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Edging into forty-something, Karen and Pam found themselves in a state of stuck. They had checked off many of their major life goals—career, husband, children, friends—but they’d lost momentum. After griping over drinks one night, they came up with a plan to face their fears, rediscover their interests, try new things, and renew their relationships. They challenged themselves to try one new thing every week for a year—from test-driving a Maserati to target practice at a shooting range to ballroom dance lessons—and to blog about their journeys. They quickly realized it was harder than they ever imagined but came through it with a sense of clarity and purpose that has them itching to...
Marking the first 100 days of the Barack Obama Administration, this official work from a collection of well-known photographers presents a lavish celebration of President Obama's inauguration.
Comprehensive and captivating, this is the definitive astrological yearbook of the 20th century. An attractive compilation of signs and profiles, this book is an authoritative astrology book with an impressive reach. The addition of history, pop culture, and current events material makes it an enticing read.
Can working parents in America—or anywhere—ever find true leisure time? According to the Leisure Studies Department at the University of Iowa, true leisure is "that place in which we realize our humanity." If that's true, argues Brigid Schulte, then we're doing dangerously little realizing of our humanity. In Overwhelmed, Schulte, a staff writer for The Washington Post, asks: Are our brains, our partners, our culture, and our bosses making it impossible for us to experience anything but "contaminated time." Schulte first asked this question in a 2010 feature for The Washington Post Magazine: "How did researchers compile this statistic that said we were rolling in leisure—over four hour...
Featuring the world's leading astrologers and promising the elusive keys to good love, great sex, and lasting relationships, here is the most revealing and lavishly illustrated work of romantic astrology ever published. A grand and definitive chronicle of the myriad forces that shape our romantic destiny, Love Signs and You follows the popular and critically acclaimed Your Birthday Sign Through Time to deliver a vast trove of information and analysis of a century's worth of Love signs. Elegantly designed and illustrated with more than a thousand photographs and drawings, the book is a one-stop resource covering everything readers ever wanted to know about the astrology of romance:
Balint, a Jerusalem-based journalist, offers 55 diary-like commentaries on life in Israel between November 1998 and May 2001, as Israelis struggled to keep functioning under the intense pressures of terrorism inflicted on their citizenry. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Engineering Applications of Neural Networks, EANN 2019, held in Xersonisos, Crete, Greece, in May 2019. The 35 revised full papers and 5 revised short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 72 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on AI in energy management - industrial applications; biomedical - bioinformatics modeling; classification - learning; deep learning; deep learning - convolutional ANN; fuzzy - vulnerability - navigation modeling; machine learning modeling - optimization; ML - DL financial modeling; security - anomaly detection; 1st PEINT workshop.