A contour is usually defined as an outline or the structure or characteristic of something. A contour line which is shown on a contour map indicates points of elevation. We think that all of these definitions fit Contours of Great Leadership. This book brings together many aspects of concepts and theories of leadership. It is an amalgam of ideas from the social sciences and the humanities woven together in the idea of leadership as an accoutrement, that is, a deliberate woven garment comprising science, art, experience, and craft knowledge. Thus we see leadership not as either/or an art or a science; or craft knowledge vs. scientific or research based knowledge, but rather as all of them combined and which occurs between followers and leaders within distinctive cultures and modes of communication. The importance of context and culture as the milieu in which leadership is acquired and learned is critical. In the end leadership is a performing art form, which while it can be studied scientifically, cannot be understood solely as a science without connecting it to the arts and ultimately to practice.

Mrs Owl agrees to do a favour for proud Mr Peacock, taking his child's lunch to school. But how will she recognise his child? 'Just look for the most beautiful child there,' replies Mr Peacock. But Mrs Owl can't deliver his child's lunch - because she can't find a child at school more beautiful than her own! This timeless fable in dazzling colours has a wit and wisdom that reader and read-to will both relish!

Sloane, creator of Sloane's Table, brings her signature knack for big flavors and decadent spice combinations in these 60 easy and delicious donut recipes. Donut lovers will be amazed at the adventurous variety this book promises, from multiple textures to an array of taste profiles. Whether fried or baked, frosted, filled or glazed or made with brioche, croissant or choux dough, readers will have endless options to satisfy their sweet tooth. Make crowd-pleasing Carrot Cake Donuts or Funfetti Croissant Donuts for your holiday parties. Whip up the Red Velvet Cake Donuts, Apple Cider Old fashioned Donuts or Roasted Strawberry Choux Donuts during family gatherings. Invite friends over for a sweet afternoon around impressive bakes like Tiramisu Croissant Donuts or Cinnamon Roll Brioche Donuts. Plus, with recipes for leftover donuts, you can transform your bakes into such treats as Donut Ice Cream Sandwiches and Donut Bread Pudding. With an endless array of choices and no shortage of irresistible flavors, this book will ensure you always have something sweet to munch on.

There's tremendous interest in building applications with Silverlight 2, but very little material demonstrating how to build data-driven solutions with the platform. This comprehensive tutorial teaches developers how to build data-rich applications with Silverlight 2 that draw on multiple sources of data, including how to implement "in-the-cloud" data access options. Packed with reusable examples, Data-Driven Services with Silverlight 2 offers valuable information on data binding controls, the LINQ data querying component, RESTful and WCF interfaces, cross-domain data, as well as Microsoft's new ADO.NET Data Servicesand the ADO.NET Entity Framework. With this book, you will: Learn how Silverlight 2 applications rely on data for binding, passing, reading, saving, querying, and presentation Discover how your application can call REST, web services, RSS, and HTTP services Design entities that can be passed to and from a Silverlight 2 application via WCF Apply data persistence techniques to Silverlight 2 applications Harness the power of RESTful web services such as Amazon and Twitter Learn how and when to use LINQ to SQL to query a data store Retrieve and save data, using the new Entity Framework and WCF Work with the RESTful ADO.NET Data Services to move data between your application and a database Learn how to build RESTful services and communicate with them from Silverlight 2

And more. Written by data access expert and MSDN Magazine columnist John Papa, Data-Driven Services with Silverlight 2 covers all of the Silverlight data access topics you need to know, including the real-world scenarios you're most likely to encounter. Examples will be available on the book's website atwww.silverlight2data.com.

