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  Scribes of Space - Place in...

  Matthew Boyd Goldie

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  Scribes of Space posits that the conception of space—the everyday physical areas we perceive and through which we move—underwent critical transformations between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries. Matthew Boyd Goldie examines how natural philosophers, theologians, poets, and other thinkers in late medieval Britain altered the ideas about geographical space they inherited from the ancient world. In tracing the causes and nature of these developments, and how geographical space was consequently understood, Goldie focuses on the intersection of medieval science, theology, and literature, deftly bringing a wide range of writings—scientific works by Nicole Oresme, Jean Buridan, the Merton School of Oxford Calculators, and Thomas Bradwardine; spiritual, poetic, and travel writings by John Lydgate, Robert Henryson, Margery Kempe, the Mandeville author, and Geoffrey Chaucer—into conversation. This pairing of physics and literature uncovers how the understanding of spatial boundaries, locality, elevation, motion, and proximity shifted across time, signaling the emergence of a new spatial imagination during this era.

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  Machine Learning in Python -...

  Bob Mather

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  Are you excited about Artificial Intelligence and want to get started?Are you excited about Machine Learning and want to learn how to implement in Python?
   
  The book below is the answer.Given the large amounts of data we use everyday; whether it is in the web, supermarkets, social media etc. analysis of data has become integral to our daily life. The ability to do so effectively can propel your career or business to great heights. Machine Learning is the most effective data analysis tool. While it is a complex topic, it can be broken down into simpler steps, as show in this book. We are using Python, which is a great programming language for beginners.Python is a great language that is commonly used with Machine Learning. Python is used extensively in Mathematics, Gaming and Graphic Design. It is fast to develop and prototype. It is web capable, meaning that we can use Python to gather web data. It is adaptable, and has great community of users. 
   
  Here's What's Included In This Book:
   
  What is Machine Learning?Why use Python?Regression Analysis using Python with an exampleClustering Analysis using Python with an exampleImplementing an Artificial Neural NetworkBackpropagation90 Day Plan to Learn and Implement Machine LearningConclusion

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  Make Money From Home - A...

  George Pain

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  Are you sick of your office job? Sick of office politics? Then consider working from homeThis book can solve your problems.Work-from-home jobs have been on a steady increase over time. This has been due to the internet revolution that has brought about better and cheaper technologies that have made it possible to have virtual offices. Workers are able to work remotely from home or wherever they do feel at home. This book aims to provide you with great information as a potential work-from-home employee. It also provides a glimpse to work-from-home employers about the immense benefits that they can gain from using it.For both remote workers and employers, the book demonstrates the benefits that each gets and sheds more light on the kind of jobs that are better done remotely, and more so, from home. The book goes further to advise the would-be home-workers on how to find work-from-home jobs.Definitely, despite professional training, each work environment requires a set of unique skills. A work-from-home environment is not an exception. This guide provides you with information on the skills you need to succeed as a remote worker.Building an online portfolio and networking online are great ways to prepare yourself to find those well-paying work-from-home jobs. This book teaches you how to build your online portfolio and network online to be able to fish out more work opportunities. At the end, you desire to have paid clients for you to be able to finance your lifestyle. This book guides you on how to get your first paid clients. Much more importantly, you would spend less time and effort maintaining your clients than easily losing them and keep on looking for others. In this book, you are guided on how to maintain long-term, productive and sustainable relationships with your clients.Enjoy reading! Here's a Preview of What You'll Learn from This Book:
   
  Benefits of Working from homeTypes of Work from Home JobsHow to Find Work From Home OpportunitiesImportant Skills to LearnBuilding Your Online PortfolioNetworking OnlineGet Your First Paid ClientMaintaining Relationships with Your Client

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  Primitive Mythology

  Joseph Campbell

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  Explore the power of myth as humanity first discovered it
   
  Collected Works of Joseph Campbell edition — with up-to-date science
   
  In this first volume of The Masks of God — Joseph Campbell’s major work of comparative mythology — the preeminent mythologist looks at the wellsprings of myth. From the earliest expressions of religious awe in pre-modern humans to the rites and art of contemporary primal tribes, myth has informed humankind's understanding of the world, seen and unseen. Exploring these archetypal mythic images and practices, Campbell examines the basic concepts that underlie all human myth, even to this day.
   
