Books

THE PAST BUILT THEM.THE TRUTH COULD DESTROY THEM. Every decision has consequences. Every secret has a cost. In Blue Water City, nobody ever gets away from their history. BLUE WATER CITYA story of survival, secrets, and the price of truth.

Plain-language explanations, Java implementations, and step-by-step visual walkthroughs help you connect the problem, the code, and the changing state of the data. Every algorithm is printed in full color, so rows, columns, regions, and changing values stand apart at a glance and are easy to trace. 

Build a real compiler from the ground up with Rust. Follow the journey from source code to native x86-64 machine code as you design Lumina, explore optimization and register allocation and tackle the practical challenges that come with building a production-quality compiler.

Most people use AI. Few understand how far they can take it. AI Levels gives you a practical roadmap from prompting and everyday AI use to workflows, agents, specialized systems, and AI building—one skill at a time.

63 درسًا عمليًا من عشرين عامًا في الريتيل، تساعدك على تحسين تجربة العميل، وقيادة الفريق، وإدارة المخزون، واتخاذ قرارات أوضح كل يوم.

What if mathematics has been hiding in plain sight all along?A snowflake, a flower, a melody, a crowded street, a city map, a social network, or even a recommendation on your phone — they may seem completely unrelated. But underneath them are patterns, structures, probabilities, and mathematical ideas that quietly shape the world around us.Patterns We Don’t See is an accessible journey into the mathematics of everyday life. You won’t find pages of complicated formulas or a traditional textbook approach. Instead, you’ll discover why certain shapes appear in nature, how music is connected to mathematics, why coincidences feel so surprising, how cities and social networks can be understood as mathematical systems, and how algorithms and artificial intelligence learn to recognize patterns.Written from the perspective of a young engineering student, this book grew from a simple habit: looking at ordinary things and asking, “Where is the mathematics here?”The answer turns out to be: almost everywhere.If you have ever thought that mathematics was only about equations, Patterns We Don’t See invites you to look again.The world hasn’t changed. Only the way we look at it has.

Costruisci da zero un archivio documentale completo con Django 6.1, HTMX e ricerca per significato con pgvector, fino alla messa in produzione.

Avoid the governance and workforce-trust mistakes that sink most digital VSM pilots Written for plant managers, industrial engineers, and Lean practitioners in manufacturing — including leather, footwear, and other high-mix discrete production — this is a practical field guide, not a hype-driven AI manifesto. Every technique is scoped to what a mid-sized manufacturer can actually build, validate, and trust. Includes a 90-day quick-start worksheet, a sample data dictionary template, and a vendor-neutral technology checklist. The map still serves the people on the floo

Ingress-NGINX is retired and about half of all clusters still run it. This is the step-by-step playbook for moving production traffic to Kubernetes Gateway API: a verified annotation-by-annotation map (including every no-equivalent case and its workaround), a decision matrix for nine implementations, inventory scripts, zero-downtime cutover and rollback runbooks, and twelve before/after manifests validated against the real CRD schemas.

A practical presentation skills handbook designed to help professionals, students, and entrepreneurs communicate with confidence. Learn how to create better presentations, engage audiences, reduce speaking anxiety, and deliver clear, memorable messages.

63 short, practical retail lessons drawn from twenty years of experience. Improve everyday decisions in store operations, customer service, team leadership, and sales.

Nature's Wisdom, Humanity's Future: Nature, Culture, Science, and AI for Disaster Resilience and a Sustainable WorldWhat if the key to surviving tomorrow's disasters lies in remembering yesterday's wisdom?In this groundbreaking work, Dorendra Bahadur Thapa presents a bold new vision for disaster resilience—one that connects ancient knowledge with modern intelligence. Moving beyond conventional emergency response, the book introduces "Resilience Intelligence," a framework that unites nature, culture, Indigenous knowledge, science, technology, and artificial intelligence into one living system.

AI 越来越会回答、会行动，但下一种真正重要的智能，会不会是"发现"？《当 AI 开始发现》借 AlphaEvolve、自驱实验室、自动证明与世界模型，带你看见智能的一次转向。

Your feed handler parsed every test message correctly. Then a real exchange dropped two packets on an ordinary Tuesday, and the book kept building, internally consistent and wrong.Nothing crashed. Nothing threw. Four minutes of bad quotes went out before anyone noticed.This book is about that gap: the distance between a parser that works and a feed handler you can trust. You will build zero-copy FIX, ITCH, and OUCH parsers with no heap allocation on the hot path, detect sequence gaps without stalling live traffic, recover from outages without corrupting book state, and prove the result with byte-identical replay.If your system has never lost a sequence number in testing, you do not have a feed handler. You have a demo.Weston Ashgrove is a trading systems architect who has built and debugged the failures in these pages.

Sleep is the ultimate luxury, but what if you could physically bottle and sell your deepest rest to the highest bidder? For exhausted immigrant Sunil Sharma, extracting his sleep into a miraculous, restorative liquid brings untold wealth—until he realizes he is inadvertently selling off his most precious memories. What the Night Takes is a haunting sci-fi novella exploring the brutal commodification of the human soul and the terrifying price of modern convenience.