The Permanent Husband

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky

Decades later after Uncles Dream, Dostoevsky wrote The Permanent Husband, also known as The Eternal Husband (1890). It is one of Dostoevskys most perfect works. Classical in form, it presents his most profound exploration of mimetic rivalry and the duality of human consciousness. A love-affair drama that is both tragedy and comedy, that follows complicated relationships, remarriages, and unrequited love. Told from the point of view of a rich and idle man who is confronted by a younger rival, the husband of his former, and now deceased, mistress, the story portrays the interchanging hatred and love of the two men. Some critics have ranked this novella among Dostoyevskys best works because of its style and structure. Alfred Bem has called it one of the most complete works by Dostoyevsky in regards to its composition and development.

MicroStrategy Quick Start Guide. Data analytics and visualizations for Business Intelligence

Fernando Carlos Rivero Esqueda

MicroStrategy is an enterprise business intelligence application. It turns data into reports for making and executing key organization decisions. This book shows you how to implement Business Intelligence (BI) with MicroStrategy. It takes you from setting up and configuring MicroStrategy to security and administration.The book starts by detailing the different components of the MicroStrategy platform, and the key concepts of Metadata and Project Source. You will then install and configure MicroStrategy and lay down the foundations for building MicroStrategy BI solutions. By learning about objects and different object types, you will develop a strong understanding of the MicroStrategy Schema and Public Objects. With these MicroStrategy objects, you will enhance and scale your BI and Analytics solutions.Finally, you will learn about the administration, security, and monitoring of your BI solution.

Transformacje i redefinicje. Adaptacja dziedzictwa architektonicznego do nowej funkcji a zachowanie ciągłości historycznej miejsca

Julia Sowińska-Heim

Autorka prezentowanej książki ukazu je wagę oraz złożoność problemów i wyzwań wynikających z wprowadzenia nowej funkcji do obiektu architektonicznego, stanowiącego część ważnego dziedzictwa kulturowego. Współczesne zjawisko adaptacji do nowej funkcji zostało ukazane z jednej strony jako konsekwencja przemian zachodzących w sposobie myślenia o dziedzictwie i jego ochronie, a z drugiej - jako ważny czynnik pobudzający zmiany, tytułowe transformacje i redefinicje, nie tylko na poziomie ingerencji w substancję materialną, lecz także roli dziedzictwa we współczesnym mieście, jego znaczeniu społecznym i kulturowym. Skala tego zjawiska oraz jego wpływ za równo na aktualny i przyszły wygląd miast, jak i na to, czy następne pokolenia będą miały możliwość odczytania pierwotnego znaczenia ważnego dla miasta i jego kultury dziedzictwa architektonicznego, sprawia, że problematyka ta ma współcześnie szczególne znaczenie. "Adaptacja historycznej tkanki architektonicznej do nowej funkcji, będąca tematem książki dr Julii Sowińskiej-Heim, staje się jednym z najbardziej charakterystycznych i reprezentatywnych elementów określających współczesną architekturę. Nie znam przykładu współczesnej adaptacji, który byłby jednoznacznie odbierany i nie budził skrajnych emocji. W tym temacie potrzeba głosu kogoś neutralnego, arbitra stojącego z boku, na przykład historyka architektury. Ta książka jest takim głosem i jest to głos niezwykle interesujący." prof. nadzw. dr hab. Bartosz Hunger "Podjęta w pracy tematyka odpowiada istotnym, współczesnym wyzwaniom z zakresu konserwacji, projektowania i planowania przestrzennego. W mojej ocenie przyjęte przez Autorkę założenia i osiągnięte efekty są wartościowym, przesiąkniętym humanistyczną refleksją głosem w dyskusji związanej ze współczesnymi, zakrojonymi na szeroką skalę praktykami konserwatorsko-architektonicznymi. prof. nadzw. dr hab. Piotr Gryglewski

The Four Pools Mystery

Jean Webster

This is a good old murder mystery, full of ghosts and everything else, and it will definitely keep the reader on the edge of their place. Terry is a really funny character. He is definitely the youngest of the two protagonists, and he is ready to prove himself, to do his best when he is disguised or on the trail, some crazy adventure a spontaneous reporter we need more these days.

Installing and Configuring Windows 10: 70-698 Exam Guide. Learn to deploy, configure, and monitor Windows 10 effectively to prepare for the 70-698 exam

Bekim Dauti

The Installing and Configuring Windows 10: 70-698 Exam Guide is designed to confirm what you already know, while also updating your knowledge of Windows 10. With its easy-to-follow guidance, you will quickly learn the user interface and discover steps to work efficiently in Windows 10 to rule out delays and obstacles.This book begins by covering various ways of installing Windows 10, followed by instructions on post-installation tasks. You will learn about the deployment of Windows 10 in Enterprise and also see how to configure networking in Windows 10. You’ll understand how to leverage Disk Management and Windows PowerShell to configure disks, volumes, and file system options. As you progress through the chapters, you will be able to set up remote management in Windows 10 and learn more about Windows update usage, behavior, and settings. You will also gain insights that will help you monitor and manage data recovery and explore how to configure authentication, authorization, and advanced management tools in Windows 10.By the end of this book, you will be equipped with enough knowledge to take the 70-698 exam and explore different study methods to improve your chances of passing the exam with ease.

Hands-On Machine Learning for Algorithmic Trading. Design and implement investment strategies based on smart algorithms that learn from data using Python

Stefan Jansen

The explosive growth of digital data has boosted the demand for expertise in trading strategies that use machine learning (ML). This book enables you to use a broad range of supervised and unsupervised algorithms to extract signals from a wide variety of data sources and create powerful investment strategies.This book shows how to access market, fundamental, and alternative data via API or web scraping and offers a framework to evaluate alternative data. You’ll practice the ML work?ow from model design, loss metric definition, and parameter tuning to performance evaluation in a time series context. You will understand ML algorithms such as Bayesian and ensemble methods and manifold learning, and will know how to train and tune these models using pandas, statsmodels, sklearn, PyMC3, xgboost, lightgbm, and catboost. This book also teaches you how to extract features from text data using spaCy, classify news and assign sentiment scores, and to use gensim to model topics and learn word embeddings from financial reports. You will also build and evaluate neural networks, including RNNs and CNNs, using Keras and PyTorch to exploit unstructured data for sophisticated strategies.Finally, you will apply transfer learning to satellite images to predict economic activity and use reinforcement learning to build agents that learn to trade in the OpenAI Gym.

The Root of All Evil

Joseph Smith Fletcher

Joseph Smith Fletcher (7 February 1863 30 January 1935) was a British journalist and author. He wrote more than 230 books on a wide variety of subjects, both fiction and non-fiction. Jackie Farnish has grown up in a grindingly poor household, and as she reaches adulthood she resolves to do whatever is necessary to claw her way out of poverty. She is loved by her childhood playmate Joe Bartle, but takes him for granted and feels that he lacks the spark or ambition to match her determination to make something of herself. Instead she pursues Albert Grice, son of a wealthy grocery store owner, and believes they have an understanding. She is horrified when Albert goes on holiday, and returns newly married to another woman.

The Winter Murder Case

S.S. Van Dine

This is the last Filo Vance novel, and it is actually not finished. Vance possessed a surprisingly vast and accurate knowledge of thousands of Willards arts and objects, and was also skeptical of life and society. But in reality, only those who superficially know Willard Huntington Wright will have this similarity. Vance as much as he was Wright.