On Time; or, Bound to Get There
Author: Oliver Optic
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2023-09-11
Total Pages: 158
ISBN-13: 3368931377
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReproduction of the original.
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Bound to Last
Author: Sean Manning
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: 2010-10-26
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 030681921X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLovers of the printed book, arise! Thirty of today’s top writers are here to tell you you’re not alone. In Bound to Last,an amazing array of authors comes to the passionate defense of the printed book with spirited, never-before-published essays celebrating the hardcover or paperback they hold most dear—not necessarily because of its contents, but because of its significance as a one-of-a-kind, irreplaceable object. Whether focusing on the circumstances behind how a particular book was acquired, or how it has become forever “bound up” with a specific person, time, or place, each piece collected here confirms—poignantly, delightfully, irrefutably—that every book tells a story far beyond the one found within its pages. In addition to a foreword by Ray Bradbury, Bound to Last features original contributions by:Chris Abani, Rabih Alameddine, Anthony Doerr, Louis Ferrante, Nick Flynn, Karen Joy Fowler, Julia Glass, Karen Green, David Hajdu, Terrence Holt, Jim Knipfel, Shahriar Mandanipour, Sarah Manguso, Sean Manning, Joyce Maynard, Philipp Meyer, Jonathan Miles, Sigrid Nunez, Ed Park, Victoria Patterson, Francine Prose, Michael Ruhlman, Elissa Schappell, Christine Schutt, Jim Shepard, Susan Straight, J. Courtney Sullivan, Anthony Swofford, Danielle Trussoni, and Xu Xiaobin
The Physics and Philosophy of the Bible
Author: James Frederick Ivey, MD
Publisher: Inspiring Voices
Published: 2014-02
Total Pages: 431
ISBN-13: 1491710993
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBased on the fundamental, profound, and comprehensive principle of "things are not as they seem," The Physics and Philosophy of the Bible establishes a paradigm that reattaches philosophy to physics, bringing it back whence it came while adding theology to the mix. Author James Frederick Ivey, MD, shows that this mind-set together with timeless thinking can lead one to new horizons of novel thinking about ultimate truth and truths.Ivey describes how modern physics, relativity, and quantum mechanics have revolutionized thinking about the likelihood of the existence of God and how the philosophies of Socrates and Plato meld nearly seamlessly with belief in a single deity and even with Judeo-Christianity.Through a variety of examples, thoughts from a diversity of authors and thinkers, and scriptural support, this study discusses Christian philosophy and apologetics, turning on a few fascinating concepts such as that of quantum observation in conjunction with God's method of creation and the derivation of God from all-goodness. It demonstrates that apologists are close to eliminating the necessity of having to deal with whether God exists or not.
Behavioral Analysis
Author: Prof. Dr. Bilal Semih Bozdemir
Publisher: Prof. Dr. Bilal Semih Bozdemir
Published:
Total Pages: 459
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBehavioral Analysis: Unlocking the Secrets of Human Behavior Understanding the Foundations of Behavior The Role of Genetics and Environment Cognitive Processes and Decision-Making Emotions and Their Impact on Behavior Personality Traits and Their Influence Learning and Conditioning Principles Motivation and Goal-Setting Perception and Attention Biases Social Interactions and Interpersonal Dynamics Developmental Factors Shaping Behavior Organizational Behavior and Workplace Dynamics Clinical Applications of Behavioral Analysis Ethical Considerations in Behavioral Research
Think Big Motivate Yourself To Win
Author: Shawn Burke
Publisher: Estalontech
Published: 2021-11-11
Total Pages: 71
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThink BiG Motivate Your Self To Win Scarcity thinking is a limiting belief that there isn't enough. Abundance thinking is a belief that there is always more than enough for everyone. If you think small (scarcity thinking) understand that it's not your fault. You've been taught since birth that there is not enough. There isn't enough water, money, clean air, etc. But, the truth is, there is abundance in the world, so there is not just enough to go around, there is an overflow of enough to go around. Thinking Small (Scarcity Mindset) When you think small you believe that no matter how hard you work there will never be enough. Due to this idea of scarcity, you act like you're in competition with the world for your every breath. You often tend to hoard things/money, don't want to help others because they might take your ideas, and you often develop a chip on your shoulder about your competition. You may even be terrified of being replaced in all aspects of your life whether it's work or your personal life. A person with a scarcity mindset tends to unrealistically portray the role of either a bully or a victim causing a win-lose scenario. Win-win is not a concept they can reconcile. As opposed to the first mode of living (scarcity mindset), the abundance mindset does exist. An abundance mindset is based on the conviction that there is more than enough for everyone. Thinking abundantly is not just about money, but it embraces the idea of life as a whole, where there are enough opportunities for all, and infinite sources of wealth and goodness. With this mindset, there is everything to gain and nothing much to lose by giving money away and using it, simply because abundance will cause money to find its way back to you; what you lose, you can gain back and more. This mode of living relies greatly on faith and trust in the abundance of life. A person with an abundance mindset gets to live a more satisfying and fulfilling life. They feel more secure, relaxed, and happy in the knowledge that there is simply more than enough. They approach life with more excitement amidst challenges and they employ the use of their power and confidence in their ability to attract abundance, creating more opportunities, as well as help and motivate others. Given the two contrasting mindsets, are you more aware of where you stand? If you want to build an abundance mindset, What are the effective ways to do just that.
