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<b>The entertaining, irreverent, and surprisingly moving memoir by the visionary restaurateur behind such iconic New York institutions as Balthazar and Pastis.</b><br/><br/> A memoir by the legendary proprietor of Balthazar, Pastis, Minetta Tavern, and Morandi, taking us from his gritty London childhood to his serendipitous arrival in New York, where he founded the era-defining establishments Odeon, Cafe Luxembourg, and Nell's. Eloquent and opinionated, Keith McNally writes about his stint as a child actor, his travels along the hippie trail, his wives and children, his devastating stroke, and his Instagram notoriety.

Imagine every photo on your phone, every movie you stream, and every secure credit card transaction you make online. Big Math (i.e., linear algebra) is operating under the hood for each of these everyday miracles. It is:<br/><br/><b>- The mathematical machinery that compresses images so they can be quickly uploaded to Instagram.</b><br/> <b>- The secret sauce behind Netflix to recommend your next favorite show.</b> <br/> <b>- The sentinel that encrypts your data to keep it safe from prying eyes.</b><br/> <b>- The force behind Google's search algorithm allowing you to sift through the vastness of the internet with a few keystrokes.</b><br/><br/>The brainpower enabling the AI revolution, from self-driving cars to large language models like ChatGPT.<br/>Big math provides the concepts and algorithms needed in today's digital world. Yet Big Math isn't limited to practical applications. It promotes a broader, multi-dimensional thinking style critical for solving problems in all walks of life. It teaches us to see and manipulate relationships in a cloud of numbers, understand structures and patterns, and simplify complex problems into manageable pieces. This skill set is invaluable for scientists, engineers, programmers, entrepreneurs, financial quants, and anyone who deals with the colossal amounts of data that define our information-saturated age.<br/><b><br/>BIG MATH is the first book to introduce linear algebra to a non-technical audience - exploring what it is, who created it, and why it matters.</b>

In this third volume of the worldwide puzzle phenomenon Murdoku, make sure your passport is up to date: murderers lurk on every continent, and your investigative expertise is needed! Combining the elegance of sudoku with the storytelling of classic logic problems, Murdoku is easy to learn and offers endless variety. In each puzzle, you solve a murder by placing the suspects into a detailed, full-colour crime scene according to the written clues, with one simple rule: one character per row, one character per column. At the end, whoever is alone with the victim is revealed to be the murderer! No prior experience is needed to enjoy this book. The 80 handcrafted brainteasers start out easy and gradually increase in difficulty, introducing exciting twists along the way, including secret identities and puzzles with multiple grids. If you can solve them all, you're truly an elite detective!

Birth of the Witch [Bok / Häftad]

<b>In this winter tale with a hushed, haunting charm, an unexpected friendship changes the life of a lonely young woman in Stockholm.</b><br/><br/>Therese has just left the safety of her childhood home to begin a new life at Stockholm University. Her days are filled with nervousness, expectation, and loneliness. She rents a small room in the outskirts of the city, tries to carve out a place for herself in its vastness, and feels invisible in the lecture halls.<br/><br/>Everything changes when she meets Andreas. He dresses in black and carries himself with a blasé confidence. He also opens the door to another Stockholm, a world of literary fanzines, smoke-filled cafés, and late nights in an apartment on Kammakar Street. In the quiet, understated mystery between the city's crowded throughfares and Kammakar Street's desolation, a friendship begins to take shape, one that will come to define her life in many ways.

<b> Prepare yourself for the epic finale to the bestselling The Wolf King Trilogy - the sizzling sensation that has the internet OBSESSED. </b><br/><br/><i>'I won't be a pawn, Blake. Not again.'</i><br/><i>'Darling, we're the ones who move the pieces.'</i><br/><br/>Aurora has spent her life being a pawn - to men, to alphas, and to gods. Now she intends to rule - but first she must defeat the Night God.<br/><br/><b>READ THE ROMANTASY DRIVING READERS WILD! </b><br/> <br/>'It's a little bit <b>Outlander</b>, a little bit <b>ACOTAR</b>, and its own thing in just <b>the perfect way.</b>'<br/><br/>'Now <b>that's what I call ROMANTASY</b>.'<br/><br/>'Gahhhh. <b>I AM OBSESSED</b> with this series.'<br/><br/>'I thought <b>I was emotionally prepared. I wasn't</b>.'<br/><br/>'There will <b>NEVER be a shifter romance series better</b> than this.'

<b>WELCOME CRAWLERS, TO THE FOURTH FLOOR OF THE DUNGEON - THE IRON TANGLE!</b><br/><br/><b>The third explosive installment in Matt Dinniman's best selling LitRPG series, where teamwork is optional and betrayal is inevitable...</b><br/><br/><b>'If there's a better LitRPG than Dungeon Crawler Carl, I haven't read it'</b> Shirtaloon, author of <i>He Who Fights Monsters</i><br/><br/>--<br/><b>Carl and Donut have survived so far, but this fourth level is unlike anything they could imagine.</b><br/><br/>The Iron Tangle: an impossibly complicated subway system tied together into a knot of trains of all kinds.<br/><br/>The top ten list of most popular crawlers is now confirmed, and Carl and Donut have made it. But that popularity comes with a price . . .<br/><br/>They each now have a bounty on their head.<br/><br/>Carl and Donut have survived so far, but this fourth level is unlike anything they could imagine.<br/><br/>The Iron Tangle: an impossibly complicated subway system tied together into a knot of trains of all kinds.<br/><br/>The top ten list of most popular crawlers is now confirmed, and Carl and Donut have made it. But that popularity comes with a price . . .<br/><br/>They each now have a bounty on their head.<br/><br/>To get through this level, they must solve the puzzle of the floor. The secret to unravelling it all may be hidden in the pages of a seemingly useless book. But if they want to come close to success, they'll have to work with other crawlers.<br/><br/><b><i>Making friends is easy...until they want to kill you.</i></b><br/><b>----</b><br/><br/><b>Praise for <i>Dungeon Crawler Carl<br/></i></b><br/><b>'Fresh. Creative. Hilarious. I'm obsessed...Princess Donut is my queen'</b> Actor, producer and New York Times bestselling author Felicia Day<br/><br/><b>'I don't always say nice things about a book just because the writer has compromising pictures of me engaging in some very complicated international crimes, but when I do, I say them about Matt Dinniman's Dungeon Crawler Carl! Also, this series has no goddamn business burying so much depth and emotion and complexity under its bawdy, gory surface, but it does so anyway. What a wild-ass and unexpected delight'</b> New York Times bestselling author Scott Lynch<br/><br/><b>'[A] comically cosmic adventure series...often laugh-out-loud funny...Grind your way to dungeon mastery alongside Carl and Princess Donut' </b>The Wall Street Journal<br/><br/><b>'This is the book for anyone who ever wondered what it would be like to be a role player in a game with the best game master ever. Also for anyone who wants to read a good book. Or maybe anyone who has been outside at night?in their underwear?looking for their cat and wondering 'What's the worst thing that could happen?' Once you start, you won't put it down'</b> Patricia Briggs, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Mercy Thompson series<br/><br/><b>'One of the most bananapants, funny, inventive books I have read in a while'</b> Book Riot<br/><br/><b>'Dungeon Crawler Carl is just one big smile all the way through. Put on your best pair of boxer shorts and sit back for a truly fun and enjoyable read'</b> New York Times bestselling author Kevin J. Anderson