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Welcome to Cat and Stoat's magic variety shop! Meet the different forest animals visiting the shop as you color the pictures, or step through the magic door to explore fascinating new countries! From magic ingredients and recipes to beautiful, glittering jewels and ornaments and delicious buns and pastries fresh from the oven, this coloring book is full of exciting illustrations. With every new page, enjoy a delightful new fairy-tale object or the start of a little adventure.

There are many mysterious illustrated guidebooks on Rabbit's secret bookshelf. When you turn their pages, you'll find the door to a fantasy world…Won't you come along with Rabbit on a search for some adorable fantasy objects? Fill them with the colors you see in your imagination!

This book takes a detailed look at the creative process of 10 famous professional artists. Learn about their layer composition, the brushes they used, and color choices down to the RGB values.
Go into even finer detail through the bundled videos that show more complex coloring touches. A Q&A answers the questions you may have about illustration. This is a must-read for those who need more motivation!

We heard your call for a guide to creating background art, so here's the second volume of our popular illustration technique guides!
Our in-depth explanations demystify background drawing techniques so you'll feel more confident handling them. From layer setting details to which brushes to use for different effects and more, we clear your doubts and answer your questions with thorough breakdowns of the tools and techniques used by pro background artists.
Contains many works by popular illustrator Seiji Yoshida.

This new edition of our highly acclaimed book first published in 2018 was updated for relevance to current camera and photography trends. With the help of ample illustrations and images,it provides easily understood yet detailed explanations of what changes a photo and how.
It covers the knowledge essential for starting photography, from basic camera and lens knowledge to shooting techniques such as light, color, and composition.

The availability of ChatGPT's API has spurred firms and engineers to compete to develop their own chatbots and other LLM applications. LangChain, a Python library, improves the efficiency of such development efforts. This book provides tutorials that introduce you to the various features of LangChain in detail via hands-on applications.

Even beginners can create eyecatching 3D projects! With clear breakdowns of Blender's features and efficient modelling techniques by popular YouTuber M design, this fun, easy-to-understand introduction gives you a solid foundation in Blender basics. Do one project a day and you'll find yourself completing a miniature room in 10 days! It's also full of examples such as desserts and characters that you'll want to create on your own. Comes with a bonus instruction video so even beginners can easily follow along.

Produced under the supervision of Zeshu Takamura, a professor at the Fashion Department of Bunka Gakuen University, this book provides ample knowhow hot from the frontlines of fashion drawing education. Pick it up and take your first step ino the world of fashion drawing!

This book contains 74 motifs categorized into 5 chapters: food, animals and living things, people and fashion, nature and transport, and furniture and lifestyle goods, and include standard drawings as well as more playful ones.
The dot drawings were created using EDGE (freeware ver.1.29)

Located in central Italy, Florence is the capital city of the Tuscany region and known for its charming historical streets and buildings. Experience a real, authentic side of life there through the 202 images and essays in this book, which were personally shot and written by the writer and photographer, who have both lived in Florence for over 20 year. From the street corners to festivals and practices, seasonal flowers and food, catch a glimpse of everyday life in Florence and Tuscany throughout the seasons.

In this second book in the "Through the Seasons" series, we visit Southern France. Delight in 213 images and essays that show everyday scenes in the different towns and villages in the Provence and Cote d'Azur regions. See life throughout 7 seasons: early spring, spring, early summer, midsummer, autumn, midautumn, and winter, and learn about the area's seasonal flowers, festivals and holidays, and local culinary delights including seasonal foods.

The Desert Rabbit is a war-themed manga series that chronicles the battles of Fairyland Kingdom filled with girls and women in the Northern African frontier during World War II.
More than half of Fairyland Kingdom’s population is female, and there are also many demi-humans and aliens. This is reflected in its army, which is made up of mostly women and aliens.
To protect its overseas territories, the Kingdom has joined the Northern African battlefront on the side of the Allies and is now under attack by the Republic of Romagna (Italy). What kind of fate will the Fairyland Kingdom Army meet?
What will happen to main character Meia and Flower?
The Fairyland saga ends here!

