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Bad Animals

A Father's Accidental Education in Autism

By: Joel Yanofsky

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Bad Animals

A Father's Accidental Education in Autism

By: Joel Yanofsky

Joel Yanofsky tried for years to start this memoir. “It’s not just going to be about autism,” he told his wife, Cynthia. “It’s going to be about parenthood and marriage, about hope and despair, and storytelling, too.” “Marriage?” Cynthia said. “What about marriage?” A veteran book reviewer, Yanofsky has spent a lifetime immersed in literature (not to mention old movies and old jokes), which he calls shtick. This account of a year in the life of a family describes a father’s struggle to enter his son’s world, the world of autism, using the materials he knows best: self-help books, feel-good memoirs, literary classics from the Bible to Dr. Seuss, old movies, and, yes, shtick. Funny, wrenching, and unfailingly candid, Bad Animals is both an exploration of a baffling condition and a quirky love story told by a gifted writer.

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Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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1620873133

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To Make a Difference

A Prescription for a Good Life

By: Morris Goodman,Joel Yanofsky

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To Make a Difference

A Prescription for a Good Life

By: Morris Goodman,Joel Yanofsky

What goes into making a life successful and what does success mean? If you think about a life as a chemical equation, then the elements are obvious: family, work, purpose. The key is discovering how to get the balance just right. In To Make a Difference, Montreal entrepreneur and philanthropist Morris Goodman shares his personal and professional prescription for success and enduring happiness. Born in 1931 in Montreal to Ukrainian immigrants during the worst days of the Great Depression, Goodman recounts the events, strategies, and lucky breaks that led to a thriving company and a life of philanthropic accomplishments. From his first job as a pharmacy delivery boy to his graduation from the University of Montreal's Faculty of Pharmacy - when he had already started his own pharmaceutical company - through the crucial moments that created an international business, Goodman depicts stirring accounts of Montreal's Jewish community and the development of the global pharmaceutical industry. Along the way, he presents vivid, generous portraits of colleagues and business collaborators. To Make a Difference is a powerful rags-to-riches story but it is also much more - it is a heartfelt, candid, and inspiring exploration of what makes our lives rich, what we value, and why.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773590455

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9780773590458

Bad Animals

A Father's Accidental Education in Autism

By: Joel Yanofsky

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A Father's Accidental Education in Autism

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Jacob's Ladder

By: Joel Yanofsky

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Jacob's Ladder

By: Joel Yanofsky

A romantic comedy written with the authenticity of a memoir, Jacob's Ladder is entertaining and intelligent. Full of wit, slapstick and heart, it conjures up the great screwball comedies of the 1940s. Joel Yanofsky writes about a community he knows intimately -- anglophone Montréal -- a community which has, over the years, both changed dramatically and dramatically resisted change. The same is true of Yanofsky's narrator, Jacob Glassman, a thirtysomething Oliver Twist stuck in the suburban home he grew up in and clinging to the status quo for dear life. Not easy to do for a man who is pursuing two women at the same time and who is caught up in a shifting series of love triangles. When it comes to craziness, Jacob points out, there's an awfully wide margin for error. In Jacob's Ladder, that margin is stretched to the limit by a cast of hilarious, haywire characters: rogue real estate agents, sentimental adulterers, an obese shrink, an agoraphobic travel agent, a transsexual newspaper editor, and a proselytzing rabbinical student with his sights set on Jacob's bewildered soul.

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The Porcupine's Quill

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0889841918

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9780889841918

Formation Attack Strategies

By: Joel Johnson

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Formation Attack Strategies

By: Joel Johnson

The much awaited sequel to the best selling book, "Formation Attacks", has arrived. "Formation Attack Strategies" is another 500 page book, full of great attack information with 579 fabulous attack games from all openings and all eras. The games provided in the book came from an in-depth global search for unique, inspirational, and original attacks from some of the world's greatest attackers. Many of the them toil in remote areas of the planet and have only a local following. Let me introduce you to attacking players like Guy West of New Zealand, Marc Esserman of Boston, MA, Liu Wenzhe of China, Kevin Seidler of Denver, CO, Manuel Bosboom of The Netherlands, Dharshan Kumaran of India, Padre Murphy of Ireland, to name a few. The book also contains discussions about many attack philosophies, attack strategy and planning, identification and exploitation of weaknesses, and so much more. If you are one of the many people who love my last book, you will be ecstatic about "Formation Attack Strategies".

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Lulu.com

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1105646807

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9781105646805

Formation Attacks

By: Joel Johnson

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Formation Attacks

By: Joel Johnson

As a Chess Master who has spent many years playing aggressive and attacking chess, I was quite dismayed during a recent visit to my local bookstore. I was in search of a book that covered an array of attacks against many Pawn formations in an organized fashion. Needless to say, my search came up empty. The books on attacking fell short in many ways. Many of the books were simply a small collection of attack games with no instruction about the art of attacking or about the skills required to become a great attacker. None of them provided the reader with any reference information about attacking or the weaknesses of various Pawn formations. None of them contained games with attacking themes like the Traxler Variation of the Two Knight's Defense, and the Jack Young Fishing Pole. None of them contained any wild attacking ideas that can stream from opening gambits such as the Blackmar-Diemer Gambit, King's Gambit, Scotch Gambit, Nakhmanson Gambit, etc. 500 pages, 435 games, Figurine Chess Notation.

