This book provides a hands-on, class-tested introduction to CUDA and GPU programming. It begins by introducing CPU programming and the concepts of P-threads, thread programming, multi-tasking, and par
This book will be the most comprehensive work on how to implement the concept of Kanban (a scheduling system for lean and just-in-time (JIT) production). It is intended to be a hands on implementation
Packed full of boating facts, information and exciting activities, this book for young sailors aged roughly between 6 and 12 offers hours of enjoyment on the water or at home.This sailing activity book is brimming with ideas and information for young sailors to inspire them to discover, explore and learn about sailing and boats. The book’s central character, Sailor Taylor, takes children on an enjoyable sailing excursion: from charting a course to tying knots and studying clouds, as well as completing projects and puzzles. It covers staying safe when you’re out on the water and teaches young sailors about sailing rules, facts about parts of the boats and navigation. It will show children how to plot a sailing route, make a paper boat and a wind vane, design their own flag, cook a new on-board recipe, know which way the wind is blowing and much, much more. There activities are combined with lots of sailing facts and information told in a fun, easy-to-understand way.There are plenty of q
These 35 inventive origami designs plus brain-teasing math questions will give kids a head start: art + math = fun! Four frogs on a lily pad, two dogs on a boat, a beautiful 3D rainbow sphere . . . yo
It’s time to play! A Happy Book of Little Gifts to Make shows artists and crafters who like to work with their hands how to create fun, whimsical art.Keep your hands busy and your mind playing and free of stress with A Happy Book of Little Gifts to Make.From professional artist Sarah Hand, the author of Art Makers: Papier-Mache, this book features easy-to-follow step-by-step projects, creative inspiration, and prompts―all designed to be done at home using affordable, accessible materials. Best of all, the projects are small-scale, so they are portable, giftable, adorable, and fun! A Happy Book of Little Gifts to Make includes varied projects done in all kinds of materials, from papier-mache and paper to crayons, paint, and paint pens. With this book, you can learn to make:DioramasPapier-mache creaturesPop-up cardsCotton dollsAnd much moreThroughout the book, find tips for having fun and relaxing as you create, plus creative inspiration and prompts so that you can use this book as a sta
A sci-fi reimagining of the greatest revenge story of all time: The Count of Monte Cristo. Framed for treason and wrongfully imprisoned at the hands of a jealous and corrupt magistrate, Redxan Samud
The perfect gift for just the right moment in a baby and parent's life.Welcome to Beginning Baby, a line of novelty board books and gifts designed to give little ones a bright start! Vetted by early childhood experts and thoughtfully created with input from parents and caregivers, each Beginning Baby book explores educational concepts tied to early learning milestones, building a foundation for a strong beginning. An adorable and energetic cast of animal characters guide babies through early learning concepts in a playful way that reinforces ideas through rhythm and repetition and engages eyes and hands with flaps, moving parts, mirrors, or tabs. With its irresistible interactive elements, colorful and decorative designs, and strong educational framework, Beginning Baby makes growing and learning for babies as easy as playing and dreaming―and also makes the perfect gift for new families.It's a busy day for the Beginning Baby animal friends, and they could use some help! In YOU'RE A HEL
The perfect baby present and self-purchase for just the right moment in a baby and parent's life.Welcome to Beginning Baby, a line of novelty board books and gifts designed to give little ones a bright start! Vetted by early childhood experts and thoughtfully created with input from parents and caregivers, each Beginning Baby book explores educational concepts tied to early learning milestones, building a foundation for a strong beginning. An adorable and energetic cast of animal characters guide babies through early learning concepts in a playful way that reinforces ideas through rhythm and repetition and engages eyes and hands with flaps, moving parts, mirrors, or tabs. With its irresistible interactive elements, colorful and decorative designs, and strong educational framework, Beginning Baby makes growing and learning for babies as easy as playing and dreaming―and also makes the perfect gift for new families.The beloved song "Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes" comes to life in this
Spread some love with these adorable little animal hugs, just right for the littlest of hands!Little animal friends love giving hugs! What sound does each hug make?WOOF-WOOF-MEOW-MEOW HUG!MOO-MOO-BAA-BAA HUG!Little readers will delight in mixing and matching more than ten animals as they embrace each other in this interactive board book. Each page is accompanied by the sounds that each animal makes. Pair up different animals in adorable hugs, as well as the sounds they make, like a "Moo-Moo-Baa-Baa Hug"! Featuring die-cut pages that may be read in any order, this playful book for the youngest of readers is just right for reading aloud, making animal sounds, and celebrating the sweetness of hugs together!UNIQUE FORMAT ENGAGES LITTLE HANDS: This sweet board book features pages that are die-cut to look like little animal arms reaching out for a hug. Toddlers will delight in mixing and matching the hugs of over ten animal friends, as well as repeating the sound that each one makes.MODELS S
Your Mission: Match! Play! Blastoff! Space mission patches celebrating NASA's most notable voyages into space exploration offer hands-on opportunities to hone memory skills and learn about NASA's most awe-inspiring journeys to date.Mission control, we are go for launch! NASA's most iconic mission badges and patches are on display in this out-of-this-world matching game, perfect for honing memory and introducing players to some of humanity's notable journeys into outer space. Marvel at historic patches that commemorate the very first Mars rovers, the Apollo 11 mission, the launch of the International Space Station, and more . . . just remember where you last spotted each mission memento to win! Interstellar explorers will want to launch into this game again and again!
