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A fascinating pop-up journey into the hidden world of insects, spiders, and other creepy-crawlies.

Larger-than-life bugs spring from the pages, peek out from behind flaps, and hide under tabs, inviting young entomologists to marvel at the mind-boggling variety of arthropod life. What reader can resist a chance to look inside a cockroach's body to see how it works or open a wasps' nest to see what's inside? Useful information (why does the world need bees?) and scientific trivia (which beetles are strongest and fastest?) pack every page, while exquisite art and dramatic pop-ups bring the world of bugs to teeming life.

Learn How to Draw Bugs in Just 5 Minutes--Easy Step-by-Step Lessons for Beginners

Perfect How to Draw Bugs Book for Boys and Girls Fun, Easy Art Projects Great Gift Idea for Kids

Inspire creativity and confidence with fun step-by-step drawing lessons made just for kids! From ladybugs to spiders to butterflies and more, this beginner-friendly "how to draw" book makes learning to draw a butterfly or a ladybug simple and exciting.

Created by professional artist and author Alli Koch, this how to draw bugs book makes art time fun for every boy and girl ages 7-12. Whether your child is brand new to drawing or already loves to create, this book is an ideal birthday gift, homeschool art resource, or summertime activity.

What's Inside:

• FUN & EASY 5-MINUTE DRAWING LESSONS Simple, step-by-step instructions help kids learn how to draw bugs in just minutes--perfect for beginners with no experience required.
  
• 40+ COOL PROJECTS Learn how to draw a bug that flies, like a ladybug or a butterfly, and a bug that crawls, like an ant or a caterpillar.
  
• PERFECT FOR EVERY BOY AND GIRL Designed for kids ages 7-12, this confidence-building drawing book helps both boys and girls develop basic art skills while having fun.
  
• KID-FRIENDLY DESIGN Features layflat binding, large 9" x 9" pages, and perforated premium paper that's easy to draw on, tear out, and display.
  
• THE COOLEST GIFT FOR CREATIVE KIDS: Makes a perfect gift for birthdays and holidays--ideal for young artists, homeschoolers, or summer art time!
  

From the author of Confidence and The Comedown comes a wildly imaginative story collection about queerness, neurodivergence, sexuality, and self-discovery.

Frumkin's latest book is a deliciously entertaining collection of five genre-defying stories that range from downright hilarious to brilliantly unhinged. Taken together, they celebrate a wide variety of human experiences.

In the title story, a queer young adult with bipolar disorder drops out of college in a fog of depression, aimlessly drifting between maintaining their job at a fast food restaurant and dodging their mom's texts. But when they fall in with a group of sex workers starring in BDSM films, they find radical freedom, love, and community. In other stories, we meet a psychiatrist whose meticulously-maintained life is upended by an Alex Trebek-like voice in his head, an e-girl celebrity who is being courted by a delusional fan, a young boy on the spectrum at odds with a neurotypical world determined to "cure" him, and an elderly woman whose consciousness is being transformed by her oncoming death.

With incredible insight, compassion, and honesty, Frumkin unravels each story with tantalizing precision. Sexy and raw--and compulsively readable--this collection offers a look at our innermost selves as we all try to make sense of the world and our place in it.

Discover the pleasures of watching insects with this fun, informative, and marvelously illustrated how-to guide

Insects are the most abundant wildlife on the planet--but also the least observed. This incisive field companion highlights the basic tools for watching insects with all of our senses, covers some best habitats and circumstances for seeing the most diversity, and shares tips for attracting desirable insects to your yard and garden. With wonderful illustrations by Samantha Gallagher, Bugwatching explains why this rewarding activity is for everyone, regardless of age, ethnicity, gender identity, level of affluence, ability, or disability. When you become a bugwatcher, you join a community of supportive and energetic people. The potential for personal and scientific discovery is virtually limitless.

