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The Philosopher's Demise

Learning to Speak French

By: Richard Watson

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The Philosopher's Demise

Learning to Speak French

By: Richard Watson

Watson found himself forced to learn to speak the language when he was invited to present a paper in Paris - in French. A private crash course and lessons at the Alliance Francaise only served to point out how difficult it can be to learn any foreign language, especially later in life.

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David R. Godine Publisher

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1567922279

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9781567922271

Sermons and Sketches of Sermons by the Rev. Richard Watson

Vol. 1

By: Richard Watson

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Sermons and Sketches of Sermons by the Rev. Richard Watson

Vol. 1

By: Richard Watson

Reprint of the original, first published in 1840.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3368748483

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9783368748487

50 Future Ideas You Really Need to Know

By: Richard Watson

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50 Future Ideas You Really Need to Know

By: Richard Watson

What will the world look like in 2020, 2030 or even 2100? How will progress in scientific research affect human life in the areas of health and lifestyle, energy and the environment, politics and conflict, space exploration and even the ultimate questions of existence? This thoroughly researched and superbly written book offers an electrifying trip through the wonders--and terrors--awaiting us over the next hundred years.

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Quercus

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1623651956

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9781623651954

The Philosopher's Diet

How to Lose Weight & Change the World

By: Richard Watson

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The Philosopher's Diet

How to Lose Weight & Change the World

By: Richard Watson

This toothsome classic takes on the combined challenges of discovering the meaning of the universe and eliminating fat at the same time. Its topic sentence contains a promise that should sell millions: In this book, I tell how to take weight off and keep it off. He doesn't stop there, but continues, The book also embodies a philosophy of life. The weight program is the content of the book, the philosophy of life is its form. If Descartes had sat down to write a treatise on losing weight as a metaphor for maintaining discipline amidst life's vicissitudes, it would have read much like this.Clearly, Mr. Watson has not written a low-fat, new-age, easy-fix solution for the weight challenged. After all, losing weight is hard work. But for our money, it is the most erudite, fascinating, and eccentric book ever written on the subject of weight control, a combination of common sense (driven by human experience), Cartesian philosophy, and the presumption that understanding the mysteries of weight loss and the universe are somehow compatible, even sympathetic, ambitions.The author is (of course) a professional philosopher, and this extraordinary exegesis is at once a moral manifesto, a philosophical discourse, and a practical manual (although the chapter on How to Live and How to Die take it a few steps beyond the ordinary). We love this book for its humor, its iconoclasm, and its weird and wacky mixture of high seriousness and low humor. Read it. Even if you're not overweight, it's a book to treasure.

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David R. Godine Publisher

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1567924530

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9781567924534

Stolen

Five Free Boys Kidnapped into Slavery and Their Astonishing Odyssey Home

By: Richard Bell

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Stolen

Five Free Boys Kidnapped into Slavery and Their Astonishing Odyssey Home

By: Richard Bell

This “superbly researched and engaging” (The Wall Street Journal) true story about five boys who were kidnapped in the North and smuggled into slavery in the Deep South—and their daring attempt to escape and bring their captors to justice belongs “alongside the work of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Edward P. Jones, and Toni Morrison” (Jane Kamensky, Professor of American History at Harvard University). Philadelphia, 1825: five young, free black boys fall into the clutches of the most fearsome gang of kidnappers and slavers in the United States. Lured onto a small ship with the promise of food and pay, they are instead met with blindfolds, ropes, and knives. Over four long months, their kidnappers drive them overland into the Cotton Kingdom to be sold as slaves. Determined to resist, the boys form a tight brotherhood as they struggle to free themselves and find their way home. Their ordeal—an odyssey that takes them from the Philadelphia waterfront to the marshes of Mississippi and then onward still—shines a glaring spotlight on the Reverse Underground Railroad, a black market network of human traffickers and slave traders who stole away thousands of legally free African Americans from their families in order to fuel slavery’s rapid expansion in the decades before the Civil War. “Rigorously researched, heartfelt, and dramatically concise, Bell’s investigation illuminates the role slavery played in the systemic inequalities that still confront Black Americans” (Booklist).

