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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"In 2205, the Nineteenth Amendment has been repealed and men hold absolute power.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.
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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...
7) The Centre
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"Anisa Ellahi dreams of being a translator of "great works of literature," but mostly spends her days subtitling Bollywood movies and living off her parents' generous allowance. Adding to her growing sense of inadequacy, her mediocre white boyfriend, Adam, has successfully leveraged his savant-level aptitude for languages into an enviable career. But when Adam learns to speak Urdu practically overnight, Anisa forces him to reveal his secret. Adam...
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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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An interactive way to introduce the world of Python Programming. This Book is meant for wide range of readers who wish to learn the basics of Python programming language. It can be helpful for students, programmers, researchers, and software developers. The basic concepts of python programming are dealt in detail. The various concepts of python language such as object-oriented features, operators, native data types, control structures, functions,...
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There are hundreds of Java books on the market that discuss the APIs of various packages, discuss patterns and introduce the developer to the Java language. This book will do none of those things. Instead the book will focus on the core of the Java language and the APIs that come in the JDK itself. This book will introduce professional developers to the 9 principles of maintainable code and demonstrate how those principles can be applied with 120...
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"Coding Fun: Learn C Programming with Games, Animations, and Mobile Apps" is an engaging and interactive book designed to introduce kids and teens to the world of programming using C#. Through a series of fun projects, including games, animations, and mobile apps, readers will learn core programming concepts in a hands-on and enjoyable way.The book starts with an introduction to programming, explaining what it is and why it is important to learn....
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Computer Programming In C Language: Computer Programming In C Language teaches the generic Programming techniques using C programming language in an easy-to-follow style, without assuming previous experience in any other language. A variety of examples make learning these Concepts with C both fun and practical. This book is organized in such a manner that students and programmers with prior knowledge of Programming can find it easy, crisp and readable....
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Neural Networking has been with us for a long time, in "Artificial Intelligence" (Newell, Shaw, Simon, 1956). The Linked List is used in everything from Word Processing to database design, however: the problems now facing the users are memory leaks and compromises to security. Novel implementation of the Binary Search Tree and the latest compiler can solve these issues of security in a science that started as models of the human mind.
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Ruby was designed by Matz, who is also called as Yukihiro Matsumoto. This is a scripting language and it can run on many different platforms like Mac OS, Windows and also different versions of UNIX. Ruby is an object oriented scripting language because even strings and integers are also having intrinsic properties and methods.
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