Download or read book Remembering Mona Mona written by Brad Watson and published by . This book was released on 2021-08 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mona written by Pola Oloixarac and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2021-03-16 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Both a wicked satire of the literary élite and an exploration of art and violence . . . Terrifying, brilliant, and dangerous." —The New Yorker Mona, a Peruvian writer based in California, presents a tough and sardonic exterior. She likes drugs and cigarettes, and when she learns that she is something of an anthropological curiosity—a woman writer of color treasured at her university for the flourish of rarefied diversity she brings—she pokes fun at American academic culture and its fixation on identity. When she is nominated for “the most important literary award in Europe,” Mona sees a chance to escape her downward spiral of sunlit substance abuse and erotic distraction, so she trades the temptations of California for a small, gray village in Sweden, close to the Arctic Circle. Now she is stuck in the company of all her jet-lagged—and mostly male—competitors, arriving from Japan, France, Armenia, Iran, and Colombia. Isolated as they are, the writers do what writers do: exchange compliments, nurse envy and private resentments, stab rivals in the back, and hop in bed together. All the while, Mona keeps stumbling across the mysterious traces of a violence she cannot explain. As her adventures in Scandinavia unfold, Mona finds that she has not so much escaped her demons as locked herself up with them in the middle of nowhere. In Mona, Pola Oloixarac paints a hypnotic, scabrous, and ultimately jaw-dropping portrait of a woman facing down a hipster elite to which she does and does not belong. A survivor of both patronization and bizarre sexual encounters, Mona is a new kind of feminist. But her past won’t stay past, and strange forces are working to deliver her the test of a lifetime.
Download or read book Missing Mona written by Joe Klingler and published by . This book was released on 2015-04-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tommy has boomeranged back to his parents residence and a dead end job after too many years in college. As he looks squarely at his fourth decade of life his smartphone convinces him the time has come for a change. A gift from his grandfather provides the means, so he embarks on the path of blues artists and beatniks before him--and hits the road. He immediately meets a damsel in hitchhiking distress who says her name is Mona. Her presence persuades him that the bright lights and dark clubs of Chicago might be his kind of town.So on a summer Saturday night they settle into a fancy hotel overlooking the beaches of Lake Michigan.On Sunday...Mona disappears.But she leaves behind more than a sweet memory that involves Tommy in the sort of cash flow problems he never imagined. While trying to sort out how to stay on the right side of the law and get back on the road, he meets a young criminologist who helps him, a DJ who doesn't, and a librarian who teaches him about the city, women, and the art of the makeover.After being lied to, punched, and witnessing a drive-by shooting--he is desperate to help Mona.If he can find her.
Download or read book Natural Language Processing with AWS AI Services written by Mona M and published by Packt Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2021-11-26 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Work through interesting real-life business use cases to uncover valuable insights from unstructured text using AWS AI services Key FeaturesGet to grips with AWS AI services for NLP and find out how to use them to gain strategic insightsRun Python code to use Amazon Textract and Amazon Comprehend to accelerate business outcomesUnderstand how you can integrate human-in-the-loop for custom NLP use cases with Amazon A2IBook Description Natural language processing (NLP) uses machine learning to extract information from unstructured data. This book will help you to move quickly from business questions to high-performance models in production. To start with, you'll understand the importance of NLP in today's business applications and learn the features of Amazon Comprehend and Amazon Textract to build NLP models using Python and Jupyter Notebooks. The book then shows you how to integrate AI in applications for accelerating business outcomes with just a few lines of code. Throughout the book, you'll cover use cases such as smart text search, setting up compliance and controls when processing confidential documents, real-time text analytics, and much more to understand various NLP scenarios. You'll deploy and monitor scalable NLP models in production for real-time and batch requirements. As you advance, you'll explore strategies for including humans in the loop for different purposes in a document processing workflow. Moreover, you'll learn best practices for auto-scaling your NLP inference for enterprise traffic. Whether you're new to ML or an experienced practitioner, by the end of this NLP book, you'll have the confidence to use AWS AI services to build powerful NLP applications. What you will learnAutomate various NLP workflows on AWS to accelerate business outcomesUse Amazon Textract for text, tables, and handwriting recognition from images and PDF filesGain insights from unstructured text in the form of sentiment analysis, topic modeling, and more using Amazon ComprehendSet up end-to-end document processing pipelines to understand the role of humans in the loopDevelop NLP-based intelligent search solutions with just a few lines of codeCreate both real-time and batch document processing pipelines using PythonWho this book is for If you're an NLP developer or data scientist looking to get started with AWS AI services to implement various NLP scenarios quickly, this book is for you. It will show you how easy it is to integrate AI in applications with just a few lines of code. A basic understanding of machine learning (ML) concepts is necessary to understand the concepts covered. Experience with Jupyter notebooks and Python will be helpful.
Download or read book The Last Mona Lisa written by Jonathan Santlofer and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-08-17 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ONE OF PEOPLE MAGAZINE'S BEST BOOKS OF SUMMER! "Unstoppable what-happens-next momentum."—Michael Connelly, #1 New York Times bestselling author "A deliciously tense read."—Ruth Ware, #1 New York Times bestselling author From award-winning crime writer and celebrated artist Jonathan Santlofer comes an enthralling tale about the 1911 theft of the Mona Lisa from the Louvre, the forgeries that appeared in its wake, and the present-day underbelly of the art world. August, 1911: The Mona Lisa is stolen by Vincent Peruggia. Exactly what happens in the two years before its recovery is a mystery. Many replicas of the Mona Lisa exist, and more than one historian has wondered if the painting now returned to the Louvre is a fake, switched in 1911. Present day: Art professor Luke Perrone digs for the truth behind his most famous ancestor: Peruggia. His search attracts an Interpol detective with something to prove and an unfamiliar but curiously helpful woman. Soon, Luke tumbles deep into the world of art and forgery, a land of obsession and danger. The Last Mona Lisa is a suspenseful and seductive tale, perfect for fans of the Netflix documentaries This Is A Robbery and Made You Look and readers obsessed with the world of art heists and forgeries.
