Bøger af Michael Farrell

In 2016, a team of experts wrote that Google's neural machine translation system approached the accuracy achieved by average bilingual human translators [...]. And that was not the first time a similarly ominous announcement had been made. As far back as the mid-1950s, in a Paramount newsreel filmed in a room crammed with huge reel-to-reel tape drives, a computer scientist, when asked if the project he was working on would mean the end of human translators, smugly answered: Yes, for translators of scientific and technical material. And yet here we still are, very much in the loop. This humble volume looks at various aspects of machine translation, including the history of its technological advancement, quality evaluation, typical errors, techniques for improving its output, and how human translators can tame the lion and transform machine translation into a tool that can take some of the grind out of our work, in the conviction that we will always be able to add that essential touch of lexical variety, originality and inventiveness.

Journey into Recovery was written by Michael Farrell, a Certified Addiction Specialist and the founder of The Learning Center for Adult Children. It is based upon the "Twelve-Step Focus for Adult Children" and includes his and the journey into recovery of others. It's a book, a manual, a workbook and more.

Ozzy is a very hungry but not so cunning fox roaming through the forest trying to catch what he thinks are unsuspecting forest animals without great success, join him as he goes from animal to animal before figuring out his real calling in this funny rhyming children's book also see if you can spot how all the names are linked (for the parents).

This book is a collection of World War II stories originally published to the app StoryFire, and centers around a squadron of American troops who are getting themselves into dire situations across the front lines. These stories are realistic fiction, and are meant to retain historical accuracy.

First off, this book is about the Wiccan Religion itself and about the Philosophy and the Wiccan Spirituality that drives it. This is not an instruction manual on how to become a Wiccan (or a witch) or how to perform magick. No detailed instructions are provided for either of these, however, you can find that in many other books on the market that do. Religious Wicca is a peaceful, gentle, loving system of beliefs and practices. This book is a guide to what the Wiccan Religion and Wiccan Spirituality is and what it is all about. This is done by comparing it, in moderate detail, with the mainstream religions, Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. The book describes our beliefs and introduces our group organizations of groups, circles, and covens. And it presents the basics for our various rituals and while touching a little on what magick is (the 'k' differentiates this form of magick from stage magic). Wiccan Spirituality is the basis of the Wiccan Religion and the Principles of the Beliefs of Wiccan Spirituality guide us in our journey to the Divine. These principles are explained in detail for some and not so much for others as they are complete in themselves.

Joseph P. Cahan doesn't want much. The recent college grad wants to see his first published story en route to a writing career. He wants to pursue this path in his New York hometown, aside his Irish family and life-long friends who live for football, stout and the Stones. He wants to move on from a tumultuous Dylan-soundtracked romance that had to end. It's not much-but he wants it all. Unfortunately, in the nine months following his 2001 graduation, Cahan finds these seemingly simplistic desires not so easy to realize. Told through the voice of an idealistic Cahan, Running with Buffalo is about understanding a present that longs for the past, while perpetually trying to figure out an uncertain and frightening future. It's a humorous and heartfelt testimonial about life's fearsome complexities, unanticipated changes, and the simple truths that could quell the intensity of it all. It's about the uneven journey to find a place to call home. And for Cahan, it's about running with Buffalo.

Johnny Nolan was one of Buffalo's favorite downtown draws. He spent his evenings exhaling rock's greatest lyrics, grinding out covers on guitar while basking in the adulation of devoted fans and revelers. To Nolan, those nights under the lights meant everything- until he needed to walk away. But what happens to a musician when his life strays from the stage? Does he settle into his marriage to a barroom waitress? Does he try to sooth past friction with the city's most prominent bluesman? Or does he lean on the scene's only garage band-leading Catholic priest to find his voice with or without the microphone? Throughout his journey from rock clubs to familial crisis and rediscovery of music's revelatory meaning, Nolan will find out how life unfolds- when the lights go out.

The aim of our pocket guide is to provide "at a glance" key points for the busy clinician to access when dealing with a patient, presenting the pathologies pertinent to each drug, and options for the treatment of substance dependence. In the "The Pocket Guide to Drugs and Health" we have extended the drugs covered to include the major licit psychoactive drugs: alcohol, hypnosedatives, and nicotine & tobacco.Each major drug class is examined individually (Alcohol, Cannabis, Hallucinogens, Hypnosedatives, Nicotine & tobacco, New Psychoactive Substances, Opioids, Psychostimulants). In each chapter we present information on withdrawal and dependence syndromes, toxicity, the effects upon major organ systems, and psychiatric morbidities. There are also dedicated chapters on the medical complications of injecting drug use, and the treatment of drug dependence. It is our hope that this book will form a core pocket guide for medical practitioners, physicians in training and nurses.

This accessible book examines poisoning in various contexts of international conflict.

Drawing on cases of serial poisoning from around the world, the book defines key terms, examines theories and explanations of serial homicide in relation to serial poisoning, explores the features of the poisons and examines the demographic characteristics of perpetrators of serial poisoning and their victims.

Revised edition of: Educating special children. 2nd ed. 2012.

This study looks at group dynamics in six collaborative circles: the French Impressionists; Sigmund Freud and his friends; C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and the Inklings; social reformers Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony; the Fugitive poets; and writers Joseph Conrad and Ford Maddox Ford.

Covers a range of conditions that cause learning difficulties for children, including disruptive behaviour, anxiety and depressive disorders. In each section, this book: sets out the definitions of the condition; explains the legal contexts; looks at the range of provision; and suggests intervention and support strategies.

A unique cross-disciplinary critique of the foundations of Special Education.

Focuses on educational frameworks in the United Kingdom and the United States of America. This book provides an account of the complexities of special education. It is suitable for those involved in special education, including teachers, teaching assistants, parents, administrators and others.

Giving a picture of the work of special schools, this book is useful for those teaching or planning to teach in special schools in the United Kingdom. It provides suggestions on how special schools may be developed. It address topics such as adapting the curriculum to give special schools more flexibility.

Examining a range of criticisms made of special education, this title analyses several key debates in special education giving critical responses to inform policy and practice for the future of special education. It identifies possible limitations to the special education knowledge base and provision.

This text gives a series of briefings on the main issues in primary education and the implications for schools. Presented in a handy A-Z format, readers can quickly find topics of immediate or particular interest.

While acknowledging the government's efforts to promote and implement inclusion and inclusive policies in mainstream schools, this book contends that few schools are adequately prepared to provide for all pupils with SEN. It features case studies of independent and maintained special schools and includes the views of parents and students.

`Essential reading for every SENCO, in fact, for everyone involved in special educational needs' - Dr Tony Lingard, Head of Learning Support, Cambourne Science and Community CollegeThis book provides a `route map' for special education. Through examining related disciplines, which illuminate the field, it considers how special education can be better understood.