The extraordinary secret life of a great novelist, which his biographer could not publish while le Carré was alive. Secrecy came naturally to John le Carré, and there were some secrets that he fought fiercely to keep. Adam Sisman's definitive biography, published in 2015, provided a revealing portrait of this fascinating man; yet some aspects of his subject remained hidden. Nowhere was this more so than in his private life. Apparently content in his marriage, the novelist conducted a string of love affairs over five decades. To these relationships he brought much of the tradecraft that he had learned as a spy - cover stories, cut-outs and dead letter boxes. These clandestine operations brought an element of danger to his life, but they also meant deceiving those closest to him. Small wonder that betrayal became a running theme in his work. In trying to manage his biography, the novelist engaged in a succession of skirmishes with his biographer. While he could control what Sisman wrote about him in his lifetime, he accepted that the truth would eventually become known. Following his death in 2020, what had been withheld can now be revealed. The Secret Life of John le Carré reveals a hitherto-hidden perspective on the life and work of the spy-turned-author and a fascinating meditation on the complex relationship between biographer and subject. “Now that he is dead,” Sisman writes, “we can know him better.”

From New York Times bestselling author Madeleine Roux and acclaimed artist Tim Probert comes the second installment in the original Dungeons & Dragons middle grade series! In the second installment of the Dungeon & Dragons middle grade series, something BIG has come knocking on the gates of Dungeon Academy! The undefeated Waterdeep Dragons have arrived for the Tourney of Terror games, which happens every fifty years and features every monster’s favorite sport: Goreball! The Dungeon Academy Flumphs are outnumbered, outsized, and outmonstered! But our hero, Zelli Stormclash (a forbidden human, secretly disguised as a minotaur), is no stranger to impossible odds. Just a few weeks ago, Zelli and her crew, the Danger Club, came face-to-face with a maniacal necromancer and his army of undead! If this wasn’t enough to raise scales Zelli’s reoccurring nightmare of a dark entity annihilating her world may be more than just a bad dream. Something sinister is lurking in the halls of the academy, and only Zelli seems to notice. But when Zelli uncovers a dark past hidden beneath Dungeon Academy, she unlocks something that will concern everyone at school, every dragon at Waterdeep, and everything within the Forgotten Realms. Get ready for humor, heart, magic, and adventure as middle graders and beyond learn to embrace who they are, accept others' differences, and discover the hidden secrets that dwell deep within themselves, and within Dungeon Academy!

Das vorliegende Fachbuch befasst sich mit Algorithmen und Techniken zur Gesichtsentdeckung sowie zur Gesichtserkennung bzw. Gesichtswiedererkennung. Das hauptsächlich behandelte Thema ist die Wiedererkennung von Personen aufgrund zuvor erlernter biometrischer Informationen. Einleitend wird der derzeitige Stand der Forschung präsentiert. Dieser Überblick behandelt sowohl 2D- als auch 3D-basierende Algorithmen zur Gesichtsentdeckung und Gesichtserkennung. Beispielsweise wird die Gesichtsentdeckung durch Bildreduzierung um Hintergrundinformationen, durch die Auswertung von Farbinformationen, durch Erkennung von Bewegungen und durch Geometrievergleiche beschrieben. Die leistungsfähige und heutzutage gängigste Gesichtsentdeckungsmethode, die Viola-Jones-Methode, wird eingehend diskutiert und als C++-Programmcode implementiert. Die theoretische Behandlung verschiedener Gesichtserkennungsalgorithmen, wie Erkennung mittels Hidden Markov Models, durch Elastic Bunch Graph Matching, mit Hilfe von 3D Morphable Models, durch 3D Face Recognition sowie durch Anwendung von Fisherfaces oder Eigenfaces, führt zur praktischen Gesichtserkennungsimplementierung. Dabei werden Gesichter in einem Webcam-Stream automatisch entdeckt, in den Graustufenbereich transformiert und aus der Aufnahme extrahiert. Die normalisierte Gesichtsabbildung wird an den Gesichtserkennungsteil der Software weitergereicht, der die Wiedererkennung bekannter Personen oder die Erlernung unbekannter Gesichter mit Hilfe des Eigenfaces-Algorithmus durchführt. Die selbst geschriebene Software wurde mit einem kleinen Set an Bildern von Personen getestet und erreichte dabei eine Erkennungsrate von 95,83 %. Das vorliegende Fachbuch beschreibt die Funktionsweise des Programms detailliert. Der C++-Code ist im Buch enthalten und bedient sich der frei erhältlichen Open Computer Vision Library.

