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UEFA EURO 2024 Official Kids' Guide
By Kevin Pettman. 2024
This official and exclusive kids' guide to EURO 2024 contains all the essential information young football fans need in the…
run-up to the Championship, which kicks off on 14th June 2024. The book features an overview of the competition's history, a lowdown of the venues in 2024, punchy team profiles and a rundown of all the star players involved, including the likes of Mbappe, Jude Bellingham, Pedri, Musiala and many others.Dynamically designed and illustrated, and with more than 125 images, the book is brimmng with facts, stats, records guaranteed to make its readers experts of Europe's biggest continental soccer tournament.A Year in Story and Song: A Celebration of the Seasons
By Lia Leendertz. 2024
A Year in Story and Song is a captivating collection of stories and songs that celebrates the seasons. We humans…
love stories. We love to hear them and to tell them, around fires and by bedsides, and we love to use them to make sense of the world around us. The seasons, in all their ever-changing variety, give us many opportunities for storytelling: the full moons and their names, Epiphany in January, St Patrick's Day in March, May Day, Midsummer, Halloween and more. They feature mischievous boggarts and fairies, saints and sailors, leprechauns and dragons, pilgrimages and charms, milk maids and rose queens, Robin Hood and the green man. The songs range from shanties and love songs, to bawdy ballads and wassails, to carols and rounds, and have been sung for hundreds of years, often at particular moments in the calendar.This is a book to treasure all year, every year.Missing: My life finding the lost and delivering justice for the living
By Charlie Hedges. 2024
'A phenomenal insight... a fascinating read. I couldn't put it down' Jackie Malton, author of The Real Prime SuspectEvery 90…
seconds in the UK, a missing person is reported to the police.A pioneer in the field with experience spanning four decades, Charlie Hedges' job is to work out the best way to find them. What's going on in their life? When were they last seen?Have they chosen to go missing or is someone else involved?With no two cases ever the same, Charlie has been involved in some of the most high-profile reports during his career with the police and as a consultant in missing cases. From the evil of abductions and trafficking to the tragic accidents of the vulnerable, Charlie has dedicated his life to developing the ways we help not just the missing, but the families and loved ones left behind.Unique and fascinating, Missing tells Charlie's untold story of finding those who desperately need to be found and the cases that will never leave him.Missing: My life finding the lost and delivering justice for the living
By Charlie Hedges. 2024
'A phenomenal insight... a fascinating read. I couldn't put it down' Jackie Malton, author of The Real Prime SuspectEvery 90…
seconds in the UK, a missing person is reported to the police.A pioneer in the field with experience spanning four decades, Charlie Hedges' job is to work out the best way to find them. What's going on in their life? When were they last seen?Have they chosen to go missing or is someone else involved?With no two cases ever the same, Charlie has been involved in some of the most high-profile reports during his career with the police and as a consultant in missing cases. From the evil of abductions and trafficking to the tragic accidents of the vulnerable, Charlie has dedicated his life to developing the ways we help not just the missing, but the families and loved ones left behind.Unique and fascinating, Missing tells Charlie's untold story of finding those who desperately need to be found and the cases that will never leave him.MATLAB and Simulink in Action: Programming, Scientific Computing and Simulation
By Dingyü Xue, Feng Pan. 2024
The textbook is intended for teaching MATLAB language and its applications. The book is composed of three parts: MATLAB programming,…
scientific computing with MATLAB, and system simulation with Simulink. Since MATLAB is widely used in all fields of science and engineering, a good introduction to the language can not only help students learn how to use it to solve practical problems, but also provide them with the skills to use MATLAB independently in their later courses and research. The three parts of the book are well-balanced and tailored to the needs of engineering students, and the mathematical problems commonly encountered in engineering can be easily solved using MATLAB. This textbook is suitable for undergraduate and graduate students majoring in science and engineering.Design Patterns with Java: An Introduction
