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This book, aimed at readers with some programming experience, will provide you with what you need to learn the new language. Written in easy-to-understand English rather than technical jargon, the book takes readers first through the fundamentals of essential topics. Later chapters fill in more advanced nuances.Covers Swift 2The book's coverage of Swift 2 includes full chapters on Error Handling and on Protocol Oriented Programming, two of its major advances. The talk on Pro...

A frank and inspiring guide to living a happy, fulfilling life with the challenge of a mental health issue.A Better Life is a rich blend of Craig Hamilton's own amazing story of how as a busy broadcaster, dad, husband and mental health campaigner, he lives with bipolar. Craig also shares the experiences of others in the public eye who are dealing with mental illness, including powerful and practical material from Andrew Johns ( bipolar disorder), Garry McDonald ( anxiety a...

The universe is dangerous, wondrous—a vast canvas upon which humanity sketches its hopes for the future.In this anthology, you'll find seventeen tales of conflict and heroism, exploration and discovery, endurance and triumph. Flee the apocalypse of modern-day Earth, fly a fighter in the cold emptiness of deep space, and find new life on the distant shores of an alien world. You might even discover something about yourself as each author opens a window on the soul o...

Virtual Reality systems enable organizations to cut costs and time, maintain financial and organizational control over the development process, digitally evaluate products before having them created, and allow for greater creative exploration. In this book, VR developers Alan Craig, William Sherman, and Jeffrey Will examine a comprehensive collection of current,unique, and foundational VR applications in a multitude of fields, such as business, science, medicine, art, entertainment, and pu...

When Oliver Naughton joins the Tenth Avenue Writers Underground, headed by literary wunderkind Wilson Knight, Oliver figures he’ll finally get some of his wild imaginings out of his head and onto paper.But when Wilson takes an intense interest in Oliver's writing and his genre stories of dragons, aliens, and spies, things get weird. Oliver’s stories don’t just need to be finished: they insist on it.With the help of Minerva, Wilson’s girlfriend, Oliver has to find the connec...

Flight is freedom, but death hangs in the skies...Taya soars over Ondinium on metal wings. She is an icarus, a courier privileged to travel freely across the city's sectors and mingle indiscriminately amongst its castes. But even she cannot outfly the web of terrorism, loyalty, murder, and intrigue that snares her after a daring mid-air rescue. Taya finds herself entangled with the Forlore brothers, scions of an upperclass family: handsome, brilliant Alister, who sits on Ondinium's...

Designed to obey, learning to rebel . . . In the first book in a visionary new series, the most perfect synthetic human ever created has been programmed to obey every directive. Until she develops a mind of her own . . . Synthia Cross is a state-of-the-art masterwork-and a fantasy come true for her creator. Dr. Jeremiah Machten is a groundbreaker in neuro-networks and artificial intelligence. Synthia is also showing signs of emergent behavior she's not wired to understand. Repeatedly wiped...

From Slave to SaviorAart has lived his whole life a slave. Only hours after finding freedom, he is stranded on a planet where emotions are bought and sold... and stolen.Criminals are forcibly 'harvesting' the population. When a gang of thugs steal Aart's greatest emotions, he can no longer stand idly by.Aart must fight against the injustice and find his place in the universe.

Conryu has his life all figured out.At least until the final day of school arrives and with it the annual wizard's test.When Conryu passes the test, no one can believe it since everyone knows boys can't do magic.Suddenly thrust into a world of magic and danger, Conryu must figure out how to use his news powers and quickly.He soon finds himself on the run from a mad religious cult and hunted by a group of wizards that view a man wielding magic as the worst ab...

Generation Robot covers a century of science fiction, fact and, speculation―from the 1950 publication of Isaac Asimov’s seminal robot masterpiece, I, Robot, to the 2050 Singularity when artificial and human intelligence are predicted to merge. Beginning with a childhood informed by pop-culture robots in movies, in comic books, and on TV in the 1960s to adulthood where the possibilities of self-driving cars and virtual reality are daily conversation, Terri Favro offers a u...

In an ancient world of sand and splendor, an empire awakens.Aelar, a mighty nation, spreads its tentacles. Its oared galleys storm the seas, and the waters run red with blood. Its legionaries swarm desert ruins, smiting barbarian hordes. Its crosses line the roadsides, displaying the dying flesh of heroes.The Aelarian Empire rises. The old world falls.The powerful Sela family has avoided the empire until now. The family has carved out an idyllic life between sea and...