Deep in an Iranian suburb made rich by the booming oil industry Clarice Ayvazian lives a comfortable life surrounded by the gentle bickering of her children & her gossiping friends & relatives Happy being at the heart of her family she devotes herself to their every need But when an enigmatic Armenian family move in across the street something begins to gnaw at Clarice's contentment a feeling that there may be more to life
- & to her
- than this Dizzy with the sweltering heat & simmering emotions Clarice begins to feel herself come alive to possibilities previously unimaginable Set in Iran prior to the Islamic revolution Zoya Pirzad's award-winning novel crafts an intimate portrait of family life
- its joys & its compromises
- & how we find a happiness that endures For fans of Anne Tyler Things We Left Unsaid is a humourous & pointed insight into the hopes & aspirations of Iranians in the years that led to the Islamic Revolution



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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play A recent widow invites her husband&s troubled best friend to live with her & her two children As he gradually turns his life arou nd he helps the family cope & confront their loss ...

Things You Find in a Poet's Beard is a collection of poems that have been shouted at children at schools bookshops & festivals across the country by Mr AF Harrold & illustrated by Chris Ridell Things You Find in a Poet's Beard is printed using Dyslexie font
- the typeface for readers with dyslexia 108 pages 20 colour illustrations Harrold A F
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Things A Story of the Sixties is the story of a young couple who want to enjoy life but the only way they know how to do so is through ownership of 'things' Perec's first novel won the Prix Renaudot & became the cult book for a generation In A Man Asleep a young student embarks upon a disturbing & exhaustive pursuit of indifference following his experience in non-existence with relentless logic ...

The Modern Entrepreneurs Workbook to Business Growth The second edition of Think Digital First is an updated & revised version of the original " Marketing Book Of The Year Finalist"; Think Digital First Information I had previously shared around the social networks had changed The tools I had shared were either no longer in business or had been outperformed by competitors I knew that because the online world had evolved that I also wanted to completely re-write the book & bring it as up-to-date as possible Think Digital First Second Edition is a workbook designed for creative entrepreneurs business owners & sales & marketing managers that shares with them the importance of having the right mindset to focus on technology sales & marketing I have analysed exactly what my audience wants from me & I have taken what was a readable book & turned it into a workbook The way you learn has evolved & I knew that I needed to do something different & unique The second edition of Think Digital First is a unique combination of how-to's & real-time worksheet implementation ...

Napoleon Hill America's most beloved motivational author devoted 25 years to finding out how the wealthy became that way After interviewing over 500 of the most affluent men & women of his time he uncovered the secret to great wealth based on the notion that if we can learn to think like the rich we can start to behave like them By understanding & applying the thirteen simple steps that constitute Hill's formula you can achieve your goals change your life & join the ranks of the rich & successful In this updated edition Dr Arthur R Pell provides examples of men & women who in recent times exemplify the principles that Hill promulgated With the success stories of top achievers such as Bill Gates & Steven Spielberg he proves that Hill's philosophies are as valid today as they ever were ...

The single greatest guide to achieving success ever written featuring a new foreword by Steve Harvey! Think & Grow Rich first published in 1937 took more than twenty years of research to compile Napoleon Hill was a journalist & writer who later served as an advisor to President Franklin D Roosevelt from 1933 to 1936 His big break came wi 300 pages Hill Napoleon ...

If you know how to program with Python & also know a little about probability you're ready to tackle Bayesian statistics With this book you'll learn how to solve statistical problems with Python code instead of mathematical notation & use discrete probability distributions instead of continuous mathematics Once you get the math out of the way the Bayesian fundamentals will become clearer & you'll begin to apply these techniques to real-world problems Bayesian statistical methods are becoming more common & more important but not many resources are available to help beginners Based on undergraduate classes taught by author Allen Downey this book's computational approach helps you get a solid start Use your existing programming skills to learn & understand Bayesian statistics Work with problems involving estimation prediction decision analysis evidence & hypothesis testing Get started with simple examples using coins M& Ms Dungeons & Dragons dice paintball & hockey Learn computational methods for solving real-world problems such as interpreting SAT scores simulating kidney tumors & modeling the human microbiome ...

Dive into Python's advanced possibilities including algorithm analysis graphs scale-free networks & cellular automata with this in-depth hands-on guide Whether you're an intermediate-level Python programmer or a student of computational modeling you'll examine data structures complexity science & other fascinating topics through a series of exercises easy-to-understand explanations & case studies Think Complexity presents features that make Python such a simple & powerful language Author Allen Downey provides code to help you get started along with a solution for each exercise With this book you will Work with graphs & graph algorithms Num Py arrays & Sci Py methods basic signal processing & Fast Fourier Transform & hash tables Discover complexity science the field that studies abstract models of complex physical systems including power laws fractals & pink noise & Turing machines Explore the philosophy of science through the models & results in this book about the nature of scientific laws theory choice & realism & instrumentalism & more ...

If you're a student studying computer science or a software developer preparing for technical interviews this practical book will help you learn & review some of the most important ideas in software engineering-data structures & algorithms-in a way that's clearer more concise & more engaging than other materials By emphasizing practical knowledge & skills over theory author Allen Downey shows you how to use data structures to implement efficient algorithms & then analyze & measure their performance You'll explore the important classes in the Java collections framework (JCF) how they're implemented & how they're expected to perform Each chapter presents hands-on exercises supported by test code online Use data structures such as lists & maps & understand how they work Build an application that reads Wikipedia pages parses the contents & navigates the resulting data tree Analyze code to predict how fast it will run & how much memory it will require Write classes that implement the Map interface using a hash table & binary search tree Build a simple web search engine with a crawler an indexer that stores web page contents & a retriever that returns user query results Other books by Allen Downey include Think Java Think Python Think Stats & Think Bayes ...