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The Official Hear Your Story(R) CollectionGrandfather, I Want to Hear Your Story is a special space for your grandfather to reflect on his life, offering a chance to preserve his wisdom, his humor, and his stories for generations to come. This guided journal invites him to delve into the memories that have shaped his life, from the playful adventures of childhood to the defining challenges of adulthood.With over 300 engaging prompts and thoughtful questions from bestselling author Jeffrey Mason, sharing your grandfather's journey becomes an enjoyable and meaningful experience for the entire family. Each page is an opportunity for him to recount his insights, his passions, and the lessons learned along the way.Bestselling author Jeffrey Mason has expertly created the incredibly popular Hear Your Story collection of guided journals to help millions share their life stories, chronicle their memories, and create a legacy for their families.Features & Benefits: Revised, expanded edition features rounded edges, heavier paperweight for easier writing, and over 40 pages of new questions to more deeply understand his journey.Over 300 Guided Prompts: The carefully curated questions will gently guide your grandfather down memory lane, making it simple and fun for him to reminisce, write about, and share his life's tales.The perfect size: The 154 beautifully designed pages and 6x9 size have been specifically selected to make this journal easy for Granddad to use and carry. Available in your choice of paperback or hardcover.Elegantly Designed for Your Grandfather: This beautiful, guided journal has been specifically crafted to capture your grandfather's lifetime of stories. Every page is an invitation to explore and celebrate her incredible journey.Hear Your Story(R) was founded as a heartfelt response by our founder to losing his father to Alzheimer's. Our journals are a commitment to safeguarding family legacies and a testament to the belief that every life is a story worth telling and preserving.The Hear Your Story(R) team is made up of parents, grandparents, and grandchildren. We draw upon the rich tapestry of our collective experiences and perspectives to infuse each of our journals with the care and love it deserves. Grandfather, I Want to Hear Your Story will encourage your grandfather to share his story and create a legacy for the whole family to benefit from for years to come.

Deliver Resilient, Scalable, and Efficient Cloud Services with AI, Lean Practices, and Reliability Engineering In today's fast-paced digital world, the success of your business hinges on the resilience of your cloud infrastructure. System failures and downtime can devastate your bottom line, erode customer trust, and undermine your competitive edge. Reliability Engineering in the Cloud: Strategies and Practices for Resilient Cloud-Based Systems is your essential guide to creating robust, fault-tolerant cloud systems that deliver seamless performance, no matter the challenge. Packed with actionable strategies and expert insights, this book empowers you to design, build, and maintain cloud infrastructure that supports your business goals. Learn how to Craft a cloud reliability engineering strategy with a holistic, customer-first approachBuild an effective incident management framework to minimize downtimeLeverage AI and machine learning for predictive analytics, automated recovery, and proactive issue resolutionMeasure ROI, boost customer satisfaction, and align reliability with business successFoster a culture of continuous improvement using Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) in a lean environmentGain inspiration from real-world case studies and insights from industry pioneers Whether you're a software engineer, DevOps professional, or business/engineering leader, this book equips you with the tools and knowledge to create highly available, fault-tolerant cloud systems that consistently exceed user expectations. Start your journey to cloud resilience today and transform your systems into a competitive advantage.

This advent devotional from author Catherine Campbell invites you to journey through the story of Christmas

'Who would have guessed that the person who gives the best advice about marriage was the guy responsible for getting you out of yours?' - New York TimesWe've all heard the statistic that 50% of marriages end in divorce. What if we could learn the secrets for preventing this, from someone who truly knows?In If You're In My Office, It's Already Too Late, James Sexton, an unconventional and hard-hitting divorce lawyer with two decades of experience, shares hard-won insights on how to avoid the relationship pitfalls he sees daily. From the front lines of divorce to understanding the recipe for lasting love,Sexton draws from years of legal experience, blending engaging storytelling with practical advice, to help readers understand the small yet impactful actions that can help keep relationships strong.Through candid anecdotes and direct counsel, Sexton demystifies the inner workings of long-lasting love, providing readers with a toolkit to safeguard their relationships against common pitfalls.This practical and wise handbook for successful, long-term love is perfect for those looking to reinforce or refresh their romantic connections, aiming for honest communication and intentional attachment and affection.

