Attack Of The Black Rectangles

Author : A. S. King
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-06
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781338680546

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Attack of the Black Rectangles by A. S. King Pdf

Award-winning author Amy Sarig King takes on censorship and intolerance in a novel she was born to write. When Mac first opens his classroom copy of Jane Yolen's The Devil’s Arithmetic and finds some words blacked out, he thinks it must be a mistake. But then when he and his friends discover what the missing words are, he's outraged. Someone in his school is trying to prevent kids from reading the full story. But who? Even though his unreliable dad tells him to not get so emotional about a book (or anything else), Mac has been raised by his mom and grandad to call out things that are wrong. He and his friends head to the principal's office to protest the censorship... but her response doesn't take them seriously. So many adults want Mac to keep his words to himself. Mac's about to see the power of letting them out. In Attack of the Black Rectangles, acclaimed author Amy Sarig King shows all the ways truth can be hard... but still worth fighting for.

Author : Kekla Magoon
Publisher : Yearling
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781524715984

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The Season of Styx Malone by Kekla Magoon Pdf

A CORETTA SCOTT KING HONOR BOOK AND THE WINNER OF THE BOSTON GLOBE HORN BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION! "Extraordinary friendships . . . extraordinary storytelling." --Rita Williams-Garcia, Newbery Honor and Coretta Scott King Award-Winning author of One Crazy Summer Meet Caleb and Bobby Gene, two brothers embarking on a madcap, heartwarming, one-thing-leads-to-another adventure in which friendships are forged, loyalties are tested . . . and miracles just might happen. Caleb Franklin and his big brother Bobby Gene are excited to have adventures in the woods behind their house. But Caleb dreams of venturing beyond their ordinary small town. Then Caleb and Bobby Gene meet new neighbor Styx Malone. Styx is sixteen and oozes cool. Styx promises the brothers that together, the three of them can pull off the Great Escalator Trade--exchanging one small thing for something better until they achieve their wildest dream. But as the trades get bigger, the brothers soon find themselves in over their heads. Styx has secrets--secrets so big they could ruin everything. Five best of the year lists! NPR, HornBook, Kirkus Reviews, SLJ, Shelf Awareness Five starred reviews!

Author : Tongliang Liu,Geoff Webb,Lin Yue,Dadong Wang
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-26
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9789819983889

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AI 2023: Advances in Artificial Intelligence by Tongliang Liu,Geoff Webb,Lin Yue,Dadong Wang Pdf

This two-volume set LNAI 14471-14472 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 36th Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AI 2023, held in Brisbane, QLD, Australia during November 28 – December 1, 2023. The 23 full papers presented together with 59 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 213 submissions. They are organized in the following topics: computer vision; deep learning; machine learning and data mining; optimization; medical AI; knowledge representation and NLP; explainable AI; reinforcement learning; and genetic algorithm.

Author : W. C. Corning,J. A. Dyal,A. O. D. Willows
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781468430127

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Invertebrate Learning by W. C. Corning,J. A. Dyal,A. O. D. Willows Pdf

Author : Jennifer Egan
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781472102812

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Black Box by Jennifer Egan Pdf

'Close your eyes and slowly count backward from ten.' America, the near future. A young spy on a mission logs her observations. The result is an intense thriller, and a minute dissection of the experience of a woman whose beauty is also her camouflage, for whom control relies on submission: a woman whose success - whose life - depends on being seen and not seen. Originally published online via Twitter by @NYerFiction, Jennifer Egan's first new fiction since the phenomenal success of A Visit From the Goon Squad is a taut, compulsive work of unrelenting genius.

Author : Lindsay Lackey
Publisher : Roaring Brook Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781250202857

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All the Impossible Things by Lindsay Lackey Pdf

A bit of magic, a sprinkling of adventure, and a whole lot of heart collide in All the Impossible Things, Lindsay Lackey's extraordinary middle-grade novel about a young girl navigating the foster care system in search of where she belongs. "Wise and wondrous, this is truly a novel to cherish.” —Katherine Applegate, New York Times–bestselling author of Wishtree An Indies Introduce Selection Red’s inexplicable power over the wind comes from her mother. Whenever Ruby “Red” Byrd is scared or angry, the wind picks up. And being placed in foster care, moving from family to family, tends to keep her skies stormy. Red knows she has to learn to control it, but can’t figure out how. This time, the wind blows Red into the home of the Grooves, a quirky couple who run a petting zoo, complete with a dancing donkey and a giant tortoise. With their own curious gifts, Celine and Jackson Groove seem to fit like a puzzle piece into Red’s heart. But just when Red starts to settle into her new life, a fresh storm rolls in, one she knows all too well: her mother. For so long, Red has longed to have her mom back in her life, and she’s quickly swept up in the vortex of her mother’s chaos. Now Red must discover the possible in the impossible if she wants to overcome her own tornadoes and find the family she needs.

