The stage was set for a showdown: Man v. Machine. On March 9, 2016, the AlphaGo artificial intelligence computer program played the board game, GO, against the world champion, Lee Sedol.

The Game: Go is the oldest board game in the world. Games are perfect tests for A.I because they keep score. It's easy to see when the A.I. is improving.

The Man: Korean Lee Sedol was the world's top Go player. He expected to win all five games of the match. Could the A.I. teach him anything?

The Machine: Developed in 2014, AlphaGo was a computer artificial intelligence program designed to play Go by using deep learning to recognize patterns in the game. It had already beaten the European champion. Could it defeat Sedol?

The exciting historic meeting of minds unfolded across five difficult games. This story introduces concepts of artificial intelligence and helps kids understand the challenges and the promise of working with A.I.

MOMENTS IN SCIENCE COLLECTION, Book 6

This exciting series focuses on small moments in science that made a difference.

- BURN: Michael Faraday's Candle

- CLANG! Ernst Chladni's Sound Experiments (2019 NSTA Outstanding Science Trade Book)

- POLLEN: Darwin's 130 Year Prediction (Junior Library Guild selection, Starred Kirkus Review. 2020 NSTA Outstanding Science Trade Book)

- ECLIPSE: How the 1919 Eclipse Proved Einstein's Theory of General Relativity

- EROSION: How Hugh Bennett Saved America's Soil and Ended the Dust Bowl (2021 NCSS Notable Social Studies Book)

- AI: How Pattern Recognition Helped Artificial Intelligence Defeat World Champion Lee Sedol

This book of prayer offers four original Christian prayers for each month of the year; 48 prayers. The last prayer included is the Lord's Prayer which, of course, was not written by author Peter Willis.

The prayers are divided into calendar months and each is preceded by an affirmation image - the image is to help you to meditate and focus on the central theme of the prayer. To contemplate on one image and prayer per week is highly beneficial for the faithful - it strengthens one's faith and resolve in dealing with the inevitable hurdles and unpleasant challenges which come our way throughout the year.

At Faithful Pages Books, we sincerely hope you gain the strength, hope, love, peace, faith, compassion, empathy and understanding you seek from these prayers.

May the Lord God bless you.
Highlights:

• 47 unique Christian prayers - 4 for each month of the year (January-December)
• Affirmation Images precede each prayer
• A beautifully crafted and designed prayer book
• Handy size - 5 x 8; fits nicely into handbags, briefcases
• Makes a wonderful present or gift for birthdays, Christmas, confirmation, baptism etc.

Ask God to help you to improve your health, wealth and happiness without delay!

Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. Matthew 7:7.

This book of powerful prayer offers original powerful prayers for health, wealth and happiness. The last prayer included is the Lord's Prayer which, of course, was not written by Peter Willis.

The prayers are handily divided into the sections Health, Wealth and Happiness for ease of reference. It is recommended you read a prayer first and then, if you are able, say the prayer out loud. Think about the words you are saying and clear your mind of other thoughts. The prayers do not need to be used in order, you may pick and chose which prayers you wish, or need, to use as you progress through the year.

To contemplate on, and recite one prayer per week is highly beneficial for the faithful - it strengthens one's faith and resolve in dealing with the inevitable hurdles and unpleasant challenges which come our way throughout the year.
Highlights:

• Powerful Prayers for improved Health
• Powerful Prayers for improved Wealth
• Powerful Prayers for improved Happiness
• Uniquely powerful prayers
• Handy 5 x 8 size for travel, car, briefcase
• Makes a thoughtful gift or present for someone at any time of the year - or a gift to yourself; you're worth it!

May the Lord God bless you.

Part of the Faitful Pages Book Series.

Rethinking a Sustainable Society Alan Mayne The world has already passed the midway point for achieving by 2015 the eight Millennium Development Goals for a more peaceful, prosperous and just world that were set by the United Nations in the wake of its inspirational Millennium Dec- 1 laration in 2000. These goals range from combating poverty, hunger, and disease, to empowering women, and ensuring environmental sustainability. However Ban Ki-Moon, the United Nations Secretary-General, conceded in 2007 that progress to date has been mixed. During 2008 the head of the United Nations World Food P- gramme cautioned that because of the surge in world commodity prices the program had insuf?cient money to stave off global malnutrition, and the World Health Or- nization warned of a global crisis in water and sanitation. Depressing news accounts accumulate about opportunities missed to achieve a fairer world order and ecolo- calsustainability: themanipulationofelectionresultsinAfrica, humanrightsabuses in China, 4000 Americans dead and another nation torn apart by a senseless and protracted war in Iraq, and weasel words by the world's political leadership in the lead-up to negotiations for a climate change deal in 2009 that is supposed to stabilize global carbon dioxide emissions. It is clear that the parameters of the debates that drive progressive policy change urgently require repositioning and energizing. As is shown by the contributors to Rethinking work and learning, experts in the humanities and social sciences (HASS) couldhaveanimportantroletoplayinthisprocess.

