The Stone stories are conversational observations on life in America told in a humorous style, entertaining tone, and enlightening sense with an eye toward moving the reader to reconsider the world around us.
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426 tulosta hakusanalla Mykel D. Myles
Little known truths are the highest wisdom, and here, in Little Known Truths is compiled a fascinating array of little known truths about the contributions of Africa and African America to world and U.S. history. These are well-researched facts of history facts most people are not at all aware. But these, as well as many other little known truths can be found here in this collection of essays. It is a fascinating and very easy read written in a conversational tone that all will find enlightening as well as entertaining.
Sweet Cigars and Honey is a genuflection at the ancient altar of human emotion - a gentle embrace of love, and a reverent bow to loss. It is a collection wherein the tears of joy and sorrow merge into that great sea of longing and desire that is the deepest essence of being human.
This is a historical/romance novel of an illicit love affair between a young African prince and his sister-in-law, in love since childhood. She is now wife to his older brother, who has been passed over for succession to the throne, and is leading a revolt against the king. While the prince is away, the king dies, leaving the princess in charge and determined to destroy her rival sister-in-law. But the young prince returns in time to rescue his true love, and save the kingdom from collapse. It has intrigue, suspense, and romance, with equal appeal to men and women readers.
DANNY SELLERS: An Unkindness of Ravens picks up where the first novel, Danny Sellers: The Early Case left off. Having busted the low-life corrupt politicians he set out to get then, here Danny and his girl are in hot pursuit of the notorious Duke Blatz, aka "The Duke," the mystery crime boss who eluded capture the first time around. Danny is now hot on the heels of Duke's sexy assistant, the beautiful Cinnamon Candy but is blind-sided by an attack from Cinnamon's secret cult of murderous sex slaves run by a perverted dominatrix known only as The Raven. When his girl is captured, Danny must fight his way through Raven's blood thirsty coven of sadomasochistic zombies or lose her to An Unkindness of Ravens!
If you love short stories, you'll love this collection. It brings together stories from various genres - mystery, horror, suspense, humor - all delightfully combined to take you on a whirlwind fantasy of reading enjoyment. With titles like: MARY'S PLACE / THE REPAIR JOB / THIS KIND NEPENTHE /A NOVEL IDEA / MEETING AT THE COURTS / THE BUS STOP / THE FEAST / NIGHT TRAVELS /THE INTERVIEW / A RAINY DAY IN THE COUNTRY / THE HOUSE IN THE FOREST / And A FINE AND DECENT STORY This collection truly is a smorgasbord of short story entertainment.
Here is a collection of poems that artfully blends the rhyme and rhythm of poetry with the wit and reason of 21st Century American life. This clever collection will move you to laugh, to think, and to wonder at the world all around you and deep within you with a new and deeper perspective. Crafted and composed from everyday life events, it unveils the mundane to reveal the universal - those deeper and dearer elements that we always depend on poetry to most fully provide. Here it is all neatly packaged and presented for your reading pleasure. The depths of feeling will open for you a fresh blossoming of poetic experience, one that you will delight in and happily share with friends over and over again.
Contemplating Religious Forms of Life: Wittgenstein and D.Z. Phillips
Mikel Burley
Bloomsbury Continuum
2012
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Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) made profound contributions to many areas of philosophy and cultural understanding, and his thought and methods have inspired numerous inquirers into the forms of our religious life. D. Z. Phillips (1934-2006) pioneered the application of Wittgenstein-influenced approaches to the philosophy of religion, and emphasized the contemplative, non-dogmatic nature of the philosophical task. In Contemplating Religious Forms of Life, Mikel Burley elucidates and critically examines the work of these two philosophers in relation to various aspects of religion, including ritual, mystical experience, faith and reason, realism and non-realism, conceptions of eternal life, and the use of literature as a resource for the contemplation of religious and non-religious beliefs. The book will be of significant value to academics, students and general readers interested in philosophy, religious studies, theology, and the interrelations between these disciplines.
