Commander Jonathan Radec is a man desperately trying to escape from the mistakes of his past.Now the owner of Vanguard Shipping, his primary concerns are trying to keep his ships flying and his crew alive. However, the shadowy Syndicate organisation has set their sights on the Commander and his business, having sent a beautiful assassin to kill him. To make matters worse, she's become the target of his infatuation, much to the dismay of his ex-girlfriend. Recently elevated to Presi...

Your circuit works on the breadboard. Now learn the concepts that turn it into a board ready for production.Moving from a breadboard to a finished circuit board introduces a new set of constraints. Parts need footprints, traces compete for room, and connectors have to fit, all within the manufacturer’s design rules. A mistake that’s a quick fix on a breadboard means another fabrication run once it’s committed to copper.With Practical PCB Design, yo...

A fun-packed space adventure – with lots of funny details for little readers to spot, and a BIG fold-out rocket ending!Buckle up and blast into space with Ivy the inventor, and her trusty canine sidekick, Eddie...But when Ivy meets some very messy aliens, can she help them clean up their planet?And, of course, help them fix their super-duper hundred decker rocket?!A brilliantly inventive story with a subtle message about keeping our p...

Every nation tells itself a story about why it succeeds or fails. Some blame geography, others blame culture, and still others blame historical misfortune. But these stories share a common flaw: they are wrong. Geography did not change dramatically between 1950 and 2000, yet South Korea raced past North Korea from identical poverty to become one of the most advanced economies on earth. The colonial histories of Singapore and Sierra Leone are nearly identical in origin, but their trajectori...

Brad is beaten down by life. He can barely make ends meet and he cannot find any joy in life, until he meets an older gentleman at an automotive repair shop one day. This man teaches Brad how to find real joy and peace in life, by submitting to Jesus. Brad is reluctant at first, but the more he leans in to His will, the more positive Brad’s life becomes.

You have been told a lie about job security your entire career. The lie is simple and seductive: if you work hard, stay loyal, deliver results, and keep your head down, your employer will take care of you. This lie persisted because it felt true for a generation that watched their parents collect pensions after thirty years of service. But that world no longer exists, and pretending it does is the fastest way to make yourself vulnerable. The employment contract has been rewritten, and most...

Welcome to Delaware County or as the residents call it DELCO. A quiet suburban county where nothing strange or exciting ever happens. Until one day a teenage girl has gone missing and weeks later her body is found floating in the Delaware River. She was the first of several girls to disappear. Fast-forward 16 years and Delco is experiencing strange activities. Some unexplainable events lead local police officers to believe they are dealing with ghosts. Ghosts who are on a mission of reveng...

Every day, millions of people open a chat with a language model, type a question, and receive an answer that is almost good enough, but missing something essential. The quality of what you receive from an AI is determined almost entirely by the quality of what you send into it. The gap between a mediocre response and an exceptional one is not about the model you use; it is about how well you ask. This book is your guide to transforming that gap.This is not a collection of copy-past...

You want something from government. A decision. A policy change. A contract. Project approval. Protection from a bad outcome.Lobbying has long been seen as a murky, insider game - dominated by big corporations, political operators and those with the loudest voices. But done properly, lobbying is neither sinister nor mysterious. It is a legitimate, ethical and often essential part of how good decisions are made.Mike Smith's decades of experience inside gover...

There is a moment every builder of autonomous systems remembers. You wake up, check your dashboard, and find that your agent processed hundreds of items overnight. It handled edge cases you never anticipated and recovered from failures you did not code for. This book exists to help you reach that moment with confidence rather than anxiety.The term agent has been stretched so broadly that it risks becoming meaningless. This book cuts through the hype to give you a practical engineer...

Every software system eventually hits a wall. The database that handled everything now struggles under load. The replication setup shows inconsistencies that leak into customer-facing data. The streaming pipeline falls apart under production traffic. This book gives you the knowledge before you need it, not after.The five pillars of scalable systems, storage, replication, streaming, consistency, and observability, are not separate disciplines. They form a closed loop, and understan...

The modern marketing landscape has fractured across dozens of channels, platforms, and formats. A single customer might discover you through TikTok, research you on YouTube, read your blog, subscribe to your email list, visit your website, and make a purchase. Each of those touchpoints is a scene in a larger narrative. The question is whether those scenes add up to a coherent story or a confusing mess.This book bridges two disciplines that have lived in separate silos, customer jou...