An essential handbook for anyone over 40 looking to navigate the exciting world of artificial intelligence. This comprehensive guide is designed to be easy to understand, making it perfect for beginners.With over 50 chapters & concluding with a valuable resource: a list of over 200 AI tools and applications that you can start using right away.

Bill Turner, an old man battling cancer, has gone missing from the West Hastings nursing home. The reverend Ray Riley, concerned for Bill's welfare, drives out to Bill's small rural property where he finds the old man's body lying under a scar tree beside a dry river bank. Strangely, Bill's corpse has fallen into a neatly cut one meter deep rectangular hole. A shallow grave of sorts. For the the police it's a simple suicide, but for the reverend Ray Riley Bill's death raises more questions...

HOW A TRUE LEADER PUTS PEOPLE, ORGANIZATION, AND COMMUNITY FIRSTWe all face countless decisions throughout our careers. The specific circumstances that call us to lead will be different, but the core dilemmas and ethical challenges are very similar. Faced with these challenges, each of us must decide if we will follow our ego-centered inclinations or lead for the good of everyone whose lives we touch? Will we endanger or impair those around us to satisfy our own self-interest, or wi...

Before award-winning director Dan Curtis became known for directing epic war movies, he darkened the small screen with the horror genre's most famous soap opera, Dark Shadows, and numerous subsequent made-for-TV horror movies. This second edition serves as a complete filmography, featuring each of Curtis's four-dozen productions and 100 photographs. With the addition of new chapters on Dark Shadows, the author further explores the groundbreaking daytime television serial....

In the treacherous swamps of southeast Missouri, a different kind of Civil War was waged.Meriwether Jeff Thompson was one of the most intriguing but least-known Missouri participants in the Civil War. He and his troops traveled fast and light to harass Union forces, materializing out of the countryside to surprise the enemy and evading the traps set for them by Northern commanders. Early in the war, Union General Ulysses S. Grant gave Thompson the name “Swamp Fox” for his exploits ...

Today more than ever, series finales have become cultural touchstones that feed watercooler fodder and Twitter storms among a committed community of viewers. While the final episodes of The Fugitive and M*A*S*H continue to rank among the highest rated broadcasts, more recent shows draw legions of binge-watching fans. Given the importance of finales to viewers and critics alike, Howard and Bianculli along with the other contributors explore these endings and what they mean to the audience, ...

You may not have ever seen them, but you know them: Bigfoot, Mothman, chupacabras, the Jersey Devil, and Nessie, the Loch Ness Monster. Cryptids exist everywhere around the world on land, in the air, and under the water.Some creatures are recent discoveries; others date back centuries. But where did they come from? What is their hidden history?Collected in this anthology are twenty short stories featuring a wide variety of cryptids as well as the cryptozool...

The new IB Middle Years Programme (MYP) curriculum for 11 to 16 year olds came into effect in September 2014 and will strengthen the IB's continuum of learning. This edited collection will provide support for all those involved in the current period of preparation for implementation of the new programme. The chapters are written by experienced practitioners from a range of relevant standpoints about different aspects of the MYP. MYP - New Directions examines the changes to the programme th...

Expert writers share reflections on their experience, and explore issues for the future, of the International Baccalaureate Middle Years Programme. The issues raised are of interest and relevance to those with responsibility for MYP teaching, learning and administration in schools and will provoke interest in the programme amongst those considering its adoption.

We all experience daily stressors, crisis events, and struggles at work and in life. Regardless of our chosen profession or age, there is one certainty. Each day offers an opportunity to help others and protect and enhance our well-being. Within a twenty-one day journey supported by extensive research, Dr. Jeff Thompson shares insight into how to effectively manage thinking, calm the mind, and build resilience and mental strength while developing short daily practices that promote a better...

Assessment and evaluation are two concepts at the core of schooling which are also central to other forms of education worldwide. In an international context, assessment and evaluation data are increasingly widely used for accountability and quality assurance purposes at individual student, institutional, national and global levels. This book does not attempt to include consideration of all the issues that could possibly be covered in a title that addresses assessment and evaluation in edu...

Hot off his star-making appearance in MARVEL RIVALS, everyone's favorite walking fish boy stars in his first series! Join Jeff the Land Shark as he teams up with many of the friends he's made over the years and outsmarts more than a few rivals along the way. And this time, he's got some all-new abilities on his side! But a malevolent force has been set upon the world - a being of pure darkness who wants nothing more than dismay and destruction. Beware the evil known as…Shadow Jeff! Plus: O...