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1) Life of Pi
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[2013]
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English
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A young Pi Patel, overcoming a cataclysmic shipwreck, finds himself stranded on a lifeboat with the last survivor, a ferocious Bengal tiger named Richard Parker.
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Possessing encyclopedia-like intelligence, unusual zookeeper's son Pi Patel sets sail for America, but when the ship sinks, he escapes on a life boat and is lost at sea with a dwindling number of animals until only he and a hungry Bengal tiger remain.
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2007
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English
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"My vision of the illustrated edition of Life of Pi is based on paintings from a first person's perspective—Pi's perspective. The interpretation of what Pi sees is intermeshed with what he feels and it is shown through [the] use of colors, perspective, symbols, hand gestures, etc." — Tomislav Torjanac
The modern classic and international bestseller is now brought to splendid, eye-popping life with forty
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Unlock the more straightforward side of Life of Pi with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
This engaging summary presents an analysis of Life of Pi by Yann Martel, a powerful novel about the stories we tell ourselves and others and the nature of belief. It tells the story of Piscine "Pi" Patel, a young Indian man whose family of zookeepers decides to immigrate to Canada due to the political instability in India. However, their ship...
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Life of Pi by Yann Martel Digest & Review With this digest companion, you'll enjoy: • Digest of the book Life of Pi • Reviews of the book and author • The reception of the book and reader's reactions • Stories beyond the digest • And more!
Disclaimer: This digest is an unofficial reader's guide to aide informed decisions, enhancing appreciation of the book. This is NOT a summary and does not contain any text of the original book. What Others...
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Trivia-on-Book: Life of Pi by Yann Martel. Yann Martel takes readers on an incredible journey with Life of Pi. With the crisis surrounding India, Santosh and Gita Patel decided to leave India and move to Canada with their sons. First, they have to sell the animals, and the few remaining animals they have to take with them on a freighter and cross the ocean to reach their destination. A huge storm sinks the ship while it was sailing the Mariana's trench...
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Based on the bestselling fantasy adventure novel, Life of Pi took home the most honors at the 85th Academy Awards: it won both the Oscar and the Golden Globe for Best Original Score. Here are lovely piano solo arrangements of 15 pieces from Mychael Danna's powerful soundtrack. Includes: First Night, First Day * The Island * Pi and Richard Parker * Pi's Lullaby * Pondicherry * Tiger Training * Tsimtsum * and more.
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2017.
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?With futuristic homes on the rise, learn to control and automate the living space with intriguing IoT projects.? About This Book Build exciting (six) end-to-end home automation projects with Raspberry Pi 3, Seamlessly communicate and control your existing devices and build your own home automation system, Automate tasks in your home through projects that are reliable and fun Who This Book Is For This book is for all those who are excited about building...
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A Study Guide for Yarin Martel's "Life of Pi," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.
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A Study Guide (New Edition) for Yann Martel's "The Life of Pi", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs."
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IAN Withers rewrote the book on what it means to be a Private Investigator. He traversed the world recovering abducted children, gathered intelligence for left and right-wing regimes and was jailed over a British prime minister's bad bet.
Across sixty-years, he chased down fraudsters, bugged leaders of international coups and cracked open assassination plots. He tracked the IRA's Hyde Park bomber with a bluffed phone call, located Jeremy Thorpe's...
15) Raspberry Pi image processing programming: develop real-life examples with Python, Pillow, and SciPy
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[2017]
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Write your own Digital Image Processing programs with the use of pillow, scipy.ndimage, and matplotlib in Python 3 with Raspberry Pi 3 as the hardware platform. This concise quick-start guide provides working code examples and exercises. Learn how to interface Raspberry Pi with various image sensors. What You Will Learn: •Understand Raspberry Pi concepts and setup •Understand digital image processing concepts •Study pillow, the friendly PIL...
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The story of a boy, a boat, and a tiger promises an adventure which some may find hard to believe and thoughtful questions to consider. Can miracles exist? What is the power of faith? What guarantees successful survival? Yann Martel's Life of Pi is an extraordinary book that leaves you grappling with the concept of miracles, storytelling, and adventure. Bookclub-in-a-Box looks at Martel's ideas and presents look at the importance of imagination and...
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