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| advice from a tree guided journal ilan shamir: Advice from a Tree - Guided Journal Ilan Shamir, 1999-03 Printed on recycled paper and news trees planted for all paper used |
| advice from a tree guided journal ilan shamir: Advice from a Tree - Journal Ilan Shamir, 2016-10-19 List Price: $12.95 5.5 x 8.5 (13.97 x 21.59 cm) Full color cover with black and white interior illustrations 102 pages Lined and blank pages Recycled and 100% Replanted paper Better World Press, Inc. ISBN-13: 9 781930 175389 ISBN-10: 1-930175-38-8 BISAC: Body, Mind & Spirit / Inspiration & Personal Growth Everyone needs a wise friend. Someone who knows how to say just the right thing. At just the right moment. Here, a hundred-year- old cottonwood tree shares its simple wisdom about life - about living in harmony with ourselves and with nature. A beautiful tree journal to celebrate nature and living ones own true nature. In addition to being printed on recycled paper, to further repay the Earth in kind for it's generosity, five new tree seedlings are planted through the nonprofit Trees Water & People for each 217 lbs of paper used. We are proud to be 100% Replanted! |
| advice from a tree guided journal ilan shamir: Advice from a River - Journal Ilan Shamir, 2016-10-19 List Price: $12.95 5.5 x 8.5 (13.97 x 21.59 cm) Full color cover with black and white interior illustrations 102 pages Lined and blank pages Recycled and 100% Replanted paper Better World Press, Inc. ISBN-13: 9 781930 175396 ISBN-10: 1-930175-39-6 BISAC: Body, Mind & Spirit / Inspiration & Personal Growth The river with its symphony of sounds plays its soothing music. Here the river shares its clear and timely wisdom about the flow of life - about living in harmony with nature and with ourselves. This beautifully illustrated journal has a great blend of lined and blank pages and lines of the Advice from a River poem interspersed though out. In addition to being printed on recycled paper, to further repay the Earth in kind for it's generosity, five new tree seedlings are planted through the nonprofit Trees Water & People for each 217 lbs of paper used. We are proud to be 100% Replanted! |
| advice from a tree guided journal ilan shamir: The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine Ilan Pappe, 2007-09-01 The book that is providing a storm of controversy, from ‘Israel’s bravest historian’ (John Pilger) Renowned Israeli historian, Ilan Pappe's groundbreaking work on the formation of the State of Israel. 'Along with the late Edward Said, Ilan Pappe is the most eloquent writer of Palestinian history.' NEW STATESMAN Between 1947 and 1949, over 400 Palestinian villages were deliberately destroyed, civilians were massacred and around a million men, women, and children were expelled from their homes at gunpoint. Denied for almost six decades, had it happened today it could only have been called 'ethnic cleansing'. Decisively debunking the myth that the Palestinian population left of their own accord in the course of this war, Ilan Pappe offers impressive archival evidence to demonstrate that, from its very inception, a central plank in Israel’s founding ideology was the forcible removal of the indigenous population. Indispensable for anyone interested in the current crisis in the Middle East. *** 'Ilan Pappe is Israel's bravest, most principled, most incisive historian.' JOHN PILGER 'Pappe has opened up an important new line of inquiry into the vast and fateful subject of the Palestinian refugees. His book is rewarding in other ways. It has at times an elegiac, even sentimental, character, recalling the lost, obliterated life of the Palestinian Arabs and imagining or regretting what Pappe believes could have been a better land of Palestine.' TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT 'A major intervention in an argument that will, and must, continue. There's no hope of lasting Middle East peace while the ghosts of 1948 still walk.' INDEPENDENT |
| advice from a tree guided journal ilan shamir: Advice from a National Park Ilan Shamir, 2017-02-28 Nature Journal Solar Eclipse Special Edition List Price: $12.95 5.5 x 8.5 (13.97 x 21.59 cm) Black & White Bleed on Cream paper Original cover and interior illustrations 104 pages Better World Press, Inc. ISBN-13: 9 781930 175488 BISAC: Nature/General Advice from a National Park Nature Journal with its guided prompts brings you closer to nature with inspiration and plenty of wide open spaces for creativity. Includes coloring pages and places to write, scrapbook, draw as well as guided nature activities. Take the beauty, connection, wonder, and history of your park experience and make it truly your own. A complete U.S. National Parks and Monuments map and checklist as well as place to record visits to favorite parks are included. In addition to being printed on recycled paper, to further repay the Earth in kind for it's generosity, five new tree seedlings are planted through the nonprofit Trees Water & People for each 217 lbs of paper used. We are proud to be 100% Replanted! |
| advice from a tree guided journal ilan shamir: Advice from a National Park - Acadia Ilan Shamir, 2017-01-03 Nature Journal List Price: $12.95 5.5 x 8.5 (13.97 x 21.59 cm) Black & White Bleed on Cream paper Original cover and interior illustrations 104 pages Better World Press, Inc. ISBN-13: 9 781930 175433 Advice from a National Park Nature Journal with its guided prompts brings you closer to nature with inspiration and plenty of wide open spaces for creativity. Includes coloring pages and places to write, scrapbook, draw as well as guided nature activities. Take the beauty, connection, wonder, and history of your park experience and make it truly your own. A complete U.S. National Parks and Monuments map and checklist as well as place to record visits to favorite parks are included. In addition to being printed on recycled paper, to further repay the Earth in kind for it's generosity, five new tree seedlings are planted through the nonprofit Trees Water & People for each 217 lbs of paper used. We are proud to be 100% Replanted! |
