Discover practical tips and techniques for leveraging CMake to optimize your software development workflowKey FeaturesMaster CMake, from basics to advanced techniques, for seamless project managementGain practical insights and best practices to tackle real-world CMake challengesImplement advanced strategies for optimizing and maintaining large-scale CMake projectsPurchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook

I built myself up from nothing. A product of the foster care system, I learned early on how to fight hard to get what I want. Whether it was starting my first company in college, earning my first billion, or buying my first professional sports team, I know how to get what I want, when I want it.Until now.Willow Monahan is fierce, independent, and hot as hell. She also takes great pleasure in shutting down my advances. The younger sister of one of my star players, Willow int...

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 ...

The Little Dragon Dino – and the Dragon Trial at Fire Mountain is a heartwarming, exciting, and child-friendly dragon story for children aged 5 to 8 that inspires courage, builds self-confidence, and invites young readers to dream. When Dino receives a mysterious letter sealed with red wax, his life changes in an instant. The little dragon is invited to the great Dragon Trial at Fire Mountain — a special challenge that only chosen young dragons are allowed to face. But Dino wonders: Is he ...

Last Night is a psychological thriller about fear, control, manipulation, and the terrifying power of a system that can turn an innocent person into a suspect before the sun even rises. At the center of the story is Mara, a woman who receives a mysterious message at exactly 03:03 a.m. The message contains only an address and a chilling sentence. Against her better judgment, she follows the invitation and arrives at an ordinary-looking house that quickly reveals itself to be something far m...

How did the universe begin? What are black holes? How do stars, galaxies, space-time, and the laws of the cosmos work? This book opens up the fascinating world of astronomy, astrophysics, and cosmology in a way that is exciting, easy to understand, and highly informative at the same time. Through 1,000 astonishing facts, you will discover the greatest wonders and mysteries of the universe—from our solar system to the most distant galaxies, from planets and exoplanets to supernovae, neutron...

In **The Substitute**, psychological pressure, quiet dread, and creeping manipulation collide in a tense thriller about what happens when a person on the edge lets the wrong kind of help into her life. **Mara Stein** is exhausted, overwhelmed, and dangerously close to breaking down. Her professional life is slipping, her private world is filled with silence, pressure, and growing distrust, and every day feels like a battle she can barely survive. When she receives a mysterious invitation f...

A voice in the night. A city with two faces. A secret that was never meant to come to light. When sixteen-year-old Elias Blackwood hears a strange voice in the middle of the night, a new nightmare begins for him—and at the same time, the most dangerous chapter of his journey. The words are short, clear, and deeply unsettling: “You are too late.” But too late for what? Elias soon realizes that the boundary between the visible world and the hidden night world is becoming fragile again. Among...

In **“The Worst Hiking Day Ever”**, what’s supposed to be a normal school hiking trip turns into the most ridiculous, rule-packed class adventure imaginable. It’s **Monday morning at 5:42 a.m.**—the kind of time when kids should be dreaming about chocolate croissants, not standing on a freezing schoolyard in the dark. But Milo is already wide awake (unfortunately), staring into the gray mist and realizing something is very, very wrong. New signs hang on the fence, glowing far too brightly ...

As digital circuits are at the core of most of our everyday technologies, society heavily relies on their precise and predictable behavior. However, this demand for correctness often clashes with the speed of today’s design workflows. Whereas a design can be proven to be free of errors based on formal methods, the required time and memory resources of this can often not be predicted. This conflict is addressed by Polynomial Formal Verification (PFV): By selecting adequate data structures a...

Explore a compendium of tips, tricks, and techniques for leveraging CMake and empowering your software development workflow.Key FeaturesUnderstand what CMake is, how it works, and how to interact with itDiscover how to properly create and maintain well-structured CMake projectsExplore tools and techniques to get the most out of your CMake projectBook DescriptionCMake is a powerful tool used to perform a wide variety of tasks,...

"Superb . . . a useful account of the First World War for anyone interested in the perspective of a member of Imperial Germany's Alsatian minority."—The Western Front AssociationAs a conscript from Alsace, Dominik Richert realized from the outset of the First World War that his family would be at or near the front line. While he saw no alternative to performing his duty, he was a reluctant soldier who was willing to stand up to authority and to avoid risks—in order...