Resources to Explore: Psychology
Positive Disintegration by Kazimierz Dabrowski
Month: January 2019
Biostatistics Software-Technology
Introduction to Natural Language Processing: Concepts and Fundamentals for Beginners
by Michael WalkerCopyright (c) 2018. This book sits in a series by the publishing house AI Sciences that traverses topics in the field of Artificial Intelligence to make these subjects more accessible for the masses. I bought this book’s Kindle Edition for only $5. Interestingly, this was one of the most expensive items in the series. I am glad to have taken this short (77-page) book for a perusal. It reviewed some of my prior…
Books Healthcare Software-Technology
Resources to Explore: Healthcare, Software
Introduction to Natural Language Processing: Concepts and Fundamentals for Beginners by Michael Walker Machine Learning and AI for Healthcare: Big Data for Improved Health Outcomes by Arjun Panesar
Fiction-Stories
The Return of the King
by J.R.R. TolkienBBC Audiobook This book brings about the trilogy’s climax – when the ring leaves Frodo’s hand into the fire of Mordor with a special literary twist. However, this climax occurs relatively early in the third book. Like most wars (or football games), the victory is apparent much earlier than the end. The tale must continue as all of the intricate details must be tied up. Such is the case with The Lord of…
Family Management-Business
Emotional Intensity in Gifted Students: Helping Kids Cope with Explosive Feelings
by Christine FonsecaCopyright (c) 2010. I picked up this book in an attempt to dive deeper into the psychological concept of emotional intensity. I’m an intense guy myself; I live in an intense workplace full of gifted people; my boss is intense; I have an intense wife and daughter at home. I’m trying to learn how to keep all these intense people (including myself) from boiling over. I could not find any management books on…
Fiction-Stories
The Age of Innocence
by Edith WhartonWritten in 1920. This tale spans 20-30 years, two continents, and the hearts of two women and one man. Newland Archer is engaged in pre-World-War-One New York City to May Welland. However, he falls for May’s cousin Ellen who is fresh off a separation from her marriage in Europe. Ellen seems to respond (however subtly) to Newland’s flirtations and overtures. Newland seems torn between his two lovers and seems to prefer Ellen over…
Fiction-Stories
The Two Towers
by J.R.R. TolkienBBC Audiobook This second retelling of Tolkien’s masterpiece trilogy of The Lord of the Rings contains more of the same. Like all middle-pieces of trilogies, tensions are unresolved and themes are explored more deeply. Middle-pieces of trilogies are never completely satisfying. The reader does not discover something new (that is left for the first book), and the reader does not come to an end (that is left for the third book). Instead, there is…
Fiction-Stories
Lincoln: A Novel
by Gore VidalCopyright (c) 1984 Lincoln is our nation’s savior and helped free an entire race of people from slavery. As such, he has risen to near-saint status. Most books by American historians – and even those takes like that in the British HG Well’s A Short History of the World – essentially form a hagiography. Fortunately, our age has Gore Vidal’s work of historical fiction, which places Lincoln as a politician and lawyer first. Lincoln,…
Fiction-Stories
The Fellowship of the Ring
by J.R.R. TolkienBBC Audiobook How to review a narrative that has been a turned into classic tetralogy and a well-funded multimillion-dollar movie trilogy? I’ve chosen to do so via a trilogy dramatized and produced for radio by the BBC. In a few hours’ time, I let my mind recess into listening to words of fantasy. British accents and the deep tradition of the English language adorned my rides home. An escape was the result –…
Fiction-Stories Kids
A Wrinkle in Time
by Madeleine L’EngleCopyright (c) 1962 I have been hearing of this book for a long time. I did not read it as a child nor as a youth. Nonetheless, L’Engle’s name circulates in some of the literary circles in which I read (e.g., fans of C.S. Lewis or J.R.R. Tolkein). L’Engle’s work portrays a broadly Christian worldview with a tale of the triumph of love. In so doing, she spins Einstein’s description of the universe…