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37 Ink

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1501169440

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9781501169441

The Year's Best Sports Writing 2023

By: Richard Deitsch

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The Year's Best Sports Writing 2023

By: Richard Deitsch

A must-read collection featuring the best in sports journalism Richard Deitsch, a media reporter at The Athletic and a former Sports Illustrated writer, has curated an essential anthology showcasing incredible feats and diverse perspectives across the world of sports. Selected from a wide range of newspapers, magazines, and digital publications during the previous year, these stories capture enduring moments while celebrating the craft of writing at its most sublime.This extraordinary collection reveals the fascinating stories behind the sports we love, the competitors who push their boundaries, and the cultures they are ultimately embedded in.

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Triumph Books

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1637274475

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9781637274477

Reinforcement Learning, second edition

An Introduction

By: Richard S. Sutton,Andrew G. Barto

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Reinforcement Learning, second edition

An Introduction

By: Richard S. Sutton,Andrew G. Barto

The significantly expanded and updated new edition of a widely used text on reinforcement learning, one of the most active research areas in artificial intelligence. Reinforcement learning, one of the most active research areas in artificial intelligence, is a computational approach to learning whereby an agent tries to maximize the total amount of reward it receives while interacting with a complex, uncertain environment. In Reinforcement Learning, Richard Sutton and Andrew Barto provide a clear and simple account of the field's key ideas and algorithms. This second edition has been significantly expanded and updated, presenting new topics and updating coverage of other topics. Like the first edition, this second edition focuses on core online learning algorithms, with the more mathematical material set off in shaded boxes. Part I covers as much of reinforcement learning as possible without going beyond the tabular case for which exact solutions can be found. Many algorithms presented in this part are new to the second edition, including UCB, Expected Sarsa, and Double Learning. Part II extends these ideas to function approximation, with new sections on such topics as artificial neural networks and the Fourier basis, and offers expanded treatment of off-policy learning and policy-gradient methods. Part III has new chapters on reinforcement learning's relationships to psychology and neuroscience, as well as an updated case-studies chapter including AlphaGo and AlphaGo Zero, Atari game playing, and IBM Watson's wagering strategy. The final chapter discusses the future societal impacts of reinforcement learning.

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MIT Press

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0262039249

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9780262039246

The Clerical Guide, Or Ecclesiastical Directory

By: Richard Gilbert

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The Clerical Guide, Or Ecclesiastical Directory

By: Richard Gilbert

The Clerical Guide, Or Ecclesiastical Directory: Containing a Complete Register of the Dignities and Benefices of the Church of England, with the names of their present possessors,patrons &c. and an alphabetical list of the dignitaries and benefits clergy.

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Рипол Классик

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587575804X

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9785875758041

Folk

By: Richard Carlin

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Folk

By: Richard Carlin

Presents brief entries covering the history, significant artists, styles and influence of folk music.

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Infobase Publishing

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0816069786

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9780816069781

The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow

By: Richard Wormser

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The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow

