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Shortly before his death at a tragically young age, author
Thomas Wolfe presented his editor with an epic masterwork that was
subsequently published as three separate novels: "You Can't Go Home
Again," "The Hills Beyond," and "The Web and the Rock."
"The Web and the Root" features the three initial sections of
the "The Web and the Rock," widely considered to be the book's
strongest material. A prequel to "You Can't Go Home Again," it is
the story of George Webber's momentous journey from Libya Falls,
North Carolina, to the Golden City of the North--offering vivid,
sometimes cutting depictions of rural pleasures and small-town
clannishness while exploring boundless urban possibility and the
complex, violent undercurrents of the metropolis.
Since their introduction in 2017, transformers have quickly become
the dominant architecture for achieving state-of-the-art results on
a variety of natural language processing tasks. If you're a data
scientist or coder, this practical book -now revised in full color-
shows you how to train and scale these large models using Hugging
Face Transformers, a Python-based deep learning library.
Transformers have been used to write realistic news stories,
improve Google Search queries, and even create chatbots that tell
corny jokes. In this guide, authors Lewis Tunstall, Leandro von
Werra, and Thomas Wolf, among the creators of Hugging Face
Transformers, use a hands-on approach to teach you how transformers
work and how to integrate them in your applications. You'll quickly
learn a variety of tasks they can help you solve. Build, debug, and
optimize transformer models for core NLP tasks, such as text
classification, named entity recognition, and question answering
Learn how transformers can be used for cross-lingual transfer
learning Apply transformers in real-world scenarios where labeled
data is scarce Make transformer models efficient for deployment
using techniques such as distillation, pruning, and quantization
Train transformers from scratch and learn how to scale to multiple
GPUs and distributed environments
The spectacular, history-making first novel about a young man's
coming of age by literary legend Thomas Wolfe, first published in
1929 and long considered a classic of twentieth century
literature.A legendary author on par with William Faulkner and
Flannery O'Connor, Thomas Wolfe published Look Homeward, Angel, his
first novel, about a young man's burning desire to leave his small
town and tumultuous family in search of a better life, in 1929. It
gave the world proof of his genius and launched a powerful legacy.
The novel follows the trajectory of Eugene Gant, a brilliant and
restless young man whose wanderlust and passion shape his
adolescent years in rural North Carolina. Wolfe said that Look
Homeward, Angel is "a book made out of my life," and his largely
autobiographical story about the quest for a greater intellectual
life has resonated with and influenced generations of readers,
including some of today's most important novelists. Rich with
lyrical prose and vivid characterizations, this twentieth-century
American classic will capture the hearts and imaginations of every
reader.
With an Introduction by Gail Godwin
A twentieth-century classic, Thomas Wolfe's magnificent novel is
both the story of a young writer longing to make his mark upon the
world and a sweeping portrait of America and Europe from the Great
Depression through the years leading up to World War II. Upon the
publication of "You Can't Go Home Again "in 1940, two years after
Wolfe's death, "The New York Times Book Review "declared that it
"will stand apart from everything else that he wrote because this
is the book of a man who had come to terms with himself, who was on
his way to mastery of his art, who had something profoundly
important to say."
Driven by dreams of literary success, George Webber has left his
provincial hometown to make his name as a writer in New York City.
When his first novel is published, it brings him the fame he has
sought, but it also brings the censure of his neighbors back home,
who are outraged by his depiction of them. Unsettled by their
reaction and unsure of himself and his future, Webber begins a
search for a greater understanding of his artistic identity that
takes him deep into New York's hectic social whirl; to London with
an uninhibited group of expatriates; and to Berlin, lying cold and
sinister under Hitler's shadow. He discovers a world plagued by
political uncertainty and on the brink of transformation, yet he
finds within himself the capacity to meet it with optimism and a
renewed love for his birthplace. He is a changed man yet a hopeful
one, awake to the knowledge that one can never fully "go back home
to your family, back home to your childhood . . . away from all the
strife and conflict of the world . . . back home to the old forms
and systems of things which once seemed everlasting but which are
changing all the time."
The first novel by the great American novelist, now the subject of
a major new film, Genius, starring Jude Law, Colin Firth, Dominic
West and Nicole Kidman. Eugene Gant, born in 1900 to hard-drinking
stone-cutter Oliver and entrepreneurial Eliza, grows up in
small-town America. Both lonely outsider and passionate chronicler
of American life, Eugene experiences upheaval and family tragedy
before coming to realise that he must leave his home behind if he
is to forge his own path in the world. This is the dazzlingly rich
first novel from one of the most brilliant and mercurial voices of
early twentieth-century, who was a major influence on writers
including Hunter S. Thompson, Ray Bradbury, Philip Roth and the
Beats. This new edition includes an introduction by Elizabeth
Kostova, author of The Historian. Wolfe's second novel, Of Time and
the River, continuing the story of Eugene Gant, is also now
available in Penguin Classics.
The second novel by the great American novelist, now the subject of
a major new film, Genius, starring Jude Law, Colin Firth, Dominic
West and Nicole Kidman. It is 1920 and Eugene Gant leaves the
American South for Harvard, New York and Europe, determined to make
his way as a writer. On the boat home, he meets Esther Jack, the
woman who is to dominate his life. Autobiographical, vital and
passionate, Wolfe's second novel blazes with energy and life.
