When I compare the books on expert systems in my library with the production expert systems I know of, I note that there are few good books on building expert systems in Prolog. Of course, the set of actual production systems is a little small for a valid statistical sample, at least at the time and place of this writing - here in Gennany, and in the first days of 1989. But there are at least some systems I have seen running in real life commercial and industrial environments, and not only at trade shows. I can observe the most impressive one in my immediate neighborhood. It is installed in the Telephone Shop of the Gennan Federal PTT near the Munich National Theater, and helps configure telephone systems and small PBXs for mostly private customers. It has a neat, graphical interface, and constructs and prices an individual telephone installation interactively before the very eyes of the customer. The hidden features of the system are even more impressive. It is part of an expert system network with a distributed knowledge base that will grow to about 150 installations in every Telephone Shop throughout Gennany. Each of them can be updated individually overnight via Teletex to present special offers or to adapt the selection process to the hardware supplies currently available at the local ware houses."

Not long ago" Dennis Merritt wrote one of the best books that I know of about implementing expert systems in Prolog, and I was very glad he published it in our series. The only problem is there are still some unfortunate people around who do not know Prolog and are not sufficiently prepared either to read Merritt's book, or to use this extremely productive language, be it for knowledge-based work or even for everyday programming. Possibly this last statement may surprise you if you were under the impression that Prolog was an "artificial intelligence language" with very limited application potential. Please believe this editor's statement that quite the opposite is true: for at least four years, I have been using Prolog for every programming task in which I am given the option of choosing the language. Therefore, I 'am indeed happy that Dennis Merritt has written another good book on my language of choice, and that it meets the high standard he set with his prior book, Building Expert Systems in Prolog. All that remains for me to do is to wish you success and enjoyment when taking off on your Adventure in Prolog.

Amy Van Court wrote Escaping Career Prison after years of helping women free themselves from unfulfilling work and land in livelihoods that allow them to achieve career success on their terms.

The author's straightforward, no-nonsense approach is balanced with compassion and understanding to help readers discover and utilize their unique gifts, passions and talents.

With this book as your guide, you will discover and explore the Three Keys to Career Freedom: deep self-knowledge and self-acceptance, managing the inner critic that keeps you stuck, and connecting with the wisdom that will support and guide you toward a fulfilling career.

Escaping Career Prison also includes practical tools such as exercises, resources and recommendations that you will find valuable long after you've landed in your own personal career freedom. This is a book that will serve you for years to come.

"If you picked up this book it is because there is "something" stirring within and you know it. Call it curiosity, divine discontentment, or what you will--it has a message for you; there is more for you to know, be and do. In Escaping Career Prison Amy Van Court offers not only the insight, inspiration, humor and motivation to explore that "something"--she gives us the tools with which to do it with grace, ease, confidence. Right now you hold the three keys in your hand that will set you free. If you are ready to step out of the box of the known and into the infinite field of possibilities that await you in that which is yet to be, READ this book."
Dennis Merritt Jones
Author of The Art of Uncertainty - How to Live In the Mystery of Life and Love It

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Inspired & Unstoppable: Wildly Succeeding in Your Life's Work

O objetivo da Ciencia da Mente e curar nossas vidas de toda e qualquer discordia, medo, supersticao, culpa e sentimento de necessidade. A plenitude e uma Realidade e pode ser encontrada no centro de quem somos e o que somos agora. A Ciencia da Mente oferece metodos praticos e definitivos para criar mudancas de vida positivas. Entre seus beneficios se encontra a ciencia da oracao de cura positiva, chamada de Tratamento Espiritual da Mente. Como Explicar a Ciencia da Mente e um guia util aos conceitos e terminologia deste sistema espiritual pratico e dinamico. Perguntas mais frequentes sao respondidas com definicoes simples de palavras-chave e frases. Este livro conciso lhe oferece os elementos basicos da filosofia da Ciencia da Mente. Queira voce escolha praticar em casa ou numa das inumeras igrejas de Ciencia Religiosa e Ciencia da Mente, ou Centros de Vida Espiritual, voce entendera logo a maravilha espiritual da Ciencia da Mente.

This volume explores how consumption and entertainment change cities, but it reverses the 'normal' causal process. That is, many chapters analyze how consumption and entertainment drive urban development, not vice versa. People both live and work in cities and where they choose to live shifts where and how they work. Amenities enter as enticements to bring new residents or tourists to a city and so amenities have thus become new public concerns for many cities in the U.S. and much of Northern Europe. Old ways of thinking, old paradigms - such as 'location, location, location' and 'land, labor, capital, and management generate economic development' - are too simple. So is 'human capital drives development'. To these earlier questions we add, 'How do amenities and related consumption attract talented people, who in turn drive the classic processes which make cities grow?' This new question is critical for policy makers, urban public officials, business, and non-profit leaders who are using culture, entertainment, and urban amenities to enhance their locations - for present and future residents, tourists, conventioneers, and shoppers. The City as an Entertainment Machine details the impacts of opera, used bookstores, brew pubs, bicycle events, Starbucks' coffee shops, gay residents, and other factors on changes in jobs, population, inventions, and more. It is the first study to assemble and analyze such amenities for national samples of cities (and counties). It interprets these processes by showing how they add new insights from economics, sociology, political science, public policy, and geography. Considerable evidence is presented about how consumption, amenities, and culture drive urban policy by encouraging people to move to or from different cities and regions.

Who does your soul ask you to be? In "Your ReDefining Moments," ""Dennis Merritt Jones provides an exciting road map back to our center, where we will find our Authentic Self.
It can seem like every person, every television show, and every ad has an idea of who we are supposed to be. But who does your soul ask you to be? In "Your ReDefining Moments," spiritual teacher Dennis Merritt Jones offers a road map back to your center, where you will find your Authentic Self. It is from that center, Merritt Jones shows, that you can live the life you were born for, rather than the tug-of-war so many people get caught up in, trying to be all things to all people, trying to be anyone but who they truly are.
In "Your ReDefining Moments," you will discover the Seven Intrinsic Qualities of the Authentic Self:
1. Wholeness
2. Reverence
3. Fearlessness
4. Integrity
5. Non-attachment
6. Non-judgment
7. Unconditional Love

Being who you are matters; the gift of your Authentic Self is the gift you have come to share with the world.

"The Art of Being: 101 Ways to Practice Purpose in Your Life" helps readers become inspired and stay inspired, with motivational and uplifting writings that can be read daily, supported by "Mindfulness Practices," or action steps to make it simple. Ultimately, the understanding at which the reader will arrive is that spirituality, the "art of being," is actually a lifestyle, a way of walking our sacred earth every day. "The Art of Being" is a user-friendly manual to guide you to become acutely aware of how to live more mindfully on a day-by-day, hour-by-hour, moment-by-moment basis and thus create more peace and happiness in your life-and in the lives of those around you.