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Alex Rider (Band 2) - Gemini-Projekt
Anthony Horowitz; Antony Johnston
Loewe Verlag GmbH
2025
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Eagle Strike: An Alex Rider Graphic Novel
Anthony Horowitz; Antony Johnston
Candlewick Press (MA)
2017
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Teen superspy Alex Rider faces a pop star bent on world destruction and a lethal group of assassins in graphic novel adaptations of two of his thrilling adventures. When his relaxing holiday with Sabine Pleasure and her family is interrupted by a ruthless attack, teenage MI6 agent Alex Rider knows it's no accident. Determined to hunt down the hit man who sent Sabine's father into a coma, Alex plunges headfirst into a world of violence and mystery, uncovering a sinister plan to start a nuclear war. And once the missiles are launched, Alex has just ninety minutes to save the world. . . .
An examination of the founding and development of the Seven Sisters colleges--Mount Holyoke, Vassar, Wellesley, Smith, Radcliffe, Bryn Mawr, and Barnard--Alma Mater focuses on the ideas behind their establishment and the colleges' architectural, academic, and social histories, as well as those of their twentieth-century successors--Sarah Lawrence, Bennington, and Scripps.
Ark Angel: An Alex Rider Graphic Novel
Anthony Horowitz; Antony Johnston
Candlewick Press (MA)
2020
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A bold and striking graphic novel adaptation of the sixth novel in Anthony Horowitz's acclaimed Alex Rider series. After a chance encounter with the son of billionaire Nikolei Drevin, Alex Rider finds himself in the middle of an international plot to destroy the Pentagon. The weapon Ark Angel, a revolutionary space hotel with catastrophic potential.Another bold and stylish graphic novel adaptation of Anthony Horowitz's thrilling and acclaimed Alex Rider series.
Specially introduced and curated by historian and popular spiritual voice Mitch Horowitz, the Wisdom Series editions feature selected books, chapters, articles, and talks by the greatest names in inspiration including Napoleon Hill, James Allen, Robert Collier, Joseph Murphy, and Wallace D. Wattles. The Wisdom of James Allen: **Features a spotlight on Allen's life by Mitch **Full text of As a Man Thinketh **Rare chapters and articles **Collected proverbs by Allen
This book is for anyone who’s been shattered—by trauma, by grief, or by the slow corrosion of meaning in a world that worships distraction. The Alchemy of the Broken Blade weaves a path for transformation—not through escape but through ritual, discipline, and relentless presence. This book is a kind of field manual for those walking through fire. It is for anyone who’s been shattered—by trauma, by grief, by the long, slow erosion of purpose in a world that demands everything and gives little back. And it’s for anyone who senses that there must be something more. A deeper rhythm to life. A hidden current beneath the noise. The Alchemy of the Broken Blade is Echols’s attempt to trace that current—not through theory but through lived experience. It’s a book born from extremes: from death row and solitary confinement, from spiritual breakdown and resurrection, from years spent clawing his way out of despair and into a life he could stand inside again. And through that process, Echols discovered a path—not clean or easy but sacred. A path rooted in discipline, ritual, devotion, and presence. This book is an amalgamation of Eastern (Kaizen) and Western (Hermetic) philosophies, braided together into a single spiritual process for transformation. Alchemy and Kaizen may seem worlds apart—one symbolic, the other procedural. But they share a root principle: transformation through presence. The core concept revolves around “the Way” (do), a path of personal and lasting transformation achieved through practices like Tang Soo Do and inner alchemy. The author shares personal stories of finding the “Way” in prison and after his release. He also stresses that the external form of practice is less important than the internal relationship to it, advocating for engagement with the world and finding the sacred in the mundane. “I wrote this book because I believe the way we live needs to be reimagined. Not in some utopian, idealistic way—but in a grounded, embodied way. The systems around us have failed to offer us meaning. They train us to numb, to consume, to abandon our own inner work. The Alchemy of the Broken Blade is a call to live differently—not perfectly but purposely,” Echols explains about his forthcoming book. Alchemy says: Take yourself apart. Purify. Refine. Recombine. Kaizen says: Start where you are. Take one small step. Then take another. Both are paths. Both are disciplines. Both are doorways to becoming. The book is structured in four parts to mirror the four steps of the alchemical process: Part One: Deconstruction—examines breaking down the false self and recognizing internal enemies, using experiences such as solitary confinement as a metaphor for turning a a “tomb” into a “temple.” Part Two: Reconstruction—focuses on rebuilding through tools such as magick, alchemy, Tang Soo Do, Kaizen, Bushido, and concepts such as the Chil Sung (Seven Stars), emphasizing continuous improvement and virtue. Part Three: Integration—discusses putting knowledge into practice in daily life, making one’s personal do a way of living. Part Four: Becoming—addresses the “Alchemy of Now,” focusing on embodied presence and what happens after crossing the abyss, emphasizing that the path is continuous and requires ongoing practice.
