Hedgehugs from author Steve Wilson and illustrator Lucy Tapper tells the sweet story of two hedgehog friends and their attempts to hug in spite of their spiky spines.

Horace and Hattie are hedgehogs, and the very best of friends. Together, they make daisy chains, splash in puddles, and have tea parties. But there is one thing they can't do--hug! They are just too spiky. Throughout the seasons, these two hedgehogs will try many different ways of hugging. But will Horace and Hattie find a hug that feels just right?

Large language models (LLMs) are not just shaping the trajectory of AI, they're also unveiling a new era of security challenges. This practical book takes you straight to the heart of these threats. Author Steve Wilson, chief product officer at Exabeam, focuses exclusively on LLMs, eschewing generalized AI security to delve into the unique characteristics and vulnerabilities inherent in these models.

Complete with collective wisdom gained from the creation of the OWASP Top 10 for LLMs list--a feat accomplished by more than 400 industry experts--this guide delivers real-world guidance and practical strategies to help developers and security teams grapple with the realities of LLM applications. Whether you're architecting a new application or adding AI features to an existing one, this book is your go-to resource for mastering the security landscape of the next frontier in AI.

You'll learn:

• Why LLMs present unique security challenges
• How to navigate the many risk conditions associated with using LLM technology
• The threat landscape pertaining to LLMs and the critical trust boundaries that must be maintained
• How to identify the top risks and vulnerabilities associated with LLMs
• Methods for deploying defenses to protect against attacks on top vulnerabilities
• Ways to actively manage critical trust boundaries on your systems to ensure secure execution and risk minimization

Son, there's more treasure buried right here In Oklahoma than in the rest of the whole Southwest. Those words from an old-timer launched Steve Wilson on a years long quest for the stones of Oklahoma's treasures. This book is the result.

It is a book of stories-some true, some legendary- about fabulous caches of lost treasure: outlaw loot buried in the heat of pursuit, hoards of Spanish gold dud silver secreted for a later day, Frenchmen's gold ingots hidden amid massive cryptic symbols, Indian treasure concealed in caves, and lost mines- gold and silver and platinum.

It tells about the earliest treasure seekers of the region and those who are still hunting today. Along the way it describes shootouts and massacres, trails whose routes are preserved in the countless legends of gold hidden alongside them, Mexicans' smelters, and mines hidden and sought over the centuries.

Among the chapters:

• ''The Secrets Spanish Fort Tells,
• Quests for Red River's Silver Mines,
• Oklahoma's Forgotten Treasure Trail, '
• Ghosts of Devil's Canyon and Their Gold,
• Jesse James's Two-Million-Dollar Treasure,
• The Last Cave with the Iron Door,
• and, perhaps most intriguing of all, The Mystery of Cascorillo-A Lost City.

This is a book about quests over trails dim before the turn of the century. It is about early peoples, Mound Builders, Vikings, conquistadors, explorers, outlaw, gold seekers. The author has spent years tracking down the stories and hours listening to the old-timers' tales of their searches.

Wilson has provided maps, both detailed modem ones and photographs of early treasure maps and has richly illustrated the book with pictures of the sites that gave rise to the tales. .

For armchair travelers, never-say-die treasure hunters, historians, and chroniclers and aficionados of western lore, this is an absorbing and delightful book. And who knows? The reader may find gold!

