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This book was created as a result of much frustration, while attempting to read and understand navigation HOW-TO books. While attempting to decipher the material, I would become lost, unable to comprehend what the author was describing and how I got there. Eventually I was able to create drawings which brought all the confusing details into focus. The result, everything finally made sense. You could think of this as a primer, once you have grasped my simplifications, you are equipped to co...

A fast paced narrative exploration of adventure, discovery and murder while each evolving empire seeks to annihilate the current owner of the trade monopoly. This maritime history, unwinding through the eyes of a sailor is both educational and engaging on a personal level. Considerer whether Marco Polo was for real, did Prince Henry the Navigator, by himself, set the stage for world discovery, why did the Portuguese Empire barely last 100 years, how did an Egyptian scientist determine the ...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE ANDRE SIMON FOOD BOOK AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR THE FORTNUM AND MASON FOOD BOOK AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR THE GUILD OF FOOD WRITERS FOOD BOOK AWARDA playful and accessible guide to fermenting at homeJames Read is on a mission to smuggle bacteria into our kitchens. In Of Cabbages & Kimchi, he takes the ten greatest 'living' ferments - fermented foods that are neither cooked n...

Deadly mushrooms in the souffle, toxic leaves in the tea... villains have been killing in culinary ways for as long as there have been knives in kitchens. And when Death dons the chef's hat, your first bite might be your last!In COOKING UP DEATH, we've whipped up a menu of sixteen cozy mysteries featuring toxic treats and lethal luncheons sure to leave the other characters worrying about the contents of their own plates while the amateur sleuths search for clues.As a specia...

This Element presents the philosophy of special relativity, from the foundations of the theory in Newtonian mechanics, through its birth out of the ashes of nineteenth-century ether theory, through the various conceptual paradoxes which the theory presents, and finally arriving at some of its connections with Einstein's later theory of general relativity. It illustrates concepts such as inertial frames, force-free motion, dynamical versus geometrical understandings of physics, the standard...

Every person reading this book has used artificial intelligence, and most of you have wondered, at least briefly, about the invisible machinery behind that simple text box. What happens to the data you type after you press Enter? Who pays for the computing power that generates those responses in seconds? And could you be doing all of this yourself, on your own machine, without sending anything to any company at all? These questions are no longer theoretical. They are practical, urgent deci...

When Abraham Lincoln was sworn into office, seven slave states had preemptively seceded rather than recognize the legitimacy of his election. In his first inaugural address on March 4, 1861, Lincoln replied to the secessionists and set forth a principled defense of majority rule as “the only true sovereign of a free people.” His immediate purpose was to argue against the legitimacy of a powerful minority forcibly partitioning the United States because it was dissatisfied with the results o...

The war has started. The battle lines have been drawn. Satans time is growing shorter and shorter. He will come at you and your family with all the weapons he has. You have a choice: surrender to a loser, or stand with Jesus Christ, the winner.You are called to be a warriorwage a good warfare. Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. No man that warreth, entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a so...

Does every increase in the power of government entail a loss of liberty for the people? James H. Read examines how four key Founders--James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, James Wilson, and Thomas Jefferson--wrestled with this question during the first two decades of the American Republic.Power versus Liberty reconstructs a four-way conversation--sometimes respectful, sometimes shrill--that touched on the most important issues facing the new nation: the Constitution, the Bill of Right...

When Abraham Lincoln was sworn into office, seven slave states had preemptively seceded rather than recognize the legitimacy of his election. His immediate purpose was to argue against the legitimacy of a powerful minority forcibly partitioning the United States because it was dissatisfied with the results of a free, constitutionally conducted election. His wider purpose was to make the case that a deliberate, constitutionally checked majority, though by no means infallible, was the approp...

The war has started. The battle lines have been drawn. Satans time is growing shorter and shorter. He will come at you and your family with all the weapons he has. You have a choice: surrender to a loser, or stand with Jesus Christ, the winner.You are called to be a warriorwage a good warfare. Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. No man that warreth, entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier (I...

Obedience has its rewards—and this fembot is about to be thoroughly thanked.Chidori has been the perfect synthetic companion: patient, loyal, and eager to please. While her owner, Tony, enjoys the pleasures of his other fembots, Chidori works hard to earn his attention—and today, she finally gets it. But she won’t be alone for long.Amber, the fiery redheaded fembot, wants in on the fun. Together, the two sensual machines give Tony a night he won’t forget. But just as the pl...