You can create fluffy whipped cream and thick cream cheese without using cream, just milk!
Popular chef Bonchan-sensei, whose YouTube channel "Bonchan's Cooking Class" has over 180,000 followers, shares how to make his viral milk-based whipped cream and cream cheese as well as some dessert recipes that use them.

You don't have to give up creamy desserts even if you're on a dairy-free diet! Popular chef Bonchan-sensei's second recipe book shares how to make whipped cream and cream cheese from soy milk, as well as some other tremendously satisfying desserts that use them. Bonus: all recipes use rice flour instead of wheat flour!

A scientific analysis of why fire behavior has changed in recent years. We look into changes to architectural styles, fireprogression, flashover mechanisms, and the relationship between flames, smoke, and temprature. This firefighter's bible will be useful not just for rookies who have completed initial training, but also captains, commanders, and other veterans of fire brigades.

Aircraft carriers eclipsed battleships as the core of naval power during World War II, and continue to maintain their status as "King of the Sea" even today. This book explores the aircraft carriers and aircraft carrier task forces owned and used by various navies around the world, from the time the first vessel in the world was built by the British to current developments. A definitive guide to aircraft carriers.

This book by Japan's leading Italian military researcher contains 21 stories that describe the battles of the Italian military on land, sea, and air and the efforts of the remarkably brave Italian engineers during World War I and II. The stories are accompanied by many valuable photographs and illustrations. It also features an in-depth look at 8 unique vehicles developed and assembled by Italy, including tanks, armored cars, trucks, and motorcycles. A must-have book for fans of the Italian military and war history.

During World War II, some of the U-boats (submarines built by the German navy) left the main battleground, the Atlantic Ocean, and served in the Indian Ocean, Pacific Ocean, and even all the way to the Far East. Some vessels were even transferred or requisition to serve under the Imperial Japanese Navy. This book tells us the unknown stories of these U-boats from U511/ Ro-500, which was transferred to the Imperial Japanese Navy as "a gift from Hitler", to U183, rumored to have participated in the Battle of Okinawa, U862/ I-502 which was dispatched to faraway New Zealand, and U168 which was said to have sunch due to a "honey trap" in the Dutch Indies.

This book covers all about the history of submarines in Japan. Learn about the Kuroshio, the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF)'s first submarine; the evolution from the "Oyashio" type that were the first Japan-made submarines postwar to the latest "Taigei" type; and even about submarine rescue ships and tenders starting from the first-generation "Chihaya", which are crucial to submarine deployment. This update from the previous 2014 edition features updated content that provides more details about the history of the JMSDF, which boasts the most advanced technology in the world.

In this book, learn about how to differentiate two crucial aspects of Japanese swords, "hamon" (blade pattern) and "jigane" (blade material) with the help of many detailed photographs of actual swords. You will gain a deep understanding not just of the different kinds of hamon, but even of in-blade variations such as subtle "utsuri" (reflections on the blade material), "nie" (small distinct crystalline particles), and "nioi" (indistinguishable crystalline particles).

A book of French-style recipes by Toyoo Tamamura, essayist and renowned gourmet.
"1 drink" refers to wine, and "three dishes" refer to an appetizer, main course (meat and potatoes), and salad. The recipes in the book reflect Tamamura's philosophy that "It's not a meal if you don't enjoy it": they allow you to eat delicious meals you love every day, so you will have no regrets even if it were your last supper!

From Tokyo to Yamanashi and back: an authentic account of life at the two bases.
This is a long-awaited book compilation of the author's "Essays about Life on the Mountain", her first-ever collection of personal accounts.! From admiring seasonal colors and plants, experiencing life in the immigrant community, and delighting in seasonal local flavors, to being at the mercy of unexpected troubles such as battles with insects and malfunctioning septic tanks, to the trials and tribulations of working online, to considering medical and nursing care resources while desicing on a "final home"...These 24 stories provide insight that will never appear in magazines promoting mountain living!