Author : Denise Johnson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 619 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-18
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781003817529

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The Joy of Children's Literature by Denise Johnson Pdf

• Fully updated research and inclusion of recent children’s book titles, including more diverse and inclusive literature such as LGBTQ children’s books • New Read, Watch, Listen resources within each chapter; new Activities for Professional Development and Print and Online Resources sections • New emphases and expanded attention to censorship and diversity.

Author : Biao Luo,Long Cheng,Zheng-Guang Wu,Hongyi Li,Chaojie Li
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-29
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9789819981786

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Neural Information Processing by Biao Luo,Long Cheng,Zheng-Guang Wu,Hongyi Li,Chaojie Li Pdf

The nine-volume set constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, ICONIP 2023, held in Changsha, China, in November 2023. The 1274 papers presented in the proceedings set were carefully reviewed and selected from 652 submissions. The ICONIP conference aims to provide a leading international forum for researchers, scientists, and industry professionals who are working in neuroscience, neural networks, deep learning, and related fields to share their new ideas, progress, and achievements.

Author : Astrid Sigel,Helmut Sigel,Roland K. O. Sigel
Publisher : Royal Society of Chemistry
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781849730945

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Structural and Catalytic Roles of Metal Ions in RNA by Astrid Sigel,Helmut Sigel,Roland K. O. Sigel Pdf

The discovery of ribozymes triggered a huge interest in the chemistry and biology of RNAs. Much of the recently made progress focusing on metal ions is addressed in Volume 9. This book, written by 28 internationally recognized experts, provides a most up-to-date view and it is thus of special relevance for colleagues teaching courses in biological inorganic chemistry and for researchers dealing, e.g., with nucleic acids, gene expression, and enzymology, but also for those in analytical and bioinorganic chemistry or biophysics. Structural and Catalytic Roles of Metal Ions in RNA describes metal ion-binding motives, methods to detect and characterize metal ion binding sites, and the role of metal ions in folding and catalysis. It deals with diffuse metal ion binding, RNA quadruplexes, the regulation of riboswitches, metal ions and ribozymes, including artificial ribozymes. The ribosome, ribozymes and redox cofactors, as well as the binding of kinetically inert metal ions to RNA are also considered.

Author : Cory Doctorow
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250757524

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Attack Surface by Cory Doctorow Pdf

Cory Doctorow's Attack Surface is a standalone novel set in the world of New York Times bestsellers Little Brother and Homeland. Most days, Masha Maximow was sure she'd chosen the winning side. In her day job as a counterterrorism wizard for an transnational cybersecurity firm, she made the hacks that allowed repressive regimes to spy on dissidents, and manipulate their every move. The perks were fantastic, and the pay was obscene. Just for fun, and to piss off her masters, Masha sometimes used her mad skills to help those same troublemakers evade detection, if their cause was just. It was a dangerous game and a hell of a rush. But seriously self-destructive. And unsustainable. When her targets were strangers in faraway police states, it was easy to compartmentalize, to ignore the collateral damage of murder, rape, and torture. But when it hits close to home, and the hacks and exploits she’s devised are directed at her friends and family--including boy wonder Marcus Yallow, her old crush and archrival, and his entourage of naïve idealists--Masha realizes she has to choose. And whatever choice she makes, someone is going to get hurt. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Dale Walters
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-23
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781118783078

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Physiological Responses of Plants to Attack by Dale Walters Pdf

