Language: English, Binding: Paperback, Number of pages: 280, Publishers: MIT Press Ltd, Author: Alicia Juarrero, ISBN-13: 9780262545662, Date of issue: 2023
Discover an accessible and easy-to-use guide to calculus fundamentalsIn Quick Calculus: A Self-Teaching Guide, 3rd Edition, a team of expert MIT educators delivers a hands-on and practical handbook to essential calculus concepts and terms. The author explores calculus techniques and applications, showing readers how to immediately implement the concepts discussed within to help solve real-world problems.In the book, readers will find:* An accessible introduction to the basics of differential and integral calculus* An interactive self-teaching guide that offers frequent questions and practice problems with solutions.* A format that enables them to monitor their progress and gauge their knowledgeThis latest edition provides new sections, rewritten introductions, and worked examples that demonstrate how to apply calculus concepts to problems in physics, health sciences, engineering, statistics, and other core sciences.Quick Calculus: A Self-Teaching Guide, 3rd Edition is an invaluable resource for students and lifelong learners hoping to strengthen their foundations in calculus.
Gaza in Crisis is Noam Chomsky's clear-sighted analysis of an area in a desperate impasse. From the targeting of schools and hospitals, to the indiscriminate use of white phosphorus, Israel's conduct in 'Operation Cast Lead' has rattled even some of its most strident supporters. In Gaza in Crisis, Noam Chomsky and Ilan Pappe survey the fallout from that devastation, and place the massacre in Gaza in the context of Israel's long-standing war against the Palestinians. It is a rigorous, historically informed and much-needed analysis of the situation and will be welcomed by all those eager for Chomsky's and Pappe's insights into yet another political catastrophe. "Noam Chomsky is a global phenomenon ...he may be the most widely read American voice on foreign policy on the planet today". (The New York Times Book Review). "Ilan Pappe is Israel's bravest, most principled, most incisive historian". (John Pilger). Noam Chomsky is the author of numerous bestselling political books, including Hegemony or Survival, Failed States, Interventions, What We Say Goes and Hopes and Prospects, all of which are published by Hamish Hamilton/Penguin.Ilan Pappe is Professor of History at the University of Exeter, co-director of the Exeter Centre for Ethno-Political Studies, director of the Palestine Studies Centre at the University of Exeter, and the author of various books, including the bestselling The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (Oneworld).
During the interrogation of an entitled, arrogant man suspected of giving drugs to a young girl who then died, Commissario Guido Brunetti acts rashly, doing something he will quickly come to regret. In the aftermath, he begins to doubt his career choices and realises that he needs a break from the stifling problems of his work.
Language: English, Binding: Paperback, Number of pages: 370, Publishers: Guilford Publications, Author: Michael P. Nichols,Martha B. Straus, ISBN-13: 9781462542741, Date of issue: 2021
NATIONAL BESTSELLER Here is the Nobel Prize winner in her own words: a rich gathering of her most important essays and speeches, spanning four decades that "speaks to today s social and political moment as directly as this morning s headlines (NPR).These pages give us her searing prayer for the dead of 9/11, her Nobel lecture on the power of language, her searching meditation on Martin Luther King Jr., her heart-wrenching eulogy for James Baldwin. She looks deeply into the fault lines of culture and freedom: the foreigner, female empowerment, the press, money, black matter(s), human rights, the artist in society, the Afro-American presence in American literature. And she turns her incisive critical eye to her own work (The Bluest Eye, Sula, Tar Baby, Jazz, Beloved, Paradise) and that of others.An essential collection from an essential writer, The Source of Self-Regard shines with the literary elegance, intellectual prowess, spiritual depth, and moral compass that have made Toni Morrison our most cherished and enduring voice.
Entertaining animal stories from around the world, specially selected and retold for younger children. Contains five classics: The Fox and the Tiger, Chicken Licken, How the Zebra Got His Stripes, The Greedy Dog, The Brave Little Hare.
The story of the arcane table-top game that became a pop culture phenomenon and the long-running legal battle waged by its cocreators.When Dungeons & Dragons was first released to a small hobby community, it hardly seemed destined for mainstream success--and yet this arcane tabletop role-playing game became an unlikely pop culture phenomenon. In Game Wizards, Jon Peterson chronicles the rise of Dungeons & Dragons from hobbyist pastime to mass market sensation, from the initial collaboration to the later feud of its creators, Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson. As the game's fiftieth anniversary approaches, Peterson--a noted authority on role-playing games--explains how D&D and its creators navigated their successes, setbacks, and controversies.Peterson describes Gygax and Arneson's first meeting and their work toward the 1974 release of the game; the founding of TSR and its growth as a company; and Arneson's acrimonious departure and subsequent challenges to TSR. He recounts the "Satanic Panic" accusations that D&D was sacrilegious and dangerous, and how they made the game famous. And he chronicles TSR's reckless expansion and near-fatal corporate infighting, which culminated with the company in debt and overextended and the end of Gygax's losing battle to retain control over TSR and D&D.With Game Wizards, Peterson restores historical particulars long obscured by competing narratives spun by the one-time partners. That record amply demonstrates how the turbulent experience of creating something as momentous as Dungeons & Dragons can make people remember things a bit differently from the way they actually happened.
