King and the Dragonflies (Scholastic Gold)
King and the Dragonflies (Scholastic Gold)

Author: Kacen Callender

Publisher: Scholastic Inc.

Published: 2020-02-04

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 133812935X

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A 2021 Coretta Scott King Honor Book! Winner of the 2020 National Book Award for Young People's Literature! Winner of the 2020 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Fiction and Poetry! In a small but turbulent Louisiana town, one boy's grief takes him beyond the bayous of his backyard, to learn that there is no right way to be yourself. FOUR STARRED REVIEWS! Booklist School Library Journal Publishers Weekly The Horn Book Twelve-year-old Kingston James is sure his brother Khalid has turned into a dragonfly. When Khalid unexpectedly passed away, he shed what was his first skin for another to live down by the bayou in their small Louisiana town. Khalid still visits in dreams, and King must keep these secrets to himself as he watches grief transform his family. It would be easier if King could talk with his best friend, Sandy Sanders. But just days before he died, Khalid told King to end their friendship, after overhearing a secret about Sandy-that he thinks he might be gay. "You don't want anyone to think you're gay too, do you?" But when Sandy goes missing, sparking a town-wide search, and King finds his former best friend hiding in a tent in his backyard, he agrees to help Sandy escape from his abusive father, and the two begin an adventure as they build their own private paradise down by the bayou and among the dragonflies. As King's friendship with Sandy is reignited, he's forced to confront questions about himself and the reality of his brother's death. The Thing About Jellyfish meets The Stars Beneath Our Feet in this story about loss, grief, and finding the courage to discover one's identity, from the author of Hurricane Child.

How to Know the Birds
How to Know the Birds

Author: Ted Floyd

Publisher:

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 1426220030

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"In this elegant narrative, celebrated naturalist Ted Floyd guides you through a year of becoming a better birder. Choosing 200 top avian species to teach key lessons, Floyd introduces a new, holistic approach to bird watching and shows how to use the tools of the 21st century to appreciate the natural world we inhabit together whether city, country or suburbs." -- From book jacket.

Sustainable Developments by Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Renewable Energies
Sustainable Developments by Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Renewable Energies

Author: Krishna Kumar

Publisher: Academic Press

Published: 2022-03-18

Total Pages: 418

ISBN-13: 0323914284

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Sustainable Developments by Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Renewable Energies analyzes the changes in this energy generation shift, including issues of grid stability with variability in renewable energy vs. traditional baseload energy generation. Providing solutions to current critical environmental, economic and social issues, this book comprises various complex nonlinear interactions among different parameters to drive the integration of renewable energy into the grid. It considers how artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques are being developed to produce more reliable energy generation to optimize system performance and provide sustainable development. As the use of artificial intelligence to revolutionize the energy market and harness the potential of renewable energy is essential, this reference provides practical guidance on the application of renewable energy with AI, along with machine learning techniques and capabilities in design, modeling and for forecasting performance predictions for the optimization of renewable energy systems. It is targeted at researchers, academicians and industry professionals working in the field of renewable energy, AI, machine learning, grid Stability and energy generation. - Covers the best-performing methods and approaches for designing renewable energy systems with AI integration in a real-time environment - Gives advanced techniques for monitoring current technologies and how to efficiently utilize the energy grid spectrum - Addresses the advanced field of renewable generation, from research, impact and idea development of new applications

Mega Homeschool Planner and Organizer Soft Flora
Mega Homeschool Planner and Organizer Soft Flora

Author: Homeschool Press

Publisher:

Published: 2020-02-07

Total Pages: 227

ISBN-13:

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Fully Customizable Planner, Organizer, and Record Keeper for Homeschool Families big or Small New For 2020! This Mega Homeschool Planner and Organizer was designed by a Homeschool Mom with the goal of being completely customized and flexible enough to fit the needs of most homeschoolers. Whether you homeschool 1 child or 8, this planner will keep you organized, hold your important records, make planning a breeze, track anything, is portable and conveniently stores away. Features include: Undated Monthly Calender 2 page spread. Months are left blank so this planner starts when your school year starts. Undated weekly lesson planner for 7 subjects Monthly Dashboards to track your monthly goals, important dates, to-dos, as well as a monthly habit tracker. Curriculum and Resources list by subjectAccount Tracker to remember your online resources, track renewal and expiration dates, and costs. Password Tracker Homeschool Connections Reading List Year Ahead Planner - plan your entire year's schedule in a snap. Term Goals Planner - makes planning out your curriculum a breeze. Attendance Tracker - doubles as a habit tracker for those who don't track attendance Student Checklist - Can be used to track grades or anything else that is important to your homeschool family Budget Sheets - Track all your homeschool expenses in one place Year in Review - Build in keepsake to record this year's best memories and space for a collage. Journal Notes - Extra pages to journal about your school year or leave important notes or plan for next year. This planner can be used with most stickers found in craft stores so you can decorate and visually customize each page and add tabs where you need them. At less than $10.00 for all it's features this planner is an incredible deal and makes a wonderful gift for anyone new to homeschooling, has one student or multiple kids, who hasn't found that "perfect" planner yet.