• Enables you to better appreciate and understand insects and improve your success rate in finding, watching, and identifying them
• Includes a comprehensive treatment of insect behaviors that is invaluable for beginners
• Discusses social bugwatching and participation in community science projects
• Covers advanced topics such as rearing insects and using keys to identify them
• Explains how watching insects can fill gaps in our knowledge about their economic impacts and the growing decline in insect diversity and abundance
• Promotes safety, accessibility, and inclusion as vital aspects of watching insects
• An essential guide for seasoned bugwatchers and newcomers to the community

Two feathered friends are Frog and Toad for the emoji generation in this delightful graphic novel for emerging readers, now available in Spanish!

Owl likes peace and quiet.
Penguin likes to SING OUT LOUD.

But best friends don't need to be the same. Sometimes it's good to disagree! Owl and Penguin celebrate their differences and solve their problems with creative play. From ice cream mishaps to rainy day chills, there's nothing these pals can't get through together.

In three nearly wordless episodes, expressive art takes charge of the storytelling, supplemented by simple Spanish-language text captions and emoticon-style images in speech bubbles. This innovative format supports both sight word recognition for newly independent Spanish and bilingual readers and Spanish vocabulary acquisition for Spanish language learners. With warm humor and a joyful palette, it's perfect for kids to giggle over on their own.

¡Me gusta leer!(R) cómics provides emerging Spanish and bilingual readers and Spanish language learners with translations of popular I Like to Read(R) Comics titles that are perfect for young comics fans. Filled with eye-catching art, humor, and terrific stories, these comics provide unique reading experiences for growing minds. Like their award-winning ¡Me gusta leer!(R) counterparts, these books are created by celebrated artists, translated by native speakers, and vetted by Spanish literacy experts to support reading comprehension and transform children into lifelong readers.

Engineers know there's always more than one way to solve a problem. Use your STEM smarts to brainstorm, design, and build a bridge in 10 different ways. Step-by-step projects will introduce you to the STEM concepts at the heart of bridge building. Take the projects further by experimenting with your own designs!

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In Build a Business You Love, #1 New York Times bestselling author and Ramsey Solutions Founder and CEO, Dave Ramsey breaks down the system that took his business from a card table in his living room to a $250 million operation.

Business leaders face all kinds of challenges and fears as they work to grow their business. Dave Ramsey gets it--because he's been there. Over the past 30 years, he and his team have taken some right (and plenty of wrong) turns as they worked to build his one-man financial counseling business into Ramsey Solutions, a $250 million company with over 1,000 team members. Now, Dave is sharing what he's learned from walking through three decades of business growth--so you can grow your business faster with fewer missteps.

In Build a Business You Love, Dave lays out the EntreLeadership System, the road map that takes the guesswork out of growth for business owners like you. Because after more than a decade of helping leaders grow their businesses--and through direct experience with his own company--Dave has found that there are five distinct stages of growth every business has to conquer to reach its potential:

• Stage 1: Treadmill Operator


• Stage 2: Pathfinder


• Stage 3: Trailblazer


• Stage 4: Peak Performer


• Stage 5: Legacy Builder

Throughout the book, Dave breaks down each of the stages and their unique challenges in detail to help you solve the right problems, at the right time, in the right way. You'll learn how to navigate everything business ownership throws at you--from hiring the right people, to finding and training leaders, to creating and operating a budget, to nailing down strategic plans that get results, and more.

Build a Business You Love is the essential guide for business owners who want to grow their business the right way and leave a legacy they're proud of.

Grab your copy and join the thousands of business owners who have transformed their business by learning to leverage the EntreLeadership System--the proven plan to help you grow yourself, lead your team, and scale your business.

Build a classic, enduring, and affordable home. With Jack A. Sobon's careful guidance, you can construct your own timber-framed house in the traditional hall-and-parlor style. From felling trees to cutting timbers, and frame construction to door selection, you'll find Sobon's professional advice and hand-drawn illustrations invaluable. Whether you're a first-time builder or a seasoned contractor looking to expand your repertoire, you'll find answers to all your timber-frame questions. Open the front door and walk into the home of your dreams.