Wolfe's first novel, Look Homeward, Angel, is also now available in
Penguin Classics. Together, the two novels tell the story of Eugene
Gant, Wolfe's fictional alter-ego, as he grows up in a
dysfunctional family in the American South and discovers his true
vocation as a writer. This new edition includes an introduction by
Elizabeth Kostova, author of The Historian.
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Oktoberfest (Hardcover)
Rainer Viertlboeck; Contributions by Thomas Wolfe
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Discovery Miles 5 030
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Named Best Baseball Book of 2020 by Sports Collectors Digest 2021
SABR Seymour Medal Finalist In the summer of 1932, at the beginning
of the turbulent decade that would remake America, baseball fans
were treated to one of the most thrilling seasons in the history of
the sport. As the nation drifted deeper into the Great Depression
and reeled from social unrest, baseball was a diversion for a
troubled country—and yet the world of baseball was marked by the
same edginess that pervaded the national scene. On-the-field fights
were as common as double plays. Amid the National League pennant
race, Cubs’ shortstop Billy Jurges was shot by showgirl Violet
Popovich in a Chicago hotel room. When the regular season ended,
the Cubs and Yankees clashed in what would be Babe Ruth’s last
appearance in the fall classic. After the Cubs lost the first two
games in New York, the series resumed in Chicago at Wrigley Field,
with Democratic presidential candidate Franklin Roosevelt cheering
for the visiting Yankees from the box seats behind the Yankees’
dugout. In the top of the fifth inning the game took a historic
turn. As Ruth was jeered mercilessly by Cubs players and fans, he
gestured toward the outfield and then blasted a long home run.
After Ruth circled the bases, Roosevelt exclaimed,
“Unbelievable!†Ruth’s homer set off one of baseball’s
longest-running and most intense debates: did Ruth, in fact, call
his famous home run? Rich with historical context and detail, The
Called Shot dramatizes the excitement of a baseball season during
one of America’s most chaotic summers. Â
Best Baseball Book of 2020 from Sports Collectors Digest 2021
Seymour Medal Finalist In the summer of 1932, at the beginning of
the turbulent decade that would remake America, baseball fans were
treated to one of the most thrilling seasons in the history of the
sport. As the nation drifted deeper into the Great Depression and
reeled from social unrest, baseball was a diversion for a troubled
country-and yet the world of baseball was marked by the same
edginess that pervaded the national scene. On-the-field fights were
as common as double plays. Amid the National League pennant race,
Cubs' shortstop Billy Jurges was shot by showgirl Violet Popovich
in a Chicago hotel room. When the regular season ended, the Cubs
and Yankees clashed in what would be Babe Ruth's last appearance in
the fall classic. After the Cubs lost the first two games in New
York, the series resumed in Chicago at Wrigley Field, with
Democratic presidential candidate Franklin Roosevelt cheering for
the visiting Yankees from the box seats behind the Yankees' dugout.
In the top of the fifth inning the game took a historic turn. As
Ruth was jeered mercilessly by Cubs players and fans, he gestured
toward the outfield and then blasted a long home run. After Ruth
circled the bases, Roosevelt exclaimed, "Unbelievable!" Ruth's
homer set off one of baseball's longest-running and most intense
debates: did Ruth, in fact, call his famous home run? Rich with
historical context and detail, The Called Shot dramatizes the
excitement of a baseball season during one of America's most
chaotic summers.
Managing a nonprofit organization has many challenges. One key
to success is building a strong relationship between the executive
director and the board of trustees. This book is a treasure trove
of information for navigating the personal, political, and legal
minefields that cause so many nonprofits to fail. Dozens of case
studies illuminate the key issues that often impede the progress of
nonprofit organizations. Each chapter also contains a set of
questions that enable leaders to reflect on the health of their own
organization and also evaluate other nonprofits, as well as to
create sustainable, effective business practices and productive
working relationships. Topics discussed here include:
- Communication between managerial parties - Sharing powers and
responsibilities - Fund-raising - Financial oversight and
boundaries - Planning programs - Hiring and firing - Developing
partnerships -Assessing business practices * Building productive
working relationships * And much more
Whether you are an executive director, a board member, or
someone contemplating either important role, "Effective Leadership
in Nonprofit Organizations" is an excellent resource for
understanding the dynamics of nonprofits and creating a strong
organization.
Die Brunkowtherapie, jetzt Akrodynamik, ist ein ganzheitliches
Bahnungssystem, basierend auf der Grundlage idealmotorischer
Bewegungsmuster. Ursprunglich von Roswitha Brunkow als isometrische
Stemmfuhrung entwickelt, hat sich die Therapieform stark weiter
entwickelt und in ihrer Anwendung verandert.
Lesen Sie hier alles, was Sie als Physiotherapeut uber die
moderne Anwendungsform wissen mussen: Prinzipien der
TherapieBehandlung im konservativen und postoperativen
Bereichen
Akrodynamik ist Bestandteil der schulischen
Physiotherapieausbildung, es wird als Wahlpflichtfach an
Fachhochschulen angeboten sowie als modularisierte
Weiterbildung.
Ein Lehrbuch und Nachschlagewerk fur die Ausbildung in der
Physiotherapie, dem Studium und in der Praxis. "
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