"Major Rufus d'Aumesty has unexpectedly become the Earl of Oxney, master of a remote Norman manor on the edge of the infamous Romney Marsh. There he's beset on all sides, his position contested both by his greedy uncle and by Luke Doomsday, son of a notorious smuggling clan. The earl and the smuggler should be natural enemies, but cocksure, enragingly competent Luke is a trained secretary and expert schemer--exactly the sort of man Rufus needs by his side. Before long, Luke becomes an unexpected ally ... and the lover Rufus had never hoped to find. But Luke came to Stone Manor with an ulterior motive, one he's desperate to keep hidden even from the lord he can't resist. As the lies accumulate and family secrets threaten to destroy everything they hold dear, master and man find themselves forced to decide whose side they're really on ... and what they're willing to do for love"--

A deluxe bind-up edition of Naoki Urasawa’s award-winning epic of doomsday cults, giant robots and a group of friends trying to save the world from destruction! Humanity, having faced extinction at the end of the 20th century, would not have entered the new millennium if it weren’t for them. In 1969, during their youth, they created a symbol. In 1997, as the coming disaster slowly starts to unfold, that symbol returns. This is the story of a group of boys who try to save the world. The war is over. The Friend is dead. Finally free from the threat of extinction, peace has come to the people of Tokyo once again. But the mystery surrounding the Friend still remains. Nobody knows who the Friend was or where he came from, and the only clue is hidden deep in the Kenji’s memories. The time has come to open Pandora’s box and see what was left behind.

"Major Rufus d'Aumesty has unexpectedly become the Earl of Oxney, master of a remote Norman manor on the edge of the infamous Romney Marsh. There he's beset on all sides, his position contested both by his greedy uncle and by Luke Doomsday, son of a notorious smuggling clan. The earl and the smuggler should be natural enemies, but cocksure, enragingly competent Luke is a trained secretary and expert schemer--exactly the sort of man Rufus needs by his side. Before long, Luke becomes an unexpected ally ... and the lover Rufus had never hoped to find. But Luke came to Stone Manor with an ulterior motive, one he's desperate to keep hidden even from the lord he can't resist. As the lies accumulate and family secrets threaten to destroy everything they hold dear, master and man find themselves forced to decide whose side they're really on ... and what they're willing to do for love"--

Bridges the gap between AI and neuroscience by telling the story of how the brain came to be. 'I found this book amazing' Daniel Kahneman, Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics and bestselling author of Thinking Fast & Slow The entirety of the human brain's 4-billion-year story can be summarised as the culmination of five evolutionary breakthroughs, starting from the very first brains, all the way to the modern human brains. Each breakthrough emerged from new sets of brain modifications, and equipped animals with a new suite of intellectual faculties. These five breakthroughs are the organising map to this book, and they make up our itinerary for our adventure back in time. Each breakthrough also has fascinating corollaries to breakthroughs in AI. Indeed, there will be plenty of such surprises along the way. For instance: the innovation that enabled AI to beat humans in the game of Go - temporal difference reinforcement learning - was an innovation discovered by our fish ancestors over 500 million years ago. The solutions to many of the current mysteries in AI - such as 'common sense' - can be found in the tiny brain of a mouse. Where do emotions come from? Research suggests that they may have arisen simply as a solution to navigation in ancient worm brains. Unravelling this evolutionary story will reveal the hidden features of human intelligence and with them, just how your mind came to be.

Bloomsbury presents Metronome by Matthew H. Birkhold, read by Chris Gaines Object Lessons is a series of short books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. When the metronome was invented in 1815, it transformed the music world. Composers and musicians now had a tool that could help them maintain a precise and consistent tempo. And while giants of classical music like Beethoven early embraced the metronome and proponents came to see its essential role in music instruction, critics believed it created mindless players and inhibited the creation of great art. The metronome evokes strong feelings because of its uncompromising power. Through it, we are connected to the past, propelled into the future, and kept focused on the present. For that reason, this object has appeared in unlikely settings as athletes, scientists, psychologists, authors, and other professionals have found uses for it beyond music. Metronome uncovers the surprising and fraught history of a timeless object.

