![]() ![]() ![]() Eric Carle passed away in 2021, at the age of 91. In 2002, Eric Carle and his wife, Barbara, co-founded The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Amherst, Massachusetts. Merry Christmas from The Very Hungry Caterpillar (The World of Eric Carle) Hardcover Octoby Eric Carle (Author) 162 ratings 3.6 on Goodreads 161 ratings Hardcover 8.27 38 Used from 1.12 17 New from 6. Eric Carle was honored many times for his work, including the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award from the American Library Association and the NEA Foundation Award for Outstanding Service to Public Education, among many other national and international awards. The Very Hungry Caterpillar has sold over 50 million copies, and been translated into 70 languages. ![]() See if you can spot The Very Hungry Caterpillar among ornaments, candy canes, gifts, and more! With Eric Carle's bright, colorful illustrations, this is the perfect addition to every child's library and a wonderful gift for the holidays!Ībout the Author Eric Carle was the legendary and bestselling creator of The Very Hungry Caterpillar and over 70 other classic books for very young children. About the Book "See if you can spot The Very Hungry Caterpillar among ornaments, candy canes, gifts, and more!"-īook Synopsis Ring in the holidays with festive search-and-find fun in this Christmas tree-shaped board book perfect for fans of The Very Hungry Caterpillar! Featuring the classic character The Very Hungry Caterpillar, this cheerful Christmas tree-shaped book is a celebration of the season. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() It reached its peak popularity during the expert systems boom of the 1980s. This approach is known as symbolic AI, and it was the dominant paradigm in AI from the 1950s to the late 1980s. For a fairly long time, many experts believed that human-level artificial intelligence could be achieved by having programmers handcraft a sufficiently large set of explicit rules for manipulating knowledge. Early chess programs, for instance, only involved hardcoded rules crafted by programmers, and didn’t qualify as machine learning. As such, AI is a general field that encompasses machine learning and deep learning, but that also includes many more approaches that don’t involve any learning. A concise definition of the field would be as follows: the effort to automate intellectual tasks normally performed by humans. Artificial intelligence was born in the 1950s, when a handful of pioneers from the nascent field of computer science started asking whether computers could be made to “think”-a question whose ramifications we’re still exploring today. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Greece is an idea as well as a modern Republic. “It is a much much longer period that we have to thank you for, because you were there at the birth of our civilisation and you planted the seeds that we have reaped throughout our civilisation,” he said. In a video posted by the Greek Embassy in UK, British veteran Stephen Fry congratulated Greece for the 200th anniversary of its War of Independence against Ottoman rule and urged the UK to return the Parthenon Marbles. Stephen Fry calls for the return of the ‘Parthenon Marbles’ to Greece Thrilled & deeply honoured to have the REAL one conferred upon me by H.E. JKR did not invent the Order of the Phoenix. He was bestowed the honour "for his contribution in enhancing knowledge about Greece in the United Kingdom and reinforcing ties between our two countries." This prestigious medal is bestowed to personalities, Greek citizens or foreigners, who have helped raise Greece’s prestige internationally and have excelled in their field of practice or in public life. ![]() Ioannis Raptakis, Ambassador of Greece in London, on Wednesday. British actor-comedian Stephen Fry was presented with the medal of the Grand Commander of the Order of the Phoenix, by H.E. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Other Characters Black Dagger Brotherhood Members ![]() Jane Whitcomb compels him to reveal his inner pain and taste true pleasure for the first time- until a destiny he didn't choose takes him into a future that cannot include her. But when a mortal injury puts him in the care of a human surgeon, Dr. As a member of the Brotherhood, he has no interest in love or emotion, only the battle with the Lessening Society. As a pretrans growing up in his father's war camp, he was tormented and abused. Ruthless and brilliant, Vishous son of the Bloodletter possesses a destructive curse and a frightening ability to see the future. Now, the cold heart of a cunning predator will be warmed against its will… And there exists a secret band of brothers like no other-six vampire warriors, defenders of their race. In the shadows of the night in Caldwell, New York, there’s a deadly war raging between vampires and their slayers. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Griffin?” asked the man in question from his chair near the fire. Ever since Pa insisted I choose either my lover or my family. Two months had passed now with no word from them. At one time I’d written faithfully to my adoptive parents back in Kansas and received their letters in return. Letters were simple things, weren’t they? I wrote a handful a week: to my cousin Ruth, to friends out west, to clients. Late on a Sunday afternoon, I sat in the study, afraid to write a letter. “Carousel” first appeared in Another Place in Time, © 2014 by Boys in Our Books.Īuthor’s Note: “Carousel” takes place between the events of Stormhaven and Necropolis. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. ![]() ![]() ![]() The company ended up in the Cyclops’ cave and their first thought was to steal his food and drive the lambs down to their ships. Odysseus brought twelve men with him and some wine, given to him by a priest of Apollo whose children he had once protected. Odysseus took some men and explored the island’s interior to see what creature lived on the island. Odysseus and his crew killed nine goats and feasted on their meat. The island was fertile and men seldom visited it. These giant brutes live in caves and have no laws. ![]() Odysseus quickly set off before any more of his men ate the lotus plant and lost their desire to return to their homes.