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Book called who moved my cheese6/4/2023 Similarly, we could spend a lot of time trying to chase the relatively small improvements that are possible with statistical machine translation. On the other hand, those afraid to change, who focused on trying to figure out who was moving their cheese and why it was moving, missed out on a lot of opportunities and came really late (and hungry) to the table. Those who were nimble to embrace change were able to reap the benefits of the cheese – even when it moved to a new place. Johnson uses a parable about mice, people and cheese to demonstrate the various ways people react to change. It reminds me of a book I read years ago called “ Who Moved My Cheese,” by Spencer Johnson.ĭr. There’s been much talk lately as to whether automated translation tools will shrink or grow the translation industry, and whether these tools would ever replace human translators.
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Superfudge6/4/2023 Her first book, The One in the Middle Is the Green Kangaroo, was published in 1969. She received a bachelor's degree in education from New York University in 1961. Judy Blume was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey on February 12, 1938. Requires OverDrive Listen (file size: N/A KB) or OverDrive app (file size: 88925 KB). How will he ever survive if the new baby is a carbon copy of Fudge? From the Trade Paperback edition.ġ online resource (3 audio files) : digital But Peter can imagine something even worse. It will be bad enough starting sixth grade in a strange place and going to the same school as Fudge. Then Peter learns that his mom is going to have a baby and the whole family is moving to Princeton for a year. If you ask Peter, Fudge is just an older - and bigger - pain. His worst problem is still his younger brother, Fudge, who hasn't changed a bit since his crazy capers in Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing. Sometimes life in the Hatcher household is enough to make twelve-year-old Peter think about running away.
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Dick soon has everyone questioning what is real… The Grasshopper Lies Heavy is a book within a book, an alternative history within an alternative history. In the background lurks Hawthorne Abendsen, the author of an alternative history novel popular at the time, despite it being banned by the Nazis. Tagomi, a Japanese trade official, Bob Childan, an antiques dealer, Frank Frink, a jewelry maker, Frink’s ex-wife Juliana, a judo instructor, and Joe Cinnadella, a truck driver. These everyday people make up the main characters of the book. As is common in a lot of Dick’s writing, ordinary people dealing with unusual or extraordinary events are the focal point of TMITHC. The story concentrates on events occurring in California, now part of the ‘Pacific States of America’ controlled by the Japanese. America is occupied by both the Germans and the Japanese. Often considered to be Dick’s best work, as well as his most mainstream, The Man in the High Castle imagines a future in which Germany, Italy and Japan won the Second World War.
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Wandfasted series6/4/2023 Her purity is questioned by those loyal to the Black Witch: is it true that Tessla spent much of her time alone in the company of a Kelt? Did she use her magic to defend Jules against Gardnerian soldiers? Spurned by most of her people, Tessla finds refuge with Vale Gardner (Carnissa's son) and Fain Quillen, a pair of male Gardnerian Mages whose status protects Tessla from unproven accusation. Tessla is close friends with Jules Kristian, a Kelt who will not bow to Gardnerian aggression, but when their village of Doveshire is raided, Jules is violently snatched away and Tessla barely escapes with her life. These conquests are spearheaded by Carnissa Gardner, the Black Witch, but not all Gardnerians share her ambitions. The Gardnerians are breaking free from their own history of oppression and making war on Elves, Kelts, and other foreign peoples. A generation before Elloren Gardner would leave for Verpax University in The Black Witch, her mother, Tessla Harrow, lives at a tumultuous time in Erthia's history. In 2019 the novellas were released as a single book, The Rebel Mages, and the two stories are a perfect fit together. Originally published as promotional e-novellas, Wandfasted (2017) and Light Mage (2018) take us deeper into the history of Laurie Forest's debut series.
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(Well, actually my husband bought it for me. I have been meaning to read this companion collection forever but finally bought it at a local bookstore a few weeks ago. Check out my reviews of the other books including a series review of the first 3 books, The Heir and The Crown. I may have read my favorite scenes in the other books after finishing this collection. If you’ve been here long, you know that I absolutely love The Selection I might even call it my favorite YA series and definitely my guilty pleasure series. Happily Ever After by Kiera Cass is a novella collection set in the world of The Selection Series. I’m excited to share my review of a collection that I have been hoping to read for a while. Loving the great weather we’re having lately. Hi everyone! Hope it’s spring at your house like it suddenly is here.
