Explore the world of lightning fast Clojure apps with asynchronous channels, logic, reactive programming, and moreAbout This BookDiscover Clojure's features and advantages and use them in your existing projectsExplore lesser-known and more advanced features, constructs, and methodologies such as asynchronous channels, actors, logic programming, and reactive programmingMeasure and monitor performance, and understand optimization t...

Become an expert at writing fast and high performant code in Clojure 1.7.0Key FeaturesBook DescriptionClojure treats code as data and has a macro system. It focuses on programming with immutable values and explicit progression-of-time constructs, which are intended to facilitate the development of more robust programs, particularly multithreaded ones. It is built with performance, pragmatism, and simplicity in mind. Like most general purpose languages,...

This book is a multi-disciplinary reference on how domain-aware artificial intelligence (AI) models can outperform generic approaches by addressing sector-specific complexities. It offers comparative frameworks, reproducible case studies, and real-world applications of emerging AI methods.Collectively, AI for Decision Intelligence in Critical Systems emphasizes a unifying theme: the effective deployment of AI to strengthen decision-making, enhance system reliabilit...

The pilgrimage of love never comes to an end, it always begins.She's an artist, a painter and a secular minded young girl, who beliefs that love is more pious than any other religion. He's a young and lonely millionaire boy, who has his business in Singapore and is blessed with the same beliefs like her. Will they fight against the social norms that have been trying to keep them apart? Will they be able to overcome the odds and finally be together?

This book examines the key Sustainable Development Goals (SGDs) relating to environmental sustainability and provides a cutting-edge assessment of current progress with the view of achieving these goals by 2030.Within South Asia, the book pays particular attention to Bangladesh, as a country representative of emerging economies which are struggling to meet their goals. Drawing on the three pillars of sustainability, the volume addresses the following goals: Clean Water and Sanitati...

Regular expressions are an extremely powerful tool for manipulating text and data. They are now standard features in a wide range of languages and popular tools, including Perl, Python, Ruby, Java, VB.NET and C# (and any language using the .NET Framework), PHP, and MySQL.If you don't use regular expressions yet, you will discover in this book a whole new world of mastery over your data. If you already use them, you'll appreciate this book's unprecedented detail and breadth of cover...

_______________'A richly woven novel … The voice that guides us around this world darts with wit and lightness in a way that is unique and often lovely' - Rana Dasgupta, Guardian'The plot gallops along, ensuring a gripping read … thought-provoking' - Independent'A highly accomplished novel … A multi-layered but shrewdly simple tale'- New Statesman, Books of the Year...

Kaveri is thirty; single; knows seven languages; is an interpreter by profession; has read all the books about men and how to get a date. Yet; she has not been able to figure out the language of love. Since the ‘THE ONE GREAT LOVE’ of her life has eluded her for thirty years and might never show up; she decides to take matters into her own hands. On her thirtieth birthday; she makes a resolution—love or no love; she is going to lose her virginity. Life; however; has other plans! This is a ...

A free promotional story from the acclaimed collection THE RED CARPET by Lavanya Sankaran, author of the highly anticipated new novel THE HOPE FACTORY. This ebook-only extract from her Bangalore-based short stories is a glorious study of the rich and complex world of modern India.'This is a book for the reader. Any reader, anywhere' India Today; 'I recommend this book so highly! . . . Here's the magic of this book: by the end of this very first story, people half a world aw...

'You, though, are as beautiful as light splitting through glass.'Nine characters recall their relationship with a young woman - the same woman - whom they have loved, or who has loved them.We piece her together, much as we do with others in our lives, in incomplete but illuminating slivers.Set in familiar, nameless cities, moving between east and west, The Nine-Chambered Heart is a compendium of shifting perspectives that follows one woman's life, making her dazzlingly real in one moment, ...

Now updated and expanded, People and Nature is a lively, accessible introduction to environmental anthropology that focuses on the interactions between people, culture, and nature around the world.Written by a respected scholar in environmental anthropology with a multi-disciplinary focus that also draws from geography, ecology, and environmental studiesAddresses new issues of importance, including climate change, population change, the ris...

Tara is living a blessed life in the maximum city with her husband Abhimanyu, the love of her life. At the pinnacle of her career, she is the apple of her parents' eyes and hasn't spotted a wrinkle yet - so far, the 30s are looking great!Nothing fazes Tara - not a foul-mouthed best friend or a food-burning arch-nemesis in the form of her maid - not even a landlady who chats with ghosts.And then, Tara discovers that she's pregnant, and suddenly, all that well-honed composure crumbles. It do...