The Day We Die is a tender, introspective novel about mortality, memory, and the fragile, beautiful ordinariness of everyday life, following one man through the quiet hours of a single day that asks more of him than any other. Through lyrical scenes and emotionally honest reflection, it traces how small moments—a child’s question, an unfinished conversation, a long-delayed confession—can echo louder than dramatic events, revealing what truly matters when time no longer feels infin...

We live in an age of unprecedented wealth and connectivity, yet we are suffering from an epidemic of loneliness, burnout, and existential dread. We are told we are free because we can choose from a thousand brands of toothpaste, yet we feel trapped in a life script we didn't write.What if the anxiety you feel isn’t a personal failure, but a rational response to a rigged system?In The lie we live, author Ashish Chugh delivers a quiet but devastating...

The Data Science Launchpad: A Student's Guide to Essential Tools is a structured, project-based introduction to data science designed for college students, beginners, and early-career professionals who want clarity, confidence, and practical skills.In a field crowded with fragmented tutorials and overly theoretical textbooks, this book provides a clear roadmap—from foundational thinking to career-ready application. It answers the most common beginner question, "Where d...

“Two weeks inside,” they said. For Arjun, a quiet office worker in a Mumbai suburb, it sounds almost like a holiday: no trains, no small talk, no pretending to laugh at the boss’s jokes. But when the city shuts its doors, and his front door clicks closed, the flat that once felt like a refuge begins to shrink. With the world outside reduced to sirens, alerts, and grainy news footage, Arjun starts to notice the things he’s been ignoring for years: a crack above the switchboard, the wall tha...

LLM Prompt Integrity: Governing the Gateway to Generative AI is a practitioner’s guide to securing the most powerful—and most fragile—part of today’s AI systems: the prompt field. In modern organisations, large language models no longer sit at the edges of workflows; they now drive legal research, financial analysis, customer support, and internal decision-making through a simple text box that quietly acts as a high‑risk API. This book argues that treating prompts as casual chat has create...

The quality of a data warehouse (DWH) is the elusive aspect of it, not because it is hard to achieve [once we agree what it is], but because it is difficult to describe. We propose the notion that quality is not an attribute or a feature that a product has to possess, but rather a relationship between that product and each and every stakeholder. More specifically, the relationship between the software quality and the organization that produces the products is explored. Quality of data that...

Create your own guide to mastering the disciplines of organizational learning with this invaluable guide based on the national bestseller The Fifth Discipline.“The Fieldbook is a must read for anyone serious about building communities of common purpose, collective action, and continuous learning.”—H. Thomas Johnson, author of Relevance Lost and Relevance RegainedPeter Senge’s The Fifth Discipline...

This book offers a comprehensive introduction to workflow management, the management of business processes with information technology. By defining, analyzing, and redesigning an organization's resources and operations, workflow management systems ensure that the right information reaches the right person or computer application at the right time. The book provides a basic overview of workflow terminology and organization, as well as detailed coverage of workflow modeling with Petri nets. ...

Modern culture’s worship of “how-to” pragmatism has turned us into instruments of efficiency and commerce—but we’re doing more and more about things that mean less and less. We constantly ask “how? and still struggle to find purpose and act on what matters. Instead of acting on what we know to be of importance, we wait for bosses to change, we seek the latest fad, we invest in one more degree. Asking how keeps us safe—instead of being led by our hearts into uncharted territory, we keep our...

In a global market economy, a viable business cannot be locked into a single form or function anymore. Rather, success is contingent upon a self-renewing capacity to spontaneously create structures, functions, and processes responsive to a fluctuating business landscape. Now in its third edition, Systems Thinking synthesizes systems theory and interactive design, providing an operational methodology for defining problems and designing solutions in an environment increasingly chara...

The worst—and last—day of his life!Masamichi Adachi left his hometown in the country to study agriculture at university. He prepared diligently for the exam, got his own apartment, and landed a part-time job to pay rent and support himself. He’s doing everything right, so why is it all going horribly wrong?! He’s failed the entrance exam twice, lost his job, and to top it all off, a hit-and-run leaves him a lonely, bloody mess on a dark road. Just as he accepts his fate and goes toward the...

Foreword by Mark Stephen LaRow, Vice President of Products, MicroStrategy"A unique and authoritative book that blends recent research developments with industry-level practices for researchers, students, and industry practitioners." Il-Yeol Song, Professor, College of Information Science and Technology, Drexel University