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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.

<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>

<b>The spark that burns everything down.</b><br/><br/>Ian and Jo are spending more time together, and TJ has taken notice. But TJ's got bigger<br/>problems than his lover's newest fling. The second-in-command of the powerful K35 gang is<br/>dying and TJ is the favorite to succeed him. Determined to entice Ian back as his right hand, TJ<br/>decides to play nice with Jo . . . but he can't guarantee that his underlings will do the same.<br/>Meanwhile, Ian plans his escape from the city and the gang, even as he struggles to cut ties with<br/>TJ and to resist his intensifying attraction to Jo.<br/><br/><b>Volume 2 includes episodes 14-26 of the webcomic Wet Sand.</b>

<b><i>"The Underworld has a queen!"</i></b><br/><br/>Persephone and Hades are finally reunited when the banished goddess of spring returns to the Underworld to claim her rightful place as queen. Now that Hades and Persephone have defeated and imprisoned the power-hungry Kronos once more, nothing can keep them apart, and years of being separated have only made their desire for each other grow. But the other Olympians can't help but meddle, pushing the pair to make things official with a coronation - and a wedding.<br/><br/>Ignoring the others who try to define their relationship, Hades and Persephone choose to take things at their own pace and focus on rebuilding the Underworld. They begin by investigating how Kronos was first able to escape, and they learn the horrifying truth that he has captured a powerful young god whose abilities help Kronos project his thoughts outside of Tartarus - thoughts he uses to plague Hera's every waking moment. Though Kronos' physical form is locked away, Olympus will never be free until they can rescue the child from the furious Titan's grasp.<br/><br/>To save the realms, Persephone must figure out her fertility goddess powers and embrace her role as Queen of the Underworld - even as it takes her further from her mother's expectations and her former place in the Mortal Realm.<br/><br/>This edition of Smythe's original Eisner Award-winning webcomic <i>Lore Olympus</i> features a brand-new, exclusive short story from creator Rachel Smythe and brings the Greek pantheon into the modern age in a sharply perceptive and romantic graphic novel.<br/><br/><b>This volume collects episodes 207-233 of the #1 WEBTOON comic <i>Lore Olympus</i>.</b>

When the Tarot was invented in Italy during the early fifteenth century, it was simply a pack of cards used for playing games, but today the cards are used throughout the world and not only for fortune telling - for true believers they are the key to secret knowledge and the meaning of life.<br/><br/> <em>A History of the Occult Tarot</em> is the classic work on the history of the Tarot deck and its use in occult circles. Decker and Dummett examine how the Tarot became the favoured divination tool of occultists from the late nineteenth century - a bridge to the spirit world, a map of the unconscious.<br/><br/> From Theosophical to Aleister Crowley to the Order of the Golden Dawn and P.D. Ouspensky, this compelling survey of the Tarot's history describes the many fascinating decks imagined over time as well as the secret histories of the mystics who devised them.