| advice from a tree guided journal ilan shamir: International Law and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Susan M. Akram, Michael Dumper, Michael Lynk, Iain Scobbie, 2010-12-23 The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has long been intertwined with, and has had a profound influence on, the principles of modern international law. Placing a rights-based approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict at the centre of discussions over its peaceful resolution, this book provides detailed consideration of international law and its application to political issues. Through the lens of international law and justice, the book debunks the myth that law is not useful to its resolution, illustrating through both theory and practice how international law points the way to a just and durable solution to the conflict in the Middle East. Contributions from leading scholars in their respective fields give an in-depth analysis of key issues that have been marginalized in most mainstream discussions of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Palestinian refugees Jerusalem security legal and political frameworks the future of Palestine. Written in a style highly accessible to the non-specialist, this book is an important addition to the existing literature on the subject. The findings of this book will not only be of interest to students and scholars of Middle Eastern politics, International Law, International Relations and conflict resolution, but will be an invaluable resource for human rights researchers, NGO employees, and embassy personnel, policy staffers and negotiators. |
| advice from a tree guided journal ilan shamir: The Dispersion of Egyptian Jewry Joel Beinin, 2023-11-15 In this provocative and wide-ranging history, Joel Beinin examines fundamental questions of ethnic identity by focusing on the Egyptian Jewish community since 1948. A complex and heterogeneous people, Egyptian Jews have become even more diverse as their diaspora continues to the present day. Central to Beinin's study is the question of how people handle multiple identities and loyalties that are dislocated and reformed by turbulent political and cultural processes. It is a question he grapples with himself, and his reflections on his experiences as an American Jew in Israel and Egypt offer a candid, personal perspective on the hazards of marginal identities. In this provocative and wide-ranging history, Joel Beinin examines fundamental questions of ethnic identity by focusing on the Egyptian Jewish community since 1948. A complex and heterogeneous people, Egyptian Jews have become even more diverse as their d |
| advice from a tree guided journal ilan shamir: Historical Dictionary of Israeli Intelligence Ephraim Kahana, 2006-04-19 For Israel_more so than for any other state_an effective Intelligence Community has been a matter of life and death. Over the past half-century or so, Israel has created and refined what is broadly regarded as one of the best intelligence networks in the world. It has repeatedly undone efforts by hostile Arab neighbors to defeat it in war, foiled countless terrorist attacks, contributed to military preparedness and armament production, and helped millions of Jews to reach the Promised Land. Unfortunately, it has also committed some terrible mistakes and made blunders it can ill afford. |
| advice from a tree guided journal ilan shamir: The Forgotten Palestinians Ilan Pappe, 2011-06-28 Examines how Israeli Palestinians have fared under Jewish rule, revealing both Israels attitude toward minorities and Palestinians attitudes toward the Jewish state and analyzes the Israeli state's policy towards its Palestinian citizens. |
| advice from a tree guided journal ilan shamir: Hollow Land Eyal Weizman, 2012-08-07 How does Israel extend its control over Palestinian lands? From the tunnels of Gaza to the militarized airspace of the Occupied Territories, Eyal Weizman unravels the mechanisms of control and how they have transformed Gaza and the West Bank into a war zone. This is essential reading for understanding how architecture and infrastructure are used as lethal weapons in the formation of Israel. In this new edition, Weizman explains how the events following the invasion of Gaza in October 2023 bear witness to the continuing policies of oppression. He details how this book became a foundational text for Forensic Architecture. |
| advice from a tree guided journal ilan shamir: The Invention of the Land of Israel Shlomo Sand, 2012-11-20 This groundbreaking work deconstructs the age-old legends surrounding the ‘Holy Land’ of Israel—and the prejudices that continue to suffocate it. What is a homeland, and when does it become a national territory? Why have so many people been willing to die for them throughout the 20thcentury? What is the essence of the Promised Land? Following the acclaimed and controversial Invention of the Jewish People, Shlomo Sand examines the mysterious sacred land that has become the site of the longest running national struggle of the 20th century. Sand’s account dissects the concept of ‘historical right’ and tracks the invention of the modern geopolitical concept of the ‘Land of Israel’ by 19th-century Evangelical Protestants and Jewish Zionists. This invention, he argues, not only facilitated the colonization of the Middle East and the establishment of the State of Israel; it is also what is threatening the existence of the Jewish state today. |
