A comprehensive reference to flags including a fascinating history , with over 1400 illustrations and newly updated in a special large-format edition.
A beautifully illustrated reference guide to trees across the globe, in a substantially updated new large-format edition.
This book is the essential guide for the millions of people all over the world making the challenging and rewarding leap to manager and who want to become that manager their team deserves.
Consultant editor:Cath Caldwell is Senior Lecturer at Central Saint Martins, the world-leading college for art and design education at University of the Arts London. She is a former Design Director at ELLE UK, having also worked for the Guardian and Cond¿ast (New York). She is the author of two books on graphic design and co-founder of the Editorial Designers Organisation.Contibuting authors:Johnny Belknap is a native New Yorker who cut his design teeth on the iconic Village Voice newspaper in the 1970s. He moved on to art director roles at oublications including the New York Times, the Sunday Telegraph Magazine, and the Jewish Chronicle, as well as running his own design studio.Jamie Sanchez Hearn is a graphic designer and lecturer, specializing in Typography, Branding, and Editorial Design. Jamie worked for several international design agencies before forming his own design studio. He currently teaches at Central Saint Martins and is a fellow of the UK's Higher Education Academy.Emily Wood is a graphic designer and lecturer. She has worked for leading design studios Pentagram, Johnson Banks, and Bloom, and with a range of cultural organizations, including London's V&A Museum and Amnesty International. Emily's research is focused on sustainability through education and design. Julia Woollams is a graphic designer, branding consultant, lecturer, and co-founder of creative consultancy 31% Wool. She specializes in cultural and not-for-profit sectors and has worked with organizations including the Science Museum, the Sendai Observatory, the University of Cambridge, and UNICEF UK.
An argument that health is optimal responsiveness and is often best treated at the system level.Medical education centers on the venerable "no-fault” concept of homeostasis, whereby local mechanisms impose constancy by correcting errors, and the brain serves mainly for emergencies. Yet, it turns out that most parameters are not constant; moreover, despite the importance of local mechanisms, the brain is definitely in charge. In this book, the eminent neuroscientist Peter Sterling describes a broader concept: allostasis (coined by Sterling and Joseph Eyer in the 1980s), whereby the brain anticipates needs and efficiently mobilizes supplies to prevent errors.Allostasis evolved early, Sterling explains, to optimize energy efficiency, relying heavily on brain circuits that deliver a brief reward for each positive surprise. Modern life so reduces the opportunities for surprise that we are driven to seek it in consumption: bigger burgers, more opioids, and innumerable activities that involve higher carbon emissions. The consequences include addiction, obesity, type 2 diabetes, and climate change. Sterling concludes that solutions must go beyond the merely technical to restore possibilities for daily small rewards and revivify the capacities for egalitarianism that were hard-wired into our nature.Sterling explains that allostasis offers what is not found in any medical textbook: principled definitions of health and disease: health as the capacity for adaptive variation and disease as shrinkage of that capacity. Sterling argues that since health is optimal responsiveness, many significant conditions are best treated at the system level.
You're at your best when you're doing what you love, so follow your passions and let your inner light shine out! This little book, packed with inspiring quotes and uplifting statements, is here to help you dazzle the world with your brightest, happiest self.
This inspirational little book is packed with positive quotations to lift you up when you're feeling down. It's time to ward off any self-doubts that try to knock your confidence and start being the best and happiest version of yourself - because you deserve it!
Albanian is spoken by 5.8 million people worldwide, and is an official language of Albania and Kosovo. Albanian is a unique Indo-European language because it has its own branch, whereas most modern languages are at least twice removed from their original branch. Under the Ottoman Empire, teaching Albanian was forbidden and its existence today speaks to the fierce preservation and pride of the Albanian people.Modern standard Albanian is a combination of the two main dialects, Tosk and Gheg. Ideal for those new to Albanian, learning at home or in the classroom, Beginner¿s Albanian with Online Audio includes:A brief introduction to Albanian history and culture13 practical lessons with dialogues, vocabulary, and expressionsExercises with answer keyAlbanian-English and English-Albanian glossariesOnline MP3 audio files for download which feature pronunciation by native speakers
Updated with new texts, topics and themes, Headway 5th edition provides fresh and relevant English instruction that is tailored to your students' needs.
Influential guides to success in business, finance and other aspects of personal achievement from varied cultural perspectives and historical periods.
