Continuous Authentication Using Biometrics

A new generation of women is taking the art world - online and offline - by storm. In an image-obsessed culture saturated with social media, these 40 artists are using photography and the female gaze

Brother, Sister, and Honey can't wait to grow their own gardens. Buying seeds, using shovels, and making signs is all very exciting! But when the growing part takes longer than expected, the cubs star

Does your coat have a zipper? Did you eat breakfast with a fork? You’re using simple machines!From butter knives to seesaws, rolling pins to catapults, we are surrounded by simple machines! Simple Mac

Does your coat have a zipper? Did you eat breakfast with a fork? You’re using simple machines!From butter knives to seesaws, rolling pins to catapults, we are surrounded by simple machines! Simple Mac

Cutting through the hype, a practical guide to using artificial intelligence for business benefits and competitive advantage.

Dentists keep people's teeth healthy using many different tools. With carefully leveled text, colorful photos, and critical-thinking questions, this title will prepare emergent readers for their next

Readers follow real-life queens to learn about what their lives look like and what their responsibilities are. This introduction to a high-interest topic introduces social studies concepts using simpl

Techy kids will getting to grips with Scratch 3.0 using this beginner's guide to coding. Difficult coding concepts become easy and fun to understand as budding programmers build their own projects usi

From the bright sky to plump blueberries, blue is everywhere! Fun text and detailed photos explore where readers can find blue in the world around them. Back matter includes art prompts using shades o

Originally published in 1970. Many contemporary philosophers have thought that certain philosophic disputes could be settled by using the concept of meaninglessness. To solve philosophic problems in t

Organizations and businesses strive toward excellence, and solutions to problems are based mostly on judgment and experience. However, increased competition and consumer demands require that the solutions be optimum and not just feasible. Theory leads to algorithms. Algorithms need to be translated into computer codes. Engineering problems need to be modeled. Optimum solutions are obtained using theory and computers, and then interpreted. Revised and expanded in its third edition, this textbook integrates theory, modeling, development of numerical methods, and problem solving, thus preparing students to apply optimization to real-world problems. This text covers a broad variety of optimization problems using: unconstrained, constrained, gradient, and non-gradient techniques; duality concepts; multi-objective optimization; linear, integer, geometric, and dynamic programming with applications; and finite element-based optimization. It is ideal for advanced undergraduate or graduate cours

Python is today's fastest growing programming language. This engaging and refreshingly different guide breaks down the skills into clear step-by-step chunks and explains the theory using brief easy-to-understand language. Rather than bamboozling readers with pages of mind-numbing technical jargon, this book includes 150 practical challenges, putting the power in the reader's hands. Through creating programs to solve these challenges the reader will quickly progress from mastering the basics to confidently using subroutines, a graphical user interface, and linking to external text, csv and SQL files. This book is perfect for anyone who wants to learn how to program with Python. In particular, students starting out in computer science and teachers who want to improve their confidence in Python will find here a set of ready-made challenges for classroom use.

Trust your gut―and heal it.Discover how you can eat your way to gastrointestinal relief. The 4-Week Gut Health Plan is your guide to using food to help improve your gut health and ease the symptoms of

Create dazzling and colorful manga artworks with Artful Etching: Manga. Using the included wooden tool, you’ll etch the lines and details of ten creative designs, uncovering a host of manga

Fall in love with this engaging introduction to the autumn season using interactive touch and feels from Scholastic Early Learners!Touch and Feel Fall is an exciting board book for very young children

Film stars are central to today's celebrity-obsessed culture. Yet, in the early decades of cinema, the industry faced disincentives to using the identities of performers for publicity. For over 12 yea

Discover the answers to your family history mysteries using the most-cutting edge tool available to genealogists. This plain-English guide, newly revised and expanded, is a one-stop resource on geneti

If you are interested in becoming a better leader, this book is a great place to start. Rather than using the familiar textbook approach, leadership expert Robert Denhardt offers practical lessons dra