Chapter 1: "Time" in physics - How do physicists treat time?
Chapter 2: The beginning of time - The origins of the universe
Chapter 3: The end of time - Is the end of the universe approaching?
Chapter 4: The tools of time - Clocks have changed the way people live
Chapter 5: The time around us - Is 1 day always 24 hours?

Ranunculus: The flower that bloomed wishing for a friend's happiness.
Anemone: The flower that was waiting for a gentle breeze to blow.
Choosing flowers becomes more fun when you understand the meaning behind flowers. This book introduces flower language, myths and legends from around the world, and stories and anecdotes from classical literature and poetry using the flowers available at your nearby flower shop.. It also shares some practical content related to the flowers (such as spells and how to to incorporate them into daily life).

Enjoy coloring the most famous scenes in Murasaki Shikibu's The Tale of Genji!
Besides an introductory overview of the story, this book is also an enriching trove of information about the Heian dynasty and its world view, particularly its approach to costumes (colors and matters), herbs, and events.

This book was written for young engineers and students in the colleges of technology who are embarking on research for their graduation thesis. It explores the currents state of and issues surrounding CAE education in colleges of technology, and explains flaw detection testing methods that apply electromagnetism (eddy current flaw detection and leakage magnetic flux flaw detection), magneto-optical imaging, and efforts to advance the social implementation of future technologies.

Planning experiments is essential in scientific research. However, in recent years have seen the adoption of "adaptive experiment design" methods, which use data to repeatedly generate and verify hypotheses. Bayesian optimization is one such method that has gained much attention.
This book provides a detailed explanation of the theory and algorithm of Bayesian optimization, from the basics to application. It also introduces how to implement the algorithn using the Optuna black box optimization software.

In a narrow sense, "Galois theory" is proof that the necessary and sufficient condition for an equation to be algebraically solvable is that the Galois group corresponding to the equation is a solvable group. This book aims to prove this, and explains the necessary theorems and propositions in detail. A must-have book designed to help you gain deeper understanding of Galois theory by learning about proofs and their methods through the answers to questions and practice problems in each chapter.

A long-awaited collection of Show Wesugi's song lyics!
Contains a total of 141 songs, which are further demystified in self liner note interviews.
A hot topic since its limited release during a tour, this complete lyrics collection is now available throughout Japan. Enjoy every song Wesugi wrote under WANDS, al.ni.co, Nekodama, and as a solo performer, along with his own stories about them!

The definitive absolute beginners guide for people who have never touched a classical guitar in their lives. Rather than aiming for concer-ready perfection, there is just one objective to this book: have fun: we have made an effort not to use difficult terms. You also don't have to read this book in order: flip the pages, try out anything that looks interesting, and feel free to skip parts that are too difficult! Comes with a CD.

Chitose Funabashi, a journalist who works in the Yokohama branch office of a newspaper, has an ambition: to earn a transfer to the Society desk of the main office as soon as possible. To achieve that, she will do anything to get a scoop. One day, nearly forced into intimate relations with one of her scoop targets, a district prosecutor, she escapes with the help of a man who happened to be nearby, sparking a chain of events that makes her rethink her goals.

Ryoko Kisaki works in a small, shorthanded app development firm, hoping to eventually achieve her dream. Swamped with work while putting up with a toxic boss who mistreats employees, she was physically and emotionally drained--until one night where she encounters the delectable aroma of food on her way home, and follows it to Banshu (Midnight Bell), an eatery located in a traditional folk house. There, in the comforting, nostalgic interior, she is greeted by a man with a gentle smile...
Thus begins a heartwarming love story, nurtured through healing moments found amid the hustle and bustle of everyday life.

This is the story of a kind cat that makes onigiri. (rice balls)
She has a small onigiri stand in a park.
With kind eyes, she makes onigiri diligently every day.
Her customers buy the onigiri and relax on the park bench.
A children's literature piece in the form of a manga.

The Onigiri Cat Story continues in this second book.
She has a small onigiri stand in a park.
With kind eyes, she makes onigiri diligently every day.
The onigiri stand's customers come with empty stomachs and slightly empty hearts, but as they nibble on the onigiri while sitting on the nearby bench, their stomachs and hearts are filled and they go back happier with more energy.