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 Leave the Little Light On Book Three Dorchester written by Sonia Palleck and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2023-08-29 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Athena Brkovich believes in true love. Young, successful, beautiful and wild, Mason and Athena Armada are a romance for the ages. They appear to have everything anyone could want. As money pours in, their lives become more reckless. Passionate and dangerous, blind devotion leads Athena to the brink of her senses and her love is tested in ways that even she could not conceive of as a partner to Mason’s sexual voyeurism. When Athena faces motherhood, her desire for peace and her troubled past cannot be contained. While she finds herself retracing her mother’s steps, a path she swore she would never walk, Athena fails the ultimate test from Mason and she is plunged into a shame that she has never known. Athena suffers the peril of her own self destruction and she must turn inward. The little light that keeps exposing her deepest need, is also the guide for her most treacherous journey yet. How far will Athena go to worship the man she has promised herself to? Book 3 examines jealousy, infidelity, infertility, and the burden of obligations. Athena must make choices between the vision and the appearance versus the truth and the heartache; choices that will determine her ultimate destiny in their fiery tale.

Download or read book Athena s Dilemma written by Donna Del Oro and published by eXtasy Books. This book was released on 2020 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After Detective Ochoa’s cousin, Detective Inspector Villalobos, persuades Athena to help him with this baffling case, she realizes a truth that horrifies her and threatens both her and Kas. While at a crowded Christmas festival in the Sierra foothill town of Grass Valley, they encounter a man who attempts to kidnap Kas’s nephew. It was Athena’s lapse of attention which nearly causes this tragedy and threatens to destroy her relationship with Kas. Only their seeking of justice can right this wrong, and they risk their lives to do so.

Download or read book War of the Hearts 2 written by Vivian Blue and published by Sullivan Group Publishing. This book was released on 2017-08-23 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emotions are running high now that lines have been drawn. Athena felt vindicated after throwing all of Sable’s clothes over the balcony. Also, she skillfully grabbed a file out of Sable’s safe that had some inflammatory information on Ares. Sable was convinced that it was Athena’s sneaky ass that had come up in her apartment and violated her, so when Sergeant Day came to investigate the crime, and found out Sable was Ares’s estranged girlfriend, an interesting friendship emerged between the two of them, out of Kem’s necessity to get rid of Ares. Hermes’s affair with Hera is in full swing, and their feelings are starting to get deeper for each other. Hermes is getting tired of Tyche’s self-absorbed attitude, and his actions are making her start to take notice. His behavior has gotten real disrespectful, and when Sable mentions seeing Hermes and Hera coming out of a closet at a gala Tyche had thrown for the holidays, let’s just say, the shit gets real! Ares is under a lot of pressure to deliver big results on several things on his plate. Royce is still nowhere to be found, and the sudden disappearance of an important book that has all of his and Alroy’s illegal dealings goes missing. The urgency to find Royce becomes top priority over everything. Ares and Athena’s relationship has turned up a notch, and with Sable due to give birth soon, Ares is contemplating suing for sole custody and asking Athena to step in to be his unborn child’s mother. What’s going to happen when truths have to be told, and egos clash between Ares and Athena? Who’s going to win The War of the Hearts?

Download or read book Southern Fried Standards written by S. R. Maddox and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2008-05 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a career-minded woman who has lived her entire life under the shadow of her famous mother becomes involved with a Cajun blues musician, she must learn to shed the constricting limits of her family and live life on her terms. Original.

Download or read book Lonesome Hero written by Fred Stenson and published by Brindle and Glass. This book was released on 2011-02-01 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Tyrone Lock: born of farmers' stock; overeducated, underemployed. An inveterate pick-nose and clandestine squeezer of Revels in the supermarket. Disaffected in a way that Adrian Mole would recognize (though as Tyrone takes pains to point out, he's hardly a tortured artist; his BA was in Economics). Inexplicably involved with the lovely, pampered Miss Athena Till. The young couple are preparing for their first trip abroad: the obligatory horizon-widening sojourn in Europe, the Land of the Forefathers and the Wellspring of Culture. Except that this is an excursion that Tyrone would do anything to get out of. His horizons are plenty broad, thank you very much, and he'd rather spend his days taking walks with his dog, fly-fishing without a hook, and composing such melodious odes to his native land as: O Beaver Creek, In the Foothills of Alberta's Rocky Mountains, I would sooner have you, Than a bunch of crappy marble fountains. First published in 1974 and now released for the first time in paperback, Lonesome Hero is a comic classic, the award-winning smartass novel that launched a spectacular writing career. This new revised edition restores scenes deleted from the original and also features an introduction by the inimitable Mark Anthony Jarman and an afterword by the author, who reflects how glad he is, looking back at his first novel, that Lonesome Hero still manages to embody the ironies of the era, the fact that we often understood perfectly how cartoonish we were. The early '70s was about avoiding work at all costs and trying to live amusingly during all one's waking hours: about how weirdly far we would go to accomplish that.