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Neon gods katee robert series6/3/2023 Yet every breathless night spent tangled together has given Hades a taste for Persephone, and he’ll go to war with Olympus itself to keep her close…Ī modern retelling of Hades and Persephone that’s as sinful as it is sweet. But when he finds that Persephone can offer a little slice of the revenge he’s spent years craving, it’s all the excuse he needs to help her-for a price. Hades has spent his life in the shadows, and he has no intention of stepping into the light. With no options left, Persephone flees to the forbidden undercity and makes a devil’s bargain with a man she once believed a myth…a man who awakens her to a world she never knew existed. But all that’s ripped away when her mother ambushes her with an engagement to Zeus, the dangerous power behind their glittering city’s dark facade. Society darling Persephone Dimitriou plans to flee the ultra-modern city of Olympus and start over far from the backstabbing politics of the Thirteen Houses. Publisher: Sourcebooks Casablanca (June 1, 2021)īut from the moment I crossed the River Styx and fell under his dark spell…
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She was a postgraduate at Harvard, writing a doctorate on the Industrial Revolution. Her work on the themes of The Age of Surveillance Capitalism began as far back as the late 1970s. She is brilliantly erudite and outlines her argument in trenchant, honed phrases, as if reading aloud. She has dark eyes behind horn-rimmed glasses abundant black curls a low, resonant voice. Later, in an unglamorous spot by some parked vans, Zuboff explains why she wrote her book. This is the “surveillance capitalism” of the title, which Zuboff defines as a “new economic order” and “an expropriation of critical human rights that is best understood as a coup from above”. It describes how global tech companies such as Google and Facebook persuaded us to give up our privacy for the sake of convenience how personal information (“data”) gathered by these companies has been used by others not only to predict our behaviour but also to influence and modify it and how this has had disastrous consequences for democracy and freedom.
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The loving spirit6/3/2023 She feels herself pulled fast under its spell, yet she sacrifices her dreams in order to create a family. Janet, a fearless young woman of soaring strength, longs for the wildness and freedom of the sea. In her acclaimed debut, celebrated author Daphne du Maurier weaves a stunning tale of heartbreaking loss and undying love that knows no bounds. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice.Ī LUSH GENERATIONAL NOVEL FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF REBECCA. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice.
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Four Ever by Sloane Kennedy6/3/2023 At least losing the younger man to Rhys means Finn can have the life he deserves. But choosing Finn would mean giving up everything he’s worked for and breaking the promises he’s made. Callan Bale’s entire life has been about hiding the man he really is and it’s about to cost him the one person who’s managed to worm his way past the walls he’s spent years putting up. Until Rhys Tellar shows up and changes everything.Ī Lie. As the only openly gay man in a small, homophobic community, Finn has to fight every day to be who he is and walking away is starting to seem like the easier path. That’s what Finn Stewart wants, but to have it he must leave behind the man he wants above all others, his very straight boss and best friend, Callan Bale. But the last thing he expects is to feel something for both the charismatic ranch hand who befriends him and the enigmatic foreman who’s pretending to be something he’s not.Ī future. A six month parole stint working at the CB Bar Ranch in Southwestern Montana should be the easiest thing he’s ever done. It’s the one thing on ex-cop Rhys Tellar’s mind and he’s spent every day of his two year prison sentence planning how he’ll bring down the former lover and partner who sold him out and cost four people their lives. But I see now that I never really was.” -Callan It was the only way I knew how to be with you and still be worthy of you. Alternate cover edition of ASIN B010MOJ89W
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The way by swann's6/2/2023 For a novel about which many detractors have said ‘Nothing happens’ it was engaging, imaginative, full of philosophical ideas, and, as the saying goes, was hard to put down. Book 1 of À la recherche du temps perdu UPDATED: Summarizing Proust has a long history, most hilariously shown in the Monty Python sketch “Summarizing Proust Competition” in which contestants attempt to summarize all seven volumes of ‘In Search of Lost Time’ within 15 seconds:Having just finished SWANN’S WAY, my summary takes this condensed haiku form:Madeleine in teaBrings memories of lost timeMarcel is left sadNow for something completely different.SWANN’S WAY, the first of Proust’s seven-volume novel, is a joy to read. ⭐Latest English translation from French, 2002. Reviews from Amazon users which were colected at the time this book was published on the website: |