By Olaf Musch. 2023
A practical description of the software design patterns as they are mentioned in the 1994 book "Design Patterns - Elements…
of Reusable ObjectOriented Software" by the author group Gamma, Helm, Johnson and Vlissides (also called "Gang of Four", GoF for short). All patterns are explained in detail by means of examples and also critically appreciated. Furthermore, design principles of object-oriented programming are described and considered. All examples are commented in detail in the source code and are executable under Java 16. In part, newer features of Java up to and including version 16 are also explained and used.Data-Centric Business and Applications: Modern Trends in Financial and Innovation Data Processes 2023. Volume 1 (Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications Technologies #195)
By Andriy Semenov, Iryna Yepifanova, Jana Kajanová. 2024
This book examines aspects of financial and investment processes, as well as the application of information technology mechanisms to business…
and industrial management, using the experience of the Ukrainian economy as an example. An effective tool for supporting business data processing is combining modern information technologies and the latest achievements in economic theory. The variety of industrial sectors studied supports the continuous acquisition and use of efficient business analysis in organizations. In addition, the book elaborates on multidisciplinary concepts, examples, and practices that can be useful for researching the evolution of developments in the field. Also, in this book, there is a description of analysis methods for making decisions in business, finance, and innovation management.A Year in Story and Song: A Celebration of the Seasons
By Lia Leendertz. 2024
A Year in Story and Song is a captivating collection of stories and songs that celebrates the seasons. We humans…
love stories. We love to hear them and to tell them, around fires and by bedsides, and we love to use them to make sense of the world around us. The seasons, in all their ever-changing variety, give us many opportunities for storytelling: the full moons and their names, Epiphany in January, St Patrick's Day in March, May Day, Midsummer, Halloween and more. They feature mischievous boggarts and fairies, saints and sailors, leprechauns and dragons, pilgrimages and charms, milk maids and rose queens, Robin Hood and the green man. The songs range from shanties and love songs, to bawdy ballads and wassails, to carols and rounds, and have been sung for hundreds of years, often at particular moments in the calendar.This is a book to treasure all year, every year.Emerging Trends for Securing Cyber Physical Systems and the Internet of Things (Future Generation Information Systems)
By Bharat Bhushan, Sudhir Kumar Sharma, Parma Nand, Achyut Shankar, Ahmed J. Obaid. 2024
In the past decades, cyber-physical systems (CPSs) have been widely applied to fields such as smart grids, environment monitoring, aerospace,…
smart transportation, and industrial automation. Great strides have been made in CPSs to improve the computing mechanism, communication, and quality of service by applying optimization algorithms. Currently, these efforts are integrated with the applications of machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI). To maintain system reliability and stability, CPSs such as smart grids face numerous challenges, including large-scale Internet-of-Things (IoT) device adaptation, ever-increasing demands of electrical energy, and the rise of a wide range of security threats. These challenges bring forth the need to find sustainable and advanced solutions to guarantee reliable and secure operations in these systems.The goal of this book is to foster transformative, multidisciplinary, and novel approaches that ensure CPS security by taking into consideration the unique security challenges present in the environment. This book attracts contributions in all aspects pertaining to this multidisciplinary paradigm, which includes the development and implementation of Smart CPS, Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems, CPS for Industry 4.0, CPS architecture for IoT applications, and CPS forensics.This book: Discusses concepts including wireless sensor networks (WSNs), CPSs, and the IoT in a