Books with author Pat Jacobs

Ghosts! Werewolves! Evil toys! A zombie dog! This collection of scary short stories for kids will set your teeth chattering! Meet a teddy bear that's supposed to keep away the bogeyman.Come take a look inside the Black Kitchen, where a terrible accident happened years ago.Meet Rex, the meanest dog ever.Take a swim with the legendary Pale Mary who dwells in the school's swimming pool.Or discover the worst word ever ... one that will haunt your nightmares forever!A collection of ten chilling short stories that will have brave kids begging for more!

Before going into the field of machine learning, we begin to answer the most important question. Why Python?The answer is simple: it is a powerful and accessible language. Python has become the most widely used programming language for data processing, since it allows you to neglect all the boring aspects of programming, offering an environment in which it is possible to put ideas into practice and see concepts in action.Knowledge is acquired through learning and the key to doing this is our enthusiasm, but mastery of concepts can only come with practice. The road ahead may sometimes be fraught with obstacles and some topics may be more complex than others, but this opportunity and focus on python and machine learning helps to explore, learn and advance. This book contains powerful techniques to your arsenal, which will help you solve even the most difficult problems, based on the available data. Through machine learning, we instruct computers to process, learn and draw useful knowledge from this otherwise impenetrable mountain of data. Starting from the big supercomputers that support Google's search engines, to the smartphones that we all have in our pockets, we constantly rely on machine learning algorithms to try to move the world around us, often without even realizing it.Machine learning, or the application and study of algorithms that extract useful information from the shapeless mass of data, is the most interesting field of computer science. We live in an era where data is available in an overabundant quantity. Using self-learning algorithms in the field of machine learning, we are able to transform this data into knowledge. Thanks to the many and increasingly powerful open source libraries that have been developed over the last few years, there has probably never been a better time to deal with machine learning and python and to learn how to use these powerful algorithms to identify patterns in data and make predictions about future events.So get started with your knowledge of Machine Learning with Python with this book!

Becca, almost 13, lives in her imagination, her escape from being class nerd. She's unaware that she possesses the spirit and relics of a revered healer of the Akwanakai, a Great Lakes area tribe. She is kidnapped and brought back 350 years by an evil shaman. Wanaga craves both the power within Becca and revenge against the woman who spurned him.Beck's escape leads to the love and respect of her people as she adjusts to a new body and a new reality. After her vision quest, Becca is Chenoa. Through courage and self-reliance, she becomes a healer. At 18, Chenoa fulfills her destiny as a shaman and finds the love of a young warrior.Yet she must face a life-threatening challenge from her nemesis Wanaga who seeks to destroy her and to betray his own people to the white "Bear Faces." A grave personal sacrifice is her only chance to offer life to her spirit sister.Spirit Sister, I Sing Your Song is a coming-of-age tale that shows the development of a strong Native American woman and raises the issue of the treatment of Native American artifacts. The book presents the culture and spirituality of the Great Lakes tribes along with the age-old confrontation of good and evil.Praise for Spirit Sister, I Sing Your SongAn engaging blend of historical fiction and magical realism... [Becca] is a strong female character that will appeal to readers of all ages.Kirkus ReviewsSpirit Sister, I Sing Your Song is both entertaining and educational for children and adults alike. It will give the reader an understanding of the world view of the native people of the Great Lakes area.Myles Goddard, (Ojibwe) Vice President of Education, Midwest SOARRING FoundationJacobs communicates with simplicity and power, the essence of the indigenous heart and the wisdom of the Native American spiritual path.Annette Hulefeld, D.Min., LCSW, Shamanic Practitioner (ret.) My class loved Spirit Sister and couldn’t wait for me to read them the next chapter.Mary Ellen Lesniak, teacher, Oak Park, IllinoisI don’t know how Pat, raised in the suburbs, got the vision quest right, but she did.Skip Twardos (Potawatomi)

This story is set in the 1950s in London, England, its the time when most people didnt own a refrigerator, TV, Microwave or mobile phones. Children played games like five stones, (Jacks) snakes & ladders and card games to amuse themselves. Its about a very ordinary boy called Mathew who buys a packet of chocolate drops and experiences extra-ordinary events which sees him going from being mildly amused to extremely excited and really not understanding what has happened. Together with his friend Dan they try to find solutions only to end up in trouble at school, they have a code by which they refer to the Everlasting Chocolate Drop so that no-one else can know what they are talking about

Becca, almost 13, lives in her imagination, her escape from being class nerd. She’s unaware that she possesses the spirit and relics of a revered healer of the Akwanakai, a Great Lakes area tribe. She is kidnapped and brought back 350 years by an evil shaman. Wanaga craves both the power within Becca and revenge against the woman who spurned him. Becca’s escape leads to the love and respect of her people as she adjusts to a new body and a new reality. After her vision quest, Becca is Chenoa. Through courage and self-reliance, she becomes a healer. At 18 , Chenoa fulfills her destiny as a shaman and finds the love of a young warrior. Yet she must face a life-threatening challenge from her nemesis Wanaga who seeks to destroy her and betray his own people to the white “Bear Faces.” A grave personal sacrifice is her only chance to offer life to her spirit sister. Spirit Sister I Sing Your Song is a coming-of-age tale that shows the development of a strong Native American woman and raises the issue of the treatment of Native American artifacts. The book presents the culture and spirituality of the Great Lakes tribes along with the age-old confrontation of good and evil. Praise for Spirit Sister I Sing Your Song An engaging blend of historical fiction and magical realism... [Becca] is a strong female character that will appeal to readers of all ages. --Kirkus Reviews Spirit Sister I Sing Your Song is both entertaining and educational for children and adults alike. It will give the reader an understanding of the world view of the native people of the Great Lakes area. --Myles Goddard, (Ojibwe) Vice President of Education, Midwest SOARRING Foundation Jacobs communicates with simplicity and power, the essence of the indigenous heart and the wisdom of the Native American spiritual path. --Annette Hulefeld, D. Min., LCSW, Shamanic Practitioner (ret) My class loved Spirit Sister and couldn’t wait for me to read them the next chapter. --Mary Ellen Lesniak, teacher, Oak Park, Illinois I don’t know how Pat, raised in the suburbs, got the vision quest right, but she did. --Skip Twardos (Potawatomi)