THE BESTSELLING MEDITERRANEAN DIET BOOK IN THE MEDITERRANEAN Join the hundreds of thousands who are eating well and getting slimmer with the new Mediterranean diet book. Featuring delicious, fat-burning, easy-to-make Mediterranean diet recipes, a simple plan, and the psychological tools to stay slimmer, this international bestselling diet sensation takes the incredible flavors of the Mediterranean and adds new fat-burning ingredients that get amazing results. Harry Papas, a certified dietitian in Greece, lost over 100 pounds by creating a revolutionary nutrition plan: a delicious, fat-burning Mediterranean diet coupled with the self-awareness he needed to combat the triggers that contributed to his weight gain. Unlike other diets, The New Mediterranean Diet’s delicious meal plan is designed to help you stay slim while actually enjoying what you eat. This easy-to-follow Mediterranean diet plan will allow you to get rid of those unwanted pounds with incredibly flavorful and satisfying meals, full of sustaining, wholesome foods—such as fresh fruits and vegetables, olive oil, and Greek yogurt—that have been enjoyed for centuries by those in the Mediterranean as well as celebrities visiting Papas’ family restaurant in Greece. Packed with recipes and practical nutritional advice, The New Mediterranean Diet also helps you understand why you gained weight and provides the psychological support and encouragement you need to successfully lose weight and permanently retain the loss. The New Mediterranean Diet features a winning combination of: Fat-burning ingredients from the Mediterranean 9-week meal-plan cycles featuring incredibly delicious, easy, and satisfying recipes, including several made with Greek yogurt Simple lifestyle changes practiced in the Mediterranean to help you eat, relax, and live well Testimonials and success stories from Harry’s Health and Diet Centre in Athens The psychology behind your weight-gain—how to understand your weight-gain triggers so that you can change your habits, eating and otherwise Introduction: The Slimmer Story PART I: THE SLIMMER NUTRITIONAL PROGRAM Chapter 1: Slimmer and the Mediterranean Diet and Lifestyle The Mediterranean Diet The Mediterranean Lifestyle Chapter 2: The Slimmer Program Love at First Taste The Slimmer Cycles     Cycle A Menu Plan     Cycle B Menu Plan     Cycle C Menu Plan The Recipes     Cycle A     Cycle B     Cycle C Frequently Asked Questions Chapter 3: Maintaining Your Success PART II: THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SLIMMER Activating Your Goal: How to Get to and Maintain Your Ideal Weight Conclusion

This concise, easy-to-use reference puts one of the most popular frameworks for deep learning research and development at your fingertips. Author Joe Papa provides instant access to syntax, design patterns, and code examples to accelerate your development and reduce the time you spend searching for answers. Research scientists, machine learning engineers, and software developers will find clear, structured PyTorch code that covers every step of neural network developmentafrom loading data to customizing training loops to model optimization and GPU/TPU acceleration. Quickly learn how to deploy your code to production using AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure and deploy your ML models to mobile and edge devices. Learn basic PyTorch syntax and design patterns Create custom models and data transforms Train and deploy models using a GPU and TPU Train and test a deep learning classifier Accelerate training using optimization and distributed training Access useful PyTorch libraries and the PyTorch ecosystem

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.

Society 5.0 points toward a human-centred approach by the use of modern, advanced technologies and artificial intelligence. This book explores and offers an overview of knowledge management embraced in the current scenario of Society 5.0, shedding light on its importance in a society that is increasingly digital and interconnected. The book enhances current managerial and economic research by offering the "human" side of knowledge management (KM) intertwined with the use of artificial intelligences (AIs). Each chapter explores KM from different perspectives, including entrepreneurship, innovation, marketing, and strategy, in a theoretical and practical way. They include insights from both practitioners and scholars, enriched by practical tools that can be used during laboratories, workshops and tutorials. The book presents evidence on how to manage KM and develop new knowledge in different subjects, with the aim of overcoming conventional KM strategy and show how business and society are connected with "power of subjective human knowledge creation". Offering both new insights, research and practical guidance, this book will appeal to academics and students of knowledge management as well as digital transformation practitioners looking for ways to transition their organizations from knowledge economy to digital economy.

