James Miller

Trains and stagecoaches stuck in the snow, wild storms driving sailing ships off course, traffic pile-ups on so-called 'killer' highways - stories abound about the horrors of travel in the Highlands and Islands, and have done for as far as the records go back. James Miller tells the dramatic and sometimes surprisingly humorous story of travel and transport in the Highlands. Some of the figures in the story are familiar - General George Wade, Thomas Telford and Joseph Mitchell among them - but there are a host of others too, including the intrepid Lady Sarah Murray, who offered sound advice for travellers ('Provide yourself with a strong roomy carriage, and have the springs well corded'). This thought-provoking book will appeal to all who like stories of travel and transport, and are interested in how changing modes of transport have affected the ways of life in the Highlands and remain crucial to the modern life and the future of the region.

"Geschichten, die das JobCenter schrieb (zweite Auflage)" ist eine Sammlung von Kurzgeschichten aus Sicht eines Beh rdenmitarbeiters. Hier beschreibt der Autor belastende, lustige oder zum Nachdenken animierende Situationen aus mehr als elf Jahren Berufserfahrung, in diesem einzigartigen Berufsfeld. Die passende Lekt re, um die eigene Sichtweise auf die Arbeit von JobCentern und Agentur f r Arbeit etwas zu ver ndern. Die zweite Auflage beinhaltet (fast) alle Geschichten aus der ersten Auflage, sowie einige zus tzliche Situationen.

During the late years of the eighteenth century, the spirit of enlightenment thinking and revolution were in the air. The world was changing, moving away from ingrained beliefs about religion, reason, society, and the rights of the individual and turning more towards the laws of nature as interpreted by the scientific method. Nowhere was the influence of this radical new way of thinking more apparent than in france, and the upheaval this caused would come to bloody fruition in the form of revolution. Review the causes and the lasting effects brought about during this tumultuous time period when the common people of france struggled to remake their world upon the cornerstone of liberty. In this book, you will discover the following: France's origins and its prehistoryFrance's relations with the roman empireHow the french survived the middle agesThe french revolution and the impact it had on societyThe napoleonic wars and the changes napoleon made in france and its coloniesFrench colonialism and a look at some of the major french coloniesFrance during the world warsThe french have rightly prided themselves on their food, fashion, painting, sculpture, theater, films, and literature, among much else. The names escoffier, saint-laurent, monet, rodin, moliere, truffaut, and voltaire are known throughout the world. The famous eiffel tower is recognized as the symbol of france to people in the most remote places of the globe, but there is so much more to the history of france than escargot, wine, impressionism, and movies.

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1859.

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The Dunbars of Ackergill and Hempriggs emerged in the late 1600s as one of the largest landowners in Caithness. As such they played a major part in the history of the county, a role revealed in the family papers with their wide variety of documents, including personal letters and legal missives. Readers will learn about the Dunbars selling Caithness grain in the Lowlands, coping with the effects of the last Jacobite rising, handling disputes with their neighbours, arranging elections, dealing with debt - and that is just in the 18th century. During the Napoleonic wars the Dunbars recruited a fencible regiment called the Caithness Legion that saw action in Ireland. At the same time the British Fisheries Society acquired land from the family and began to develop Pulteneytown as a major herring fishing port. An agricultural revolution swept over the estates, leading to the enclosing of fields, disputes over common land, evictions and refurbishment of farms. In the mid-19th century, when the family home at Ackergill Tower was refashioned by the architect David Bryce, the Dunbars adopted the lifestyle of the Victorian country gentry as well as finding careers in the Empire. With family trees, photographs, maps and documents, the book presents an absorbing, intriguing and, at times, amusing account of the social and economic life of the Dunbars over more than three hundred years, using unique messages from the past, never before made public. A fascinating insight into life in northern Scotland during centuries of change.

This book is designed to help people get in touch with their inner strength, courage and ability to put into words feelings and corrective measures that can be used to motivate change in one's life. It's a helpful tool for self therapy when you find yourself alone.

This book is designed to help people get in touch with their inner strength, courage and ability to put into words feelings and corrective measures that can be used to motivate change in one's life. It's a helpful tool for self therapy when you find yourself alone.

