NEVER KISS A PIANO PLAYERLos Angeles, 1949. A dangerous woman. A desperate pianist. Five hundred thousand dollars. One terrible mistake.Jack “Dixie” Malone has spent his nights playing piano in the smoky rooms of Los Angeles, dreaming of a life beyond cheap apartments, unpaid bills, and the criminals who own the city after dark.Then he meets Rita Montgomery.Beautiful, mysterious, and married to ruthless syndicate boss Bruno “The Hammer” Marc...

THE ABATTOIR LANE AFFAIRWhat if the human conscience could be removed like an organ?In a rain-soaked city where science has learned to operate on the unseen architecture of the human mind, Detective Thomas Pryce investigates a murder that should be impossible.The victim's body is untouched.There is no conventional wound.But something essential is missing.A metaphysical organ known as the Hearth-Gland

One of The Atlantic's Great American NovelsWinner of the 2016 International Dublin Literary Award"Gorgeously tender at its core…beautiful, heartstopping… Family Life really blazes." —Sonali Deraniyagala, New York Times Book ReviewHailed as a "supreme storyteller" ( Philadelphia Inquirer) for his "cunning, dismaying and beautifully conceived" fiction ( New York Times), Akhil Sharma is posse...

A Life of Adventure and Delight delivers eight masterful stories from dazzlingly original and critically acclaimed author Akhil Sharma.Hailed as a storyteller whose fiction is "a glowing work of art" ( Wall Street Journal), Akhil Sharma is possessed of a narrative voice "as hypnotic as those found in the pages of Dostoyevsky" ( The Nation). In A Life of Adventure and Delight, Sharma delivers eight masterful stories that focus on ...

Save time, improve stability, and optimize program memory while building decentralized applications on a blockchain using the features and capabilities of Rust Key FeaturesImplement peer-to-peer blockchain using features of the Rust programming languageUse Rust to build dApps on popular blockchains like Ethereum, Solana, and NEAROptimize Rust code and enhance security updates to deploy a blockchain to productionPurchase of the print or...

This research employs theoretical method of deriving an equation algebraically by utilizing the fundamentals of Trigonometry and Algebra to solve the real life scenario of finding the speed of an aeroplane in the air. Furthermore, the same research method and formula can be utilized by lighthouse operators to estimate the cruising speed of ships in the sea, which is discussed in the later part of the research paper.

The book covers the fundamentals of Blockchain in detail and shows how to create a Smart Contract with ease. This book is both for novices and advanced readers who want to revisit the Smart Contract development process. The book starts by introduces Blockchain, its terminology, its workflow, and cryptographic principles. You will get familiar with the basics of Ethereum and some Distributed apps available on Ethereum. Furthermore, you will learn to set-up Ethereum Blockchain on Azure. Then...

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...

The ultimate guide to managing, building, and deploying large-scale clusters with Apache MesosKey Features\[\*\] Master the architecture of Mesos and intelligently distribute your task across clusters of machines\[\*\] Explore a wide range of tools and platforms that Mesos works with\[\*\] This real-world comprehensive and robust tutorial will help you become an expertBook DescriptionApache Mesos is open source cluster manage...

Understand the philosophy of the Clojure language and dive into its inner workings to unlock its advanced features, methodologies, and constructsKey Features\[\*\] Learn to handle data using sequences, reducers, and transducers in Clojure\[\*\] Explore the lesser known and more advanced features, constructs, and methodologies of the Clojure language and its ecosystem, such as asynchronous channels, actors, logic programming, and reactive programming

This book makes you familiar with the concept of the chatbot. It explains what chatbot is, how does a chatbot work, and what exactly is the need for a chatbot in today’s era? It focuses on creating a bot using Amazon’s Lex service and getting the bot deployed on Facebook messenger for live chatting. This bookwill train you on how to create a chatbot using Google’s Dialogflow and test the bot in Dialogflow console. It also demonstrates how to create a custom chatbot using Microsoft’s bot fr...

Moving beyond MapReduce - learn resource management and big data processing using YARNKey FeaturesBook DescriptionToday enterprises generate huge volumes of data. In order to provide effective services and to make smarter and more intelligent decisions from these huge volumes of data, enterprises use big-data analytics. In recent years, Hadoop has been used for massive data storage and efficient distributed processing of data. The Yet Another Resource ...