Abraham Lincoln is the soul of America, calling us to our best as Americans. Lincoln scholar Duncan Newcomer has hosted more than 200 episodes of the radio series  Quiet Fire: The Spiritual Life of Abraham Lincoln.  Now, 30 of his best stories provide a month of inspirational reading in a unique volume that invites us to read the stories—or to follow a simple code to hear the original broadcast each day. “Since its beginning, radio has offered a warm medium for connecting the heart, the head, and the imagination. This delightful collection ...

The king and his wives-letters and documents History is full of notable figures, but far fewer in number are those who have become iconic. An indisputably iconic figure, even among the many great kings of England, is the towering figure of the Tudor monarch, King Henry VIII. He was, of course, the father of Queen Elizabeth I, Gloriana, an equally renowned monarch of her own golden age. She sought always to be and be seen as her father's daughter, but posterity preserves what it will of a life in the public consciousness and so aside from Henry's unmistakable ...

The earliest poem in this book ('The Sleeper's Blue Shirt') is from 1972. The most recent poems are from 2022. Ken Bolton edited this selection, drawing from five books and one chapbook. "John Levy has a magical deftness that makes world upon world appear out of nowhere. He marvels at the most ordinary circumstances and things (waiting for a bus, wrong numbers, accordion straps, a hammer, the letter K) and when he does so, there is nothing else in the universe. The work is meticulous, precise yet always unlabored. The poems come from Paris, Kyoto ...

Lose yourself in the enchanting worlds of fantasy, contemporary, steampunk, and post-apocalyptic, and let your imagination soar on a chorus of dragon wings. This lyrical collection of tales embracing change and desire, love and belonging, passion, sacrifice and triumph are composed with gossamer threads of dragon fire. Seven bewitching stories, including a Hope Within finale and a prelude to the forthcoming Seren Stone Chronicles. Let the song of dragons lead you…

This book supplies a unifying framework for the derivation of probabilistic membership values in any classification task. While statistical classifiers usually generate such probabilities which reflect the assessment uncertainty, regularization methods supply membership values which do not induce any probabilistic confidence. It is desirable, to transform or re-scale membership values to membership probabilities, since they are comparable and easier applicable for post-processing. In this book several univariate calibration methods are presented. The methods ...

Pourquoi est-ce que tu n'es pas venu hier ? oder Pourquoi t'es pas venu hier ? - welche Form gehört eher zum Standard in der normalen gesprochenen französischen Umgangssprache? Hat diese Einschätzung Konsequenzen für den Französischunterricht? Was ist unter normaler gesprochener Umgangssprache zu verstehen und was bedeutet Standard in diesem Zusammenhang? Sind alle Formen der unverbundenen Personalpronomen von gleicher kommunikativer Rentabilität? Lohnt sich das intensive Üben des Unterschieds von Passé composé ...

With a scarlet fever epidemic raging throughout London, a rogue baron on the loose, a new baby keeping him up at night, and a kingdom to run, the last thing David has time for is a trip to the twenty-first century. But as he should know by now, time waits for no man, not even the King of England …

Dans l'histoire de l'humanité, dialogue permanent entre le présent et le passé, l'expérience a montré que la manière la plus simple de se souvenir de l'histoire, de raconter des événements, de s'informer, a été de les raconter ; même les moins habiles ont compris le style le plus efficace pour décrire la variété des phénomènes dans ce processus continu, colloque permanent entre l'historien et les faits, qu'a été l'histoire.