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 The Judas Ride written by Peggy Sue Yarber and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2009-12 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unwed (and unwanted) teen pregnancy with two possible fathers. Abusive relationships. Drug and alcohol addiction. Rape and molestation. The struggle to understand grace, forgiveness, and free will versus predestination. "The Judas Ride" hits the road running in the opening pages, where Sonia and Xavier argue explosively about whether Sonia should have their unborn child and about who the father is: Xavier, a struggling Christian, or Vader, an abusive and abused drug dealer. As the pages turn, readers continue to meet a hodgepodge of troubled teens and eclectic characters, including Pastor Manny, a quirky immigrant pastor infatuated with John Wayne. Pastor Manny desires to help the tortured souls in his community but finds that it takes more than unconditional love to reach them. Secrets literally kill in "The Judas Ride," an edgy, in-your-your face Christian novel that boldly explores the struggles of modern-day young people.

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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 The Enixar The Solitude of Sin written by Mikkell Khan and published by Mind of Khan Studios. This book was released on with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The god-king is dead, but his legacy lives on. With the Enixar locked away and last uprising trounced sixteen years ago, Sorceress Queen Amadalia and King Meriaus struggle to rebuild peace on the planet Gramadon. A rebel force defies the King’s orders and embraces dangerous ancient magic, fortifying their strongholds against the King’s legion of dragons. The rebel force kidnaps Queen Amadalia and her daughter, Athena, sending the princess into a terrifying spiral as she’s forced to use her deadly magic for the rebels. Athena, princess of Gramadon, has lived a happy yet sheltered life. She’s beloved by the country folk and the rebels believe her to be their only chance at bringing true peace to the Kingdom. She’ll discover her mother’s true colors and the ancient power in her blood that’ll test her with temptation and power. Stable boy Ruil Golen finds himself on a rescue mission to retrieve the Queen and Princess, all thanks to his emerging wizardly healing abilities. Falling in love with Athena is a complication he shares with the rebel leader and will prove to be his downfall when he’s forced to choose between the betterment of planet Gramadon or the desires of his own heart. THE ENIXAR: SOLITUDE OF SIN is book 3 in the epic fantasy series The Enixar. Prepare yourself for epic battles with wizards and dragons, ancient gods of magic, and the never-ending fight for the Enixar that’ll end in betrayal that turns a powerful family against one another. Get your copy of this exciting story today! 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, then you are going to enjoy this.

Download or read book Don s Darling written by Kirsten Osbourne and published by Unlimited Dreams Publishing. This book was released on 2021-12-01 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Minnie has been in love with the same man since she was old enough to squirt glue all over him, but for some absurd reason, he runs the other way when he sees her come toward him. When she happens upon him at her job, she tells him he’s afraid of her and all but dares him to go out with her. A double date with her best friend—his sister Athena—takes them into uncharted territory. Don Weston has intense feelings for the last woman in the world he wants to marry. Minnie is nice enough, but she’s way too much like his sister for things to be able to work out between them. When he accepts her challenge to go out with him, he hopes that seeing her spend time with his sister will make him feel like she’s his sister too. Will Minnie be able to make the most of her time with Don? Or will their feelings never come to fruition?

Download or read book Cruel Intent written by J.A. Jance and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-12-11 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ali Reynolds doesn't go looking for trouble - but trouble comes looking for her when the battered, bloodstained body of Morgan Forester is discovered by her twin daughters. For the prime suspect, Morgan's husband, is the contractor Ali has hired to help re-design her home. Bryan Forester swears he had nothing to do with the killing - but no one, including Ali's boyfriend, Homicide Detective Dave Holman, believes him. Was Morgan's death the result of a domestic dispute that turned violent - or is her murder part of something far more sinister? In her determination to prove Bryan's innocence, Ali finds she has unwittingly entered a deadly game of cyber hide-and-seek with a ruthless killer.

Download or read book Goddess of Buttercups Daisies written by Martin Millar and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aristophanes is inconsolable—his rival playwrights are hogging all the local attention, a pesky young wannabe poet won’t leave him alone, his actors can’t remember their lines, and his own festival sponsor seems to be conspiring against him, withholding direly needed funds for set design and, most importantly, giant phallus props. O woe, how can his latest comedy convince Athenian citizens to vote down another ten years of war against Sparta if they’re too busy scoffing at the diminutive phalluses? And why does everyone in the city-state seem to be losing their minds? Wallowing in one inconvenience after another, Aristophanes is unaware that the Spartan and Athenian generals have unleashed Laet, the spirit of foolishness and bad decisions, to inspire chaos and war-mongering in Athens. To counteract Laet’s influence, Athena sends Bremusa, an Amazon warrior, and Metris, an endearingly airheaded nymph (their first choice was her mother Metricia, but she grew tired of all the fighting and changed back into a river). Dashing between fantastical scenes of moody and meddlesome gods, ever-applicable political debates in the senate, backstage scrambling for the play, and glimpses of life in Ancient Greece, Martin Millar delivers another witty and comical romp for readers of all ages.