  The Masks of God is a four-volume study of world religion and myth that stands as one of Joseph Campbell’s masterworks. On completing it, he wrote:
   
  Its main result for me has been the confirmation of a thought I have long and faithfully entertained: of the unity of the race of man, not only in its biology, but also in its spiritual history, which has everywhere unfolded in the manner of a single symphony, with its themes announced, developed, amplified and turned about, distorted, reasserted, and today, in a grand fortissimo of all sections sounding together, irresistibly advancing to some kind of mighty climax, out of which the next great movement will emerge.
   
  This new digital edition is part of the Collected Works of Joseph Campbell series. Joseph Campbell Foundation has worked with scientists and academics to bring the anthropological and paleontological information Campbell explores in line with the best twenty-first century scholarship.
   
  (Comparative Mythology: paleontology, Neanderthal and Cro-magnon culture, neolithic and paleolithic art and religion.)
   
  "[T]he mask in a primitive festival is revered and experienced as a veritable apparition of the mythical being that it represents — even though everyone knows that a man made the mask and that a man is wearing it. The one wearing it, furthermore, is identified with the god during the time of the ritual of which the mask is a part. He does not merely represent the god; he is the god."— Joseph Campbell, Primitive Mythology

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  Strange coincidences in your...

  George Anderson

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  From the earliest developments of thought, mankind believed that some significant coincidences were signs by which a higher philosophical or divine level sought to inter-dialogue with men.
   
  In the last three centuries this had been erased from the new directions of science. Extraordinary coincidences were considered as fruits of chance. Anyone who wanted to interpret extraordinary events as divine signals was mocked. In the same way, premonitions were considered illusions or even signs of imbalance. This, despite many had experienced these extraordinary facts.
   
  Science denied the existence of a psychic dimension with which the human mind could interact. According to the common opinion, the only existing reality was matter. However, in the 1980s, experiments in quantum physics demonstrated the existence of a universe that is not just composed of matter. This universe holds a level in which energy and information do not suffer the limits of space and time typical of classical physics.
   
  This confirms all the intuitions matured in the history of humanity. Among these intuitions the concept of "Soul of the World" enunciated by the Greek philosopher Plato. More recently, the Swiss psychologist Carl Gustav Jung has elaborated the theory of the "collective unconscious".
   
  This book avoids investigating excessively specialized topics. The author clearly accompanies the reader in understanding the three levels that form a single reality.
   
  The first level is the physical one, which is part of our daily experience. The second level is the one described by quantum physics, typical of the smallest elementary particles of atoms.
   
  The third is the psychic level called "non-locality". It is the spiritual level, which can not be physically located anywhere.
   
  This path of knowledge refers to recent discoveries recognized by official science. The strange coincidences and phenomena of the mind become important parts of a new and surprising reality.

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  Constant Touch - A Global...

  Jon Agar

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  Mobile phones are a ubiquitous technology with a fascinating history. There are now as many mobile phones in the world as there are people.  We carry them around with us wherever we go. And while we used to just speak into them, now mobiles are used to do all kinds of tasks, from talking to twittering, from playing a game to paying a bill.
  
  Jon Agar takes the mobile to pieces, tracing what makes it work, and puts it together again, showing how it was shaped in different national contexts in the United States, Europe, the Far East and Africa. He tells the story from the early associations with cars and the privileged, through its immense popular success, to the rise of the smartphone.
  
  Few scientific revolutions affect us in such a day-to-day way as the development of the mobile phone. Jon Agar's deft history explains exactly how this revolution has come about - and where it may lead in the future.

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