comprehensive manner. Covers routing protocols in sensor networks, attacks, and vulnerabilities in WSNs, the Internet of Cyber-Physical Things, and CPSs for industrial applications. Highlights technological advances, practical solutions, emerging trends, and prototypes related to privacy in CPSs and the IoT. Presents a pathway and architecture for proactive security schemes in CPSs to counter vulnerabilities, including phishing attacks, malware injection, internal stealing of data, and hacking. Discusses the most recent research and development on the enabling technologies for IoT-based CPSs. Owing to the scope and diversity of topics covered, the book will be of interest not only to researchers and theorists but also to professionals, material developers, technology specialists, and methodologists dealing with the multifarious aspects of data privacy and security enhancement in CPSs. The book will provide these professionals an overview of CPS security and privacy design, as well as enlighten them to promising solutions to research problems such as cyberattacks in CPS, risk identification and management in CPS, ML-based trust computational models for CPSs, nature-inspired algorithms for CPSs, and distributed consensus algorithms for event detection in CPSs. The secondary target audience of this book includes legal practitioners, hackers, cyber law policymakers, cyber forensic analysts, and global security consortiums who may use it to further their research exposure to pertinent topics in cybersecurity.Intelligent Quantum Information Processing (Quantum Machine Intelligence)
By Siddhartha Bhattacharyya, Iván Cruz-Aceves, Arpan Deyasi, Pampa Debnath, Rajarshi Mahapatra. 2024
The book discusses the foundations of intelligent quantum information processing applied to several real-life engineering problems, including intelligent quantum systems,…
intelligent quantum communication, intelligent process optimization, and intelligent quantum distributed networks.This book:• Showcases a detailed overview of different quantum machine learning algorithmic frameworks.• Presents real-life case studies and applications.• Provides an in-depth analysis of quantum mechanical principles.• Provides a step-by-step guide in the build-up of quantum inspired/quantum intelligent information processing systems.• Provides a video demonstration on each chapter for better understanding.It will serve as an ideal reference text for graduate students and academic researchers in fields such as electrical engineering, electronics and communication engineering, computer engineering, and information technology.Complex Digital Hardware Design
By Istvan Nagy. 2024
This book is about how to design the most complex types of digital circuit boards used inside servers, routers and…
other equipment, from high-level system architecture down to the low-level signal integrity concepts. It explains common structures and subsystems that can be expanded into new designs in different markets.The book is targeted at all levels of hardware engineers. There are shorter, lower-level introductions to every topic, while the book also takes the reader all they way to the most complex and most advanced topics of digital circuit design, layout design, analysis, and hardware architecture.Best Dad Ever: The Perfect Thank You Gift for Your Incredible Dad
By Summersdale Publishers. 2024
Show your dad just how much he means to you with this delightful collection of heartfelt quotes and timeless wisdom.…
Is your dad one in a million? Whether he's the best hug-giver, the ultimate counsellor or simply your biggest fan, whether you want your message to be funny or kind, say a massive thank you with the help of this little book.Hybrid Artificial Intelligent Systems: 18th International Conference, HAIS 2023, Salamanca, Spain, September 5–7, 2023, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #14001)
By Pablo García Bringas, Hilde Pérez García, Francisco Javier Martínez de Pisón, Francisco Martínez Álvarez, Alicia Troncoso Lora, Álvaro Herrero, José Luis Calvo Rolle, Héctor Quintián, Emilio Corchado. 2023
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Hybrid Artificial Intelligent Systems, HAIS 2023, held in Salamanca, Spain, during September 5–7,…
2023.The 65 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 120 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Anomaly and Fault Detection, Data Mining and Decision Support Systems, Deep Learning, Evolutionary Computation and Optimization, HAIS Applications, Image and Speech Signal Processing, Agents and Multiagents, Biomedical Applicatons."Der ChatGPT-Plan zum Geldverdienen für Unternehmer" Im schnelllebigen digitalen Zeitalter liegt der Schlüssel zum Erfolg in der Nutzung modernster Technologien.…