A KEY TO THE MYSTERIES No other book in history has done more to clarify the Esoteric, mystical, and occult traditions of the world than Manly P. Hall's The Secret Teachings of All Ages. Now, historian Mitch Horowitz provides the first companion work to Hall's opus. The Secret Teachings of All Ages helps twenty=first-century readers enter and experience (or re-experience) Hall's hallowed pages and also clarifies and expands on some of the book's key themes and topics. Mitch explores developments and historical discoveries since hall published his "Great Book" nearly a century ago and adds fresh dimensions to subjects including: The antiquity and legacy of Ancient Egypt.The mystical origins of the world's major faiths. Strange beasts and anomalies in history and today. The origins and esotericism of Tarot. Secret Societies in Myth and Fact. The enduring relevance of astrology. Authorized by Manly P. Hall's Philosophical Research Society, The Secret Teachings of All Ages is a feast of esoteric exploration on its own and a worthy companion to history's unparalleled encyclopedia arcana. "Mitch is a fantastic tour guide to the fringes of reason, high weirdness, deep esoterica, secret societies, and mystery religions." -BoingBoing "Has the rare gift of making the esoteric accessible to discerning masses." -HuffPost
Zu den wichtigen und fundamentalen Konzepten der Informatik gehört sicher das des Algorithmus. Seit man sich mit Maschinen beschäftigt, die einfache mathematische Operationen ausführen können, befaßt man sich mit den Problemen, was überhaupt berechnet werden kann und wie diese Berechnungen effizient durchgeführt werden können. Durch die Erfindung des Computers wurde die Behandlung dieser Fragen stark ge fördert; dies hat zur Entdeckung vieler wichtiger und ideenreicher Algorithmen geführt. Das Studium von Algorithmen ist ein besonderes Anliegen der Informatik. In diesem Buch wollen wir die Kenntnisse über Algorithmen in zusammenhängender Weise so darstellen, daß sowohl Stu denten als auch in der Praxis Tätige den Entwurf und die Analyse neuer Algorithmen erlernen können. Ein Buch, das jeden Algorithmus enthält, der jemals erfunden wur de, müßte einen enormen Umfang haben. Daher beschränkt man sich übli cherweise bei Büchern über Algorithmen auf wenige Problembereiche, die dann im Detail behandelt werden. Zu jedem speziellen Problem wird der effizienteste Lösungsalgorithmus vorgestellt und analysiert. Da wir mehrere Jahre lang Kurse nach dieser Methode abgehalten haben, kennen wir den großen Nachteil dieses Verfahrens. Der Student lernt zwar viele schnelle Algorithmen kennen und kann diese auch analysie ren, im Entwurf guter Algorithmen bleibt er aber unsicher.
La Repressione delle Lingue delle Minoranze Etniche e Specialmente del Tedesco nell'Alto Adige Durante il Fascismo
Benyakir B Horowitz
St. Bridged Vineyard Press
2015
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Compiling Algorithms for Heterogeneous Systems
Steven Bell; Jing Pu; James Hegarty; Mark Horowitz
Springer International Publishing AG
2018
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Most emerging applications in imaging and machine learning must perform immense amounts of computation while holding to strict limits on energy and power. To meet these goals, architects are building increasingly specialized compute engines tailored for these specific tasks. The resulting computer systems are heterogeneous, containing multiple processing cores with wildly different execution models. Unfortunately, the cost of producing this specialized hardware—and the software to control it—is astronomical. Moreover, the task of porting algorithms to these heterogeneous machines typically requires that the algorithm be partitioned across the machine and rewritten for each specific architecture, which is time consuming and prone to error. Over the last several years, the authors have approached this problem using domain-specific languages (DSLs): high-level programming languages customized for specific domains, such as database manipulation, machine learning, or image processing. By giving up generality, these languages are able to provide high-level abstractions to the developer while producing high-performance output. The purpose of this book is to spur the adoption and the creation of domain-specific languages, especially for the task of creating hardware designs. In the first chapter, a short historical journey explains the forces driving computer architecture today. Chapter 2 describes the various methods for producing designs for accelerators, outlining the push for more abstraction and the tools that enable designers to work at a higher conceptual level. From there, Chapter 3 provides a brief introduction to image processing algorithms and hardware design patterns for implementing them. Chapters 4 and 5 describe and compare Darkroom and Halide, two domain-specific languages created for image processing that produce high-performance designs for both FPGAs and CPUs from the same source code, enabling rapid design cycles and quick porting of algorithms. The final section describes how the DSL approach also simplifies the problem of interfacing between application code and the accelerator by generating the driver stack in addition to the accelerator configuration. This book should serve as a useful introduction to domain-specialized computing for computer architecture students and as a primer on domain-specific languages and image processing hardware for those with more experience in the field.
