From Satanic Mills To Machine Learning

Download From Satanic Mills To Machine Learning full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online From Satanic Mills To Machine Learning ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!

From Satanic Mills to Machine Learning

Author : Francesco della Porta
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110744473
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis From Satanic Mills to Machine Learning by : Francesco della Porta

Download or read book From Satanic Mills to Machine Learning written by Francesco della Porta and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2022-07-18 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Biden multipolar era, Western Democracies face a dilemma: Should they keep marching behind the free market band, or should they engage the Asia new powers in a collegial governance of the common goods? This book looks for precedents that may guide deliberation. When the first age of globalization collapsed into WWI, Carl Polanyi wrote: "While the various shades of anti-democrats each have their own story of the world catastrophe, the democrat has yet to produce his own" (Polanyi 2018, 177). The interwar period is described through the eyes of five witnesses: J.M. Keynes recalls the surreal Versailles conference; E. Canetti, K. Polanyi, and G. Ferrero reflect on the relationship among power, markets, and the people. In the opposite field, F. von Hayek argues for a supranational agency which may ensure global free trade, bypassing the distortions national democracies procure to global markets. For a few years in the 1990s the WTO embodied von Hayek's utopia. This book contends that globalization is an intermittent event. To support that position, two main episodes of globalization are compared: the English textile revolution and the Silicon Valley information age. Each moved through four similar phases: Industry cluster; global infrastructure; regional monopolies; transfer of global leadership. To prevent a repeat of the WWI collapse, Western democracies should promote a concerted governance of environmental issues and other common goods, rather than relying on the free market mechanism.

The Fight Against Platform Capitalism

Author : Jamie Woodcock
Publisher : University of Westminster Press
ISBN 13 : 1912656957
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (126 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Fight Against Platform Capitalism by : Jamie Woodcock

Download or read book The Fight Against Platform Capitalism written by Jamie Woodcock and published by University of Westminster Press. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: So far, platform work has been an important laboratory for capital. Management techniques, like the use of algorithms, are being tested with a view to exporting across the global economy and it is argued that automation is undermining workers’ agency. Although the contractual trick of self-employment has allowed platforms to grow quickly and keep their costs down, yet it has also been the case also that workers have also found they can strike without following the existing regulations. This book develops a critique of platforms and platform capitalism from the perspective of workers and contributes to the ongoing debates about the future of work and worker organising. It presents an alternative portrait returning to a focus on workers’ experience, focusing on solidarity, drawing out a global picture of new forms of agency. In particular, the book focuses on three dynamics that are driving struggles in the platform economy: the increasing connections between workers who are no longer isolated; the lack of communication and negotiation from platforms, leading to escalating worker action around shared issues; and the internationalisation of platforms, which has laid the basis for new transnational solidarity. Focusing on transport and courier workers, online workers and freelancers author Jamie Woodcock concludes by considering how workers build power in different situations. Rather than undermining worker agency, platforms have instead provided the technical basis for the emergence of new global struggles against capitalism.

He Paid a Debt He Did Not Owe, I Owe a Debt I Could Not Pay

Author : Dr. Vincent M. M. Galici Sr.
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1663244308
Total Pages : 770 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (632 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis He Paid a Debt He Did Not Owe, I Owe a Debt I Could Not Pay by : Dr. Vincent M. M. Galici Sr.

Download or read book He Paid a Debt He Did Not Owe, I Owe a Debt I Could Not Pay written by Dr. Vincent M. M. Galici Sr. and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2023-11-21 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contemporary figure has somewhat similar characteristics to his father, grandfather, and great grandfather; a soul-searching thinker, all the same, departing from the ruinous while conserving the beneficial side of the culture, customs, and manners in which he was raised and the larger generational dimensions embedded in it. A virtual page-turner, the highly intense and graphically detailed saga reaches its most intense crescendo in this final installment. Characters readily identifiable in your own life, cheek by jowl with the hero and foe, percolate the gamut of your emotions. Rooting for the one while despising the other, you are propelled into the bowels of the narrative. Some personalities appear to be born evil and feed on the environs; others tend to virtue and progress upon it. Protagonists and antagonists are mixed and varied; some are eternal optimists and find happiness even in dark periods; some are risk takers in the will for clarity, putting their reputation on the line; some are perpetually abstruse and find it their sad comfort zone; and then there is the many up and down others. The first and second generation Stanoli patriarchs were fond of saying, “There is nothing greater than loving God and loving your neighbor,” and “I am a learner, willing to be corrected and criticized in order to become what I ought to become no matter where it comes from,” and “I make it my moral ambition to be happy around others.

