One of Japan’s most-gifted books of Christmas 2023. A gifty, professional-level guide on how to draw anime-manga in a cute “miniature” style. From a top commercial illustrator, foundational techniques for beginners and committed artistsIn the simplified chibi-style where every line counts, the smallest adjustments affect the entire composition. Building good habits from expert advice is crucial!How to Draw Chibi is penned by expert illustrator Chiharu Yumenouchi fr...

How do you tell someone that you’re hungry in German? What’s the German word for airplane? With this book, curious kids will learn to see and say simple words and phrases in German. Culturally specific photos and Pebble Sprout’s interactive format make language learning a game of discovery! More titles in this series: See and Say French See and Say Mandarin See and Say Spanish

Race is everywhere in the New Testament, but not in the way modern readers expect.Race and the Foreigner in the New Testament is a paradigm-changing book. Pushing back against modern assumptions that equate race primarily with skin color, Rodolfo Galvan Estrada III situates New Testament texts within the racial imagination of ancient Greece and Rome, where identity was defined in terms of genealogy, environment, and culture. The result is a new way of read...

Christianity Today Book Award—Biblical StudiesForeword INDIES Book of the Year Award Honorable MentionSOLA Network's Asian American Book Awards Honorable MentionIn a first-of-its-kind volume, The New Testament in Color offers biblical commentary that is:MultiethnicDiverseContextual

Simplify real-time data processing by leveraging the power of Apache Kafka 1.0Key FeaturesUse Kafka 1.0 features such as Confluent platforms and Kafka streams to build efficient streaming data applications to handle and process your dataIntegrate Kafka with other Big Data tools such as Apache Hadoop, Apache Spark, and moreHands-on recipes to help you design, operate, maintain, and secure your Apache Kafka cluster with easeBook Des...

**From the creators of Banned Book Club comes a young adult graphic novel about unveiling secrets, confessing your crushes, and finding yourself—all in the mountains of South Korea on Christmas Eve.“Teens acutely aware of the threats to freedom of expression in our current era will be absolutely hooked.”—Booklist, starred review“An insightful and empowering graphic novel about the complexities of 1980s South Korea, featuring young people’s pursuit of justi...

A fascinating and important understanding of the role relational mentoring can play in higher educationThe mentor-mentee relationship is one of the most critical aspects of academic training. Mentors provide intellectual and personal support, information about career opportunities, and arrange financial assistance through research assistantships or fellowships. The initiators of The Heart of Mentorship, Emir Estrada, Veronica Montes, and F...

Bernardo Estrada presents a global reading of the Sermon on the Mount by making the ethical vision of Jesus' teaching understandable for men and women of the third millennium. Estrada show how the commandments of love and the character of authentic righteousness are the twin themes that unite the Sermon. Despite the challenges inherent to Jesus' teaching, Estrada understands Jesus' commands as accessible and obedience feasible. Estrada' reading is important because it highlights how the te...

Faith Alone investigates the post-apostolic debates over salvation and justification by faith. Author Erik A. Estrada demonstrates that, contrary to the historical outlook of a good number of Catholic and Protestant historians and theologians, there were indeed conflicts within the Great Church (ca. 100-700 CE) over the question "After baptism, is faith alone enough to save the orthodox Christian?"Demonstrating that there were such internal conflicts about justification by...

Come to the Table is a book in the Live a Love Story series that encourages readers to walk out Jesus's first and second commandments: love God and love people. However, we can only love the Lord and others with His help. As we pursue His Presence and seek Him through the Word, we encounter more of Him. The process of seeking and finding God helps us to better love Him—and each other. In this way, we get to live the love story of our dreams and fulfill our purposes on earth, because everyt...

Many hear the phrase "love story" and immediately their minds dart to marriage or romance. Yes, the Father desires to choose a spouse that best fits you. But the truth is, God wants everyone to live a perfect love story with those around them. The Lord wants your family to overflow with His love. And He longs to connect you to friends that become family. The Father's great hope is that His children feel a sense of belonging, and experience His love through those around them. In this way, o...

Process large volumes of data in real-time while building high performance and robust data stream processing pipeline using the latest Apache Kafka 2.0Key FeaturesSolve practical large data and processing challenges with KafkaTackle data processing challenges like late events, windowing, and watermarkingUnderstand real-time streaming applications processing using Schema registry, Kafka connect, Kafka streams, and KSQLBook Descript...