![]() ![]() ![]() Our family has moved around the world, and when you tell your kids that you’re moving to a new country, they say, “Oh God, you’re wrecking my life.” It’s good when they get there but it’s hard to move. I really struggle with that one.” Below, Reid discusses with Zócalo what set him off exploring foreign healthcare systems, how they compare to America’s, and why Americans need to change the terms of the healthcare debate if they want reform.Ī. And while he believes he nailed those two questions, he said, “The third question is, why doesn’t the world’s richest country provide healthcare for everyone. The second was to ask not how they did it but why. The first, he said, was to figure out how other countries manage to provide healthcare for everyone and still spend half as much. Reid, a Washington Post reporter and author of 10 books, set out to answer a few specific questions in his latest, The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care. ![]()
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In the essay collection We Are Never Meeting in Real Life, Bitches Gotta Eat blogger Samantha Irby uses a killer sense of humor to do battle with a life that undermines her almost every step of the way. ‘We Are Never Meeting in Real Life’ by Samantha Irby ![]() ![]() ![]() You'll learn how to write deep learning applications in the most powerful, popular, and scalable machine learning stack available.TensorFlow 2.x focuses on simplicity and ease of use, with updates like eager execution, intuitive higher-level APIs based on Keras, and flexible model building on any platform. ![]() ![]() Build cutting edge machine and deep learning systems for the lab, production, and mobile devices.Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free eBook in PDF format.Key FeaturesUnderstand the fundamentals of deep learning and machine learning through clear explanations and extensive code samplesImplement graph neural networks, transformers using Hugging Face and TensorFlow Hub, and joint and contrastive learningLearn cutting-edge machine and deep learning techniquesBook DescriptionDeep Learning with TensorFlow and Keras teaches you neural networks and deep learning techniques using TensorFlow (TF) and Keras. ![]() ![]() Pi and the tiger spend 227 days on the ship until eventually, they hit shore on a Mexican beach. 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Pi is an imaginative polytheist whose father owns a zoo that he spends much of his time in. ![]() ![]() The book is the story of a young man, Piscine Patel, who goes by the name "Pi" and an author who is determined to write his story which he has been told is astounding. ![]() ![]() ![]() A spoof obituary of Colvin appeared in New Worlds #197 (January 1970), written by "William Barclay" (another Moorcock pseudonym). His serialization of Norman Spinrad's Bug Jack Barron was notorious for causing British MPs to condemn in Parliament the Arts Council's funding of the magazine.ĭuring this time, he occasionally wrote under the pseudonym of "James Colvin," a "house pseudonym" used by other critics on New Worlds. ![]() As editor of the controversial British science fiction magazine New Worlds, from May 1964 until March 1971 and then again from 1976 to 1996, Moorcock fostered the development of the science fiction "New Wave" in the UK and indirectly in the United States. He became editor of Tarzan Adventures in 1956, at the age of sixteen, and later moved on to edit Sexton Blake Library. Nicholas by Edward Lester Arnold as the first three books which captured his imagination. Moorcock has mentioned The Gods of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Apple Cart by George Bernard Shaw and The Constable of St. Michael John Moorcock is an English writer primarily of science fiction and fantasy who has also published a number of literary novels. ![]() ![]() ![]() I could go on for hours talking about how mind-expanding this book has been on me. Another huge pro was the author explaining the huge role that fear plays in destroying relationships with other people as well as yourself. My favorite one was the magical kitchen anology. The author uses really good analogies that help in making the reader clearly understand the lesson. Pros: One of the book’s major strengths is its powerful use of language and imagery. 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This is one of those books that reminded me truly how powerful books can be. ![]() I will then mention what kind of people this kind of book is perfect for and lastly, I’ll give the book a final score (out of 10).Īfter reading Don Miguel Ruiz’s book, The 4 Agreements, and having it resonate with me so much, I decided to read another one of his books in the hopes of acquiring more wisdom and so I chose The Mastery of Love. ![]() I will go over some things I liked about the book and some things I didn’t like. In my most recent book review, I go over The Mastery of Love written by author, Don Miguel Ruiz. ![]() ![]() ![]() In his classic The Age of Spiritual Machines, he argued that computers would soon rival the full range of human intelligence at its best. ![]() One of ’s Best Science Books of 2005Ī radical and optimistic view of the future course of human development from the best-selling author of How to Create a Mind and The Singularity is Nearer who Bill Gates calls “the best person I know at predicting the future of artificial intelligence”.įor over three decades, Ray Kurzweil has been one of the most respected and provocative advocates of the role of technology in our future. One of CBS News ’ Best Fall Books of 2005Īmong St Louis Post-Dispatch ’s Best Nonfiction Books of 2005 “A pleasure to read.” ( The Wall Street Journal ) “Elaborate, smart and persuasive.” ( The Boston Globe ) “Artfully envisions a breathtakingly better world.” ( Los Angeles Times ) “Startling in scope and bravado.” (Janet Maslin, The New York Times ) ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Sometimes we shiver as we realise we know so little of what the Moon has known and seen and is yet to see. Embed from Getty ImagesĪnd, looking up, we can’t help but feel the Moon looks down on us knowing all the secrets of our hearts. While the empires of great Alexander and that of Chandragupta Mauraya rose and fell the Moon set the tides a flowing. While The Greeks and The Romans rose and fell the Moon shone down. While The Babylonians, The Persians and The Etruscans dreamed of eternal empires the Moon set the tides a flowing. While The Assyrians and The Phoenicians marched the Moon shone down. While The Hittites dreamed of an eternal empire the Moon set the tides a flowing. While The Akkadians slept the Moon shone down. (Shakespeare from The Merchant of Venice) Here will we sit and let the sounds of musicĬreep in our ears soft stillness and the night ‘How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! ![]() ![]() ![]() A number of parents found it easier to hire out their children since the children spoke better English and accepted lower wages than the adults. ![]() There was no legal redress because the existing Illinois child-labor law covered only children employed in coal mines. Addams then found out about documents that parents of working children were forced to sign, promising to make no claim for damages from such “carelessness.” On neighborhood visits, Hull-House residents discovered very young children assisting their mothers sewing in sweatshop work. Addams expected that the factory owners would do everything possible to prevent the recurrence of such accidents instead, they did nothing. During that same period, three boy members of a Hull-House club had gotten injured (one later died of his injuries) working at a factory machine that lacked an inexpensive guard device. The little girls had worked in a candy factory for 14 hours a day for six weeks and they could no longer bear the sight of candy. At Hull-House’s first Christmas celebration, when the little girls in the neighborhood refused to accept gifts of candy, the Hull-House residents learned about child labor. ![]() ![]() ![]() However, I feel that I’m getting ahead of myself here (What else is new?). Still, as I said, there is certainly a good story beneath it all. Though there is a good story to be had, with plenty of surprisingly varied sexytimes amidst a surprisingly engaging plot, the first book in this epic sexy fantasy is mired in issues that, while not insurmountable, will definitely hamper the enjoyment of many a more discerning reader. Now, looking back, after having read the first book in the series, Empath Rising, I feel that my skepticism was for good reason. Still, he sold the book to me well, and I decided to give it a try. That being said, I’ve only read a handful of this genre, specifically a series written by an author whom I have had a longtime rapport with, so I was somewhat skeptical about The Heartstone Saga by Archibald Bradford as a friend suggested it to me. ![]() ![]() I feel I must preface this by saying that I don’t normally do reviews of erotic works. ![]() |