6/29/2023 0 Comments The night diary pages![]() ![]() Nisha observes that her “childhood would always have a line drawn through it, the before and the after.” Forced to leave their comfortable life-and Muslim Kazi-behind, the family flees on foot, setting off across the desert for the “new India” with only a few jugs of water in hand. ![]() Nisha and Amil’s mother was Muslim, but their father and grandmother are Hindu, putting them at great risk when their part of India becomes Muslim Pakistan. India has recently been freed from British rule, and when tensions among Muslims, Hindus, and Sikhs erupt in her hometown of Mirpur Khas, Nisha fears for her family’s safety. Observant, sensitive Nisha is an excellent writer, but anxiety makes it difficult for her to speak. She uses it as a diary, writing entries in the form of letters to her mother, who died when the twins were infants. When Nisha and her twin brother Amil turn twelve, Nisha receives a notebook from her family’s beloved cook, Kazi. 272 pages The Night Diary by Veera Hiranandani ![]()
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6/29/2023 0 Comments Probabilistic robotics thrun![]() ![]() ![]() It will also be of interest to applied statisticians and engineers dealing with real-world sensor data. The book is relevant for anyone involved in robotic software development and scientific research. including probabilistic inference, planning and search, localization. AI Magazine 21(4), 93109 (2000) Thrun, S.: A probabilistic online mapping algorithm for. In Artificial Intelligence for Robotics, learn from Sebastian Thrun, the leader of. ![]() The book's Web site, has additional material. Stachniss, C.: Exploration and Mapping with Mobile Robots. Probabilistic robotics is a new and growing area in robotics, concerned with perception and control in the face of uncertainty. For example, a probabilistic function might return the. Each chapter provides example implementations in pseudo code, detailed mathematical derivations, discussions from a practitioner's perspective, and extensive lists of exercises and class projects. A probabilistic function takes an input value X and returns different Ys with specified probabilities. All algorithms are based on a single overarching mathematical foundation. This book introduces the reader to a wealth of techniques and algorithms in the field. Building on the field of mathematical statistics, probabilistic robotics endows robots with a new level of robustness in real-world situations. Probabilistic robotics is a new and growing area in robotics, concerned with perception and control in the face of uncertainty. ![]() ![]() The book covers: Cesareans Breech babies Inducing labor Electronic Fetal Monitoring Rupturing Membranes Coping with slow labor Pain medication Epistiotomy Vaginal birth after a Ceasarean Doulas Deciding on a doctor or midwife Choosing where to have your baby and much more. The Thinking Woman's Guide to a Better Birth helps you compare and contrast your various options and shows you how to avoid unnecessary procedures, drugs, restrictions, and tests. ![]() Birth activist Henci Goer gives clear, concise information based on the latest medical studies. Surprisingly, much of the research does not support common medical opinion and practice. But when it comes to one of the most important decisions of your life-how you will give birth-it is hard to gather accurate, unbiased information. As an intelligent woman, you are probably used to learning as much as you can before making major decisions. ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments The power of why simon sinek![]() Top 30 Quotes from Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action If we learn to start with the WHY, and we are disciplined, we can all become inspiring leaders, or at least this is what Sinek tell us in his book. How to be an inspiring leader, according to Sinek, can be learned, it is not limited to “natural-born leaders”. But then, the discovery of the WHY, he says, “Changed my view of the world and … restored my passion to a degree multiple times greater than at any other time in my life”. It may have happened to you at some point in your life also. ![]() Simon Sinek explains in the preface of his book that he “discovered” the importance of WHY at a time when he had fallen out of love with his work. Only the Why can inspire people to follow you or buy your products. ![]() Said in other words, it means that why you do something is a lot more important than what you do or even how you do it. Why certain leaders or companies are successful, and others are not? Because “ people don’t buy what you do they buy why you do it.” It’s a simple idea but it carries important consequences, if you believe in it. ![]() Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action is a great book about leaders and leadership by Simon Sinek. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Even as the novel charts the voyages of its vagabonds, it represents an attempt to draw the periphery into the center, steering us toward the provinces as it renovates the Cuban novel. “Accidental cannibals, tenderhearted killers, angst-ridden ghosts and well-behaved artists soon populate topsy-turvy universe. It is a portrait of what remains when dreams of utopia have withered away. Told by a chorus of narrators-including gossips, gangsters, a ghost, and a serial killer-who flirt, lie, argue, and finish one another’s stories, Marcial Gala's The Black Cathedral is a darkly comic indictment of modern Cuba, gritty and realistic but laced with magic. ![]() This generation will carry these traits beyond the borders of the neighborhood, the city, and the country, unable to escape the shadow of the unfinished cathedral. In a neighborhood that roils with passions and conflicts, at the foot of a cathedral that rises higher day by day, there grows a generation marked by violence, cruelty, and extreme selfishness. Arturo Stuart, a charismatic, visionary preacher, discovers soon after arriving that God has given him a mission: to build a temple that surpasses any before seen in Cuba, and to make of