Download or read book Athena s Champion written by David Hair and published by Canelo. This book was released on 2018-11-08 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gods and mortals collide in this spellbinding retelling of a legend from classic Greek mythology, the first in the epic Olympus Trilogy. A prophecy condemns him, a goddess binds him, but wisdom can set Odysseus free . . . Young Prince Odysseus is about to have his world torn apart. He has travelled to the oracle at Pytho to be anointed as heir to his island kingdom, but instead a terrible secret is revealed, one that tears down every pillar of his life and marks him out for death. Outcast by his family and on the run, Odysseus is offered sanctuary by Athena, goddess of wisdom, and thrust headfirst into the secret war between the gods. But can his wits, and his skill as a warrior, keep him ahead of their power games—and alive? “If you like magic and mayhem wrapped around ancient historical legends, this cup of nectar has your name on it. Recommended.” —Historical Novel Society “A refreshing, modern take of Odysseus’ story. It has humor and exciting action.” —Book Rambler

Download or read book Athena s advanced Grimoire of Enochian Magick written by Athena Wallinder and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-04-21 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Included in the book will be lessons about how to practically work with Enochian magic, the making of the tools, how to call and work with the Enochian entities, how to travel the aethyres, and so forth. There are also many images to assist one in understanding the great table, table of practice, as well as the various other diagrams. I have also included a few more risque chapters at the end about how to work Enochian sex magic, as well as a chapter on how to properly work with the cacodemons. Included are many FULL COLOUR images of the tools, as well as multi coloured diagrams for easier comprehension. It has been many years in waiting, and I am finally releasing my Grimoire of Enochian magic in regular print form. Before it was only available in a leather covered handbound (by me) edition. However I am now making it much more accessible to everyone.

Download or read book Daray and Arya Book 2 written by Arya Aleron And Krystal Jo-Lynnelle and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Mother of Wolves written by Michelle Hercules and published by Infinite Sky Publishing. This book was released on with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seven months after the events of Pack’s Queen, Red and her mates are finally able to enjoy their bond. With the imminent arrival of their babies, their only concern is how many diapers to buy and picking out babies’ names. But the Furies, Artemis' ancient enemies, have escaped their Underworld prison, and they’re now thirsty for revenge. Unable to touch the goddess, they have set their sight on Artemis’ former wolves, Sam and Dante. Fearsome and powerful, their malicious spell will not only affect the Wolfe brothers but everyone in Crimson Hollow. To save her mates, Red will have to rely on her instincts and on the power of the bond she shares with Tristan, Sam, and Dante. But time is not on her side. If she can’t destroy the Furies and reverse their spell, she might lose everything she loves, including her unborn children.

Download or read book Athena s advanced Grimoire of Enochian Magick Black White written by Athena Wallinder and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-04-21 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Included in the book will be lessons about how to practically work with Enochian magic, the making of the tools, how to call and work with the Enochian entities, how to travel the aethyres, and so forth. There are also many images to assist one in understanding the great table, table of practice, as well as the various other diagrams. I have also included a few more risque chapters at the end about how to work Enochian sex magic, as well as a chapter on how to properly work with the cacodemons. Included are many black & white (in this edition to lower costs) images of the tools, as well as multi shaded diagrams for easier comprehension. It has been many years in waiting, and I am finally releasing my Grimoire of Enochian magic in regular print form. Before it was only available in a leather covered handbound (by me) edition. However I am now making it much more accessible to everyone. Greyscale edition to save $$.

Download or read book Courting Athena written by Zach Lee and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2023-10-16 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What really exists? How do I know my beliefs are correct? Are my actions objectively right or wrong (and why)? What is the role of government? What are the limits of science? Does God exist? What makes me, me? These questions are all philosophical in nature. But to most people, philosophy feels like an intimidating or irrelevant topic. Courting Athena is a short introduction into this amazing subject. However, unlike many other introductions to philosophy (which, at times, can be sterile, boring, and overwhelming), this book is written with the average reader in mind. It is a short, accessible, and engaging invitation that will teach you how to think more clearly about the world around you. Each chapter summarizes a major area of philosophy and introduces you to the major ideas and thinkers you need to know. Everything from knowledge to science to political systems to religion are addressed within these pages. Athena, the mythical goddess of wisdom, invites you to engage with her in a short, yet simple journey through the incredible topic of philosophy.

