The blood witch has changed everything.Chen traveled to the US with his clan, hoping to rescue his kidnapped brother from the fae. They just need a witch to find the exact location of where the door between the human world and the fae world will open—the one thing Moon can't do. Chen grabbed the wrong type of witch.That's not stopping Moon from clinging to Chen as he guides them through new territory, introducing them to the witches, shifters, and vampires ...

That cat is a liar!The "stray cat" Junjie has been feeding and cuddling for months is actually an extremely rare cat shifter.Of course, Leo would have preferred to continue their arrangement of Junjie feeding him choice bits of fish and rubbing his belly, but he needs Junjie's help, and that means revealing his secret.An orphaned kitten needs a home after the fae killed his parents, and Leo is the most irresponsible, feckless, lazy creature in exist...

He promised me forever… but she came to take my soul.Huli had dedicated his entire existence to making himself into something worthy of Xiao Dan. But as he stood on the brink of claiming the vampire's heart, an evil deal he'd made centuries ago was coming due.Min wanted Xiao Dan's soul.Would he lose Xiao Dan when he confessed his ugly promise? And could he stop Min before it was too late?Two Thousand Promises is the fifth and final nove...

There's no escape from a dragon's hoard.Xiang thought his biggest problem was going to be defeating the fae.Nope.Right now, it's escaping this dragon's hoard.The dragon, who tried to eat his clanmate, grabbed Xiang instead, and now Xiang is trapped. And he's not the only one who needs to escape the dragon's lair.Kai is serving as the dragon's assistant and helping to keep Xiang from going crazy with boredom.Xiang is sure ther...

He was supposed to be my enemy—not my lover.Yichen is free at last… sort of.He has escaped his imprisonment, but he's still bloodbound to the crown prince of the fae. Oh gods, how is he going to explain that to his clan?Finding a way to break the bond might not be too hard. Killing the king of the fae even seems possible. But there's no way he can let go of the elf who protected him and risked everything for him for a hundred years.Rei is th...

Deep Learning for Medical Image Analysis, Second Edition is a great learning resource for academic and industry researchers and graduate students taking courses on machine learning and deep learning for computer vision and medical image computing and analysis. Deep learning provides exciting solutions for medical image analysis problems and is a key method for future applications. This book gives a clear understanding of the principles and methods of neural network and deep learning concep...

Julie Abe's OUR CURSED LOVE is a magical 50 FIRST DATES meets LOVE AND GELATO set in Tokyo, Japan—about destiny, the impact of the choices we make, and the magic of true love.Six days to remember.Love or lose him forever.Remy Kobata has always wished she was destined to be with her best friend, Cam Yasuda. All the way from being neighbors from birth to mixing up magical prank potions together to their “just ...

Deep learning is providing exciting solutions for medical image analysis problems and is seen as a key method for future applications. This book gives a clear understanding of the principles and methods of neural network and deep learning concepts, showing how the algorithms that integrate deep learning as a core component have been applied to medical image detection, segmentation and registration, and computer-aided analysis, using a wide variety of application areas. Deep Learning for Me...

A detailed field guide to foreign business opportunities in China during the era of heightened rivalry with the U.S.China dominates manufacturing and is the world's largest retail market, but for companies outside of China, finding ways to do business in the country is increasingly uncertain in the face of rising US-China tension, combined with China's crackdowns on the tech and education sectors.Shaun Rein runs the China Market Research Group and has spent...

This updated edition of Mechanism Design: Visual and Programmable Approaches using MATLAB® and Simscape Multibody™ offers a comprehensive introduction to kinematic synthesis, covering motion, path, and function generation techniques for a wide range of planar and spatial single‑ and multi‑loop linkage systems.This book presents foundational concepts alongside practical methodologies, making it an accessible resource for both students and practitioners in the field...

Bloomsbury presents Feng Shui Modern by Cliff Tan, read by Kevin Shen.In an increasingly cramped world, a modern guide to opening up your living space –and your life –using the ancient principles of feng shui.How do you place a bed in an awkward room? How can your space help you be more focused and more productive? How do you set up your room to make you ready for romantic love? Our homes have an outsized impact on our wellbeing, so answering these questions is more importa...

The inside story of Lean, a computer program that answers the age-old question: How do you know if something is true?It began as an obscure bug-checking program at Microsoft Research developed by a lone computer engineer named Leo de Moura. Then an unlikely crew of mathematical misfits caught wind of it and began to adopt it with messianic zeal. Their goal was to create a truth machine that could provide the rarest of all commodities in life: a complete, 100 percen...