Hidden in the unforgiving earth of West Texas were clues: archaic clues etched upon buried rocks, stacked as artifacts upon other clues, or carved into rock walls. These centuries-old clues, placed to lead Spaniards back to their cache, eventually formed an intricate web that has lured treasure seekers and captured them in its mystery. But the question still remains: Has the Spider Rock treasure ever been found? Steve Wilson first began his research on the treasure in 1960. The story he unraveled is an incredible tale riddled with murder, mystery, and adventure. Wilson left no stone unturned in his quest for clues, weaving his story from numerous interviews with eyewitnesses, early newspaper accounts, letters, documents, extended reconnaissance of the actual sites, and finally the cryptic stone maps that had gradually been unearthed by the original seekers. The story involves several towns and counties in West Texas; including Rotan, Aspermont, Haskell, Fisher County, Stonewall County and one of the area's most prolific landmarks, the Double Mountains. On dogged treasure hunter was Dave Arnold, who appeared in 1902 with an intriguing sheepskin map. After months of searching, he unearthed the stone map called the Spider Rock, with its tantalizing spider web-like design, Roman and Arabic numerals, and cryptic symbols. Nearby he found silver epaulets, a Spanish sword, silver crucifix and copper plates bearing strange tracery. In 1905 he moved his search to a wilderness sixty miles southeast, and once again unearthed a beautifully carved stone map imprisoned in the roots of a huge oak. Still later, moving sixty miles west-northwest, he uncovered yet another stone map, bearing the same concentric circles and symbols that appeared on the first tow. Dave Arnold's bizarre quest unfolded over a decade, until he disappeared without a trace in 1914. The search was renewed a decade later by one of the original seekers. Then, in the 1930's, more clues were found, including crude smelter pits, small silver crosses and statuettes and nuggets of gold. The first two stone maps and many of the artifacts found near them were long believed destroyed in a 1909 fire at the Terrell Drug Store in Haskell, Texas. But the Terrell family had kept a secret for almost seventy years: that many of those ancient items survived. With them were map tracings, letters, and documents describing an extensive search. The third stone map turned up in Waco, where it had been used as a doorstop for more than half a century. The Spaniards buried something fantastic in the West Texas hinterlands, where they were mining precious metals. They marked those sites by an ingenious method of carving coded symbols, directions, degrees, and distances into stone. To this day, the stone maps remain undeciphered, the ancient puzzle unsolved, and the treasure unfound-so far as we know.

Design isn't just pushing pixels around a screen. Properly trained designers are thinkers and problem solvers that can anticipate an audience's needs and habits in any graphic. And with the average human attention span now at 8 seconds or less, a designer must be able to inform and entertain an audience in a short amount of time.But, in order to effectively reach your audience, you must learn the why of design before you can master the how. In the sports industry, design plays an important role in the success of any program. Yet, the gap between teams that value design and those that rely on staff with no formal design training is widening. This book offers tips, tricks and rules for those inexperienced designers, both in and out of the sports industry.So, let go of that mouse and let's learn about the WHY of sports design

Packed with sumptuous photography, this is one of the first titles in the new and lavish ' Deluxe' natural history series from Reed New Holland. The images celebrate the beauty and marvelous design of some of our most misunderstood animals, the reptiles. They share a magnificence and elegance that we are now beginning to really appreciate. They are, in the true sense of the word, awesome! The images have stories to tell. A gecko with padded toes dashes across vertical glass, seeming to mock the laws of gravity as it moves effortlessly over that smooth surface. In just a fraction of a second a chameleon unleashes its tongue, a high- velocity projectile, with the accuracy of a marksman to snatch an insect from a twig a body's length away. In a powerful test of strength and endurance, two great Komodo Dragons, the largest living lizards, rise on their hind limbs and try to topple each other in a meeting of muscles and scaly hides. Stunning shots of snakes, lizards, crocodiles and turtles from around the world are brought together via a foreword from expert herpetologist Steve Wilson, who explains why reptiles are such an ongoing success story, having been around for 200 million year