By: Richard Wormser

With extensive photos and first-person accounts, this companion to the PBS series is “an illuminating, succinct history of racial discrimination in the US” (Publishers Weekly). Between 1880 and 1954, African Americans dedicated their energies, and sometimes their lives, to defeating segregation. During these difficult decades, they acquired education and land and built businesses, churches, and communities, despite laws designed to isolate and disenfranchise them. White supremacy prevailed, but it did not destroy the spirit of the black community. Incorporating first-person accounts and never-before-seen images and graphics, The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow is the story of this long struggle for freedom after the Civil War. The book documents the work of such figures as the activist and separatist Benjamin “Pap” Singleton, anti-lynching crusader Ida B. Wells, and W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington. It examines the emergence of the black middle class and intellectual elite, and the birth of the NAACP. Above all, it tells the stories of ordinary heroes who accomplished extraordinary things: Charlotte Hawkins Brown, a teacher who founded the Palmer Memorial Institute, a private black high school in North Carolina; Ned Cobb, an Alabama tenant farmer who became a union organizer; Isaiah Montgomery, who founded Mound Bayou, an all-black town in Mississippi; Charles Evers, brother of civil rights leader Medgar Evers, who fought for voter registration in 1940s Mississippi; and Barbara Johns, a sixteen-year-old who organized a student strike in 1951 Virginia. That strike led to a lawsuit that became one of the five cases the Supreme Court reviewed when it declared segregation in education illegal. Rich in historical commentary and eyewitness testimony by blacks and whites who lived through the period, The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow is a poignant record of a time when indignity and terror constantly faced off against courage and accomplishment.

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Macmillan + ORM

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1466867477

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Quantitative Investment Analysis

By: Richard A. DeFusco,Dennis W. McLeavey,Jerald E. Pinto,David E. Runkle,Mark J. P. Anson

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Quantitative Investment Analysis

By: Richard A. DeFusco,Dennis W. McLeavey,Jerald E. Pinto,David E. Runkle,Mark J. P. Anson

Your complete guide to quantitative analysis in the investment industry Quantitative Investment Analysis, Third Edition is a newly revised and updated text that presents you with a blend of theory and practice materials to guide you through the use of statistics within the context of finance and investment. With equal focus on theoretical concepts and their practical applications, this approachable resource offers features, such as learning outcome statements, that are targeted at helping you understand, retain, and apply the information you have learned. Throughout the text's chapters, you explore a wide range of topics, such as the time value of money, discounted cash flow applications, common probability distributions, sampling and estimation, hypothesis testing, and correlation and regression. Applying quantitative analysis to the investment process is an important task for investment pros and students. A reference that provides even subject matter treatment, consistent mathematical notation, and continuity in topic coverage will make the learning process easier—and will bolster your success. Explore the materials you need to apply quantitative analysis to finance and investment data—even if you have no previous knowledge of this subject area Access updated content that offers insight into the latest topics relevant to the field Consider a wide range of subject areas within the text, including chapters on multiple regression, issues in regression analysis, time-series analysis, and portfolio concepts Leverage supplemental materials, including the companion Workbook and Instructor's Manual, sold separately Quantitative Investment Analysis, Third Edition is a fundamental resource that covers the wide range of quantitative methods you need to know in order to apply quantitative analysis to the investment process.

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John Wiley & Sons

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111910422X

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9781119104223

Londinium: A Biography

Roman London from its Origins to the Fifth Century

By: Richard Hingley

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Londinium: A Biography

Roman London from its Origins to the Fifth Century

By: Richard Hingley

*** Winner of the PROSE Award (2019) for Classics *** This major new work on Roman London brings together the many new discoveries of the last generation and provides a detailed overview of the city from before its foundation in the first century to the fifth century AD. Richard Hingley explores the archaeological and historical evidence for London under the Romans, assessing the city in the context of its province and the wider empire. He explores the multiple functions of Londinium over time, considering economy, industry, trade, status and urban infrastructure, but also looking at how power, status, gender and identity are reflected through the materiality of the terrain and waterscape of the evolving city. A particular focus of the book is the ritual and religious context in which these activities occurred. Hingley looks at how places within the developing urban landscape were inherited and considers how the history and meanings of Londinium built upon earlier associations from its recent and ancient past. As well as drawing together a much-needed synthesis of recent scholarship and material evidence, Hingley offers new perspectives that will inspire future debate and research for years to come. This volume not only provides an accessible introduction for undergraduate students and anyone interested in the ancient city of London, but also an essential account for more advanced students and scholars.

