Author: Robert Wilder Publisher: Delta ISBN: 0385339267 Category : Humor Languages : en Pages : 290
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In the tradition of Dave Barry, an irreverent look at fatherhood from a dad who truly loves his kids—even when they’re driving him nuts. “Robert Wilder’s hilarious and boldly candid essays about the realities of parenting go down like gin and tonic on a hot summer afternoon.”—People A Santa Fe dad shares heartwarming, comic, often ludicrous tales of raising a family in this laugh-out-loud book perfect for anyone who enjoys the edgy humor of David Sedaris or the whimsical commentary of Dave Barry. Waxing both profound and profane on issues close to a father’s heart—from exploding diapers to toddler tantrums, from the horrors of dressing up as Frosty the Snowman to the moments that make a father proud—Robert Wilder brilliantly captures the joys and absurdities of being a parent today. With an artist wife and two kids—a daughter, Poppy, and a son, London—Robert Wilder considers himself as open-minded as the next man. Yet even he finds himself parentally challenged when his toddler son, London, careens around the house in the buff or asks the kind of outrageous, embarrassing questions only a kid can ask. A high school teacher who sometimes refers to himself jokingly as Mister Mom (when his wife, Lala, is busy in her studio), Wilder shares warmly funny stories on everything from sleep deprivation to why school-sponsored charities can turn otherwise sane adults into blithering and begging idiots. Whether trying to conjure up the perfect baby name (“Poppy” came to his wife’s mother in a dream) or hiring a Baby Whisperer to get some much-needed sleep, Wilder offers priceless life lessons on discipline, potty training, even phallic fiddling (courtesy of young London). He describes the perils of learning to live monodextrously (doing everything with one hand while carrying your child around with the other) and the joys of watching his daughter morph into a graceful, wise, unique little person right before his eyes. By turns tender, irreverent, and hysterically funny, Daddy Needs a Drink is a hilarious and poignant tribute to his family by a man who truly loves being a father.
Author: Eric Siegel Publisher: John Wiley & Sons ISBN: 1119145686 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 368
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"Mesmerizing & fascinating..." —The Seattle Post-Intelligencer "The Freakonomics of big data." —Stein Kretsinger, founding executive of Advertising.com Award-winning | Used by over 30 universities | Translated into 9 languages An introduction for everyone. In this rich, fascinating — surprisingly accessible — introduction, leading expert Eric Siegel reveals how predictive analytics (aka machine learning) works, and how it affects everyone every day. Rather than a “how to” for hands-on techies, the book serves lay readers and experts alike by covering new case studies and the latest state-of-the-art techniques. Prediction is booming. It reinvents industries and runs the world. Companies, governments, law enforcement, hospitals, and universities are seizing upon the power. These institutions predict whether you're going to click, buy, lie, or die. Why? For good reason: predicting human behavior combats risk, boosts sales, fortifies healthcare, streamlines manufacturing, conquers spam, optimizes social networks, toughens crime fighting, and wins elections. How? Prediction is powered by the world's most potent, flourishing unnatural resource: data. Accumulated in large part as the by-product of routine tasks, data is the unsalted, flavorless residue deposited en masse as organizations churn away. Surprise! This heap of refuse is a gold mine. Big data embodies an extraordinary wealth of experience from which to learn. Predictive analytics (aka machine learning) unleashes the power of data. With this technology, the computer literally learns from data how to predict the future behavior of individuals. Perfect prediction is not possible, but putting odds on the future drives millions of decisions more effectively, determining whom to call, mail, investigate, incarcerate, set up on a date, or medicate. In this lucid, captivating introduction — now in its Revised and Updated edition — former Columbia University professor and Predictive Analytics World founder Eric Siegel reveals the power and perils of prediction: What type of mortgage risk Chase Bank predicted before the recession. Predicting which people will drop out of school, cancel a subscription, or get divorced before they even know it themselves. Why early retirement predicts a shorter life expectancy and vegetarians miss fewer flights. Five reasons why organizations predict death — including one health insurance company. How U.S. Bank and Obama for America calculated the way to most strongly persuade each individual. Why the NSA wants all your data: machine learning supercomputers to fight terrorism. How IBM's Watson computer used predictive modeling to answer questions and beat the human champs on TV's Jeopardy! How companies ascertain untold, private truths — how Target figures out you're pregnant and Hewlett-Packard deduces you're about to quit your job. How judges and parole boards rely on crime-predicting computers to decide how long convicts remain in prison. 182 examples from Airbnb, the BBC, Citibank, ConEd, Facebook, Ford, Google, the IRS, LinkedIn, Match.com, MTV, Netflix, PayPal, Pfizer, Spotify, Uber, UPS, Wikipedia, and more. How does predictive analytics work? This jam-packed book satisfies by demystifying the intriguing science under the hood. For future hands-on practitioners pursuing a career in the field, it sets a strong foundation, delivers the prerequisite knowledge, and whets your appetite for more. A truly omnipresent science, predictive analytics constantly affects our daily lives. Whether you are a consumer of it — or consumed by it — get a handle on the power of Predictive Analytics.