Hidden in the unforgiving earth of West Texas were clues: archaic clues etched upon buried rocks, stacked as artifacts upon other clues, or carved into rock walls. These centuries-old clues, placed to lead Spaniards back to their cache, eventually formed an intricate web that has lured treasure seekers and captured them in its mystery. But the question still remains: Has the Spider Rock treasure ever been found? Steve Wilson first began his research on the treasure in 1960. The story he unraveled is an incredible tale riddled with murder, mystery, and adventure. Wilson left no stone unturned in his quest for clues, weaving his story from numerous interviews with eyewitnesses, early newspaper accounts, letters, documents, extended reconnaissance of the actual sites, and finally the cryptic stone maps that had gradually been unearthed by the original seekers. The story involves several towns and counties in West Texas; including Rotan, Aspermont, Haskell, Fisher County, Stonewall County and one of the area's most prolific landmarks, the Double Mountains. On dogged treasure hunter was Dave Arnold, who appeared in 1902 with an intriguing sheepskin map. After months of searching, he unearthed the stone map called the Spider Rock, with its tantalizing spider web-like design, Roman and Arabic numerals, and cryptic symbols. Nearby he found silver epaulets, a Spanish sword, silver crucifix and copper plates bearing strange tracery. In 1905 he moved his search to a wilderness sixty miles southeast, and once again unearthed a beautifully carved stone map imprisoned in the roots of a huge oak. Still later, moving sixty miles west-northwest, he uncovered yet another stone map, bearing the same concentric circles and symbols that appeared on the first tow. Dave Arnold's bizarre quest unfolded over a decade, until he disappeared without a trace in 1914. The search was renewed a decade later by one of the original seekers. Then, in the 1930's, more clues were found, including crude smelter pits, small silver crosses and statuettes and nuggets of gold. The first two stone maps and many of the artifacts found near them were long believed destroyed in a 1909 fire at the Terrell Drug Store in Haskell, Texas. But the Terrell family had kept a secret for almost seventy years: that many of those ancient items survived. With them were map tracings, letters, and documents describing an extensive search. The third stone map turned up in Waco, where it had been used as a doorstop for more than half a century. The Spaniards buried something fantastic in the West Texas hinterlands, where they were mining precious metals. They marked those sites by an ingenious method of carving coded symbols, directions, degrees, and distances into stone. To this day, the stone maps remain undeciphered, the ancient puzzle unsolved, and the treasure unfound-so far as we know.

This book is a celebration of lizard-hood. It salutes a diversity of form and function unparalleled among terrestrial vertebrates, from apex predators capable of swallowing goats to limbless subterranean insectivores. In equal measure they thrive in a tropical paradise, a waterless terrain so bleak one wonders how anything survives, and the human domain, including domestic gardens and the ruins of past civilizations. The book ventures into how lizards exploit those disparate places, and author and photographer Steve Wilson's attempts to document them around the world. This book is born from journeys of discovery by the author. Quests for lizards and other reptiles have taken him to some of the world's extraordinary biodiversity hot-spots in Borneo, Madagascar, Costa Rica and the Galapagos Islands. He has also crisscrossed his native Australia many times, searching for lizards in deserts, rainforests and even peoples' back yards. From mighty Komodo Dragons in Indonesia to tiny anoles in the Americas, every lizard has a tale to tell, making this a must-read title for anyone who is passionate about reptiles or about wildlife in general.

The history of Earth can be explored through the sediments that cover its lands and the layers they've formed over time. How did they get there in the first place? The answer is erosion. Readers will explore this important earth science concept through this in-depth guide, which was written to support elementary science curricula. Readers will learn about the processes of erosion and weathering, sedimentary rocks, and the rock cycle. Age-appropriate text and colorful photographs make these concepts accessible for elementary science students.

Summer, 1985; In the cold waters near Kamchatka, an incoherent, injured man-the lone survivor of catastrophe-is found adrift, and a Soviet naval officer is faced with a mystery, one that will echo into the future. In the present, planes have been knocked from the sky, victims of some unknown device, and near the Aleutian Islands, a relic from Russia's past is found hidden beneath the waves. Is there some connection between these seemingly unrelated events? Marine Captain Michael Neill believes there is, and with scout sniper Nathan Crockett and Australian scientist Taylor Brisbane at his side, he sets off to defeat a new weapon-resurrected from the cold arsenals of the Soviet empire-to remove the veil of secrecy, and confront the EYE OF CHARYBDIS

