|
Showing 1 - 25 of
243 matches in All Departments
In this sequel to 'Lady and the Tramp', the original duo's
offspring, mischievous pup Scamp (voiced by Scott Wolf), is always
getting into trouble. After running away from home he meets lovely
stray Angel (Alyssa Milano) and the streetwise Buster (Chazz
Palminteri), who enrolls Scamp in the Junkyard Dogs gang. However,
how long will Scamp be happy in his new, collar-free surroundings?
At the heart of Fishtown is the final resting place of generations
of Kensington and Fishtown residents. Founded prior to 1748, Palmer
Cemetery is one of the oldest in Philadelphia. Interred here, and
in Hanover Street and West Street Burial Grounds are soldiers from
every war fought by colonists and then Americans, from the French
and Indian War until Desert Storm. The fishing families that built
the neighborhood, victims of the Yellow Fever epidemic of 1793 and
the ancestors of the Shibe family are also buried in these plots.
Kenneth W. Milano walks the cemetery paths and reveals the secrets
the stones keep with Palmer Cemetery and the Historic Burial
Grounds of Kensington and Fishtown.
|
The Prince (Paperback)
Vito Bruschini; Translated by Anne Milano Appel
bundle available
|
R443
R378
Discovery Miles 3 780
Save R65 (15%)
|
Ships in 10 - 15 working days
|
La vida es la facultad de las ciencias superiores de la existencia
y el t tulo otorgado es el de MAESTRO HUMANO DE LA SABIDUR A, la
vida busca que nuestro aprendizaje sea lo menos traum tico posible,
sin embargo nosotros en nuestra ignorancia y limitaciones
aprendidas nos vemos enfrentados a situaciones dif ciles y a veces
dram ticas debido a la incapacidad de observar las LEYES
UNIVERSALES y esto le llamamos destino, y nos quejamos de nuestra
mala suerte, resign ndonos a nuestro propio destino por no saber
que nosotros somos los constructores de l. Todos deseamos la
felicidad la armon a, la alegr a, la m sica, la belleza, todo...
todo..., pero lo que no sabemos es que para obtenerlo hay que
actuar de otra forma, pensar de otra forma y desear de otra forma.
Nosotros somos parte del universo, vivimos, respiramos tenemos agua
y alimento gracias a l, pero ignoramos que en el Universo existen
leyes claras y muy exactas que no conocerlas y cumplirlas es lo que
nos lleva al sufrimiento y a que nuestros deseos nunca se cumplan.
Estas Leyes Universales funcionan para todos, su manejo pr ctico es
lo que nos llevar a fluir con el universo y a alcanzar todo aquello
a lo que tenemos derecho, pero que sencillamente deseamos sin saber
pedir ni recibir. La aplicaci n de estas leyes en nuestro mundo
material son las que rigen hasta los detalles m s simples de
nuestra existencia dej ndonos la posibilidad de acci n sobre los
eventos que cada d a suceden. Cuando aprendemos la magia de estas
leyes en la vida, desarrollamos la habilidad para manejar
voluntariamente nuestro destino, ya que nosotros somos creadores de
nuestro mundo a trav s del pensamiento, que es el pegamento c
smico. Al no conocer las LEYES UNIVERSALES somos como una
computadora donde cada d a programamos dudas, carencias y
limitaciones. Somos los ladrones de nuestro propio reino olvid
ndonos de que gracias a las leyes universales nosotros tenemos el
saber absoluto que nos convierte en se ores de nuestro propio
reino. Felicitaciones Tener este libro en tus manos significa que
ahora ya est s listo para aprender lo que no pudiste aprender
antes, porque tus prioridades eran diferentes. Gracias por
permitirme entrar en tu vida. DANA MILANO
A gripping, haunting and beautifully written book for fans of
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, They Both Die at the End and
Holly Jackson. How can the things you love hurt so much?
17-year-old Luka isn't looking for love. She's trying to piece her
life back together after a heartbreaking loss. But when she meets
the gorgeous and charismatic Cosmo under a meteor shower at the
Greenwich Observatory, it feels like destiny has played a hand.
Surely theirs is a love written in the stars. But Cosmo isn't what
he seems, using Luka's love for him to slowly take control of her
life. As the pandemic starts to make headlines and lockdown sets
in, she is trapped emotionally and physically in a coercive
relationship. Luka's friends and brother can see what's happening,
but struggle to reach her. Something will have to be sacrificed so
Luka can set herself free - but what will be left of her when she
does? (TRUE) LOVE (TOXIC) LOVE (LOST) LOVE This is a different kind
of love story.
