With South Asia's growing energy demand, governments in the region are facing the short-term pressures of facilitating energy access, while attempting to formulate long-term sustainable strategies. This book explores how the key economies of South Asia are addressing issues such as the diversification of energy consumption profiles and import sources, investments in renewables, enabling universal energy access, challenges to regional energy cooperation, greenhouse gas emissions and climate...

It’s estimated that one in three people have suffered an acquired brain injury in their lifetime. Yet so little is understood about brain health and its various injuries, especially the daily and personal effects. Author Len Roach knows these effects personally. He’s been learning to cope with them for thirty years.Skull Fragments: Expressions of My TBI Life is a memoir that began with the author’s desire to understand what happened to him after two traumatic brain injuries. The mo...

This edited volume addresses the main lessons and legacies of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis from a global perspective.Despite the discoveries of recent research, there is still much more to be revealed about the handling of nuclear weapons before and during the Cuban Missile Crisis (CMC). Featuring contributions from a number of eminent international scholars of nuclear history, intelligence, espionage, political science and Cold War studies, An International History of the Cub...

Computer Science Why is a book that presents a straightforward, curiosity‑based approach to filling in the blanks around common, introductory material taught in Computer Science (CS) classes. If you have ever wondered "why is that?" about a programming phenomenon, historical tidbit, or common terminology, this book may have an answer that explains it.Questions include:Why do computers have trouble with floating point numbers?Why is it called Bluetoo...

Practical Software Architecture Solutions from the Legendary Robert C. Martin (“Uncle Bob”)By applying universal rules of software architecture, you can dramatically improve developer productivity throughout the life of any software system. Now, building upon the success of his best-selling books Clean Code and The Clean Coder, legendary software craftsman Robert C. Martin (“Uncle Bob”) reveals those rules and helps you apply them.Martin’s...

Get up and running with Roblox development with the help of renowned game creator and best-selling author, Zander Brumbaugh for working with Roblox components and Lua programmingKey FeaturesDiscover solutions to common problems faced while creating games on RobloxExplore tips, tricks, and best practices and learn advanced Roblox coding techniques to create gamesUnderstand how to program in the Roblox Lua language, add engaging effects, add a va...

"Looking at the screen of my laptop, I realized that it was full of code that didn't let me understand what it did regarding business logic. From that moment I began to search until I discovered the architecture that decouples the business logic from the frameworks: Hexagonal Architecture, more correctly called Ports & Adapters. From that moment until now, I haven't stopped reading and learning about this pattern."Recommended by giants like Netflix and Amazon, the Hexagonal or Port...

A brand-new edition of the popular introductory textbook that explores how computer hardware, software, and networks workComputers are everywhere. Some are highly visible, in laptops, tablets, cell phones, and smart watches. But most are invisible, like those in appliances, cars, medical equipment, transportation systems, power grids, and weapons. We never see the myriad computers that quietly collect, share, and sometimes leak personal data about us. Governments a...

Exam Board: AQALevel: AS/A-levelSubject: Computer ScienceFirst Teaching: September 2015First Exam: June 2016This title has been approved by AQA for use with the AS and A-level AQA Computer Science specifications.AQA A-level Computer Science gives students the chance to think creatively and progress through the AQA AS and A-level Computer Science ...

Hacking with Kali Linux: A Complete Guide to Master the Most Powerful Operating System for Ethical HackersDo you want to learn how to hack like a pro using Linux? Do you want to master the tools and techniques that hackers use to penetrate any system? Do you want to discover the secrets of ethical hacking and cybersecurity?If you answered yes to any of these questions, then this book is for you!Hacking with Linux is a comprehensive and practical guide that will teac...

As businesses race to unlock the full potential of large language models (LLMs), a critical challenge has emerged: How do you connect these tools to real-time, external data to solve real-world problems? Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) is the answer. By combining LLMs with information retrieval, RAG empowers you to build everything from intelligent chatbots to autonomous, task-solving agents.Packed with over 70 practical recipes, this go-to guide tackles a wide range of GenAI ...

This guide is primarily designed for university instructors and students who are involved in (industrial) software engineering group projects. The aim is to provide quality assurance guidelines for carrying out and documenting the work in a standard manner. In addition to the guidelines, this book also provides a case study in the appendix in order to provide readers with a more intuitive and quick grasp of the idea and operation of software project management. Dr. Tommy Yuan is a senior l...