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  | | The Frog Run(1st Edition) Words and Wildness in the Vermont Woods by John Elder, Scott Slovic Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 2002 by Milkweed Editions ISBN-13: 978-1-57131-258-7, ISBN: 1-57131-258-7 "... he selected an approach for his Outdoor Academy presentation that seemed well suited to his listeners. He talked to the kids about the importance of joining experience with reflection, Lilace recalled. "'Writing today has become too much of ..." |
 | | Look Me in the Eye(Reprint) My Life with Asperger's by John Elder Robison Paperback, 302 Pages, Published 2008 by Three Rivers Press Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-307-39618-1, ISBN: 0-307-39618-5 "NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “As sweet and funny and sad and true and heartfelt a memoir as one could find.” —from the foreword by Augusten Burroughs Ever since he was young, John Robison longed to connect with other people, but by the time he was a teenager, his odd habits—an inclination to blurt out non sequiturs, avoid eye contact, dismantle radios, and dig five-foot holes (and stick his younger brother, Augusten Burroughs, in them)—had ..." |
 | | Be Different(1st Edition) My Adventures with Asperger's and My Advice for Fellow Aspergians, Misfits, Families, and Teachers by John Elder Robison Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 2012 by Broadway Books ISBN-13: 978-0-307-88482-4, ISBN: 0-307-88482-1 "“I believe those of us with Asperger’s are here for a reason, and we have much to offer. This book will help you bring out those gifts.” In his bestselling memoir, Look Me in the Eye, John Elder Robison described growing up with Asperger’s syndrome at a time when the diagnosis didn’t exist. He was intelligent but socially isolated; his talents won him jobs with toy makers and rock bands but did little to endear him to authority figure ..." |
 | | Intro To Ruby Programming(1st Edition) Beginners Guide Series by John Elder Paperback, 166 Pages, Published 2016 by Codemy.Com ISBN-13: 978-0-692-71441-6, ISBN: 0-692-71441-3 "Learning Ruby has never been this fast and easy, or fun!Veteran Codemy.com programmer John Elder walks you step by step through the ins and outs of Ruby Programming. Written for the absolute beginner, you don't need any programming experience to dive in and get started with this book.Follow along as John teaches you to set up a development environment and write your first program. You'll learn about Variables, Math, IF/THEN Statements ..." |
 | | Learn Ruby On Rails For Web Development(1st Edition) Learn Rails The Fast And Easy Way! by John Elder Paperback, 214 Pages, Published 2015 by Codemy.Com ISBN-13: 978-0-692-36421-5, ISBN: 0-692-36421-8 "Learning Ruby on Rails has never been this fast and easy, or fun! Veteran Codemy.com programmer John Elder walks you step by step through the ins and outs of Rails for Web Development. Written for the absolute beginner, you don't need any programming experience to dive in and get started with this book. Follow along as John builds a Pinterest-style website from start to finish that allows people to sign up, log in and out, edit their pr ..." |
 | | Switched On(Reprint) A Memoir of Brain Change and Emotional Awakening by John Elder Robison, Alvaro Pascual-Leon, Marcel Just Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2017 by Spiegel & Grau ISBN-13: 978-0-8129-8664-8, ISBN: 0-8129-8664-4 "An extraordinary memoir about the cutting-edge brain therapy that dramatically changed the life and mind of John Elder Robison, the New York Times bestselling author of Look Me in the Eye Imagine spending the first forty years of your life in darkness, blind to the emotions and social signals of other people. Then imagine that someone suddenly switches the lights on. It has long been assumed that people living with autism are born with ..." |
 | | Picking Up The Flute A Memoir With Music by John Elder Paperback, 238 Pages, Published 2016 by Green Writers Press ISBN-13: 978-0-9961357-2-6, ISBN: 0-9961357-2-3 " Picking Up the Flute sets to music a former professor’s musings on retirement, marriage, literature, and the natural world. From his home in historic Bristol, Vermont to Ireland’s Connemara coast, travel through John Elder’s exquisite topography and relish his explorations of nature, poetry, and geology. John Elder’s memoir through music is permeated by his unique combination of prose and learning how to play the Irish flute. Elder ..." |
 | | In the Ghost Country(1st Edition) A Lifetime Spent on the Edge by John Elder, Peter Hillary Hardcover, 352 Pages, Published 2003 by Free Press ISBN-13: 978-0-7432-4369-8, ISBN: 0-7432-4369-2 " A memoir of extraordinary depth and searing honesty, In the Ghost Country is the story of Peter Hillary's physical and emotional journey across the icy wastes of Antarctica. A place where the thoughts and memories of a lifetime were called forth by the blank slate of the Antarctic snows -- so real that the ghosts of lost friends and loved ones walked with him in the white maelstrom. In the Antarctic summer of 1998-99, Peter Hillary an ..." |
 | | Raising Cubby A Father and Son's Adventures with Asperger's, Trains, Tractors, and High Explosives by John Elder Robison Paperback, 384 Pages, Published 2014 by Broadway Books ISBN-13: 978-0-307-88485-5, ISBN: 0-307-88485-6 "The slyly funny, sweetly moving memoir of an unconventional dad's relationship with his equally offbeat son--complete with fast cars, tall tales, homemade explosives, and a whole lot of fun and trouble John Robison was not your typical dad. Diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome at the age of forty, he approached fatherhood as a series of logic puzzles and practical jokes. Instead of a speech about the birds and the bees, he told his son, C ..." |
