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Hilarious and heartwarming dog stories from nine renowned authors:
- Ann M. Martin
- Jon Muth
- Mark Teague
- Margarita Engle
- Thacher Hurd
- Valerie Hobbs
- Matt de la Pena
- Pam Munoz Ryan
- Wendy Orr For young readers who have ever wanted, known or loved
a dog, the short stories in this anthology evoke the full spectrum
of endearing doggy traits With stories ordered from easiest to most
difficult to read, "Because of Shoe and Other Dog Stories "is a
book for young readers of varying levels to enjoy.
The past decade has witnessed a proliferation of regulatory
agencies at both the national and the EU level. This coherent and
clearly structured book is the first of its kind to analyse in
equal measure, and interdependently, both national regulatory
authorities and European agencies. It brings together a select
group of highly esteemed contributors - authorities in their fields
- to provide a systematic and over-arching view of regulation in
the EU. Unlike many of the previous attempts to shed light on this
increasingly opaque and complex co-existence of regulatory systems,
this book takes a genuinely multi-disciplinary approach with
integrated perspectives from law, politics and economics. Exploring
firstly the rationales for the existence of agencies, the book then
goes on to examine how agencies are designed in the EU before
considering the legal and political challenges they raise, and
finally comparing them with international agencies and agencies in
an enlarged Europe and the wider world. Academic researchers in the
fields of law, economics and politics will find Regulation through
Agencies in the EU of great interest as will EU law practitioners,
policymakers and regulators in Europe.
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Juan Munoz: Seven Rooms (Hardcover)
Juan Mu noz; Foreword by Vicente Todoli; Text written by Siri Hustvedt, Guillaume Kientz; Interview by Michael Brenson; Contributions by …
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"Walking between these figures feels like an interruption; being a
spectator is itself a performance. They seem to know more than we
do, about the status of being an artwork and the place of the
viewer. The joke, if there is one, is on us." - The Guardian
Munoz's revolutionary oeuvre creates emotional and evocative
narratives through sculpture, installation, drawing, writing, and
sound. Situating viewers between his work and amongst each other,
he creates an intimacy between works of art and viewers. Munoz
thought deeply about art history and in particular the tradition of
Spanish painting. Before his untimely death at the age of
forty-eight, he produced an extensive, powerfully evocative body of
work that uniquely explores the narrative and philosophical
possibilities of art. Published on the occasion of the two-floor
exhibition at David Zwirner in New York in 2022, this catalogue
provides an expansive overview of Munoz's career from the 1980s
onwards. In an accompanying text, art historian and curator
Guillaume Kientz contextualizes Munoz's influences within the
art-historical canon. Acclaimed writer Siri Hustvedt writes a
thoughtful response to the artist's iconic Conversation Piece. In
an imagined interview between Munoz and himself, Maurizio Cattelan
further propels the artist's artistic momentum and potential in the
time before his death. Also featured is a never-before-published
interview between Munoz and the art historian Michael Brenson that
took place in 2000, less than one year prior to his untimely death.
We dream of a time when all students will be confident, capable
readers and writers. When we teach students to read as writers
using mentor texts, we awaken that dream and make it real. Imagine
the power of providing students with books that show them their
faces, their culture, their lives on every page. And imagine how
every classroom's collection of mentor texts can grow by adding
books that celebrate diversity. In Dream Wakers: Mentor Texts That
Celebrate Latino Culture, Ruth Culham focuses her love of
children's literature-and her decades of work developing the traits
of writing-on books that celebrate Latino life and culture. She
provides a wide variety of ideas to teach writing using some of the
richest and most beautiful children's books available. Dream Wakers
gives you: An annotated list of more than 120 books with
do-it-today lesson ideas for teaching the traits of writing-Ideas,
Organization, Voice, Word Choice, Sentence Fluency, and
Conventions. More than half of the books listed are bilingual or
offer English and/or Spanish editions. Eleven original, insightful
essays by renowned children's authors of some of the featured books
A handy reference chart that helps teachers locate books quickly by
trait, genre, language, and author/publisher information. Ruth
encourages all of us to make sure students of all backgrounds have
access to high-quality, culturally diverse texts and recognize the
difference those texts will make in their reading lives, as well as
in their perception of themselves as a thinkers, learners, and
citizens.
