Download or read book The Soul of an Octopus written by Sy Montgomery and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-07-12 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for the National Book Award for Nonfiction * New York Times Bestseller * A Huffington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of the Year * One of the Best Books of the Month on Goodreads * Library Journal Best Sci-Tech Book of the Year * An American Library Association Notable Book of the Year “Sy Montgomery’s The Soul of an Octopus does for the creature what Helen Macdonald’s H Is for Hawk did for raptors.” —New Statesman, UK “One of the best science books of the year.” —Science Friday, NPR Another New York Times bestseller from the author of The Good Good Pig, this “fascinating…touching…informative…entertaining” (The Daily Beast) book explores the emotional and physical world of the octopus—a surprisingly complex, intelligent, and spirited creature—and the remarkable connections it makes with humans. In pursuit of the wild, solitary, predatory octopus, popular naturalist Sy Montgomery has practiced true immersion journalism. From New England aquarium tanks to the reefs of French Polynesia and the Gulf of Mexico, she has befriended octopuses with strikingly different personalities—gentle Athena, assertive Octavia, curious Kali, and joyful Karma. Each creature shows her cleverness in myriad ways: escaping enclosures like an orangutan; jetting water to bounce balls; and endlessly tricking companions with multiple “sleights of hand” to get food. Scientists have only recently accepted the intelligence of dogs, birds, and chimpanzees but now are watching octopuses solve problems and are trying to decipher the meaning of the animal’s color-changing techniques. With her “joyful passion for these intelligent and fascinating creatures” (Library Journal Editors’ Spring Pick), Montgomery chronicles the growing appreciation of this mollusk as she tells a unique love story. By turns funny, entertaining, touching, and profound, The Soul of an Octopus reveals what octopuses can teach us about the meeting of two very different minds.

Download or read book Athena the Brain written by Joan Holub and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-04-06 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Athena the Brain, Athena always knew she was smart and special, but she didn’t realize that she was a goddess! When she’s whisked away to Mount Olympus Academy, she worries about fitting in and dealing with her dad (Zeus). Luckily, she meets the Goddess Girls and finds the best friends she’s ever had.

Download or read book Athena the Wise written by Joan Holub and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-04-05 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These classic myths from the Greek pantheon are given a modern twist that contemporary tweens can relate to, from dealing with bullies like Medusa to a first crush on an unlikely boy. Goddess Girls follows four goddesses-in-training – Athena, Persephone, Aphrodite, and Artemis – as they navigate the ins and outs of divine social life at Mount Olympus Academy, where the most priviledged gods and goddesses of the Greek pantheon hone their mythical skills. In book 5, Principal Zeus asks Athena to help Heracles (aka Hercules in the Roman pantheon) complete his twelve labors. But when Heracles starts borrowing Athena's friends things without asking, will she be able to help him set things straight?

Download or read book Athena the Proud written by Joan Holub and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-04-29 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Athena wants to upgrade a labyrinth for King Minos, but her approach causes problems in this Goddess Girls adventure. Athena’s arrogance gets the best of her when her attempts to improve King Minos’s labyrinth have unexpected—and disastrous—results!

Download or read book The Eleventh Trade written by Alyssa Hollingsworth and published by Roaring Brook Press. This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From debut author Alyssa Hollingsworth comes a story about living with fear, being a friend, and finding a new place to call home. They say you can't get something for nothing, but nothing is all Sami has. When his grandfather’s most-prized possession—a traditional Afghan instrument called a rebab—is stolen, Sami resolves to get it back. He finds it at a music store, but it costs $700, and Sami doesn’t have even one penny. What he does have is a keychain that has caught the eye of his classmate. If he trades the keychain for something more valuable, could he keep trading until he has $700? Sami is about to find out. The Eleventh Trade is both a classic middle school story and a story about being a refugee. Alyssa Hollingsworth tackles a big issue with a light touch. 2020 UKLA Award Winner

Download or read book The Olympus Deception written by Richard Ronc and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2017-11-28 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Former sergeant Vincent Peterson goes to work like any other person. But today is different. Unexpectedly, hes approached by a womanAthenawho insists that he is needed for a top-secret project, and in exchange, she can prove that his name and his reputation were destroyed. But before Athena can deliver what she has promised, shes kidnapped in broad daylight right from Vincents grasp by a group of Russians, leaving Vincent worse off than ever. Events have been set in motion. Vincent is now part of something much larger, and only Athena has the answers that he needs. Being hunted by the FBI, the US Army, and a clandestine Russian operative, Vincent is in the ultimate fight of his life. To get out, Vincent will have to go further in than ever before in order to learn the truth about his past and save his future.