When a dark storm settled upon the earth, you lost many things-your hope, your strength, yourself. One day, in the middle of the darkness, you meet a spirit, washed from the ocean onto the shore. The spirit hands you a key. It is time to find the way back home. Returning with her newest poetry book, bestselling author Courtney Peppernell combines storytelling, poetry, and prose in a uniquely inspirational way. Filled with anecdotes, messages, and feelings from the pandemic that changed the world, The Way Back Home is a tribute to rebuilding our lives. Divided into sections that draw on themes of courage, resilience, purpose, and hope, Peppernell once again walks us through an illuminating journey of the heart, mind, and soul. Discover what it means to continue forward in life, despite such loss, and find the way back home.
Luca Laine Thomas lives on a cursed island. To the outside world, Parris is an exclusive, idyllic escape accessible only to the one percent. There’s nothing idyllic about its history, though, scattered with the unsolved deaths of young women―deaths Parris society happily ignores to maintain its polished veneer. But Luca can’t ignore them. Not when the curse that took them killed her best friend, Polly, three years ago. Not when she feels the curse lingering nearby, ready to take her next.When Luca comes home to police cars outside her house, she knows the curse has visited once again. Except this time, it came for Whitney, her sister. Luca decides to take the investigation of Whitney’s death into her own hands. But as a shocking betrayal rocks Luca’s world, the identity Whitney’s killer isn’t the only truth Luca seeks. And by the time she finds what she’s looking for, Luca will come face to face with the curse she’s been running from her whole life.Rebecca Barrow is the critically accl
This volume contains the papers of the 7th International Workshop on Medical and Service Robots (MESROB) which was held in Basel, Switzerland, on June 7-9, 2021. The main topics include: design of medical devices, kinematics and dynamics for medical robotics, exoskeletons and prostheses, anthropomorphic hands, therapeutic robots and rehabilitation, cognitive robots, humanoid and service robots, assistive robots and elderly assistance, surgical robots, human-robot interfaces, haptic devices, medical treatments, medical lasers, and surgical planning and navigation. The contributions, which were selected by means of a rigorous international peer-review process, highlight numerous exciting ideas that will spur novel research directions and foster multidisciplinary collaboration among different specialists, demonstrating that medical and service robotics will drive the technological and societal change in the coming decades.
How the way we perceive our bodies plays a critical role in the way we perceive ourselves: stories of phantom limbs, rubber hands, anorexia, and other phenomena.The body is central to our sense of identity. It can be a canvas for self-expression, decorated with clothing, jewelry, cosmetics, tattoos, and piercings. But the body is more than that. Bodily awareness, says scientist-writer Moheb Costandi, is key to self-consciousness. In Body Am I, Costandi examines how the brain perceives the body, how that perception translates into our conscious experience of the body, and how that experience contributes to our sense of self. Along the way, he explores what can happen when the mechanisms of bodily awareness are disturbed, leading to such phenomena as phantom limbs, alien hands, and amputee fetishes. Costandi explains that the brain generates maps and models of the body that guide how we perceive and use it, and that these maps and models are repeatedly modified and reconstructed. Drawing
A spellbinding exploration of the human capacity to imagine the future Our ability to think about the future is one of the most powerful tools at our disposal. In The Invention of Tomorrow, cognitive scientists Thomas Suddendorf, Jonathan Redshaw, and Adam Bulley argue that its emergence transformed humans from unremarkable primates to creatures that hold the destiny of the planet in their hands. Drawing on their own cutting-edge research, the authors break down the science of foresight, showing us where it comes from, how it works, and how it made our world. Journeying through biology, psychology, history, and culture, they show that thinking ahead is at the heart of human nature―even if we often get it terribly wrong. Incisive and expansive, The Invention of Tomorrow offers a fresh perspective on the human tale that shows how our species clawed its way to control the future.
Kitchen Pantry Scientist: Physics for Kids features biographies of 25 leading physicists, past and present, accompanied by accessible, hands-on experiments and activities to bring the history and prin
In Hammer, Volume 1, Stud’s father has gone on another expedition, leaving him alone to fend for himself. Luckily, he can turn his bare hands into hammers.Left on his own again, Stud gets sucked into one of his father’s journals down into an ocean kingdom grappling with the murder of its king. Can Stud use his hammer hands to solve the case?Our hero Stud is a 14-year-old boy whose father regularly abandons him on expeditions that he regularly catalogs in his own journals. Having to fend for himself, Stud isn’t like most kids―he can turn his hands into hammers! Unfortunately, the kids in the village don’t think it’s cool and do not allow him to join their own fun adventures. Considering that his father has always advised him that friends are the most important accomplishment a person can make, what’s a boy who can turn part of his body into metal to do? Go on his own adventures, of course! When Stud stumbles upon one of his father’s journals detailing his past adventures with Tara, Stud
Tarot offers an array of engaging and enlightening exercises that give beginners a hands-on introduction to the world of tarot.Learn how to read tarot cards and use them as a tool for personal growth with the information and exercises in this beautifully designed workbook.Tarot reading is an ancient and powerful divination method that can also be harnessed to explore and deepen your emotional and spiritual life. Through the straightforward and engaging exercises in this workbook, you’ll explore: The meanings of the major and minor arcanaMethods for understanding the significance of each card in the deckEssential tarot spreads and when to use themThe ways tarot can help you navigate your lifeWith real-world exercises and practice readings, reflection prompts, and art activities, all accompanied by full-color illustrations, Tarot is a fun, accessible, and innovative introduction to the cards.The In Focus Workbooks series from Wellfleet Press presents hands-on introductions to a wide rang
