Katakana from Zero! is a fun, innovative, and integrated approach to learning katakana created by professional Japanese interpreter George Trombley and Yukari Takenaka, developed for over 10 years in live classes by YesJapan's team of native Japanese professors. Using up-to-date teaching techniques and concepts, Katakana From Zero! is the perfect book for current students of Japanese as well as absolute beginners.

"What's wrong with you?" This is a question that I heard throughout my life. From the Catholic school nuns I spent 10 years of my early education with, to the CEOs of industry leading businesses. I was used to this question but I wasn't offended by it. I just figured there was a lot wrong with me. I never passed a year of school until eleventh grade, when I discovered I was good at building.   Looking back, it is pretty clear that I had a learning disability, but with no diagnosis back then, I was on my own to figure out how to manage what ...

ANDREI TARKOVSKY: POCKET GUIDE A new pocket guide to Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky (1932-1986), director of seven feature films, including Mirror, Andrei Roublyov, Solaris and The Sacrifice. This book offers an all-round introduction to the cinema of Andrei Tarkovsky. It explores every aspect of Tarkovsky's output, including scripts, budget, production, shooting, editing, camera, sound, music, acting, themes, symbols, motifs, and spirituality. Tarkovsky's films are analyzed in depth, with scene-by-scene discussions for some famous sequences. ...

The basis of human disease state is archaeal endosymbiosis. Archaeal endosymbiosis leads to disease states like neurodegeneration, neuropsychiatric disorders, oncogenesis, metabolic syndrome and autoimmunity. The endosymbiotic archaea secretes endogenous digoxin which plays a vital role in neuro-immuno-endocrine-genetic integration. Archaeal endosymbiosis leads to the human disease state and a monistic pathology for all human diseases. The monistic treatment of human disease state involves inhibition of archaeal endosymbiosis.

One out of every three women has a pelvic floor disorder, but nobody is talking about it. Uncontrolled release of urine, feces, and gas. A visible bulge in your vagina. A cervix that sticks out of your vaginal opening. Sticking your fingers into your vagina or butthole to remove poop. Painful, embarrassing sex. The symptoms of pelvic floor disorders are about as taboo as conversation topics get. As a woman, you can't afford to be uninformed. Pelvic floor disorders are more common than breast cancer and have a major impact on your quality of life. ...

Baroness Orczy was a Hungarian who moved to London. She became a novelist, painter, and playwright. This is one of several sequels to The Scarlet Pimpernel. During the most violent days of the French Revolution there was still time for romance. The intrigue makes for an exciting adventure story.

In this book, we develop two frameworks to tackle the task of semi-structured Web data record extraction. We first present a record segmentation search tree framework in which a new search structure, named Record Segmentation Tree (RST), is designed and several efficient search pruning strategies on the RST structure are proposed to identify the records in a given Web page. We also present another DOM Structure Knowledge Oriented Global Analysis (Skoga) framework which can perform robust detection of different kinds of data records and record regions. Skoga ...