Signals and Systems: A Primer with MATLAB (R) provides clear,
interesting, and easy-to-understand coverage of continuous-time and
discrete-time signals and systems. Each chapter opens with a
historical profile or career talk, followed by an introduction that
states the chapter objectives and links the chapter to the previous
ones. All principles are presented in a lucid, logical,
step-by-step approach. As much as possible, the authors avoid
wordiness and detail overload that could hide concepts and impede
understanding. In recognition of the requirements by the
Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) on
integrating computer tools, the use of MATLAB (R) is encouraged in
a student-friendly manner. MATLAB is introduced in Appendix B and
applied gradually throughout the book. Each illustrative example is
immediately followed by a practice problem along with its answer.
Students can follow the example step by step to solve the practice
problem without flipping pages or looking at the end of the book
for answers. These practice problems test students' comprehension
and reinforce key concepts before moving on to the next section.
Toward the end of each chapter, the authors discuss some
application aspects of the concepts covered in the chapter. The
material covered in the chapter is applied to at least one or two
practical problems or devices. This helps students see how the
concepts are applied to real-life situations. In addition,
thoroughly worked examples are given liberally at the end of every
section. These examples give students a solid grasp of the
solutions as well as the confidence to solve similar problems
themselves. Some of the problems are solved in two or three ways to
facilitate a deeper understanding and comparison of different
approaches. Ten review questions in the form of multiple-choice
objective items are provided at the end of each chapter with
answers. The review questions are intended to cover the "little
tricks" that the examples and end-of-chapter problems may not
cover. They serve as a self-test device and help students determine
chapter mastery. Each chapter also ends with a summary of key
points and formulas. Designed for a three-hour semester course on
signals and systems, Signals and Systems: A Primer with MATLAB (R)
is intended as a textbook for junior-level undergraduate students
in electrical and computer engineering. The prerequisites for a
course based on this book are knowledge of standard mathematics
(including calculus and differential equations) and electric
circuit analysis.
Green Technology deals with using science and technology to protect
the environment as well as curb the negative impacts of human
involvement. The emerging green technologies, covered in this book,
will propel our economy in the near future. Their development will
lead to global and sustainable powers that will impact our
economics, societies, cultures, and the way of life. This book
provides researchers, students, and professionals a comprehensive
introduction, applications, benefits, and challenges of 15 emerging
green technologies. It presents the impact of these cutting-edge
technologies on our global economy and its future. The book will
help a beginner to have an introductory knowledge about these
emerging technologies. The main objective of the author is to
provide a concise treatment that is easily digestible. It is a
must-read for those graduate students or scholars who consider
researching green technologies. It can also serve as a valuable
resource for those business professionals who seek ways to green
their processes.
This fourth edition of the text reflects the continuing increase in
awareness and use of computational electromagnetics and
incorporates advances and refinements made in recent years. Most
notable among these are the improvements made to the standard
algorithm for the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method and
treatment of absorbing boundary conditions in FDTD, finite element,
and transmission-line-matrix methods. It teaches the readers how to
pose, numerically analyze, and solve EM problems, to give them the
ability to expand their problem-solving skills using a variety of
methods, and to prepare them for research in electromagnetism.
Includes new homework problems in each chapter. Each chapter is
updated with the current trends in CEM. Adds a new appendix on CEM
codes, which covers commercial and free codes. Provides updated
MATLAB code.
An electric machine is a device that converts mechanical energy
into electrical energy or vice versa. It can take the form of an
electric generator, electric motor, or transformer. Electric
generators produce virtually all electric power we use all over the
world. Electric machine blends the three major areas of electrical
engineering: power, control and power electronics. This book
presents the relation of power quantities for the machine as the
current, voltage power flow, power losses, and efficiency. This
book will provide a good understanding of the behavior and its
drive, beginning with the study of salient features of electrical
dc and ac machines.
