Brad Carter is down on his luck. He loses his job, catches his woman in bed with another man, and he’s days away from being booted out of his home. Wanting to get away from his problems, Brad and his boys go to a nightclub, where they meet a wealthy stranger who offers them each $50,000 to go to Rio de Janeiro and traffic cocaine back to the US.They jump at the opportunity and have the time of their lives in Rio, but when it’s time to return to the US with the drugs, all hell break...

This book presents a global overview of the background to, and the current state of, crop protection and pest management in cotton crops. Cotton is one of the most economically important crops in the world and has been grown for centuries but maintaining high yields of good quality requires sophisticated approaches to pest management. The introduction and use of pesticides over the decades significantly increased cotton yields but lead to many adverse environmental impacts. Over time, new ...

If you're looking for a variety pack of USA Today bestselling author Kit Tunstall's books, this is the collection for you. Inside, you'll find ten novels (total) from each of her romance pen names. Explore the galaxy in one story, match wits with a handsome Regency lord in another, and find yourself in present day as a murder witness in hiding, or matching wits with Mr. Right in yet another offering.Whether you're a new-to-Kit reader, or you're an established fan, there is...

Unlock the Magic of Romance and Fantasy Together.Whether you're dreaming up fated mates in a kingdom on the brink of war or crafting slow-burn tension between rivals with magical secrets, the Romantasy Storybuilder is your essential guide to writing emotionally rich, high-stakes stories that blend fantasy adventure with swoon-worthy romance.This hands-on resource walks you through everything you need to build a successful romantasy, from worldbuilding and magical systems to...

Since their introduction in 2017, transformers have quickly become the dominant architecture for achieving state-of-the-art results on a variety of natural language processing tasks. If you're a data scientist or coder, this practical book -now revised in full color- shows you how to train and scale these large models using Hugging Face Transformers, a Python-based deep learning library.Transformers have been used to write realistic news stories, improve Google Search queries, and ...

When 18 year-old Maya leaves Chicago for a six week Australian home stay, she assumes she’s heading to beautiful Barangaroo with its famous Sydney Harbour views—NOT Barangaroo Creek, a stinking hot, fly-ridden, wi-fi dead zone hours from a decent body of water. Add her host brother, Gus, who wishes she landed in someone else’s sheep paddock, and Maya is convinced she’s in for six weeks of Hicksville hell.Gus has an important trip planned this summer— a trip that does NOT i...

Unleash your imagination and embark on a thrilling adventure through the captivating realm of Urban Fantasy with our versatile Urban Fantasy Storybuilder. This indispensable guide is designed to empower authors in crafting immersive narratives spanning 65-75,000 words, perfect for fully exploring the intricacies of this beloved genre. Within the pages of this Storybuilder, you'll find a comprehensive framework that will guide you through the intricate process of plotting and structuring yo...

What is it like to be an isolated old widow, living alone on the bare old-age pension? In the 1960s, the question had become a standard refrain. Originally published in 1966, this was the first full-length study by a sociologist of isolation in old age.Although the majority of old people were in no sense a problem group at the time, a substantial minority of the elderly were ‘alone’ in one or more ways. About 1.3 million people aged sixty-five and over in Britain lived alone; a lar...

Since Theodor Geisel published his first children's book in 1937 under the pseudonym Dr. Seuss, children and adults alike have been captivated by the charming and laconic tales of whimsical characters and imaginative worlds. But Dr. Seuss' stories are more than just catchy poems; they often wrestle with serious philosophical and moral dilemmas, whether it is Horton discovering the very essence of life or the Lorax teaching us about morality. Dr. Seuss and Philosophy explores philosophical ...

Philosophizing the Americas establishes the field of inter-American philosophy. Bringing together contributors who work in Africana Philosophy, Afro-Caribbean philosophy, Latin American philosophy, Afro-Latin philosophy, decolonial theory, and African American philosophy, the volume examines the full range of traditions that have, separately and in conversation with each other, worked through how philosophy in both establishes itself in the Americas and engages with the world from...

Leistungsfähige State-of-the-Art-Sprachanwendungen mit vortrainierten Transformer-ModellenTransformer haben die NLP-Welt im Sturm erobertVon den Gründern von Hugging Face, der Plattform für vortrainierte Transformer-Modelle für TensorFlow und PyTorchBietet einen fundierten und praxisnahen Überblick über die wichtigsten Methoden und Anwendungen im aktuellen NLPHands-On: Jeder Programmierschritt kann in Jupyter Notebooks nachvollzogen werden...

A collection of novels, novellas, and short stories about irresistible older men, the women who love them, and the babies that result. Almost 200,000 words in all!