Tell Atchana, Alalakh Volume 2 (2A/2B) – The Late Bronze II City 2006–2010 Excavation Seasons
Kutlu Aslihan Yener; Murat Akar; Mara T. Horowitz
Koc University Press
2021
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The excavations at Tell Atchana (Alalakh) are a part of long-range, broadly-based archaeological investigations in the Turkish state of Hatay’s Plain of Antioch, today called the Amuq Valley. Tell Atchana is located at the southern center of the valley close to the major westward bend of the Orontes River and was for nearly a thousand years the capital of a small Bronze Age principality called variably Alalakh and Mukish. This volume presents the major new archaeological campaing from 2006-2010, which was designed to revisit the phasing and dating of previously excavated strata, to explore untouched areas of the site, to establish a typology and seriation of local artifact types, and to study local cultural and political history in the dynamic and international Late Bronze II period. The Alalakh Excavations project’s ongoing research on chronology, political history, material culture, city landscapes, international relations, and many other topics is beginning to form a coherent picture of ancient Alalakh. Coming into focus is a small city with ancient roots that dared to play a hard game of territorial checkers with its larger LB II neighbor kingdoms and empires. Today Alalakh continues to engage and amaze as excavations and analyses reveal surprise after surprise. The Alalakh Excavations project has taken great care to include a wide variety of scholarly voices and opinions and to challenge preconceptions and conventional wisdom at every turn. In keeping with the tradition of sound methodology and perseverance begun by Woolley, and the interdisciplinary and international spirit of the Alalakh Excavations project, this volume now proudly presents the excavation results of LB II strata from 2006-2010.
"What Mr. Rogers was to children, Alexandra Horowitz is to dogs: a wise and patient observer who seeks to intimately know a creature... Her chapters, packed with close observations about canine cognition and behavior, are mini-mood lifters." --NPR, Maureen Corrigan on Fresh Air What is it like to be a puppy? Author of the classic Inside of a Dog, Alexandra Horowitz tries to find out, spending a year scrutinizing her puppy's daily existence and poring over the science of early dog development Few of us meet our dogs at Day One. The dog who will, eventually, become an integral part of our family, our constant companion and best friend, is born without us into a family of her own. A puppy's critical early development into the dog we come to know is usually missed entirely. Dog researcher Alexandra Horowitz aimed to change that with her family's new pup, Quiddity (Quid). In this scientific memoir, she charts Quid's growth from wee grub to boisterous sprite, from her birth to her first birthday. Horowitz follows Quid's first weeks with her mother and ten roly-poly littermates, and then each week after the puppy joins her household of three humans, two large dogs, and a wary cat. She documents the social and cognitive milestones that so many of us miss in our puppies' lives, when caught up in the housetraining and behavioral training that easily overwhelms the first months of a dog's life with a new family. In focusing on training a dog to behave, we mostly miss the radical development of a puppy into themselves--through the equivalent of infancy, childhood, young adolescence, and teenager-hood. By slowing down to observe Quid from week to week, The Year of the Puppy makes new sense of a dog's behavior in a way that is missed when the focus is only on training. Horowitz keeps a lens on the puppy's point of view--how they (begin to) see and smell the world, make meaning of it, and become an individual personality. She's there when the puppies first open their eyes, first start to recognize one another and learn about cats, sheep, and people; she sees them from their first play bows to puberty. Horowitz also draws from the ample research in the fields of dog and human development to draw analogies between a dog's first year and the growing child--and to note where they diverge. The Year of the Puppy is indispensable for anyone navigating their way through the frustrating, amusing, and ultimately delightful first year of a puppy's life.
