Head first algorithms and data structures

What will you learn from this book? Successful software engineers all have this in common: They're fluent in the language of algorithms and data structures. Head First Algorithms and Data Structures is your gateway to becoming a part of this dynamic world. Guided by the expert insights of Eric Fr...

Disabilities, pleasures, and sexualities

Individuals with disabilities demonstrate remarkable resilience, agency, and creativity in their sexuality and parenting. This volume challenges stereotypes and reimagines sexual expression, recognizing, affirming, and celebrating the reality that disabled people already live full and fulfilling ...

Data engineering design patterns

Data projects are an intrinsic part of an organization's technical ecosystem, but data engineers in many companies continue to work on problems that others have already solved. This hands-on guide shows you how to provide valuable data by focusing on various aspects of data engineering, including...

Ai agents with mcp

Since its release in late 2024, Anthropic's Model Context Protocol (MCP) has redefined how developers build and connect AI agents to tools, data, and each other. AI Agents with MCP is the first comprehensive guide to this rapidly emerging standard, helping engineers unlock its full potential with...

Aligning instructional design with business goals

Evaluation-oriented instructional design that delivers business results. Rethink how to design training instruction to meet bottom-line business goals. With his eight-step framework for measurement and evaluation-focused instructional design, Kristopher Newbauer offers a straightforward process f...

Comptia linux+ study guide

While most operating systems come and go, Linux has steadily become the backbone of modern computing. The CompTIA Linux+ certification is the industry's most respected vendor-neutral credential, and the XK0-005 exam is your gateway to earning it. This study guide is a comprehensive learning solut...

Women writing in india: 600 b.c. to the present, v

These ground-breaking collections offer 200 texts from eleven languages, never before available in English or as a collection, along with a new reading of cultural history that draws on contemporary scholarship on women and India. This extraordinary body of literature and important documentary re...

Data science for business

Written by renowned data science experts Foster Provost and Tom Fawcett, Data Science for Business introduces the fundamental principles of data science, and walks you through the "data-analytic thinking" necessary for extracting useful knowledge and business value from the data you collect. This...

The new carbon architecture

In The New Carbon Architecture, discover biomimicry-inspired innovations in construction – from wooden cities to mycelium insulation – that pull carbon from the atmosphere, heal the climate, and produce safer, healthier, and more beautiful buildings.

Leading with wisdom

In Leading With Wisdom, Jann Freed takes the several years she spent interviewing more than 100 respected leaders, and distills their advice into eight practices that underpin leaders who connect and inspire others to achieve high performance. She takes the words of heavyweights such as Warren Be...

High performance spark

Apache Spark is amazing when everything clicks. But if you haven't seen the performance improvements you expected or still don't feel confident enough to use Spark in production, this practical book is for you. Authors Holden Karau, Adi Polak, and Rachel Warren walk you through the secrets of the...

Henry v: the 30-minute shakespeare

Azure fundamentals (az-900) study guide

Cloud computing is no longer just a buzzword but a crucial skill set for today's professionals. The ability to navigate the complexities of cloud technologies and understand the Azure environment is a significant advantage. Whether you're starting your tech journey or looking to solidify your fou...

Aligned

Product management naturally incorporates empathy, psychology, and thinking outside the box in pursuit of the best design for products. But how often do you apply those same skills to your relationships with people in your company? By breaking the art of stakeholder management into simple lesso...

Angela davis

Featuring a new introduction by the author, Angela Davis: An Autobiography is a classic account of a life in struggle.

Fundamentals of devops and software delivery

This book is a guide to DevOps and software delivery: that is, a guide to the numerous tools and techniques that are required to take that application code and run it and maintain it in production, where it can generate value for your users and your company on an ongoing basis. This includes goin...

Earth shattering

Topical anthology of over two hundred poems addressing environmental destruction from ancient times up to the present.

Designing distributed systems

Every distributed system strives for reliability, performance, and quality, but building such a system is hard. Establishing a set of design patterns enables software developers and system architects to use a common language to describe their systems and learn from the patterns and practices deve...

Dumbing us down - 25th anniversary edition

John Taylor Gatto's radical treatise on public education, a bestseller for 25 years, continues to advocate for the unshackling of children and learning from formal schooling. Now, in a changing world with an explosion of alternative routes to learning, it's poised to continue to shake the world o...

Engineering leadership: the hard parts

Whether they're building a startup or scaling an established org, engineering leaders know the real job is keeping chaos under control. In a world of shifting priorities, scarce resources, and rapid change, leadership means embracing the unknown, managing moving targets, and creating clarity wher...

Directions for use

A rich embroidery of frank sexuality and lyric images from award-winning Serbian poet

Composing olana

The first and only book devoted to the landscape Frederic Church designed at Olana—what he considered his greatest work of art—timed to coincide with the bicentennial of his birthModelled on her acclaimed On the High Line (now in its third edition from Fordham University Press), Composing Olana u...

Ingeniería de ia (spanish edition)

Los recientes avances en IA no sólo han aumentado la demanda de productos de IA, sino que también han reducido las barreras de entrada para quienes quieren crear productos de IA. El enfoque del modelo como servicio ha transformado la IA de una disciplina esotérica en una potente herramienta de de...