Maximum innovation happens at the edge of chaos: the messy, risky, and uncertain threshold between randomness and structure. Operating there is uncomfortable but it's where organizations "invent the future.” EDGE is a set of fast, iterative, adaptive, lightweight, and value-driven tools to achieve digital transformation, and EDGE: Value-Driven Digital Transformation is your guide to using this operating model for innovation.EDGE embraces an adaptive mindset in the face of market uncertainty, a visible, value-centered portfolio approach that encourages continual value linkages from vision to detailed initiatives, incremental funding that shifts as strategies evolve, collaborative decision-making, and better risk mitigation. This guide shows leaders how to use the breakthrough EDGE approach to go beyond incremental improvement in a world of exponential opportunities. Build an organization that adapts fast enough to thrive Clear away unnecessary governance processes, obsolete "command and control” leadership approaches, and slow budgeting/planning cycles Improve collaboration when major, fast-paced responses are necessary Continually optimize investment allocation and monitoring based on your vision and goals Focus on outcomes, not output: make enterprise agile value-driven, faster, and more adaptive Learn better ways to invest, work together, and accelerate successful change By a team of pioneering experts at ThoughtWorks, EDGE's creators - including world-renowned agile expert Jim Highsmith Gain convenient access to downloads, updates, and/or corrections as they become available by registering your product onlineMaster EDGE: the missing link in leadership and portfolio management that helps you successfully execute your digital transformation Focus on outcomes, not output: make enterprise agile value-driven, faster, and more adaptive Learn better ways to invest, work together, and accelerate successful change By a team of pioneering experts at ThoughtWorks, EDGE's creators — including world-renowned agile expert Jim Highsmith
Ancient self-care for modern life, by the author of the forthcoming The Seven Ways of Ayurveda Feeling burned-out, unmotivated, or stuck? The Ayurvedic Self-Care Handbook is here to help. This authoritative guide to ancient healing offers more than 100 daily and seasonal Ayurvedic rituals—each taking 10 minutes or less—to reconnect you with nature’s rhythms, and to unlock better health, as you: Boost and stabilize your energy with yogic breathingOvercome transitions with grounding meditationsUndo physical and emotional stress with personalized yoga posturesPrevent and treat disease with nourishing tonics and teasPause and reflect with daily and weekly journaling prompts. Get back in sync with nature—and rediscover your potential to feel good.
Many industry experts consider unsupervised learning the next frontier in artificial intelligence, one that may hold the key to general artificial intelligence. Since the majority of the world's data is unlabeled, conventional supervised learning cannot be applied. Unsupervised learning, on the other hand, can be applied to unlabeled datasets to discover meaningful patterns buried deep in the data, patterns that may be near impossible for humans to uncover.Author Ankur Patel shows you how to apply unsupervised learning using two simple, production-ready Python frameworks: Scikit-learn and TensorFlow using Keras. With code and hands-on examples, data scientists will identify difficult-to-find patterns in data and gain deeper business insight, detect anomalies, perform automatic feature engineering and selection, and generate synthetic datasets. All you need is programming and some machine learning experience to get started.Compare the strengths and weaknesses of the different machine learning approaches: supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement learningSet up and manage machine learning projects end-to-endBuild an anomaly detection system to catch credit card fraudClusters users into distinct and homogeneous groupsPerform semisupervised learningDevelop movie recommender systems using restricted Boltzmann machinesGenerate synthetic images using generative adversarial networks
Transform every area of your life and permanently overcome feelings of disconnection, low self-esteem and rejection. Radiate self-confidence, attract wealth, health and wonderful loving relationships and know that you are enough in every aspect of your life always.
Christina Strutt of Cabbages & Roses reveals how to have a calmer, healthier, eco-friendly home.
Bestselling author of Girl, Wash Your Face and founder of TheChicSite.com Rachel Hollis urges women to stop apologizing for their desires, hopes, and dreams and instead to go after them with passion and confidence.
Learn to use PowerShell, Microsoft's scripting language, to automate real-world tasks that IT professionals and system administrators deal with every day.
Authoritative, comprehensive, and cutting-edge, the Handbook of Mentalizing in Mental Health Practice is the single most important resource for clinicians and trainees learning about-and incorporating-MBT into their therapeutic repertoire.
Chief consultant Victoria Plum is a principal tutor at Neal's Yard Remedies, working with a team of consultants specialising in the different massage disciplines.
A lavishly illustrated look at the groundbreaking Apollo 11 mission, in honour of the 50th anniversary, featuring stunning and previously unpublished images that tell the incredible story of the first men on the moon.