In The Eye of God, a Sigma Force novel, New York Times bestselling author James Rollins delivers an apocalyptic vision of a future predicted by the distant past. In the wilds of Mongolia, a research satellite has crashed, triggering an explosive search for its valuable cargo: a code-black physics project connected to the study of dark energy—and a shocking image of the eastern seaboard of the United States in utter ruin. At the Vatican, a package arrives containing two strange artifacts: a skull scrawled with ancient Aramaic and a tome bound in human skin. DNA evidence reveals that both came from the same body: the long dead Mongol king Genghis Khan. Commander Gray Pierce and Sigma Force set out to discover a truth tied to the fall of the Roman Empire, to a mystery going back to the birth of Christianity, and to a weapon hidden for centuries that holds the fate of humanity.

Das vorliegende Fachbuch befasst sich mit Algorithmen und Techniken zur Gesichtsentdeckung sowie zur Gesichtserkennung bzw. Gesichtswiedererkennung. Das hauptsächlich behandelte Thema ist die Wiedererkennung von Personen aufgrund zuvor erlernter biometrischer Informationen. Einleitend wird der derzeitige Stand der Forschung präsentiert. Dieser Überblick behandelt sowohl 2D- als auch 3D-basierende Algorithmen zur Gesichtsentdeckung und Gesichtserkennung. Beispielsweise wird die Gesichtsentdeckung durch Bildreduzierung um Hintergrundinformationen, durch die Auswertung von Farbinformationen, durch Erkennung von Bewegungen und durch Geometrievergleiche beschrieben. Die leistungsfähige und heutzutage gängigste Gesichtsentdeckungsmethode, die Viola-Jones-Methode, wird eingehend diskutiert und als C++-Programmcode implementiert. Die theoretische Behandlung verschiedener Gesichtserkennungsalgorithmen, wie Erkennung mittels Hidden Markov Models, durch Elastic Bunch Graph Matching, mit Hilfe von 3D Morphable Models, durch 3D Face Recognition sowie durch Anwendung von Fisherfaces oder Eigenfaces, führt zur praktischen Gesichtserkennungsimplementierung. Dabei werden Gesichter in einem Webcam-Stream automatisch entdeckt, in den Graustufenbereich transformiert und aus der Aufnahme extrahiert. Die normalisierte Gesichtsabbildung wird an den Gesichtserkennungsteil der Software weitergereicht, der die Wiedererkennung bekannter Personen oder die Erlernung unbekannter Gesichter mit Hilfe des Eigenfaces-Algorithmus durchführt. Die selbst geschriebene Software wurde mit einem kleinen Set an Bildern von Personen getestet und erreichte dabei eine Erkennungsrate von 95,83 %. Das vorliegende Fachbuch beschreibt die Funktionsweise des Programms detailliert. Der C++-Code ist im Buch enthalten und bedient sich der frei erhältlichen Open Computer Vision Library.

A deluxe bind-up edition of Naoki Urasawa’s award-winning epic of doomsday cults, giant robots and a group of friends trying to save the world from destruction! Humanity, having faced extinction at the end of the 20th century, would not have entered the new millennium if it weren’t for them. In 1969, during their youth, they created a symbol. In 1997, as the coming disaster slowly starts to unfold, that symbol returns. This is the story of a group of boys who try to save the world. The war is over. The Friend is dead. Finally free from the threat of extinction, peace has come to the people of Tokyo once again. But the mystery surrounding the Friend still remains. Nobody knows who the Friend was or where he came from, and the only clue is hidden deep in the Kenji’s memories. The time has come to open Pandora’s box and see what was left behind.