This is a practical, bold, no-holds barred look at challenges facing educational leaders and the university programs that prepare them through mid-century. It examines key continuities and discontinuities of current times for school, education, and society. Both practice and preparation occur in contested social space, the implications of which are explored in a post industrial, digital age.The stark warning signs of the conflict roiling educational leadership includes the re-segregation and marketization of the public schools; the demonization of teacher unions; attempts to de-professionalize professional preparation; the continuing achievement gap which ignores larger social inequalities; the debasement of education degrees by online diploma mills; the escalating culture of numbers and cheating scandals; and the erosion of full-time, seasoned faculty providing leadership to university preparation programs. The promise of social justice leadership anchored in a fast-changing demographic portrait of increasing national diversity is encapsulated in the construct of leadership accoutrement's which awakens the art and science of leadership.. Finally, the authors propose the pedagogically centered leadership for creating a functional bridge between leadership and learning in preparation and practice."

There's no mystery in turning around low-performing or failing schools, but there are also no recipes. In Turnaround Principals for Underperforming Schools Rosemary Papa and Fenwick English identify the essential ingredients for success. The causes of failure are complex and interactive. Schools are not inert structures but living organisms. Putting schools back together is a collaborative venture. It takes a team to turn around a school, but it all begins with the leadership. The key to success rests in a school leader who has a fundamental understanding of the dynamics of schooling, human motivation, and possesses the resiliency and energy to engage in altering the internal landscape of an unsuccessful school. Two veteran educators have put together a work based on their research and experience for the past half-century. They pull no punches. The challenge is not only to turn low-performing or failing schools around, but to enable them to become more socially just places for all students.

There's no mystery in turning around low-performing or failing schools, but there are also no recipes. In Turnaround Principals for Underperforming Schools Rosemary Papa and Fenwick English identify the essential ingredients for success. The causes of failure are complex and interactive. Schools are not inert structures but living organisms. Putting schools back together is a collaborative venture. It takes a team to turn around a school, but it all begins with the leadership. The key to success rests in a school leader who has a fundamental understanding of the dynamics of schooling, human motivation, and possesses the resiliency and energy to engage in altering the internal landscape of an unsuccessful school. Two veteran educators have put together a work based on their research and experience for the past half-century. They pull no punches. The challenge is not only to turn low-performing or failing schools around, but to enable them to become more socially just places for all students.

A fascinating collection of thirty compelling stories about events that shaped Sin City, "It Happened in Las Vegas "describes everything from a nineteenth-century land deal that almost created two competing cities to the torrential rainstorm that flooded downtown Vegas with three inches of water.

Anna was four years old when Fynn, then only 16 himself, found her wandering round London's Docklands one foggy night in the 1930s. Badly neglected and abandoned by her parents, he took her home to be cared for by his own family. The impact of this extraordinary child on Fynn, his friends and the people in their neighbourhood was to be immense. Nobody who met Anna could remain the same: this intelligent, lively, precocious chatterbox had an outlook on life which completely undercut adult pretensions and illusions. Anna's influence continues today. Anyone dipping into her thought-processes falls under the spell of her luminous innocence, wisdom and intimate relationship with 'Mister God'.

We're in the midst of an AI research explosion. Deep learning has unlocked superhuman perception that has powered our push toward self-driving vehicles, the ability to defeat human experts at a variety of difficult games including Go and Starcraft, and even generate essays with shockingly coherent prose. But deciphering these breakthroughs often takes a Ph.D. education in machine learning and mathematics. This updated second edition describes the intuition behind these innovations without the jargon and complexity. By the end of this book, Python-proficient programmers, software engineering professionals, and computer science majors will be able to re-implement these breakthroughs on their own and reason about them with a level of sophistication that rivals some of the best in the field. New chapters cover recent advancements in the fields of generative modeling and interpretability. Code examples throughout the book are updated to TensorFlow 2 and PyTorch 1.4.

Mr Peacock asks kind Mrs Owl to take his child's lunch to school. He tells her she will recognise his child easily, as the most beautiful child there. But Mrs Owl can't find a child more beautiful than her own, so the lunch is not delivered! Mr Peacock learns a valuable lesson about vanity. Full of dazzling birds and Papas's signature wit.