Author: Sara Coppin
Publisher: Rosen Publishing Group
Keywords: fun, smart, series, outdoors, exploring, hiking
Number of Pages: 64
Published: 2000-05
List price: $29.25
ISBN-10: 0823931692
ISBN-13: 9780823931699

Author: Ben Coppin
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning
Keywords: illuminated, intelligence, artificial
Number of Pages: 739
Published: 2004-04-05
List price: $140.95
ISBN-10: 0763732303
ISBN-13: 9780763732301

Artificial Intelligence Illuminated presents an overview of the background and history of artificial intelligence, emphasizing its importance in today’s society and potential for the future. The book covers a range of AI techniques, algorithms, and methodologies, including game playing, intelligent agents, machine learning, genetic algorithms, and Artificial Life. Material is presented in a lively and accessible manner and the author focuses on explaining how AI techniques relate to and are derived from natural systems, such as the human brain and evolution, and explaining how the artificial

Authors:Alan Coppin, John Barratt,
Publisher: Palgrave Macmilla
Keywords: management, timeless
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2002-08-24
List price: $84.95
ISBN-10: 0333980808
ISBN-13: 9780333980804

Today’s managers are bombarded with a constant stream of management fads and fashions, each claiming to be the key to business success. In this book, Coppin and Barratt draw on their experience of managing change in the Historic Royal Palaces to show that successful management techniques are timeless, simple, and based on common sense. Looking back at great leaders and organizations, they identify concepts, ideas, and applications that have proven themselves over time. They demonstrate how these techniques are currently being used to run institutions such as the Tower of London, Hampton Cour

Authors:Sara L. Friedrichsmeyer, Sara Lennox, Susanne M. Zan
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Keywords: popular, culture, politics, germany, history, social, imagination, german, colonialism, legacy, imperialist
Number of Pages: 376
Published: 1999-02-01
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 047206682X
ISBN-13: 9780472066827

"Race relations" are a controversial topic in today’s Germany. Have Germans learned from the past? How far back must one go to understand the tensions, prejudices, and strategies that have marked race relations in the recently unified nation? The Imperialist Imagination explores the German preoccupation with racial and ethnic differences throughout the past two centuries, in a colonial and "postcolonial" context.Germany’s belated national unification in 1870, its short colonial period (1884-1918), and the loss of its colonies as a consequence of World War I, rather than through war

Authors:Mary Seacole, Sara Salih, Sara Salih,
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Keywords: penguin, classics, lands, seacole, adventures, mrs, wonderful
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2005-11-29
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0140439021
ISBN-13: 9780140439021

Written in 1857, Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands is the autobiography of a Jamaican woman whose fame rivaled Florence Nightingale’s during the Crimean War. Seacole traveled widely before arriving in London, where her offer to volunteer as a nurse in the war was met with racism and refusal. Undaunted, she set out independently to the Crimea, where she acted as doctor and "mother" to wounded soldiers while running her business, the "British Hotel." Told with energy, warmth, and humor, her remarkable life story and accounts of hardships at the battlefront offer

Author: Sara T. Fry
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Publisher
Keywords: ethics, nursing, studies, case
Number of Pages: 488
Published: 2005-08-01
List price: $70.95
ISBN-10: 0763730378
ISBN-13: 9780763730376

As the healthcare professional in closest contact with both the patient and the physician, nurses face biomedical ethical problems in unique ways. Accordingly, Case Studies in Nursing Ethics presents basic ethical principles and specific guidance for applying these principles in nursing practice, through analysis of over 150 actual case study conflicts that have occurred in nursing practice. Each case study allows readers to develop their own approaches to the resolution of ethical conflict and to reflect on how the traditions of ethical thought and professional guidelines apply to the situati

Author: Sara Zed
Publisher: Astrolog Publishing House
Keywords: complete, reading, guides, series, leaf, tea, guide, coffee, grounds
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 1998-04-01
List price: $6.95
ISBN-10: 9654940043
ISBN-13: 9789654940047

Tarot card reading, dream symbolism, astrology, and the reading of body characteristics are explored in depth, as is the use of objects, such as crystals and coffee grounds, significant in their ability to connect humans with another realm of existence. Other avenues into otherworldly experience, such as channeling, the I Ching, meditation, and Wicca are also extensively discussed.