This brief approaches General Relativity from a planetary navigation perspective, delving into the unconventional mathematical methods required to produce computer software for space missions. It provides a derivation of the Einstein field equations and describes experiments performed on the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous mission, spanning General Relativity Theory from the fundamental assumptions to experimental verification. The software used for planetary missions is derived from mathematics that use matrix notation. An alternative is to use Einstein summation notation, which enables the mathematics to be presented in a compact form but makes the geometry difficult to understand. In this book, the relationship of matrix notation to summation notation is shown. The purpose is to enable the reader to derive the mathematics used in the software in either matrix notation or summation notation. This brief is a useful tool for advanced students andyoung professionals embarking on careers in planetary navigation.

Alcohol; Its Place And Power has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.

Democracy today is widely regarded as an ideal form of government. Yet in practice it sometimes seems a sham, a political puppet show in which hidden elites pull all the strings. As trust in elected representatives around the world plunges, it is no wonder that democratic revolts have erupted – from Cairo to Kiev and beyond – in an effort to ‘take back control’. In this urgent and lively history, James Miller reminds us that democracy has always generated tensions and contradictions. Through philosophical debates and violent uprisings, it has been contested, corrupted, and refined. In different times and different places – from ancient Athens to revolutionary France to post-war America – its meaning has shifted in surprising ways. For over two thousand years, the world has experimented with democracy. But can it really work – especially in complex modern societies?

"Of all the books on democracy in recent years one of the best is James Miller's Can Democracy Work? . . . Miller provides an intelligent journey through the turbulent past of this great human experiment in whether we can actually govern ourselves." --David Blight, The GuardianA new history of the world's most embattled idea Today, democracy is the world's only broadly accepted political system, and yet it has become synonymous with disappointment and crisis. How did it come to this? In Can Democracy Work? James Miller, the author of the classic history of 1960s protest Democracy Is in the Streets, offers a lively, surprising, and urgent history of the democratic idea from its first stirrings to the present. As he shows, democracy has always been rife with inner tensions. The ancient Greeks preferred to choose leaders by lottery and regarded elections as inherently corrupt and undemocratic. The French revolutionaries sought to incarnate the popular will, but many of them came to see the people as the enemy. And in the United States, the franchise would be extended to some even as it was taken from others. Amid the wars and revolutions of the twentieth century, communists, liberals, and nationalists all sought to claim the ideals of democracy for themselves--even as they manifestly failed to realize them. Ranging from the theaters of Athens to the tents of Occupy Wall Street, Can Democracy Work? is an entertaining and insightful guide to our most cherished--and vexed--ideal.

Learn how to build complete machine learning systems with IBM Cloud and Watson Machine learning servicesKey FeaturesImplement data science and machine learning techniques to draw insights from real-world dataUnderstand what IBM Cloud platform can help you to implement cognitive insights within applicationsUnderstand the role of data representation and feature extraction in any machine learning systemBook DescriptionIBM Cloud is a collection of cloud computing services for data analytics using machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI). This book is a complete guide to help you become well versed with machine learning on the IBM Cloud using Python. Hands-On Machine Learning with IBM Watson starts with supervised and unsupervised machine learning concepts, in addition to providing you with an overview of IBM Cloud and Watson Machine Learning. You'll gain insights into running various techniques, such as K-means clustering, K-nearest neighbor (KNN), and time series prediction in IBM Cloud with real-world examples. The book will then help you delve into creating a Spark pipeline in Watson Studio. You will also be guided through deep learning and neural network principles on the IBM Cloud using TensorFlow. With the help of NLP techniques, you can then brush up on building a chatbot. In later chapters, you will cover three powerful case studies, including the facial expression classification platform, the automated classification of lithofacies, and the multi-biometric identity authentication platform, helping you to become well versed with these methodologies. By the end of this book, you will be ready to build efficient machine learning solutions on the IBM Cloud and draw insights from the data at hand using real-world examples. What you will learnUnderstand key characteristics of IBM machine learning servicesRun supervised and unsupervised techniques in the cloudUnderstand how to create a Spark pipeline in Watson StudioImplement deep learning and neural networks on the IBM Cloud with TensorFlowCreate a complete, cloud-based facial expression classification solutionUse biometric traits to build a cloud-based human identification systemWho this book is forThis beginner-level book is for data scientists and machine learning engineers who want to get started with IBM Cloud and its machine learning services using practical examples. Basic knowledge of Python and some understanding of machine learning will be useful.