Steve Wilson was inspired by the Lord to write about the love that God has for every person. A Spiritual Paradise offers testimony that shows the path to God's love and enables others to see the miracles that God performs through each of us. Wilson believes that to stand firm in hope, faith, and peace with Christ is to proclaim a profession of salvation-to absorb all that is possible from Heaven's glory. A Spiritual Paradise seeks to remove stumbling blocks, thus clearing the way to truth and life-to escape any sin that may abound. The voice of God directs us to discover ourselves by opening our hearts to a greater love-the love of Jesus Christ. We must build lives that honor God's love for us, and his son, Jesus Christ, insures that His is our inspiration to achieve all that Christ desires for us-to be like Him and more. The foundation for the churches we build to honor Him must be based true holiness and not only on what the pastor, elders, or others may believe. Each believer must build their own testimony. Many of us are knowledgeable, but everyone needs a guide to direct them to his or her spiritual life.

Long Range is back A special edition launched by Dr. Cicero Books, this reissue of the classic motorbike novel offers the full, unabridged book, in addition to an exclusive 2013 interview with the author. America as we know it is no more. In the west, a state called the Fief must depend on Hell's Angels, men ruled only by their own violent code of brotherhood, to protect them both from the Gypsies constantly threatening their borders, and from the East, a state that has failed to learn from the nuclear devastation and pursues an aggressiveness reminiscent of the days before the blast. When a scientist whose work promises the reclaiming of the vast Dead Lands decides he must take his discoveries out of the pugilistic East, the Fief sends three Angels to help him escape. Aboard their powerful hogs-motorcycles-the rescue party crosses the desolate plains to the Eastern fortress where he is held. Long Range, an Angel too young to know fear, leads them, which is good, because the world's meanest Gypsy, Bad Hand, who has sworn he'll wipe them out, is right on their tail. Bad Hand was once an Angel himself, but his brothers left him for dead, and now his madness and rage make him indestructible....

For nineteen straight years, the all-Hispanic boys' soccer team from Oregon's Woodburn High has made the playoffs. As they prepare to make it twenty, one thing will become clear: Los Perros play the beautiful game with heart, pride, and their lives on the line. Their spirited drive gives a rare sense of hope and unity to a blue-collar farming community that has been transformed by waves of immigrants over recent decades, a town locals call Little Mexico. Watched over by a south Texas transplant--a surrogate father to half the squad--this band of brothers must learn to come together on the field and look after each other off it.

More than just riveting sports writing, The Boys from Little Mexico is about the fight for the future of the next generation--and a hard, true look at boys dismissed as gang-bangers, told to go home by lily-white sideline crowds. The wins and losses they notch along the way spin a striking tale about what it takes to capture the American Dream.

POLAND'S PAST AND PRESENT COLLIDE IN AN EPIC QUEST FOR PEACE AND TREASURE In Central Europe, Poland has rejected plans for an anti-missile shield-until a threat from beyond their borders causes disaster. During testing, an Iranian ICBM veers off course with tragic results, and the Polish government turns to NATO-and the United States-for protection. With the defensive shield now back on the table, National Security Advisor Willis Avery envisions an even broader network of emplacements. His strategy depends on the cooperation of the breakaway states-and the help of Captain Michael Neill. Tasked as a liaison, it's Neill's job to convince the republics. He enlists the aid of an old friend, General Andrei Ulyanov-and, if he can keep her alive, dynamic and beautiful journalist Viktoriya Gavrilenko. The stage is set for increased tension when the Russians threaten an arms race. Avery is targeted, and along the way, Neill becomes caught up in the search for a lost religious icon, foretold by legend to restore the faith of a disheartened people . . .

As Liverpool FC attempt to win the league title for the first time in almost a generation, a group of supporters meet up at away matches throughout the season. However, at every game, something happens - cars are stolen, shops are broken into, women go missing and drug crime soars. Who in the group is involved, and can they be identified and caught before it is too late?

