There has never been a universal algebra of data. Mathematics has been widely employed by software in many ways: numerical analysis, statistics, algorithms, mathematical modeling, and so on, but it has never been used to formally define data in all its variety. This changed when mathematical research into data algebra—carried out for Algebraix Data Corporation by one of the authors of this book—matured and was tested in an extensive range of data management, data integration, and performance optimization contexts. The purpose of this book is to explain that data algebra. The book is undeniably and unashamedly a mathematics text. However, realizing that the readership would likely include many software developers and users as well as mathematicians, the book is written to be as accessible as possible to anyone with some mathematical skills. As such, this is not your grandfather’s mathematics text. Between the various set theory assertions, expressions, and equations flows a narrative that is both surprising and entertaining. The subtitle of the book, A Foundation for the Data Economy, is not hyperbole. The mathematical definition of data, and the various set theoretical operations and functions that can be applied to it, provide a new approach to data. It will, in time, become the natural foundation for the emerging data economy that is already growing swiftly.

The Algebra of Data: A Foundation for the Data Economy

Computers & Technology

Sherman, Gary

Bloor, Robin

Computer Science

Bloor Group

Desktop Geographic Information System (GIS) software gives you the ability to make maps and analyze geographic information. This book provides a foundational level of knowledge for understanding GIS and the open source desktop mapping applications that are available for use, for free, today. Learn about vector and raster data, how to convert data, interacting with spatial databases, creating new map data, geoprocessing, scripting, and more. Special sections include focused learning on the Quantum GIS and GRASS GIS software platforms but other packages are also introduced. The Geospatial Desktop is written by the creator of Quantum GIS, so you can rest assured that you will be led by one of the most knowledgeable authors on the subject.

The Geospatial Desktop

Travel

Locate Press

Welcome to the world of PyQGIS, the blending of QGIS and Python to extend and enhance your open source GIS toolbox. With PyQGIS you can write scripts and plugins to implement new features and perform automated tasks. This book will guide you in getting started with PyQGIS. After a brief introduction to Python, you'll learn how to understand the QGIS Application Programmer Interface (API), write scripts, and build a plugin. This book is designed to allow you to work through the examples as you go along. At the end of each chapter you will find a set of exercises you can do to enhance your learning experience. The PyQGIS Programmer's Guide is compatible with the version 2.0 API released with QGIS 2.0. Both source code and data to accompany the book are available online.

The Pyqgis Programmer's Guide

Welcome to the world of PyQGIS, the blending of Python and QGIS to extend and enhance your open source GIS toolbox.
This book covers version 3.0 of the QGIS application programming interface (API), featuring Python 3. With PyQGIS you can write scripts and plugins to implement new features and perform automated tasks.
This book will guide you in getting started with PyQGIS. After a brief introduction to Python 3, you’ll learn how to understand the QGIS (API), write scripts, and build a plugin.
This book is designed to allow you to work through the examples as you go along. At the end of most chapters you will find a set of exercises you can do to enhance your learning experience. You'll also find a wealth of examples and information for performing common tasks, developing a workflow, and debugging your code.
The PyQGIS Programmer's Guide is compatible with the version 3.x API released with QGIS 3.0

The PyQGIS Programmer's Guide: Extending QGIS 3 with Python 3

It is fair to say that the arrival of the Great Northern Railroad to Seattle and Puget Sound in 1893 remains the most historically economic event in the Pacific Northwest.James J. Hill's relentless ambition to tap the resources of the Northwestern United States and then the Orient. He put the great engineer, John F. Stevens in charge of finding a pass through the Cascade Mountains of Washington State. This crossing would cause Jim Hill and the Great Northern to continually experience difficulties that cost the railroad unknown fortunes in man-made and natural disasters. Accidents and disasters that would finally culminate in the worst avalanche disaster in this country's history.The Wellington Avalanche is described in this book in the most detailed manner ever published. However, an aspect never before examined, is the story of the Japanese laborer who worked on the Great Northern. It is a sad story in railroad history. It is the story of a number of outstanding businessmen who enhanced their fortune and power by the illegal importation and exploitation of thousands of Japanese.Ruby El Hult, author of "Northwest Disaster" says "Gary's book is a scholarly and well documented story of both the best and the worst of how the northwest grew from struggling logging communities, to diverse cities of aerospace, high technology, and important international port cities.