Modern Robotics
Modern Robotics

Author: Kevin M. Lynch

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2017-05-25

Total Pages: 545

ISBN-13: 1107156300

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A modern and unified treatment of the mechanics, planning, and control of robots, suitable for a first course in robotics.

One School's Journey
One School's Journey

Author: Margaret Pastor

Publisher: Independently Published

Published: 2021-10-15

Total Pages: 152

ISBN-13:

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One School's Journey - Further Down the Path is the continuation of the story started in the award-winning book One School's Journey, about an elementary school in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, D.C. Learning to teach authentically using projects, even virtually, is chronicled by two authors - a teacher and the school's principal. This book includes additional insight and information about teaching authentically and the use of authentic projects with diverse learners at all age levels. The authors' experiences that teaching authentically is the best way to engage and teach students has been re-enforced by the success of the school's staff and students as they travel further down this path.

Congress on Intelligent Systems
Congress on Intelligent Systems

Author: Mukesh Saraswat

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2022-06-30

Total Pages: 914

ISBN-13: 9811691134

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This book is a collection of selected papers presented at the Second Congress on Intelligent Systems (CIS 2021), organized by Soft Computing Research Society and CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bengaluru, India during September 4 – 5, 2021. It includes novel and innovative work from experts, practitioners, scientists and decision-makers from academia and industry. It covers topics such as Internet of Things, information security, embedded systems, real-time systems, cloud computing, big data analysis, quantum computing, automation systems, bio-inspired intelligence, cognitive systems, cyber physical systems, data analytics, data/web mining, data science, intelligence for security, intelligent decision making systems, intelligent information processing, intelligent transportation, artificial intelligence for machine vision, imaging sensors technology, image segmentation, convolutional neural network, image/video classification, soft computing for machine vision, pattern recognition, human computer interaction, robotic devices and systems, autonomous vehicles, intelligent control systems, human motor control, game playing, evolutionary algorithms, swarm optimization, neural network, deep learning, supervised learning, unsupervised learning, fuzzy logic, rough sets, computational optimization, and neuro fuzzy systems.

Conservation of Dragonflies
Conservation of Dragonflies

Author: Michael J. Samways

Publisher: CABI

Published: 2024-06-11

Total Pages: 555

ISBN-13: 178924837X

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Dragonflies are among the most familiar and popular of all insects, deeply embedded in human cultural history. They are iconic and tell us much about the environments in which we and they live. Their conservation is an important part of biodiversity conservation. One modern dragonfly species is listed as extinct, with many others currently threatened. It is now essential to increase conservation efforts towards saving these threatened species, with strategies now available for doing this. Recovery of dragonfly populations goes hand in hand with improvements to both freshwater conditions and bank vegetation quality. In contrast, some other dragonfly species have benefitted greatly from human transformation of the landscape, with artificial ponds in particular, increasing the population levels of many species. In turn, climate change is seeing many geographical range shifts. Conservation of Dragonflies: Sentinels for Freshwater Conservation is for naturalists, citizen scientists, entomologists and conservation scientists, as well as practitioners and policy makers around the world.

Written in My Own Heart's Blood
Written in My Own Heart's Blood

Author: Diana Gabaldon

Publisher: Doubleday Canada

Published: 2014-06-10

Total Pages: 1284

ISBN-13: 0307368017

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In her now classic novel Outlander, Diana Gabaldon told the story of Claire Randall, an English ex-combat nurse who walks through a stone circle in the Scottish Highlands in 1946, and disappears . . . into 1743. The story unfolded from there in seven bestselling novels, and CNN has called it “a grand adventure written on a canvas that probes the heart, weighs the soul and measures the human spirit across [centuries].” Now the story continues in Written in My Own Heart’s Blood. 1778: France declares war on Great Britain, the British army leaves Philadelphia, and George Washington’s troops leave Valley Forge in pursuit. At this moment, Jamie Fraser returns from a presumed watery grave to discover that his best friend has married his wife, his illegitimate son has discovered (to his horror) who his father really is, and his beloved nephew, Ian, wants to marry a Quaker. Meanwhile, Jamie’s wife, Claire, and his sister, Jenny, are busy picking up the pieces. The Frasers can only be thankful that their daughter Brianna and her family are safe in twentieth-century Scotland. Or not. In fact, Brianna is searching for her own son, who was kidnapped by a man determined to learn her family’s secrets. Her husband, Roger, has ventured into the past in search of the missing boy . . . never suspecting that the object of his quest has not left the present. Now, with Roger out of the way, the kidnapper can focus on his true target: Brianna herself. Written in My Own Heart’s Blood is the brilliant next chapter in a masterpiece of the imagination unlike any other.