Originally published in 1992, this title reviews seven major
subareas in artificial intelligence at that time: knowledge
acquisition; logic programming and representation; machine
learning; natural language; vision; the design of an AI programming
environment; and medicine, a major application area of AI. This
volume was an attempt primarily to inform fellow AI workers of
recent European work in AI. It was hoped that researchers in
'sister' disciplines, such as computer science and linguistics
would gain a deeper understanding of the assumptions, techniques
and tools of contemporary AI.
The author of this book has identified the seven key emerging
Internet-related technologies: Internet of things, smart
everything, big data, cloud computing, cybersecurity,
software-defined networking, and online education. Together these
technologies are transformational and disruptive. This book
provides researchers, students, and professionals a comprehensive
introduction, applications, benefits, and challenges for each
technology. It presents the impact of these cutting-edge
technologies on our global economy and its future. The word
"technology" refers to "collection of techniques, skills, methods,
and processes used in the production of goods or services."
Until now, novices had to painstakingly dig through the literature
to discover how to use Monte Carlo techniques for solving
electromagnetic problems. Written by one of the foremost
researchers in the field, Monte Carlo Methods for Electromagnetics
provides a solid understanding of these methods and their
applications in electromagnetic computation. Including much of his
own work, the author brings together essential information from
several different publications. Using a simple, clear writing
style, the author begins with a historical background and review of
electromagnetic theory. After addressing probability and
statistics, he introduces the finite difference method as well as
the fixed and floating random walk Monte Carlo methods. The text
then applies the Exodus method to Laplace's and Poisson's equations
and presents Monte Carlo techniques for handing Neumann problems.
It also deals with whole field computation using the Markov chain,
applies Monte Carlo methods to time-varying diffusion problems, and
explores wave scattering due to random rough surfaces. The final
chapter covers multidimensional integration. Although numerical
techniques have become the standard tools for solving practical,
complex electromagnetic problems, there is no book currently
available that focuses exclusively on Monte Carlo techniques for
electromagnetics. Alleviating this problem, this book describes
Monte Carlo methods as they are used in the field of
electromagnetics.
Exponential growth of the worldwide population requires increasing
amounts of water, food, and energy. However, as the quantity of
available fresh water and energy sources directly affecting cost of
food production and transportation diminishes, technological
solutions are necessary to secure sustainable supplies. In direct
response to this reality, this book focuses on the
water-energy-food nexus and describes in depth the challenges and
processes involved in efficient water and energy production and
management, wastewater treatment, and impact upon food and
essential commodities. The book is organized into 4 sections on
water, food, energy, and the future of sustainability, highlighting
the interplay among these topics. The first section emphasizes
water desalination, water management, and wastewater treatment. The
second section discusses cereal processing, sustainable food
security, bioenergy in food production, water and energy
consumption in food processing, and mathematical modeling for food
undergoing phase changes. The third section discusses fossil fuels,
biofuels, synthetic fuels, renewable energy, and carbon capture.
Finally, the book concludes with a discussion of the future of
sustainability, including coverage of the role of molecular
thermodynamics in developing processes and products, green
engineering in process systems, petrochemical water splitting,
petrochemical approaches to solar hydrogen generation, design and
operation strategy of energy-efficient processes, and the
sustainability of process, supply chain, and enterprise.
A reissue of Pam Munoz Ryan's bestselling backlist with a
distinctive new author treatment.
Esperanza thought she'd always live with her family on their ranch
in Mexico--she'd always have fancy dresses, a beautiful home, and
servants. But a sudden tragedy forces Esperanza and Mama to flee to
California during the Great Depression, and to settle in a camp for
Mexican farm workers. Esperanza isn't ready for the hard labor,
financial struggles, or lack of acceptance she now faces. When
their new life is threatened, Esperanza must find a way to rise
above her difficult circumstances--Mama's life, and her own, depend
on it.
