Books

A complete solo camping and bushcraft guide covering fire, shelter, water, cooking, foraging, minimal gear, safety, and Leave No Trace principles.

Most asyncio tutorials introduce async and await on page one and ask you to take the runtime on faith. This book does it the other way around. You build a working event loop inthirty lines of plain Python — no asyncio import — and meet the keywords as labels for parts of a runtime you have already watched run. By the end, async Python stops beingintimidating and starts being readable.

Is your cat's behavior leaving you baffled? Discover how to step outside your human perspective, understand their wild instincts, and build a bond based on mutual trust and respect.

Big O is not about seconds. It is about what happens to your work when your input gets ten times bigger, and that is the question interviewers are really asking. This book builds the notation from a list of names you can watch being searched, then hands you twenty everyday jobs in ten pairs and asks you to name the shape of each one.

Vector databases give you a similarity metric, an index with four tuning parameters, acompression option and a way to filter — and almost no guidance on what any of it costs. This book builds each one from scratch and measures it. The proximity graph, the invertedfile, the product quantiser: implemented in NumPy, included with the text, and checkedagainst exhaustive search — so every recall figure here is exact rather than estimated.

Both parts of the Transition Playbook in one 139-page volume: the mental models, the orchestration patterns, and two 30-day plans for moving from writing code to directing agents.

A clear, illustrated walkthrough of how live television is made — from newsroom decisions to control room execution — designed for curious learners and senior-friendly reading.

Four MCP servers installed end to end without a terminal, plus a troubleshooting decision tree and five workflows to run the day you finish.

Supabase wired into Claude and Cursor over MCP, with RLS designed for agent access, service_role blast radius contained, and ten failure modes diagnosed.

Measure where LLM context costs accumulate, then cut them with deduplication, summarization, truncation and cache exploitation, with a cost model that shows the ROI of each.

A virus does not live, but evolves. An idea does not breathe, but spreads. In this pylon — entities that have code, but no body. And the question that cannot be left unanswered: what makes code alive? .

Master Spring Boot from the ground up and learn what it takes to build software that is ready for the real world. From Java fundamentals to secure microservices, testing and production deployment, this practical guide turns modern Spring Boot concepts into skills you can confidently put to work.

A machine can hand you a grouping that is confident, stable, internally consistent, and seven times worse than the one it found a moment earlier. Nothing in the output says so.This book works k-means through completely on twelve bakery customers, small enough that every number is printed and checkable. You will build the method from nothing, see exactly where it succeeds, and see exactly where it fails silently.Fifty-eight figures, every one captured from a running implementation.

The PMP examination is changing, and if you are preparing from July 2026 onward, you need to prepare for the examination you will actually face. The PMP Exam Prep Master Guide 2026–2027 Edition brings together more than 1,900 practice questions, detailed explanations, six full-length mock exams and three additional online mock exams. It is built to help you understand the material, think through situational questions, strengthen your judgement and prepare across predictive, Agile and hybrid approaches, as well as AI, sustainability, value and outcomes.