Ĥ Book Nine He then landed on the island of the Cyclops. ![]() Odysseus had to drag his men off the island and put them in chains on his ship. ![]() When the Lotus Eaters gave Odysseus’ men the dewy plant to eat, they lost all memory or desire to return home. When Odysseus’ men tasted the fruit of the lotus (a delicious plant) they did not want to leave the island. Odysseus then drifted on the seas for ten days until he reached the island of the Lotus Eatersģ Book Nine Having escaped across stormy seas they landed on the island of the Lotus-Eaters. The Cicones called on their neighbours for help and Odysseus’ men were driven from the island. Firstly, he fought a pitch battle with the Cicones, whose island the hero and his men plundered. He then begins an account of his wanderings from Troy. 2 Book Nine Odysseus tells the assembly who he is. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Lucy Maud Montgomery is perhaps best known as the author of the Anne of Green Gables series. He confides in Rilla that he feels he is a coward. Rilla's brother Walter, who is of age, does not enlist, ostensibly due to a recent bout with typhoid but truly because he fears the ugliness of war and death. ![]() Once the Continent descends into war, Jem Blythe and Jerry Meredith promptly enlist, upsetting Anne, Nan, and Faith Meredith (who Rilla suspects is engaged to Jem). (In an aside, it is revealed that Marilla has died her date of death is not specified but Rilla states it was before she was old enough to know her very well.) Her parents worry because Rilla seems not to have any ambition, is not interested in attending college, and is more concerned with having fun. Set almost a decade after Rainbow Valley, Europe is on the brink of the First World War, and Anne's youngest daughter Rilla is an irrepressible almost-15-year-old, excited about her first adult party and blissfully unaware of the chaos that the Western world is about to enter. Rilla of Ingleside (Anne of Green Gables #8)Īnne Shirley (Fictional character), Canada, Canadiana, fiction, juvenile, Family Saga This book is a member of the special collection Special Collection: The Works of Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942) ![]() ![]() ![]() Too drunk to go on, she collapses in the theater alley after her understudy has scored an opening night triumph. After Anne and Lyon have reconciled their differences and then broken up again, Neely gets the chance for a comeback on Broadway but she is still emotionally incapable of facing an audience. Jennifer, who has been paying Tony's bills by making nudist films in Europe, learns she has breast cancer and commits suicide. ![]() Neely is persuaded to enter the same sanitarium where Tony is dying of an incurable disease. ![]() As time passes, Neely finds herself incapable of adjusting to fame: two unsuccessful marriages (to press agent Mel Anderson and costume designer Ted Casablanca) have led to both alcoholism and drug addiction. Eventually Anne and Lyon quarrel over his refusal to marry Lyon quits the law firm to resume his writing and Anne appears in a series of TV commercials. ![]() At the same time beautiful but untalented Jennifer North falls in love with nightclub singer Tony Polar and marries him despite the objections of his sister, Miriam. Lyon Burke, an associate in the law firm, gets Neely a spot on a TV show that leads to stardom in Hollywood. On her first day, she is present at a Broadway rehearsal when hard-boiled musical comedy star Helen Lawson discharges a talented newcomer, Neely O'Hara, because she threatens to steal the show. New Englander Anne Welles arrives in New York City and accepts a secretarial job with a leading theatrical law firm. ![]() ![]() ![]() People who lose sight later on in life, the Late Blind (LB) or adventitiously blind, retain the influence of visual experience and are likely to retain memory of visual imagery. However, they may have an advantage conveyed by their education in mobility skills. For example, if people are Congenitally Blind (CB), that is, born without sight or lose it soon after birth, they will not benefit from visual experience or visual imagery. The age of onset of blindness has implications for how well people use their sense of touch. Unfortunately, this is not the case for all eye disorders, and some individuals have to contend with blindness. Diseases that inevitably led to blindness in the past, for example, wet AMD, are now treatable. It is fortunate, however, that new very successful treatments now exist for cataracts. A number of eye diseases increase in frequency with aging, notably cataracts, glaucoma and Age related Macular Degeneration (AMD). However, if we are fortunate to live long enough, we are likely to suffer some degree of visual impairment, including, perhaps, blindness. 6 Passive Tactile Perception in Blindness. ![]() 2 Pictures and Pattern Perception by Blind People. ![]() ![]() ![]() Shel Silverstein's incomparable career as a bestselling children's book author and illustrator began with Lafcadio, the Lion Who Shot Back. Since it was first published fifty years ago, Shel Silverstein's poignant picture book for readers of all ages has offered a touching interpretation of the gift of giving and a serene acceptance of another's capacity to love in return. The Giving Tree, a story of unforgettable perception, beautifully written and illustrated by the gifted and versatile Shel Silverstein, has been a classic favorite for generations. About the Book This story of a boy who grows to manhood, and of a tree that gives him her bounty through the years, is a moving parable about the gift of giving and the capacity to love. ![]() |