The Year of the Puppy: How a Puppy Becomes Your Dog
Alexandra Horowitz
Viking Books for Young Readers
2024
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What is it like to be a puppy? What's going on in their minds? In this adaptation for young readers, Alexandra Horowitz answers those questions all kids have--and more Few people get to meet their dogs on the dog's actual first birthday. Most of us missed the day our puppy opened her eyes, the first sweet sounds she made, or watching her learn to walk, bark, and play with her siblings. But the dog scientist Alexandra Horowitz got to. She met a litter of newborn pups, and traces their journey through their first year of life. In this adaptation for young readers, follow along as one of the litter, Quiddity, grows from a sweet potato-sized puppy who can't lift her head to a member of Horowitz's family. Equal parts scientific and adventurous, Alexandra Horowitz's delightful study of her own puppy's developing personality is an enticing read that will answer every question a reader could have during a puppy's first year.
Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know
Alexandra Horowitz
Scribner Book Company
2010
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NOW FULLY REVISED AND UPDATED The beloved #1 New York Times bestseller that "causes one's dog-loving heart to flutter with astonishment and gratitude" (The New York Times Book Review). The instant classic on the mind of the dog is now updated to include the latest results in the booming field of dog cognition. What do dogs know? How do they think? The answers will surprise and delight you as cognitive scientist Alexandra Horowitz explains how dogs perceive their daily worlds, each other, and that other quirky animal, the human. Inside of a Dog is a fresh look at the world of dogs--from the dog's point of view. In clear, crisp prose, Horowitz introduces the reader to dogs' perceptual and cognitive abilities and then draws a picture of what it might be like to be a dog. What's it like to be able to smell not just every bit of open food in the house but also to smell human emotions and even the passage of time? What is it like to have such good hearing that they notice the bodily vibrations of insects and the hum of a fluorescent light? Horowitz's engaging narrative allows us to replace our urge to anthropomorphize dogs with a true understanding of the canine experience. What's it like to use your mouth as a hand? How does a tiny dog manage to play successfully with a Great Dane? Why must a person on a bicycle be chased? This fully revised and updated edition also reflects the latest findings on canine perception, dogs' understanding of our emotions and of our language, and the evolving story of domestication. Some discoveries are not only informative but curiously amusing, such as dogs' asymmetrical nostril use and their alignment with the earth's magnetic field when pooing. Much more than a scientific exploration; Inside of a Dog is a love letter to dogs, filled with personal observations and practical advice for people who live with dogs. With a light touch and the weight of scientific authority behind her, Horowitz offers an unparalleled exploration into the minds of our beloved four-legged companions.
On Looking: A Walker's Guide to the Art of Observation
Alexandra Horowitz
Scribner Book Company
2014
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From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Inside of a Dog and The Year of the Puppy, this "elegant and entertaining" (The Boston Globe) explanation of how humans perceive their environments "does more than open our eyes...opens our hearts and minds, too, gently awakening us to a world--in fact, many worlds--we've been missing" (USA TODAY). Alexandra Horowitz shows us how to see the spectacle of the ordinary--to practice, as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle put it, "the observation of trifles." Structured around a series of eleven walks the author takes, mostly in her Manhattan neighborhood, On Looking features experts on a diverse range of subjects, including an urban sociologist, the well-known artist Maira Kalman, a geologist, a physician, and a sound designer. Horowitz also walks with a child and a dog to see the world as they perceive it. What they see, how they see it, and why most of us do not see the same things reveal the startling power of human attention and the cognitive aspects of what it means to be an expert observer. Page by page, Horowitz shows how much more there is to see--if only we would really look. Trained as a cognitive scientist, she discovers a feast of fascinating detail, all explained with her generous humor and self-deprecating tone. So turn off the phone and other electronic devices and be in the real world--where strangers communicate by geometry as they walk toward one another, where sounds reveal shadows, where posture can display humility, and the underside of a leaf unveils a Lilliputian universe--where, indeed, there are worlds within worlds within worlds.
From the bestselling author of Inside of a Dog, Alexandra Horowitz now explains how dogs experience the world through that spectacular organ: the nose.
The perfect companion to her huge bestseller, Inside of a Dog, an eye-opening, informative, and wholly entertaining examination and celebration of the human/canine relationship.