Jimmy Liao's Books

The World Champion of Staying Awake

By: Sean Taylor,Jimmy Liao

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The World Champion of Staying Awake

By: Sean Taylor,Jimmy Liao

At bedtime, Stella must find a way to make her toys fall asleep before she can go to sleep.

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Candlewick Press

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0763649570

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9780763649579

The Blue Stone

A Journey Through Life

By: Jimmy Liao

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From internationally renowned author and illustrator Jimmy Liao comes a new enchanting and evocative journey. Breathtaking illustrations and a haunting story take readers on a wondrous voyage around the world. A large, beautiful blue stone is discovered in a forest. It is cut in half, and one half stays in the forest while the other starts on a long and mystical journey through many places, many owners, and many transformations. It begins as a statue of an elephant, admired by museum goers, and then becomes a carved bird residing in an elderly woman's garden. It becomes a moon, a cat, a necklace, and more, until it finally returns to the forest. The Blue Stone is a powerful tale of different life paths and possibilities, a longing for home, and love.

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168

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Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

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0316032034

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9780316032032

The Sound of Colors

A Journey of the Imagination

By: Jimmy Liao

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The Sound of Colors

A Journey of the Imagination

By: Jimmy Liao

A young woman losing her vision rides the subway with her dog in search of emotional healing.

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Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

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0316055794

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9780316055796

Musket, Map and Money:

How Military Technology Shaped Geopolitics and Economics

By: Jimmy Teng

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Musket, Map and Money:

How Military Technology Shaped Geopolitics and Economics

By: Jimmy Teng

Waves of military technological changes have swept through the Eurasian land mass since the dawn of civilization. Military technological changes decisively shaped geopolitics and the fortunes of states, empires and civilizations. In his book Jimmy Teng claims that to understand the impacts of these military technological changes is in fact to understand the causes behind the following major historical puzzles or important facts: the leading position of the Near East during the dawn of civilization; the splendid achievements of Greece, India and China during the axial era; the classical golden age of India under the Gupta Empire; the Abbasid Golden Age of the Islamic world and the Sung Puzzle of China during the medieval era; and the rise of the West during the early modern and modern era.

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314

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3110399261

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9783110399264

Sanctity and Self-Inflicted Violence in Chinese Religions, 1500-1700

By: Jimmy Yu

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Sanctity and Self-Inflicted Violence in Chinese Religions, 1500-1700

By: Jimmy Yu

Also includes some discussion of chastity suicides.

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290

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OUP USA

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0199844887

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9780199844883

Changing China

A Geographic Appraisal

By: Chiao-min "Jimmy" Hsieh

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Changing China

A Geographic Appraisal

By: Chiao-min "Jimmy" Hsieh

This textbook will be welcomed by professors and students who have been long looking for an appropriate textbook for teaching and studying the changing geography of post-reform China." —Hongmian Gong, Hunter College, CUNY "A wonderful collection of current source data. The range of bibliographic material in these pages is great." —Kit Salter, University of Missouri, Columbia Changing China: A Geographic Appraisal provides an up-to-date and detailed account of the giant country that is undergoing an unparalleled and historic transition from a centralized command economy to a market-based economy, and from a rural, agricultural society to an urban, industrial power. Contributions from a distinguished team of geographers both inside and outside of China are divided into three parts that assess, respectively, economic changes since the reform of 1978, recent social transformations, and changes along China's peripheries including Hong Kong, Taiwan, Xinjiang, and inner Mongolia. An introductory chapter provides an overview of major themes. Includes a chronology of major events in Chinese history and a glossary of Chinese terms.

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674

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Routledge

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0429981392

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9780429981395

World Beats

Beat Generation Writing and the Worlding of U.S. Literature

By: Jimmy Fazzino

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World Beats

Beat Generation Writing and the Worlding of U.S. Literature

By: Jimmy Fazzino

This fascinating book explores Beat Generation writing from a transnational perspective, using the concept of worlding to place Beat literature in conversation with a far-reaching network of cultural and political formations. Countering the charge that the Beats abroad were at best nave tourists seeking exoticism for exoticism's sake, World Beats finds that these writers propelled a highly politicized agenda that sought to use the tools of the earlier avant-garde to undermine Cold War and postcolonial ideologies and offer a new vision of engaged literature. With fresh interpretations of central Beat authors Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William Burroughs - as well as usually marginalized writers like Philip Lamantia, Ted Joans, and Brion Gysin - World Beats moves beyond national, continental, or hemispheric frames to show that embedded within Beat writing is an essential universality that brought America to the world and the world to American literature. This book presents an original treatment that will attract a broad spectrum of scholars.

