A World Trade Center survivor's true story of losing his sister on 9/11 and the long journey of grief, faith, and finding purpose that followed.In 1993, Patrick McGarry was trapped on the 96th floor of the World Trade Center's South Tower when terrorists struck, and he survived. But eight years later, he lost his younger sister, Katie McGarry Noack, on September 11, 2001. She was only thirty years old and newly married. Her last words home were simple: Please t...

In Retirement is a Commie Plot, author Pat Keogh draws on a lifetime of experience to share practical lessons about education, work, saving, investing, building wealth, and achieving financial independence-all with an eye toward creating a lasting family legacy. As Pat puts it, "Wealth ain't about buying stuff. It's about freedom."

This fully revised edition teaches you to scale Python across cores, machines, and GPUs using the libraries you already know. I'll teach you to build Dask arrays, dataframes, bags and delayed graphs, and to tune partitions and chunks so the cluster actually earns its keep. I'll also show you to use the Dask expression system to let the optimiser push filters down and prune columns before a byte moves.As you'll see, you'll b...

Offering a clear and accessible introduction to the fast-growing field of archaeogenetics, this book pays particular attention to the methods and approaches that are reshaping how archaeologists and historians think about the past.Written for readers with no prior background in genetics, it explains in straightforward terms how genomic research can shed light on mobility, population change, social organization and cultural practices. At the same time, it begins wit...

In 1821, fourteen-year-old Devon Crimmin watches his closest friend die at the hands of a brutal ship’s captain – and learns that justice can be bought. When the killer walks free and Devon’s father pays with his livelihood and his life, a seed of vengeance is planted that will shape Devon’s future. Years later, Devon becomes a police constable in Brigus, carrying the weight of loss, a forbidden love, and a hatred that has only deepened with time. His heart still belongs to Julia Danson, n...

In an age of comfort, confusion, and quiet cowardice, one young man showed us what it looks like to live - and die - with absolute conviction. Now it is your turn.From a two-car garage in suburban Illinois to the largest conservative youth movement in American history, Charlie Kirk lived a life of fearless dedication to faith, family, freedom, and the founding principles of the United States. He walked onto hostile campuses and asked to be proven wrong. He built in...

The way we develop AI has completely changed. I mean, who builds models from scratch these days? Nobody.Today's developers are creating apps based on existing models, and this second edition teaches you how to do that in Python. We start with one API call and end up with a full production service that's all set to go. As you go through the chapters, you build one application that grows with you, so you never throw anything out. With retrieval, you can suppl...

The way we develop AI has completely changed. I mean, who builds models from scratch these days? Nobody.Today's developers are creating apps based on existing models, and this second edition teaches you how to do that in Python. We start with one API call and end up with a full production service that's all set to go. As you go through the chapters, you build one application that grows with you, so you never throw anything out. With retrieval, you can sup...

Dr. Fullerton's Performance Weight Management ProgramA Physician's Evidence-Based Guide to Lifelong Weight Management, Better Health & Peak PerformanceMost diets fail. Here's why.Most diet programs assume everyone has the same metabolism.Science says otherwise.Every person has a unique Daily Calorie Requirement (DCR) based on age, sex, body composition, metabolism, a...

How the Odyssey illuminates the two sides of the American mind, from one of our most influential cultural commentators.The Odyssey is among the oldest-known written works. Yet it is somehow profoundly contemporary. Its themes are inescapably human: the desire to strike out for new adventures; the aspiration to be more than human; the temptation to wallow in beastlike torpor; the impulse to exact vengeance; the possibility that mercy might bring a ...

How the Odyssey illuminates the two sides of the American mind, from one of our most influential cultural commentators.The Odyssey is among the oldest-known written works. Yet it is somehow profoundly contemporary. Its themes are inescapably human: the desire to strike out for new adventures; the aspiration to be more than human; the temptation to wallow in beastlike torpor; the impulse to exact vengeance; the possibility that mercy might bring a violent cycle to an end.

From Notre Dame professor and author of Why Liberalism Failed comes a provocative call for replacing the tyranny of the self-serving liberal elite with conservative leaders aligned with the interests of the working classClassical liberalism promised to overthrow the old aristocracy, creating an order in which individuals could create their own identities and futures. To some extent it did—but it has also demolished the traditions and institutions that nour...