The first two decades of the 21st century have contributed a
growing body of research, theorisation and empirical studies on
learning and work. This Handbook takes the consideration of this
topic into a new realm, moving beyond the singular linking of
identity, learning and work to embrace a more holistic appreciation
of learners and their life-long learning. Across 40 chapters,
learners, learning and work are situated within educational,
organisational, social, economic and political contexts. Taken
together, these contributions paint a picture of evolving
perspectives of how scholars from around the world view
developments in both theory and practice, and map the shifts in
learning and work over the past two decades. Part 1: Theoretical
perspectives of learning and work Part 2: Intersections of learning
and work in organisations and beyond Part 3: Learning throughout
working lives and beyond Part 4: Issues and challenges to learning
and work
Originally published in 1992, this title reviews seven major
subareas in artificial intelligence at that time: knowledge
acquisition; logic programming and representation; machine
learning; natural language; vision; the design of an AI programming
environment; and medicine, a major application area of AI. This
volume was an attempt primarily to inform fellow AI workers of
recent European work in AI. It was hoped that researchers in
'sister' disciplines, such as computer science and linguistics
would gain a deeper understanding of the assumptions, techniques
and tools of contemporary AI.
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Advances in Computational Collective Intelligence - 15th International Conference, ICCCI 2023, Budapest, Hungary, September 27–29, 2023, Proceedings (1st ed. 2023)
Ngoc Thanh Nguyen, János Botzheim, László Gulyás, Manuel Nunez, Jan Treur, …
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th
International Conference on Advances in Computational
Collective Intelligence,  ICCCI 2023, held in Budapest,
Hungary, during September 27–29, 2023.
The 59 full papers included in this book were carefully
reviewed and selected from 218 submissions. They
were organized in topical sections as follows:Â Collective
Intelligence and Collective Decision-Making, Deep Learning
Techniques,  Natural Language Processing, Data
Minning and Machine learning, Social Networks and Speek
Communication, Cybersecurity and Internet of
Things, Cooperative Strategies for Decision Making and
Optimization, Digital Content Understanding and Apllication
for Industry 4.0 and Computational Intelligence in Medical
Applications.
THE SUNDAY TIMES MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEAR A DAILY TELEGRAPH BEST
MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEAR A TELEGRAPH BEST MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEAR A
NEW STATESMAN BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR Faith, Hope and Carnage is a
book about Nick Cave's inner life. Created from over forty hours of
intimate conversations with Seán O'Hagan, it is a profoundly
thoughtful exploration, in Cave's own words, of what really drives
his life and creativity. The book examines questions of faith, art,
music, freedom, grief and love. It draws candidly on Cave's life,
from his early childhood to the present day, his loves, his work
ethic and his dramatic transformation in recent years. From a place
of considered reflection, Faith, Hope and Carnage offers ladders of
hope and inspiration from a true creative visionary.
Ask the Brindled, selected by Rick Barot as a winner of the 2021
National Poetry Series, bares everything that breaks between "seed"
and "summit" of a life-the body, a people, their language. It is an
intergenerational reclamation of the narratives foisted upon
Indigenous and queer Hawaiians-and it does not let readers look
away. In this debut collection, No'u Revilla crafts a lyric
landscape brimming with shed skin, water, mo'o, ma'i. She grips
language like a fistful of wet guts and inks the page red-for
desire, for love, for generations of blood spilled by colonizers.
She hides knives in her hair "the way my grandmother-not god- / the
way my grandmother intended," and we heed; before her, "we stunned
insects dangle." Wedding the history of the Kingdom of Hawai'i with
contemporary experiences of queer love and queer grief, Revilla
writes toward sovereignty: linguistic, erotic, civic. Through the
medium of formal dynamism and the material of 'Oiwi culture and
mythos, this living decolonial text both condemns and creates. Ask
the Brindled is a song from the shattered throat that refuses to be
silenced. It is a testament to queer Indigenous women who carry
baskets of names and stories, "still sacred." It is a vow to those
yet to come: "the ea of enough is our daughters / our daughters
need to believe they are enough."