This book provides students, researchers, and practitioners of speechwriting with a unique insight in the theory, history, and practice of speechwriting.
A comprehensive guide to identifying fake watches.
The myth-busting book shows how large companies can construct a strategy, system, and culture of innovation that creates sustained growth.
Without a deep understanding of your company's culture, any change effort you undertake will fail. Bestselling author Jon Katzenbach and his coauthors identify the four most critical cultural elements leaders need to focus on.In a global survey by the Katzenbach Center, 80 percent of respondents believed that their organization must evolve to succeed. But a full quarter of them reported that a change effort at their organization had resulted in no visible results. Why? The fate of any change effort depends on whether and how leaders engage their culture: the self-sustaining patterns of behaving, feeling, thinking, and believing that determine how things are done in an organization. Culture is implicit rather than explicit, emotional rather than rational--that's what makes it so hard to work with, but that's also what makes it so powerful. For the first time, this book lays out the Katzenbach Center's proven methodology for identifying your culture's four most critical elements: traits, characteristics that are at the heart of people's emotional connection to what they do; keystone behaviors, actions that would lead your company to succeed if they were replicated at a greater scale; authentic informal leaders, people who have a high degree of "emotional intuition" or social connectedness; and metrics, integrated, thoughtful measures to track progress, encourage the self-reinforcing cycle of lasting change and link to business performance. By leveraging these critical few elements, you can tap into a source of catalytic change within your organization. People will make an emotional, not just a rational, commitment to new initiatives. You will elicit enthusiasm and creativity and build the kind of powerful company that people recognize for its innate value and effectiveness.
Deep learning is one of today's hottest fields. This approach to machine learning is achieving breakthrough results in some of today's highest profile applications, in organizations ranging from Google to Tesla, Facebook to Apple. Thousands of technical professionals and students want to start leveraging its power, but previous books on deep learning have often been non-intuitive, inaccessible, and dry. In Deep Learning Illustrated, three world-class instructors and practitioners present a uniquely visual, intuitive, and accessible high-level introduction to the techniques and applications of deep learning. Packed with vibrant, full-color illustrations, it abstracts away much of the complexity of building deep learning models, making the field more fun to learn and accessible to a far wider audience. Part I's high-level overview explains what Deep Learning is, why it has become so ubiquitous, and how it relates to concepts and terminology such as Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Artificial Neural Networks, and Reinforcement Learning. These opening chapters are replete with vivid illustrations, easy-to-grasp analogies, and character-focused narratives. Building on this foundation, the authors then offer a practical reference and tutorial for applying a wide spectrum of proven deep learning techniques. Essential theory is covered with as little mathematics as possible and is illuminated with hands-on Python code. Theory is supported with practical "run-throughs" available in accompanying Jupyter notebooks, delivering a pragmatic understanding of all major deep learning approaches and their applications: machine vision, natural language processing, image generation, and videogaming. To help readers accomplish more in less time, the authors feature several of today's most widely used and innovative deep learning libraries, including TensorFlow and its high-level API, Keras; PyTorch; and the recently released, high-level Coach, a TensorFlow API that abstracts away the complexity typically associated with building Deep Reinforcement Learning algorithms. Ideal for software developers, data scientists, and analysts at all levels of experience Teaches through simple visuals, accessible Python code examples, character-driven narratives, and intuitive analogies Covers today's leading applications, including machine vision, natural language processing, image generation, and videogames Introduces four powerful Deep Learning libraries: TensorFlow, Keras, PyTorch, and Coach Carefully designed to minimize mathematical formulae and avoid unnecessary complexity The first full-color, illustrated, hands-on guide to the fundamentals of modern, deep-learning AI: simply the most intuitive, practical way to get started Ideal for software developers, data scientists, and analysts at all levels of experience Teaches through simple visuals, accessible Python code examples, character-driven narratives, and intuitive analogies Covers today's leading applications, including machine vision, natural language processing, image generation, and videogames Introduces four powerful Deep Learning libraries: TensorFlow, Keras, PyTorch, and Coach Carefully designed to minimize mathematical formulae and avoid unnecessary complexity
This book celebrates the most exciting period in the history of technology - the arrival of the home computer and home gaming console. YouTube's most successful purveyor of computer nostalgia brings those stories to print.
Internationally recognized leadership expert John C. Maxwell teaches readers how to shift their leadership to keep innovating, improving, and influencing others in today's fast-paced world.
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