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  The Earth in Her Hands - 75...

  Jennifer Jewell

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  In this beautiful and empowering book, Jennifer Jewell—host of public radio's award-winning program and podcast Cultivating Place—introduces seventy-five inspiring women. Working in wide-reaching fields that include botany, floral design, landscape architecture, farming, herbalism, and food justice, these influencers are creating change from the ground up. Profiled women include flower farmer Erin Benzakein; codirector of Soul Fire Farm Leah Penniman; plantswoman Flora Grubb; edible and cultural landscape designer Leslie Bennett; Caribbean-American writer and gardener Jamaica Kincaid; soil scientist Elaine Ingham; landscape designer Ariella Chezar; floral designer Amy Merrick, and many more. Rich with personal stories and insights, Jewell's portraits reveal a devotion that transcends age, locale, and background, reminding us of the profound role of green growing things in our world—and our lives.

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  How Smart Machines Think

  Sean Gerrish

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  The future is here: Self-driving cars are on the streets, an algorithm gives you movie and TV recommendations, IBM's Watson triumphed on Jeopardy over puny human brains, and computer programs can be trained to play Atari games. But how do all these things work?In this audiobook, Sean Gerrish offers an engaging and accessible overview of the breakthroughs in artificial intelligence and machine learning that have made today's machines so smart.Gerrish outlines some of the key ideas that enable intelligent machines to perceive and interact with the world. He describes the software architecture that allows self-driving cars to stay on the road and to navigate crowded urban environments; the million-dollar Netflix competition for a better recommendation engine; and how programmers trained computers to perform certain behaviors by offering them treats, as if they were training a dog.He explains how artificial neural networks enable computers to perceive the world — and to play Atari video games better than humans. Gerrish weaves the stories behind these breakthroughs into the narrative, introducing listeners to many of the researchers involved and keeping technical details to a minimum.Science and technology buffs will find this audiobook an essential guide to a future in which machines can outsmart people.

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  IPhone 13 Pro Max Camera...

  James Nino

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  If you have paid a premium to get the most famous device available, then you deserve a book that is also able to create the same kind of user experience in making your use of the iPhone 13’s Pro Max camera an easy experience. 
  Even for experienced iPhone users, iPhone 13 Pro Max comes with new innovative features that make it the coolest phone out there in the market. The iPhone 13 Pro Max is an embodiment of luxury and as is typical of Apple, customer user experience is at the forefront of its usage which is what this book aims to help illustrate.

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  Small Teaching Online - Applying...

  Flower Darby, James M. Lang

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  The concept of small teaching is simple: small and strategic changes have enormous power to improve student learning. Instructors face unique and specific challenges when teaching an online course. This book offers small teaching strategies that will positively impact the online classroom.This book outlines practical and feasible applications of theoretical principles to help your online students learn. It includes current best practices around educational technologies, strategies to build community and collaboration, and minor changes you can make in your online teaching practice, small but impactful adjustments that result in significant learning gains.● Explains how you can support your online students● Helps your students find success in this non-traditional learning environment● Covers online and blended learning● Addresses specific challenges that online instructors face in higher educationSmall Teaching Online presents research-based teaching techniques from an online instructional design expert and the bestselling author of Small Teaching.

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  A Healing Alliance With Animals...

  Deena Metzger

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  Poet, storyteller, and healer Deena Metzger has lived for more than four decades in alliance with the earth and its creatures.  She has learned how to listen to what they have to say, and to heed the signs and teachings they offer.

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  The Battle of the Lys 1918 -...

  Phil Tomaselli

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  The battles fought at Estaires and Givenchy, just south of Ypres, in April 1918 were critical episodes in the larger Battle of Lys which determined the outcome of the ultimate German offensive on the Western Front. The massive assault of Ludendorffs armies crashed against defenses manned by the British and Portuguese. A series of intense attacks and counterattacks followed, and the Germans were on the verge of gaining the decisive breakthrough that both sides on the Western Front had struggled for since the onset of trench warfare in late 1914. A German success might well have forced the British to retreat from Ypres. Phil Tomasellis vivid account reconstructs events in the typical Battleground style. He describes the course of the fighting in close detail, using eyewitness accounts, official records, photographs and maps, and he provides walking and driving tours of the battlefield and of the monuments and cemeteries associated with it.

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