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272

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Dartmouth College Press

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ISBN 10

1611689473

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9781611689471

Driven by Demand

How Energy Gets its Power

By: Jimmy Yi-Jie Jia,Jason Crabtree

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Driven by Demand

How Energy Gets its Power

By: Jimmy Yi-Jie Jia,Jason Crabtree

An accessible, non-technical book that reframes the discussion around societal demand for energy via a range of international case studies.

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403

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Cambridge University Press

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1107104661

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9781107104662

World Cruising Destinations

An Inspirational Guide to All Sailing Destinations

By: Jimmy Cornell,Doina Cornell

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World Cruising Destinations

An Inspirational Guide to All Sailing Destinations

By: Jimmy Cornell,Doina Cornell

What Jimmy Cornell doesn't know about cruising isn't worth knowing' - Yachting World One of the most influential cruising yachtsmen writing today, Jimmy Cornell has sailed over 200,000 miles on all the oceans of the world, including three circumnavigations and voyages to the Arctic and Antarctic. His successful guide to sailing around the world, World Cruising Routes, has helped many aspirational voyagers turn their dreams into reality and follow in his footsteps. Here in its extensively revised edition is its partner, covering all the land-based essentials for cruisers. This substantial handbook profiles every cruising destination in the world, with information on cruising attractions, history, culture, climate(including average monthly temperatures and rainfall, plus tropical storm seasons), local laws, regulations and formalities, facilities available, plus public holidays and events, emergency telephone numbers, and much more. Everything the cruiser needs to know about. Lavishly illustrated throughout, it is not only a must-have onboard reference work for long distance sailors, but will undoubtedly inspire the adventurous to sail where they have never sailed before.

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1288

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1472947460

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9781472947468

The Mind's Eye: The Evolution of the Athlete's Skills and Consciousness

By: Jimmy Joy

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The Mind's Eye: The Evolution of the Athlete's Skills and Consciousness

By: Jimmy Joy

The Mind's Eye describes a successful method in the implementation of a mental training program for rowers. Under Jimmy Joy's guidance and direction countless rowers at all levels, including the international and university level, trained using an integral approach that develops the athletes skills and his consciousness. This book is Jimmy's description of the specific processes involved in developing you or your athlete's ability to achieve Flow (the sense of effortless in an activity) and experience peak performance."--Amazon.com.

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166

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Lulu.com

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0557183073

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9780557183074

Neural Networks and the Financial Markets

Predicting, Combining and Portfolio Optimisation

By: Jimmy Shadbolt

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Neural Networks and the Financial Markets

Predicting, Combining and Portfolio Optimisation

By: Jimmy Shadbolt

This volume looks at financial prediction from a broad range of perspectives. It covers: - the economic arguments - the practicalities of the markets - how predictions are used - how predictions are made - how predictions are turned into something usable (asset locations) It combines a discussion of standard theory with state-of-the-art material on a wide range of information processing techniques as applied to cutting-edge financial problems. All the techniques are demonstrated with real examples using actual market data, and show that it is possible to extract information from very noisy, sparse data sets. Aimed primarily at researchers in financial prediction, time series analysis and information processing, this book will also be of interest to quantitative fund managers and other professionals involved in financial prediction.