Machen Sie sich bereit, das Potenzial von Sprache und künstlicher Intelligenz mit "Geld verdienen mit Chat GPT." Dieser unverzichtbare Leitfaden nimmt Sie mit auf eine faszinierende Reise und enthüllt die Geheimnisse der Nutzung von Chat GPT, dem fortschrittlichen Sprachmodell von OpenAI, für maximale Einkommensgenerierung. Entdecken Sie Ihren Weg zum Profit: Treten Sie ein in die lukrative Welt der Freiberufler und stärken Sie Ihre Fähigkeiten mit den Sprachkenntnissen von Chat GPT. Heben Sie sich auf dem überfüllten Markt ab und bieten Sie auf Projekte, die Ihre KI-gestützte Expertise unter Beweis stellen. Erleben Sie, wie Ihr Einkommen steigt, während Sie zum Experten werden und mit der Kraft der AI erstklassige Ergebnisse liefern. Erstelle unwiderstehliche Chatbots für den Erfolg: Revolutionieren Sie die Art und Weise, wie Unternehmen mit Kunden interagieren, indem Sie intelligente Chatbots erstellen. Beobachten Sie, wie die Automatisierung des Kundensupports neue Höhen erreicht, während Chat GPT schnelle und genaue Antworten liefert. Bauen Sie Vertrauen auf, gewinnen Sie Loyalität und steigern Sie den Umsatz, während Ihre Kunden eine beispiellose Kundenzufriedenheit erleben. Entfesseln Sie Ihr Schreibpotenzial: Steigern Sie Ihr Content-Erstellungsspiel mit Chat GPT als Schreibassistent. Erleben Sie die Magie überzeugender Blogposts, fesselnder Artikel und überzeugender Produktbeschreibungen. Binden Sie Ihre Zielgruppe wie nie zuvor ein, steigern Sie Traffic und Conversions und sparen Sie Zeit und Mühe. Erobern Sie das Social Media Marketing: Lenken Sie die Aufmerksamkeit im Social-Media-Bereich mit der Finesse von Chat GPT. Starten Sie erfolgreiche Werbekampagnen, meistern Sie ansprechende Beiträge und pflegen SHow AI Thinks: How we built it, how it can help us, and how we can control it
By Nigel Toon. 2024
THE #2 TIMES BESTSELLER'Artificial intelligence is going to have a massive impact on everyone’s lives... an accessible and sensible read…
that helps demystify AI' Deborah Meaden, entrepreneur and star of Dragon's Den'Nigel Toon is a visionary leader in the field of artificial intelligence... a must-read' Marc Tremblay, Distinguished Engineer, MicrosoftThose who understand how AI thinks are about to win big.We are used to thinking of computers as being a step up from calculators - very good at storing information, and maybe even at playing a logical game like chess. But up to now they haven't been able to think in ways that are intuitive, or respond to questions as a human might. All that has changed, dramatically, in the past few years.Our search engines are becoming answer engines. Artificial intelligence is already revolutionising sectors from education to healthcare to the creative arts. But how does an AI understand sentiment or context? How does it play and win games that have an almost infinite number of moves? And how can we work with AI to produce insights and innovations that are beyond human capacity, from writing code in an instant to unfolding the elaborate 3D puzzles of proteins?We stand at the brink of a historic change that will disrupt society and at the same time create enormous opportunities for those who understand how AI thinks. Nigel Toon shows how we train AI to train itself, so that it can paint images that have never existed before or converse in any language. In doing so he reveals the strange and fascinating ways that humans think, too, as we learn how to live in a world shared by machine intelligences of our own creation.Moral AI: And How We Get There (Pelican Books)
By Jana Schaich Borg, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Vincent Conitzer. 2024
A balanced and thought-provoking guide to all the big questions about AI and ethics Can computers understand morality? Can they…
