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Make fabulous quilts quickly with the 10-minute block technique. You'll love the straight seams and curved line designs. Take 10-Minute Blocks further, expanding the possibilities with a stunning array of easy to execute designs. Experiment with positive-negative blocks, discover layers of pattern, and just have fun. The 12 block sampler quilt will inspire you all year long, whether you assemble it as a block of the month, or make an entire quilt from each delightful square. There's plenty to please in this new collection. For a new approach to pinwheels, check out Solar Winds. Experiment with fussy cuts in Oasis. Dazzle your family with a stunning Starburst. Feel the thrill of finishing a quilt in an afternoon.
The Centaur's Dilemma
Assessing the legal and practical questions posed by the use of artificial intelligence in national security matters The increasing use of artificial intelligence poses challenges and opportunities for nearly all aspects of society, including the military and other elements of the national security establishment. This book addresses how national security law can and should be applied to artificial intelligence, which enables a wide range of decisions and actions not contemplated by current law. James Baker, an expert in national security law and process, adopts a realistic approach in assessing how the law—even when not directly addressing artificial intelligence—can be used, or even misused, to regulate this new technology. His new book covers, among other topics, national security process, constitutional law, the law of armed conflict, arms control, and academic and corporate ethics. With his own background as a judge, he examines potential points of contention and litigation in an area where the law is still evolving and might not yet provide clear and certain answers. The Centaur’s Dilemma also analyzes potential risks associated with the use of artificial intelligence in the realm of national security—including the challenges of machine-human interface, operating (or not operating) the national-security decision-making process at machine speed, and the perils of a technology arms race. Written in plain English, The Centaur’s Dilemma will help guide policymakers, lawyers, and technology experts as they deal with the many legal questions that will arise when using artificial intelligence to plan and carry out the actions required for the nation’s defense.
A Recipe for Gentrification
How gentrification uproots the urban food landscape, and what activists are doing to resist it From hipster coffee shops to upscale restaurants, a bustling local food scene is perhaps the most commonly recognized harbinger of gentrification. A Recipe for Gentrification explores this widespread phenomenon, showing the ways in which food and gentrification are deeply—and, at times, controversially—intertwined. Contributors provide an inside look at gentrification in different cities, from major hubs like New York and Los Angeles to smaller cities like Cleveland and Durham. They examine a wide range of food enterprises—including grocery stores, restaurants, community gardens, and farmers’ markets—to provide up-to-date perspectives on why gentrification takes place, and how communities use food to push back against displacement. Ultimately, they unpack the consequences for vulnerable people and neighborhoods. A Recipe for Gentrification highlights how the everyday practices of growing, purchasing and eating food reflect the rapid—and contentious—changes taking place in American cities in the twenty-first century.
The Problem of the Many
Winner of the Big Other Award for Poetry. Finalist for the Believer Book Award. Poems from Problem of the Many nominated for Pushcart Prize. Donnelly is a highly-respected poet known for his impressive command of sentence-craft and broad topical knowledge, garnering accolades from poets such as John Ashbery and Jorie Graham. Donnelly puts a lot of time into his ambitious books, so when they publish they are highly anticipated and reviewed and discussed vigorously. He writes lucidly on pressing topics such as global injustice and environmental devastation, contextualizing them in the day-to-day human experience. Poems from the book have appeared or are forthcoming in the New Yorker , the New Republic , A Public Space , the Paris Review , Poetry , and elsewhere Donnelly is well-known as a longtime poetry editor at the Boston Review (a post he left in protest over the sustained appointment of Junot Diaz), as well as the director of poetry at Columbia University. Donnelly’s books have a proven track record in course adoptions, and this one has all the makings of a great course text.
Calamities
WINNER of the 2017 Firecracker Award for Nonfiction from CLMP A collection of linked essays concerned with the life and mind of the writer by one of the most original voices in contemporary literature. Each essay takes a day as its point of inquiry, observing the body as it moves through time, architecture, and space, gradually demanding a new logic and level of consciousness from the narrator and reader.
The Foreign Girls
Two foreign girls are murdered after a high society party in Yacanto del Valle, northern Argentina. Their bodies are found in a field near sacrificial offerings, apparently from a black magic ritual. Verónica Rosenthal, an audacious, headstrong Buenos Aires journalist with a proclivity for sexual adventure, could never have imagined that her holiday would end with her two friends dead. Not trusting the local police, she decides to investigate for herself.
Thunderbird
• Public anticipation for Lasky’s third book is high, following her critically acclaimed debut, AWE, and 2010’s Black Life (still frequently reviewed and talked about in poetry circles). • Although Lasky has a particularly strong following among young readers, her work has that rare quality of offering something to every reader. Elements of confessionalism, feminism, the gothic and the grotesque form a potent and unmistakable concoction known for inducing laughter just before twisting the knife. • We expect Thunderbird to be high on the academic radar. Lasky is popular among MFA students and professors, and has taught in a multitude of venues, from graduate writing programs to elementary schools. Her poems are instructive in the use of a personal voice, contemporary spirituality, the poetic line, and heightened honesty and emotion. • Lasky publicly identifies with Sylvia Plath, and her work shares an affinity with Plath's. This affinity is especially strong in Thunderbird, her most powerful work to date.• Thunderbird is as stylistically accessible as her previous work, but new readers and fans alike will be astounded by the continued maturity of Lasky's craft. Here, she expertly blurs identity, and like Plath before her, penetrates the underbelly of the psyche.
Patina
There was a time when a heavily weathered collector car or truck was considered a bit of an eyesore. In fact, if you brought one of these vehicles to a car show more than likely you would receive grief for showing a car with faded paint and surface rust. But not anymore. The era of patina on vehicles has been fully embraced, and rightfully so. <p>Currently the genre is ripe with creation. Kevin Tetz of Paintucation has delivered the first book ever on the many variables involved with patina. In step-by-step format, Kevin walks you through creating patina from existing paint, preserving *already there* patina, and painting patina (steel, plastic, glass). Each process is unique and requires its own set of skills, procedures, and tools. <p>With tens of millions of potential projects to consider, finding the right car or truck to patina shouldn’t be a problem. And now with <i>Patina: How to Create & Preserve</i> you will have the perfect book to guide you through the patina process.
How to Rebuild Ford Power Stroke Diesel Engines 1994-2007
Covers the vast majority of Power Stroke Diesels on the road. Each part of the engine is described in detail, with full-color photos of every critical component. A complete step-by-step engine rebuild of a 7.3L and 6.0L is also included. Provides a range of engine-building tips, charts, graphs, and sidebars along with detailed graphics showing the engine's various system designs.