An accomplished pastry chef, Reardon draws millions of baking fans together each week, eager to learn the secrets of her extravagant cakes, chocolates, and eye-popping desserts. Her warmth and sense of fun in the kitchen shines through on every page as she reveals the science behind recreating your own culinary masterpieces.For home cooks and fans who love their desserts, cakes, and ice creams to look amazing and taste even better. Take your culinary creations to influencer status, you’ll also:1. Learn to make treats that get the whole family cooking2. Create baked goods that tap into beloved pop culture trends3. Impress guests with beautiful dessertsReaders of dessert cookbooks like Mary Berry’s Baking Bible by Mary Berry, Cake Confidence by Mandy Merriman, or Pastry Love by Joanne Chang will love How to Cook That: Crazy Sweet Creations.

    To understand it fully, we must look beneath the surface. The positive side is that technology is making machines smarter. However, the deeper view explained in this book shows that AI is also making a growing number of people cognitively and psychologically dependent on digital networks. Whether you are a social media fanatic, a diehard AI aficionado, or a paranoid sceptic, it is impossible to escape the ubiquitous impact of AI. Artificial Intelligence is the brains bringing together quantum computing, nanotechnology, medical technology, brain-machine interface, robotics, aerospace, 5G, Internet of Things, and more. It is amplifying human ingenuity and disrupting the foundations of healthcare, military, entertainment, education, marketing and manufacturing.Artificial Intelligence and The Future of Power argues that this AI-driven revolution will have an unequal impact on different segments of humanity. There will be new winners and losers, new haves and have-nots, resulting in an unprecedented concentration of wealth and power. After analyzing society’s vulnerabilities to the impending tsunami, the book raises troubling questions that provoke immediate debate: Is the world headed toward digital colonization by USA and China? Will depopulation become eventually unavoidable?Artificial Intelligence and The Future of Power is a wakeup call to action, compelling public intellectuals to be better informed and more engaged. It educates the social segments most at risk and wants them to demand a seat at the table where policies on Artificial Intelligence are being formulated.

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    It demonstrates practical techniques that you will recognize from popular sites where visitors can:Register as a member and log in Create articles, posts and profiles that are saved in a database Upload their own images and files Automatically receive email notifications Like and comment on posts. To show you how to apply the skills you learn, you will build a complete content management system, enhanced with features that are commonly seen on social networks.Written by best-selling HTML & CSS and JavaScript & jQuery author Jon Duckett, this book uses a unique visual approach, with step-by-step instructions, practical code examples and pro tips that will teach you how to build modern database-driven websites using PHP.

    Two deaths set off a chain reaction of events that threatens to completely shatter their fragile group. For most souls, it is relatively easy to receive the closure they need and move on to their final destination. Others, like Mihai Calin, find themselves stuck in the Ground, the realm between the dead and the living. Left with no memories of his life or how he died, he is unable to resolve his impediment and cross over. He and his companion, Jay, are stuck as grim reapers, helping others passing through to find peace. Neither have any hope of overcoming their fate until a certain soul comes along who can change everything-- even the things above the surface.While the residents of the Ground scramble to solve the mystery of how their paths are intertwined, the people they left behind are struggling to pick up the pieces.

    He didn't expect to lose his heart in the process. When the distant rumble of thunder forces Darcy to seek shelter from the coming storm, he finds much more than a refuge from the elements. Inside his cottage, he finds a beautiful stranger and what promises to be a bright and happy future. That is if he can keep both Elizabeth and her reputation safe.Thunder is a novelette of just over 9,200 words and is one of Leenie Brown's Nature's Fury and Delights Collection of sweet Austen-inspire Regency romance quick reads. If you like romances where strangers stumble upon one another and happily ever after, then, put the kettle on, download your copy of Thunder, and join Darcy and Elizabeth as they take shelter from a gathering storm and find a forever refuge for their hearts.[This story can also be found in Thunder, Mist, and Frost, Nature's Fury and Delights Anthology 1.]

    Alixopulos is a comics album-sized dragnet of nocturnal stories. A mix of the imagined and the experienced, these strips range from gritty to sexy, louche to wistful, all trying to record the often forgotten hours between midnight and dawn.

    You'll be learning to program with JavaScript - the most popular programming language on Earth. And it runs in web browsers, making it particularly suited to creating web-based apps and games. But the principles and techniques that you'll learn will provide you with a foundation to go on and learn many other languages, too.You'll learn:Programming basics, including data types, variables and moreHow to use logic to control the flow of a programHow to use loops to repeat code over and over againHow to write functions that can be used to store code in reusable blocksHow to store data in collections such as arrays, sets and mapsHow to create objects that store properties and actionsAnd much more!Along the way, you'll build a collection of fun applications, including games and interactive web pages. Start learning to code today!