Steven Bird Books

'An urgent and vital call to arms that compassionately and forensically exposes the many ways criminal justice fails women, and offers practical and clear-sighted solutions' THE SECRET BARRISTER

From one of the UK's best-known tarot personalities comes a guide for creating your own tarot or oracle deck.Oracles have been in existence for as long as human beings have been around. Across time, the practice of divination has evolved from using the reflections of clouds in water to decks of cards, and is now as popular as ever. People have always been intrigued by the unseen hand of fate … In The Oracle The Modern Guide to Creating a Tarot or Oracle Deck , Steven Bright examines the benefits of building an oracle deck, plus practical tips for turning the deck in your head into a reality!

First to Fight is a high-octane drama of a remarkable soldier, one of the first American fighter pilots at the dawn of aerial combat, the era of the Red Baron.

This book provides an accessible introduction to natural language processing, a field that underpins various language technologies such as predictive text, email filtering, automatic summarization, and translation. It guides you in writing Python programs to handle large collections of unstructured text. You'll learn to access richly annotated datasets using diverse linguistic data structures and grasp the main algorithms for analyzing written communication's content and structure. With numerous examples and exercises, you'll acquire skills to extract information from unstructured text, analyze linguistic structure through parsing and semantic analysis, and access popular linguistic databases like WordNet and treebanks. The book integrates techniques from linguistics and artificial intelligence, equipping you with practical skills in natural language processing using Python and the Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK) open-source library. Whether you're interested in developing web applications, analyzing multilingual news, documenting endangered languages, or simply exploring a programmer's view of human language, this resource will be both fascinating and immensely useful.

Seventeen-year-old Jean has cerebral palsy and gets around in a wheelchair, but she's always believed she's just the same as everyone else. But there Jean meets Sara, who welcomes her to 'Crip Camp' and nicknames her Spazzo.

In Focus Divination is your go-to reference for everything you need to know about interpreting the future.

The true story of an entertainer for the past forty five years. Up's down's and inside out's.The journey was a difficult one because he chose the wrong profession and paid the price ... Or did he?

In Focus Tarot provides the essentials to quickly get you started practicing tarot card reading. Part of the In Focus series, the book applies a modern approach to teaching a classic body, mind, and spirit subject.