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 Lovers Forever written by Shirlee Busbee and published by Kensington Publishing Corp.. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lady on the run encounters danger, passion, and a love that transcends time in the New York Times–bestselling author’s steamy Regency romance. England, 1811. While fleeing the greedy clutches of her vile cousin, Lady Tess Mandeville is robbed and left for dead in the woods. She awakes with no memory of who or where she is. But fate intervenes when she wanders into a tavern and is mistaken for a barmaid. When her accidental profession leads her into the arms of Nicholas Talmage, the darkly handsome Earl of Shelbourne, the two share a night of unrivaled passion. Nicholas whisks Tess away to his estate to be his mistress, but soon her true identity comes to light. They realize their families are locked in a mysterious, decades-old feud that could put an end to their fledgling but fiery romance. As the star-crossed pair search for answers to the secrets of their past, they strive to defend an ageless love that not even death can extinguish . . .

Download or read book The Dissonance written by Shaun Hamill and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2024-07-23 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the acclaimed author of A Cosmology of Monsters ("I loved it" —Stephen King) comes an epic contemporary fantasy, a mixture of The Magicians and It: a story of dark magic, terrible mistakes, and second chances. "You can never go home again," the saying goes—but Hal, Athena, and Erin have to. In high school, the three were students of the eccentric Professor Marsh, trained in a secret system of magic known as the Dissonance, which is built around harnessing negative emotions: alienation, anger, pain. Then, twenty years ago, something happened that shattered their coven, scattering them across the country, stuck in mundane lives, alone. But now, terrifying signs and portents (not to mention a pointed Facebook invite) have summoned them back to Clegg, Texas. There, their paths will collide with that of Owen, a closeted teenager from Alabama whose aborted cemetery seance with his crush summoned something far worse: a murderous entity whose desperate, driving purpose includes kidnapping Owen to serve as its Renfield. As Owen tries to outwit his new master, and Hal, Athena, and Erin reckon with how the choices they made as teens might connect to the apocalyptic event unfurling over the Lone Star State, shocking alliances form, old and new romances brew, and three unsuccessful adults and one frightened teen are all that stand between reality and oblivion. From one of the boldest, most brilliant voices in modern fantastical horror, The Dissonance is a thrilling and beautifully written story of magic and monsters, forgiveness and friendship.

Download or read book Sea of Thieves Athena s Fortune written by Chris Allcock and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-10-23 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long ago, at the height of the Golden Age of Piracy, the infamous pirate Ramsey and his shipmates sacrificed everything to embark on an impossible journey into the Sea of Thieves. In the present day, Larinna, an ambitious stowaway determined to leave her mark on history, joins forces with a wild and adventurous captain seeking the greatest treasure ever buried. Separated by time but united by their drive to uncover the secrets of the Sea of Thieves, both crews will face tricks, traps, and malevolent horrors unleashed from the depths of the sea as each draws nearer to Athena’s Fortune. Take a deep breath and dive into an epic story based on Rare's thrilling shared-world adventure game Sea of Thieves, where aspiring pirates can set sail on exciting voyages. Discover the tales of famously fearsome pirates whose legends endure and whose plunder still lies buried, ready for the taking.

Download or read book Leave the Little Light On Book Two London written by Sonia Palleck and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Athena Brkovich believes in true love. Athena approaches adulthood like a paint-by-number - following the directions - but will her future become the masterpiece she dreams of? After high school, Athena quickly learns that nothing in life comes for free. The hurdles Athena jumps to escape her father’s shadow and her family’s impoverished past land her in London, Ontario. Athena has to face her insecurities about not fitting in at the Ivory tower of Western. Enter Mason Armada. Charismatic, handsome and athletic, it is love at first sight. Four years of dental school culminates in an education that covers more than how to fix teeth. Athena is becoming someone she has always imagined, the princess in her own fairy tale. Still, she isn’t sure she can pin her hopes on the irresistible playboy that has stolen her heart. But when Mason’s promises feel as false as her self-belief, Athena must choose between the man she wants to marry and the man she is with. Book two delves into the themes of romantic love, social status and the struggle for independence. Immersing herself in a misguided society, Athena wades into the darkness, trusting that her prince will come and save her.