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Author Mary-Frances Winters
This is the first book to define and explore Black fatigue, the intergenerational impact of systemic racism on the physical and psychological health of Black people—and explain why and how society needs to collectively do more to combat its pernicious effects.Black ....
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Inside Your Customer's Imagination
Author Chip R. Bell
“Chip Bell's unique perspective, lively illustrations, and practical advice result in one terrific resource for anyone eager to tap a customer's ingenuity for creating breakthrough results.” —Jeanne Bliss, founder and CEO, CustomerBliss; and cofounder, Customer Ex....
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Author Jeff DeGraff , Staney DeGraff
“Jeff and Staney emphasize that small acts of creativity can have huge consequences and that ordinary people can do extraordinary things if they can see the opportunities in front of them.”—Mitch Jacobson, Executive Director, Austin Technology Incubator, UT Blacksto....
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The Anatomy of Peace, 3rd Edition
Author The Institute Institute
From the authors of Leadership and Self-Deception, which sold over 2 million copies, this new edition explores how we misunderstand the causes of our conflicts and shows us the paths to achieving true peace within ourselves, in our relationships, and even between na....
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The Extraordinary Power of Leader Humility
Author Marilyn Gist
“This inspiring book belongs on the desk of every CEO and politician. With eye-opening case studies and recommended behaviors in every chapter, it's an indispensable user guide for servant leaders.”—Ken Blanchard, coauthor of The New One Minute Manager and coeditor....
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Author Edward D. Hess
“Ed Hess's Hyper-Learning is uniquely practical and is the essential starting point for charting new ways of thinking, living, working, leading, and being fulfilled in our new world.” —Gary Roughead, Admiral, US Navy (retired) former Chief of Naval Operations The D....
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21 Technologies for the 21st Century (Part 3: The Future is Knocking)
Author Tim O'Reilly
The future of Silicon Valley is in the past. The next great wave of innovation won’t come from the industries that led the previous one. In part three of his essay series, 21 Technologies for the 21st Century, Tim O’Reilly explains why the next challenge—climate change mi....
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Predictive Analytics for Healthcare
Author Jaquie Finn , Gavin Troughton , Paul Baxter
Before the onset of COVID-19, the healthcare community was already moving to meet the challenges of a growing global population. By collecting record amounts of clinical data electronically and making significant progress on neural network-based AI approaches, the industr....
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Author Dean Wampler
The use of distributed programming is increasing. High availability requires multiple machines and often multiple data centers. Machine learning and AI models are run as parallel tasks on clusters to reduce training time. But distributed programming has always been hard t....
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Author Carl Allchin
For self-service data preparation, Tableau Prep is relatively easy to use—as long as you know how to clean and organize your datasets. Carl Allchin, from The Information Lab in London, gets you up to speed on Tableau Prep through a series of practical lessons that include....
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Author Derek DeJonghe
Alongside its popular web server, NGINX provides a dynamic application server that supports a RESTful JSON API. The open source NGINX Unit server deploys configuration changes without service disruptions and runs apps built with multiple languages and frameworks. This upd....
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Author Aileen Nielsen
Fairness is an increasingly important topic as machine learning and AI more generally take over the world. While this is an active area of research, many realistic best practices are emerging at all steps along the data pipeline, from data selection and preprocessi....
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Analytical Thinking for AI and Data Science
Author Daniel Vaughan
While several market-leading companies have successfully transformed through data- and AI-driven approaches to business, the vast majority have yet to reap the benefits. How can your business and analytics units gain a competitive advantage by capturing the potenti....
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Author Matthew J. Coles , Izar Tarandach
Threat modeling is one of the most essential—and most misunderstood—parts of the development lifecycle. Whether you’re a security practitioner or application developer, this book will help you gain a better understanding of core concepts and how to apply them to yo....
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Author Jennifer Davis
Early system administration required in-depth knowledge of a variety of services on individual systems. Now, the job is increasingly complex and different from one company to the next with an ever-growing list of technologies and third-party services to integrate. ....
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Leadership in a Time of Continuous Technological Change: Align, Strengthen, and Mobilize Your Team
Author Bar Schwartz
Digital technology is rapidly challenging the way we do business, interact with our communities, and learn about the world. Due to this, leading change in your digital organization now comes with unprecedented tools and platforms to make your teams the most effective they....