Author: Raymond D. Schweitzer Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1543466133 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 269
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This book is an adult book relating a marriage of domestic violence concerning two people who were never suitable for each other. It relates a reprehensible story of male dominance, wife beatings domestic violence, child molestation, and eventually, death by an internal moral conscience too late. It is written with brief details of the life of a small family where they deal with abysmal attempts internally to have an outward appearance of congeniality. This is, of course, fiction; however, many particulars are actually occurring in ordinary lives. This is just one of many books I have written. I do hope the readers understand that they are fictional stories but could actually occur in homes all over the world. Maybe even your neighbors?
Author: Rene Webb Publisher: Rene Webb ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 524
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WELCOME TO PINETREE This collection includes all 3 stories that are in the world of Pinetree, Vermont, as well as several deleted scenes! FINDING SUNSHINE (Pinetree Romance, #1) ✓ Ex-Con ✓ College Graduate ✓ Date Auction Will Aaron’s dark past derail the couple’s bright future? Aaron A chance meeting with a beautiful ray of sunshine changed my future. And propelled me to dig myself out of the darkness. I never expected to see her again at a Valentine’s Day Date Auction. Now I’ll stop at nothing to make her my woman, keep her, and protect her from the truth of my rough past. Nina I haven’t been able to the man out of my thoughts since we met. His penetrating gaze, his sexy growl, and the power of his natural dominance when he came to my rescue. Our relationship soon heats up, but not everyone in our lives is excited about it. LOVE FOUND (Pinetree Romance, #2) Truth: marriage isn't easy! Nina The honeymoon is over... This Valentine’s Day past insecurities resurface, a snow storm rages and Aaron and I discover how much we have to learn about one another! Will the winter chill between them melt or will Valentine’s Day be ruined? A WHITE HOT CHRISTMAS ✓ Meet-Cute ✓ Snowstorm ✓ Mounted Policeman How the hell did I get here? It’s Christmas morning, and I can’t help but wonder how a solo vacation in search of a white Christmas led me to have a hot and hard man between my thighs. I had not intended on meeting the rude hottie, who was home for the holidays, or the freak snowstorm that trapped us together. Keeping warm has never been this hot! -------- "Great story lines and characters, awesome!! Loved this boxset." ~ KathleenP
Author: Elaine Viets Publisher: Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc. ISBN: 1625673264 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 274
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From Anthony and Agatha Award-winning author Elaine Viets—the thrilling mystery series about one woman trying to make a living... while other people are making a killing. When Fort Lauderdale’s wealthiest want to discreetly trade their best barely-worn threads for cash, they bring it to Snapdragon’s Second Thoughts—which is where Helen Hawthorne finds herself selling the most chic second-hand clothing in Florida. But the usual haggling turns homicidal when a particularly petty customer turns up dead—dangling by a darling Gucci scarf—and Helen's boss Vera is eyed as a suspect. Helen knows Vera can drive a hard bargain but can’t believe Vera would resort to murder. And while she would like to help, a sudden tragedy forces Helen to return to St. Louis—where she has the chance to face the past she’s been running from. Now, if Helen doesn’t quickly deal with her fugitive status—as well as her own fractious family—she won’t make it back home in time to prevent the police from making a very unfashionable arrest...