| advice from a tree guided journal ilan shamir: The Listening Book W. A. Mathieu, 1991-03-27 The Listening Book is about rediscovering the power of listening as an instrument of self-discovery and personal transformation. By exploring our capacity for listening to sounds and for making music, we can awaken and release our full creative powers. Mathieu offers suggestions and encouragement on many aspects of music-making, and provides playful exercises to help readers appreciate the connection between sound, music, and everyday life. |
| advice from a tree guided journal ilan shamir: Mapping Israel, Mapping Palestine Jess Bier, 2017-06-30 Digital practices in social and political landscapes: Why two researchers can look at the same feature and see different things. Maps are widely believed to be objective, and data-rich computer-made maps are iconic examples of digital knowledge. It is often claimed that digital maps, and rational boundaries, can solve political conflict. But in Mapping Israel, Mapping Palestine, Jess Bier challenges the view that digital maps are universal and value-free. She examines the ways that maps are made in Palestine and Israel to show how social and political landscapes shape the practice of science and technology. How can two scientific cartographers look at the same geographic feature and see fundamentally different things? In part, Bier argues, because knowledge about the Israeli military occupation is shaped by the occupation itself. Ongoing injustices—including checkpoints, roadblocks, and summary arrests—mean that Palestinian and Israeli cartographers have different experiences of the landscape. Palestinian forms of empirical knowledge, including maps, continue to be discounted. Bier examines three representative cases of population, governance, and urban maps. She analyzes Israeli population maps from 1967 to 1995, when Palestinian areas were left blank; Palestinian state maps of the late 1990s and early 2000s, which were influenced by Israeli raids on Palestinian offices and the legacy of British colonial maps; and urban maps after the Second Intifada, which show how segregated observers produce dramatically different maps of the same area. The geographic production of knowledge, including what and who are considered scientifically legitimate, can change across space and time. Bier argues that greater attention to these changes, and to related issues of power, will open up more heterogeneous ways of engaging with the world. |
| advice from a tree guided journal ilan shamir: 1967 Tom Segev, 2007-05-29 A marvelous achievement . . . Anyone curious about the extraordinary six days of Arab-Israeli war will learn much from it.—The Economist Tom Segev's acclaimed works One Palestine, Complete and The Seventh Million overturned accepted views of the history of Israel. Now, in 1967—a number-one bestseller in Hebrew—he brings his masterful skills to the watershed year when six days of war reshaped the country and the entire region. Going far beyond a military account, Segev re-creates the crisis in Israel before 1967, showing how economic recession, a full grasp of the Holocaust's horrors, and the dire threats made by neighbor states combined to produce a climate of apocalypse. He depicts the country's bravado after its victory, the mood revealed in a popular joke in which one soldier says to his friend, Let's take over Cairo; the friend replies, Then what shall we do in the afternoon? Drawing on unpublished letters and diaries, as well as government memos and military records, Segev reconstructs an era of new possibilities and tragic missteps. He introduces the legendary figures—Moshe Dayan, Golda Meir, Gamal Abdul Nasser, and Lyndon Johnson—and an epic cast of soldiers, lobbyists, refugees, and settlers. He reveals as never before Israel's intimacy with the White House as well as the political rivalries that sabotaged any chance of peace. Above all, he challenges the view that the war was inevitable, showing that a series of disastrous miscalculations lie behind the bloodshed. A vibrant and original history, 1967 is sure to stand as the definitive account of that pivotal year. |
| advice from a tree guided journal ilan shamir: Blood Libel Hannah Johnson, 2012-07-09 The first book investigating the recent historiography of the ritual murder accusation |
| advice from a tree guided journal ilan shamir: The History of al-Ṭabarī Vol. 5 Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn Jarīr al-Ṭabarī, 1999-11-04 This volume of al-Tabari’s History provides the most complete and detailed historical source for the Persian empire of the Saμsaμnids, whose four centuries of rule were one of the most glorious periods in Persia’s long history. |
| advice from a tree guided journal ilan shamir: Carnival in Tel Aviv Hizky Shoham, 2014 Frontmatter --Table of Contents --Acknowledgments --Introduction --Chapter 1. All of you to Tel Aviv on Purim: A Local-National Festival --Chapter 2. Travelling to Esther: A Civil-Religious and Pilgrimage Event --Chapter 3. A Little Bit of Tradition --Chapter 4. The Civilized-Carnivalesque Body --Chapter 5. Mordechai is Riding a Horse: Political Performance --Chapter 6. Our Only Romantic Festival: Hebrew Queen Esther --Chapter 7. Another New Jew: Urban Zionist Ideology --References --Bibliography --Index. |
