Archaeologist of a Word... is a thought-provoking book filled with interesting ideas and observations to challenge your mind and how you think about the world around you. You see, thinking is the question, and understanding is the answer. While the writing may be simple in this book, the ideas and concepts are complex, just like life. All the words you read in this book will help you understand how thinking a little differently can center your knowledge and understanding of life and the world surrounding you. These words you read have a different meaning to everyone, but they will teach you to think and reflect about how to center your own thinking and understanding of yourself. By reflecting on these words, you can center yourself. These are more than words on a page - they are thoughts and ideas to compel you to look deeper so you have a better understanding of yourself and the world around you. This book is about understanding, and it challenges you to make the complex simple. This book shows you to how to enlighten yourself through words, AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, THIS BOOK CHALLENGES YOUR WAY OF THINKING. I hope you enjoy the book, as the book will teach you to enjoy you. Every concept is a teaching TOOL! THINKING HAS A LANGUAGE, and it's called understanding.
Archaeologist of a Word... is a thought-provoking book filled with interesting ideas and observations to challenge your mind and how you think about the world around you. You see, thinking is the question, and understanding is the answer. While the writing may be simple in this book, the ideas and concepts are complex, just like life. All the words you read in this book will help you understand how thinking a little differently can center your knowledge and understanding of life and the world surrounding you. These words you read have a different meaning to everyone, but they will teach you to think and reflect about how to center your own thinking and understanding of yourself. By reflecting on these words, you can center yourself. These are more than words on a page - they are thoughts and ideas to compel you to look deeper so you have a better understanding of yourself and the world around you. This book is about understanding, and it challenges you to make the complex simple. This book shows you to how to enlighten yourself through words, AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, THIS BOOK CHALLENGES YOUR WAY OF THINKING. I hope you enjoy the book, as the book will teach you to enjoy you. Every concept is a teaching TOOL! THINKING HAS A LANGUAGE, and it's called understanding.
This collection of vegan holiday recipes—the first of its kind from award-winning chefs—elevates plant-based fare to a new level. With fresh, inventive menus for Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's Eve, Lunar New Year, Super Bowl Sunday, Valentine's Day, Passover, Easter, Cinco de Mayo, and Independence Day, this cookbook blends favorite traditions with a modern sensibility. Tantalizing dishes include Sweet Potato Latkes with Almond Crème Fraîche for Passover; Porcini-Crusted Seitan with Glazed Cipollini Onions and Mushroom Gravy for Thanksgiving; and Red, White, and Blue Margaritas for the Fourth of July. Now home cooks can entertain in the spirit of New York’s premier vegan restaurants, Candle Cafe, Candle 79, and Candle Cafe West. With forewords by Alicia Silverstone and Laura and Woody Harrelson, plus sumptuous photography throughout, this festive cookbook invites vegans and omnivores alike to gather around the holiday table and enjoy.
RFID and Wireless Sensors using Ultra-Wideband Technology explores how RFID-based technologies are becoming the first choice to realize the last (wireless) link in the chain between each element and the Internet due to their low cost and simplicity. Each day, more and more elements are being connected to the Internet of Things. In this book, ultra-wideband radio technology (in time domain) is exploited to realize this wireless link. Chipless, semi-passive and active RFID systems and wireless sensors and prototypes are proposed in terms of reader (setup and signal processing techniques) and tags (design, integration of sensors and performance). The authors include comprehensive theories, proposals of advanced techniques, and their implementation to help readers develop time-domain ultra-wideband radio technology for a variety of applications. This book is suitable for post-doctoral candidates, experienced researchers, and engineers developing RFID, tag antenna designs, chipless RFID, and sensor integration. Includes comprehensive theories, advanced techniques, and guidelines for their implementation to help readers develop time-domain ultra-wideband radio technology for a variety of applications Discusses ultra-wideband (UWB) technology in time-domain that is used to develop RFID systems and wireless sensors Explores the development of hipless, semi-passive, and active identification platforms in terms of low-cost readers and tags Integrates wireless sensors in the proposed chipless and semi-passive platforms
Continually rated as one of the best vegan restaurants in the country, Candle 79 is at the forefront of a movement to bring elegance and sophistication to vegetarian cuisine. Not only is its fare local, seasonal, organic, and sustainable, but also so flavorful and satisfying that customers—vegan and omnivore alike—are constantly asking for recipes to cook at home. This collection answers that call, with simple yet impressive recipes for Chickpea Crepes, Ginger-Seitan Dumplings, Live Lasagna, Chocolate Mousse Towers, Cucumber-Basil Martinis, and more. Expanding the horizons of vegan fare with appetizers, soups, salads, mains, brunches, desserts, cocktails, and wine pairings, Candle 79 Cookbook invites every home cook to make truly green cuisine.
Home is less than great. Junior high school is awful. Daijha's mom is rarely around, leaving Daijha alone and afraid. School should be an escape from her loneliness, but instead, it is a daily torment Daijha endures that further isolates her. Things begin to change when J enrolls in school. She has sass and confidence ... and a whole bunch of extra weight! How can she be so confident, looking the way that she does? Is it real, or is she faking? Where does it come from? J is not at all intimidated and has an inner strength Daijha knows not of. She stands up for herself and shows Daijha a thing or two in the process.
The second anthology of writing from the Veterans Writing Workshop. Writers in this book are U.S. veterans from the Common Ground Veterans Residence in Montrose, NY. “The stories and poems...are a lesson in what it means to stay human under the most challenging of circumstances.”
ForewordBy Diego Vega (Program Manager, Microsoft Corp., Redmond, Seattle, U.S.)By the time we released the first version of Entity Framework we were constantly getting feedback from the DDD Community about things that were missing in EF. The main issues were blockers for practicing DDD with EF, such as lack of Persistence Ignorance support, difficulties of testability and high friction in some areas of the API. Members of the DDD Community and the EF team spent considerable time discussing and cross-educating each other these subjects and on the true potential of EF. This had a strong influence in the second version of the EF, called EF 4.0, and the improvements that later crystallized in EF 4.1, which included massive improvements intended to address many of those concerns. EF is still going to evolve to improve the experience and to make it easier to fall into what many like to call the "Pit of Success" of software development. But in EF 4 we already reached an important turning point: When customers pick EF for using it in their applications, they often come to us to ask for best practices, e.g. how to implement things with less and more maintainable code. Many of these customers now learn about concepts like Persistence Ignorance and Testability for the first time in our forums, blogs and conference talks! Therefore we are always looking for ways to disseminate this information.This book is a necessary and great attempt to distill the existing body of best practices for doing DDD with EF. I hope it will be very useful for those customers in need of such kind of guidance. Like EF, I hope this book will also evolve over time to accommodate new knowledge and scenarios. I am looking forward to seeing the impact of this initial work, as well as other things coming from the authors in the future.Target audience of the GuideThis guide is targeted to the people involved in the entire lifecycle of software products or corporate applications with custom development. Specially, the following roles are applicable: Software Architect Lead Developer and Developer
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