Ein untergegangenes Königreich, eine verschollene Erbin und eine Liebe, die dem Tod trotztDie Soldatin Grey kämpft nur, um ihren Kindheitsfreund Kier am Leben zu halten. Auf dem Schlachtfeld ist sie sein Schwert und Schild, an ihn gebunden durch Magie und Geheimnisse. Doch dann findet ein verfeindetes Reich die verschollene Erbin der zerstörten Insel Locke – und bekommt damit Zugriff auf zerstörerische Kräfte. Für Grey und Kier beginnt eine tödliche Verfolgungsjagd...

Hands-On FPGA Design with SystemVerilog and VHDL is a practical introduction to building real digital hardware from logic concepts to FPGA implementation. The book explains the FPGA mental model, combinational and sequential logic, finite-state machines, reusable RTL patterns, hardware interfaces, memory movement, timing constraints, clock-domain crossings, verification workflows, and board bring-up habits. It includes SystemVerilog and VHDL examples, project-architecture guidance, UART an...

Autonomous agents are the next platform shift in software. The Agentic AI Bible is the complete engineering guide to designing, building, and deploying production-grade agentic systems. It covers architecture patterns, reasoning loops, tool use, memory, retrieval, planning, multi-agent orchestration, evaluation, safety, observability, and scaling — with working code throughout. You will learn how agents think, how they use tools, how they remember, how they plan, how they coordinate, and h...

After losing the life she thought she understood, Clara Whitaker returns to the quiet coastal town of Bellweather Cove with no plan except to sort through her late aunt's seaside cottage and leave before the memories become too heavy. But hidden inside the cottage walls are old letters tied to a love story that was never finished — and to a promise the town has quietly carried for decades. As Clara follows the clues through weathered docks, faded photographs, and the people her aunt once l...

Human Systems Engineering explores how people, technology, procedures, and organizational structures interact within complex systems. It examines how human capabilities and limitations influence system performance, operational safety, reliability, and decision-making. From human factors and cognitive workload to interface design, automation, risk management, and organizational resilience, the book introduces practical principles for designing systems that work effectively for the people wh...

It started with hope — a new cat, a second chance for company, a home with more love in it. Now there's a growl behind the bedroom door, a puddle on the couch cushion nobody claims, and a cat you barely see anymore because it lives under your bed. You didn't do anything wrong, and neither did they. Cats aren't wired to share territory the way dogs share a pack, and when a second or third cat enters the picture without the right structure, conflict isn't a possibility — it's the default. Mu...

The monthly mortgage payment is the number everyone quotes, and it is only one line of the bill. Before you get the keys there are closing costs, fees and prepaid items. After you move in there are property taxes, insurance, utilities, maintenance, and repairs that arrive on their own schedule. This book walks through each layer of expense in plain language, explains how to get real quotes for your own address, and shows how to turn them into a single monthly budget with a reserve for surp...

Modern endpoint management requires more than deploying policies and enrolling devices. It requires a reliable operating model that connects identity, configuration, application delivery, security, automation, and monitoring. Endpoint Engineering with Intune presents a practical approach to designing and operating a Microsoft Intune environment. Explore Windows enrollment, deployment rings, security baselines, application packaging, compliance policies, Conditional Access, PowerShell, and ...

You were fine, and then one ordinary moment changed it: a stranger offered you a seat, a photo caught a face you did not expect, a clerk looked straight past you, or someone you love sighed when you asked them to repeat themselves. Suddenly you feel old, and invisible, and no one told you this part was coming. Feeling Old and Invisible is a warm, practical guide for adults in midlife and beyond who want to make sense of that moment and decide what to do next. It is not a retirement-plannin...

Logging, security, transactions, caching, retries — these concerns cut across every service method in every enterprise application, and implementing them manually produces the same boilerplate in hundreds of places. Aspect-Oriented Programming removes that duplication. This book teaches AOP on both sides of the enterprise divide. It covers AspectJ, the reference implementation whose vocabulary shaped every AOP framework after it. It covers Spring AOP, the proxy-based framework used by most...

Every modern CPU has multiple cores. Using them safely is the hardest problem in C++ — and the one most developers learn last. This book teaches it from the memory model up. Start with happens-before, atomics, and the six memory orderings. Move through threads, jthreads, mutexes, condition variables, futures, and thread pools. Then dive into C++20 coroutines — the promise type, the awaiter, custom task types, and asynchronous I/O with io_uring and epoll. Finish with parallel algorithms, pr...

Some days feel like one long to-do list, with no room to notice anything lovely. This book gives you 101 small, gentle rituals most of which take one to five minutes and need almost no equipment. Sip your first tea with full attention, light a lamp at dusk, leave a kind note, watch the sky, say goodnight to your home. They are grouped by morning, midday, evening, home, kitchen, nature, seasons, other people, making and the senses, with a quick guide to match a ritual to your mood and the t...