Whether you plan on using drones for recreation or a more serious purpose (from search and rescue through farming to scanning construction work on a high-rise apartment buildings), Build a Drone will make sure that you not only understand how to construct a drone, but the proper and safe ways to maintain and handle them.

Within the last couple of years, the usage of drones in both the public and private (military) sector has exploded. People are talking about drones, building drones, and something most people didn't know of a few years ago is now a household name.

Build a Drone will not only teach you how to build your very own drone, but will explain their history in the military and the impact they will have--and are starting to have--on our everyday lives. Chapters include:

• Ready Made or Build
• Skills and Understanding the Drone Build
• Drone Assembly
• Setup and Calibration
• Safety and Flying Your Drone
• Designing Your Own Drone
• And more!

Author Barry Davies has built drones for DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) and AAI (one of America's largest drone manufacturers), as well as six experimental ones for MIT. He not only understands their use in the world, but knows the ins-and-outs of how they can be created and handled.

A teen deep-dives into her dating history to uncover her mistakes, become the perfect girlfriend, and get revenge on the wrong guy so she can ride into the sunset with the right one in this debut rom-com.

To the surprise of no one, Amelia Hernandez is once again single. It's her family curse at work; whether it's by heartbreak, scandal, or even accidental death, every romantic relationship that a Hernandez woman has will meet its demise eventually. And that may be fine with Amelia's sisters, mom, and aunts, but definitely not with Amelia.

So, convinced that she is the problem, Amelia decides to embark on an "Ex Retrospective: " tracking down her exes, finding out where she went wrong, and using that information to finally become un-break-up-able for whenever her next relationship comes along. Because Amelia is determined to be free of the family curse...and her family.

However, when Amelia is unwillingly reunited with Leon, the ex to end all exes, she can't resist having a little revenge on the side, too. After all, what better way to test out her new persona of perfect girlfriend traits than on the boy who broke her heart?

But old loves die hard, and as Amelia's feelings grow more complicated, she suspects that she may be in for more than she bargained for.

A teen deep-dives into her dating history to uncover her mistakes, become the perfect girlfriend, and get revenge on the wrong guy so she can ride into the sunset with the right one in this debut rom-com "brimming with heart and comedy" (School Library Journal).

To the surprise of no one, Amelia Hernandez is once again single. It's her family curse at work; whether it's by heartbreak, scandal, or even accidental death, every romantic relationship that a Hernandez woman has will meet its demise eventually. And that may be fine with Amelia's sisters, mom, and aunts, but definitely not with Amelia.

In an effort to cheer her up, Amelia's aunts and sisters develop the Hernandez Romance Boot Camp. Amelia will embark on an Ex Retrospective: tracking down her exes, finding out where she went wrong, and using that information to finally become un-break-up-able for whenever her next relationship comes along. By the end, Amelia should be free of the curse. Secretly, she also hopes her quest for self-improvement will give her the confidence to tell her loved ones she wants to take a gap year instead of working in the family café.

However, when Amelia is unwillingly reunited with Leon, the ex to end all exes, she can't resist having a little revenge on the side, too. After all, what better way to test out her new persona of perfect girlfriend traits than on the boy who broke her heart?

But old loves die hard, and as Amelia's feelings grow more complicated, she suspects that she may be in for more than she bargained for.

Grammy Award winner Rhiannon Giddens celebrates Black history and culture in her unflinching, uplifting, and gorgeously illustrated picture book debut.

I learned your words and wrote my song. I put my story down.

As an acclaimed musician, singer, songwriter, and cofounder of the traditional African American string band the Carolina Chocolate Drops, Rhiannon Giddens has long used her art to mine America's musical past and manifest its future, passionately recovering lost voices and reconstructing a nation's musical heritage. Written as a song to commemorate the 155th anniversary of Juneteenth--which was originally performed with famed cellist Yo-Yo Ma--and paired here with bold illustrations by painter Monica Mikai, Build a House tells the moving story of a people who would not be moved and the music that sustained them. Steeped in sorrow and joy, resilience and resolve, turmoil and transcendence, this dramatic debut offers a proud view of history and a vital message for readers of all ages: honor your heritage, express your truth, and let your voice soar, even--or perhaps especially--when your heart is heaviest.