respect privacy? And what can we do to make AI safe and fair? The artificial intelligence revolution has begun. Today, there are self-driving cars on our streets, autonomous weapons in our armies, robot surgeons in our hospitals – and AI's presence in our lives will only increase. Some see this as the dawn of a new era in innovation and ease; others are alarmed by its destructive potential. But one thing is clear: this is a technology like no other, one that raises profound questions about the very definitions of human intelligence and morality. In Moral AI, world-renowned researchers in moral psychology, philosophy, and artificial intelligence – Jana Schaich Borg, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong and Vincent Conitzer – tackle these thorny issues head-on. Writing lucidly and calmly, they lay out the recent advances in this still nascent field, peeling away the exaggeration and misleading arguments. Instead, they offer clear examinations of the moral concerns at the heart of AI programs, from racial equity to personal privacy, fake news to autonomous weaponry. Ultimately, they argue that artificial intelligence can be built and used safely and ethically, but that its potential cannot be achieved without careful reflection on the values we wish to imbue it with. This is an essential primer for any thinking person.Millions have been entertained by the viral video of a man being arrested after a &‘succulent Chinese meal&’. But when…
Mark Dapin investigated, it emerged that this man's story went to the heart of the Australian underworld. A true crime cult classic in the making. Whether you know it as the &‘succulent Chinese meal&’ video, or &‘democracy manifest&’, chances are you have seen the video of baritone larrikin Jack Karlson getting arrested outside a Brisbane Chinese restaurant in 1991. The Guardian called it &‘perhaps the pre-eminent Australian meme of the last 10 years&’. When Karlson called crime writer Mark Dapin out of the blue, though, Dapin hadn&’t heard of him. But there was enough that intrigued him about this theatrical outlaw to continue the conversation. Over the following months emerged a dark and complex past. It turned out that Karlson had been in the background of many notorious incidents in late-twentieth century Australian crime, from collaborating with infamous prison-playwright Jim McNeil to befriending hitman Christopher Dale Flannery (Mr Rent-a-Kill). But most shockingly of all, Karlson&’s life story led Dapin to shed new light on a number of unsolved murders, by two serial killers.The result is an extraordinary, deeply revealing portrait of Australian crime from the 60s to the 2010s – a portrait of carnage. &‘Mark Dapin could never be accused of glorifying crime, but he is guilty as sin for understanding it. Inhabited by flawed humans, filled with violence, humour, tears and dreams, Carnage is a classic Australian crime story.&’ Gary Jubelin, author of I Catch Killers 'True crime at its grim and richly entertaining best, and – let&’s face it – its truest.&’ Robert Drewe, author of The Shark Net &‘If ever there was a book crammed with colourful villains who are &“mad, bad and dangerous to know,&” it&’s definitely Mark Dapin&’s extraordinary book, Carnage.&’ Kate McClymont, author of He Who Must Be Obeid &‘Carnage is a window into Australian mayhem, killingly funny and beautifully told. Dapin finds pathos in a twisted world.&’ Matthew Spencer, author of Black River &‘Carnage begins by probing what seems a minor curiosity – an internet meme centred on a colourful character – then takes a turn into the lives of traumatised youths hurled without care or thought into brutalising reformatories. From there they graduate to rorts, robberies, violence. Bleak lives interspersed with occasional forays into squaresville – spouses, kids, even jobs – and attempts at betterment via theatre and literature. A unique, deeply felt take on the Australian underworld.&’ Peter Doyle, author of Crooks Like Us &‘The moment I start reading anything by Mark Dapin I&’m captivated, intrigued and engaged for the entire journey. There is no finer writer documenting the history and characters of Australian criminality.&’ Stuart CoupeBay Area Bike Rides Deck, Revised Edition
By Ray Hosler. 2020
50 bike rides for every kind of cyclist completely revised and updated!This revised and updated edition of the classic Bay…
Area Bike Rides Deck offers brand new ways to explore the natural beauty and hidden gems of the San Francisco Bay Area. The deck includes 50 cards comprised of mountain, road, and casual bike rides, with routes for every kind of cyclist, from the less experienced to the ambitious. • The deck contains 50 ride cards plus one quad-fold intro card.• Each card features a full-color map on the front and a route description and detailed mileage log on the back.• Cards are lightweight, durable, portable, and sweat-resistant, and fit in a bike jersey pocket. • Compared with the original edition, this deck includes 20 new rides and essential updates to existing routes.• A perfect gift or self-purchase for casual or dedicated bikers, whether they are Bay Area locals or touristsRay Hosler rides his bicycle as a way of life—for commuting, grocery shopping, and recreation. A former bicycle columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle, he lives and cycles in Silicon Valley.The Next President: The Unexpected Beginnings and Unwritten Future of America's Presidents
