Master the game of Backgammon (a Guide for Intermediate Players).Inside Play Backgammon and Win, you'll . . .Learn the strategic foundations for backgammon.Find out how to play the beginning, middle, and end game.Understand how the flow of the game works at the intermediate level.Uncover strategies for more winsLearn tactics and defensive play.See the math behind decision-making.Find...

Master the game of Backgammon (a guide for beginners).Inside How to Play Backgammon, you'll . . .Learn the basic rules for backgammonSee how to set up the game and organize everything.Understand how the flow of the game works.Uncover strategies for beginners, intermediate, and advanced players.Learn tactics and defensive play.Find out the mistakes to avoid.Learn from detailed example...

Reading the Defense: A Club Player's Guide to Better Defensive PlayHalf of every bridge deal is played on defense, yet most books focus on bidding and declarer play. That gap is where club players lose the most tricks, and where a little study pays off the most.What you'll get from this book on playing defensive bridge:A clear counting system that turns guesswork into arithmeticOpening lead choices you can defend with confidence...

Teach your machine to think for itself!Key FeaturesDelve into supervised learning and grasp how a machine learns from dataImplement popular machine learning algorithms from scratchExplore some of the most popular scientific and mathematical libraries in the Python languageBook DescriptionSupervised machine learning is used in a wide range of sectors, such as finance, online advertising, and analytics, to train systems to make...

“I found that the landscape had a deep effect on my mood: cliffs towering above, a narrow strip of earth to follow, the vast ocean opening up before me. I felt changed.”After completing a 3,000-kilometre hike of coastal Nova Scotia and making a number of dramatic changes in her life, Emily Taylor Smith is compelled to undertake another Maritime journey on foot, this time following the coastline of New Brunswick and the Gaspé all the way to Quebec City.She plans a solitary t...

Fun is in the cards with 20 popular card games for kids & parents!Make your next family game night unforgettable with a super fun family card game. These 20 games are ideal for ages 4 and up, and the best part? They just require a standard deck of playing cards and are easy to learn.Inside Top 20 Super Fun Family Card Games, you'll find…Hours of entertainment!Games for any number of players, from 1-13.Card games th...

Learn How to Play Mexican Train Dominoes.Inside How to Play Mexican Train Dominoes, (for Beginners), you'll . . .Learn the basic rules for Mexican Train, one of the most popular domino games of all time.Uncover the rules in an easy-to-understand way.See how to set up the game and organize your tiles.Find out how the flow of the games works.Uncover beginner strategies for more wins.Learn tactic...

Cloud native security isn't a game for individual players. It requires team collaboration with a platform that can help cloud security engineers, developers, and operations people do their best work. That's what the cloud native application protection platform (CNAPP) delivers. With this practical guide, you'll learn how CNAPPs can help you consolidate security through DevSecOps across cloud native technologies, practices, and application lifecycles.Through real-life attack scenari...

In Hong Kong a beautiful woman is pushed off a balcony to her death. In London a young American is gunned down outside the U.S. embassy. In Washington a senior CIA official vanishes into thin air. Random, unrelated events? Or pieces of the same puzzle?These events are no accidents, it seems, when it is discovered that the woman in Hong Kong had a CIA lover. That the London murder was a case of mistaken identity, and that the intended target was the wife of CIA senior deputy Drum Ma...

Discover more than 50 of the best drinking games!Level up your next party with drinking game classics like Around the World, President, Flip Cup, Killer Bunnies, and more!Check out this book of 50+ drinking games using dice, cards, and a variety of things like cups or Jenga.There's something for everyone—Spend an evening playing Ship Captain Crew or Slap Cup.Ideal for big or small groups—Perfect for gatherings of 2-40.Fun, ...

Discover 29 of the best dice & card games for parties and big groups!Cards and dice games are perfect for having fun, passing the time, and engaging your brain. But what if you can't remember the rules? Or can't decide what to play? Or aren't sure what works for 10 or 12 players?Check out this book of family-friendly party games using dice and cards that are ideal for 8+ players.There's something for everyone—Spend an evening playing Spoons, L...

Learn Partnership Strategy in Modern American CanastaMost canasta players know the rules. Few know how to truly play with a partner.This is the only book dedicated entirely to the partnership dimension of Modern American Canasta. It covers what no general canasta guide does: how two players think, read, and decide as a single unit without saying a word to each other about what they're holding.You'll learn how to:Read your partner's han...