Three-hundred years into the future, and the world has changed. Among a chosen few, life expectancy is now hundreds of years. These are the foreverchildren, and science has found a way to keep them in a nearly endless childhood. Secure in their giant hives, they have left the outsiders, who must live natural lives, to fend for themselves.This is the story of Kianno and Seelin, two children who find themselves trading places in this strange new world, one leading the life of a forev...

How can you take advantage of the Django framework to integrate complex client-side interactions and real-time features into your web applications? Through a series of rapid application development projects, this hands-on book shows experienced Django developers how to include REST APIs, WebSockets, and client-side MVC frameworks such as Backbone.js into new or existing projects.Learn how to make the most of Django’s decoupled design by choosing the components you need to build the...

THEY'RE DYNAMITETelzey Amberdon is one of the most powerful xenotelepaths in the known galaxy. Trigger Argee is a crack shot, with reflexes that make lightning look lethargic, and also a top agent of the galaxy's Federation of the Hub. Separately, they have been making life miserable for human criminals, unfriendly aliens, and nefarious members of all species. But when a danger to the entire Hub civilization brought these two together, the galaxy would never be the...

She'd had plenty of bad luck in her life. This time, being in the wrong place at the wrong time took more than a little bad luck. It took betrayal.-------------------------Used in a plot to alter time, Felshifter Keata Windrunner recalls the words of her kin - 'Humans are the lowest of the intelligent life forms. Never trust one.'Now, 1000 years in the future, it would seem they were right. Found alone and looking like a human child, she is taken in by humans. Believi...

Breyden hadn’t expected to spend his life on the run as the most hunted man in the universe. But, a desire for truth drove him to a horrifying discovery about the supposedly “perfect society” in which he lived. This information drove his efforts to expose the truth about the People’s Government and pushed him into the role of rebel leader and criminal. During Breyden’s attempt to retrieve the evidence hidden at his home, that would prove the People’s Government murdered an innocent...

Sana Hamdan was lost amongst a sea of strangers till she discovered poetry. Writing became her savior for the times she was struggling in the darkness. Turning her emotions and experiences into poetry, she began to share her work online, allowing other people living across the oceans to capture her most beautiful moments and tragic incidents. The nested thoughts within our minds that haunt us at night are the words well never speak aloud. Theyve lured our minds and deprived our hearts. The...

If you need help writing programs in Python 3, or want to update older Python 2 code, this book is just the ticket. Packed with practical recipes written and tested with Python 3.3, this unique cookbook is for experienced Python programmers who want to focus on modern tools and idioms.Inside, you’ll find complete recipes for more than a dozen topics, covering the core Python language as well as tasks common to a wide variety of application domains. Each recipe contains code samples...

Machine learning has become an integral part of many commercial applications and research projects, but this field is not exclusive to large companies with extensive research teams. If you use Python, even as a beginner, this book will teach you practical ways to build your own machine learning solutions. With all the data available today, machine learning applications are limited only by your imagination.You’ll learn the steps necessary to create a successful machine-learning appl...

Discover how easy it is to design killer interfaces and responsive websites with the Bootstrap framework. This practical book gets you started building pages with Bootstrap’s HTML/CSS-based tools and design templates right away. You’ll also learn how to extend your app with interactive features, using its suite of jQuery plugins—often without writing a single line of code.Developed by Twitter and available free from GitHub, Bootstrap supports responsive design by dynamically adjust...

Mobile devices outnumber desktop and laptop computers three to one worldwide, yet little information is available for designing and developing mobile applications. Mobile Design and Development fills that void with practical guidelines, standards, techniques, and best practices for building mobile products from start to finish. With this book, you'll learn basic design and development principles for all mobile devices and platforms. You'll also explore the more advanced capabiliti...

A man and woman meet online while the world around them is falling apart. Where are the creatures from that have invaded their planet? What do they want? These questions and more must be answered if the human race is to survive this doomsday scenario. Authors Blaze McRob and Lori R. Lopez join forces to present an unusual tale of an apocalypse that has devastated society. Ed and Elvie managed to connect in a world gone mad. They give each other hope and support from a thousand miles apart....

Learn how to design and develop distributed web services in Java, using RESTful architectural principles and the JAX-RS 2.0 specification in Java EE 7. By focusing on implementation rather than theory, this hands-on reference demonstrates how easy it is to get started with services based on the REST architecture.With the book’s technical guide, you’ll learn how REST and JAX-RS work and when to use them. The RESTEasy workbook that follows provides step-by-step instructions for insta...