Broadband networks, such as asynchronous transfer mode (ATM), frame
relay, and leased lines, allow us to easily access multimedia
services (data, voice, and video) in one package. Exploring why
broadband networks are important in modern-day telecommunications,
Introduction to Broadband Communication Systems covers the concepts
and components of both standard and emerging broadband
communication network systems. After introducing the fundamental
concepts of broadband communication systems, the book discusses
Internet-based networks, such as intranets and extranets. It then
addresses the networking technologies of X.25 and frame relay,
fiber channels, a synchronous optical network (SONET), a virtual
private network (VPN), an integrated service digital network
(ISDN), broadband ISDN (B-ISDN), and ATM. The authors also cover
access networks, including digital subscriber lines (DSL), cable
modems, and passive optical networks, as well as explore wireless
networks, such as wireless data services, personal communications
services (PCS), and satellite communications. The book concludes
with chapters on network management, network security, and network
testing, fault tolerance, and analysis. With up-to-date, detailed
information on the state-of-the-art technology in broadband
communication systems, this resource illustrates how some networks
have the potential of eventually replacing traditional dial-up
Internet. Requiring only a general knowledge of communication
systems theory, the text is suitable for a one- or two-semester
course for advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students
in engineering, as well as for short seminars on broadband
communication systems.
A fast-growing area in the communications industry is the
internetworking of an ever-increasing proliferation of computers,
particularly via local area networks (LANs). The LAN is a
resource-sharing data communications network being used by many
offices to interchange information such as electronic mail, word
processing, and files among computers and other devices. This
unique book shows the user how to establish the performance
characteristics of a LAN before putting it to use in a particular
type of situation. Simulation of Local Area Networks consists of
eight chapters, each with its own extensive list of references. The
first chapter provides a brief review of local area networks, and
the second chapter gives the analytical models of popular
LANs-token-passing bus and ring networks, CSMA/CD LANs, and star
networks. Chapter 3 covers general principles of simulation, and
Chapter 4 discusses fundamental concepts in probability and
statistics relating to simulation modeling. Materials in Chapters 3
and 4 are specifically applied in developing simulation models on
token-passing LANs, CSMA/CD LANs, and star LANs in Chapters 5
through 7. The computer code in Chapters 5, 6, and 7 is divided
into segments, and a detailed explanation of each segment is
provided. The last chapter reviews special-purpose languages such
as GPSS, SIMSCRIPT, GASP, SIMULA, SLAM, and RESQ. Helpful criteria
for language selection are included. The entire code is put
together in the appendixes. This book has two major advantages over
existing texts. First, it uses C, a well-developed general-purpose
language that is familiar to most analysts. Second, the text
specifically applies the simulation principles to local area
networks. No other book available shows the systems analyst how to
evaluate the performance of existing or proposed systems under
different kinds of conditions.
Analytical Techniques in Electromagnetics is designed for
researchers, scientists, and engineers seeking analytical solutions
to electromagnetic (EM) problems. The techniques presented provide
exact solutions that can be used to validate the accuracy of
approximate solutions, offer better insight into actual physical
processes, and can be utilized in finding precise quantities of
interest over a wide range of parameter values. Beginning with a
review of basic EMs, the text: Describes the use of the separation
of variables technique in Laplace, heat, and wave equations,
covering rectangular, cylindrical, and spherical coordinate systems
Explains the series expansion method, providing the solution of
Poisson's equation in a cube and in a cylinder, and scattering by
cylinders and spheres, as examples Addresses the conformal
transformation technique, offering a visual display of conformal
mapping and a brief introduction to the Schwarz-Christoffel
transformation Employs worked-out problems to demonstrate various
applications of Fourier sine and cosine, two-sided Fourier,
Laplace, Hankel, and Mellin transform techniques Discusses
perturbation techniques, supplying examples of perturbed results
degenerating to their unperturbed versions as the perturbation
parameters tend to zero Analytical Techniques in Electromagnetics
maintains a balanced view of techniques for solving EM problems,
refusing to overemphasize the importance of analytical methods at
the expense of numerical techniques. Carefully selected topics give
readers an appreciation of the kinds of EM problems that can be
solved exactly.
Providing role models of excellence for contemporary women and men
and contributing to the understanding of the educational and career
development of high achieving women, these autobiographical essays
of seventeen women and their achievements generate a deeper
appreciation of the vital role of women in the development of
contemporary psychology.
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