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401

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350047317

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9781350047310

Dictionary of Mathematical Geosciences

With Historical Notes

By: Richard J. Howarth

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Dictionary of Mathematical Geosciences

With Historical Notes

By: Richard J. Howarth

This dictionary includes a number of mathematical, statistical and computing terms and their definitions to assist geoscientists and provide guidance on the methods and terminology encountered in the literature. Each technical term used in the explanations can be found in the dictionary which also includes explanations of basics, such as trigonometric functions and logarithms. There are also citations from the relevant literature to show the term’s first use in mathematics, statistics, etc. and its subsequent usage in geosciences.

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Springer

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3319573152

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9783319573151

Financial Accounting Theory and Analysis

Text and Cases

By: Richard G. Schroeder,Myrtle W. Clark,Jack M. Cathey

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Financial Accounting Theory and Analysis

Text and Cases

By: Richard G. Schroeder,Myrtle W. Clark,Jack M. Cathey

Financial Accounting Theory and Analysis: Text and Cases, 13th Edition illustrates how accounting standards impact the daily decisions of accounting professionals. This authoritative textbook shows how accounting theory explains why particular companies select certain accounting methods over others, and predicts the attributes of firms by analyzing their accounting methods. The text examines empirical research relevant to various theories of accounting and the uses of accounting information, including the fundamental analysis model, the efficient markets hypothesis, the behavioral finance model, the positive accounting theory model, the human information processing model, and the value creation model. Enabling students to develop an informed perspective on accounting theory, the text reviews the development and current state of accounting theory and summarizes current disclosure requirements for various financial statement items. The new edition has been fully revised to reflect current methods of accounting education, including the incorporation of ethics into the curriculum, the analysis of a company’s quality of earnings and sustainable income, the use of the internet as a source of information, the international dimensions of accounting, and more. Designed for undergraduate and graduate accounting majors, the text aligns with the latest curriculum changes in the CPA exam.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119577772

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9781119577775

An Educational Primer for New Teachers: Learning Theory

By: Dr. Richard A. NeSmith

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An Educational Primer for New Teachers: Learning Theory

By: Dr. Richard A. NeSmith

Finally, a primer to help new teachers to gain knowledge of how students learn and why some teaching methods are better than others. Are you considering a career in teaching but lack a formal education background? Or are you an experienced educator seeking to expand your knowledge and skills? Look no further than the Love of Teaching series. With a growing number of educators entering the field from outside of education, this series provides fundamental comprehension of teaching, from the why and how of the profession to critical insights into how students learn. Gain essential knowledge to excel in the classroom and make a positive impact on students’ lives. Whether you’re just starting out or seeking to enhance your skills, the Love of Teaching series offers a valuable resource for aspiring and experienced educators alike. Don’t miss out on the opportunity to advance your career and become the best teacher you can be.

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Applied Principles of Education & Learning

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ISBN 13

9798386638368

Book's by Richard Watson

The Philosopher's Demise

The Philosopher's Demise

Sermons and Sketches of Sermons by the Rev. Richard Watson

Sermons and Sketches of Sermons by the Rev. Richard Watson

50 Future Ideas You Really Need to Know

50 Future Ideas You Really Need to Know

The Philosopher's Diet

The Philosopher's Diet

Stolen

Stolen

The Year's Best Sports Writing 2023

The Year's Best Sports Writing 2023

Reinforcement Learning, second edition

Reinforcement Learning, second edition

The Clerical Guide, Or Ecclesiastical Directory

The Clerical Guide, Or Ecclesiastical Directory

Folk

Folk

The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow

The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow

Quantitative Investment Analysis

Quantitative Investment Analysis

Londinium: A Biography

Londinium: A Biography

Dictionary of Mathematical Geosciences

Dictionary of Mathematical Geosciences

Financial Accounting Theory and Analysis

Financial Accounting Theory and Analysis

An Educational Primer for New Teachers: Learning Theory

An Educational Primer for New Teachers: Learning Theory

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