| advice from a tree guided journal ilan shamir: Federated Learning Qiang Yang, Lixin Fan, Han Yu, 2020-11-25 This book provides a comprehensive and self-contained introduction to federated learning, ranging from the basic knowledge and theories to various key applications. Privacy and incentive issues are the focus of this book. It is timely as federated learning is becoming popular after the release of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Since federated learning aims to enable a machine model to be collaboratively trained without each party exposing private data to others. This setting adheres to regulatory requirements of data privacy protection such as GDPR. This book contains three main parts. Firstly, it introduces different privacy-preserving methods for protecting a federated learning model against different types of attacks such as data leakage and/or data poisoning. Secondly, the book presents incentive mechanisms which aim to encourage individuals to participate in the federated learning ecosystems. Last but not least, this book also describes how federated learning can be applied in industry and business to address data silo and privacy-preserving problems. The book is intended for readers from both the academia and the industry, who would like to learn about federated learning, practice its implementation, and apply it in their own business. Readers are expected to have some basic understanding of linear algebra, calculus, and neural network. Additionally, domain knowledge in FinTech and marketing would be helpful.” |
| advice from a tree guided journal ilan shamir: COVID-19 and Education Christopher Cheong, Jo Coldwell-Neilson, Kathryn MacCallum, Tian Luo, Anthony Scime, 2021-05-28 Topics include work-integrated learning (internships), student well-being, and students with disabilities. Also,it explores the impact on assessments and academic integrity and what analysis of online systems tells us. Preface ................................................................................................................................ ix Section I: Introduction .................................................. 1 Chapter 1: COVID-19 Emergency Education Policy and Learning Loss: A Comparative Study ............................................................................................................ 3 Athena Vongalis-Macrow, Denise De Souza, Clare Littleton, Anna Sekhar Section II: Student and Teacher Perspectives .............. 27 Chapter 2: Classrooms Going Digital – Evaluating Online Presence Through Students’ Perception Using Community of Inquiry Framework .............................. 29 Hiep Cong Pham, Phuong Ai Hoang, Duy Khanh Pham, Nguyen Hoang Thuan, Minh Nhat Nguyen Chapter 3: A Study of Music Education, Singing, and Social Distancing during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Perspectives of Music Teachers and Their Students in Hong Kong, China .......................................................................................................... 51 Wai-Chung Ho Hong Kong Baptist University Chapter 4: The Architectural Design Studio During a Pandemic: A Hybrid Pedagogy of Virtual and Experiential Learning .......................................................... 75 Cecilia De Marinis, Ross T. Smith Chapter 5: Enhancing Online Education with Intelligent Discussion Tools ........ 97 Jake Renzella, Laura Tubino, Andrew Cain, Jean-Guy Schneider Section III: Student Experience ................................... 115 Chapter 6: Australian Higher Education Student Perspectives on Emergency Remote Teaching During the COVID-19 Pandemic ............................................... 117 Christopher Cheong, Justin Filippou, France Cheong, Gillian Vesty, Viktor Arity Chapter 7: Online Learning and Engagement with the Business Practices During Pandemic ......................................................................................................................... 151 Aida Ghalebeigi, Ehsan Gharaie Chapter 8: Effects of an Emergency Transition to Online Learning in Higher Education in Mexico ..................................................................................................... 165 Deon Victoria Heffington, Vladimir Veniamin Cabañas Victoria Chapter 9: Factors Affecting the Quality of E-Learning During the COVID-19 Pandemic From the Perspective of Higher Education Students ............................ 189 Kesavan Vadakalur Elumalai, Jayendira P Sankar, Kalaichelvi R, Jeena Ann John, Nidhi Menon, Mufleh Salem M Alqahtani, May Abdulaziz Abumelha Disabilities ................................................................. 213 Chapter 10: Learning and Working Online During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Wellbeing Literacy Perspective on Work Integrated Learning Students ............... 215 Nancy An, Gillian Vesty, Christopher Cheong Chapter 11: Hands-on Learning in a Hands-off World: Project-Based Learning as a Method of Student Engagement and Support During the COVID-19 Crisis .. 245 Nicole A. Suarez, Ephemeral Roshdy, Dana V. Bakke, Andrea A. Chiba, Leanne Chukoskie Chapter 12: Positive and Contemplative Pedagogies: A Holistic Educational Approach to Student Learning and Well-being ........................................................ 265 Sandy Fitzgerald (née Ng) Chapter 13: Taking Advantage of New Opportunities Afforded by the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Case Study in Responsive and Dynamic Library and Information Science Work Integrated Learning .............................................................................. 