Lonely Planet Kids' How Animals Build is a beautifully illustrated lift-the-flap hardback that explores the incredible world of animal architects. Children can open flaps and unfold spreads to discover amazing animal homes up high, underground, on land, and under the sea. From spider webs and rabbit warrens, to bird nests and ant colonies, and even coral reefs and beaver lodges, we reveal the secrets to these extraordinary structures and how they're built.Do bees need cement mixers to build hives? Do beavers use cranes to construct dams? No, of course not! Like many animals, they're building geniuses who don't need building site tools to create incredible work. Welcome to nature's very own, super-clever world of construction.Created in consultation with Michael Leach, wildlife expert, speaker, photographer, filmographer, and author of over 20 books on subjects ranging from big cats and owls to great apes and bears.Themed topics include:Apartment Block with BranchesDig, Diggers, Dig!Number 1 Bunny StreetA Winning DesignIt's Buzzing in Here!Nest NeighborhoodsThis Way to WaterworldExtreme BuildersMouse House HereAbout Lonely Planet Kids: Come explore! Let's start an adventure. Lonely Planet Kids excites and educates children about the amazing world around them. Combining astonishing facts, quirky humor and eye-catching imagery, we ignite their curiosity and encourage them to discover more about our planet. Every book draws on our huge team of global experts to help share our continual fascination with what makes the world such a diverse and magnificent place-inspiring children at home and in school.
Combining stories of great philosophers, quotations, and riddles with the fundamentals of mathematical logic, this new textbook for first courses in mathematical logic was written by the subject's creative master. Raymond Smullyan offers clear, incremental presentations of difficult logic concepts with creative explanations and unique problems related to proofs, propositional logic and first-order logic, undecidability, recursion theory, and other topics.
Full of interesting and creative activities for children and young people aged 5-19 with dyslexia, this book is an essential guide for teachers and parents. Focusing on practical and accessible projects, the guide will cover key skills such as listening, memory, talking and writing.
A concise overview of machine learning--computer programs that learn from data--the basis of such applications as voice recognition and driverless cars.Today, machine learning underlies a range of applications we use every day, from product recommendations to voice recognition--as well as some we don't yet use everyday, including driverless cars. It is the basis for a new approach to artificial intelligence that aims to program computers to use example data or past experience to solve a given problem. In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Ethem Alpaydin offers a concise and accessible overview of "the new AI." This expanded edition offers new material on such challenges facing machine learning as privacy, security, accountability, and bias. Alpaydin, author of a popular textbook on machine learning, explains that as "Big Data" has gotten bigger, the theory of machine learning--the foundation of efforts to process that data into knowledge--has also advanced. He describes the evolution of the field, explains important learning algorithms, and presents example applications. He discusses the use of machine learning algorithms for pattern recognition; artificial neural networks inspired by the human brain; algorithms that learn associations between instances; and reinforcement learning, when an autonomous agent learns to take actions to maximize reward. In a new chapter, he considers transparency, explainability, and fairness, and the ethical and legal implications of making decisions based on data.
An argument that we have a moral duty to explore other planets and solar systems--because human life on Earth has an expiration date.Inevitably, life on Earth will come to an end, whether by climate disaster, cataclysmic war, or the death of the sun in a few billion years. To avoid extinction, we will have to find a new home planet, perhaps even a new solar system, to inhabit. In this provocative and fascinating book, Christopher Mason argues that we have a moral duty to do just that. As the only species aware that life on Earth has an expiration date, we have a responsibility to act as the shepherd of life-forms--not only for our species but for all species on which we depend and for those still to come (by accidental or designed evolution). Mason argues that the same capacity for ingenuity that has enabled us to build rockets and land on other planets can be applied to redesigning biology so that we can sustainably inhabit those planets. And he lays out a 500-year plan for undertaking the massively ambitious project of reengineering human genetics for life on other worlds.As they are today, our frail human bodies could never survive travel to another habitable planet. Mason describes the toll that long-term space travel took on astronaut Scott Kelly, who returned from a year on the International Space Station with changes to his blood, bones, and genes. Mason proposes a ten-phase, 500-year program that would engineer the genome so that humans can tolerate the extreme environments of outer space--with the ultimate goal of achieving human settlement of new solar systems. He lays out a roadmap of which solar systems to visit first, and merges biotechnology, philosophy, and genetics to offer an unparalleled vision of the universe to come.
Kaitse oma nutikella kahjustuste eest! Spordis väldid lööke. Aga elus? Löömine, hõõrdumine, kukkumine. Uksed, auto kere, asfalt – kõik võib ohustada sinu nutikella. Käel kantav kell on mitu korda rohkem kahjustustele avatud kui nutitelefon. Hoolitse selle eest sama põhjalikult nagu telefoni eest.