Inside Bechara's thought process for his meticulously planned and painted colorful geometric gridsPuerto Rico-born, New York-based artist Tony Bechara (born 1942) served as board president of El Museo del Barrio for 15 years, while also honing his own geometric abstraction process. Dividing his canvas into hundreds of quarter-inch squares, Bechara meticulously fills each space in with complementary colors. The resulting grid paintings thus evoke a variety of cultural influences: from Seurat's pioneering pointillism to hard-edge abstraction, traditional weaving and 8-bit "pixel art" of the last half century. In keeping with Bechara's richly chromatic oeuvre, this artist's book is inspired by Bechara's notes and color formulas that form the basis for his acrylic paintings. It features over 130 illustrations, with foldouts and multiple materials, as well as a glossary of key motifs that introduces Bechara's personal artistic language to the public for the first time. This book was published in conjunction with Tony Bechara

How artists build and shape a myriad of knowledge forms, spanning the decolonial to the transnational and the multilingualWhat types of knowledge do artists produce? How do they give that knowledge form? Featuring works by 11 artists from 9 different countries, whose birth years range from 1946 to 1992, Ways of Knowing highlights different ways artists give form to complex ideas. The catalog, documenting an exhibition at Minneapolis' Walker Art Center, highlights the strategies by which some of today's most compelling artists resist assumptions about how information should be gathered and shared, bringing their own perspectives to cultural artifacts and histories. Some focus on the ethics of research or the connections between culture, place and language, while others examine the impacts of colonialism across continents or the historical formation of gender identity, among other themes.Artists include: Iosu Aramburu, Sammy Baloji, Anna Boghiguian, Cabello/Carceller, Chang Yuchen, Petrit Halilaj, Sky Hopinka, Christine Howard Sandoval, Eduardo Navarro, Gala Porras-Kim, Rose Salane.

Adsorption by Powders and Porous Solids: Principles, Methodology, and Applications, Third Edition provides a comprehensive treatment of all aspects of adsorption at both the gas/solid interface and the liquid/solid interface, while also covering the application aspects of adsorption. The book gives an introductory review of the various theoretical and practical aspects of adsorption by powders and porous solids with reference to advanced techniques and applications (including separation of industrial gases and pollution control, catalysis, gas storage) involving materials of technological importance. It is primarily written for advanced undergraduates, postgraduates, lecturers, researchers, and practitioners in physical chemistry, materials science, surface science, and chemical engineering.The book's primary aim is to meet the needs of students and non-specialists who are new to surface science or who wish to use the advanced techniques now available for the determination of surface area, pore size and surface characterization. In addition, for this fully updated third edition, a critical account is given of the most recent work on the adsorptive properties of activated carbons, oxides, clays, zeolites, and MOF’s.

This book dismantles the simplistic equation of wealth, political power and social rank in the Roman Eempire. Historians will appreciate the innovative approach, which combines economic modelling with archaeological and epigraphic evidence, and the fresh perspectives on the complexities of wealth and power in ancient Rome.

Early modern London has long been recognised as a centre of religious diversity but this study is the first to examine domestic religion in the capital during a period of intense religious change. Emily Vine foregrounds the experiences of minority communities, Christian and Jewish, to explore the role of the home as a setting of religious practice.

Daffodil Patterson is a small girl with BIG plans - it's really not her fault that they always seem to go wrong! A brilliantly funny new series for young readers, from the author and illustrator of The Worst Class in the World

Bring your data to life with this essential guide to storytelling with maps. From scraping patterns in sand to drawing intricate lines on vellum and paper, to charting every place on the planet, humans have used maps as a powerful storytelling medium. The advent of the digital age has revolutionized the creation, distribution, and consumption of maps. The web created enormous opportunities for storytelling, enabling maps to dance and weave, partnering with other multimedia elements—photos, video, audio, text—to tell countless tales about our world. Featuring a foreword by renowned travel writer and cofounder of Lonely Planet Tony Wheeler, Telling Stories with Maps: Lessons from a Lifetime of Creating Place-Based Narratives bridges both analog and digital realms, showcasing how maps themselves tell stories and enrich narratives by providing context and insight. Richly illustrated with examples from traditional maps to the latest digital visualizations, this book is an essential guide for anyone interested in the powerful storytelling potential of maps. Allen Carroll leads an editorial team at Esri that publishes ArcGIS StoryMaps and supports a global community of storytellers who have used StoryMaps to create millions of multimedia narratives.  Before joining Esri, Carroll spent 27 years at the National Geographic Society, designing scores of maps for its renowned magazine and other publications. Carroll spearheaded the creation of the Seventh and Eighth editions of the World Atlas; the publication of many new web resources and other special projects featuring biodiversity, conservation, and indigenous cultures; and numerous other projects. After joining Esri in 2010, Caroll founded its StoryMaps team, which developed web tools that enabled hundreds of thousands of individuals and organizations to tell place-based stories combining interactive maps and multimedia content.

Despite the Mycenaean Linear B script having been deciphered some seventy years ago, much has remained uncertain regarding the ritual ideology of Mycenaean society. This book explores this problem by investigating a new range of sources from the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age.