297 Jessie Lymn, Suzanne Pasanai Chapter 14: Online Learning for Students with Disabilities During COVID-19 Lockdown ....................................................................................................................... 313 Mark Taylor Section V: Teacher Practice .......................................... 331 Chapter 15: From Impossibility to Necessity: Reflections on Moving to Emergency Remote University Teaching During COVID-19 ............................... 333 Mikko Rajanen Chapter 16: Business (Teaching) as Usual Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Case Study of Online Teaching Practice in Hong Kong ......................................... 355 Tsz Kit Ng, Rebecca Reynolds, Man Yi (Helen) Chan, Xiu Han Li, Samuel Kai Wah Chu Chapter 17: Secondary School Language Teachers’ Online Learning Engagement during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Indonesia ......................................................... 385 Imelda Gozali, Anita Lie, Siti Mina Tamah, Katarina Retno Triwidayati, Tresiana Sari Diah Utami, Fransiskus Jemadi Chapter 18: Riding the COVID-19 Wave: Online Learning Activities for a Field-based Marine Science Unit ........................................................................................... 415 PF Francis Section VI: Assessment and Academic Integrity .......... 429 Chapter 19: Student Academic Integrity in Online Learning in Higher Education in the Era of COVID-19 .............................................................................................. 431 Carolyn Augusta, Robert D. E. Henderson Chapter 20: Assessing Mathematics During COVID-19 Times ............................ 447 Simon James, Kerri Morgan, Guillermo Pineda-Villavicencio, Laura Tubino Chapter 21: Preparedness of Institutions of Higher Education for Assessment in Virtual Learning Environments During the COVID-19 Lockdown: Evidence of Bona Fide Challenges and Pragmatic Solutions ........................................................ 465 Talha Sharadgah, Rami Sa’di Section VII: Social Media, Analytics, and Systems ...... 487 Chapter 22: Learning Disrupted: A Comparison of Two Consecutive Student Cohorts ............................................................................................................................ 489 Peter Vitartas, Peter Matheis Chapter 23: What Twitter Tells Us about Online Education During the COVID-19 Pandemic ................................................................................................................... 503 Sa Liu, Jason R Harron |
| advice from a tree guided journal ilan shamir: Advanced Operating Systems and Kernel Applications: Techniques and Technologies Wiseman, Yair, Jiang, Song, 2009-09-30 This book discusses non-distributed operating systems that benefit researchers, academicians, and practitioners--Provided by publisher. |
| advice from a tree guided journal ilan shamir: Jewish History, Jewish Religion Israel Shahak, 1994-04-28 'Shahak subjects the whole history of Orthodoxy ... to a hilarious and scrupulous critique.' --Christopher Hitchens, The Nation |
| advice from a tree guided journal ilan shamir: RoboCup 2002: Robot Soccer World Cup VI Gal A. Kaminka, Pedro U. Lima, Raul Rojas, 2003-11-11 RoboCup 2002, the 6th Robot World Cup Soccer and Rescue Competitions and Conference, took place during June 19–25, 2002, at the Fukuoka Dome (main venue) in Fukuoka, Japan. It was, by far, the RoboCup event with the largestnumberofregisteredparticipants(1004persons,distributedin188teams from 29 countries) and visitors (around 120,000 persons). As was done in its previous editions since 1997, the event included several robotic competitions and aninternationalsymposium.Thepapersandposterspresentedatthesymposium constitutethemainpartofthisbook.Leaguereportsinthe?nalsectiondescribe signi?cant advances in each league and the results. The symposium organizers received 76 submissions, among which 17 papers (22%) were accepted for oral presentation at the symposium (?rst section of the book), and 21 papers (29%) were accepted as posters (second section of the book). Most papers were evaluated by three reviewers each, chosen from the members of the International Program Committee (IPC). The IPC consisted of a balanced combination of regular RoboCup participants and researchers from outside this community. The reviewers worked hard to guarantee a fair review process – the result of their work was a high-quality symposium with very - teresting presentations. |
| advice from a tree guided journal ilan shamir: Goliath Max Blumenthal, 2013-10-01 2014 Lannan Foundation Cultural Freedom Notable Book Award In Goliath, New York Times bestselling author Max Blumenthal takes us on a journey through the badlands and high roads of Israel-Palestine, painting a startling portrait of Israeli society under the siege of increasingly authoritarian politics as the occupation of the Palestinians deepens. Beginning with the national elections carried out during Israel's war on Gaza in 2008-09, which brought into power the country's most right-wing government to date, Blumenthal tells the story of Israel in the wake of the collapse of the Oslo peace process. As Blumenthal reveals, Israel has become a country where right-wing leaders like Avigdor Lieberman and Bibi Netanyahu are sacrificing democracy on the altar of their power politics; where the loyal opposition largely and passively stands aside and watches the organized assault on civil liberties; where state-funded Orthodox rabbis publish