Download or read book Mona the Vampire written by Sonia Holleyman and published by Hachette Children's Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Look out - here comes Mona! Mona and her cat, Fang, discover that being a vampire is brilliant fun. They plan to hang upside down all night and never go to bed! But when a storm appears as evening falls, even vampires get scared.
Download or read book Mona s Dreams written by Stewart G. Young USMC MD and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: God makes dogs to come in all shapes, sizes, and, ages; and He does the same with dog-lovers. This book is for all of them - the dogs, the people, and, especially, for God.
Download or read book Mona s Choice written by Alexander and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Amateurs written by Tom Griffin and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 1991 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: Following the opening night of the Timberly Troupers' musical about undertakers, Dorothy and her slightly daft husband, Charlie, host a gathering of actors and friends. The chic opening night party is in another part of town, but into Do
Download or read book Mona s Choice written by Mrs. Alexander and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A New Taxonomy of Monetary Regimes written by Mr.Ashok Bhundia and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2004-10-01 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper proposes a new taxonomy of monetary regimes defined by the choice and clarity of the nominal anchor. The regimes are as follows: (i) monetary nonautonomy, (ii) weak anchor, (iii) money anchor, (iv) exchange rate peg, (v) full-fledged inflation targeting, (vi) implicit price stability anchor, and (vii) inflation targeting lite. This taxonomy captures the commitment-discretion tradeoffs that lie at the heart of choosing a monetary regime. During the last 15 years the world has moved toward monetary regimes with less discretion. Empirical analysis suggests that country regime choices reflect the level of financial and economic development and recent inflation history.
Download or read book Mona s Choice written by Annie French Hector and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Performing Place Practising Memories written by Rosita Henry and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2012-09-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 1970s a wave of 'counter-culture' people moved into rural communities in many parts of Australia. This study focuses in particular on the town of Kuranda in North Queensland and the relationship between the settlers and the local Aboriginal population, concentrating on a number of linked social dramas that portrayed the use of both public and private space. Through their public performances and in their everyday spatial encounters, these people resisted the bureaucratic state but, in the process, they also contributed to the cultivation and propagation of state effects.
Download or read book From Sit Ins to revolutions written by Olivia Guntarik and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2020-01-23 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Sit-Ins to #revolutions examines the evolution and growth of digital activism, while at once outlining how scholars theorize and conceptualize the field through new methodologies. As it closely examines the role that social and digital media play in enabling protests, this volume probes the interplay between historical and contemporary protests, emancipation and empowerment, and online and offline protest activities. Drawn from academic and activist communities, the contributors look beyond often-studied mass action events in the USA, UK, and Australia to also incorporate perspectives from overlooked regions such as Aboriginal Australia, Thailand, Mexico, India, Jamaica and Black America. From illustrating the allure of political action to a closer look at how digital activists use new technologies to push toward reform, From Sit-Ins to #revolutions promises to shed new light on key questions within activism, from campaign organization and leadership to messaging and direct action.
Download or read book Telling Tales written by Eric Lane and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1993-03-01 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exciting and varied collection of contemporary one-act plays from some of today's best playwrights.
Download or read book Nathaniel written by Lynne Lexow and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2015-07-17 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-six-year-old Mona Johnson was fed up with her life. Her ill-fated relationship with her schizophrenic boyfriend had come to a violent end, and nothing else seemed to be going her way. Alone, broke, and desperate for help, she challenges God but later regrets her actions and begs Him for help. When help arrives, it is in the most unexpected way. Dealing with the supernatural is not something that comes easy for a modern woman like Mona. With very few other options available to her, she is forced to accept the assistance offered to her or find her own way out of her less-than-ideal situation.
Download or read book Black British Queer Plays and Practitioners An Anthology of Afriquia Theatre written by Paul Boakye and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-09-22 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bold play collection representing Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Intersex and Queer (LGBTIQ+) experiences, from Black British perspectives, this anthology contains seven radical plays by Black writers that change the face of theatre in Britain. With an international reach connecting Africa, the Caribbean and the Diaspora, these plays address themes including same-sex love, sex, homophobia, apartheid, migration and space travel. The collection captures the historical scope and range of Black British LGBTIQ+ theatre, from the 1980s to 2021. Including a range of forms, from monologue to musicals, realist drama to club-performance, readers will journey through the development of Black Queer theatre in Britain. Through a helpful critical introduction, this book provides important socio-political and historical context, highlighting and illuminating key themes in the plays. Each play is preceded by an intergenerational 'in-conversation' piece between two Black British LGBTIQ+ artists and writers who will talk about their own work in relation to the play, looking back at the history and on into the future. Through these rare conversations with highly acclaimed award-winning practitioners, readers will also gain an insight into the theatre industry, funding, producing, venues as well as the politics of identity, the diversity of LGBTIQ+ lives and the richness of Black British cultures.
