Introduction to Research in Leadership examines the process and skills required for effectively conducting research on the concept of leadership. Its authors employ a microscope for close analysis and build balconies to see trends and gain perspective. Designed to be imminently practical, it employs concrete examples of fictional graduate students, faculty, and professionals struggling with their own issues to help readers make sense of the world of research and all of its complexities. Fi...

Ancients and moderns alike have constructed arguments and assessed theories on the basis of common sense and intuitive judgments. Yet, despite the important role intuitions play in philosophy, there has been little reflection on fundamental questions concerning the sort of data intuitions provide, how they are supposed to lead us to the truth, and why we should treat them as important. In addition, recent psychological research seems to pose serious challenges to traditional intuition-driv...

A young child’s fate is at stake in a deadly battle between his deceased parents in this gripping and profoundly original psychological thriller, perfect for fans of What Have You Done and Middle of the Night.When a commercial flight crashes, all 184 people on board perish—with the singular exception of a two-year-old boy named Ethan, who’s entrusted to family friends Matthew and Nicole per his late parents’ wishes.From the afterlife, Etha...

Two people scarred by past trauma have a chance to write a new chapter in their lives, overcome loss, and find love in the third entry in the Madison River Romance series.Screenwriter Cecilia ""Blue"" Walker is victim to life's worst plot twists. Having lost her daughter to the depths of the Madison River and her husband to the arms of another woman, she finds herself yearning for something to restore her brittle faith and once-vibrant career.Hope arrives in the form of her...

Is the life she can’t remember one she’d rather forget?One year after her family was in a tragic car accident that killed her teenage son, Lori Mendenhall returns home with a traumatic brain injury that has stolen the last eight years of memories from her, leaving the life she has returned to unrecognizable.Her once-loving husband, Michael, is a distant workaholic she isn’t sure she can trust, and her once-bubbly daughter, Avery, has spent the last year hidden away in her ro...

Is the Life She Can't Remember One She'd Rather Forget?One year after her family was in a tragic car accident that killed her teenage son, Lori Mendenhall returns home with a traumatic brain injury that has stolen the last eight years of memories from her. She is shocked to find that the life she was leading before the accident is unrecognizable. Her once-loving husband, Michael, is a distant workaholic she isn't sure she can trust and her once-bubbly daughter, Ave...

This book is a comprehensive guide to understanding and utilizing PyTorch 2.0 for deep learning applications. It starts with an introduction to PyTorch, its various advantages over other deep learning frameworks, and its blend with CUDA for GPU acceleration. We delve into the heart of PyTorch - tensors, learning their different types, properties, and operations. Through step-by-step examples, the reader learns to perform basic arithmetic operations on tensors, manipulate them, and ...

This book has been updated with Pandas 2.3, and it's exactly what ML engineers, data scientists and data engineers have been waiting for. It's a hands-on desk guide that's full of solutions, and it's the most up-to-date, production-ready book to the most widely used data manipulation library in the Python ecosystem.This book covers all the big changes in Pandas 2.3, like Copy-on-Write semantics, PyArrow-backed types that sa...

Starting a PyTorch Developer and Deep Learning Engineer career? Check out this 'PyTorch Cookbook,' a comprehensive guide with essential recipes and solutions for PyTorch and the ecosystem. The book covers PyTorch deep learning development from beginner to expert in well-written chapters.The book simplifies neural networks, training, optimization, and deployment strategies chapter by chapter. The first part covers PyTorch basics, data preprocessing, tokenization, and vocabulary. Nex...

He's been in love with her for ten years. He's got six weeks left to say it.Grant Talbot has shown up for Jenna Ludington for a decade. Handyman. Math tutor. The man in every seat her girls' father left empty. He's also been hopelessly in love with her the whole time—and he's never said a word. He doesn't need to. She's made it clear he's her best friend, and that's all he'll ever be.So he's leaving. A restaurant, an ocean, a fresh start in New Zealand—enou...

A young widow is tempted to love again after her heartbreaking loss in this new Madison River Romance.After her husband's tragic death, Ryann Marie Ashcroft's only remaining dream is to save her family's struggling mountain resort. And the last person she wants to rely on is a brooding stranger with secrets of his own.Nicknamed America's rock-and-roll pastor, Shane Olson arrives in Montana after a viral video destroys his marriage, his ministry, and his reputation. Working ...

Keira Knudsen gets the traveling opportunity of a lifetime, but when she reunites with her first love, shelearns that even a wandering heart needs a home. …No one in the quaint town of West Yellowstone, Montana, knows that unassuming geography teacher KeiraKnudsen moonlights as sensational travel blogger Kat Wanderfull. No one, that is, except for her first love, RobbieMatthews, who has just discovered the woman he is falling for online is the same one that bro...