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Our hero was born on 24th March 1940, which in that year was Easter Sunday, in the Bird in Hand pub in the village of Stoulton, 5 miles south of Worcester. There was a lot going on in 1940 of which he was totally unaware: the Dunkirk evacuation, the Battle of Britain and the Blitz, for starters. On a lesser level perhaps was the suicide of Virginia Woolf. Meanwhile, over in New York, Duke Ellington was composing and recording masterpieces like Take the A Train, Chelsea Bridge and Sepia Pan...

This is a non-fiction love story with a tragic end, played out in the 1960s and 70s in Worcestershire, on the Hampshire-Surrey border, in the old county of Huntingdonshire and in Wiltshire. On the way, the author sheds light on the Worcester of their courtship in the early 1960s with its pubs, coffee bars, new innovative Chinese and Indian restaurants, funfairs, a jazz club, concerts at the Gaumont Cinema and the Victor Sylvester Dance Studio free sessions on Friday nights, as well as the ...

Tales of an unremarkable engineer and the characters he met on the way at the Royal Radar Establishment Malvern and Pershore, the Royal Aircraft Establishment Farnborough and Bedford, the Aircraft and Armament Evaluation Establishment Boscombe Down, and the Defence Evaluation and Research Agency.

Machine Learning with Spark and Python Essential Techniques for Predictive Analytics, Second Edition simplifies ML for practical uses by focusing on two key algorithms. This new second edition improves with the addition of Spark—a ML framework from the Apache foundation. By implementing Spark, machine learning students can easily process much large data sets and call the spark algorithms using ordinary Python code.Machine Learning with Spark and Python focuses on ...

Can the welfare state survive in an economically integrated world? Many have argued that globalization has undermined national policies to raise the living standards and enhance the economic opportunities of the poor. This book, by sixteen of the world's leading authorities in international economics and the welfare state, suggests a surprisingly different set of consequences: Globalization does not preclude social insurance and egalitarian redistribution--but it does change the mix of pol...

Its Not As Easy As It Looks follows the story of Michael Bowlings many surprise cancer diagnoses from the first day. Each chapter was written and posted usually within hours of the events it describes. All the hope and disappointment, all the strange and unforeseen events, and all the humor that cancer brings are detailed. Michaels friends serve as commentators along the way. As the story progresses, the doctors are often more surprised than the patient. What will happen next? God reveals ...

A baby can wake up in so many interesting places! This revamped classic featuring community helpers is back in a bilingual (E/Sp) paperback. In this inaugural title in the Look What I See! Where Can I Be? series, Baby is on the go in the neighborhood, accompanied by her loving family. She finds herself waking up in a different location each day of the week. At first, she focuses on a single detail. Then, turning the page, the entire scene is revealed in vibrant, immersive photographs. Olde...

Where is Baby today? This beloved title that celebrates family, animals, and the excitement of discovery is now available in bilingual (E/Sp) paperback. In this popular book from the Look What I See, Where Can I Be? series, a charming baby dozes each day during her family's outings. Awakened by the sounds and smells of the places where different animals reside, she opens her eyes and sees a lively detail—an eye, an ear, a hoof, a head. Help her solve the mysteries of this part-to-whole gue...

This open-access book invites its readers to dive into the depths of marine mammal bioacoustics. The ocean is a noisy place—naturally as well as anthropogenically. Our book explores the fundamentals of ocean acoustics, revealing the intricate sources of underwater noise that challenge marine life. Readers delve into the unique vocalizations of mysticetes, odontocetes, pinnipeds, otters, and sirenians, uncovering their diverse communication in stormy waters. The book presents research on ma...

"If you have a myth working in your life (everyone does) and if you can see it, you can actually add to it. Also you can change it; you can banish certain things which have inhibited you," says Bowles. Included are five creation stories from various cultures. Bowles talks about how these stories are relevant to our lives.

In the year 2035, newlyweds Mark and Helen embark on an extraordinary honeymoon: a journey to the International Space Station. As they float weightlessly among the stars, they encounter a cast of eccentric astronauts, witness breathtaking views of Earth, and confront the challenges of living in such an extreme environment. But when a sudden crisis threatens their mission, Mark and Helen must draw on their love and resilience to survive.

This beautifully-packaged book will take the reader on the slow train to another era when travel meant more than hurrying from one place to the next, the journey meaning nothing but time lost in crowded carriages, condemned by broken timetables. On the Slow Train will reconnect with that long-missed need to lift our heads from the daily grind and reflect that there are still places in Britain where we can stop and stare. It will tap into many things: a love of railways, a love of ...