Contemplating Religious Forms of Life: Wittgenstein and D.Z. Phillips
Mikel Burley
Bloomsbury Continuum
2012
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Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) made profound contributions to many areas of philosophy and cultural understanding, and his thought and methods have inspired numerous inquirers into the forms of our religious life. D. Z. Phillips (1934-2006) pioneered the application of Wittgenstein-influenced approaches to the philosophy of religion, and emphasized the contemplative, non-dogmatic nature of the philosophical task. In Contemplating Religious Forms of Life, Mikel Burley elucidates and critically examines the work of these two philosophers in relation to various aspects of religion, including ritual, mystical experience, faith and reason, realism and non-realism, conceptions of eternal life, and the use of literature as a resource for the contemplation of religious and non-religious beliefs. The book will be of significant value to academics, students and general readers interested in philosophy, religious studies, theology, and the interrelations between these disciplines.
Zuzenbide Zibileko Hastapenak IV: Oinordetza-Zuzenbidea
D. Mikel Mari Karrera Egialde
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2018
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Greater Than a Tourist- Naga Camarines Sur Philippines
Greater Than a Tourist; Lisa Rusczyk Ed D; Myke Naval
Independently Published
2018
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Are you excited about planning your next trip?Do you want to try something new?Would you like some guidance from a local?If you answered yes to any of these questions, then this Greater Than a Tourist book is for you.Greater Than a Tourist Greater Than a Tourist- Naga Camarines Sur Philippines by Myke Naval offers the inside scoop on Naga City. Most travel books tell you how to travel like a tourist. Although there is nothing wrong with that, as part of the Greater Than a Tourist series, this book will give you travel tips from someone who has lived at your next travel destination.In these pages, you will discover advice that will help you throughout your stay. This book will not tell you exact addresses or store hours but instead will give you excitement and knowledge from a local that you may not find in other smaller print travel books.Travel like a local. Slow down, stay in one place, and get to know the people and the culture. By the time you finish this book, you will be eager and prepared to travel to your next destination.
An introduction to decision making under uncertainty from a computational perspective, covering both theory and applications ranging from speech recognition to airborne collision avoidance.Many important problems involve decision making under uncertainty-that is, choosing actions based on often imperfect observations, with unknown outcomes. Designers of automated decision support systems must take into account the various sources of uncertainty while balancing the multiple objectives of the system. This book provides an introduction to the challenges of decision making under uncertainty from a computational perspective. It presents both the theory behind decision making models and algorithms and a collection of example applications that range from speech recognition to aircraft collision avoidance.Focusing on two methods for designing decision agents, planning and reinforcement learning, the book covers probabilistic models, introducing Bayesian networks as a graphical model that captures probabilistic relationships between variables; utility theory as a framework for understanding optimal decision making under uncertainty; Markov decision processes as a method for modeling sequential problems; model uncertainty; state uncertainty; and cooperative decision making involving multiple interacting agents. A series of applications shows how the theoretical concepts can be applied to systems for attribute-based person search, speech applications, collision avoidance, and unmanned aircraft persistent surveillance.Decision Making Under Uncertainty unifies research from different communities using consistent notation, and is accessible to students and researchers across engineering disciplines who have some prior exposure to probability theory and calculus. It can be used as a text for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in fields including computer science, aerospace and electrical engineering, and management science. It will also be a valuable professional reference for researchers in a variety of disciplines.
A comprehensive introduction to optimization with a focus on practical algorithms for the design of engineering systems.This book offers a comprehensive introduction to optimization with a focus on practical algorithms. The book approaches optimization from an engineering perspective, where the objective is to design a system that optimizes a set of metrics subject to constraints. Readers will learn about computational approaches for a range of challenges, including searching high-dimensional spaces, handling problems where there are multiple competing objectives, and accommodating uncertainty in the metrics. Figures, examples, and exercises convey the intuition behind the mathematical approaches. The text provides concrete implementations in the Julia programming language. Topics covered include derivatives and their generalization to multiple dimensions; local descent and first- and second-order methods that inform local descent; stochastic methods, which introduce randomness into the optimization process; linear constrained optimization, when both the objective function and the constraints are linear; surrogate models, probabilistic surrogate models, and using probabilistic surrogate models to guide optimization; optimization under uncertainty; uncertainty propagation; expression optimization; and multidisciplinary design optimization. Appendixes offer an introduction to the Julia language, test functions for evaluating algorithm performance, and mathematical concepts used in the derivation and analysis of the optimization methods discussed in the text. The book can be used by advanced undergraduates and graduate students in mathematics, statistics, computer science, any engineering field, (including electrical engineering and aerospace engineering), and operations research, and as a reference for professionals.