The shrinking goddess

For centuries, wild and strange stories have been told about the female body. Some empowering, many absurd, these myths have not only endured but continue to shape perceptions of women today.The Shrinking Goddess explores this legacy, gathering global tales about the female form and revealing how...

Revolution today

Susan Buck-Morss highlights new forms of international solidarity and revolutionary subjectivity that can break the impasse of neoliberal capitalism and reactionary nationalism.

A call to action part 2

A Call to Action Part 2 turns the spotlight from systems and policy levers to the human, cultural, and relational forces that determine whether DEI efforts thrive, stall, or collapse.

Earthquake engineering for resilience

Earthquake Engineering for Resilience introduces a multi-scale framework for assessing seismic vulnerability and improving resilience across structures, communities, and infrastructure. It combines research and practical applications across engineering, urban planning and disaster-risk management.

A finer future

Humanity is in a race with catastrophe and charting the course to a regenerative economy is the most important work facing the world. A Finer Future gathers the evidence and delivers the essential blueprint for an economy that works for people and the planet.

Certified kubernetes administrator (cka) study guide

The ability to administer and monitor a Kubernetes cluster is in high demand. Those who want to demonstrate their credibility and value in the job market hold the Cloud Native Computing Foundation's Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) certification—proving they can confidently work in a Kube...

The answer / la respuesta (expanded edition)

New materials in the classic bilingual literary and critical edition of extraordinary Mexican 17th-century feminist nun.

How to conduct productive meetings

An essential guide for facilitating productive, decisive meetings.Meetings are well-known time-wasters that often produce no meaningful business results. How to Conduct Productive Meetings enables anyone to plan and facilitate a fruitful, decisive meeting. Assess whether a meeting is actually...

Ux skills for business strategy

Today's design leaders and UX professionals are faced with a growing challenge: How do you choose the right UX skills to meet critical business goals, while proving their value to stakeholders? This book presents your solution, offering a clear, actionable framework for linking UX decisions direc...

Wolf season

The war comes home in a searingly compassionate story about the wounds inflicted on soldiers, refugees, and their families

A day in the life of a senior leader

Everyone knows that senior leaders have extraordinary demands on their time. Their stamina, decisiveness, and high-wire balancing of resources, people, and priorities can seem superhuman. In this book, Michael Lopp, a senior leader at companies such as Slack, Pinterest, and Apple, brings the day-...

The anarchy of black religion

Drawing on the black radical tradition and black feminism, J. Kameron Carter examines the philosophical, theological, and religious history that animates our times to theorize religion as a central feature of settler colonialism and racial capitalism.

10 steps to successful budgeting

Calculate for Business SuccessThe budgeting process may produce anxiety, but it can be managed. The keys are planning, organization, documentation, preparation, and follow-up. The essence is plan first, budget later.10 Steps to Successful Budgeting walks you through the fundamentals, explaining y...

Fundamentals of software engineering

What do you need to know to be a successful software engineer? Undergraduate curricula and bootcamps may teach the fundamentals of algorithms and writing code, but they rarely cover topics vital to your career advancement. With this practical book, you'll learn the skills you need to succeed and ...

Europe in revolt

A gripping and authoritative account of the uprisings against extreme austerity that have shaken Europe.

Paul t. frankl | autobiography

The never-before published memoir of design pioneer Paul T. Frankl, known for his Skyscraper furniture and work for Hollywood elite.

Ai-assisted python for nonprogrammers

It's hard to exaggerate Python's popularity: It's used for everything from data science to servers to the web. It's also famously "easy" to learn. However, learning to program in Python can still be a frustrating experience. AI-Assisted Python for Nonprogrammers is designed to give you the contex...

The torture machine

A warrior for the people, Flint Taylor has spent nearly fifty years fighting for justice, from the courtrooms of Cook County to the US Supreme Court.

A stranger in olondria

Jevik travels to the city of Olondria where he is overtaken by a ghost from his past.

Making women's history

The only collection of work by a groundbreaking historian.

1919

Reflections on race, class, violence, segregation, and the hidden histories that shape our divided urban landscapes.

Advanced sql

SQL is no longer just a querying language for relational databases—it's a foundational tool for building scalable, modern data solutions across real-time analytics, machine learning workflows, and even generative AI applications. Advanced SQL shows data professionals how to move beyond convention...

The comedy of errors: the 30-minute shakespeare

An abridgement for performance by young people and amateur adults, “road tested” at the Folger Shakespeare Library’s Student Shakespeare Festival.

Pale faces

The Bellevue Literary Press Pathographies series debuts with a fascinating journey through the history of medicine.

The effective software engineer

The software engineering landscape is constantly evolving, and the demands on engineers intensify with each technological and methodological shift. In such an environment, being a good coder isn't enough—true effectiveness goes beyond technical skills. This book is designed as a guide for indivi...

La bastarda

This coming-of-age story from Equatorial Guinea chronicles a teenage girl’s quest to find out who she is.

Modern chinese architecture

This is a clear, accurate, readable survey of the dramatic transformation of Chinese architecture from 1840 through 2020. It narrates the change from a predominantly timber-frame tradition to construction in twisted steel and ecologically sensitive local materials. The book places the buildings i...