The Case for Basic Income

Author : Jamie Swift
Publisher : Between the Lines
ISBN 13 : 1771135484
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (711 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Case for Basic Income by : Jamie Swift

Download or read book The Case for Basic Income written by Jamie Swift and published by Between the Lines. This book was released on 2021-05-03 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inequality is up. Decent work is down. Free market fundamentalism has been exposed as a tragic failure. In a job market upended by COVID-19—with Canadians caught in the grip of precarious labour, stagnant wages, a climate crisis, and the steady creep of automation—an ever-louder chorus of voices calls for a liveable and obligation-free basic income. Could a basic income guarantee be the way forward to democratize security and intervene where the market economy and social programs fail? Jamie Swift and Elaine Power scrutinize the politics and the potential behind a radical proposal in a post-pandemic world: that wealth should be built by a society, not individuals. And that we all have an unconditional right to a fair share. In these pages, Swift and Power bring to the forefront the deeply personal stories of Canadians who participated in the 2017–2019 Ontario Basic Income Pilot; examine the essential literature and history behind the movement; and answer basic income’s critics from both the right and left.

Life After Google

Author : George Gilder
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1621576132
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (215 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Life After Google by : George Gilder

Download or read book Life After Google written by George Gilder and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE MONTH FROM THE WALL STREET JOURNAL: "Nothing Mr. Gilder says or writes is ever delivered at anything less than the fullest philosophical decibel... Mr. Gilder sounds less like a tech guru than a poet, and his words tumble out in a romantic cascade." “Google’s algorithms assume the world’s future is nothing more than the next moment in a random process. George Gilder shows how deep this assumption goes, what motivates people to make it, and why it’s wrong: the future depends on human action.” — Peter Thiel, founder of PayPal and Palantir Technologies and author of Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future The Age of Google, built on big data and machine intelligence, has been an awesome era. But it’s coming to an end. In Life after Google, George Gilder—the peerless visionary of technology and culture—explains why Silicon Valley is suffering a nervous breakdown and what to expect as the post-Google age dawns. Google’s astonishing ability to “search and sort” attracts the entire world to its search engine and countless other goodies—videos, maps, email, calendars….And everything it offers is free, or so it seems. Instead of paying directly, users submit to advertising. The system of “aggregate and advertise” works—for a while—if you control an empire of data centers, but a market without prices strangles entrepreneurship and turns the Internet into a wasteland of ads. The crisis is not just economic. Even as advances in artificial intelligence induce delusions of omnipotence and transcendence, Silicon Valley has pretty much given up on security. The Internet firewalls supposedly protecting all those passwords and personal information have proved hopelessly permeable. The crisis cannot be solved within the current computer and network architecture. The future lies with the “cryptocosm”—the new architecture of the blockchain and its derivatives. Enabling cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin and ether, NEO and Hashgraph, it will provide the Internet a secure global payments system, ending the aggregate-and-advertise Age of Google. Silicon Valley, long dominated by a few giants, faces a “great unbundling,” which will disperse computer power and commerce and transform the economy and the Internet. Life after Google is almost here. For fans of "Wealth and Poverty," "Knowledge and Power," and "The Scandal of Money."

Machine Learning Algorithms

Author : Giuseppe Bonaccorso
Publisher : Packt Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781789347999
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (479 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Machine Learning Algorithms by : Giuseppe Bonaccorso

Download or read book Machine Learning Algorithms written by Giuseppe Bonaccorso and published by Packt Publishing. This book was released on 2018-08-30 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An easy-to-follow, step-by-step guide for getting to grips with the real-world application of machine learning algorithms Key Features Explore statistics and complex mathematics for data-intensive applications Discover new developments in EM algorithm, PCA, and bayesian regression Study patterns and make predictions across various datasets Book Description Machine learning has gained tremendous popularity for its powerful and fast predictions with large datasets. However, the true forces behind its powerful output are the complex algorithms involving substantial statistical analysis that churn large datasets and generate substantial insight. This second edition of Machine Learning Algorithms walks you through prominent development outcomes that have taken place relating to machine learning algorithms, which constitute major contributions to the machine learning process and help you to strengthen and master statistical interpretation across the areas of supervised, semi-supervised, and reinforcement learning. Once the core concepts of an algorithm have been covered, you'll explore real-world examples based on the most diffused libraries, such as scikit-learn, NLTK, TensorFlow, and Keras. You will discover new topics such as principal component analysis (PCA), independent component analysis (ICA), Bayesian regression, discriminant analysis, advanced clustering, and gaussian mixture. By the end of this book, you will have studied machine learning algorithms and be able to put them into production to make your machine learning applications more innovative. What you will learn Study feature selection and the feature engineering process Assess performance and error trade-offs for linear regression Build a data model and understand how it works by using different types of algorithm Learn to tune the parameters of Support Vector Machines (SVM) Explore the concept of natural language processing (NLP) and recommendation systems Create a machine learning architecture from scratch Who this book is for Machine Learning Algorithms is for you if you are a machine learning engineer, data engineer, or junior data scientist who wants to advance in the field of predictive analytics and machine learning. Familiarity with R and Python will be an added advantage for getting the best from this book.

