This is a collection of short stories which bring to life the sounds and smells of Mexico - with breathtaking range and authority, whose characters give life to the varied life on both sides of the Mexican border. From a young girl revealing secrets only an eleven-year-old can know, to a witch woman circling above the village on a pre-dawn flight, the women in these stories offer tales of pure discovery, filled with moments of infinite and intimate wisdom.

In addition to its thorough coverage of DSP design and programming techniques, Smith also covers the operation and usage of DSP chips. He uses Analog Devices' popular DSP chip family as design examples.

Rekenwiskundedidactiek verhoudingen, procenten, breuken en kommagetallen 2e druk is een boek van Marc van Zanten uitgegeven bij ThiemeMeulenhoff bv. ISBN 9789006955378

Verhoudingen, procenten, breuken en kommagetallen hebben van alles met elkaar te maken. Tegelijkertijd zijn ze ook verschillend van elkaar. Dit deel van de driedelige serie Reken-wiskundedidactiek beschrijft deze domeinen in hun onderlinge samenhang. Aan bod komt vooral hoe je basisschoolkinderen greep kunt laten krijgen op dez...

Management of Risk: Creating and Protecting Value offers a benefits and value-focused approach to risk management, giving practical guidance on effective risk management, applicable across all regions, industries and sectors.

M_o_R® 4 (aka MoR 4) is the latest edition of Management of Risk – a must-have certification for roles where managing risk is inherent, including portfolio, programme, project, business change and risk management professionals. Management of Risk (M_o_R®) 4 has a spe...

An accessible synthesis of ethical issues raised by artificial intelligence that moves beyond hype and nightmare scenarios to address concrete questions. Artificial intelligence powers Google's search engine, enables Facebook to target advertising, and allows Alexa and Siri to do their jobs. AI is also behind self-driving cars, predictive policing, and autonomous weapons that can kill without human intervention. These and other AI applications raise complex ethical issues that are the subject...

*Once again a New York Times bestseller! First the original edition, and now the new Final Edition* An essential new edition revised and updated from cover to cover of one of the most important books of the last two decades, by Nobel Prize winner Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein More than 2 million copies sold Since the original publication of Nudge more than a decade ago, the title has entered the vocabulary of businesspeople, policy makers, engaged citizens, and consumers everywhere. ...

What is Violent Communication? If "violent" means acting in ways that result in hurt or harm, then much of how we communicate-judging others, bullying, having racial bias, blaming, finger pointing, discriminating, speaking without listening, criticizing others or ourselves, name-calling, reacting when angry, using political rhetoric, being defensive or judging who's "good/bad" or what's "right/wrong" with people-could indeed be called "violent communication." What is Nonviolent Communication?...

Het Cuaderno de gramática española heeft als doel de ontwikkeling van het taalkundig vermogen van studenten op niveau B1 van het ERK.

Dit boek kenmerkt zich door:

de mogelijkheid om zelfstandig mee te werken, maar ook bruikbaar in de les met een docent,

het kan op zichzelf gebruikt worden, of het kan als ondersteuning dienen bij een andere methode,

aangepast aan de verschillende niveaus van het ERK en het Plan Curricular van het Instituto Cervantes,

ontwikkeling van goede leerstrategieën....

This Norton Critical Edition is again based on the first edition text (1722), the only text known to be Defoe's own. It is accompanied by detailed explanatory annotations and the editor's essay outlining the novel's textual history. "Contexts" collects related documents on criminal transport, contemporary accounts of lives of crime, and colonial laws as they applied to servants, slaves, and runaways.

"Criticism" includes eleven interpretations by Juliet McMaster, Everett Zimmerman, Maximillia...

This accessible and classroom-tested textbook/reference presents an introduction to the fundamentals of the emerging and interdisciplinary field of data science. The coverage spans key concepts adopted from statistics and machine learning, useful techniques for graph analysis and parallel programming, and the practical application of data science for such tasks as building recommender systems or performing sentiment analysis. Topics and features: provides numerous practical case studies using...