Bridges the gap between AI and neuroscience by telling the story of how the brain came to be. 'I found this book amazing' Daniel Kahneman, Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics and bestselling author of Thinking Fast & Slow The entirety of the human brain's 4-billion-year story can be summarised as the culmination of five evolutionary breakthroughs, starting from the very first brains, all the way to the modern human brains. Each breakthrough emerged from new sets of brain modifications, and equipped animals with a new suite of intellectual faculties. These five breakthroughs are the organising map to this book, and they make up our itinerary for our adventure back in time. Each breakthrough also has fascinating corollaries to breakthroughs in AI. Indeed, there will be plenty of such surprises along the way. For instance: the innovation that enabled AI to beat humans in the game of Go - temporal difference reinforcement learning - was an innovation discovered by our fish ancestors over 500 million years ago. The solutions to many of the current mysteries in AI - such as 'common sense' - can be found in the tiny brain of a mouse. Where do emotions come from? Research suggests that they may have arisen simply as a solution to navigation in ancient worm brains. Unravelling this evolutionary story will reveal the hidden features of human intelligence and with them, just how your mind came to be.

I thought I understood power. My parents taught me that magic attracts equal danger, and everything I've seen since becoming a demon contractor confirms it. I've witnessed how power twists and corrupts--and I've tasted power no human should wield. I thought I knew greed. Ambition and avarice drove my family into hiding. My parents died for someone else's greed. I've never hunted anything in my life, but now I'm hunting their killer--with my demon's help. I thought I'd seen evil. But with each step closer to my parents' murderer, I'm uncovering a different sort of evil, piece by hidden piece. I've stumbled into an insidious web that silently, secretly ensnares everything it touches. My demon and I came as the hunters... but I think we might be the prey. -- From the author of The Guild Codex: Spellbound comes a new series that will plunge an unprepared young woman into the darkest magic of the mythic world.

I thought I understood power. My parents taught me that magic attracts equal danger, and everything I've seen since becoming a demon contractor confirms it. I've witnessed how power twists and corrupts--and I've tasted power no human should wield. I thought I knew greed. Ambition and avarice drove my family into hiding. My parents died for someone else's greed. I've never hunted anything in my life, but now I'm hunting their killer--with my demon's help. I thought I'd seen evil. But with each step closer to my parents' murderer, I'm uncovering a different sort of evil, piece by hidden piece. I've stumbled into an insidious web that silently, secretly ensnares everything it touches. My demon and I came as the hunters... but I think we might be the prey. -- From the author of The Guild Codex: Spellbound comes a new series that will plunge an unprepared young woman into the darkest magic of the mythic world.

Broken, violated, and left for dead. I might have been breathing the day I woke up in that hospital room, but they had killed everything inside me that mattered. With scars in my soul as deep as the ones on my skin, I craved revenge. And I took it. But as I lost myself in every faceless man whose blood stained my blade, the freedom I sought from my demons never came. Until him. Santino Leone fell for the girl I kept hidden behind a mask-the one whose jagged heart was never meant to be put back together but filled with all the sharp edges of his. He was safe with promises of a future I didn't know I deserved and a love I thought I'd never touch. But when my secrets unravel, and the monsters of my past come to collect, will we rise and reap what's owed or be delivered into the arms of death?

Sarah has been bound all her life-a spell cast on her during childhood keeps her from talking to strangers or having romantic relationships. But when she's drawn to Hidden Hollow, a gruff and growly Orc helps her unlock the mystery behind her strange dilemma. Can the two of them free Sarah from her enchantment? Or will the family curse hovering over her head get them both killed? Find out in this Spicy Monster Romance! Hi, I'm Sarah and my life is a mess. I lost my online job and my rent just doubled... Luckily, just when I was at my lowest point, a strange messenger came to my apartment. He had an envelope that contained my Grandmother's last will and testament. Only...I had forgotten all about her. How was that possible? I was about to find out. When a mysterious door appeared in my living room, I walked through it...and found myself in the world of Hidden Hollow--a snug New England town where it's inexplicably always Autumn. A magic bubble surrounds the town, making sure that no one without magic talent can come in. But where does that leave me? I don't have any magic...do I? Surprise-it turns out I'm descended from a long line of witches. At least, that's what the scary Orc who chased me through the backyard of my new house told me after he calmed down. Also there's a curse on my family and apparently I'm the one who's supposed to break it-but how? Who knows what Hidden Hollow holds for me? And should I be getting so close to the Orc next door? Are humans and Orcs compatible that way? I'd better find out quick because trouble is brewing and I'm going to need a man-or an Orc-to stand by my side when the storm breaks. Because in Hidden Hollow...anything is possible. *Tropes-Enemies to Lovers, Opposites Attract, Big Size Difference, He Falls First, Hero has two Peens, Br33ding. What you'll get in this Spicy Small Town Monster Romance: ``Slow burn with an actual plot that leads to extremely hot and spicy scenes ``Growly Orc who turns into a total protective Cinnamon Roll ``A town full of secrets including a Grocery Story that stocks some very unusual items `` All kinds of Creatures including Centaurs, Satyrs, Krakens, Gargoyles, Fairies, Witches and more

