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The crisis of connection is a widespread, systemic rise in loneliness, social isolation, and declining empathy, driven by the digital world, individualism, and the astronomical rise in inequality. Despite living in an age of hyper-connectivity, where digital communication tools allow people to reach across continents instantaneously, people have become increasingly disconnected from themselves, each other, and the world around them. This disconnection can lead to severe mental and physical health consequences, such as substance abuse, depression, anxiety, suicide, homelessness, and violence ...

It’s 1994. The murder rate in New York City is sky high, and Dana Hargrove’s caseload is soaring. As a top prosecutor in the district attorney’s office, Dana belongs to an elite cadre on the “homicide chart,” a 24/7 rotation of on-call responders to murder scenes. Dana is also a young mother, juggling the competing demands of career and home. Her next shift on the chart couldn’t come at a worse time. Distracted by concerns about the live-in caregiver for her two-year-old, Dana barely survives an exhausting week of battles in the courtroom.

Money Management Made Simple is a straightforward, beginner-friendly guide for anyone who wants to take control of their finances without confusion, stress, or complicated formulas. If managing money has ever felt overwhelming or intimidating, this audiobook breaks everything down into clear, manageable steps you can actually use in your daily life.

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In dem PODCAST »Richard Wurmbrand« findest du viele Vorträge, die Richard auf Deutsch gehalten hat. Seine Berichte, Zeugnisse und geistlichen Impulse sind ein sehr wertvoller geistlicher Schatz. »Wurmbrand ist ohne Zweifel eine der bemerkenswertesten Gestalten des 20. Jahrhunderts.« (Englische Presse)

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Explains the role of prompt engineering in guiding large language models (LLMs) to solve problems and perform tasks. The document focuses on three prompting techniques: Chain of Thought (CoT), Tree of Thought (ToT), and Self-Reflection, describing how each technique allows LLMs to reason through problems, consider multiple solutions, and analyze their own reasoning process. It then explores the use of prompt engineering in various applications such as multi-modal models, dynamic prompting, and autonomous decision-making. The document concludes with a discussion on the future of prompt engineer

An introduction to generative AI and LLMs, outlining their history, applications, and key concepts like tokens, embeddings, and attention mechanisms. The guide then delves into the mathematical and statistical foundations of LLMs, covering essential topics such as probability theory, linear algebra, calculus, and deep learning basics. The main focus is on practical aspects of designing and training LLMs, including data collection, data preprocessing, model architectures, training techniques, evaluation metrics, and fine-tuning. The text further explores deploying LLMs in production environment

When Hali's father asks her to help him die to spare the family the misery of a long illness, she reluctantly agrees. While Hali's family insists on letting "God's will" decide, Hali broods upon the idea of fate and free will. Ultimately, she unable to do what her father wishes. She is forced to accept the help of a manipulative male nurse, adding further complications and a slow and painful end.

When a petty bureaucrat confiscates the communications relay, the aliens and their human partners must unite to rescue their property and protect those they love from the clutches of corruption and blackmail. To help those she loves, Mindy must boldly go the last place she ever wanted to...back home.

Now extensively revised in this ninth edition, A History of Russia covers the entire span of the country's history, from ancient times to the post-communist present. Keeping with the hallmark of the text, Riasanovsky and Steinberg examine all aspects of Russia's history—political, international, military, economic, social, and cultural—with a commitment to objectivity, fairness, and balance, and to reflecting recent research and new trends in scholarly interpretation.

The first major biography in more than twenty years of one of America’s greatest writers, based on newly available letters and journals V. S. Pritchett called her “a genius.” Gore Vidal described her as a “beloved novelist of singular brilliance . . . Of all the Southern writers, she is...

Presented as 73 narrative-style poems, some of which are rhyming and others in prose or blank verse, Reflections on Mountaineering, A Revised and Expanded Edition: A Journey Through Life as Experienced in the Mountains summarizes much of what the author, Alan V. Goldman, learned in his more than 30 years of climbing. Many of the same moral issues that confront us in everyday life are present in the high mountains, only to a sharper degree.

Richard Sorge was dispatched to Tokyo in 1933 to serve the spymasters of Moscow. For eight years, he masqueraded as a Nazi journalist and burrowed deep into the German embassy, digging for the secrets of Hitler's invasion of Russia and the Japanese plans for the East. In a nation obsessed with rooting out moles, he kept a high profile - boozing, womanizing, and operating entirely under his own name.

An Erotic Journey is a series of fantasies written in the second person. It's designed for women who want to explore their sexual self, awake their sensuality, and lose themselves in breathtaking pleasure and fulfillment. It's a door to discovering and living through your innermost desires and fantasies. Especially the ones that are hidden deep down, so that no one can find them. My name is Mr V. I use my deep and masculine voice to touch you in a way you crave to be touched. I take you to the world of a great fire that is buried deep inside of you.

In 1950, publisher Fawcett Books founded its Gold Medal imprint, inaugurating the reign of lesbian pulp fiction. These were the books that small-town lesbians and prurient men bought by the millions - cheap, easy to find in drugstores, and immediately recognizable by their lurid covers: often a hard-looking brunette standing over a scantily clad blonde, or a man gazing in tormented lust at a lovely, unobtainable lesbian. For women leading straight lives, here was confirmation that they were not alone.

The Battle of New Orleans sets its scenes with an almost unbelievably colorful cast of characters - a happenstance coalition of militia-men, regulars, untrained frontiersmen, free blacks, Indians, townspeople, and of course, Jackson himself. His glorious, improbable victory will catapult a once-poor, uneducated orphan boy into the White House and forge the beginning of a true nation.

In 1766, an insatiable vampire sails from London to the Malabar Coast, aboard an East India Company ship. But along the shores of the Indus lurk darker and more ancient powers, and a war is brewing in the night. Two centuries after the first European ship sailed to the Malabar Coast and made landfall at Calicut, The East India Company seeks to secure its future along the lucrative Silk Route, in the year 1766. An old evil now sails aboard a company ship, hoping to make a home in this new found land.

Después que Sydney Grey regresa a su pintoresco pueblo natal de Stoney Creek y comienza la renovación de su hogar de la infancia, descubre varios diarios escritos por su madre. Presuntamente culpable de haber abandonado a su familia hace veinte años, se descubre un secreto sobre su madre oculto por mucho tiempo. Con la ayuda de su abuela quien regresa a la granja, Sydney debe confiar en sus instintos para develar el misterio. ¿Pero tendrán suficientes pistas para descubrir la verdad sobre la desaparición de su madre?

Post-traumatic stress disorder was recognized as a psychiatric disorder in the latter part of the 19th century. In PTSD, Allan V. Horwitz traces the fluctuations in definitions of and responses to traumatic psychic conditions. Arguing that PTSD, perhaps more than any other diagnostic category, is a lens for showing major historical changes in conceptions of mental illness, he surveys the conditions most likely to produce traumas, the results of those traumas, and how to evaluate the claims of trauma victims.