By Kate Messner, Adam Rex. 2020
An inspiring and informative book for kids about the past and future of America's presidents.Who will be the NEXT president?…
Could it be you? When George Washington became the first president of the United States, there were nine future presidents already alive in America, doing things like practicing law or studying medicine.When JFK became the thirty-fifth president, there were 10 future presidents already alive in America, doing things like hosting TV shows and learning the saxophone.And right now—today!—there are at least 10 future presidents alive in America. They could be playing basketball, like Barack Obama, or helping in the garden, like Dwight D. Eisenhower. They could be solving math problems or reading books. They could be making art—or already making change.• A breezy, kid-friendly survey of American history and American presidents• Great for teachers, librarians, and other educators• Kate Messner's nonfiction picture books have been lauded by critics and received a variety of awards.For young readers and students who loved The New Big Book of Presidents, Lincoln and Kennedy: A Pair to Compare, and Kid Presidents: True Tales of Childhood from America's Presidents.A helpful addition to curriculums of 5th- to 8th-grade students studying U.S. History and civics and the federal government.• For readers ages 8–12• S. history for kids• Students, librarians, teachers• 5th–8th-grade kidsFrom award-winning author Kate Messner and New York Times bestselling artist Adam Rex comes a timely and compelling compendium about the U.S. presidents—before they were presidents.Kate Messner is an award-winning author whose many books for kids have been selected as Best Books by the New York Times, Junior Library Guild, IndieBound, and Bank Street College of Education. She lives on Lake Champlain with her family.Adam Rex is the author and illustrator of many beloved picture books and novels, including Nothing Rhymes with Orange and the New York Times bestseller Frankenstein Makes a Sandwich. He has worked with the likes of Jon Scieszka, Mac Barnett, Jeff Kinney, and Neil Gaiman. He lives in Tucson, Arizona.Girls Garage: How to Use Any Tool, Tackle Any Project, and Build the World You Want to See
By Emily Pilloton. 2020
Girls Garage is the only book you'll ever need for a lifetime of tools and building.Not sure which screws to…
buy? Need to fix a running toilet? With Girls Garage, you'll have the expertise to tackle these problems with your own hands. Or maybe you want to get creative and build something totally new. A birdhouse? A bookshelf? Girls Garage has you covered. Packed with illustrations that will build confidence for your next hardware store run, practical advice on everything from quick fixes to safety tips, and inspiring stories from real-world builder girls and women, this eye-catching volume makes the technical accessible. This is the guide every girl needs to take her life into her own hands. Girls, get in touch with your inner badass, and get building• Informative, inspiring, and designed for everyday use, this is the ultimate book of book of building and woodcraft for girls.• A true confidence builder for girls interested in STEM, woodworking, and home improvement.• Along with her design agency and Girl's Garage, Emily Pilloton has been featured on television shows and the documentary film If You Build It.Girls Garage will be both a trusted household resource and a wellspring of inspiration and encouragement in the vein of Women in Science and Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science and the World.• Nonfiction books for girls age 14 and up• Woodcraft, home repair, kids building projects• Inspiring Kids DIY for teensEmily Pilloton is a designer, builder, educator, and founder of the nonprofit design agency Project H Design and Girls Garage. Her ideas have made their way to the TED stage, the Colbert Report, and the full-length documentary If You Build It. She is currently a lecturer in the College of Environmental Design at the University of California, Berkeley. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.