Download or read book Teaching Evidence Based Writing Fiction written by Leslie Blauman and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2016-09-19 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One in a million. Yes, that’s how rare it is to have so many write-about-reading strategies so beautifully put to use. Each year Leslie Blauman guides her students to become highly skilled at supporting their thinking about texts, and in Evidence-Based Writing: Fiction, she shares her win-win process. Leslie combed the ELA standards and all her favorite books and built a lesson structure you can use in two ways: with an entire text or with just the excerpts she’s included in the book. Addressing Evidence, Character, Theme, Point of View, Visuals, Words and Structure, each section includes: Lessons you can use as teacher demonstrations or for guided practice, with Best the Test tips on how to authentically teach the skills that show up on exams with the texts you teach. Prompt Pages serve as handy references, giving students the key questions to ask themselves as they read any text and consider how an author’s meaning and structure combine. Excerpts-to-Write About Pages feature carefully selected passages from novels, short stories, and picture books you already know and love and questions that require students to discover a text’s literal and deeper meanings. Write-About-Reading Templates scaffold students to think about a text efficiently by focusing on its critical literary elements or text structure demands and help them rehearse for more extensive responses. Writing Tasks invite students to transform their notes into a more developed paragraph or essay with sufficiently challenging tasks geared for grades 6-8. And best of all, your students gain a confidence in responding to complex texts and ideas that will serve them well in school, on tests, and in any situation when they are asked: What are you basing that on? Show me how you know.

Download or read book Ascension written by Ken Lozito and published by Acoustical Books LLC. This book was released on 2024-01-25 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Earth’s greatest protection will become its biggest threat. When the Confederation gathers a grand armada ostensibly to liberate Earth from the Boxans, the crew of the Athena must stop them before it’s too late. Some species believe they can avoid war and endure the oppression of the Confederation while others choose to resist. The Athena and her crew struggle to keep the Star Alliance from splintering apart by offering them something unthinkable. Ascension, is the final book in the Ascension series, an action-packed space opera saga that spans worlds. A journey that began when the brave crew of the Athena left Earth to investigate an alien structure discovered in the furthest reaches of the solar system will now come to an end.

Download or read book Harlequin Love Inspired Suspense October 2016 Box Set 1 of 2 written by Terri Reed and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2016-10-01 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love Inspired Suspense brings you three new titles! Enjoy these suspenseful romances of danger and faith. IDENTITY UNKNOWN Northern Border Patrol by Terri Reed When Nathanial Longhorn washes up on deputy sheriff Audrey Martin’s beach—followed by men intent on killing him—he has no memory. And Audrey is the only one he trusts to protect him as he recovers his past. LAKESIDE PERIL Men of Millbrook Lake by Lenora Worth Chloe Conrad suspects foul play in the plane crash that killed her sister—and she hires private investigator Hunter Lawson to prove it. But when their investigation puts both of their lives in jeopardy, can they find the truth before they become the next victims? KIDNAPPED AT CHRISTMAS by Maggie K. Black When journalist Samantha Colt is kidnapped and wakes up on her boss’s porch, she can’t remember how she got there. Somebody wants to harm her, and her boss’s house sitter, soldier Joshua Rhodes, puts his life on the line to guard her.

Download or read book The Summoned written by T. L. Kramer and published by T.L. Kramer. This book was released on 2008-07-23 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Spartan, a samurai and a Global police officer are summoned to a strange world where they will undertake a dangerous quest to rescue a kidnapped prince. Strangely, so is an eleven year old runaway from the south side of Chicago. Elizabeth, and everyone else in this land known as Austere, believes her calling to be a mistake. But more importantly, something is not quite right about this mystical realm full of monsters and strange people, as they will soon discover. Great battles, treachery and mystery fill this fast-paced tale of bravery and wit. History comes alive when these warriors from different times must learn to work together. The Underground Realm is the first book in the Summoned Series by author T.L. Kramer.

Download or read book Burning Water written by Mercedes Lackey and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1992-10-15 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a bizarre and mysterious force moves from killing cattle to killing people, Detective Mark Valdez asks Diana Tregarde, a practicing witch, to help with the investigation.

Download or read book The Earth Experiment written by Patrick Vaitus and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2023-05-15 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sophisticated starship travels from a faraway galaxy to a planet capable of sustaining life. The vessel's inhabitants have undergone millennia of careful genetic selection, resulting in supreme intelligence. Due to their highly advanced technology, their lifespans have been extended to eternity. The objective is to perform an experiment at a planetary scale: The Earth Experiment. Their mission is to create intelligent life forms - beginning only with inorganic matter and without physically intervening on the planet - evolution must occur naturally. They face many unexpected complications over the course of the experiment as they use the ability to travel using the star gates technology. All is described in a highly entertaining context, spiced with conflicts between the characters. The book describes the formation of life on earth, extinctions at planetary scale, evolution from algae to intelligent human beings, the effects of alien intervention on the planet, building of pyramids, appearance of God-based religions, and so on. The reader has the opportunity to witness The Earth Experiment as if watching the earth's evolution over millennia through video cameras. Patrick Vaitus is a Canadian author. He is also the author of the book Near Dracula’s Castle.

Download or read book The Ancients written by J.W. Marvel and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2024-01-04 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prophecy. Among the heavens exists the law of the gods. Zeus, king of Olympus, believes that the world has forgotten him and his fellow Olympians and, therefore, executes judgment to destroy half the population, which goes against the sacred law. The wise council of the gods, Athena, cannot accept her father's judgment, and with the Olympians picking sides between Zeus and Athena, a war ensues. The goddess of wisdom, along with her allies, embarks on adventures that will have battles shake all of Gaea and the cosmos for the sake of mankind. She must find allies outside the Olympians to help her fight and for a chance at being victorious against the great mountain of Olympus. Witness action, drama, betrayal, and in-depth emotion of characters that will tug at your emotions. This dark and gritty side of the Olympians within the modern day will keep you wanting more. Can Athena and her allies stop Zeus and his forces, or will mankind fall victim to his wrath?

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.