 | | Reading the Mountains of Home(1st Edition) by John W. Elder Hardcover, 272 Pages, Published 1998 by Harvard University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-674-74888-0, ISBN: 0-674-74888-3 " Small farms once occupied the heights that John Elder calls home, but now only a few cellar holes and tumbled stone walls remain among the dense stands of maple, beech, and hemlocks on these Vermont hills. Reading the Mountains of Homeis a journey into these verdant reaches where in the last century humans tried their hand and where bear and moose now find shelter. As John Elder is our guide, so Robert Frost is Elder's companion, his g ..." |
 | | Under the Sign of Nature Pilgrimage to Vallombrosa : From Vermont to Italy in the Footsteps of George Perkins Marsh by John Elder 300 Pages, Published 2012 by University Of Virginia Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8139-3429-7, ISBN: 0-8139-3429-X "FOREWORD. by David Lowenthal How, wonders John Elder, can we begin to feelathome in the universe? By telling “the story of a place through the narrative of our individual lives,” as he does so superbly here. His enchanting book recounts two lives, that of George Perkins Marsh and his own. It is framed by two unforgettable formative places, Woodstock, Vermont,and Vallombrosa, Italy. Inspired by a “passionate compulsionto reinscribe ..." |
 | | In the Ghost Country A Lifetime Spent on the Edge by Peter Hillary, John Elder Paperback, Published 2004 by Random Ho.,New Zealand ISBN-13: 978-1-86941-616-4, ISBN: 1-86941-616-3 |
 | | Following the Brush An American Encounter With Classical Japanese Culture by John Elder Paperback, 166 Pages, Published 2000 by Akadine Press ISBN-13: 978-1-58579-005-0, ISBN: 1-58579-005-2 "After a year's sabbatical in Kyoto, a college professor presents a collection of essays on traditional Japanese culture." |
 | | Practical Text Mining and Statistical Analysis for Non-structured Text Data Applications(1st Edition) by Gary Miner, John Elder Iv, Thomas Hill, Robert Nisbet, Dursun Delen, Andrew Fast Hardcover, 1,000 Pages, Published 2012 by Academic Press ISBN-13: 978-0-12-386979-1, ISBN: 0-12-386979-X "Practical Text Mining and Statistical Analysis for Non-structured Text Data Applications brings together all the information, tools and methods a professional will need to efficiently use text mining applications and statistical analysis. Winner of a 2012 PROSE Award in Computing and Information Sciences from the Association of American Publishers, this book presents a comprehensive how-to reference that shows the user how to conduct te ..." |
 | | Switched On My Journey from Asperger's to Emotional Awakening (Hardback) by John Elder Robison, Roinson John Elder, Je Robison Hardcover, 320 Pages, Published 2016 by Oneworld Publications ISBN-13: 978-1-78074-551-0, ISBN: 1-78074-551-6 "Six years ago, John Elder Robison published Look Me In the Eye, his memoir about growing up with Asperger's. Now he tells the remarkable story of how he met Dr Alvaro Pascual-Leone, a Harvard neuroscientist who proposed that John's emotional intelligence wasn't so much absent as dormant, and that by stimulating the appropriate neural pathways with powerful electromagnets they could awaken this part of his brain. So began a five-and-a-ha ..." |
 | | Introduction to Pascal(2nd Edition) (Prentice-Hall International series in computer science) by John Elder, Jim Welsh Paperback, 307 Pages, Published 1982 by Prentice/Hall International ISBN-13: 978-0-13-491530-2, ISBN: 0-13-491530-5 |
 | | Look Me in the Eye(1st Edition) My Life with Asperger's by John Elder Robison, Augusten Burroughs Hardcover, 304 Pages, Published 2007 by Crown Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-307-39598-6, ISBN: 0-307-39598-7 "Ever since he was small, John Robison had longed to connect with other people, but by the time he was a teenager, his odd habits—an inclination to blurt out non sequiturs, avoid eye contact, dismantle radios, and dig five-foot holes (and stick his younger brother in them)—had earned him the label “social deviant.” No guidance came from his mother, who conversed with light fixtures, or his father, who spent evenings pickling himself in s ..." |
 | | Ensemble Methods in Data Mining Improving Accuracy Through Combining Predictions (Synthesis Lectures on Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery) by Giovanni Seni, John Elder, Robert Grossman Paperback, 126 Pages, Published 2010 by Morgan And Claypool Publishers ISBN-13: 978-1-60845-284-2, ISBN: 1-60845-284-0 "Ensemble methods have been called the most influential development in Data Mining and Machine Learning in the past decade. They combine multiple models into one usually more accurate than the best of its components. Ensembles can provide a critical boost to industrial challenges -- from investment timing to drug discovery, and fraud detection to recommendation systems -- where predictive accuracy is more vital than model interpretabilit ..." |
 | | Switched On My Journey from Asperger's to Emotional Awareness by John Elder Robison Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2017 by Oneworld Publications ISBN-13: 978-1-78607-038-8, ISBN: 1-78607-038-3 "Imagine hearing the words of a song but not feeling the passion that lies within. Imagine living for years with someone in need and not being able to sense their sadness. Imagine your world turned upside down… Like so many others, John Elder Robison was born with Asperger’s. Over the years, he misread others’ emotions or missed them altogether. Yet he’d also married, raised a son and become a successful businessman, designing sound syst ..." |
 | | Nature Writing(2nd Edition) The Tradition in English by Robert Finch, John Elder Hardcover, 1,024 Pages, Published 2004 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-04966-4, ISBN: 0-393-04966-3 "The definitive collection of prose masterpieces on nature, fully revised and expanded.Encounters with nature have produced some of the great literature of our age. Darwin's ruminations on the Galapagos Islands, Thoreau's communion with Walden Pond, and Rachel Carson's evocation of the rocky coast of Maine are monuments in the history of writing and thought. No less significant are the searching essays of such contemporary writers as We ..." |
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