Four Alchemists. One book. A constellation of ideas.The third annual Alchemy Lecture took place in October 2024 at York University to a sold-out in-person audience and online viewers from multiple continents. Four Alchemists—thinkers and practitioners working across disciplines and geographies—shared their ideas of cities and how to shape them according to community needs. Their urgent, poignant and inventive lectures have been captured and expanded in these pages....

Betta Fish (Siamese Fighting Fish / Betta Splendens) are one of the most popular fish in the aquarium hobby.Unfortunately, this is taken advantage of by the pet fish industry. Bettas are often marketed as low, no maintenance fish that can be kept in small bowls. This however, is very misleading and untrue. Is true that bettas are indeed one of the easiest fish to keep in the aquarium hobby. However, no matter how 'easy' they are to care for, bettas still need the basics, like basic equipme...

**New from the national bestselling author of DeathwishIt's time to lock, load, and hit the road...**Once, while half-human Cal Leandros and his brother Niko were working on a case, an ancient gypsy queen gave them a good old-fashioned backstabbing. Now, just as their P.I. business hits a slow patch, the old crone shows up with a job.She wants them to find a stolen coffin that contains a blight that makes the Black Death seem like a fond memory. But the thi...

When half-human Cal Leandros wakes up on a beach littered with the slaughtered remains if a variety of hideous creatures, he's not that concerned. In fact, he can't remember anything-including who he is.And that's just the way his deadly enemies like it...

Gain MongoDB expertise and discover advanced queries and Atlas insights with this ultimate guide to version 7.0Key FeaturesEnhance your proficiency in advanced queries, aggregation, and optimized indexing to achieve peak MongoDB performanceMonitor, back up, and integrate applications effortlessly with MongoDB AtlasImplement security thorough RBAC, auditing, and encryption to ensure comprehensive data protection and privacyPurchase of t...

Since their introduction in 2017, transformers have quickly become the dominant architecture for achieving state-of-the-art results on a variety of natural language processing tasks. If you're a data scientist or coder, this practical book -now revised in full color- shows you how to train and scale these large models using Hugging Face Transformers, a Python-based deep learning library.Transformers have been used to write realistic news stories, improve Google Search queries, and ...

'Provincial detective Christian Tell is more sensitive than Henning Mankell's Wallender, while an extraordinary twist offers a women's take on Stieg Larsson's Lisbeth Salander. This is a terrific debut.' Joan Smith, SUNDAY TIMESOne cold morning in December, in a small rural town on the Swedish coast, Ake Melkersson is on his way to work when his car breaks down. Luckily he spots a garage nearby, but as he approaches he realises something is wrong. ...

Hello, in this little book we will find several horror stories, which are told by people who have lived through these events throughout their lives, each story is full of terror, like mystery, and there are 4 short stories to give us a little fear and suspense, enjoy this book horror stories.the first story is entitled, I will never be able to sleep, and it tells us the story of a young man who was psychologically abused by his mother.the second, the story is titled, my bro...

Take a journey inside the body—as an alien!Hop aboard a flying saucer and travel alongside your alien guides who are on a mission to understand the wonders of human body systems. High-impact graphic art explores the circulatory system, the digestive system, the skeletal system, and more.Lively text introduces concepts such as what the body is made of and how it responds to stimuli such as broken bones, burns, and illnesses. From major organs to types of blo...

As real-time and integrated systems become increasingly sophisticated, issues related to development life cycles, non-recurring engineering costs, and poor synergy between development teams will arise. The Handbook of Research on Embedded Systems Design provides insights from the computer science community on integrated systems research projects taking place in the European region. This premier references work takes a look at the diverse range of design principles covered by these projects...

Music is the confidant of the human soul. It can travel through time and space and touch the softest places in people's hearts. The story of Silvia Morales, Ricardo Hawthorne and Ophelia Sinclair is about the pursuit of musical dreams and the legend of sticking to one's original aspiration in the complex world of music. They have never given up in the face of difficulties and challenges, interpreting their persistence in their dreams through music.

What if the world and all of its inhabitants were nothing but a dream, and the dreamer roamed in it as a legendary figure?Bitter and about to take his own life, the hero of old, Gaulagutmer discovers this awful truth. Blaming the dreamer for his misfortunes, he decided to kill him, so as to end this artificial world. A group of individuals, who have accidentaly come accross the same revelation, now hold the duty to save the dreamer, in order to preserve the world in which they live...