When an unexpected storm hits, the LEGO® City coast guard must save the day in this hilarious storybook. The weatherman predicts a beautiful, sunny day in LEGO® City, so everyone heads to the beach. The weather is perfect for surfing or scuba diving -- even the coast guard crew is enjoying some fun in the sun. But when dark storm clouds roll in over the ocean, it's up to the coast guard to spring into action and save the day!
Join the firefighters, paramedics, and police officers of LEGO(r) City as they race to save the day! Featuring an exciting range of brand-new 2016 minifigures and sets, this well-loved LEGO theme will capture kids' imagination as they begin to read. Nonfiction narratives packed with fascinating facts for children just beginning to read fluently with support. Carefully selected photographic images complement the text, providing strong visual clues to build vocabulary and confidence. Additional information spreads are full of extra fun facts, developing the topics through a range of nonfiction presentation styles, such as diagrams, activities, and spotter guides. LEGO, the LEGO logo, the Brick and Knob configurations and the Minifigure are trademarks of the LEGO Group. (c) 2016 The LEGO Group. Produced by DK Publishing under license from the LEGO Group.
Enter the exciting world of LEGO� The Batman Movie books filled with adventure and peril! This new book from the LEGO� The Batman Movie series is filled with exciting activities in Gotham City, where the good guys Batman and Robin battle against super-villains like The Joker, Catwoman, Mr. Freeze, Harley Quinn, Two-Face, Poison Ivy and Scarecrow. LEGO� The Batman Movie: Chaos in Gotham City includes all-action comic strips and fun puzzles to entertain all Batman fans. It comes with an exclusive Batman minifigure to collect! Other available LEGO� The Batman Movie books available from January 2017 include: LEGO� The Batman Movie I Am Batman! The Dark Knight's Activity Journal LEGO� The Batman Movie Choose Your Super Hero Doodle Activity Book LEGO� The Batman Movie Ready, Steady, Stick! Also available LEGO� DC Comics Super Heroes books include: LEGO� DC Comics Super Heroes The Otherworldly League (Activity Book with Superman minifigure) LEGO� DC Comics Super Heroes Enter the Dark Knight (Activity Book with Batman minifigure) LEGO� DC Comics Super Heroes Batman Ready, Steady, Stick! (Sticker Activity Book)
All aboard! Time to take a wild ride on the LEGO(R) Express train! When a famous actress loses her award statue on the LEGO Express, it is up to Mr. Clue to solve this action-packed and hilarious mystery-adventure!
A project-based approach to learning Python programming for beginners. Intriguing projects teach you how to tackle challenging problems with code. You've mastered the basics. Now you're ready to explore some of Python's more powerful tools. Real-World Python will show you how. Through a series of hands-on projects, you'll investigate and solve real-world problems using sophisticated computer vision, machine learning, data analysis, and language processing tools. You'll be introduced to important modules like OpenCV, NumPy, Pandas, NLTK, Bokeh, Beautiful Soup, Requests, HoloViews, Tkinter, turtle, matplotlib, and more. You'll create complete, working programs and think through intriguing projects that show you how to: Save shipwrecked sailors with an algorithm designed to prove the existence of God Detect asteroids and comets moving against a starfield Program a sentry gun to shoot your enemies and spare your friends Select landing sites for a Mars probe using real NASA maps Send unbreakable messages based on a book code Survive a zombie outbreak using data science Discover exoplanets and alien megastructures orbiting distant stars Test the hypothesis that we're all living in a computer simulation And more! If you're tired of learning the bare essentials of Python Programming with isolated snippets of code, you'll relish the relevant and geeky fun of Real-World Python!
In this third book of the acclaimed series, Percy and his friends are escorting two new half-bloods safely to camp when they are intercepted by a manticore and learn that the goddess Artemis has been kidnapped.
In the span of five violent hours on August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina destroyed major Gulf Coast cities and flattened 150 miles of coastline. But it was only the first stage of a shocking triple tragedy. On the heels of one of the three strongest hurricanes ever to make landfall in the United States came the storm-surge flooding, which submerged a half-million homes—followed by the human tragedy of government mismanagement, which proved as cruel as the natural disaster itself. In The Great Deluge, bestselling author Douglas Brinkley finds the true heroes of this unparalleled catastrophe, and lets the survivors tell their own stories, masterly allowing them to record the nightmare that was Katrina.
