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Название: The Art of Architecture (Eye on Art)
Автор: Tanya Dellaccio
Издательство: Lucent Books
ISBN: 1534560955
Год: 2017
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 112
Размер: 27,4 МБ
Язык: Английский

Presents a history of architecture, discussing its influences, styles, and pioneers throughout the ages.

Название: Chocolate All Day: From Simple to Decadent, 100+ Recipes for Everyone's Favorite Ingredient
Автор: Steven Hodge
Издательство: Random House
Год: 2023
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 72 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Calling all chocolate lovers! It's the bake book you've been waiting for, with over 100 rich, delicious, yet accessible recipes for baking with chocolate all day long. Chocolate is one of those foods that's universally loved. But Steve Hodge—chocolatier, pastry chef, and TV star—knows that it can be intimidating for home bakers. In his first book, he's here to take the mystery out of chocolate with over 100 meticulously tested recipes that will inspire home bakers of all skill levels. In addition to his showstopping recipes, Steve also gives plenty of advice on buying, storing and working with chocolate. He'll show you how to temper it, how to create chocolate decorations and how to fix your desserts if something goes wrong! You'll learn to taste chocolate and build a chocolate-based entertaining board that's sure to impress. But most importantly, you'll come away with the confidence to tackle any kind of chocolate recipe and make it your own. With Chocolate All Day as your guide, your favorite ingredient to eat will become your favorite to bake with as well!

Название: The Abundant Kitchen
Автор: Niva Kay, Yotam Kay
Издательство: Allen & Unwin
Год: 2023
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 129 Мб
Язык: английский / English

How to make pickles, preserves, sourdough, kombucha, cured meats, yoghurt, vinegar and all kinds of ferments. The bestselling authors of The Abundant Garden, Niva and Yotam Kay, share their wealth of knowledge and experience in making ferments, pickles, preserves, sourdough, koji, cured meat, ginger beer, yoghurt, vinegar, kombucha and much more. With 100 easy-to-follow, meticulously written recipes, this book will become a much-loved fermenting bible. Using these recipes is the perfect way to preserve and transform the bounty from your garden into delicious classics, vibrant Middle Eastern flavours and other wonderful tastes from around the globe. Whether you are a seasoned fermenter or taking your first steps into the world of live cultures, The Abundant Kitchen, with its helpful tips, step-by-step instructions and timeless techniques, is a must-have.

Название: Call It Home: The Details That Matter
Автор: Amber Lewis
Издательство: Clarkson Potter
Год: 2023
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 147 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Through gorgeous photography and heartfelt essays, the interior designer and author of Made for Living reveals her detail-oriented approach to renovating, decorating, and building a beautiful home. The details can make a room. The bullnose edge of a marble countertop. The wood grain and color of the flooring. The particular pleat of the drape. Amber Lewis, the esteemed designer known for her signature California-inspired style, obsesses over the tiniest of features to create her eclectic, laid-back look. In Call It Home, she shares her secrets to choosing and applying fabric, paint, finishes, tile, flooring, and more for a beautifully designed home, shortcutting the often-overwhelming decision-making process.

Название: A Step-by-Step Guide to Botanical Drawing & Painting: Create Realistic Pencil and Watercolor Illustrations of Flowers, Fruits, Plants and More!
Автор: Hidenari Kobayashi
Издательство: Tuttle Publishing
Год: 2023
Формат: PDF
Размер: 59 Мб
Язык: английский / English

The art of botanical drawing and painting brings you closer to nature! In this lushly illustrated book, master painter and art teacher Hidenari Kobayashi provides step-by-step instructions showing you how to create botanical drawings and paintings in the popular French botanical style. He details all the tools and materials needed, describes in detail the techniques you'll use, and walks you through the creative process of drawing and painting 18 different botanical subjects. A Step-by-Step Guide to Botanical Drawing & Painting provides everything you need to learn this charming style of artistic expression—from first sketch to final brushstroke!

