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Perhaps this book will be understood only by someone who has himself already had the thoughts that are expressed in it-or at least similar thoughts.
-So it is not a textbook.
-Its purpose would be achieved if it gave pleasure to one person who read and understood it.
The book deals with the problems of philosophy, and shows, I believe, that the reason why these problems are posed is that the logic of our language is mis-understood. The whole sense...
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Every culture is a unique answer to a fundamental question: What does it mean to be human and alive? In The Wayfinders, renowned anthropologist, winner of the prestigious Samuel Johnson Prize, and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Wade Davis leads us on a thrilling journey to celebrate the wisdom of the world's indigenous cultures. In Polynesia we set sail with navigators whose ancestors settled the Pacific ten centuries before Christ. In...
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"In 2205, the Nineteenth Amendment has been repealed and men hold absolute power. The Earth's economy relies on an insular group of linguists who "breed" women to become interstellar translators until they are sent to the Barren House to await death. But instead, these women are secretly creating a language of their own to reclaim their autonomy and make resistance possible for all."--Back cover.
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Verbal Behavior is a 1957 book by psychologist B. F. Skinner, in which he describes what he calls verbal behavior, or what was traditionally called linguistics. Skinner's work describes the controlling elements of verbal behavior with terminology invented for the analysis-echoics, mands, tacts, autoclitics and others-as well as carefully defined uses of ordinary terms such as audience.
6) Max's words
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When Max cuts out words from magazines and newspapers, collecting them the way his brothers collect stamps and coins, they all learn about words, sentences, and storytelling.
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Sa scéal corraitheach codlata seo, déanann cailín beag cur síos ar an bhfáth go bhfuil a Mam thar cionn. Feicimid í ag dul tríd a lá, ag iompar an mhothúcháin is croíúla faoina máthair.Bíonn a fhios ag Mam i gcónaí conas a mhothaíonn sí agus is féidir léi cabhrú le haon fhadhb. Is féidir lena mam an trilseán is casta a dhéanamh agus codáin a mhíniú; Is féidir lena mam cabhrú í ag dúiseacht ar maidin agus barróg a thabhairt...
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Master the concise and expressive power of a pragmatic, multi-paradigm language for JVM, Android and beyond. The purpose of this book is to guide a reader through the capabilities of Kotlin language and give examples of how to use it for the development of various applications, be it desktop, mobile or Web. Although our primary focus is on JVM and Android, the knowledge we're sharing here, to various extents, applies to other Kotlin-supported platforms...
9) I Hate PHP
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Learn The Basics Of PHP & MySQL Programming Without A Brain Overload!..."I Hate PHP" is for webmasters and designers who have always wondered what PHP could do for them; someone who wants to "do" some PHP and not outsource it. It is best to be familiar with HTML and writing / deciphering HTML code. You don't need to be a top-notch "I do it all in Notepad" kinda person - just being able to open up a text editor and understand the code is enough. Copy...
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JCL is the stuff of nightmares for many programmers and operators. This book explains JCL in such a way as to have it make sense. This book will help you learn how to tell the IBM MVS mainframe computer how and when to execute your programs. To do this you use a language called JCL, for Job Control Language. You use JCL to tell the mainframe how much memory and other resources your programs will need, how long each program should be allowed to run,...
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Best-selling author Umberto Eco's latest work unlocks the riddles of history in an exploration of the "linguistics of the lunatic," stories told by scholars, scientists, poets, fanatics, and ordinary people in order to make sense of the world. Exploring the "Force of the False," Eco uncovers layers of mistakes that have shaped human history, such as Columbus's assumption that the world was much smaller than it is, leading him to seek out a quick route...
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If you want to discover how to get started with the Python programming language to help advance your computer programming career for this year and beyond, keep reading...
- Are you a Beginner who wants to know what Programming Language to learn that is highly in-demand this year and beyond?
- Would you like to find out how to learn a simple yet powerful computer language that's behind the world's leading sites such as Google, Instagram, Netflix,...
14) C# Programming
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C# Programming: This book is specially written for Microsoft's .Net Developers in Computer Engineering and Information Technologies fields. Also those who are interested learning C#.Net can refer this book gain knowledge about power of C# for development of various .Net applications. It covers virtually most of core features and some of the advanced features of C# Programming for dynamic website development including more than hands on examples tested...
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ArcGIS is an industry standard geographic information system from ESRI.This book will show you how to use the Python programming language to create geoprocessing scripts, tools, and shortcuts for the ArcGIS Desktop environment.This book will make you a more effective and efficient GIS professional by showing you how to use the Python programming language with ArcGIS Desktop to automate geoprocessing tasks, manage map documents and layers, find and...
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Solutions to all Exercises in Let Us Python, Crosscheck Your Solutions, Practice! That is what Python Programming is all about. To be able to master Python you need to practice writing a large number of programs in it. As you try to do so, you would find that there are multiple ways of writing any program. So you need to find out whether you have chosen the best way to implement your program. That's where you would find this book useful. 'Let Us Python'...
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A good integrated development environment can be the key to creating and delivering software on time and budget. Having a programming language and a development environment that runs on multiple platforms greatly eases and lessens the time taken on creating cross-platform applications. An IDE that is compatible with a legacy code base allows developers to leverage existing libraries in future applications."Getting Started with Lazarus" is a practical,...
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This book will teach you the basic information and skills you need to develop applications with the COBOL programming language and the DB2 database management system on IBM mainframe computers running z/OS. The instruction, examples and sample programs in this book are a fast track to becoming productive with COBOL and DB2 as quickly as possible. The content of this book is easy to read and digest, well organized and focused on honing real job skills....
20) Useful Python
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Python is a versatile and powerful language that can be used for a wide variety of tasks. In this book, we'll look at how Python can be used for various tasks that will make your life easier:
• Python as a "glue" language: it helps us combine skills and programs we already know how to use by allowing us to easily convert data from one format to another. This means that we can take data in one format that we don't have tools to manipulate and change...
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