books that provide instructions on how and when to kill Gentiles; where half of Jewish youth declare their refusal to sit in a classroom with an Arab; and where mob violence targets Palestinians and African asylum seekers scapegoated by leading government officials as demographic threats. Immersing himself like few other journalists inside the world of hardline political leaders and movements, Blumenthal interviews the demagogues and divas in their homes, in the Knesset, and in the watering holes where their young acolytes hang out, and speaks with those political leaders behind the organized assault on civil liberties. As his journey deepens, he painstakingly reports on the occupied Palestinians challenging schemes of demographic separation through unarmed protest. He talks at length to the leaders and youth of Palestinian society inside Israel now targeted by security service dragnets and legislation suppressing their speech, and provides in-depth reporting on the small band of Jewish Israeli dissidents who have shaken off a conformist mindset that permeates the media, schools, and the military. Through his far-ranging travels, Blumenthal illuminates the present by uncovering the ghosts of the past -- the histories of Palestinian neighborhoods and villages now gone and forgotten; how that history has set the stage for the current crisis of Israeli society; and how the Holocaust has been turned into justification for occupation. A brave and unflinching account of the real facts on the ground, Goliath is an unprecedented and compelling work of journalism. |
| advice from a tree guided journal ilan shamir: Virtuality and Virtualization Kevin Crowston, Sandra Sieber, Eleanor Wynn, 2007-10-05 In today's rapidly changing global work environment, all workers experience increased organizational complexity. Companies are functionally distributed, many across the globe. Intense competition for markets and margins makes adaptiveness and innovation imperative. Information and communication technologies are pervasive and fundamental infrastructures, their use deeply integrated into work processes. Workers collaborate electronically with co-workers or with employees of other companies. New boundaries of time, space, business unit, culture, company partnerships, and software tools are driving the adoption of novel organizational forms. On a macro level, these changes have started to reshape society. This book considers possible frameworks for understanding virtuality and virtualization; ways of analyzing virtual work in terms of work processes; group processes within virtual teams; the role of knowledge in virtual settings and other implications of the role of fiction in structuring virtuality. |
| advice from a tree guided journal ilan shamir: The Invention of the Jewish People Shlomo Sand, 2010-06-14 A historical tour de force, The Invention of the Jewish People offers a groundbreaking account of Jewish and Israeli history. Exploding the myth that there was a forced Jewish exile in the first century at the hands of the Romans, Israeli historian Shlomo Sand argues that most modern Jews descend from converts, whose native lands were scattered across the Middle East and Eastern Europe. In this iconoclastic work, which spent nineteen weeks on the Israeli bestseller list and won the coveted Aujourd'hui Award in France, Sand provides the intellectual foundations for a new vision of Israel's future. |
| advice from a tree guided journal ilan shamir: Words Ilan Shamir, 2013-12 41 poems of wordy, witty, worldly, wisdom with titles like PoeTTree, Word Traveler, Poem Plaza, Write Now, Fig Tree, A Thousand Things Went Right Today!, Losing Wait and many more. I have been an artist all my life. Moving to a city of high level art revealed to me that art was so much more than paint on canvas to hang on a wall. It went way beyond the borders of a canvas or even the walls on which it hung. It was the art of creating a life that made sense . . . alive, passionate, expressive. I learned that I am many artists and most of all a word artist. On fire with letters and phrases that arrange daily and look back at me . . . like a friend who is telling the truth. Each morning, first light begins to glow out my courtyard windows and I merely show up and meditate and so begins the day. From this place, poems find me, asking me to bear witness. My hands are guided with ease, the only effort required is trusting that it can be this easy. |
| advice from a tree guided journal ilan shamir: Perturbations, Optimization, and Statistics Tamir Hazan, George Papandreou, Daniel Tarlow, 2017-09-22 A description of perturbation-based methods developed in machine learning to augment novel optimization methods with strong statistical guarantees. In nearly all machine learning, decisions must be made given current knowledge. Surprisingly, making what is believed to be the best decision is not always the best strategy, even when learning in a supervised learning setting. An emerging body of work on learning under different rules applies perturbations to decision and learning procedures. These methods provide simple and highly efficient learning rules with improved theoretical guarantees. This book describes perturbation-based methods developed in machine learning to augment novel optimization methods with strong statistical guarantees, offering readers a state-of-the-art overview. Chapters address recent modeling ideas that have arisen within the perturbations framework, including Perturb & MAP, herding, and the use of neural networks to map generic noise to distribution over highly structured data. They describe new learning procedures for perturbation models, including an improved EM algorithm and a learning algorithm that aims to match moments of model samples to moments of data. They discuss understanding the relation of perturbation models to their traditional counterparts, with one chapter showing that the perturbations viewpoint can lead to new algorithms in the traditional setting. And they consider perturbation-based regularization in neural networks, offering a more complete understanding of dropout and studying perturbations in the context of deep neural networks. |
