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A beautiful, thoughtful guide to finding your perfect next read, no matter what life’s throwing at you, from the founder of Aphra a.k.a. ‘your inclusive AF feminist book club’.
Through turbulent times, stories keep us afloat. Books, particularly, console and guide us, feed our souls, and open our eyes to worlds, possibilities and experiences we may never have considered before. Many of us have been self-medicating with books for years without identifying the practice as ‘bibliotherapy’.
This carefully curated collection will help you to identify the right reads for the right time. Whether you are in the throes of first love or the depths of heartbreak, embarking on a new beginning or questioning which path to take, use this guide to lose yourself in literature and find yourself anew, and discover the books that will always matter to you.
Includes celebrated classics, as well as overlooked modern masterpieces, with a focus on underrepresented voices. Recommended reads, include:
You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi
Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
Letter to my Daughter by Maya Angelou
The Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante
Be Not Afraid of Love by Mimi Zhu
All eight episodes from the third season of the fantasy series set
in the quirky and seemingly perfect small town of Eureka, where the
hidden work of America's brightest scientists can lead to
innovation or utter chaos. The series stars Colin Ferguson as
Sheriff Jack Carter, a former US Marshal who is stranded in the
town after a car accident. Episodes are: 'Bad to the Drone', 'What
About Bob?', 'Best in Faux', 'I Do Over', 'Show Me the Mummy',
'Phased and Confused', 'Here Come the Suns' and 'From Fear to
Eternity'.
This book describes the PREMISS system, which enables readers to
overcome the limitations of state-of-the-art battery-less wireless
sensors in size, cost, robustness and range, with a system concept
for a 60 GHz wireless sensor system with monolithic sensors. The
authors demonstrate a system in which the wireless sensors consist
of wireless power receiving, sensing and communication functions in
a single chip, without external components, avoiding costly
IC-interfaces that are sensitive to mechanical and thermal stress.
Successfully navigating the data-driven economy presupposes a
certain understanding of the technologies and methods to gain
insights from Big Data. This book aims to help data science
practitioners to successfully manage the transition to Big Data.
Building on familiar content from applied econometrics and business
analytics, this book introduces the reader to the basic concepts of
Big Data Analytics. The focus of the book is on how to productively
apply econometric and machine learning techniques with large,
complex data sets, as well as on all the steps involved before
analysing the data (data storage, data import, data preparation).
The book combines conceptual and theoretical material with the
practical application of the concepts using R and SQL. The reader
will thus acquire the skills to analyse large data sets, both
locally and in the cloud. Various code examples and tutorials,
focused on empirical economic and business research, illustrate
practical techniques to handle and analyse Big Data. Key Features:
- Includes many code examples in R and SQL, with R/SQL scripts
freely provided online. - Extensive use of real datasets from
empirical economic research and business analytics, with data files
freely provided online. - Leads students and practitioners to think
critically about where the bottlenecks are in practical data
analysis tasks with large data sets, and how to address them. The
book is a valuable resource for data science practitioners,
graduate students and researchers who aim to gain insights from big
data in the context of research questions in business, economics,
and the social sciences.
The Church of Solitude tells the story of Maria Concezione, a young
Sardinian seamstress living with breast cancer at the cusp of the
twentieth century. Overwhelmed by the shame of her diagnosis, she
decides that no one can know what has happened to her, but the
heavy burden of this secrecy changes her life in dramatic ways and
almost causes the destruction of several people in her life. This
surprising novel paints the portrait of a woman facing the unknown
with courage, faith, and self-reliance, and is the last and most
autobiographical work of Grazia Deledda, who died of breast cancer
in 1936, shortly after its publication. An afterword by the
translator offers additional information on the author and examines
the social and historical environment of that time.
Successfully navigating the data-driven economy presupposes a
certain understanding of the technologies and methods to gain
insights from Big Data. This book aims to help data science
practitioners to successfully manage the transition to Big Data.
Building on familiar content from applied econometrics and business
analytics, this book introduces the reader to the basic concepts of
Big Data Analytics. The focus of the book is on how to productively
apply econometric and machine learning techniques with large,
complex data sets, as well as on all the steps involved before
analysing the data (data storage, data import, data preparation).
