It is, of course, a real challenge to summon together an International Sym- posium in and around the Brain Stem and Third Ventricle. Up to this mo- ment the various experiences and papers on this subject were distributed throughout the world literature, making it very difficult for someone in- terested in the matter to have access to the actual state of knowledge. Therefore I believe such a meeting

From 1974 to 1976, Langdon Clay (born 1949) photographed the cars he encountered while wandering the streets of New York City and nearby Hoboken, New Jersey, at night. Shot in Kodachrome with a Leica and deftly lit with then-new sodium vapor lights, the pictures feature a distinct array of makes and models set against the gritty details of their surrounding urban and architectural environments, and

Based on an actual incident in 1853, award-winning author Ivan Doig\'s The Sea Runners is a spare and awe-inspiring tale of the human quest for freedom.\"Goes beyond being \'about\' survival and becomes, mile by terrible mile, the experience itself.\"--New York Times Book ReviewIn this timeless survival story, four indentured servants escape their Russian Alaska work camp in a stolen canoe, only to

Readers can watch Pinkalicious and Peterrific on the funtastic PBS Kids TV series Pinkalicious & Peterrific #1 New York Times bestselling author Victoria Kann brings young readers a Pinkalicious I Can Read story about creativity, ingenuity, and fashion.Pinkalicious decides that she and her friends should play dress-up using her mother\'s clothes. But when Mommy asks them to find something else to do,

The bestselling author, clutter expert, and host of Enough Already! with Peter Walsh offers a roadmap to creating a less-is-more life and how a life of less can actually be a life of great abundance.It seems as though not a day goes by that we don\'t think about money. We try to save more. We strive to use less credit. We worry about funding our retirement and our children\'s education. Yet we continue

This workbook with digital access is the perfect companion for the coursebook. The resource reinforces learning, promotes application of theory and helps students practise the essential skills of handling data, evaluating information and problem solving. The workbook includes a range of formative exercises, mapped directly onto the coursebook. For each chapter, a range of exercises builds on the topics

The inspiration for NOT DEAD YET, ABC\'s \"Most Watched Comedy Debut in More Than Four Years\" (Deadline)\"The new Bridget Jones for our time.\"--Telegraph\"Will have you laughing whether you\'re twenty, forty, or eighty.\"--Heat (UK)A funny and heartfelt novel for any woman who wonders how the hell she got here and why life isn\'t quite how she imagined it was going to be. Meet Nell. Her life is a

When children are born with disabilities or become disabled in childhood, parents often experience bewilderment: they find themselves unexpectedly in another world, without a roadmap, without community, and without narratives to make sense of their experiences. The Disabled Child: Memoirs of a Normal Future tracks the narratives that have emerged from the community of parent-memoirists who, since the

The pig played a key role in the German Democratic Republic\'s attempts to create a modern, industrial food system built on communist principles. By the mid-1980s, East Germany produced more pork per capita than West Germany and the UK, while also suffering the unintended consequences of manure pollution, animal disease, and rolling food shortages.The pig is a highly adaptive animal, and Thomas Fleischman

Featuring 102 new dishes, this second edition provides practical suggestions to help patients and their caregivers anticipate--and overcome--the major challenges of eating well during treatment. What to Eat During Cancer Treatment offers evidence-based research and clinical information about the seven most common eating-related side effects of cancer treatment--nausea, diarrhea, constipation, trouble

Nothing is sweeter, as everyone knows, than tiny baby fingers and chubby baby

Now an esoteric of legal and criminal history, A Hangman\'s Diary gives a year-by-year breakdown on all of Master Franz Schmidt\'s executions, which included hangings, beheadings, and other methods, as well as details of each capital crime and the reason for the punishment. From 1573 to 1617, Master Franz Schmidt was the executioner for the towns of Bamberg and Nuremberg. During that span, he personally

Evoking Studs Terkel, Shen Fuyu delivers a rollicking deep dive into working life in a small village in rural China, tracing the last 100 years of history. Born in Shen Village in Southeast China, Shen Fuyu grew up in a family of farmers. Years later, Shen, now a writer, returned to his hometown to capture the village\'s rich history in the face of industrialization. Through his own childhood memories

New edition of the bestselling guide to artificial intelligence with Python, updated to Python 3.x, with seven new chapters that cover RNNs, AI and Big Data, fundamental use cases, chatbots, and more.Key Features: Completely updated and revised to Python 3.xNew chapters for AI on the cloud, recurrent neural networks, deep learning models, and feature selection and engineeringLearn more about deep learning

Just a century ago, cheese was still a relatively regional and European phenomenon, and cheese making techniques were limited by climate, geography, and equipment. But modern technology along with the recent artisanal renaissance has opened up the diverse, time-honored, and dynamic world of cheese to enthusiasts willing to take its humble fundamentals--milk, starters, coagulants, and salt--and transform

\"Humans are very adaptable: We can still fix this. But the opportunity to do so will not last for long. We must start today. We have no more excuses\" GRETA THUNBERG Follow in the footsteps of the Swedish teenage activist and Nobel Peace Prize candidate in We Are All Greta and join the global mission to save our planet from climate change. Greta Thunberg, author of No One is too Small to Make a Difference,

David Sedaris\'s beloved holiday collection is new again with six more pieces, including a never before published story. Along with such favoritesas the diaries of a Macy\'s elf and the annals of two very competitive families, are Sedaris\'s tales of tardy trick-or-treaters (\"Us and Them\"); the difficulties of explaining the Easter Bunny to the French (\"Jesus Shaves\"); what to do when you\'ve been

Now a major motion picture: Love, Simon, starring Nick Robinson and Katherine Langford This special edition of Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by award-winning author Becky Albertalli includes new Simon and Blue emails, a behind-the-scenes scrapbook from the Love, Simon movie set, and Becky Albertalli in conversation with fellow authors Adam Silvera and Angie Thomas.Sixteen-year-old and not-so-openly

Share in fifty years of a really remarkable cat...The classic Christmas story with Mog, everyone\'s favourite family cat This funny and warm-hearted escapade is in a beautiful board book format, complete with a stunning foiled cover for extra Christmas sparkle.From the creator of The Tiger Who Came to Tea and Mog the Forgetful Cat comes a delightful Christmas adventure about a really remarkable cat

The high school prodigies, now known to the world as the leaders of the Republic of Elm, have negotiated a cease-fire with the Freyjagard Empire. This unexpected peace is a welcome relief, but while most of the prodigies are now hard at work helping Elm put its best foot forward, Lyrule and Ringo have suddenly decided to have a showdown-which one of them can confess to Tsukasa