| advice from a tree guided journal ilan shamir: The History of Musical Instruments Curt Sachs, 2012-09-19 Written by a distinguished musicologist, this comprehensive history of musical instruments traces their evolution from prehistoric times in a fusion of music, anthropology, and fine arts. Includes 24 plates and 167 illustrations. |
| advice from a tree guided journal ilan shamir: The Jewish Encyclopedia Isidore Singer, Cyrus Adler, 1901 V.I:Aach-Apocalyptic lit.--V.2: Apocrypha-Benash--V.3:Bencemero-Chazanuth--V.4:Chazars-Dreyfus--V.5: Dreyfus-Brisac-Goat--V.6: God-Istria--V.7:Italy-Leon--V.8:Leon-Moravia--V.9:Morawczyk-Philippson--V.10:Philippson-Samoscz--V.11:Samson-Talmid--V.12: Talmud-Zweifel. |
| advice from a tree guided journal ilan shamir: The British Army and Jewish Insurgency in Palestine, 1945-47 David A. Charters, 1989-06-12 The first comprehensive scholarly study of the British Army's campaign against the Jewish insurgency in postwar Palestine, this book shows how outdated doctrine, traditional resistance to change, and postwar turbulence hampered the army's efforts to modify its counter-insurgency tactics. It also shows why the security forces failed to develop intelligence sufficient to defeat the insurgents. |
| advice from a tree guided journal ilan shamir: LATIN 2004: Theoretical Informatics Martin Farach-Colton, 2004-03-19 This volume contains the proceedings of the Latin American Theoretical Inf- matics (LATIN) conference that was held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, April 5–8, 2004. The LATIN series of symposia was launched in 1992 to foster interactions between the Latin American community and computer scientists around the world. This was the sixth event in the series, following S ̃ ao Paulo, Brazil (1992), Valparaiso, Chile (1995), Campinas, Brazil (1998), Punta del Este, Uruguay (2000), and Cancun, Mexico (2002). The proceedings of these conferences were also published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series: Volumes 583, 911, 1380, 1776, and 2286, respectively. Also, as before, we published a selection of the papers in a special issue of a prestigious journal. We received 178 submissions. Each paper was assigned to four program c- mittee members, and 59 papers were selected. This was 80% more than the previous record for the number of submissions. We feel lucky to have been able to build on the solid foundation provided by the increasingly successful previous LATINs. And we are very grateful for the tireless work of Pablo Mart ́ ?nez L ́ opez, the Local Arrangements Chair. Finally, we thank Springer-Verlag for publishing these proceedings in its LNCS series. |
| advice from a tree guided journal ilan shamir: Information—Consciousness—Reality James B. Glattfelder, 2019-04-10 This open access book chronicles the rise of a new scientific paradigm offering novel insights into the age-old enigmas of existence. Over 300 years ago, the human mind discovered the machine code of reality: mathematics. By utilizing abstract thought systems, humans began to decode the workings of the cosmos. From this understanding, the current scientific paradigm emerged, ultimately discovering the gift of technology. Today, however, our island of knowledge is surrounded by ever longer shores of ignorance. Science appears to have hit a dead end when confronted with the nature of reality and consciousness. In this fascinating and accessible volume, James Glattfelder explores a radical paradigm shift uncovering the ontology of reality. It is found to be information-theoretic and participatory, yielding a computational and programmable universe. |
| advice from a tree guided journal ilan shamir: The War of a Million Cuts Manfred Gerstenfeld, 2015-05-06 For the first time ever, a book unravels the complex process of the tremendous delegitimization efforts directed toward Israel. The War of a Million Cuts explains how these attempts at the delegitimization of Israel, as well as anti-Semitism can be fought. The book describes the hateful messages of those who defame Israel and the Jews, details why anti-Semitism and anti-Israelism have the same core motifs, and discusses the main groups of inciters, including Muslim states, Muslims in the Western world, politicians, media, NGOs, church leaders, those on the extreme left and the extreme right, Jewish self-haters, academics, social democrats and many others. It explains how the hate messages are effectively transmitted to the public at large, and discusses what impact the delegitimization has already made on Israel and the Jews. |