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0557522692

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9780557522699

One-on-One Tutoring by Humans and Computers

By: Martha Evens,Joel Michael

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One-on-One Tutoring by Humans and Computers

By: Martha Evens,Joel Michael

One-on-One Tutoring by Humans and Computers articulates the CIRCSIM-Tutor project, an attempt to develop a computer tutor that generates a natural language dialogue with a student. Editors Martha Evens and Joel Michael present the educational context within which the project was launched, as well as research into tutoring, the process of implementation of CIRCSIM-Tutor, and the results of using CIRCSIM-Tutor in the classroom. The domain of this project is cardiovascular physiology, specifically targeting first-year medical students, though the idea is applicable to the development of intelligent tutoring systems across populations, disciplines, and domains. This 5 year-long project was motivated by the belief that students need assistance in building appropriate mental models of complex physiological phenomena, as well as practice in expressing these ideas in their own words to fully develop those models, and experience in problem-solving to use those models effectively. The book outlines directions for future research, and includes distinct features such as: *detailed studies of human one-on-one tutoring; *learning outcomes resulting from use of the tutor; *natural language input parsed and translated into logical form; and *natural language output generated using the LFG paradigm. This volume will appeal to educators who want to improve human tutoring or use computer tutors in the classroom, and it will interest computer scientists who want to build those computer tutors, as well as anyone who believes that language is central to teaching and learning.

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496

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Psychology Press

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1135629609

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9781135629601

Handbook of Natural Toxins, Volume 8

Bacterial Toxins and Virulence Factors in Disease

By: Joel Moss

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Handbook of Natural Toxins, Volume 8

Bacterial Toxins and Virulence Factors in Disease

By: Joel Moss

This volume describes the structure and function of bacterial toxins and presents a comprehensive review of virulence factors, providing recent information concerning cell physiology and biochemistry, as well as new toxin tools for experimental studies and clinical therapy. A wide variety of toxic proteins, including the toxins that cause diptheria

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656

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CRC Press

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1482273209

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9781482273205

World Champion Chess for Juniors

Learn From the Greatest Players Ever

By: Joel Benjamin

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World Champion Chess for Juniors

Learn From the Greatest Players Ever

By: Joel Benjamin

If you want to improve your chess the best place to start is looking how the great champs did it. Grandmaster Joel Benjamin introduces all seventeen World Chess Champions and describes their historical significance He shows what is important about their style of play and what you can learn from them. Benjamin presents two games by each champion, concentrating on verbal instruction rather than variations. Magic names such as Capablanca, Alekhine, Botvinnik, Tal, Karpov, Kasparov,they're all there, up to current World Champion Magnus Carlsen. How do they open the game? How do they develop their pieces? How do they conduct an attack or defend when necessary? All this is explained in lessons accessible to every post-beginners. Two Americans are included in this highly instructive manual. Of course the crystal-clear style of Bobby Fischer, the 11th World Chess Champion, guarantees some very memorable lessons. Additionally, Benjamin has also included Paul Morphy. The 19th century master from New Orleans never held and official title, but was clearly the best of the world during his short and dramatic career. Studying World Champion Chess for Juniors will be an extremely rewarding experience for ambitious youngsters. A lot of trainers and coaches will find it worthwhile to include the book in their curriculum. The author provides many suggestions for further study.

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New In Chess

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9056919202

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9789056919207

Jacob's Ladder

By: Joel Yanofsky

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Jacob's Ladder

By: Joel Yanofsky

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The Porcupine's Quill

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0889841918

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To Make a Difference

A Prescription for a Good Life

By: Morris Goodman,Joel Yanofsky

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To Make a Difference

A Prescription for a Good Life

By: Morris Goodman,Joel Yanofsky

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773590455

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9780773590458

Joel Chandler Harris, Editor and Essayist

By: Joel Chandler Harris

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Joel Chandler Harris, Editor and Essayist

By: Joel Chandler Harris

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0781202752

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Book's by Joel Yanofsky

Bad Animals

Bad Animals

To Make a Difference

To Make a Difference

Bad Animals

Bad Animals

Jacob's Ladder

Jacob's Ladder

Formation Attack Strategies

Formation Attack Strategies

Formation Attacks

Formation Attacks

One-on-One Tutoring by Humans and Computers

One-on-One Tutoring by Humans and Computers

Handbook of Natural Toxins, Volume 8

Handbook of Natural Toxins, Volume 8

World Champion Chess for Juniors

World Champion Chess for Juniors

Jacob's Ladder

Jacob's Ladder

To Make a Difference

To Make a Difference

Joel Chandler Harris, Editor and Essayist

Joel Chandler Harris, Editor and Essayist

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