Download or read book The Director s Cut Backstage Pass Book 3 written by Janice Thompson and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tia Morales is used to calling the shots. She's the director of the popular sitcom Stars Collide, and her life on set is calculated and orderly. Well, most of the time. But her life outside the studio is another matter. If only she could get her family to behave as well as her stars do! When she starts butting heads with handsome camera operator Jason Harris, it's enough to send a girl over the edge. Will she ever learn to let go and take life--and love--as it comes? Full of the humor and crazy family dynamics Janice Thompson fans have come to love, this colorful story gives readers an inside look at Hollywood and a healthy dose of romance.

Download or read book Serverless Analytics with Amazon Athena written by Anthony Virtuoso and published by Packt Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2021-11-19 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get more from your data with Amazon Athena's ease-of-use, interactive performance, and pay-per-query pricing Key FeaturesExplore the promising capabilities of Amazon Athena and Athena's Query Federation SDKUse Athena to prepare data for common machine learning activitiesCover best practices for setting up connectivity between your application and Athena and security considerationsBook Description Amazon Athena is an interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data in Amazon S3 using SQL, without needing to manage any infrastructure. This book begins with an overview of the serverless analytics experience offered by Athena and teaches you how to build and tune an S3 Data Lake using Athena, including how to structure your tables using open-source file formats like Parquet. You'll learn how to build, secure, and connect to a data lake with Athena and Lake Formation. Next, you'll cover key tasks such as ad hoc data analysis, working with ETL pipelines, monitoring and alerting KPI breaches using CloudWatch Metrics, running customizable connectors with AWS Lambda, and more. Moving on, you'll work through easy integrations, troubleshooting and tuning common Athena issues, and the most common reasons for query failure. You will also review tips to help diagnose and correct failing queries in your pursuit of operational excellence. Finally, you'll explore advanced concepts such as Athena Query Federation and Athena ML to generate powerful insights without needing to touch a single server. By the end of this book, you'll be able to build and use a data lake with Amazon Athena to add data-driven features to your app and perform the kind of ad hoc data analysis that often precedes many of today's ML modeling exercises. What you will learnSecure and manage the cost of querying your dataUse Athena ML and User Defined Functions (UDFs) to add advanced features to your reportsWrite your own Athena Connector to integrate with a custom data sourceDiscover your datasets on S3 using AWS Glue CrawlersIntegrate Amazon Athena into your applicationsSetup Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies to limit access to tables and databases in Glue Data CatalogAdd an Amazon SageMaker Notebook to your Athena queriesGet to grips with using Athena for ETL pipelinesWho this book is for Business intelligence (BI) analysts, application developers, and system administrators who are looking to generate insights from an ever-growing sea of data while controlling costs and limiting operational burden, will find this book helpful. Basic SQL knowledge is expected to make the most out of this book.

Download or read book Olympus Bound written by Jordanna Max Brodsky and published by Hachette+ORM. This book was released on 2017-02-21 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To save her father Zeus, king of the Gods, Selene must leave her adopted Manhattan home and travel to Mount Olympus to defeat the cult that seeks to destroy the Greek pantheon in the concluding volume of this modern day "lively re-imaging of classical mythology." (Deborah Harkness) Summer in New York: a golden hour on the city streets, but a dark time for Selene. She's lost her home and the man she loves. A cult hungry for ancient power has kidnapped her father and targeted her friends. To save them, Selene must face the past she's been running from -- a past that stretches back millennia, to when the faithful called her Huntress. Moon Goddess. Artemis. With the pantheon at her side, Selene must journey back to the seat of her immortal power: from the streets of Rome and the temples of Athens -- to the heights of Mount Olympus itself.

Download or read book Ancient Greek Religion written by Emily Kearns and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-10-19 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancient Greek Religion: Historical Sources in Translation presents a wide range of documents relating to the religious world of the ancient Greeks from the earliest surviving literature to around the end of the fourth century BCE. Presents a wide range of documents relating to the religious world of the ancient Greeks, from the earliest surviving literature to around the end of the fourth century BCE Provides extensive background information for readers with no previous knowledge of classical studies Brings together new and rare passages for comparison – with occasional new interpretations – to appeal to professionals Offers a variety of less frequently examined material and looks at familiar texts in new ways Includes the use of extensive cross-referencing to indicate the interconnectedness of different aspects of religious practice and thought Includes the most comprehensive commentary and updated passages available in a single volume