THE PHENOMENAL INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'An anti-fascist history
lesson disguised as a novel' New York Times 'Extraordinary' TLS
'The novel Italy has been waiting for. A masterpiece' Roberto
Saviano A startling look into the fascist mindset, a portrait of
unrelenting determination, and an impeccable work of historical
fiction. M tells the story of the rise of fascism from within the
mind of its founder. A gripping and masterful expose, it explores
Benito Mussolini's rise to power and a movement that, amidst a
failing democracy, came to shape the world. 'Panoptic and
polyphonic, Scurati's book gives us the experiences of the fearful
and the feared, the rhetoric of both the revolutionaries and the
reactionaries ... an immense mosaic' Lucy Hughes-Hallett, New
Statesman 'An indisputable literary achievement ... Italo Calvino
would have loved it' El Pais
This edited volume presents an overview of cutting-edge research
areas within digital ethics as defined by the Digital Ethics Lab of
the University of Oxford. It identifies new challenges and
opportunities of influence in setting the research agenda in the
field. The yearbook presents research on the following topics:
conceptual metaphor theory, cybersecurity governance, cyber
conflicts, anthropomorphism in AI, digital technologies for mental
healthcare, data ethics in the asylum process, AI's legitimacy and
democratic deficit, digital afterlife industry, automatic prayer
bots, foresight analysis and the future of AI. This volume appeals
to students, researchers and professionals.
Deixis as a field of research has generated increased interest in
recent years. It is crucial for a number of different
subdisciplines: pragmatics, semantics, cognitive and contrastive
linguistics, to name just a few. The subject is of particular
interest to experts and students, philosophers, teachers,
philologists, and psychologists interested in the study of their
language or in comparing linguistic structures. The different
deictic structures - not only the items themselves, but also the
oppositions between them - reflect the fact that neither the
notions of space, time, person nor our use of them are identical
cross-culturally. This diversity is not restricted to the
difference between languages, but also appears among related
dialects and language varieties. This volume will provide an
overview of the field, focusing on Romance languages, but also
reaching beyond this perspective. Chapters on diachronic
developments (language change), comparisons with other
(non-)European languages, and on interfaces with neighboring fields
of interest are also included. The editors and authors hope that
readers, regardless of their familiarity with Romance languages,
will gain new insights into deixis in general, and into the
similarities and differences among deictic structures used in the
languages of the world.
Power system modelling and scripting is a quite general and
ambitious title. Of course, to embrace all existing aspects of
power system modelling would lead to an encyclopedia and would be
likely an impossible task. Thus, the book focuses on a subset of
power system models based on the following assumptions: (i) devices
are modelled as a set of nonlinear differential algebraic
equations, (ii) all alternate-current devices are operating in
three-phase balanced fundamental frequency, and (iii) the time
frame of the dynamics of interest ranges from tenths to tens of
seconds. These assumptions basically restrict the analysis to
transient stability phenomena and generator controls. The modelling
step is not self-sufficient. Mathematical models have to be
translated into computer programming code in order to be analyzed,
understood and experienced . It is an object of the book to provide
a general framework for a power system analysis software tool and
hints for filling up this framework with versatile programming
code. This book is for all students and researchers that are
looking for a quick reference on power system models or need some
guidelines for starting the challenging adventure of writing their
own code."
Despite differing origins, constraint programming and mathematical
programming are beginning to merge. Constraint programming has
grown out of the logic programming community as part of an effort
to embed constraints in a programming language. Mathematical
programming, a much older field, is rooted in the mathematics of
optimization. Because these two areas have complementary strengths,
there are ongoing efforts to integrate the two.Constraint and
Integer Programming presents some of the basic ideas of constraint
programming and mathematical programming, explores approaches to
integration, brings us up to date on heuristic methods, and
attempts to discern future directions in this fast-moving field.
Constraint and Integer Programming is organized as follows: Chapter
1 is a high level overview of the main concepts of Constraint
Programming (CP) and Integer Programming (IP) used in the book.
Chapter 2 informally introduces integration methods describing and
classifying the main works in the field. Chapter 3 outlines a
unifying framework which involves the main concepts of CP and IP,
underlining similarities and differences, and stating the basis for
possible integrations. Chapter 4 describes global constraints as a
vehicle for integrating IP concepts in CP in a transparent way for
the user. Chapter 5 presents various ways to integrate relaxations
in Constraint Programming focussing on global constraints. Chapter
6 presents hybrid solvers and Chapter 7 outlines Column Generation
and its integration in Constraint Programming. Chapter 8 examines
randomization and problem structure as a basis for understanding
the intrinsic difficulty of the combinatorial problems. Chapter 9
studies the use of local search and meta-heuristics in CP. Chapter
10 is devoted to open perspectives and future directions.
Hybrid Optimization focuses on the application of artificial
intelligence and operations research techniques to constraint
programming for solving combinatorial optimization problems. This
book covers the most relevant topics investigated in the last ten
years by leading experts in the field, and speculates about future
directions for research.
This book includes contributions by experts from different but
related areas of research including constraint programming,
decision theory, operations research, SAT, artificial intelligence,
as well as others. These diverse perspectives are actively combined
and contrasted in order to evaluate their relative advantages.
This volume presents techniques for hybrid modeling, integrated
solving strategies including global constraints, decomposition
techniques, use of relaxations, and search strategies including
tree search local search and metaheuristics. Various applications
of the techniques presented as well as supplementary computational
tools are also discussed.
|
You may like...
Loot
Nadine Gordimer
Paperback
(2)
R383
R318
Discovery Miles 3 180
Loot
Nadine Gordimer
Paperback
(2)
R383
R318
Discovery Miles 3 180
Elvis
Baz Luhrmann
Blu-ray disc
R191
R171
Discovery Miles 1 710
Gloria
Sam Smith
CD
R187
R177
Discovery Miles 1 770
|