Название: R Programming for Actuarial Science
Автор: Peter McQuire, Alfred Kume
Издательство: Wiley
Год: 2024
Страниц: 632
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true)
Размер: 10.1 MB

Professional resource providing an introduction to R coding for actuarial and financial mathematics applications, with real-life examples. R Programming for Actuarial Science provides a grounding in R programming applied to the mathematical and statistical methods that are of relevance for actuarial work. The overriding objective of this book is to help students of actuarial mathematics and related disciplines such as financial mathematics, develop programming skills which will enhance their understanding of actuarial, financial, and statistical concepts, enabling them to solve real-world problems encountered in these fields. Breaking this down further, the purposes of the book is two-fold: 1) To provide an introduction to the programming language, R. This is achieved using worked examples and undertaking exercises commonly seen in the fields of actuarial and financial mathematics; 2) Secondly, to improve the reader’s level of understanding of actuarial and financial topics by using these programming skills.

Название: The New Classic Home: Modern Meets Traditional Style
Автор: Paloma Contreras
Издательство: Abrams
Год: 2023
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 82 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Award-winningdesigner Paloma Contreras’s guide to pairing traditional style with modern design to create classic interiors with a touch of glamour and an infusion of color. In The New Classic Home, beloved designer Paloma Contreras focuses her sought-after expertise on one of the most desired yet difficult tasks in decorating: how to design a space that successfully mixes traditional and modern elements. How does one bridge the gap between such different concepts? By walking readers through her four main techniques—color, texture & pattern, scale & proportion, and tension—Contreras demonstrates how to successfully pair seemingly disparate pieces from different eras and styles to create harmonious, timeless, and balanced interiors. With spectacular color photography and personalized design tips, The New Classic Home divulges how to blend vintage pieces into even the most contemporary settings, highlight favorite elements of any architectural style, freshen classic silhouettes, and create layered, interesting spaces that always include an element of modern surprise with a touch of elegant antiquity.

Название: Древние африканские государства
Автор: Шинни М.
Издательство: М.: Наука, Главная редакция восточной литературы
Год: 1982
Формат: pdf/djvu
Страниц: 96
Размер: 10 mb
Язык: русский

Книга Маргарет Шинни посвящена древним доколониальным государствам Африканского континента. Читатель познакомится с историей Куша, Ганы, Мали, Сонгай, Канем-Борну, государств зоны тропического леса, Зимбабве, их социальной структурой, экономическими и культурными достижениями.

Название: Vegan Chinese Food
Автор: Yang Liu
Издательство: Hardie Grant
Год: 2023
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 137 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Veganise your favorite Chinese dishes at home with Vegan Chinese Food. Founders of the hugely popular food blog Little Rice Noodle, Yang Liu and Kathi Pinczolits are known for their easy, delicious and plant-based Chinese recipes. Now, they are expanding their repertoire in Vegan Chinese Food with 60 well-loved and diverse Chinese recipes using traditional cooking methods and skills – and veganizing it. Use everything from mushrooms to soy protein to imitate the duck in Peking duck or the mince in Dan Dan noodles. There’s a favorite recipe here for everyone, 100 per cent plant-based. This book draws upon Yang's experience of relocating to Austria from China and wanting to make the dishes from her childhood vegan-friendly. Yang and Kathi know that food is so much more than something you just eat, it is an experience rooted in memory, family and cultural representation.

Название: Integration of Cloud Computing with Emerging Technologies: Issues, Challenges, and Practices
Автор: Sapna Sinha, Vishal Bhatnagar, Prateek Agrawal, Vikram Bali
Издательство: CRC Press
Год: 2024
Страниц: 271
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true), epub
Размер: 32.3 MB

This book gives a complete overview of cloud computing, its importance, its trends, innovations, and its amalgamation with other technologies. It provides content for reference. Cloud computing practice using a network of remote server hosted on the Internet to store, manage, and process data, while AI has to struggle to gain footholds in other niches, it is finding its place in the world of cloud computing. The revolution is that it could rapidly change the face of businesses using cloud computing solutions over the next few years. The three areas of cloud computing AI that have taken long strides are parallel processing, ML and ML algorithm, and big data. This convergence also allowed IoT application to leverage the benefits of the cloud challenges’ conflicting properties. In integration of cloud computing with mobile or mobile cloud computing, the brain of services in the cloud are easier to share content and assets are easier to maintain the data and are more immune to crashes and deletion. The book aims to include different case studies or real-life scenario, where this integration of cloud and other technologies has made the huge difference. This book, Integration of Cloud Computing with Emerging Technologies: Issues, Challenges, and Practices, includes a chapter on technological advancement of cloud computing, its trends, and ongoing status of each as per perception of the contributors to help in its easier adoption in the areas where it is yet to be implemented.