
bibliographic utilities and networks including OCLC, RLG, UTLAS,
the Internet, and more library cooperation from the local to the
international level acquisitions procedures, gifts, and exchanges
copy cataloging, original cataloging, subject cataloging, and the
MARC record government publications serials--ordering, cataloging,
control, terminology, e-journals, and more preservation--treating
damaged materials, book repair, good housekeeping practices,
factors of deterioration, and more Intended primarily as a textbook
for students in a two-year library technology program or one-year
certificate program, this book will also serve very well as a
general reference for library technicians or other staff members
working in the technical services area.
How does a pathologist become interested and develop expertise in
testicular and paratesticular neoplasms, which are relatively
uncommon? The truth is simple-the opportunity to see many cases.
The authors of this 5th Series Fascicle have such expertise and
share a remarkable range of cases from their institutions as well
as from many pathologists throughout the world who have sent them
cases in consultation over the years. This fascicle is rich source
of material that will be a great resource for practicing
pathologists and pathologists in training.
Never has the need for church planting been more acute or more
necessary. The world around us is beset with problems of every
kind-political, social, economic, racial, and moral. The list is
endless, and the difficulties are systemic and entrenched. The best
minds, institutions, and efforts are being marshaled to address
these problems, but are we getting to the root issues? Could it be
that the solutions lie elsewhere? Indeed, the greatest reformer to
ever live told us the hope we need comes from the church. Yes, the
church, as anemic and as irrelevant as it may seem to some (or
many). Jesus said of the community He would birth, "You are the
light of the world and the salt of the earth" (Matt. 5:13-14). The
church, in all its forms, from small to big, whether found in the
countryside or in megacities is God's redeeming force for society,
for culture, and for the nations. The church is God's secret weapon
and His change agent for the world. He's all in on the church. As
such the church is God's organizational servant on the earth. It's
to be an enterprise of the highest quality. It's to sparkle with
kingdom power, love, and truth. As Ephesians 3:10 states, "[God's]
intent was that now, through the church, the manifold wisdom of God
should be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly
realms." For such a task, outstanding leaders are needed. Great
leaders are not just for the arenas of business, politics, or the
military. The church must also focus on recruiting, training, and
deploying the best. As the leader goes, so goes the organization.
This book assists in the great endeavor of planting churches. It
gives church planters a biblical and conceptual framework so they
can be armed with a map for how to go about establishing new works.
This framework is rooted in the humble yet glorious, small yet
significant, quiet yet powerful ways of Jesus.
Asian countries are among the largest contributors to climate
change. China, India, Japan and South Korea are among the top ten
largest carbon emitters in the world, with South Korea, Japan and
Taiwan also some of the largest on a per capita basis. At the same
time, many Asian countries, notably India, Taiwan, Japan, the
Philippines and Thailand are among those most affected by climate
change, in terms of economic losses attributed to climate-related
disasters. Asia is an extremely diverse region, in terms of the
political regimes of its constituent countries, and of their level
of development and the nature of their civil societies. As such,
its countries are producing a wide range of governance approaches
to climate change. Covering the diversity of climate change
governance in Asia, this book presents cosmopolitan governance from
the perspective of urban and rural communities, local and central
governments, state-society relations and international relations.
In doing so it offers both a valuable overview of individual Asian
countries' approaches to climate change governance, and a series of
case studies for finding solutions to climate change challenges.
