Books

When you buy this book, you will get access to the Companion Resource Library, which includes:High-resolution versions of all figures featured in this volume.Curated educational videos from leading universities, research organizations, and trusted science communicators that complement the topics covered in this book.Additional companion resources and updates as they become available.

Discover the raw spiritual electricity and profound human story behind an American icon. Spanning over 43,000 words, this immersive biography traces the journey of a boy from Mississippi who broke the boundaries of genre, took over the airwaves, and permanently altered the frequency of modern culture. Meet the man behind the myth.

AWS Amplify Gen 2 makes it possible to build full-stack applications on AWS using a modern TypeScript-first workflow. This book takes you from the basics of setting up an Amplify project to deploying scalable production systems, covering authentication, data modeling, serverless backends, AI integrations, security, and cost optimization along the way. Packed with hands-on examples and real-world patterns, it is designed for developers who want to spend less time managing infrastructure and more time building software.

Whether you're writing your first automated test or building a large-scale testing platform, Mastering Playwright takes you from the fundamentals to advanced, production-ready automation techniques. Through practical examples, proven design patterns, and real-world guidance, you'll learn how to create fast, reliable, and maintainable test suites that scale with your applications and your team.

A visual journey through the world of Large Language Models. Learn how modern AI systems work using diagrams, mental models and simplified explanations—without getting lost in unnecessary complexity

What happens when AI agents move beyond chatbots and become part of our bodies, ecosystems, cities and even space infrastructure? Explore a collection of futuristic AI concepts through visually rich infographics that imagine the next evolution of intelligent systems.

Secrets are the foundation of modern infrastructure, yet they remain one of the most common and underestimated security risks. Secrets at Scale offers a practical guide to managing credentials, API keys, certificates, and other sensitive data across today's software environments. Through real-world examples, hands-on tutorials, proven implementation patterns, and operational best practices, the book helps engineers, DevOps practitioners, platform teams, and security professionals build secure and scalable secrets management programs throughout the software delivery lifecycle.

Twenty-One Lives. One Soul. One Destiny. Sophia's world changes forever when she discovers a mysterious journal that knows her name centuries before her birth. Haunted by strange memories and drawn to an immortal man who has searched for her across lifetimes, she becomes trapped in a mystery older than history itself. As forgotten memories awaken and ancient secrets emerge, Sophia and Leonardo must uncover the truth behind a lost civilization, a broken cycle, and a love that refuses to die. Some promises survive time. Some souls never forget. And some stories are destined to last forever.

My book is out. Not a SQL tutorial. Not a beginner's guide to databases. It's for the person who writes queries every day and still wonders — why did that take 4 seconds? Why did those two records overwrite each other? Why did the system collapse under load when everything looked fine? My Database as a Developer. 8 chapters. Real answers.

Build production AI agents in C# and .NET 10 with the Microsoft Agent Framework — from your first ChatClientAgent to multi-agent systems, multimodal vision, and a hosted, observable, safety-filtered production app. Nineteen chapters and 60+ runnable projects, all on the stable MAF 1.11 release. Written for developers who'd rather build than read another blog post

Quantum computing is no longer a distant research topic—it is a platform you can build on today. Quantum Applications on AWS Braket is a practical, code-first guide that takes you from your first quantum circuit to advanced hybrid algorithms running on real quantum hardware. Through hands-on Python examples, you'll learn how to design, execute, optimize, and deploy quantum applications with AWS Braket while mastering the concepts that matter most to developers.

When a control loop must learn instead of obeying hand-written rules, how do you trust what it decides? From Trial to Policy shows you how to build an interpretable reinforcement-learning agent from first principles, where every decision lives in a readable Q-table rather than a black box. Every concept is wired to a live, zero-install NEXUS-1 console in your browser, so you don't just read about reinforcement learning — you watch it learn, inspect every choice, and understand exactly why the policy recommends what it does.

For agencies & freelancers: Promote your services with ease, clarity, and confidence.Practical advice on growing a brand that’s focused on you (the owner), your team, and the relationships you form with your clients. It fills the void between personal branding and corporate branding, when neither of them really fits your needs.