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Most organisations are trying to fix the wrong things. This book names the dysfunctions they keep running into and explains, through Open Systems Theory, why they keep coming back.

You tried Emacs. You quit. You're back. This time, you'll finish — with a keyboard-driven setup you built yourself, understand completely, and will use for life.

A companion book for implementing Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. Targeted end-users, super-users and administrators, this book covers many of the challenges you're faced when implementing a cloud-based ERP system. From setting up the system and creating the first company to user customizations and integration. Updated to 2026 Wave 1 v28.

This book covers every topic in the latest CISA exam syllabus, approaching topics from the ISACA perspective. It's 400+ pages, organized in a format following the syllabus that makes it easy to drill down on specific exam domains and concepts at-a-glance, making it an essential exam resource for anyone who aims to prepare for the CISA exam without wasting time or money.

An introduction to philosophy for software engineers and architects that will help them understand their design process. This book helps to answer the question “Why are we like this?”.

The deepest tutorial and explanation about EventStorming, straight from the inventor.

A practical, code-first guide to building production-ready AI agents and multi-agent systems in C# with Microsoft Agent Framework, Microsoft.Extensions.AI, tools, context, orchestration, observability, workflows, and enterprise-ready patterns.

Stop debating code style. Start engineering code. Every developer brings personal preferences. Every AI tool channels different training examples. The result? Inconsistent codebases, endless code reviews, and technical debt that compounds silently. Java Backend Coding Technology introduces a radical idea: reduce the space of valid choices until there's essentially one good way to do most things. Not through rigid frameworks, but through a small set of patterns that make structure predictable, refactoring mechanical, and business logic visible. The code you write, your teammate writes, and your AI assistant generates will look the same -- because the patterns leave no room for subjective variation.

Turn data into decisions. Data Visualization Using Tableau for Data Scientists shows how interactive visuals, analytics, and storytelling come together to make complex data understandable, actionable, and impactful.

Your C# skills are worth more today than they were a year ago — if you know how to put a language model in the loop. This book shows you how, with the Microsoft Agent Framework: real tools, RAG, multi-agent orchestration, plus the hosting, observability, and safety that separate a demo from a system you ship. Nineteen chapters. 120 runnable projects. No Python detours. Just C# and .NET 10.

1000 carefully designed C++ problems across 8 progressive volumes — from your very first line of code to advanced algorithms. Every single solution is compiled and tested on g++, with hints, complexity analysis, and a clear explanation for each. A complete, structured path from beginner to mastery.

Master modern Delphi from the ground up and build software that’s ready for the real world. From Object Pascal and VCL to FireMonkey, FireDAC, REST, concurrency and testing, this hands-on guide shows you how to write clean, maintainable applications with RAD Studio 13 Florence, backed by practical examples and proven techniques.

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Your company's answers are already written down. This book builds the machine that finds them.