This edited collection positions writing at the center of
interdisciplinary higher education, and explores how writing
instruction, writing scholarship, and writing program
administration bring STEM and the humanities together in
meaningful, creative, and beneficial ways. Writing professionals
are at the forefront of a cross-pollination between STEM (Science,
Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) and the arts and
humanities. In their work as educators, scholars, and
administrators, they collaborate with colleagues in engineering,
scientific, technical, and health disciplines, offer new degree
programs that allow students to bring the humanities to bear on
design experiments, and build an academic culture that promotes a
vision of the humanities in the twenty-first century, as well as a
vision of technology that is decidedly human. This collection
surveys and promotes that work through chapters focused on writing
instruction, writing scholarship, and writing program
administration, covering topics that include data-driven writing
courses, public science communication, non-traditional college
students, creative writing, gamification, skills transfer, and
Writing Across the Curriculum programs. Writing STEAM will be
essential reading for scholars, instructors, and administrators in
writing studies, rhetoric and composition, STEM, and a variety of
interdisciplinary programs; it will aid in teacher training for
both humanities and STEM courses focused on writing and
communication.
Logic Works is a critical and extensive introduction to logic. It
asks questions about why systems of logic are as they are, how they
relate to ordinary language and ordinary reasoning, and what
alternatives there might be to classical logical doctrines. The
book covers classical first-order logic and alternatives, including
intuitionistic, free, and many-valued logic. It also considers how
logical analysis can be applied to carefully represent the
reasoning employed in academic and scientific work, better
understand that reasoning, and identify its hidden premises. Aiming
to be as much a reference work and handbook for further,
independent study as a course text, it covers more material than is
typically covered in an introductory course. It also covers this
material at greater length and in more depth with the purpose of
making it accessible to those with no prior training in logic or
formal systems. Online support material includes a detailed student
solutions manual with a running commentary on all starred
exercises, and a set of editable slide presentations for course
lectures. Key Features Introduces an unusually broad range of
topics, allowing instructors to craft courses to meet a range of
various objectives Adopts a critical attitude to certain classical
doctrines, exposing students to alternative ways to answer
philosophical questions about logic Carefully considers the ways
natural language both resists and lends itself to formalization
Makes objectual semantics for quantified logic easy, with an
incremental, rule-governed approach assisted by numerous simple
exercises Makes important metatheoretical results accessible to
introductory students through a discursive presentation of those
results and by using simple case studies
Machine Learning for Knowledge Discovery with R contains
methodologies and examples for statistical modelling, inference,
and prediction of data analysis. It includes many recent supervised
and unsupervised machine learning methodologies such as recursive
partitioning modelling, regularized regression, support vector
machine, neural network, clustering, and causal-effect inference.
Additionally, it emphasizes statistical thinking of data analysis,
use of statistical graphs for data structure exploration, and
result presentations. The book includes many real-world data
examples from life-science, finance, etc. to illustrate the
applications of the methods described therein. Key Features:
Contains statistical theory for the most recent supervised and
unsupervised machine learning methodologies. Emphasizes broad
statistical thinking, judgment, graphical methods, and
collaboration with subject-matter-experts in analysis,
interpretation, and presentations. Written by statistical data
analysis practitioner for practitioners. The book is suitable for
upper-level-undergraduate or graduate-level data analysis course.
It also serves as a useful desk-reference for data analysts in
scientific research or industrial applications.
Never has the need for church planting been more acute or more
necessary. The world around us is beset with problems of every
kind-political, social, economic, racial, and moral. The list is
endless, and the difficulties are systemic and entrenched. The best
minds, institutions, and efforts are being marshaled to address
these problems, but are we getting to the root issues? Could it be
that the solutions lie elsewhere? Indeed, the greatest reformer to
ever live told us the hope we need comes from the church. Yes, the
church, as anemic and as irrelevant as it may seem to some (or
many). Jesus said of the community He would birth, "You are the
light of the world and the salt of the earth" (Matt. 5:13-14). The
church, in all its forms, from small to big, whether found in the
countryside or in megacities is God's redeeming force for society,
for culture, and for the nations. The church is God's secret weapon
and His change agent for the world. He's all in on the church. As
such the church is God's organizational servant on the earth. It's
to be an enterprise of the highest quality. It's to sparkle with
kingdom power, love, and truth. As Ephesians 3:10 states, "[God's]
intent was that now, through the church, the manifold wisdom of God
should be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly
realms." For such a task, outstanding leaders are needed. Great
leaders are not just for the arenas of business, politics, or the
military. The church must also focus on recruiting, training, and
deploying the best. As the leader goes, so goes the organization.
