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Wind And Truth [Bok / Pocket]

Discover a clever new way to approach watercolour painting. Begin by building up the muscle memory of the stroke pattern, then put brush to paper, and create a little animal watercolour with ease and confidence.<br/><br/>Once you've mastered the stroke patterns, each animal project takes just 10 minutes to create, and you can create the artworks again and again with confidence.<br/><br/>Animals include: giraffe, panda, flamingo, robin, whale, boar, otter, penguin, tortoise, elephant, hippo, lizard, leopard, chicken, goldfish.

<strong>Combining the whimsy and possibility of <em>The Midnight Library</em> with the mystery and revelatory power of <em>The Secret</em>, a heartwarming and inspiring novel about a man on a magical ride who is unexpectedly offered a chance at happiness.</strong><br/><br/>After losing multiple contracts, Shuichi must make restitution to his company. Faced with this large, unanticipated debt, the trip to Paris he and his wife have been planning for a year must be canceled. Traveling to Europe was more than a vacation; it offered the hope of reaching their teenage daughter who has stopped going to school and will not leave her room. Feeling despondent and directionless, Shuichi believes he's the unluckiest person in Japan.<br/><br/>Then a strange taxi mysteriously appears at his door. The driver promises to take Shuichi not to a destination he needs, but to where his next opportunity will be. With nothing to lose, he settles into the backseat and embarks on a series of magical rides that will teach him surprising life lessons, including how luck is not inherent-it's an investment built over time and even over generations.<br/><br/>A compassionate and uplifting fable, <em>The Lucky Ride</em> will make you reconsider what's important, how to be more present in your life, and empower you to create happiness not just for yourself but for those to come.<br/><br/>Translated from the Japanese by Takami Nieda

If you're looking for new embroidery ideas, this book has them all in one convenient location. Author Jessica Long shares a treasure trove of patterns, lessons, and charming projects you probably haven't tried before. Discover 25 unique ideas for animal embroidery hoops: a bluebird, a seahorse, a beetle, an axolotl, a garden mouse and much more. Beginners will love the full-colour diagrams and step-by-step instructions for creating full-sized patterns from scratch whilst experienced embroidery masters will enjoy the new ideas, not to mention cutting-edge modern techniques to lend new depth, texture, and personality to each design. This book is more than just a few cool embroidery ideas - it's a complete introduction to a unique perspective of looking at your embroidery, all from a gifted, self-taught embroiderer who's turned her hobby into a life-changing passion.

<b>A fleet of modern rockets among the most powerful in the world. A lunar land rush that has sparked a competition over the strategic high ground. Scientific discoveries that could offer new insights into the origins of the solar system. Escalating brinkmanship between the world's two richest men.</b> <b>Space has entered a golden age, and this is just the beginning.</b><br/><br/>After the first Trump administration launched the Artemis program, NASA created a historic competition that pit Elon Musk's SpaceX against Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin, flanked far away by Russia and China. At stake: billions of dollars, national prestige, and a place in the history books.<br/><br/>In this gripping work, veteran reporter Christian Davenport chronicles the mad scramble to shape humanity's off-planet future. He takes readers behind the scenes at NASA and the Pentagon as China's aggressive moon mining and military plans raise alarms, onto the sprawling Cape Canaveral factory where Bezos works toward Amazon-style lunar deliveries, and onto SpaceX launch pads as Musk's engineers log 100-hour weeks, ultimately pulling off the harrowing but triumphant launch of its first human spaceflight mission.<br/><br/>What will happen as frenetic public and private ambition outpaces governmental regulation? Who will win the race to the moon, and will the US finally be able to start a real push toward Mars? Masterfully paced, rigorously reported, and vividly told, <i>Rocket Dreams</i> weaves cutting-edge science with high-stakes capitalism and old-fashioned nationalism into a vision of humanity's next giant leap.

<b>'An invaluable companion for anyone who wants a deep understanding of what's under the hood of often inscrutable machines' Melanie Mitchell </b><br/><br/><b>A rich, narrative explanation of the mathematics that has brought us machine learning and the ongoing explosion of artificial intelligence</b><br/><br/>Machine-learning systems are making life-altering decisions for us: approving mortgage loans, determining whether a tumour is cancerous, or deciding whether someone gets bail. They now influence discoveries in chemistry, biology and physics - the study of genomes, extra-solar planets, even the intricacies of quantum systems.<br/><br/>We are living through a revolution in artificial intelligence that is not slowing down. This major shift is based on simple mathematics, some of which goes back centuries: linear algebra and calculus, the stuff of eighteenth-century mathematics. Indeed by the mid-1850s, a lot of the groundwork was all done. It took the development of computer science and the kindling of 1990s computer chips designed for video games to ignite the explosion of AI that we see all around us today. In this enlightening book, Anil Ananthaswamy explains the fundamental maths behind AI, which suggests that the basics of natural and artificial intelligence might follow the same <i>mathematical </i>rules.<br/><br/>As Ananthaswamy resonantly concludes, to make the most of our most wondrous technologies we need to understand their profound limitations - the clues lie in the maths that makes AI possible.

<b>Juvelian's fake boyfriend wants to date for real . . . but will she accept him after discovering his true identity?</b><br/><br/>Stunned by her contract boyfriend's confession of real love and her aloof father's unexpected display of loyalty, Lady Juvelian begins to wonder if her second life might have a happy ending after all. But her bubble is quickly burst at Princess Beatrice's coming-of-age ceremony, where Juvelian's unhinged ex, Mikhail, stirs up trouble yet again. When an unexpected hero saves the day, Juvelian learns that the person she fears most - the tyrannical crown prince - may be much closer to her than she realized.<br/><br/>Meanwhile, Juvelian's father is running out of options as he struggles to break free from the wicked emperor's grasp. As Duke Floyen's inner turmoil grows, he becomes all the more determined to protect his daughter, even if it means relying on the last person in the world he wants to trust.<br/><br/><b>Volume 5 collects episodes 65-80 of the webcomic Father, I Don't Want This Marriage.</b>