Books

How epidemics travel as waves, from Fisher-KPP wave existence and minimum speed derived via phase-plane analysis, and then tied to disease spread and persistence.

Master the complete production-ready Edge AI pipeline. Learn to optimize, quantize, and deploy deep learning models under 50KB on microcontrollers—completely offline.

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is powering more enterprise workloads than ever, and this practical guide helps you get the most from it. Covering core infrastructure, networking, security, automation, AI, analytics and disaster recovery, it gives architects, administrators, developers and DevOps professionals the skills to design, deploy and manage solutions on OCI.

Enemies by blood. Connected by secrets. Bound by a love that refuses to break. In the dangerous world of the Moretti family, trust is a luxury and betrayal is a death sentence. When two hearts collide amidst hidden truths, deadly rivalries, and impossible choices, they must decide whether love is worth risking everything. Will their love survive the secrets that could destroy them both? Some hearts are made of glass. Theirs are bulletproof.

Unlock the hidden potential of your engine with nitrous oxide (NOS) systems, one of the most powerful and precise performance enhancers available. This volume provides a comprehensive, engineering-focused guide to safely installing, tuning, and optimizing nitrous systems for maximum performance and reliability.

From Prompt to Autonomous Agent is a practitioner’s guide to building AI systems that actually run in production – written for engineers who build things that need to work at 3am, six months after launch.The book teaches twelve levels of agentic AI architecture using a single, unbroken running example: a job failure in AWS Glue that requires a root cause diagnosis. This same system evolves over the fifteen chapters - from a single API call in Chapter 1 to a Society of Agents deliberating over a novel multi-factor failure in Chapter 12. You don’t just know what each pattern is by the end. You know what it is for, how much it costs, and what it gives you over the level below.Each chapter focuses on a single pattern: the Basic Responder, the Router, Tool Calling, Memory Augmentation, the Autonomous Agent, Reflective Self-Critique, Human in the Loop, Planning, Multi-Agent Coordination, Tool Building, Hierarchical Orchestration, and the Society of Agents. Each chapter has working code (one file, under 100 lines, no dependencies other than the Anthropic SDK) and a Failure Museum - a catalogue of real production failures with the signal, the cause, and the fix.The final section, Production and Craft, covers what most AI books entirely skip over, how to make agentic systems observable, how to protect them with cost guardrails, how to build fallback chains that degrade gracefully, and how to evaluate them with enough discipline that you know they're working before your users tell you they aren't.The book is for data engineers, backend engineers, and ML engineers who are done with demos and ready to ship. Requires Python fluency and engineering judgement. No prior knowledge of AI research, math or language models is assumed.The examples are in Python and use the Anthropic SDK because that’s where real systems live. They are based on real AWS infrastructure , EventBridge, Glue, Lambda, Bedrock, Snowflake, OpenSearch.The core principle runs through all the chapters: the right level is always the lowest level that can reliably handle your problem. This book will show you how to figure out what level that is.

Most product organizations don't fail for lack of ideas — they fail because nobody designed the system connecting strategy to execution. This practitioner's field manual shows product leaders how to align strategy, governance, discovery, and culture at scale, with real cases from Lagos to London to San Francisco.

In Parramatta’s glowing community hall, love is not whispered in secret but roared under southern stars. When Indian-Australian couples turn their everyday battles—over barbecues, WiFi passwords, and parking spots—into high art, laughter, tears, and profound wisdom collide in a feast of cultural fusion.

Turn data into intelligent decisions. Discover how machine learning works and learn to build predictive models using Python and Scikit-Learn. From data preprocessing and visualization to classification, regression, clustering, and model evaluation, this practical guide helps you develop real-world machine learning skills.

Artificial Intelligence is reshaping the future. Are you ready to build it? Discover the complete journey from neural networks and deep learning fundamentals to generative AI, large language models, computer vision, and reinforcement learning—all with Python. Learn how to create intelligent systems, develop real-world projects, deploy production-ready models, and explore the technologies driving the next generation of innovation. Deep Learning with Python is your practical guide to mastering modern AI.

When a license renewal lands at 567% of last year's bill, renting your infrastructure stops being a strategy. This is the escape tunnel: a complete production build of Apache CloudStack 4.22 LTS — KVM, Ceph, OS10 leaf-spine — across a three-city UK estate, written by an engineer with 32 years of building the real thing. Own your cloud down to the last packet.

Let’s be brutally honest - the tech industry in 2026 is a bloodbath. Open up LinkedIn or your news feed, and it’s a non-stop loop of layoffs, downsizings, and panic over AI stealing human jobs. If you are a QA engineer right now, it is completely normal to have a knot in your stomach.If your daily routine consists of mindlessly running manual regression test cases from dawn to dusk and updating endless Excel sheets — your clock is ticking. But for the smart ones? This chaos is the single greatest career leverage of your life.Many old-school tech gurus will comfort you by saying, "AI can never replace a manual QA’s human eye!" Believing that means living in a fool's paradise.Let's look at the cold, hard logic: when AI shrinks an automation engineer's workload to one-tenth of the time, those technically superior engineers aren't going to sit idle. They will aggressively pivot to manual exploratory testing too.Companies are actively hunting for "T-shaped" all-rounders — professionals who are blazing fast with automation, sharp as a tack with manual testing, and comfortable handling CI/CD pipelines.In this playbook, I am dropping the exact blueprint I designed for my "Manual Testing to AI-Powered QA Engineer" framework. This guide focuses on cutting out the fluff and maximizing efficiency. You will learn how to take your manual QA skills from zero to hyper-efficient using AI, allowing you to buy back your time and crush the competition. Core Features of This Playbook: Visual Workflows: Clean, intuitive diagrams to grasp complex testing workflows instantly.High-Impact Highlights: Bold takeaways designed for rapid referencing when you are on the job.Actionable Practice Sets: Real-world exercises at the end of each section to lock in your new superpowers.

A structured introduction to the foundations of civil, criminal, and business law. This book breaks down essential legal principles in a clear and accessible way, helping readers understand how the law functions in real-world situations. Designed for students and independent learners building their first strong foundation in law.

"This fourth volume of Reflections by Swami Purnananda is a deeply spiritual and healing book. Each thought and prayer offers the reader a chance to be immersed in stillness. The poems are effortlessly profound, prayerful and yet relatable. Each piece nourishes the seed of contemplation and gives the opportunity to let the mind explore the theme at a slow and gentle pace." Sister Stanislaus ''Stan'' Kennedy SCMC MSc

"In the quiet moments of our lives, we often find ourselves searching for something deeper, something more profound than the everyday routines that occupy our days. It is in these moments of reflection, when we turn our thoughts inward, that we discover the timeless yearning for faith, peace, light, nature, truth, and the enduring quest for meaning. This volume of daily reflections and prayers is a treasury of words that strives to capture the essence of this profound journey." Adrian Cristea Executive Officer of the Dublin City Interfaith Forum