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266

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1447101510

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9781447101512

Future Trends in Microelectronics

From Nanophotonics to Sensors to Energy

By: Serge Luryi,Jimmy Xu,Alexander Zaslavsky

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Future Trends in Microelectronics

From Nanophotonics to Sensors to Energy

By: Serge Luryi,Jimmy Xu,Alexander Zaslavsky

In the summer of 2009, leading professionals from industry, government, and academia gathered for a free-spirited debate on the future trends of microelectronics. This volume represents the summary of their valuable contributions. Providing a cohesive exploration and holistic vision of semiconductor microelectronics, this text answers such questions as: What is the future beyond shrinking silicon devices and the field-effect transistor principle? Are there green pastures beyond the traditional semiconductor technologies? This resource also identifies the direction the field is taking, enabling microelectronics professionals and students to conduct research in an informed, profitable, and forward-looking fashion.

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448

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John Wiley & Sons

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047064933X

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9780470649336

Ten Steps to Complex Learning

A Systematic Approach to Four-Component Instructional Design

By: Jeroen J. G. van Merriënboer,Paul A. Kirschner,Jimmy Frèrejean

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Ten Steps to Complex Learning

A Systematic Approach to Four-Component Instructional Design

By: Jeroen J. G. van Merriënboer,Paul A. Kirschner,Jimmy Frèrejean

Ten Steps to Complex Learning presents a path from an educational problem to a solution in a way that students, design practitioners, and researchers can understand and easily use. Students in the fields of instructional design and the learning sciences can use this book to broaden their knowledge of the design of training programs for complex learning. Practitioners can use this book as a reference guide to support their design of courses, curricula, or environments for complex learning. Driven by the acclaimed Four-Component Instructional Design (4C/ID) model, this fourth edition of Ten Steps to Complex Learning is fully revised with the latest research, featuring over 50 new references. The entire book has been updated for clarity, incorporating new colorful graphics and diagrams, and the guiding example used throughout the book is replaced with a training blueprint for the complex skill of “producing video content.” The closing chapter explores the future development of the Ten Steps, discussing changes in teacher roles and the influence of artificial intelligence.

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441

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Taylor & Francis

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104009550X

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9781040095508

Pretrained Transformers for Text Ranking

BERT and Beyond

By: Jimmy Lin,Rodrigo Nogueira,Andrew Yates

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Pretrained Transformers for Text Ranking

BERT and Beyond

By: Jimmy Lin,Rodrigo Nogueira,Andrew Yates

The goal of text ranking is to generate an ordered list of texts retrieved from a corpus in response to a query. Although the most common formulation of text ranking is search, instances of the task can also be found in many natural language processing (NLP) applications. This book provides an overview of text ranking with neural network architectures known as transformers, of which BERT (Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers) is the best-known example. The combination of transformers and self-supervised pretraining has been responsible for a paradigm shift in NLP, information retrieval (IR), and beyond. This book provides a synthesis of existing work as a single point of entry for practitioners who wish to gain a better understanding of how to apply transformers to text ranking problems and researchers who wish to pursue work in this area. It covers a wide range of modern techniques, grouped into two high-level categories: transformer models that perform reranking in multi-stage architectures and dense retrieval techniques that perform ranking directly. Two themes pervade the book: techniques for handling long documents, beyond typical sentence-by-sentence processing in NLP, and techniques for addressing the tradeoff between effectiveness (i.e., result quality) and efficiency (e.g., query latency, model and index size). Although transformer architectures and pretraining techniques are recent innovations, many aspects of how they are applied to text ranking are relatively well understood and represent mature techniques. However, there remain many open research questions, and thus in addition to laying out the foundations of pretrained transformers for text ranking, this book also attempts to prognosticate where the field is heading.

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325

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Morgan & Claypool Publishers

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1636392296

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9781636392295

Mathematical Congress of the Americas

By: Jimmy Petean

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Mathematical Congress of the Americas

By: Jimmy Petean

This volume contains the proceedings of the First Mathematical Congress of the Americas, held from August 5-9, 2013, in Guanajuato, México. With the participation of close to 1,000 researchers from more than 40 countries, the meeting set a benchmark for mathematics in the two continents. The papers, written by some of the plenary and invited speakers, as well as winners of MCA awards, cover new developments in classic topics such as Hopf fibrations, minimal surfaces, and Markov processes, and provide recent insights on combinatorics and geometry, isospectral spherical space forms, homogenization on manifolds, and Lagrangian cobordism, as well as applications to physics and biology.

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