Author: Angela Y. Davis Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 030757444X Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 465
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From one of this country's most important intellectuals comes a brilliant analysis of the blues tradition that examines the careers of three crucial black women blues singers through a feminist lens. Angela Davis provides the historical, social, and political contexts with which to reinterpret the performances and lyrics of Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday as powerful articulations of an alternative consciousness profoundly at odds with mainstream American culture. The works of Rainey, Smith, and Holiday have been largely misunderstood by critics. Overlooked, Davis shows, has been the way their candor and bravado laid the groundwork for an aesthetic that allowed for the celebration of social, moral, and sexual values outside the constraints imposed by middle-class respectability. Through meticulous transcriptions of all the extant lyrics of Rainey and Smith−published here in their entirety for the first time−Davis demonstrates how the roots of the blues extend beyond a musical tradition to serve as a conciousness-raising vehicle for American social memory. A stunning, indispensable contribution to American history, as boldly insightful as the women Davis praises, Blues Legacies and Black Feminism is a triumph.
Author: Rhea T. Jackson Publisher: Lyrical Hearts Press ISBN: 057835618X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 595
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Happiness exited their relationship five years ago, and he’s the reason it happened so she believes. Breanna Ellis longs for the bliss she once shared with Elijah Bryson, her longtime boyfriend and even more wonderful father to their daughter. Yet that ship set sail the moment he began controlling her life because of the high-risk pregnancy she endured. Tired of him not talking to her and infuriated with watching his business grow when he wouldn’t let her live her life, Breanna set her sights on getting what she wants. Enter Nathaniel Morrison—the tall chocolate alluring old high school fling with the cognac eyes has much more to offer than Elijah ever could. Each moment Breanna spends with him is bliss. He listens to her every word, comforts her when she needs it most, and leaves her lips craving for more. But when Breanna thinks things in her life are looking up, Elijah opens himself more to her, forcing her to choose between the two of them—two men who know nothing of each other until Elijah learns of Nathaniel, and Nathaniel’s patience begins wearing thin with her. Can Breanna fix the mess she’s created between these two men?
Author: Clarke, Lynn Publisher: Anaphora Literary Press ISBN: 1681140187 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 274
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The story begins five years after Evidence and Judgment ends. Jane Sidley, now Kaminski, struggles to cope with her husband Ansel’s disappearance into booze and depression, when he literally vanishes after a flight from Heathrow. A father-in-law with a suspicious past, an old flame, Roy, who wants to replace Ansel as Jane’s lover and the father of their five year old son, Walker, and an aging but still handsome private eye who falls into bed with Jane’s college age babysitter round out a strong cast of unreliable characters. As the search for Ansel draws Jane into danger, she reflects on the meaning of marriage to a loving, creative man whose addictions mean he was never fully present, and may never be, even if she can find him.
Author: Glen Cook Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 144063078X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 439
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View our feature on Glen Cook's Cruel Zinc Melodies. Garrett uncovers the dark side of the fantasy city TunFaire, where no one is to be trusted especially beautiful women. When a pack of gorgeous women knock on his door, Garrett knows it’s too good to be true. The leader of the group is Alyx Weider, the daughter of the largest brewer in town. Her father and friends are opening a new theater in TunFaire and the lovely ladies are there to persuade Garrett to help get rid of the paranormal parasites living in the new construction. Garrett agrees because after all, it means free beer and the company of these beautiful girls. What else could a man want? But Garrett doesn’t realize the drama he’s stepping into.
Author: Elisabeth Staab Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc. ISBN: 1402263198 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 229
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This Fight Is Personal... Wizards and vampires have been mortal enemies since the beginning. Now Anton, son of the Wizard Master, has one last chance to steal the unique powers of the vampire king's beautiful sister, Tyra...and then kill her. But when he meets Tyra face-to-face, everything changes... Tyra will stop at nothing to defeat the wizards, until Anton saves her life and she suddenly sees an opportunity she never could have imagined... As the sparks ignite between them, together they could bring an end to the war that's decimating their people, but only if they can find a way to trust each other... Praise for King of Darkness: "Hot, sexy, and on-your-toes action."—Seriously Reviewed "One tough heroine, an absolutely sexy hero, and an interesting host of supporting characters you're going to love."—Night Owl Reviews Reviewer Top Pic, 4 1⁄2 stars "An amazing debut...Fun, romance, and all the things you need in an astonishing tale."—RomFan Reviews "A refreshing take on vampire wars...A striking, unique new series."—Long and Short Reviews
Author: Robert Wilder
Author: Eric Siegel
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Author: Angela Y. Davis
Author: Rhea T. Jackson
Author: Clarke, Lynn
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