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"Manning reads her book in a sharp voice that is clearly accustomed to marshaling information..."- Washington Post"[Manning's] text and performance create a blistering autobiography that is both observant and instructive."- AudioFile"In both content and narration, Manning displays a keen ability to imbue this detailed account of her life and activism with both sarcasm and sincerity." - Library Journal

An intimate, revealing memoir from one of the most important activists of our time.While working as an intelligence analyst in Iraq for the United States Army in 2010, Chelsea Manning disclosed more than seven hundred thousand classified military and diplomatic records that she had smuggled out of the country on the memory card of her digital camera. In 2011, she was charged with twenty-two counts related to the unauthorized possession and distribution of classified...

Here it is - The Amazon Alexa User Manual that should come in the box of every Alexa enabled device!From the Number 1 Best Selling authors in Computers and Technology, this clear and concise guide will show you how to get the very best from your new Amazon Alexa enabled device. Step by step instructions will take you from newbie to expert in just one hour!About the Authors:Tom and Jenna Edwards are the Amazon Tech authors behind the Number 1 Best-selling e-books 250+...

A growing number of web video creators are earning six-and-seven-figure paychecks, studio development deals, A-list Hollywood agents, book and record deals and more because they've harnessed the power of online video production, distribution and monetization:--Unknown filmmaker Federico Alvarez scored a $1 million dollar development deal, representation with Creative Artists Agency, and is now directing the EVIL DEAD remake for Sam "Spiderman" Raimi.--While the average inco...

Are you tired of reading reference manuals? Get ready for "HTML with CSS and XHTML 100 Success Secrets". This is not your ordinary technical manual. It is interesting, VERY helpful---even for seasoned professionals, and great for beginners.You'll be reading answers to questions you'd always wanted to ask but never knew who to ask them. A true beginner will need to study this book. A professional will be refreshed.HTML with CSS and XHTML 100 Success Secrets is totally unlike...

"Reproducible Builds: Making Your Releases Cryptographically Verifiable"Reproducible builds are the missing bridge between “we built it” and “anyone can verify it.” This book targets experienced engineers—release managers, build and CI/CD owners, security and supply-chain practitioners—who need stronger integrity guarantees than signatures alone can provide. It treats reproducibility not as a neat build trick, but as an operational capability that lets independent parties confirm t...

Laugh. Cry. Learn. Four women dare to explore their deepest sexual truths in a controversial university course that will change their lives forever.A sex columnist can't remember the last time she felt desire. A high-powered lawyer fakes her pleasure. A confident professor carries the scars of a failed marriage. And a religious housewife questions everything she believes about intimacy.When Isabella, Claire, Amy, and Jeanette sign up for an unconventional sex education cour...

"Bedtime Stories & Beyond: Raising Curious, Creative Kids Through Books and Play"Discover how a simple bedtime ritual—like reading a chapter from Treasure Island—can spark imagination, strengthen bonds, and lay the foundation for a lifelong love of learning. Drawing from heartfelt family traditions and practical, budget-friendly strategies, this guide celebrates the power of stories and hands-on play in nurturing young minds.Inside, you'll find:

*How To Improve Your Sex Life -*Spice Up Your Sex Life -You're here because you want to make your sex life exciting. You want to make it hot. Passionate. Mind-blowing. You probably want to find ways to please your mate.Whether your love life's a little stale and you want to bring back the fire or you just want to make it even hotter you'll find everything you need right here with over.Many people wa...

"SOPS Secrets: Git‑Friendly Encryption for Kubernetes and IaC"Shipping software with modern Git workflows often means secrets become everyone’s problem: reviewed in pull requests, promoted across environments, and consumed by automation that must be both reliable and auditable. This book targets experienced engineers—platform teams, SREs, security-minded developers, and DevOps leaders—who need a Git-native way to manage sensitive configuration without inventing fragile side channel...

"DataHub in Practice: Metadata Platform Design, Ingestion, and Governance"Modern data organizations don’t fail because they lack data—they fail because they can’t trust, find, govern, or change it safely. This book is written for experienced data engineers, platform engineers, and data governance leaders who need more than a catalog walkthrough: they need a production-ready metadata system of record. It treats DataHub as an operational platform with real-world constraints, competin...

"Speculative Decoding Systems: Faster Generation with Draft Models and Safety Checks"Large language models have made generation powerful, but not fast enough for many serious systems. This book is written for experienced ML engineers, inference researchers, and platform architects who need to understand why decoding remains the dominant bottleneck—and how speculative decoding changes the performance equation without surrendering correctness. Rather than treating speedup as a black-...