Learn how to create, train, and tweak large language models (LLMs) by building one from the ground up!

In Build a Large Language Model (from Scratch) bestselling author Sebastian Raschka guides you step by step through creating your own LLM. Each stage is explained with clear text, diagrams, and examples. You'll go from the initial design and creation, to pretraining on a general corpus, and on to fine-tuning for specific tasks.

Build a Large Language Model (from Scratch) teaches you how to:

- Plan and code all the parts of an LLM
- Prepare a dataset suitable for LLM training
- Fine-tune LLMs for text classification and with your own data
- Use human feedback to ensure your LLM follows instructions
- Load pretrained weights into an LLM

Build a Large Language Model (from Scratch) takes you inside the AI black box to tinker with the internal systems that power generative AI. As you work through each key stage of LLM creation, you'll develop an in-depth understanding of how LLMs work, their limitations, and their customization methods. Your LLM can be developed on an ordinary laptop, and used as your own personal assistant.

Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF and ePub formats from Manning Publications.

About the technology

Physicist Richard P. Feynman reportedly said, "I don't understand anything I can't build." Based on this same powerful principle, bestselling author Sebastian Raschka guides you step by step as you build a GPT-style LLM that you can run on your laptop. This is an engaging book that covers each stage of the process, from planning and coding to training and fine-tuning.

About the book

Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch) is a practical and eminently-satisfying hands-on journey into the foundations of generative AI. Without relying on any existing LLM libraries, you'll code a base model, evolve it into a text classifier, and ultimately create a chatbot that can follow your conversational instructions. And you'll really understand it because you built it yourself!

What's inside

- Plan and code an LLM comparable to GPT-2
- Load pretrained weights
- Construct a complete training pipeline
- Fine-tune your LLM for text classification
- Develop LLMs that follow human instructions

About the reader

Readers need intermediate Python skills and some knowledge of machine learning. The LLM you create will run on any modern laptop and can optionally utilize GPUs.

About the author

Sebastian Raschka is a Staff Research Engineer at Lightning AI, where he works on LLM research and develops open-source software.

The technical editor on this book was David Caswell.

Table of Contents

1 Understanding large language models
2 Working with text data
3 Coding attention mechanisms
4 Implementing a GPT model from scratch to generate text
5 Pretraining on unlabeled data
6 Fine-tuning for classification
7 Fine-tuning to follow instructions
A Introduction to PyTorch
B References and further reading
C Exercise solutions
D Adding bells and whistles to the training loop
E Parameter-efficient fine-tuning with LoRA

Get a free eBook (PDF or ePub) from Manning as well as access to the online liveBook format (and its AI assistant that will answer your questions in any language) when you purchase the print book.

LLM reasoning models have the power to tackle truly challenging problems that require finding the right path through multiple steps. In this book you'll learn how to build a working reasoning model from the ground up. You will start with an existing pre-trained LLM and then implement reasoning-focused improvements from scratch.

Sebastian Raschka, the bestselling author of Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch), is your guide on this exciting journey. Sebastian mentors you every step of the way with clear explanations, practical code, and a keen focus on what really matters. Understand LLM reasoning by creating your own reasoning model-from scratch!

In Build A Reasoning Model (From Scratch) you'll learn how to:

- Implement core reasoning improvements for LLMs
- Evaluate models using judgment-based and benchmark-based methods
- Improve reasoning without updating model weights
- Use reinforcement learning to integrate external tools like calculators
- Apply distillation techniques to learn from larger reasoning models
- Understand the full reasoning model development pipeline

Reasoning models break problems into steps, producing more reliable answers in math, logic, and code. These improvements aren't just a curiosity-they're already integrated into top models like Grok 4 and GPT-5. Build A Reasoning Model (From Scratch) demystifies these complex models with a simple philosophy: the best way to learn how something works is to build it yourself! You'll begin with a pre-trained LLM, adding and improving its reasoning capabilities in ways you can see, test, and understand.