The book combines conceptual and theoretical material with the
practical application of the concepts using R and SQL. The reader
will thus acquire the skills to analyse large data sets, both
locally and in the cloud. Various code examples and tutorials,
focused on empirical economic and business research, illustrate
practical techniques to handle and analyse Big Data. Key Features:
- Includes many code examples in R and SQL, with R/SQL scripts
freely provided online. - Extensive use of real datasets from
empirical economic research and business analytics, with data files
freely provided online. - Leads students and practitioners to think
critically about where the bottlenecks are in practical data
analysis tasks with large data sets, and how to address them. The
book is a valuable resource for data science practitioners,
graduate students and researchers who aim to gain insights from big
data in the context of research questions in business, economics,
and the social sciences.
The national curriculum provides an outline of core knowledge
around which teachers can develop exciting and stimulating lessons
to promote the development of pupils’ knowledge, understanding
and skills as part of the wider school curriculum. The Teachers′
Standards underpin professional practice and all teachers need to
work towards and within this framework. This updated, comprehensive
handbook presents ALL key statutory, essential reading for trainee
and beginning teachers in one place. The third edition presents:
*The National Curriculum Programmes of Study for ALL curriculum
subjects for Key Stages 1, 2 and 3 *The complete Teachers′
Standards *NEW! The Core Content Framework for Initial Teacher
Training *NEW! The Early Career Framework *Relationships Education,
Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) and Health Education
guidiance in full *Foreword from Dylan Wiliam focusing on the need
for a broad and balanced curriculum in schools *NC by topic planner
for English and maths at Key Stages 1 and 2 *Full index for easy
reference A must-have resource for ALL teachers and trainee
teachers!
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Through Homelessness Prevention in Treatment of Substance Abuse and
Mental Illness: Logic Models and Implementation of Eight American
Projects, psychiatrist, psychologists, and social workers will
discover the results of eight, three-year long development projects
funded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services
Administration (SAMHSA) designed to prevent homelessness in high-
risk populations who have problems with alcoholism, drug abuse,
and/or mental illness. Through this informative book, you will
examine the theory or logic guiding each program, including an
up-to-date review of the literature supporting each theory. You
will also find a description of the implementation of the program
as well as its history, the practical issues involved in delivering
services, the pitfalls, lessons learned, and recommendations for
the future so you can use the best ideas to implement in your own
community and stop these individuals from reaching the
streets.Homelessness Prevention in Treatment of Substance Abuse and
Mental Illness provides insight into how to deal with many common
issues that you are faced with every day, such as matching clients
to appropriate services, preventing relapse, case management,
training in independent living skills and money management,
acquiring and maintaining housing, and benefits and employment for
your disadvantaged clients. Compelling and informative, this unique
book provides you with many tips and suggestions on how you can
help the disadvantaged in our population avoid the added trauma of
becoming homeless, such as: examining a new modified therapeutic
community (TC) intervention program for mothers recovering from
substance abuse who live with their children so you can learn to
treat the family as a whole and not just treat the person with a
"problem" gaining insight into a new intervention program for
families caring for another family member with serious mental
illness or substance abuse disorders so you can address such issues
as the importance of respite for the family and home visits for
relationship building among the entire household discovering a new,
independent living model which allows clients with serious mental
illnesses to select their own apartments learning about a new
program in Philadelphia that offers support services to clients
with serious mental illnesses and substance use disorders and
provides several levels of housing from emergency shelter to highly
supportive permanent housing discovering a community counseling
center in Chicago that operates a "bank" that helps mentally ill
clients or those with substance use disorders develop skills to
independently manage their financial affairs through the use of
"vouchers" that can be redeemed for cash for the payment of monthly
billsHomelessness Prevention in Treatment of Substance Abuse and
Mental Illness provides you with new insights into how you can help
your clients overcome political, economic, and environmental
barriers to treatment that can lead to homelessness. This essential
book will help you improve your services to your clients as well as
give you step-by-step guide to implement these new programs in your
community.
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