A picture book adaptation of Charles Darwin's groundbreaking On the Origin of Species, lushly illustrated and told in accessible and engaging easy-to-understand text for young readers.On the Origin of Species revolutionized our understanding of the natural world. Now young readers can discover Charles Darwin's groundbreaking theory of evolution for themselves in this stunning picture-book adaptation that uses stylish illustrations and simple text ...

When Jonty's parents go away, Jonty is a little uneasy about spending his summer vacation with Grandma Gladys. His grandmother is lots of fun, but Jonty knows he is going to miss his parents.Spending time with Grandma Gladys turns out to be even more surprising than Jonty imagines. He meets the “Bun Angels,” watches for a scary pike that lives under the dock, and finds unusual treasures in Grandma’s old dresser. But Grandma’s birthday party turns out to be the best day of all.

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is responsible for a third of all deaths in women and more than a half in men. Despite continuous improvements in treatment devices and imaging, there is still a rise in the morbidity rate from CVDs each year. Compiled by experts in the field, a thorough investigation is given to current topics and problems relating to CVD, which will enable the scientific and medical communities to search for the most effective strategies for dealing with these diseases. As on...

This book constitutes the revised selected papers of the 10th International Conference on Information, Communication and Computing Technology, ICICCT 2025, held in New Delhi, India, on May 24, 2025.The 17 full papers presented here were carefully reviewed and selected from 403 submissions. These papers have been categorized into the following topical sections: Intelligent systems and Pattern recognition.

This book constitutes the referred proceedings of the 17th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications, VISIGRAPP 2022, Virtual Event, February 6–8, 2022.The 15 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 392 submissions. The purpose of VISIGRAPP is to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in both theoretical advances and applications of computer vision, computer graphics ...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Technologies, ICTCon 2025, held in Kokrajhar, India, during December 2–3, 2025.The 36 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 136 submissions. They are organized into the following topical sections: Computer Vision; Artificial Intelligence; Data Science; and Trends and Technologies.

This book constitutes the revised selected papers of the second International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Technologies, ICTCon 2024, held in Kokrajhar, India, during December 2–3, 2024.The 37 full papers were presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 103 submissions. These papers were organized into the following topical sections: Artificial Intelligence; Data Science; Computing; and Computer Vision.

This book constitutes the revised selected papers of the 19th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics, VISIGRAPP 2024, held in Rome, Italy, during February 27–29, 2024.The 26 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 431 submissions. The papers are categorized into the following topical sections: Computer Graphics Theory and Applications; Human Computer Interaction Theory and Applications; Information Visualiz...

This book is about a first grade little boy who was the only student in the class who had not lost his first tooth. Everyone in this elementary school, including the bus driver, knew that Billy B had not lost his tooth. He could not wait for the day his first tooth came out so that he could put it in the special envelope designed by his principal. This envelope was given to all students to give to the Tooth Fairy.Billy B's tooth was loose, but it would not come out. Well, Billy B l...

Wharton, Hemingway, and the Advent of Modernism is the first book to examine the connections linking two major American writers of the twentieth century, Edith Wharton and Ernest Hemingway. In twelve critical essays, accompanied by a foreword from Wharton scholar Laura Rattray and a critical introduction by volume editor Lisa Tyler, contributors reveal the writers’ overlapping contexts, interests, and aesthetic techniques.Thematic sections highlight modernist trends found ...

The book offers a comprehensive overview of current research in Slavic linguistics from a theoretical and experimental perspective and from a variety of languages. The selected papers from the 11th European Conference on Formal Description of Slavic Languages (FDSL 11) that took place at the University of Potsdam in 2015, illustrate the advancement of Slavic linguistic studies and their outreach for the development of general linguistics. The guest paper by Noam Chomsky at the beginning of...

This accessible and classroom-tested textbook/reference presents an introduction to the fundamentals of the interdisciplinary field of data science. The coverage spans key concepts from statistics, machine/deep learning and responsible data science, useful techniques for network analysis and natural language processing, and practical applications of data science such as recommender systems or sentiment analysis.Topics and features:Provides numerous pr...