A broad introduction to algorithms for decision making under uncertainty, introducing the underlying mathematical problem formulations and the algorithms for solving them. Automated decision-making systems or decision-support systems--used in applications that range from aircraft collision avoidance to breast cancer screening--must be designed to account for various sources of uncertainty while carefully balancing multiple objectives. This textbook provides a broad introduction to algorithms for decision making under uncertainty, covering the underlying mathematical problem formulations and the algorithms for solving them. The book first addresses the problem of reasoning about uncertainty and objectives in simple decisions at a single point in time, and then turns to sequential decision problems in stochastic environments where the outcomes of our actions are uncertain. It goes on to address model uncertainty, when we do not start with a known model and must learn how to act through interaction with the environment; state uncertainty, in which we do not know the current state of the environment due to imperfect perceptual information; and decision contexts involving multiple agents. The book focuses primarily on planning and reinforcement learning, although some of the techniques presented draw on elements of supervised learning and optimization. Algorithms are implemented in the Julia programming language. Figures, examples, and exercises convey the intuition behind the various approaches presented.
Upend your personal status quo and reclaim your natural creativity in every single action you take Everyone claims to value creativity, and businesses are clamouring for disruptive thinking and innovation. Yet we often feel creatively stifled at work, because business processes seem to leave no room for real originality. In this climate, it takes a heroic effort to reclaim our status as independent thinkers, to bring meaning and joy to our work lives and to make lasting changes that will bring value to everyone around us. In Everyday Creative, culture and creative leadership expert Mykel Dixon reveals what’s holding us back from our full creative potential and explains how we can reclaim our original, vibrant selves. Is your ability to think differently hindered by an unconscious view that creativity doesn’t belong in the boardroom? It’s an all-too-common mistake, but the truth is, creativity is fundamental for business growth and personal fulfilment. If you want to survive in the digital era, you need to pursue your own creative sensibilities and foster creativity in your team. This book shows that original thinking can shake things up, becoming the source of our competitive advantage and a key driver of sustainable success. Recognise your own unconventional talent and creative potentialTransform yourself into a more vibrant and resilient human being ready to lead the world in the fourth industrial revolutionCultivate dynamic team environments where people feel safe to explore dangerous ideasInstigate a high-level cultural and strategic pivot toward more creativity in your company Everyday Creative is about creative leadership and the courage to seek, nurture and liberate original thinking. Read this book to learn how to make the essential skill of creativity accessible to all people, regardless of role, title or department.
On the final day of a counternarcotics mission, Special Forces operative Jake Tyler is searching for a downed pilot. It's the first in a series of life-altering events that ultimately puts him in the sights of one of the most powerful and deadly drug cartels in South America.It seems Jake's friend and military comrade, Haskell Delaney, has been playing both sides in their operations, and the duplicity has just caught up with him.With a bounty now on his own head, Jake has no choice but to go after the cartel kingpins before they can take him out. With a rogue and gutsy execution, and the help of two civilians, he pulls off an operation he believes will put an end to his plight.But the stakes are raised when Jake's new love, Callie Kane, is abducted and used to lure him for a final showdown with Adonis Valent n, the unimaginably evil drug lord who has, like Jake, eluded death.Now one of them is going to die, either at the hand of his adversary or from the siege of artillery converging from ground and air...as a massive interdiction closes in. The only way out is back through the jungle.Terror in the world takes many forms, much of it gratuitously bloody, but now in the oft forgotten and interminable drug war, it's become personal.From the tropical beaches and rainforests of Costa Rica, to the terrifying darkness of Colombia, IN THE DARK OF THE SUN smolders with the grit of a seasoned warrior on whose life it is based. While racing through a relentless stream of action and suspense, the story delves into the fine line between darkness and light...in friendship, in life, and in love.With the rapid-fire intensity found in Proof of Life and Tears of the Sun, the familiar elements of Traffic and Blackhawk Down, IN THE DARK OF THE SUN stands unique with its combination of eloquent beauty and raw reality.
Fly the fly decides he wants a friend. He flies away to find one. During his flight he finds some challenges, But succeeds in finding his friend in the end A tale of how perseverance and overcoming difficulty helps you achieve your goal and be happy.