Over the years, I have seen more than a thousand football matches at locations across Britain and Europe, from grounds that were little more than park pitches to some of the world's best stadia. This volume details my initial visit to the first hundred of these grounds, with background information about the home club in each case. The visits cover the period from the early 1960s to almost the turn of the Millennium, as I have relished being a spectator at the wonderful game.

If you have no idea what financial budgeting means or how you need to create an effective plan, this guide helps you to take your first step towards making the right financial choices. This will help you learn how to save money for the rainy day. From prioritizing what matters to you along to planning ahead, it's important for you to take a step by step lesson so you do not leave any loopholes and create a financial plan that is strong and effective.Planning is really important because without a good plan you will not manage to save any money or achieve the goals you set out to do. It also comes in handy when you need to control your spending habits and learn how to save for emergencies and achieve the goals that you've always dreamt of achieving.Whether you need help with understanding how you have to pay off your loans and clear out all your debts or you need a strategy on how you can purchase your dream home, a budget helps you do it. There are various ways you can plan a budget but the kind of budget you choose plays a huge role in your life because that decides whether or not you will succeed over the years or if your budget will go out the window the minute you realize it's too difficult to live up to.If you want your budget plan to work, you can keep it simple and make the right decision so that it works in your favor. After all, this is one plan you might want to stick to for the rest of your life. The easier and more convenient it is, the more actively it will blend into your life and you will manage to apply it to all areas without any kind of struggle.From planning unexpected expenses to securing your future and ensuring that you cover your medical expenses, a budget always comes in handy. It also helps to curb unnecessary spending habits. It also helps you to figure out how to control the use of your credit card and limit your visits to the ATM or your bank. Take time in figuring out how to effectively incorporate the 50-30-20 budgeting rule or try applying a cash-only budget. This guide contains some interesting tips for people who have just started out with financial budgeting and for the people who have gone through most of life without a budget in place.Stay on the lookout for some interesting tips on how to ensure your budget doesn't fail and how to reduce your expenses with a limited budget even when there is no room for you to save any money. Begin your journey of budgeting today and become a secure individual. It's all about the right choices at the right time and in the right manner.

Some shapes roll...some don't.
Some shapes stack...others won't.

A companion to the hardcover book Shapes That Roll, this activity book invites kids to draw their own shapes and use them to make unique objects and scenes. Text from the book is paired with fun activities that will encourage kids to use their creativity and express themselves artistically. Reinforcing the concepts creatively presented in Shapes That Roll, this book contains 54 pages of interactive activities that will delight children and keep them busy for hours.

Questions lie at the heart of Steve Wilson's latest collection, Complicity. In poems that wander confidently across a wide range of subjects, places and voices, Wilson works at making sense through musicality, within the movement of lines, upon the interplay of empty space and evocative images, against the pressures of isolation. The effect of Complicity is that we are watching a world being made.

T.J. Goes Fishing

By: Steve Wilson

About the Author

Author Steve Wilson was raised on a creek farm in South Central Kentucky. Steve has always been an avid outdoorsman, from hunting and fishing to scouting and hiking. His passion for fishing began at an early age, fishing with a cane pole in the creek and farm ponds for sunfish, bluegill, bass, catfish, and redeyes. As a Boy Scout Leader for over thirteen years, he saw firsthand how being in the outdoors and fishing can impact young lives. Steve is married and has seven children; him and his wife and three of the children reside on a small farm in south central Kentucky and spend their time outdoors and enjoying nature. He is a lifelong Baptist and worked as a special local peace officer, volunteer firefighter, and an emergency medical tech for thirty-three years. He has also been a singer and songwriter since he was a teenager; he has written many gospel and country songs and played in a local bluegrass band called Area Code 606.

It is Wilson's hope that T.J. Goes Fishing will encourage children of all ages to put down their cell phones and video games and get out and enjoy the great outdoors and experience Mother Nature firsthand. It is his wish that this book will inspire children and parents alike to reconnect with nature and enjoy activities such as fishing and to be able to put aside the cares of everyday life and soak up all the goodness that family, friends, and the great outdoors has to offer, if only for a little while.