Innovating Construction Law

Author : Jim Mason
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000329097
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Innovating Construction Law by : Jim Mason

Download or read book Innovating Construction Law written by Jim Mason and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-02-25 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Innovating Construction Law: Towards the Digital Age takes a speculative look at current and emerging technologies and examines how legal practice in the construction industry can best engage with the landscape they represent. The book builds the case for a legal approach based on transparency, traceability and collaboration in order to seize the opportunities presented by technologies such as smart contracts, blockchain, artificial intelligence, big data and building information modelling. The benefits these initiatives bring to the construction sector have the potential to provide economic, societal and environmental benefits as well as reducing the incidence of disputes. The author uses a mixture of black letter law and socio-legal commentary to facilitate the discourse around procurement, law and technology. The sections of the book cover the AS IS position, the TO BE future position as predicted and the STEPS INBETWEEN, which can enable a real change in the industry. The rationale for this approach lies in ensuring that the developments are congruent with the existing frameworks provided by the law. The book proposes various steps that the industry should seriously consider taking from the current position to shape the future of the sector and ultimately create a better, more productive and sustainable construction industry. This book is a readable and engaging guide for students and practitioners looking to learn more about construction law and its relationship with technology and for those seeking a platform for graduate studies in this area.

Machine Learning

Author : Gabriel Rhys
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781978373884
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (738 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Machine Learning by : Gabriel Rhys

Download or read book Machine Learning written by Gabriel Rhys and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-10-18 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can Machines Really Learn?Machine learning (ML) is a type of artificial intelligence (AI) that provides computers with the ability to learn without being explicitly programmed. Machine learning has become an essential pillar of IT in all aspects, even though it has been hidden in the recent past. We are increasingly being surrounded by several machine learning-based apps across a broad spectrum of industries. From search engines to anti-spam filters to credit card fraud detection systems, list of machine learning applications is ever-expanding in scope and applications. The goal of this book is to provide you with a hands-on, project-based overview of machine learning systems and how they are applied over a vast spectrum of applications that underpins AI technology from Absolute Beginners to Experts.This book is a fast-paced, thorough introduction to Machine Learning that will have you writing programs, solving problems, and making things that work in no time.This book presents algorithms and approaches in such a way that grounds them in larger systems as you learn about a variety of topics, including: Supervised and Unsupervised learning methods Artificial Neural Networks Hands-on projects based on Real-world applications Bayesian learning method Reinforcement learning And much more By the end of this book, you should have a strong understanding of machine learning so that you can pursue any further and more advanced learning. Learning Outcomes: By the end of this book, you will be able to: Identify potential applications of machine learning in practice Describe the core differences in analyses enabled by regression, classification, and clustering Select the appropriate machine learning task for a potential application Apply regression, classification, and clustering Represent your data as features to serve as input to machine learning models Utilize a dataset to fit a model to analyze new data Build an end-to-end application that uses machine learning at its core Implement these techniques in Python If you've been thinking seriously about digging into ML, this book will get you up to speed. Why wait any longer?

Work Without the Worker

Author : Philip Jones
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1839760451
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (397 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Work Without the Worker by : Philip Jones

Download or read book Work Without the Worker written by Philip Jones and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are told that the future of work will be increasingly automated. Algorithms, processing massive amounts of information at startling speed, will lead us to a new world of effortless labour and a post-work utopia of ever expanding leisure. But behind the gleaming surface stands millions of workers, often in the Global South, manually processing data for a pittance. Recent years have seen a boom in online crowdworking platforms like Amazon's Mechanical Turk and Clickworker, and these have become an increasingly important source of work for millions of people. And it is these badly paid tasks, not algorithms, that make our digital lives possible. Used to process data for everything from the mechanics of self-driving cars to Google image search, this is an increasingly powerful part of the new digital economy, although one hidden and rarely spoken of. But what happens to work when it makes itself obsolete. In this stimulating work that blends political economy, studies of contemporary work, and speculations on the future of capitalism, Phil Jones looks at what this often murky and hidden form of labour looks like, and what it says about the state of global capitalism.

