A Nova Scotia woman shares her experience of walking the province's coastline for charity and what she learned along the way.Early on a May morning, a young Nova Scotia woman straps on a small backpack and leaves the Halifax Common to start her journey along the coastal roads of Nova Scotia. Planning to cover almost a marathon a day, she will walk the perimeter of the entire province in just under three months to raise awareness for the Heart and Stroke Foundation ...

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...

Learn the Art of Partnership Play in BridgeBridge is the only card game where your greatest opponent isn't sitting across the table from you. It's the silence between you and your partner.What you'll find inside:Why bridge is fundamentally a communication problem, and what that means for how you should approach every bid and every cardHow to describe your hand accurately to an invisible partner, and how to listen to theirsT...

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...

“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...

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 Modern American Canasta (for Intermediate-Advanced Players)Inside this Canasta strategy book*,* you'll . . .Level up your strategic thinking for modern American Canasta.Learn how to play and win.Uncover strategies for intermediate and advanced players.Learn tactics and defensive play.Know when to pick up the discard pile.Find out the mistakes to avoid.Improve your partnership play.

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...

Master the most popular variations of Dominoes.Inside How to Play Dominoes, (for Beginners), you'll . . .Learn the basic rules for Dominoes, one of the most popular games of all time.Uncover the rules for variations like Block, Draw, Mexican Train, Chicken Foot, 42, & more.See how to set up the game and organize your tiles.Find out strategy tips for maximizing points in Dominoes and to avoid losing points.