Jasper attended the 12th anniversary of Leyden, the town where he grew up. At the celebration, he encountered his niece Elsbeth. Elsbeth and her friends invited him to join them on their trop to an abandoned British mansion nearby. The residents disappeared twenty-five years ago. Despite hesitation, Jasper joined his niece on her little adventure... something he would regret sooner than later...
Learn best practices for building bots by focusing on the technological implementation and UX in this practical book. You will cover key topics such as setting up a development environment for creating chatbots for multiple channels (Facebook Messenger, Skype, and KiK); building a chatbot (design to implementation); integrating to IFTT (If This Then That) and IoT (Internet of Things); carrying out analytics and metrics for chatbots; and most importantly monetizing models and business sense for chatbots. Build Better Chatbots is easy to follow with code snippets provided in the book and complete code open sourced and available to download. With Facebook opening up its Messenger platform for developers, followed by Microsoft opening up Skype for development, a new channel has emerged for brands to acquire, engage, and service customers on chat with chatbots. What You Will Learn Work with the bot development life cycle Master bot UX designIntegrate into the bot ecosystemMaximize the business and monetization potential for bots Who This Book Is For Developers, programmers, and hobbyists who have basic programming knowledge. The book can be used by existing chatbot developers to gain a better understanding of analytics and the business side of bots.
Understanding IFRS for SMEs is a comprehensive and in-depth approach to unpacking the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) for small, medium and micro enterprises (SMEs). In an easy to understand manner, the book explains the conceptual as well as the detailed technical knowledge underpinning the requirements of IFRS for SMEs (supplemented by the same for IFRS where applicable). The text is designed to gradually take a student through the necessary thought processes needed to compile financial statements in compliance with IFRS for SMEs, by focussing on the information and skills needed to apply professional judgment in a compilation engagement and ultimately decision-making. While the number of entities that can apply IFRS for SMEs form the majority of business entities in the market place, there is very little conceptual guidance on the application of IFRS for SMEs. This publication is therefore one of the few texts focussing on the application of IFRS for SMEs, while at the same time allowing the reader to see the contrasting requirements of IFRS. The text is designed to assist a student learn the knowledge required to comply with IFRS for SMEs but also understand the conceptual underpinnings of the standards so as to fully master IFRS for SMEs.
Much of 'Musical Words For Singing Birds' is simple, unusual, meaningful, elegant, sentimental, often passionate poetry that you will want to sing. You will sail with the flow of the verses and enjoy the easy rhymes. Lyrics of love and longing, musical words that make fun of music and the poet, unusual stories unusually told, a little preaching, and a little philosophy are the stuff of this little book.Musical Words For Singing Birds is full of its own unique pleasures. This is for readers who enjoy poetry that touches the heart deeply but doesn't tax the mind the way complex poetry does. Although unraveling complex verse has its own kind of 'Ahas.'You will enjoy reading it often and will make some poems-lyrics your own. And you will get a greater thrill when you riff one and sing it to your sweetheart.In this book you will find poems and lyrics that will bring back a lover who has walked out on you. And there are prescriptions for better loving which may be used by men and women to prevent love breakdowns.
"Love is often an insanely thing; Love is the most sought after sting." "But a man's life is nothing without the love of a woman; That man is king who has it, though appears common."The above verses are quoted from this book. The rest of the poetry in this book is similarly simple and meaningful. Most of the 53 poems in Love, Happenings, Discoveries are compositions based on merged love and life experiences of a foreigner in the United States some 30 years ago. Many subsequent happenings are also versified. The discoveries described developed upon reflection and understanding over the years. All names are fictitious. Also, normal poetic license has been used.We all know that powers of love are infinite. Love gives life a taste of heaven. And its absence makes it hell. Everything is a manifestation of love. These are the threads running through the contents of this second book of this writer's poetry. Love, Happenings, Discoveries is multi-genre poetry. It contains, as in multiple mirrors, the images of an uncommon story of loving and living. There is sweet talk, quirky humor, hurt and tragedy, giving up, reflection, and rebirth of hope. There are always a writer's particular cultural undertones enriching what is being conveyed. There are key corrective lessons learned. We search for love in others and many fail to find it. We got to first find love in ourselves. Give it away. Without any expectations of it being returned. Only then will love come our way. This is what in many ways most of my poetry tries to say.In this book, as in much of my previous book Musical Words For Singing Birds, I have tried to arrive at a definition of good love between a man and woman, and I've tried to convey that definition mostly through first person narrative poetry.Poetry's great power to touch souls is every poet's most prized compensation. If I am able to deeply touch even a few readers I will consider myself amply rewarded.