Machine Learning for Beginners

Author : Samuel Hack
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781801147439
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (474 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Machine Learning for Beginners by : Samuel Hack

Download or read book Machine Learning for Beginners written by Samuel Hack and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-16 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you interested in learning about the amazing capabilities of machine learning, but you're worried it will be just too complicated? Or are you a programmer looking for a solid introduction into this field? Then keep reading Machine learning is an incredible technology which we're only just beginning to understand. Those who break into this industry early will reap the rewards as this field grows more and more important to businesses the world over. And the good news is, it's not too late to start! This guide breaks down the fundamentals of machine learning in a way that anyone can understand. With reference to the different kinds of machine learning models, neural networks, and the way these models learn data, you'll find everything you need to know to get started with machine learning in a concise, easy-to-understand way. Here's what you'll discover inside: What is Artificial Intelligence Really, and Why is it So Powerful? Choosing the Right Kind of Machine Learning Model for You An Introduction to Statistics Supervised and Unsupervised Learning The Power of Neural Networks Reinforcement Learning and Ensemble Modeling "Random Forests" and Decision Trees Must-Have Programming Tools And Much More! Whether you're already a programmer or if you're a complete beginner, now you can break into machine learning in no time! Covering all the basics from simple decision trees to the complex decision-making processes which mirror our own brains, Machine Learning for Beginners is your comprehensive introduction to this amazing field! Buy Now to Discover How You Can Get Started With Machine Learning Today!

AI Magazine

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 826 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis AI Magazine by :

Download or read book AI Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 826 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Machine Learning Math

Author : ML & AI ACADEMY
Publisher : Giale Limited
ISBN 13 : 9781801255325
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (553 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Machine Learning Math by : ML & AI ACADEMY

Download or read book Machine Learning Math written by ML & AI ACADEMY and published by Giale Limited. This book was released on 2020-11-21 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you looking for a complete guide of machine learning? Then keep reading... In this book, you will learn about the OpenAI Gym, used in reinforcement learning projects with several examples of the training platform provided out of the box. Machine Learning Math is the book most readers will want to have when starting to learn machine learning. This book is a reference, something you can keep coming back to hence suitable for newbies. The book is perfect for all people who have a desire to study data science. Have you heard of machine learning being everywhere, and you intend to understand what it can do? Or are you familiar with applying the tools of machine learning, but you want to make sure you aren't missing any? Having a little knowledge about mathematics, statistics, and probability would be helpful, but this book has been written in such a way that you will get most of this knowledge as you continue reading. You should not shy away from reading the book if you have no background in machine learning. You will learn how to use reinforcement learning algorithms in other tasks, for example, the board game Go, and generating deep image classifiers. This will help you to get a comprehensive understanding of reinforcement learning and help you solve real-world problems. The most interesting part of this book is the asynchronous reinforcement learning framework. You will learn what the shortcomings of DQN are, and why DQN is challenging to apply in complex tasks. Then, you will learn how to apply the asynchronous reinforcement learning framework in the actor-critic method REINFORCE, which led us to the A3C algorithm. You will learn four important things. The first one is how to implement games using gym and how to play games for relaxation and having fun. The second one is that you will learn how to preprocess data in reinforcement learning tasks such as in computer games. For practical machine learning applications, you will spend a great deal of time understanding and refining data, which affects the performance of an AI system a lot. The third one is the deep Q-learning algorithm. You will learn the intuition behind it, for example, why the replay memory is necessary, why the target network is needed, where the update rule comes from, and so on. The final one is that you will learn how to implement DQN using TensorFlow and how to visualize the training process. The following is a glimpse of what you will find inside the book: Introduction to machine learning The best machine learning algorithms Regression (a problem of predicting a real-valued label) and classification( a problem of automatically assigning a label to unlabeled example-for example spam detection) Reinforcement learning Robotics Supervised and Unsupervised learning How to implement a convolutional neural network(usually used for images) in TensorFlow Deep Learning Data preparation and processing TensorFlow machine learning frameworks Neural Networks (a combination of linear and non-linear functions) Clustering(aims to group similar samples together) Even if you have never studied Machine Learning before, you can learn it quickly. So what are you waiting for? Go to the top of the page and click Buy Now!