Cienfuegos a new Jerusalem. The Stuart family moves to a marginal neighborhood of Cienfuegos, a city on the southern coast of Cuba. Haunting and transcendently twisted, this English-language debut from a Cuban literary star is a tale of race, magic, belief, and fate ![]() ![]() ![]() Postal Service, 1972-77 design consultant, Postal Agent, Staffa and Bernera Islands, Scotland, 1979-82. Visiting professor, artist, or consultant at universities and colleges, including Case Western Reserve University, Silvermine Guild School of the Arts, Hartford University School of Art, Fairfield University, and University of California Arbuthnot Honor lecturer, 1995 lecturer and speaker. Whitney School of Art, New Haven, CT, dean, 1951-53 Paier College of Art, faculty member, 1966-78, academic dean, 1978-82, dean emeritus, 1982-, visiting professor, 1982-87. Painter, illustrator, author, and educator. Home and office-7 Twin Bridge Acres Rd., Westport, CT 06880. Education: Attended Art Students League, 1941, and Brooklyn College, 1941-42 Yale University, B.F.A., 1949, M.F.A., 1950. Skin (a school librarian), 1952 children: Julie Anne, Susan Abby, James Albert. ![]() ![]() Born June 24, 1924, in New York, NY son of Benjamin M. ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments Junji ito gyo![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() However, before my description becomes a parody of The Addams Family theme song, the most important thing about Gyo that you should know is that it’s not particularly scary or even that great. So as you may have noticed: Gyo is weird. What’s causing this smell? Fish with mechanical legs that have crawled right out of the ocean, of course! While the premise may seem weird and ridiculous, this is just the start of something really filthy/nasty on the horizon that’ll change their lives. However, a horrid stench besets Okinawa and Kaori’s extra sensitive nose starts making her really agitated. It seems like a nice trip, with the guy, Tadashi, getting in some scuba diving and girl, Kaori, seemingly enjoying herself as well. English Adaption and Translation by: Yuji OnikiĪ young couple is taking a vacation down in Okinawa, crashing at the home of the guy’s uncle. ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments Moon by Edgar Williams![]() ![]() Its moderating effect on the earth's spin could mean that without the moon life may never have been able to evolve.Edgar Williams shows how the interdependence of moon and Earth also finds its unwitting parallel in the realm of culture, where the moon has constantly found it itself embedded in our preoccupations, whether in the worship of Elizabeth i as Diana, moon goddess, or in the long-lived dream that humans will one day populate its surface. The moon's story is also humanity's own story: it gave humans the ability to organize time, dividing the year into months and ordaining the dates of festivals such as Easter, Ramadan and the Chinese New Year. Moon gives a comprehensive account of our lunar companion's significance, tracing its origins out of a collision with Earth and following its rich cultural resonance in the worlds of literature, art, religion and politics. Once worshipped as a deity, often thought to cause madness, now known to manipulate our tides and much else besides, humanity's relationship with the moon has been ever-changing the one constant has been our continued fascination with it. ![]() ![]() Since humans first gazed upward, the moon has hung in the sky virtually unchanged, entrancing generations of poets, artists and scientists. ![]() ![]() ![]() A time for doing things dark and strange the time of October’s Baby. ![]() ![]() When the leaves turn blood and the wind turns bone, it is time. The love of a woman called Nepanthe, princess to the storm kings. Across the mountains called Dragon’s Teeth, beyond the chill reach of the werewind and the fires of the world’s beginning, above the walls of the castle Fangdred, stands Wind Tower, from which the Star Rider calls forth the war that even wizards dread. The war that even wizards dread begins with A Shadow of All Night Falling. You can read this before A Cruel Wind (Dread Empire, #1-3) PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom.Ī Cruel Wind: A Chronicle of the Dread Empire collects the legendary Dread Empire trilogy: A Shadow of All Night Falling, October’s Baby and All Darkness Met. Here is a quick description and cover image of book A Cruel Wind (Dread Empire, #1-3) written by Glen Cook which was published in 2006–. Brief Summary of Book: A Cruel Wind (Dread Empire, #1-3) by Glen Cook ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() His theses Islam in LakshadweepĪnd Hindu-Muslim Relations in North Malabar have been published. Theodore Gabriel (editor), graduated MLitt and PhD in Social Anthropology and Religious StudiesĪt the University of Aberdeen, specializing in the Study of Islam, is Honorary Research Fellow in Theology and Religious Studies,ĭepartment of Humanities, University of Gloucestershire. To email * Your name * Your email * Comment Please tick the box below *ĭr. ![]() His publications on contemporary Islam are numerous, in addition to student texts on. ProfessorRonGeaves (editor) holds a Chair in the Comparative Study of Religion in the Theology and Religious Studies of Liverpool Hope University. His latest publication is Islam and the Veil (Continuum, 2010). He lectured on Islam at the University of Gloucestershire from 1986 to 2000, and after retirement continues in the Department of Humanities at the university as a Honorary Research Fellow, and is also an Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the Bader International Study Centre, Queen’s University (Canada), Hailsham, England. His theses Islam in Lakshadweep and Hindu-Muslim Relations in North Malabar have been published. TheodoreGabriel (editor), graduated MLitt and PhD in Social Anthropology and Religious Studies at the University of Aberdeen, specializing in the Study of Islam, is Honorary Research Fellow in Theology and Religious Studies, Department of Humanities, University of Gloucestershire. ![]() |