Books

World Models for AI Agents is a technical guide to building agents that can do more than react to prompts. Instead of treating memory as a loose collection of context fragments, this book presents world models as structured, evolving representations of state, time, entities, actions, and consequences.The book connects modern agent design with memory architectures, knowledge graphs, temporal reasoning, and planning. It explains why retrieval alone is not enough for long-horizon tasks, how graph-based memory can serve as an explicit world model, and why persistent agents need more than short-term context to remain coherent over time.Topics include episodic and semantic memory, temporal knowledge graphs, belief states, action-conditioned reasoning, planning under partial observability, and the path from memory continuity to agent identity.Written for AI engineers, researchers, and system architects, this book offers a practical conceptual framework for designing agents with persistent memory, better reasoning, and more reliable long-term behavior.

Actionable Agile Metrics for Predictability is a comprehensive guide on how to use flow metrics and analytics to get the predictability your customers crave.

This book will show you how to effectively use Ableton Live's capabilities to produce music, enhancing the standard of your musical endeavors and enabling you to confidently include production methods in your music projects.

Takes you from “how to use Kotlin” into “how Kotlin really works,” revealing the internal implementations, desmifying bytecodes and compiler behavior, and internals that shape the language. If you want to write smarter, more confident Kotlin across fundamentals, coroutines, and multiplatform. Hardcover | ISBN: 979-8243872744 [Course] Practical Kotlin Deep Dive Course

Quantitative finance in Python: a hands-on, interactive look at the QuantLib library through the use of Jupyter notebooks as working examples.

The demand for skilled data science practitioners in industry, academia, and government is rapidly growing. This book introduces concepts from probability, statistical inference, linear regression and machine learning and R programming skills. Throughout the book we demonstrate how these can help you tackle real-world data analysis challenges.

Get up to speed with C++20 and its most impactful features.

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Ever wonder why things get harder over time? You were only taught half of coding. Learn the other half and reverse code rot.

C++20 is the next big C++ standard after C++11. As C++11 did it, C++20 changes the way we program modern C++. This change is, in particular, due to the big four of C++20: ranges, coroutines, concepts, and modules.

Python development has changed fast, and keeping up with new tools is a challenge. Modern Python Development in 2026 is a practical guide to package management, testing, code quality, performance, CI/CD and security, helping you choose the right tools and modern workflows for any Python project.

Build Intelligent Java Applications with RAG, MCP and Al Agents, based on Spring AI 2.0.0

The Windows 11 Field Guide is a full-length e-book about the latest version of Microsoft Windows, aimed at those users who will upgrade from Windows 10 or acquire Windows 11 with a new PC.

This 2025 edition of Docker Deep Dive is a true masterpiece. The best-selling Docker book is up-to-date with the hottest Docker technologies and the latest industry trends. This edition includes a brand-new chapter on Docker Model Runner for fast, private LLM-based apps. You won't find a better and more up-to-date book on Docker. Hand-crafted and kept up to date over the past 9 years by best-selling author Nigel Poulton.