About the book

In Build a Reasoning Model (From Scratch), acclaimed ML research engineer Sebastian Raschka takes you inside the black box of reasoning-enhanced LLMs. You'll start with a compact, pre-trained base model that runs on consumer hardware, then upgrade it step by step to tackle ever-more difficult problems and scenarios. You'll measure its performance, add reasoning at inference time without training, and then improve it further with reinforcement learning. By the end of the book, you'll have a small but capable reasoning stack built from the ground up!

About the reader

For readers who know Python and have some knowledge of machine learning. You won't need any specialist hardware. The examples will run on a standard laptop, although using cloud GPUs can make training faster.

About the author

Sebastian Raschka, PhD, is an LLM Research Engineer with over a decade of experience in artificial intelligence. His work spans industry and academia, including implementing LLM solutions as a senior engineer at Lightning AI and teaching as a statistics professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Sebastian collaborates with industry partners on AI solutions and serves on the Open Source Board at University of Wisconsin-Madison. He specializes in LLMs and the development of high-performance AI systems, with a deep focus on practical, code-driven implementations. He is the author of the bestselling books Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch), as well as Machine Learning with PyTorch and Scikit-Learn, and Machine Learning Q and AI.

Create a portfolio of cool and creative websites--all without having to write your own code.

Build a Website with ChatGPT teaches you zero-coding web development utilizing powerful generative AI tools like ChatGPT. If you can open a web browser, you're ready to start building--absolutely no coding experience required.

Inside Build a Website with ChatGPT you'll learn the important skills of AI-assisted web programming, such as:

- Crafting effective prompts to generate HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
- Converting text into images with DALL-E integration
- Building navigation bars, image galleries, and contact forms
- Deploying fully functional sites to the web for free
- Customizing the generated code for unique sites

Inside Build a Website with ChatGPT you'll learn the high-level coding concepts that let you check and perfect AI output, prompting skills that deliver the exact code you need, and how to properly deploy your site to the web--for free! Annotated code samples and advice on code customization give you the perfect balance of understanding and convenience. Plus, you'll get access to a tried-and-tested repository of prompts and working code.

Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF and ePub formats from Manning Publications.

About the technology

You can build amazing websites even if you don't know HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Just describe what you want in plain English, and let ChatGPT take care of the gnarly details! This book guides you step-by-step as you create user-friendly forms, interesting graphics, and interactive web pages using nothing but AI and your imagination.

About the book

Build a Website with ChatGPT shows you how to make websites in an AI-first world--no experience required! You'll start with the basics of generating pages with ChatGPT, and by the end of the second chapter your first site will be up and running. Author Paul McFedries then shows you how to add interesting text and graphics, forms for user input, and even custom CSS to give your pages some pizzazz. As you go, you'll expand your new AI skills to create photo galleries, portfolios, catalog pages and more.

What's inside

- Writing effective prompts to create code, text, and graphics
- Adding navigation bars, image galleries, and contact forms
- Deploying your sites to the web for free
- Adding your unique touches to AI-generated pages

About the reader

No experience with web development or programming required. If you can create a Word document, you can build a website!

About the author

Paul McFedries has written over 100 books on web development and other technology topics including Web Design Playground (Manning Publications).

The technical editor on this book was Anirudh V. Prabhu.

Table of Contents

1 Introducing website creation with ChatGPT
2 Creating and deploying your first web page
3 Working with fonts, colors, and headings
4 Adding structure to a page
5 Publishing page posts
6 Adding links and navigation
7 Creating site content
8 Generating site forms
9 Adding lists to your pages
10 Setting up a photo gallery
11 Creating a portfolio page
12 Building an article page
13 Coding an interactive course catalog
A Getting ready to build web pages with ChatGPT
B Deploying your site
C Learning a few ChatGPT best practices