Picked to represent their planet Nebulon in the Interstellar Space Race, Zack and his friends navigate their specially designed car through an underwater maze, around planetary rings, and through the stars! But when trouble stirs within the team, Zack must take charge. Can he lead them to victory?"--
Fans of this chapter-book series can join Zack as he takes a trip to the planet Juno, makes an amazing discovery, and learns the importance of teamwork! Illustrations.
Imagine you are a 7-year-old introvert informed by your father that you will spend the afternoon at a famous actor's house— a famous actor you've never met! In fact, this famous actor from Hollywood's golden age will be your babysitter. From the spooky car ride up a narrow driveway in Benedict Canyon to the creaky opening of the front door that reveals an elderly James Cagney, you are captivated! The star of The Public Enemy, Yankee Doodle Dandy, White Heat, Mister Roberts and many other Hollywood classics is nothing like you'd expect. He's not brash; he's not a killer; he isn't loud and he doesn't sing and dance. He is quiet and gentle and full of imagination. This isn't a scary gangster— this is Santa Claus! In one afternoon away from the pressures of a perfectionist father, you relax and fall under the spell of a wonderful babysitter who makes you feel special and encourages you to enter an imaginary world where leprechauns come to life and owls speak to you from the trees. Hours later, you leave James Cagney's house changed from a timid child into an enthusiastic young man who's infused with self-confidence and ready for life's next adventure.
Zack is happy to test a new android his father helped develop for Nebulonics before she goes into production, but her ability to learn causes problems when she develops a crush on Zack after watching a romantic movie.
Zack is headed back to Earth for the first time since moving to Nebulon. He can't wait to see Bert and show his new friend, the former bully Seth Stevens, all around his old stomping grounds. When Zack's dog Luna escapes and goes missing, sightseeing plans take an unexpected turn. Will Zack find Luna before he has to head home to Nebulon?
When Zack and his friends enter the Starcade gaming competition, Zack thinks it is all fun and games--until he realizes that the decisions he makes while playing the game starts to affect his daily life on Nebulon.
Zack is thrilled when his best friend on Earth, Bert Jones, visits for the weekend. But when Zack introduces Bert to Drake, his best friend on Nebulon, trouble begins! Illustrations.
A practical guide simplifying discrete math for curious minds and demonstrating its application in solving problems related to software development, computer algorithms, and data science Key FeaturesApply the math of countable objects to practical problems in computer scienceExplore modern Python libraries such as scikit-learn, NumPy, and SciPy for performing mathematicsLearn complex statistical and mathematical concepts with the help of hands-on examples and expert guidanceBook Description Discrete mathematics deals with studying countable, distinct elements, and its principles are widely used in building algorithms for computer science and data science. The knowledge of discrete math concepts will help you understand the algorithms, binary, and general mathematics that sit at the core of data-driven tasks. Practical Discrete Mathematics is a comprehensive introduction for those who are new to the mathematics of countable objects. This book will help you get up to speed with using discrete math principles to take your computer science skills to a more advanced level. As you learn the language of discrete mathematics, you'll also cover methods crucial to studying and describing computer science and machine learning objects and algorithms. The chapters that follow will guide you through how memory and CPUs work. In addition to this, you'll understand how to analyze data for useful patterns, before finally exploring how to apply math concepts in network routing, web searching, and data science. By the end of this book, you'll have a deeper understanding of discrete math and its applications in computer science, and be ready to work on real-world algorithm development and machine learning. What you will learnUnderstand the terminology and methods in discrete math and their usage in algorithms and data problemsUse Boolean algebra in formal logic and elementary control structuresImplement combinatorics to measure computational complexity and manage memory allocationUse random variables, calculate descriptive statistics, and find average-case computational complexitySolve graph problems involved in routing, pathfinding, and graph searches, such as depth-first searchPerform ML tasks such as data visualization, regression, and dimensionality reductionWho this book is for This book is for computer scientists looking to expand their knowledge of discrete math, the core topic of their field. University students looking to get hands-on with computer science, mathematics, statistics, engineering, or related disciplines will also find this book useful. Basic Python programming skills and knowledge of elementary real-number algebra are required to get started with this book.
The Oil and Gas Industry boasts some of the highest income earning jobs of any industry in the world. Of the dozens of job categories in the Oil and Gas Industry, the majority have a higher income earning potential than their counterparts in other industries. Careers which are as diverse as accounting and Chemical engineering are readily available to those who knew where and how to look. Many are just unaware of where to look and how to land these jobs. Until now, the information about the various career opportunities in this industry has never been organized and condensed into such a concise book. If you are thinking about a Career in the Oil and Gas Industry, this is where you should start. In "Careers in the Oil & Gas Industry: A Guidebook of Practical Advice" Alfonso Colombano and Ryan Ray detail the ultra complex Oil and Gas industry. Beginning with a brief summary of the Upstream, Midstream, and Downstream markets, they paint a picture of the industry using a broad brush. After that, the remaining chapters are characterized by high quality synopses of the multiple Career opportunities available in each sector, and the sort of personality preferences that tend to flourish more naturally in each. Building on that, Alfonso and Ryan detail the ideal career paths and other means of securing these jobs.
