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Seamlessly transitioning between the absurd and the tender-hearted, balancing acerbic humour with sharp emotional depth, Afterparties offers an expansive portrait of the lives of Cambodian-Americans. As the children of refugees carve out radical new paths for themselves in California, they shoulder the inherited weight of the Khmer Rouge genocide and grapple with the complexities of race, sexuality, friendship and family.A high school badminto...

A Roxane Gay's Audacious Book Club Pick!Named a Best Book of Summer by: Wall Street Journal * Thrillist * Vogue * Lit Hub * Refinery29 * New York Observer * The Daily Beast * Time * BuzzFeed * Entertainment Weekly A vibrant story collection about Cambodian-American life—immersive and comic, yet unsparing—that offers profound insight into the intimacy of queer and immigrant communitiesSeamlessly transitioning between the absurd and the tenderhe...

The Data Science Workshop equips you with the basic skills you need to start working on a variety of data science projects. You'll work through the essential building blocks of a data science project gradually through the book, and then put all the pieces together to consolidate your knowledge and apply your learnings in the real world.

If you had to choose a single luxury chess item to take to a desert island, then how about this: a superb selection of 400 puzzles to solve? Each author has carefully chosen 100 original positions, graded by difficulty and theme into four sections of 25. The emphasis throughout is on entertainment, instruction and inspiration. The solutions pinpoint lessons to be learnt and explain why plausible but incorrect solutions fail. Wesley So present...

Improve your chess by studying the greatest games of all time, from Adolf Anderssen's 'Immortal Game' to Magnus Carlsen's world championship victories, and featuring a foreword by five-times World Champion Vishy Anand.This book is written by an all-star team of authors. Wesley So is the reigning Fischer Random World Champion, the 2017 US Champion and the winner of the 2016 Grand Chess Tour. Michael Adams has been the top British player for the...

This book focuses on education for environmental sustainability, in particular the area of solid waste management. Presenting the latest studies from different countries, industries and education sectors on the approaches and innovative ideas to educate future citizens regarding sustainable development of our planet, it is of interest to educators, academics, tertiary students, policy-makers, environmental scientists, social scientists and pra...

With knowledge and information shared by experts, take your first steps towards creating scalable AI algorithms and solutions in Python, through practical exercises and engaging activitiesKey Features Learn about AI and ML algorithms from the perspective of a seasoned data scientist Get practical experience in ML algorithms, such as regression, tree algorithms, clustering, and more Design neural networks that emulate the human brainBook Descri...

They came from all points of the compass, these women. Some were married to men who had traveled to Nevada to make a fresh start in life or to maybe strike it rich. Others arrived alone as teachers, miners, or prostitutes. These are the pioneers ... the women who helped to build the Silver State and make Nevada great ...Skirts that Swept the Desert Floor tells the stories of 100 women whose lives shaped the social, cultural, and economic world...

This book seeks to unravel the mysteries of wolfberry, and systematically introduces its mechanisms in preventing aging-associated diseases, such as cardiovascular diseases, inflammation, liver and neurodegenerative diseases. Wolfberry, the dried fruit of Lycium barbarum, is an anti-aging herbal medicine. There have been numerous reports investigating the underlying mechanisms of its anti-aging effects and its role in preventing pathological c...

Unforgettable Nevada Women is the Southern Nevada Women's History Project's third volume dedicated to recognizing the contributions of noteworthy Nevada women to the development and enrichment of the Silver State. Through interviews, public records, and private papers shared by friends and family, and collected historical accounts from newspapers and oral histories, volunteers have gathered together these stories of one hundred remarkable wome...

Compiled with method descriptions and step-by-step procedures, the Spatial Epidemiological Approaches in Disease Mapping and Analysis equips readers with skills to prepare health-related data in the proper format, process these data using relevant functions and software, and display the results as mapped or statistical summaries. Describing the wid

Richard Jean So draws on big data, computational methods, literary history, and close readings to offer an unprecedented analysis of racial inequality in American publishing that reveals the persistence of an extreme bias toward white authors.

Richard Jean So draws on big data, computational methods, literary history, and close readings to offer an unprecedented analysis of racial inequality in American publishing that reveals the persistence of an extreme bias toward white authors.

It's kind of a messed up view on life/my choices in life. Or I to like too, gamble my life away. I can't believe a 12 year old who wrote a book.

Cut through the noise and get real results with a step-by-step approach to data science Key Features:Ideal for the data science beginner who is getting started for the first time A data science tutorial with step-by-step exercises and activities that help build key skills Structured to let you progress at your own pace, on your own terms Use your physical print copy to redeem free access to the online interactive edition Book Description...

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The Seed That Must Grow is a story of a young girl who gets married at the age of fourteen. She goes through so many challenges in her life despite her enormous effort to put things in order. Her hard work and determination makes her to discover her self-worth through education. Solii's first marriage to Tomla reveals her strong character despite her age and this trait is further exposed as she decides to go to school after the break-up of her...

About the author Million is an educator with two decades of experience, having managed educational programmes at more than 400 kindergartens, primary and secondary schools in Singapore and China, with close to a million students who have benefited from programmes she has created or implemented. Million graduated from the National University of Singapore. She has two music diplomas from the Trinity College of London and a second Dan black belt ...

This book focuses on education for environmental sustainability, in particular the area of solid waste management. Presenting the latest studies from different countries, industries and education sectors on the approaches and innovative ideas to educate future citizens regarding sustainable development of our planet, it is of interest to educators, academics, tertiary students, policy-makers, environmental scientists, social scientists and pra...

This colorfully illustrated multicultural Korean children's book presents Korean fairy tales and other folk stories—providing insight into a vibrant literary culture. Korean Children's Favorite Stories is a captivating collection of Korean folktales for children which are still being told, just as they have been for generations. Some are Korean-specific, while others echo those told in other countries. Written with wit and pathos, they unveil...