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Practical TensorFlow.js: Deep Learning in Web App Development
Author Juan De Dios Santos Rivera
Develop and deploy deep learning web apps using the TensorFlow.js library. TensorFlow.js is part of a bigger framework named TensorFlow, which has many tools that supplement it, such as TensorBoard, ml5js, tfjs-vis. This book will cover all these technologies ....
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The Complete ASP.NET Core 3 API Tutorial: Hands-On Building, Testing, and Deploying
Author Les Jackson
Use this ASP.NET Core API tutorial and straightforward step-by-step guide to build, test, and deploy an ASP.NET Core API to Azure. It will help you code confidently and efficiently, and provides just what you need for context. The book starts with detailing how....
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CompTIA Security+ Certification Study Guide: Network Security Essentials
Author Ahmed F. Sheikh
Prepare for the CompTIA Security+ certification exam that covers the skills required to perform core security functions and pursue a career in IT. You will learn the basic principles of network security. Computer network vulnerabilities and threats are covered and yo....
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Author Eberhard Hechler , Martin Oberhofer , Thomas Schaeck
Your company has committed to AI. Congratulations, now what? This practical book offers a holistic plan for implementing AI from the perspective of IT and IT operations in the enterprise. You will learn about AI’s capabilities, potential, limitations, and challenges....
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Introducing Bootstrap 4: Create Powerful Web Applications Using Bootstrap 4.5
Get introduced to front-end CSS frameworks using the latest version of Bootstrap. Through easy-to-follow instructions and examples, this book will prepare you to create powerful web applications using Bootstrap 4.5.This updated second edition of Introducing Bootstrap 4 builds your understanding of t.... -
Author Rahul Sahay
Use this invaluable study companion and hands-on guide to help you prepare for the AZ-300 and AZ-303 certification exam and get well on your way to becoming an Azure Solutions Architect.The book starts with an overview of public, private, and hybrid clouds and then goes i....
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Author Abhijit Mohanta , Anoop Saldanha
Discover how the internals of malware work and how you can analyze and detect it. You will learn not only how to analyze and reverse malware, but also how to classify and categorize it, giving you insight into the intent of the malware. Malware Analysis and Detection Engi....
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Firewalls Don't Stop Dragons: A Step-by-Step Guide to Computer Security and Privacy for Non-Techies
Author Carey Parker
Rely on this practical, end-to-end guide on cyber safety and privacy written expressly for a non-technical audience. You will have just what you need to protect yourself—step by step, without judgment, and with as little jargon as possible. Just how secure is your compute....
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Practical JAMstack: Blazing Fast, Simple, and Secure Web Development, the Modern Way
Author Frank Zammetti
Learn what JAMstack is all about, what those three big letters in the front mean and why it’s so beneficial. This book shows you how to create sites and apps on the JAMstack using GatsbyJS, a tool made specifically for generating them. As part of that, you’ll ....
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Understanding Oracle APEX 20 Application Development: Think Like an Application Express Developer
Author Edward Sciore
This book shows developers and Oracle professionals how to build practical, non-trivial web applications using Oracle’s rapid application development environment – Application Express (APEX). This third edition Is revised to cover the new features and user interface exper....
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Implementing Effective Code Reviews: How to Build and Maintain Clean Code
Author Giuliana Carullo
The ideal code review process differs from organization to organization, but the needs all boil down to the same foundational factors. A software development team cannot properly grow if its code reviews are not consistent, straightforward, and aspire to hit several compa....
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Building a Career in Software: A Comprehensive Guide to Success in the Software Industry
Author Daniel Heller
Software engineering education has a problem: universities and bootcamps teach aspiring engineers to write code, but they leave graduates to teach themselves the countless supporting tools required to thrive in real software companies. Building a Career in Software is the....
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Beginning Android Games Development: From Beginner to Pro
Author Ted Hagos , Mario Zechner , J.F. DiMarzio
Do you have an awesome idea for the next break-through mobile gaming title? This updated edition will help you kick-start your project as it guides you through the process of creating several example game apps using APIs available in Android. You will learn the ....
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The Chief Data Officer Management Handbook: Set Up and Run an Organization’s Data Supply Chain
Author Martin Treder
There is no denying that the 21st century is data driven, with many digital industries relying on careful collection and analysis of mass volumes of information. A Chief Data Officer (CDO) at a company is the leader of this process, making the position an often daunting o....
Release Date 2020/09