This highly topical book considers the important question of how best to protect the environment of the Third Pole – the area comprising the Hindu Kush Himalayas and Tibetan Plateau – using the tool o

Using new material unearthed in French archives, Vietnamese-language publications, and the testimony of veterans, this book, now in paperback, offers a new perspective on the climactic French defeat a

In A Voyage to the Moon, the narrator (called, like the author, Cyrano de Bergerac), after a failed first attempt to reach the moon using vials of dewdrops, finally makes it into space and to his desi

The Mediated World is written for students to engage in how we communicate with one another, how we understand our world, and how media shapes us. Using stories of our media and culture, this book off

The Mediated World is written for students to engage in how we communicate with one another, how we understand our world, and how media shapes us. Using stories of our media and culture, this book off

Open this book and, using the included magical press-out "flashlight," illuminate a nighttime world full of amazing animals! Whether exploring an Amazon jungle or an African safari, kids ages 6 and up

The book discusses how to conduct systematic accident prevention by using scientific accident investigation, accident model, statistical science, risk management and the PDCA cycle (the core of the Sa

Photo Adventures is an activity book by photographer and professional fun-maker Jan von Holleben, who reveals the secret to bending reality using nothing more than a simple smartphone and a playful ap

Learn to live the message of the Good Samaritan and make a global impact, using the resources already at your disposal.If there were a popularity contest among all the parables of Jesus, the Good Sama

An easy-to-use therapy tool for transforming unhelpful belief patterns and envisioning positive change • Identifies 196 common beliefs per chakra that can be energetically realigned using the Hea

Yogis have been using marijuana to enhance yoga practice for centuries. In this all-levels handbook, expert yoga instructor Darrin Zeer distills this ancient practice for a modern audience, guiding re

From the creator of One-Punch Man!In a showdown with Black Vinegar Middle School's shadow gang leader, Teru, Mob sticks to his policy of nonviolence and refrains from using his powers--and gets knocke

Preschoolers will develop important pre-writing fine-motor skills and hand-eye coordination through cutting and pasting activities, using That's Silly(TM) puzzles, matching, and more, all in an afford

The amazing slime recipes in this book are sometimes gross, sometimes sparkly, sometimes smelly, but ALWAYS loads of fun. More than 30 innovative recipes, using inexpensive, accessible, and safe ingre

Learn how to perfect the prettiest trend in cake decorating – using edible flowers and herbs to decorate your cakes and bakes – with this impossibly beautiful guide from celebrity baker Ju

This stunning volume on Chinese astrology, made using traditional Chinese bookbinding techniques, is the perfect guide to your inner and outer life. If you’re born in the Chinese year of

Nicknamed "Lady M" by Byron, Elizabeth Milbanke, Viscountess Melbourne, rose above all adversity, using sex and her husband’s wealth to hold court among such glittering figures as Geor

Give your love life a spiritual boost with Cosmo's potent introduction to potion-making. Modern magic is all about self-care and using your inner powers to make positive changes in your life--and that

Give your love life a spiritual boost with Cosmo's potent introduction to spells designed to enhance romance. Modern magic is all about self-care and using your inner powers to make positive changes i

Nothing brings holiday cheer like beautifully hand-lettered cards, gift tags, and decorations. Using brush pens, chalk markers, watercolors, and more, make the season merry and bright with 30 projects

The webs, nodes and networks created by Britain's Indian Ocean Empire during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries are here explored in the context of their personal and social impact. Using the Brit

This Element aims to present an outline of mathematics and its history, with particular emphasis on events that shook up its philosophy. It ranges from the discovery of irrational numbers in ancient Greece to the nineteenth- and twentieth-century discoveries on the nature of infinity and proof. Recurring themes are intuition and logic, meaning and existence, and the discrete and the continuous. These themes have evolved under the influence of new mathematical discoveries and the story of their evolution is, to a large extent, the story of philosophy of mathematics.