The New York Times–bestselling memoir from the legendary, former Boston Red Sox pitcher.Pedro Martinez entered the big leagues a scrawny power pitcher with a lightning arm who they said wasn't "durable" enough, who they said was a punk. Yet Martinez willed himself to become one of the most intimidating pitchers to have ever played the game, an eight-time All-Star, three-time Cy Young Award winner, World Series champion, and Hall of Famer.In Pedr...

Life Is a Dream is a Spanish-language play by Pedro Calderón de la Barca. The play has been described as "the supreme example of Spanish Golden Age drama". The story focuses on the fictional Segismundo, Prince of Poland, who has been imprisoned in a tower by his father, King Basilio, following a dire prophecy that the prince would bring disaster to the country and death to the King. Basilio briefly frees Segismundo, but when the prince goes on a rampage, the king imprisons him again, persu...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Sous vide cooking at home for everyone is now possible!Fine dining restaurant chefs all over the world have been using sous vide cooking for years to produce their fabulous dishes. Now it possible to sous vide at home with affordable sous-vide machine available on the market today. Sous vide cooking is now the new way to cook restaurant-quality meals at home! Eat the most wonderful meals you’ve ever made without...

A spell-binding quest for the one algorithm capable of deriving all knowledge from data, including a cure for cancerSociety is changing, one learning algorithm at a time, from search engines to online dating, personalized medicine to predicting the stock market. But learning algorithms are not just about Big Data - these algorithms take raw data and make it useful by creating more algorithms. This is something new under the sun: a technology that builds itself. In ...

“If you like, I will hot it”April is the cruelest month, they say, and yet, we find it to be the funniest too. For what other month starts with the Fool’s Day and keeps getting warmer and warmer as we laugh winter away? To celebrate this, we decided to publish today the perfect companion for jesters and hoaxers. In truth we say that foolishness has never looked more fashionable than after reading “English as She Is Spoke”, the famous 19th century Portuguese-English...

As Chile descends into chaos, two disparate souls begin "an odd-couple romance, in the tradition of Kiss of the Spider Woman or The Crying Game" ( Kirkus Reviews).It is the spring of 1986, and Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet is losing his grip on power. In one of Santiago's many poor neighborhoods, a man known as the Queen of the Corner embroiders linens for the wealthy. A hopeless and lonely romantic, he listens to boleros to drown out...

**Recommended by Bill GatesA thought-provoking and wide-ranging exploration of machine learning and the race to build computer intelligences as flexible as our own**In the world's top research labs and universities, the race is on to invent the ultimate learning algorithm: one capable of discovering any knowledge from data, and doing anything we want, before we even ask. In The Master Algorithm, Pedro Domingos lifts the veil to give us a peek inside the learning ma...

Academicians the world over are beginning to frown, and rightly so, upon lengthy introductions to scholarly books. However, the historical document presented in the following pages is so unique that a full explanation of its discovery and significance is certainly in order. History, and especially the bloody tale of Hernando Cortez and his conquest of Mexico, was far from my mind when I left my Oxford lodgings in July, 1967, bound for a four-week sojourn in Southern Spain. It will shortly ...

An earthquake, a cult, an infection . . . A lone teen fights for survival in the shadows of disaster in this unflinching thriller set in a near-future Pacific Northwest, for fans of Chuck Wendig.The Pacific Northwest lies in ruins in the aftermath of the 9.2 Cascadia earthquake. There is a tsunami at the coast, annihilated infrastructure in all the towns and cities, and failed dams in the Oregon river valley where 15-year-old Cielo lives with her mother, a...

***Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Translation Prize**Finalist for the National Translation Award**Honorable Mention for the Society of Authors TA (Translators Association) First Translation Prize**Honorable Mention for the Queen Sofía Spanish Institute Translation Prize*“These days, when an American president has decreed that ‘there are only two genders: male and female’ . . . an undaunted, lyrical voice from a southern corner of the hemisphere offe...

Basil, Rosemary and the Pansy sisters are lively, chatty little plants. They think they know some stuff, but when it comes to this animal, they know nothing. One wild assumption leads to another and gets them into big trouble.This illustrated story has been designed for bilingual children and others wishing to read a dual language text in French and English. This book is divided into four sections. In the first part, for ease of understanding the two languages are displayed together...

This illustrated story has been designed for bilingual children and others wishing to read a parallel text in English and Greek. For ease of understanding, the languages are displayed together mostly one or two sentences at a time.The aim was to make the translation as direct as possible but always using everyday language of native speakers. Reading this entertaining bilingual story will help you learn Greek.Basil, Rosemary and the Pansy sisters are lively, chatty little pla...