A guide to digital circuitry for students and hobbyists, covering the latest memory chips and packages, microprocessor basics, alphanumeric codes, demultiplexers and LCDs. It retains the best chapters from the first edition, including examples of the application for digital circuitry.
There remains at work - in both Britain and America - a group of literary journalists and academics committed to the evaluative criticism of fiction, to a criticism that approaches novels as novels. The Good of the Novel is a collection of specially commissioned essays - edited by Ray Ryan and LIam McIlvanney - on the contemporary Anglophone novel. Bringing together some of the most strenuous and perceptive critics of the present moment and putting them in contact with some of the finest novels of the past three decades, it examines what the novel does and what kinds of truth the novel can tell. What is it that the novel knows? What is it about the language used in a novel that creates a world different from that of drama or poetry? And how does a particular novel emplify this? These questions can be answered by the careful examination of particular great works by strong evaluative critics. Robert Macfarlane on Hollinghurst's The Line of Beauty; Tessa Hadley examining Coetzee's Disgrace; and Ian Sansom on Roth's American Pastoral - just some of the essays that are to be found in this insightful, intelligent and illuminating book.
Ryan Bettencourt has an enviable life. Happily married with two great kids and a successful and profitable career he loves, the world is at his feet. But one evening, while driving home, something extraordinary changes everything. His ordinary life takes a twist into the bizarre when his drive home is interrupted by a ship visiting from another planet. He is now an unwilling guest on the spaceship Solar Flare, an extraordinary blend of machine and sentient being. The Solar Flare has been sent to Earth to retrieve a human being, and Ryan is the lucky winner of this new adventure. The ship, using telepathy and Ryan's help, awakens the ship's crew, four humanoids and Tobias, a being unlike any Ryan had ever seen or even imagined. With elfin features, light-green skin, dark-green wings, and a tail similar to a monkey's, Tobias is truly alien. Ryan soon learns that the visitors are running from enemies and are now lost-and in need of humanity's help. The extraterrestrials explore Earth and determine that it will be a suitable place to lay low for a while. Once safely hidden from their enemies, they begin repairs to their battle-scarred ship. Maybe they can ever figure out where they are and how to get home. But when Tobias accidentally kills two humans, no one seems to care that it was in self-defense. Can his shipmates and new human friend rescue him before he's executed?
Jim Ryan, a bounty hunter turned rancher, is framed for the murder of a fellow ranch owner. He comes to realize that he is a pawn in a brewing range war.
Brad Fisher came from a strict Christian home. His parents were concerned that Brad's relationship with his non-Christian girlfriend had become a stumbling block and he was no longer committed to God as he used to be. For his seventeenth birthday, they gave him an air ticket to visit Brad's fathers brother, a missionary in Southern Africa. With much trepidation and anger he departs to Africa. This is a story of a teenager who is exposed to a relationship with the Lord and learns to trust God. Set in the Zambezi Valley, Brad comes face to face with Africa's fiercest wild animals and when his uncle and cousin take him on a trip to deliver bibles to a mission station in Mozambique, they are captured by blood thirsty bandits. The three of them experience God's love as never before... Near death the three of them put their trust in God and watch as God's love defeats the enemy and after witnessing so many miracles, Brad sees God's power at work. Brad left America an immature teenager and returns a young man. Ray Fourie was born and educated in Rhodesia, which is now called Zimbabwe. He spent years in the Territorial Army fighting against communist guerrillas. Ray as well as being in secular work, where he had his own company, now works for an International Christian Ministry. He has spent twenty-two years working with the same ministry. He now lives in England.
NFPA's far-reaching Electrical Safety in the Workplace teaches individuals safe work procedures and provides companies with a process for defining and implementing effective electrical safety programs. The text draws on the authors' 35 years of experience in developing corporate standards and procedures and electrical safety programs, and is up-to-date with the 1999 NEC(R) and NFPA 70E: Electrical Safety Requirements for Employee Workplaces. Chapters cover critical information about electrical hazards and hazard analysis, explain risk exposure management, and discuss NFPA codes and documents published by OSHA, NEMA, UL, and ANSI. Concepts applicable to both commercial and industrial activities include: persuasive statistics on the benefits of electrically safe workplaces, plus proper practices such as lockout/tagout and responsibility of personnel; advice on designing and implementing electrical safety programs; real-life examples and case studies of electrical accidents; and tips on working with safety professionals and effective workplace auditing procedures.Electrical Safety in the Workplace is a must for professionals involved in construction and heavy industry, electrical contractors, and union and trade group trainers.
Irene Polson was born and raised on and around Western American racetracks. Both her deceased parents had been track followers. When she was old enough, she became a jockey. A bad fall and the resulting injury caused her to lose her nerve, so now she was just a groom. She cared for racehorses, cleaning them and their stalls and seeing to their well-being. One of her charges was cruelly overworked earlier one morning, and it took hours to get IM Do N My Best to recover. When the owner showed up to check on his horse, she let him know what she thought of people who mistreated horses. She didn't know that this man was about to change her entire life. He was there to talk her into becoming his trainer. Being a trainer was a dream Irene had harbored all her working life. And this handsome tall man was offering to fulfill that dream. When she finally decided to believe what he was offering was the real deal, she took the plunge and she took him up on his offer. Little did she know that this change would also lead to a whirlwind love affair and a lifetime of happiness.
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