Magnetrahakoti ümbris ühendab stiili ja funktsionaalsuse. Ümbrise suurepärane kvaliteet tagab täpse käsitöö. Klõpskinnitus pakub teie telefonile turvalisust ja kaitseb soovimatute kahjustuste eest. Raamatulaadne avamine pakub suurepärast kaitset, samas kui sisseehitatud magnetkinnitus hoiab telefoni juhusliku libisemise eest. Magnetümbris on valmistatud kvaliteetsetest ja vastupidavatest materjalidest – kogu ümbris on kaetud kahjustuskindla sünteetilise nahaga. Klapi sisekülg on vooderdatud pehme materjaliga, mis kaitseb teie nutitelefoni ekraani kriimustuste eest.
Unser langlebiges Hardcover-Notizbuch mit geradem Buchrücken übertrifft die Grenzen klassischer Notizbücher. Mit 176 Seiten aus hochwertigem cremefarbenem Papier bietet das für den täglichen Schreibgebrauch unentbehrliche Notizbuch viel Platz, um den Überblick über die täglichen Aufgaben stilvoll zu bewahren. Die Seiten sind liniert. Ein Magnetverschluss sowie Lesebändchen und eine kleine Tasche am inneren Einbanddeckel runden das Produkt ab. Das Titelbild ist fünffarbig bedruckt, geprägt, doppelt foliert und auf Silber- oder Goldpapier gedruckt. Produkteigenschaften:Maße: 21 cm Hoch x 14,8 cm Breit und 2 cm Dick176 linierte cremefarbene Seiten.
Unser langlebiges Hardcover-Notizbuch mit geradem Buchrücken übertrifft die Grenzen klassischer Notizbücher. Mit 176 Seiten aus hochwertigem cremefarbenem Papier bietet das für den täglichen Schreibgebrauch unentbehrliche Notizbuch viel Platz, um den Überblick über die täglichen Aufgaben stilvoll zu bewahren. Die Seiten sind liniert. Ein Magnetverschluss sowie Lesebändchen und eine kleine Tasche am inneren Einbanddeckel runden das Produkt ab. Das Titelbild ist fünffarbig bedruckt, geprägt, doppelt foliert und auf Silber- oder Goldpapier gedruckt. Produkteigenschaften:Maße: 21 cm Hoch x 14,8 cm Breit und 2 cm Dick176 linierte cremefarbene Seiten.
This highly influential work--now in a revised and expanded third edition incorporating major advances in the field--gives clinicians, educators, and students a new understanding of what the mind is, how it grows, and how to promote healthy development
Language: English, Binding: Paperback, Number of pages: 336, Publishers: MIT Press Ltd, Author: Richard Garfield,K. Robert Gutschera, ISBN-13: 9780262542692, Date of issue: 2020
'Twilight, in these southern climates, is almost unknown; immediately the sun sets, night begins'Danger lurks in the dead of night. In a world in which rumour is rife and vampires roam, who can you trust? Written during the notorious gathering that produced Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, John Polidori's story 'The Vampyre' travels across countries, twists and turns through treacherous forests, and reveals the dangers of staying out after dark. It is accompanied here by two other classic tales of the genre.
Exam Essentials is our major British English exam preparation series combining exam preparation, practice, and tips for the revised Cambridge English exams. This effective combination of testing and teaching has proved a popular formula with teachers and students. The first two practice tests in each book are 'walk-through' tests. Students are carefully guided through the tests and shown how they work and what they have to do to succeed in each part of the exam.Additional step-by-step support for the Writing paper is offered in all the tests. All of the tests are written by experts in the field, which means that students preparing for the exams experience material that is appropriate for and at a level at least as high as the actual exams. Candidates internationally find the Speaking test very challenging.To help them deal with this, each Practice Test book comes with a DVD-ROM which includes a bespoke video showing a complete Speaking test interview as well as an examiner talking about this part of the exam and giving students expert guidance on how to approach it. The DVD-ROM also features worksheets to use with the interview and all the Listening test files.
Plutarch tells the story of a man who plucked a nightingale and finding but little to eat exclaimed: "You are just a voice and nothing more." Plucking the feathers of meaning that cover the voice, dismantling the body from which the voice seems to emanate, resisting the Sirens' song of fascination with the voice, concentrating on "the voice and nothing more": this is the difficult task that philosopher Mladen Dolar relentlessly pursues in this seminal work.The voice did not figure as a major philosophical topic until the 1960s, when Derrida and Lacan separately proposed it as a central theoretical concern. In A Voice and Nothing More Dolar goes beyond Derrida's idea of "phonocentrism" and revives and develops Lacan's claim that the voice is one of the paramount embodiments of the psychoanalytic object (objet a). Dolar proposes that, apart from the two commonly understood uses of the voice as a vehicle of meaning and as a source of aesthetic admiration, there is a third level of understanding: the voice as an object that can be seen as the lever of thought.He investigates the object voice on a number of different levels--the linguistics of the voice, the metaphysics of the voice, the ethics of the voice (with the voice of conscience), the paradoxical relation between the voice and the body, the politics of the voice--and he scrutinizes the uses of the voice in Freud and Kafka. With this foundational work, Dolar gives us a philosophically grounded theory of the voice as a Lacanian object-cause.