This book provides an introductory but thorough guide to EU competition law, covering the underlying economics, and the key substantive areas of anticompetitive agreements (Article 81), abuses of dominance (Article 82), the application to the most common types of commercial agreement, state aids, state measures limiting competition and mergers. It also examines the procedures under which the relevant competition authorities apply the rules, private enforcement of the rules before the courts, and minimising risk by implementing a compliance programme.

The emphasis is practical rather than theoretical: the authors are practitioners in the field of competition law and economics, with many years' individual and collective experience in the area.

This will be an essential reference tool for practitioners, academics and students of EU Competition Law.

Rethinking a Sustainable Society Alan Mayne The world has already passed the midway point for achieving by 2015 the eight Millennium Development Goals for a more peaceful, prosperous and just world that were set by the United Nations in the wake of its inspirational Millennium Dec- 1 laration in 2000. These goals range from combating poverty, hunger, and disease, to empowering women, and ensuring environmental sustainability. However Ban Ki-Moon, the United Nations Secretary-General, conceded in 2007 that progress to date has been mixed. During 2008 the head of the United Nations World Food P- gramme cautioned that because of the surge in world commodity prices the program had insuf?cient money to stave off global malnutrition, and the World Health Or- nization warned of a global crisis in water and sanitation. Depressing news accounts accumulate about opportunities missed to achieve a fairer world order and ecolo- calsustainability: themanipulationofelectionresultsinAfrica, humanrightsabuses in China, 4000 Americans dead and another nation torn apart by a senseless and protracted war in Iraq, and weasel words by the world's political leadership in the lead-up to negotiations for a climate change deal in 2009 that is supposed to stabilize global carbon dioxide emissions. It is clear that the parameters of the debates that drive progressive policy change urgently require repositioning and energizing. As is shown by the contributors to Rethinking work and learning, experts in the humanities and social sciences (HASS) couldhaveanimportantroletoplayinthisprocess.

Over the past few years I have recieved messages of guidance and upliftment when least expected. Gathering many quotations which has helped me on my spiritual journey. This book is aimed to prove life everlasting and to shed a light when we are in the dark to prove we are never alone.

Communications networks are now dominated by Internet protocol (IP) technologies. Every aspect of networking, from access to the core network to the surrounding operational support systems, has been radically affected by the rapid development of IP technologies.

This book comprehensively reviews the design, provision and operations of carrier-scale Internet networks. A good balance between leading edge technology and many of the practical issues surrounding carrier-scale IP networks is presented, including: the challenges in building and scaling a carrier-scale IP network, how to physically build and maintain Points of Presence (PoP) around the world, core transmission networks for the new millenium, delivery of IP over broadband access technologies and wireless access, dial access platform, an overview of satellite access networks, operations for the IP environment, operational support systems for carrier-scale IP networks, IP address management, traffic engineering, and IP virtual private networks. This makes for essential reading for telecommunications engineers and managers, researchers and postgraduate students in this rapidly changing area of communications technology.

In 1848, the penultimate year of his life, Chopin visited England and Scotland at the instigation of his aristocratic Scots pupil, Jane Stirling. In the autumn of that year, he returned to Paris. The following autumn he was dead. Despite the fascination the composer continues to hold for scholars, this brief but important period, and his previous visit to London in 1837, remain little known. In this richly illustrated study, Peter Willis draws on extensive original documentary evidence, as well as cultural artefacts, to tell the story of these two visits and to place them into aristocratic and artistic life in mid-nineteenth-century England and Scotland. In addition to filling a significant hole in our knowledge of the composer's life, the book adds to our understanding of a number of important figures, including Jane Stirling and the painter Ary Scheffer. The social and artistic milieux of London, Manchester, Glasgow and Edinburgh are brought to vivid life.