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This book takes you on a journey to Camp Patton, where a group of students and their teacher search for patterns in nature. As they hike through the wilderness, they'll find continuous patterns in water, leaves, pinecones, and forest creatures. With vibrant photos, math charts and diagrams, grade-appropriate text, and informational text features to help navigate the text, students will learn practical, real-world applications of math skills as they...
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"A visually stunning introduction to patterns found in nature. Perfect for early STEM learning in preschool and kindergarten. From the dots on a ladybug to the spiral on a snail, patterns in nature can be found anywhere. This simple and playful concept book introduces the littlest of readers to both math and nature while engaging their creative potential. By the end, kids will be able to identify: Spots and stripes Spirals and symmetry Waves and...
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"John Adam, Winner of the 2007 recipient of the Virginia Outstanding Faculty Award, State Council of Higher Education for Virginia" "Winner of the 2003 for Professional/Scholarly Award in Mathematics and Statistics, Association of American Publishers" "One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2004" John A. Adam is Professor of Mathematics at Old Dominion University, coeditor of A Survey of Models for Tumor-Immune System Dynamics, and a regular...
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2023.
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Learn how to speed up time with time-lapse photography, from selecting your scene to camera settings. Then transform your footage into a time-lapse video.
Learn how to speed up time and create compelling visual effects with time-lapse photography. Join digital video expert Rich Harrington in the field as he captures nature's patterns at Red Rock Canyon in southwestern Nevada. After a quick overview of what time-lapse photography is and how it works,...
6) Eternity
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This thoughtful book explores fundamental questions about life on Earth – how did we get here, and what sustains us? For generations humanity has relied on natural cycles that predate us - seasonal rains to nourish crops, a hospitable climate – but who or what engineered this system perfect for human life?
Author John Hall posits that there may be an omnipresent creative force behind not just the climate, but a wholesome world rich in all we...
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Celebrating the beauty, diversity, and significance of the state's natural landscapes, Wild North Carolina provides an engaging, beautifully illustrated introduction to North Carolina's interconnected webs of plant and animal life. From dunes and marshes to high mountain crags, through forests, swamps, savannas, ponds, pocosins, and flatrocks, David Blevins and Michael Schafale reveal in words and photographs natural patterns of the landscape that...
8) How to embroider texture and pattern: 20 designs that celebrate pattern, color, and pop-up stitching
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"Channel your love for the outdoors and build your stitching skills by learning how to embroider stunning textures, patterns, colors, and 3D elements in this must-have guide for both beginner to advanced crafters! Featuring 20 step-by-step embroidery projects of beautiful landscapes, desert canyons, unique flora, and more, How to Embroider Texture and Pattern is filled with vibrant embroidery patterns inspired by wanderlust that will challenge and...
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"Crochet Southwest Spirit is a breath of fresh air for your crochet repertoire, offering laid-back bohemian style inspired by natural landscapes. Peaceful color palettes--drawn from the mountains, mesas, valleys, deserts, rivers, and rock formations of Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Arizona--bring a relaxed vibe to these beginner and intermediate patterns." -- Back cover.
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"This ... collection of knitting patterns evokes the wonder of spotting a wild animal in its natural environment. There are 12 animals to choose from, including a baby doe fawn, blue tit, barn owl, and badger. All the knitting patterns have step-by-step photography and the author, Claire Garland, shares her tips for how to make your magical animals as lifelike as possible"--
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2023.
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"The centuries-old art of Fair Isle knitting evolved on the Shetland Islands, inspired by colors and forms found in nature, for a distinctive look that's instantly recognizable. Now, Carina Olsson, one of Sweden's leading experts in Fair Isle knitting, is here to guide you through this technique's fundamental principles: how to choose and combine colors in vivid, organic palettes, with over 20 sample patterns for sweaters, mittens, hats, and gloves,...
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"Farm & Folk Quilt Alchemy explores natural dyeing methods and details the process of creating a quilt from scratch. With an emphasis on the slow and intentional aspects of hand stitching, Buscaglia's quilts are artful and satisfying to create. By focusing on select dye plants and recipes, which are all ideal for cotton and linen specifically, Buscaglia teaches the reader how to achieve consistent and beautiful results using traditional handwork techniques....
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2023.
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A comprehensive guide with extensive coverage of concepts such as OOP, functional programming, generic programming, concurrency, and STL along with the latest features of C++ Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook Key Features Delve into the core patterns and components of C++ to master application design Learn tricks, techniques, and best practices to solve common design and architectural challenges Understand the limitation...
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[2022]
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Explore the most challenging issues of natural language processing, and learn how to solve them with cutting-edge deep learning! Deep learning has advanced natural language processing to exciting new levels and powerful new applications! For the first time, computer systems can achieve "human" levels of summarizing, making connections, and other tasks that require comprehension and context. Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing reveals the...
16) We are branches
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[2023]
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Branches are all around us: in butterfly wings, on gecko toes, in flowers, frost, and mud. Whether as electricity moving across the sky or rivers flowing to the sea, branches are nature's most efficient way to spread and to connect. They are even found inside our own bodies, helping us reach and grow with each breath and heartbeat. Branches--strong, hopeful, beautiful--are the shape of life. How many can you find?
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[2024]
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"A Patterns Approach to Designing Distributed Systems and Solving Common Implementation Problems More and more enterprises today are dependent on cloud services from providers like AWS, Microsoft Azure, and GCP. They also use products, such as Kafka and Kubernetes, or databases, such as YugabyteDB, Cassandra, MongoDB, and Neo4j, that are distributed by nature. Because these distributed systems are inherently stateful systems, enterprise architects...
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[2023]
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Gain a deeper understanding of how distributed systems work, as well as which applications and systems are used for specific business domains or industries. This book provides a set of solution architecture patterns that were developed based on the author's experience building enterprise software systems for hundreds of different organizations across the globe. The architecture diagrams (patterns) and examples allow you to not only grasp the concepts,...
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2024.
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Master edge computing architectures, unlock industry-specific patterns, apply proven best practices, and progress from basics to end-to-end solutions Key Features Unlock scalable edge solutions by mastering proven archetypes for real-world success Learn industry-specific patterns, tailoring solutions for diverse sector needs Make strategic decisions between cloud-out and edge-in strategies with confidence Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes...
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[2018]
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This resource provides readers with key data to understand the roots of the issues that make contemporary migration and immigration so contentious around the globe. It explores the social, political, and cultural factors that impact, and are affected by, immigration and human migration, and includes such hot-button topics as undocumented immigration/unauthorized residents, asylum seekers, refugees, the refugee crisis in Europe, and more.
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