CONQUEST AND CATASTROPHE: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Great Northern Railway Through Stevens Pass

Engineering & Transportation

Transportation

AuthorHouse

One Couple’s Journey of Spiritual Self-Discovery A True Story of Our Deepest Human Potential 
 Among the many books dealing with spiritual growth, Silence and the Soul distinguishes itself as one of the best about the process of awakening inner wisdom. This unexpected page-turner reads like an adventure story. Part memoir and part instruction manual, this self-revealing and emotionally honest narrative is the true story of Ellen Miller and Gary Sherman, an otherwise ordinary, middle-aged, California couple. On page one, Miller, age 45, is hospitalized with a rare, incurable disease. Driven by curiosity and the simple belief that within each of us lies a source of wisdom, love and creative energy, the authors embark on a captivating and extraordinary excursion into expanded consciousness that ultimately takes them on a spiritual journey deep within themselves. Theirs is an account of a mutual awakening: a cooperative relationship between two people and an inner teacher. This source engages them in "The Conscious Evolution of Consciousness," a process of training and teaching that transforms their lives and opens extraordinary capacities of expanded perception. This is a rare telling, from the inside out. Like a good documentary film, the book takes us on a voyage through the internal landscape of their step-by-step process. Reminiscent of the works of Jane Roberts and Carlos Castaneda, Silence and the Soul is a decidedly unselfconscious attempt to reveal Miller and Sherman’s internal experience. 
 Interwoven throughout the chapters are insights and practices for unleashing inner creativity. There are dozens of examples and techniques for evolving and utilizing this creative energy in all aspects of daily life. Miller and Sherman have written a book that is accessible to spiritually sophisticated readers as well as to those who are unfamiliar with metaphysical literature.

Silence and the Soul: Awakening Inner Wisdom

Religion & Spirituality

Miller, Ellen

New Age & Spirituality

Inner Harmonics Press

Tales of a Committed Visitor: Living and Learning as Spirit in Form

Self-Help

Spiritual

Inner Harmonics

2014 Nautilus Silver Winner  An amazing journey of self-awareness that will transform your life and infuse it with wonder, joy and meaning! In The Mechanics of Awaking, Gary Sherman takes us on a journey beyond ordinary perception to the field of energy and awareness beyond the mind and body, a place within each of us where we discover the essence of ourselves and learn about our self from ourselves so that we can consciously create the life we wish to experience.  With a clarity that is rare, the author distills three primary skills we can use to open the self and its mechanics to self-observation and expanded self- awareness. He provides playful, simple yet profound practices for learning how to utilize these skills within our daily life so that we gain access to our inner life, our thoughts, feelings, beliefs and intuitive promptings, as well as entrance into the larger states of consciousness that support our being. Visit:http://www.mechanicsofawakening.com PRAISE FOR THE MECHANICS OF AWAKENING: “The power of this book lies not only in the beauty and precision of it’s language, but that the words come alive. The book causes in me what it teaches. Very few books can do that! In the process of reading “The Mechanics of Awakening” you awaken.” —Silvia Reischl, Founder of the Reischl Method of Functional Healing Gary Sherman has written a truly insightful and helpful book that will positively change the lives of its readers. Although many books have wise teachings, few have accessible, reliable and transformative practices like this one. I highly recommend this book.” —Russell Delman, Founder of The Embodied Life School “Thirty years ago, while on a year long sabbatical in Hawaii, Gary Sherman underwent a life-changing personal transformation. Although he was already a skilled meditator and therapist, the level of knowledge and awareness transmitted to him during this period was revelatory. Ever since, he and his wife Ellen have been skillfully teaching others how to gain this awareness for themselves and how to integrate it into their daily lives. I personally have benefited from this teaching, and now, with this book in hand, I can continue to do so.” —Amy L. Lansky, PhD, Author of Active Consciousness: Awakening the Power Within and Impossible Cure “I love a book that I can put down frequently, not just to ponder but to experience and personally test the truths I have just awakened to in the reading, especially as they apply to the evolving nature of my own life. So I am grateful for this book. By offering a practice for self-awareness and self-creation, it has become a life changer for me, a thriller about the nature of my own consciousness. I’ll be turning to it often.” —Pierre Delattre, Author of Tales of the Dali Lama, Walking on Air and Episodes “Gary Sherman has accomplished a spectacular feat in this book. He not only describes the inner and outer dimensions of our perception of reality, the upper and lower energetic resonances of consciousness within the mind, emotions and the physical body but also gives us very clear exercises to help us ground this knowledge into our ever-evolving self. It is one of the clearest books I have ever read concerning these matters. I highly recommend it.” —Warren Bellows, Acupuncturist, Artist and Author of Floral Acupuncture: Applying the flower essences of Dr. Bach to acupuncture sites

Perceptual Integration: The Mechanics of Awakening

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