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Our hero confronts a large and varied cast, including Wackford Squeers, the fantastic ogre of a schoolmaster, and Vincent Crummles, the grandiloquent ham actor, on his comic and satirical adventures up and down the country. Punishing wickedness, befriending the helpless, strutting the stage, and falling in love, Nicholas shares some of his creator's energy and earnestness as he faces the pressing issues of early Victorian society. -provided by publisher....
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"On board the 'Fidele', a steamboat floating down the Mississippi to New orleans, a confidence man sets out to defraud his fellow passengers. In quick succession he assumes numerous guises--from a legless beggar and a worldly businessman to a collector for charitable causes and a 'cosmospolitan' gentleman. Making very little from his hoaxes, the pleasure of trickery seems an end in itself for this slippery conman. Is his chicanery merely intended...
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"Adam Roberts revisits Jules Verne's classic novel in a collaboration with the illustrator behind a recent ... edition of The Hunting of the Snark. It is 1958 and France's first nuclear submarine, Plongeur, leaves port for the first of its sea trials. On board, gathered together for the first time, are one of the Navy's most experienced captains and a tiny skeleton crew of sailors, engineers, and scientists. The Plongeur makes her first dive and goes...
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2020
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From start to finish, the best book to help you learn AI algorithms and recall why and how you use them. Linda Ristevski, York Region District School Board Grokking Artificial Intelligence Algorithms is a fully-illustrated and interactive tutorial guide to the different approaches and algorithms that underpin AI. Written in simple language and with lots of visual references and hands-on examples, you'll learn the concepts, terminology, and theory...
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[2016]
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"Meet the man behind the board games: Milton Bradley. Born in Maine in 1836, Milton Bradley moved with his family to the working-class city of Lowell, Massachusetts, at age 11. His early life consisted of several highs and lows, from graduating high school and attending Harvard to getting laid off and losing his first wife. These experiences gave Bradley the idea for his first board game: The Checkered Game of Life. He produced and sold Life across...
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From start to finish, the best book to help you learn AI algorithms and recall why and how you use them. Linda Ristevski, York Region District School Board Grokking Artificial Intelligence Algorithms is a fully-illustrated and interactive tutorial guide to the different approaches and algorithms that underpin AI. Written in simple language and with lots of visual references and hands-on examples, you'll learn the concepts, terminology, and theory...
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2017.
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Push your GameMaker programming skills to the edge with 100 programming challenges using the popular GameMaker: Studio and GML. Each challenge includes an outline of the challenge, a scoring and time guide, useful GML code, and a working example provided in GMZ format. For more advanced programmers, each challenge comes with an additional task to complete. Think you're a good GameMaker game application developer or programmer? Think again with this...
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2023.
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Build fully-featured APIs with ASP.NET Core! This all-practical guide is written like a real development project, taking you hands-on with modern APIs utilizing REST and GraphQL standards. In Building Web APIs with ASP.NET Core you will learn how to: Set up your environment with VS 2022, Node, Git, and more Create a ASP.NET Core project from scratch Integrate with SQL Server Use Entity Framework Core to set up a data model Create back-end controllers...
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[2018]
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"Sing along to the time-honored nursery rhyme, The Itsy Bitsy Spider, illustrated for very young children by Hazel Q. Nursery rhymes are the classic introduction for babies and young children to the idea of storytelling. While delighting in the rhyming words and appealing illustrations, children are boosting their language development and learning social skills. This sturdy board book is designed to withstand much love and learning making it a wonderful...
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Building Web APIs with ASP.NET Core is a practical beginner’s guide to creating your first web APIs using ASP.NET Core. In it, you’ll develop an API that feeds web-based services, including websites and mobile apps, for a board games application. The book is cleverly structured to mirror a real-world development project, with each chapter introducing a new feature request. You’ll build your API with an ecosystem of ASP.NET Core tools that help...
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A pragmatic guide for developing your own games with Python About This Book Strengthen your fundamentals of game programming with Python language Seven hands-on games to create 2D and 3D games rapidly from scratch Illustrative guide to explore the different GUI libraries for building your games Who This Book Is For If you have ever wanted to create casual games in Python and you would like to explore various GUI technologies that this language offers,...
17) Captain Marvel
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2022.
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"From brilliant pilot to cosmic-powered Avenger, Captain Marvel is one of the mightiest super heroes in the universe! Fly high and soar among the stars with Carol Danvers while learning all about her abilities, skills, and friends in this bright and bold board book, with art from the classic comics"--
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2021.
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Transform your company's critical operations-and its destiny-through a powerful kaizen-focused strategy designed for 21st century efficiency A pioneer of the operational excellence movement that continues to transform businesses across the world, Masaaki Imai takes you to the next step of continuous improvement-developing an overall strategy for measuring your company's operational performance and improving processes in ways that boost efficiency...
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