Joshua: 1696 books

China's Homeless Generation is a study of nearly two million Chinese who were displaced from home in Mainland China to the island of Taiwan. A result of the Chinese civil war between the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), this massive migration began around 1948...

Joshua Chamberlain was a man of many hats, both in battle and in the classroom. Chamberlain is known today for being President of Bowdoin College in Maine and being one of the main heroes of Little Round Top while in command of the 20th Maine on Day 2 at Gettysburg. After Gettysburg, Colonel Chamberlain...

Performance tasks are highly effective tools to assist you in implementing rigorous standards. But how do you create, evaluate, and use such tools? In this bestselling book, educational experts Charlotte Danielson and Joshua Dragoon explain how to construct and apply performance tasks to gauge students’...

Explore the world of neural networks by building powerful deep learning models using the R ecosystem Key Features Get to grips with the fundamentals of deep learning and neural networks Use R 3.5 and its libraries and APIs to build deep learning models for computer vision and text processing Implement...

First book in Joshua Palmatier's new epic fantasy trilogy, set in a sprawling city of light and magic fueled by a ley line network. Erenthrall—sprawling city of light and magic, whose streets are packed with traders from a dozen lands and whose buildings and towers are grown and shaped in...

It's been five years since the disappearance of the Matriarch. With the siege of Triyard and the mass evacuation of its citizens, the Consortium has been plunged into chaos and its standing in the Charted Known diminished considerably. This loss has prompted a number of floaters to secede from the ancient...

After discovering plans that the Freestates were intending on launching an attack against the Consortium from their facility on Ettad, Sabas Yan rushed back to Advent territory to warn the Senate of the threat. Coming down from their mad escape and the revelation that one of his companions — the...

On what seems an ordinary day in Philadelphia PA, local financier Porter Maddox witnesses a brutal murder only to take a near lethal fall down a city subway stairwell shortly after. He subsequently loses his memory and is pursued by Collins and Gunn, the Philadelphia Police, who badly need information...

Out of the ashes of a world long-gone arose a great and powerful warlord, a king who learned and mastered the five archaic magics. The king unified the poisoned lands, spreading his tyranny like a plague. He enslaved entire realms, crucifying all who opposed. But the king's maddening reign shall not...

Magic is alive and well throughout the world. It's always been there, and it still is; just waiting for those willing to see it. For most it is but a passing dream, too elusive to grasp, but for those who look closely it comes roaring into their lives with the strength of inevitable permanency.Long...

In the past, the distinctions between art and science weren't as clear-cut as they are today, and philosophers, researchers, and artists often shared insights and ideas. It was in that heady atmosphere that Sir Joshua Reynolds first rose to prominence, initially through his "Grand Style" paintings, but...

When Arcadia Jones, a Harvard professor and curator of the Metropolitan Museum in New York City receives a scrap of what appears to be an old manuscript, she has it carbon dated and confirms that it is from the 1500’s During research, her hunch suggests that the sample is from one of da Vinci’s...

All Jet wanted was a Gift, certainly not the responsibility that would come with it—the prophesied powers that would hurl him against Hell’s invasion.In a world where everyone is given special powers by their Lord, there was one among them that wasn’t: Jet Burner. Believed to be shunned...

When we think about viruses we tend to consider ones that afflict humans—such as those that cause influenza, HIV, and Ebola. Yet, vastly more viruses infect single-celled microbes. Diverse and abundant, microbes and the viruses that infect them are found in oceans, lakes, plants, soil, and animal-associated...