Download or read book Return to Dragon Isle Books 1 5 written by Sophie Stern and published by Sophie Stern. This book was released on with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anything can happen on Dragon Isle... Shapeshifters. Billionaires. Surprise weddings that will knock your socks off? You'll find all of this and more in the Return to Dragon Isle bundle. Book 1: Dragons Are Forever Anything can happen on Dragon Isle... One feisty dragon + one desperate human = one fake marriage. Jax needs a wife in a bad way. He stands to inherit an incredible fortune, but there's one caveat: he has to get married, like, yesterday. He can't touch the money until he's claimed a mate. He's got to stay married for an entire year, and then if they go their separate ways, it's no big deal. One year of marriage? He could do that. Only, all of the ladies on Dragon Isle are girls he grew up with. Nobody is going to take a chance on this. Nobody would buy it. Then one drunken stranger changes everything... Melissa has absolutely nothing going for her. When her husband caught her by surprise last year and filed for divorce, she was stuck with half of his debt and...nothing. She had nothing. They lost the house, the cars, and their savings accounts because apparently, Kyle had a secret gambling problem she knew nothing about. When a handsome stranger approaches her in a random bar with a strange offer, she's intrigued enough to say yes. One year being married to a rich guy? One year without sex or love or romance attached? One year as long as she doesn't ask too many questions? Melissa can't sign up fast enough. Soon she discovers that Dragon Isle isn't a normal island, though. It's full of secrets, and she finds herself determined to figure out what Jax is hiding from her. Book 2: Dragon Crushed Anything can happen on Dragon Isle... One feisty dragon + one pissed-off human = one relationship that won't be easy. Lana doesn't believe in happy endings. She doesn't believe in true love, and she doesn't believe in fated mates, and she doesn't believe in anything romantic. Oliver ruined all of that for her when he chose to break her heart. Oh, it might have been ten years ago, but she hasn't forgotten. Humans never do. Oliver has been busy building his company. As the CEO of a million-dollar company, he's got a lot on his mind. When he's feeling honest, he's more than willing to admit he threw himself into work after his relationship with Lana failed. He let her down, and he's never forgiven himself. When a freak storm forces the inhabitants of Dragon Isle to hunker down, Oliver finds himself trapped with the one person he never thought he'd see again.Lana is stuck at his house with no place to go, and Oliver realizes that when it comes to her, some things never change. This bundle also includes: Book 3: Dragon's Hex Book 4 - Dragon's Gain Book 5 - Dragon's Rush

Download or read book Maid of Athens written by Justin McCarthy and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Enixar Book Set Volumes 1 3 written by Mikkell K Khan and published by Mind of Khan Studios. This book was released on 2021-07-05 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sorcerer King Gudrunn rules Gramadon with an iron fist, crushing all who oppose him through the dark and powerful magic of The Enixar. Corrupted by the ancient artifact, Gudrunn's thirst for conquest cannot be satisfied - but when his lust for power leads him to commit one atrocity too many, even his closest advisor Meriaus is forced to take action against the king. But Meriaus is not alone in this ambition - and like sharks tasting blood in the water, when one man sees an opportunity to claim the throne of Gramadon, others are quick to follow. Only by taking the hand of the God-King's own granddaughter Amadalia can Meriaus hope to bring peace and prosperity to the universe - but this brilliant young sorceress has ambitions of her own, not to mention magical powers she's kept secret since childhood. Together, they make a formidable alliance - but are they formidable enough to stand against a power-mad God-King seeking an ancient power that could tear the very universe apart? Discover for yourself in The Enixar Volumes 1-3 - the complete series of YA fantasy novels by Mikkell K. Khan. This collection includes The Sorcerer's Conquest, Hail to the Queen, and Solitude of Sin - which together combine to form a sweeping, beautifully-crafted fantasy trilogy that spans generations, sees loyalties tested and bonds betrayed, and could ultimately lead to the fate of an entire universe resting in unlikely hands. What readers have said about The Enixar series: "...held me captive in this mystical, imaginary world." "Female protagonists! A plus!" "An epic fantasy filled with intrigue." "...hard to put down." "A must read!" "An action-packed fantasy adventure." The Enixar Volumes 1-3 is fast-paced, utterly immersive, and full of twists and turns that will appeal to fans of John Flanagan's The Ranger's Apprentice, Garth Nix's The Old Kingdom, and Kim Harrison's The Hollows. Get your copy today of this amazing exciting series. If you love elements of science fantasy dragon books, science fantasy romance, science fantasy novels, epic fantasy, epic fantasy series, dark fantasy novels, dark fantasy books for adults with sorcerers, witches and wizards, and epic fantasy box or book sets, then you are going to enjoy this.

Download or read book A Handbook of Greek Sculpture written by Ernest Arthur Gardner and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Return to Hallmark written by Robert Arnold and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2019-07-18 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Return To Hallmark is about a family led by Gaberial in their pursuit to bring the world to peace. There are many sword fights, magic and dragons. The love of family along with it’s problems are also dealt with.