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

Author : Shoshana Zuboff
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 1610395700
Total Pages : 658 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (13 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by : Shoshana Zuboff

Download or read book The Age of Surveillance Capitalism written by Shoshana Zuboff and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The challenges to humanity posed by the digital future, the first detailed examination of the unprecedented form of power called "surveillance capitalism," and the quest by powerful corporations to predict and control our behavior. In this masterwork of original thinking and research, Shoshana Zuboff provides startling insights into the phenomenon that she has named surveillance capitalism. The stakes could not be higher: a global architecture of behavior modification threatens human nature in the twenty-first century just as industrial capitalism disfigured the natural world in the twentieth. Zuboff vividly brings to life the consequences as surveillance capitalism advances from Silicon Valley into every economic sector. Vast wealth and power are accumulated in ominous new "behavioral futures markets," where predictions about our behavior are bought and sold, and the production of goods and services is subordinated to a new "means of behavioral modification." The threat has shifted from a totalitarian Big Brother state to a ubiquitous digital architecture: a "Big Other" operating in the interests of surveillance capital. Here is the crucible of an unprecedented form of power marked by extreme concentrations of knowledge and free from democratic oversight. Zuboff's comprehensive and moving analysis lays bare the threats to twenty-first century society: a controlled "hive" of total connection that seduces with promises of total certainty for maximum profit -- at the expense of democracy, freedom, and our human future. With little resistance from law or society, surveillance capitalism is on the verge of dominating the social order and shaping the digital future -- if we let it.

Enjoying the World

Author : Graham Dowell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Enjoying the World by : Graham Dowell

Download or read book Enjoying the World written by Graham Dowell and published by Bloomsbury Academic. This book was released on 1990 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Kes

Author : Barry Hines
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9781854594860
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (948 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Kes by : Barry Hines

Download or read book Kes written by Barry Hines and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This new stage adaptation of Barry Hines' well-known film and novel once again proves its gritty charm and popular staying power..." --Back cover.

No Way But Gentlenesse

Author : Richard Hines
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1408868032
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis No Way But Gentlenesse by : Richard Hines

Download or read book No Way But Gentlenesse written by Richard Hines and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-03-10 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “There is no way but gentlenesse to redeeme a Hawke” Edmund Bert, 1619 Born and raised in the South Yorkshire mining village of Hoyland Common, Richard Hines remembers sliding down heaps of coal dust, listening out for the colliery siren at the end of shifts, and praying for his father's safe return. It seemed all too likely that he would follow in his father's footsteps and end up working in the pits, especially when to his mother's horror and his own he failed the 11+, so that unlike his older brother Barry, who had passed the exam to grammar school and who seemed to be heading for great things, Richard was left without hope of academic achievement. Crushed by this, and persecuted by the cruelty of his teachers, Richard spent his time in the fields and meadows just beyond the colliery slag heap. One morning, walking in the grounds of a ruined medieval manor, he came across a nest of kestrels. Instantly captivated, he sought out ancient falconry texts from the local library, and pored over the strange and beautiful language there. With just these books, some ingenuity, and his profound respect for the hawk's indomitable wildness, Richard learned to “man”, or train, his kestrel, Kes, and in the process grow into the man he would become. Richard and his experiences with kestrels inspired Barry's classic novel A Kestrel for a Knave. When production began on what would become Ken Loach's iconic film Kes, Richard found himself training the kestrels that would soar on screen and into cinematic history. No Way But Gentlenesse is a superb, moving memoir of one remarkable boy's love for a forgotten culture, and his attempt to find salvation in the natural world.

Bastard Tongues

Author : Derek Bickerton
Publisher : Hill and Wang
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Bastard Tongues by : Derek Bickerton

Download or read book Bastard Tongues written by Derek Bickerton and published by Hill and Wang. This book was released on 2008-03-04 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why Do Isolated Creole Languages Tend to Have Similar Grammatical Structures? Bastard Tongues is an exciting, firsthand story of scientific discovery in an area of research close to the heart of what it means to be human--what language is, how it works, and how it passes from generation to generation, even where historical accidents have made normal transmission almost impossible. The story focuses on languages so low in the pecking order that many people don't regard them as languages at all--Creole languages spoken by descendants of slaves and indentured laborers in plantation colonies all over the world. The story is told by Derek Bickerton, who has spent more than thirty years researching these languages on four continents and developing a controversial theory that explains why they are so similar to one another. A published novelist, Bickerton (once described as "part scholar, part swashbuckling man of action") does not present his findings in the usual dry academic manner. Instead, you become a companion on his journey of discovery. You learn things as he learned them, share his disappointments and triumphs, explore the exotic locales where he worked, and meet the colorful characters he encountered along the way. The result is a unique blend of memoir, travelogue, history, and linguistics primer, appealing to anyone who has ever wondered how languages grow or what it's like to search the world for new knowledge.