This book assists in the great endeavor of planting churches. It
gives church planters a biblical and conceptual framework so they
can be armed with a map for how to go about establishing new works.
This framework is rooted in the humble yet glorious, small yet
significant, quiet yet powerful ways of Jesus.
Asian countries are among the largest contributors to climate
change. China, India, Japan and South Korea are among the top ten
largest carbon emitters in the world, with South Korea, Japan and
Taiwan also some of the largest on a per capita basis. At the same
time, many Asian countries, notably India, Taiwan, Japan, the
Philippines and Thailand are among those most affected by climate
change, in terms of economic losses attributed to climate-related
disasters. Asia is an extremely diverse region, in terms of the
political regimes of its constituent countries, and of their level
of development and the nature of their civil societies. As such,
its countries are producing a wide range of governance approaches
to climate change. Covering the diversity of climate change
governance in Asia, this book presents cosmopolitan governance from
the perspective of urban and rural communities, local and central
governments, state-society relations and international relations.
In doing so it offers both a valuable overview of individual Asian
countries' approaches to climate change governance, and a series of
case studies for finding solutions to climate change challenges.
When people or computers need to make a decision, typically
multiple conflicting criteria need to be evaluated; for example,
when we buy a car, we need to consider safety, cost and comfort.
Multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) has been researched for
decades. Now as the rising trend of big-data analytics in
supporting decision making, MCDM can be more powerful when combined
with state-of-the-art analytics and machine learning. In this book,
the authors introduce a new framework of MCDM, which can lead to
more accurate decision making. Several real-world cases will be
included to illustrate the new hybrid approaches.
Drawing on her own experience as a surrogate mother, Grace Y. Kao
assesses the ethics of surrogacy from a feminist and progressive
Christian perspective, concluding that certain kinds of surrogacy
arrangements can be morally permissible—and should even be
embraced. While the use of assisted reproductive technology has
brought joy to countless families, surrogacy remains the most
controversial path to parenthood. My Body, Their Baby helps readers
sort through objections to this way of bringing children into the
world. Candidly reflecting on carrying a baby for her childless
friends and informed by the reproductive justice framework
developed by women of color activists, Kao highlights the
importance of experience in feminist methodology and Christian
ethics. She shows what surrogacy is like from the perspective of
women becoming pregnant for others, parents who have opted for
surrogacy (including queer couples), and the surrogate-born
children themselves. Developing a constructive framework of ethical
norms and principles to guide the formation of surrogacy
relationships, Kao ultimately offers a vision for surrogacy that
celebrates the reproductive generosity and solidarity displayed
through the sharing of traditionally maternal roles.
Drawing on her own experience as a surrogate mother, Grace Y. Kao
assesses the ethics of surrogacy from a feminist and progressive
Christian perspective, concluding that certain kinds of surrogacy
arrangements can be morally permissible—and should even be
embraced. While the use of assisted reproductive technology has
brought joy to countless families, surrogacy remains the most
controversial path to parenthood. My Body, Their Baby helps readers
sort through objections to this way of bringing children into the
world. Candidly reflecting on carrying a baby for her childless
friends and informed by the reproductive justice framework
developed by women of color activists, Kao highlights the
importance of experience in feminist methodology and Christian
ethics. She shows what surrogacy is like from the perspective of
women becoming pregnant for others, parents who have opted for
surrogacy (including queer couples), and the surrogate-born
children themselves. Developing a constructive framework of ethical
norms and principles to guide the formation of surrogacy
relationships, Kao ultimately offers a vision for surrogacy that
celebrates the reproductive generosity and solidarity displayed
through the sharing of traditionally maternal roles.
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