| advice from a tree guided journal ilan shamir: Homelands and Diasporas Minna Rozen, 2020-06-25 The Greek and Jewish diasporas are the most significant diasporas of Western civilisation. Homelands and Diasporas is the first book to explore the similarities and differences between these two experiences. In the process it sheds fascinating light on their fundamental importance for both Greek and Jewish societies. The authors examine Greek and Jewish diasporas throughout history, from classical and Biblical times to the present, and all over the world - in Greece, the Balkans, Turkey, Russia, the Near and Middle East, Spain and the US. They analyse the very nature of diaspora, examining both the Greek concept of noble expansion and the Jewish idea of enforced exile, and analyse community structures as well as social and religious networks, combining Scriptural analysis with cultural and political history. Diaspora is a difficult and emotive concept but Homelands and Diasporas offers a balanced and perceptive guide to the connected histories of these two peoples away from their homelands. |
| advice from a tree guided journal ilan shamir: Fateful Triangle Noam Chomsky, 2015-01-26 “One of the definitive works on the Israeli Palestinian conflict” from the celebrated New York Times–bestselling author of Hopes and Prospects (Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now! and author of Breaking the Sound Barrier). From its establishment to the present day, Israel has enjoyed a unique position in the American roster of international friends. In Fateful Triangle, Noam Chomsky explores the character and historical development of this special relationship. The resulting work “may be the most ambitious book ever attempted on the conflict between Zionism and the Palestinians viewed as centrally involving the United States. It is a dogged exposé of human corruption, greed, and intellectual dishonesty. It is also a great and important book, which must be read by anyone concerned with public affairs” (Edward W. Said, from the foreword). “A devastating collection of charges aimed at Israeli and American policies that affect the Palestinian Arabs negatively.” ―Library Journal “Brilliant and unscrupulous.” ―The Observer “A major, timely and devastating analysis of one of the great tragedies.” ―The Tribune “Formidable.” ―The Jewish Quarterly |
| advice from a tree guided journal ilan shamir: Advice from a Mountain MR Ilan Shamir, 2016-10-19 List Price: $12.95 5.5 x 8.5 (13.97 x 21.59 cm) Black & White Bleed on Cream paper Original cover and interior illustrations 102 pages Better World Press, Inc. ISBN-13: 9 781930 175341 ISBN-10: 1-930175-34-5 BISAC: Body, Mind & Spirit / Inspiration & Personal Growth We all need help, useful advice to guide us in living a good life. Here the mountain encourages us to reach high and rock our world. To leave no stone unturned and let your words be uplifting and strong. Rise above any doubts or limitations that keep you from living each day with joy as the mountain shares its timely wisdom to help you stand in strength and live your true nature. Includes entire poem as well as sections on living your true nature, caring for the earth and journal pages and prompts to make this book both inspirational and educational. In addition to being printed on recycled paper, to further repay the Earth in kind for it's generosity, five new tree seedlings are planted through the nonprofit Trees Water & People for each 217 lbs of paper used. We are proud to be 100% Replanted! |
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| advice from a tree guided journal ilan shamir: The Colonial Present Derek Gregory, 2004-07-30 In this powerful and passionate critique of the 'war on terror' in Afghanistan and its extensions into Palestine and Iraq, Derek Gregory traces the long history of British and American involvements in the Middle East and shows how colonial power continues to cast long shadows over our own present. Argues the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11 activated a series of political and cultural responses that were profoundly colonial in nature. The first analysis of the “war on terror” to connect events in Afghanistan, Palestine, and Iraq. Traces the connections between geopolitics and the lives of ordinary people. Richly illustrated and packed with empirical detail. |
| advice from a tree guided journal ilan shamir: Peacemaker's Guide to Warmongers Edip Yuksel, 2009-11-29 Peacemaker's Guide to Warmongers: Exposing Robert Spencer, Osama bin Laden, David Horowitz, Mullah Omar, Bill Warner, Ali Sina and other Enemies of Peace. This book comprises of eight sections: 1.An Invitation to Jews, Christians, Muslims, and All, an excerpt from the last section of the Manifesto for Islamic Reform. 2.An analysis of selected Quranic verses that are distorted or taken out of context to justify violence and terror, an excerpt from notes of Quran: a Reformist Translation. 3.Interview with FrontPage Magazine about my life and cause to promote Islamic reform. 4.A debate between me and Robert Spencer, Bill Warner, and Thomas Haidon, which was organized by and published at FrontPage Magazine. 5.Another debate between me and Khalim Massoud, Thomas Haidon, Abul Kasem, Robert Spencer, and Bill Warner. 6.A lengthy debate between me and Ali Sina, the agitator-in-chief of the faithfreedom.org site. The debate is presented in 16 sessions. 7.Various essays I have written on violence, peace and war. 8.Various related news and essays by other authors. The royalty from this book will be distributed among the following non-profit peace organizations, and I invite readers to donate to any and all of these and other organizations as long as they promote peace, justice and progress: [Amnesty International [Code Pink: Women for Peace [Common Dreams [Democracy in Action [Democracy Now [If Americans Knew [Jewish Voice for Peace [Kucinich.us [Muslims for Peace, Justice and Progress [Unitarian Universalist Association [United for Peace and Justice |
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