The Law Journal Reports
Author: Henry D. Barton
Publisher:
Published: 1862
Total Pages: 1596
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKCombinatorial Optimization and Applications
Author: Weifan Wang
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2011-07-20
Total Pages: 573
ISBN-13: 3642226159
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Combinatorial Optimization and Applications, COCOA 2011, held in Zhangjiajie, China, in August 2011. The 43 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 65 submissions. The papers cover a broad range of topics in combinatorial optimization and applications focussing on experimental and applied research of general algorithmic interest and research motivated by real-world problems.
Voices of the Field
Author: León F. García Corona
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2021
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 0197526683
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVoices of the Field: Pathways in Public Ethnomusicology provides a reflection on the challenges, opportunities, and often overlooked importance of public ethnomusicology, capturing the authors' years of experience simultaneously navigating the academic world and the world outside academia, and sharing lessons often missing in ethnomusicological training.
The Mertowney Mountain Interviews
Author: Richard Leviton
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: 2014-07-16
Total Pages: 619
ISBN-13: 1491741309
DOWNLOAD EBOOKYou see, Edward, editor and budding Grail Knight, youre part of the Merlin myth, and you have been for a long time, said Merlin enigmatically. The figure of Merlin, magician, enchanter, trickster, strategist of King Arthurs Camelot, wise old man of Celtic myth, has intrigued and enthralled readers for centuries, but who, really, was he? Did he ever actually exist? Boston editor Edward Burbage is given a unique opportunity to find out. Hes invited to Merlins home on Mertowney Mountain to interview him. The invitation includes free transportation, and Merlins mountain is not in this world, and for that matter, how on Earth could Burbage be talking to Merlin anyway? Merlin is supposed to be only a character from an old myth, isnt he? Over the course of five years, starting in 2034, Burbage conducts his interviews, and the revelations Merlin makes are astounding. He has been many mythic figures, taken on many guises, such as the Irish Cuchulainn, the Egyptian Anubis, the Navaho Monster Slayer, the Greek Herakles, the Polynesian Maui, and even a few holy men like Saint Columba of Iona and John the Evangelist of Patmos, author of Revelation. Hes worked as initiator, war-god, slayer of inimical spirits, prophet, seer, a guide to the soul in the after-life, geomancer, terraformer, a fisher up of islands, and especially a devoted field agent to the Great Mother, Herself operating under many guises such as Morrigan, Isis, Changing Woman, and Hera. But why has Edward Burbage been brought to Mertowney Mountain? Its not just so Merlin can tell his true story. Merlin has a plan for him, and hes preparing things all the time hes recounting his exploits. Edward Burbage has a key role to play in the next installment of the long life of Merlin. Hes about to step onto the world stage of myth disclosing a long withheld mystery, the secret of the Mer-Line, the truth and power behind Merlin himself.
Universal Artificial Intelligence
Author: Marcus Hutter
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2005-12-29
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 3540268774
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPersonal motivation. The dream of creating artificial devices that reach or outperform human inteUigence is an old one. It is also one of the dreams of my youth, which have never left me. What makes this challenge so interesting? A solution would have enormous implications on our society, and there are reasons to believe that the AI problem can be solved in my expected lifetime. So, it's worth sticking to it for a lifetime, even if it takes 30 years or so to reap the benefits. The AI problem. The science of artificial intelligence (AI) may be defined as the construction of intelligent systems and their analysis. A natural definition of a system is anything that has an input and an output stream. Intelligence is more complicated. It can have many faces like creativity, solving prob lems, pattern recognition, classification, learning, induction, deduction, build ing analogies, optimization, surviving in an environment, language processing, and knowledge. A formal definition incorporating every aspect of intelligence, however, seems difficult. Most, if not all known facets of intelligence can be formulated as goal driven or, more precisely, as maximizing some utility func tion. It is, therefore, sufficient to study goal-driven AI; e. g. the (biological) goal of animals and humans is to survive and spread. The goal of AI systems should be to be useful to humans.