Despite the research effort put into controlling pathogens, pestsand parasitic plants, crop losses are still a regular feature ofagriculture worldwide. This makes it important to manage the cropappropriately in order to maximise yield. Understanding therelationship between the occurrence and severity of attack, and theresulting yield loss, is an important step towards improved cropprotection. Linked to this, is the need to better understand themechanisms responsible for reductions in growth and yield inaffected crops. Physiological Responses of Plants to Attack is unique because itdeals with the effects of different attackers – pathogens,herbivores, and parasitic plants, on host processes involved ingrowth, reproduction, and yield. Coverage includes effects onphotosynthesis, partitioning of carbohydrates, water and nutrientrelations, and changes in plant growth hormones. Far from beingsimply a consequence of attack, the alterations in primarymetabolism reflect a more dynamic and complex interaction betweenplant and attacker, sometimes involving re-programming of plantmetabolism by the attacker. Physiological Responses of Plants to Attack is written anddesigned for use by senior undergraduates and postgraduatesstudying agricultural sciences, applied entomology, cropprotection, plant pathology and plant sciences. Biological andagricultural research scientists in the agrochemical and cropprotection industries, and in academia, will find much of use inthis book. All libraries in universities and researchestablishments where biological and agricultural sciences arestudied and taught should have copies of this exciting book ontheir shelves

Author : Saadia Faruqi,Laura Shovan
Publisher : Clarion Books
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : JUVENILE FICTION
ISBN : 9780358116684

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A Place at the Table by Saadia Faruqi,Laura Shovan Pdf

Sara, a Pakistani American girl, and Elizabeth, a white Jewish girl, bond in a cooking class in this story about sixth grade, food, friendship, family and what it means to belong.

Author : A.S. King
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-26
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781101994924

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Dig by A.S. King Pdf

Winner of the Michael L. Printz Medal ★“King’s narrative concerns are racism, patriarchy, colonialism, white privilege, and the ingrained systems that perpetuate them. . . . [Dig] will speak profoundly to a generation of young people who are waking up to the societal sins of the past and working toward a more equitable future.”—Horn Book, starred review “I’ve never understood white people who can’t admit they’re white. I mean, white isn’t just a color. And maybe that’s the problem for them. White is a passport. It’s a ticket.” Five estranged cousins are lost in a maze of their family’s tangled secrets. Their grandparents, former potato farmers Gottfried and Marla Hemmings, managed to trade digging spuds for developing subdivisions and now they sit atop a million-dollar bank account—wealth they’ve refused to pass on to their adult children or their five teenage grandchildren. “Because we want them to thrive,” Marla always says. But for the Hemmings cousins, “thriving” feels a lot like slowly dying of a poison they started taking the moment they were born. As the rot beneath the surface of the Hemmings’ white suburban respectability destroys the family from within, the cousins find their ways back to one another, just in time to uncover the terrible cost of maintaining the family name. With her inimitable surrealism, award winner A.S. King exposes how a toxic culture of polite white supremacy tears a family apart and how one determined generation can dig its way out.

Author : Andrea Vedaldi,Horst Bischof,Thomas Brox,Jan-Michael Frahm
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 840 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-03
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783030585921

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Computer Vision – ECCV 2020 by Andrea Vedaldi,Horst Bischof,Thomas Brox,Jan-Michael Frahm Pdf

The 30-volume set, comprising the LNCS books 12346 until 12375, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV 2020, which was planned to be held in Glasgow, UK, during August 23-28, 2020. The conference was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The 1360 revised papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 5025 submissions. The papers deal with topics such as computer vision; machine learning; deep neural networks; reinforcement learning; object recognition; image classification; image processing; object detection; semantic segmentation; human pose estimation; 3d reconstruction; stereo vision; computational photography; neural networks; image coding; image reconstruction; object recognition; motion estimation.

Author : Natalie Lloyd
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-25
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780545552721

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A Snicker of Magic (Scholastic Gold) by Natalie Lloyd Pdf

Introducing an extraordinary new voice---a magical debut that will make your skin tingle, your eyes glisten . . .and your heart sing. Midnight Gulch used to be a magical place, a town where people could sing up thunderstorms and dance up sunflowers. But that was long ago, before a curse drove the magic away. Twelve-year-old Felicity knows all about things like that; her nomadic mother is cursed with a wandering heart.But when she arrives in Midnight Gulch, Felicity thinks her luck's about to change. A "word collector," Felicity sees words everywhere---shining above strangers, tucked into church eves, and tangled up her dog's floppy ears---but Midnight Gulch is the first place she's ever seen the word "home." And then there's Jonah, a mysterious, spiky-haired do-gooder who shimmers with words Felicity's never seen before, words that make Felicity's heart beat a little faster. Felicity wants to stay in Midnight Gulch more than anything, but first, she'll need to figure out how to bring back the magic, breaking the spell that's been cast over the town . . . and her mother's broken heart.