Introducing Scarlett Lee

Introducing Scarlett Lee
Author: Rose Impey
Publisher: Orchard Books
Total Pages: 143
Release: 2011-10-06
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1408318873

Scarlett is a drama queen in every sense. Larger than life, she lives to act and sometimes has trouble remembering when the drama lesson ends and real life resumes. When her father seems to 'disappear', Scarlett suddenly finds herself in a real-life drama of her own. Will she be able to uncover the mystery and discover just who she can trust and who is really putting on an act?

Kaapse bibliotekaris

Kaapse bibliotekaris
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2009
Genre: Bibliography
ISBN:

Issues for Nov. 1957- include section: Accessions. Aanwinste, Sept. 1957-

Reading the Short Story

Reading the Short Story
Author: Anna Wing-bo Tso
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2019-10-31
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1476637245

Beginning with a brief history and evolution of the short story genre, alongside an overview of the key short story writers, and an explanatory chapter of literary criticism, this book aims to give readers insight into the works by canonical British, Irish, and American authors, including Edgar Allan Poe, James Joyce, Flannery O'Connor, and more. Applying close reading skills and critical literary approaches to twelve selected short stories in English, this work conducts comparative analyses to reveal the interrelationships between the texts, the authors, the readers, and the sociocultural contexts. Developed and tested in literature classes at university over several semesters, this book addresses key issues, topics and trends in the short story genre.

Introduction to Diseases, Diagnosis, and Management of Dogs and Cats

Introduction to Diseases, Diagnosis, and Management of Dogs and Cats
Author: Tanmoy Rana
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 654
Release: 2023-11-15
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0443185492

Approx.330 pages - Discusses clinical diseases of dogs and cats including those that impact major systems in the body, specimen collection, clinical examination, diagnosis, and medical interventions - Covers the etiology and epidemiology, physical examination abnormalities, pathogenesis, clinical signs, diagnosis, treatment and prognosis, immunity and vaccination, and prevention of infectious diseases - Explores advances in diagnosis and treatment including molecular diagnostic techniques and therapies

An Introduction to Universal Artificial Intelligence

An Introduction to Universal Artificial Intelligence
Author: Marcus Hutter
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 517
Release: 2024-05-28
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1003821979

An Introduction to Universal Artificial Intelligence provides the formal underpinning of what it means for an agent to act intelligently in an unknown environment. First presented in Universal Algorithmic Intelligence (Hutter, 2000), UAI offers a framework in which virtually all AI problems can be formulated, and a theory of how to solve them. UAI unifies ideas from sequential decision theory, Bayesian inference, and algorithmic information theory to construct AIXI, an optimal reinforcement learning agent that learns to act optimally in unknown environments. AIXI is the theoretical gold standard for intelligent behavior. The book covers both the theoretical and practical aspects of UAI. Bayesian updating can be done efficiently with context tree weighting, and planning can be approximated by sampling with Monte Carlo tree search. It provides algorithms for the reader to implement, and experimental results to compare against. These algorithms are used to approximate AIXI. The book ends with a philosophical discussion of Artificial General Intelligence: Can super-intelligent agents even be constructed? Is it inevitable that they will be constructed, and what are the potential consequences? This text is suitable for late undergraduate students. It provides an extensive chapter to fill in the required mathematics, probability, information, and computability theory background.

The Routledge Introduction to American War Literature

The Routledge Introduction to American War Literature
Author: Jennifer Haytock
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2018-05-11
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1317422627

War and violence have arguably been some of the strongest influences on literature, but the relation is complex: more than just a subject for story-telling, war tends to reshape literature and culture. Modern war literature necessarily engages with national ideologies, and this volume looks at the specificity of how American literature deals with the emotional, intellectual, social, political, and economic contradictions that evolve into and out of war. Raising questions about how American ideals of independence and gender affect representations of war while also considering how specifically American experiences of race and class interweave with representations of combat, this book is a rich and coherent introduction to these texts and critical debates.