Broken, violated, and left for dead. I might have been breathing the day I woke up in that hospital room, but they had killed everything inside me that mattered. With scars in my soul as deep as the ones on my skin, I craved revenge. And I took it. But as I lost myself in every faceless man whose blood stained my blade, the freedom I sought from my demons never came. Until him. Santino Leone fell for the girl I kept hidden behind a mask-the one whose jagged heart was never meant to be put back together but filled with all the sharp edges of his. He was safe with promises of a future I didn't know I deserved and a love I thought I'd never touch. But when my secrets unravel, and the monsters of my past come to collect, will we rise and reap what's owed or be delivered into the arms of death?

In this powerful and unflinching novel, Amma Darko lays bare the hidden struggles of Ghanaian women in the 1980s, revealing the complex choices they face in pursuit of dignity and independence. When young Efia is sent from her rural village to work as a housemaid in Accra, she dreams of a better life. But her hopes are dashed as she becomes entangled in a web of exploitation and betrayal. At the centre of this web is Tika, a wealthy, self-made businesswoman whose rise from poverty came at a steep personal cost. Haunted by her past and driven by guilt, Tika takes Efia into her home, hoping to redeem herself by offering the girl a future. But in a society riddled with class divides and gendered expectations, both women must navigate a world where survival often demands sacrifice. Discover more from the APOLLO AFRICA series: the new home for 100 timeless works from the legendary Heinemann African Writers Series.

*** THE SECOND BOOK IN THE YOU SERIES, NOW A HIT SHOW ON NETFLIX *** YOU was a word of mouth bestseller around the world -- and now Joe Goldberg is back! Joe Goldberg came to Los Angeles to start over, to forget about what happened in New York. But in a darkened room in Soho House everything suddenly changed. She is like no one he's ever met before. She doesn't know about his past and never can. The problem is, hidden bodies don't always stay that way. Praise for You: 'THRILLER OF THE YEAR' Daily Mail 'I am RIVETED, AGHAST, AROUSED you name it. The rare instance when prose and plot are equally delicious' Lena Dunham 'Hypnotic and scary' Stephen King ' Brilliant thriller with attitude, guts and true insight into the nature of obsession' Sophie Hannah 'A fantastically creepy thriller.... The kind of book you put your life on hold for' Glamour 'Clever and chilling' Elle 'A brilliant tale ... It's Gone Girl meets a sinister version of Girls' Marie Claire 'An addictive thriller!' Closer

*** THE SECOND BOOK IN THE YOU SERIES, NOW A HIT SHOW ON NETFLIX *** YOU was a word of mouth bestseller around the world -- and now Joe Goldberg is back! Joe Goldberg came to Los Angeles to start over, to forget about what happened in New York. But in a darkened room in Soho House everything suddenly changed. She is like no one he's ever met before. She doesn't know about his past and never can. The problem is, hidden bodies don't always stay that way. Praise for You: 'THRILLER OF THE YEAR' Daily Mail 'I am RIVETED, AGHAST, AROUSED you name it. The rare instance when prose and plot are equally delicious' Lena Dunham 'Hypnotic and scary' Stephen King ' Brilliant thriller with attitude, guts and true insight into the nature of obsession' Sophie Hannah 'A fantastically creepy thriller.... The kind of book you put your life on hold for' Glamour 'Clever and chilling' Elle 'A brilliant tale ... It's Gone Girl meets a sinister version of Girls' Marie Claire 'An addictive thriller!' Closer