Life can change in an instant. The Last Payslip is a heartfelt guide for anyone who’s experienced job loss, career uncertainty, or the emotional rollercoaster of sudden change. Drawing from personal experience, Nenen Prado shares practical steps, premonitions, and reflections to help you:• Recognize early signs of professional shifts.• Heal from unexpected setbacks.• Rebuild confidence, clarity, and purpose.• Transform uncertainty into opportunity.Fi...

Learn to understand and implement the latest machine learning innovations to improve your investment performanceMachine learning (ML) is changing virtually every aspect of our lives. Today, ML algorithms accomplish tasks that – until recently – only expert humans could perform. And finance is ripe for disruptive innovations that will transform how the following generations understand money and invest.In the book, readers will learn how to:Stru...

The Explosive National BestsellerA memoir by the highest-ranking covert warrior to lift the veil of secrecy and offer a glimpse into the shadow wars that America has fought since the Vietnam Era.Enrique Prado found himself in his first firefight at age seven. The son of a middle-class Cuban family caught in the midst of the Castro Revolution, his family fled their war-torn home for the hope of a better life in America. Fifty years later, th...

Poetry that eloquently concentrates on the spiritual and physical lives of women.This is the first book published in English by of the work of Brazilian poet Adélia Prado. Incorporating poems published over the past fifteen years, The Alphabet in the Park is a book of passion and intelligence, wit and instinct. These are poems about human concerns, especially those of women, about living in one's body and out of it, about the physical but also the spiritual and the...

Lonely Planet's local travel experts reveal all you need to know to plan the trip of a lifetime in this latest edition of our guide to Mexico.Discover Mexico's most popular experiences and best kept secrets from market-hopping through the aromatic Mercado Municipal in San Cristóbal de las Casas; to hiking to the warm, bubbling Aguas Termales Rekowata hot springs from Creel; and swimming alongside fully grown whale sharks as they come to feed in the shallows at Isla...

Learn the principles of quantum machine learning and how to apply themWhile focus is on financial use cases, all the methods and techniques are transferable to other fieldsPurchase of Print or Kindle includes a free eBook in PDFKey FeaturesDiscover how to solve optimisation problems on quantum computers that can provide a speedup edge over classical methodsUse methods of analogue and digita...

A frantic tale of escape by any means necessary, "Peace Keeper" will keep you on the edge of your seat. Dr. William Rutger has been called on by the Prime Minister himself to rescue a medically fragile patient during the Third World War. Through a series of mysterious and unexpected events, the good doctor begins to uncover the reason for their retrieval from enemy territory. Can Doctor Rutger successfully save the Fisher family and the state s...

It is 1957 in Marianao, a suburb of Havana. Adela Santiago is 13 years old and lives in a small blue house with her mother, father, brother, and grandfather. And yet something is amiss. The students on her street are disappearing. Not only that but her parents' marriage seems to be disintegrating and her cousin is caught up in a bombing at the Hotel Nacional. Welcome to a world where a revolution is brewing. Welcome to Cuba.An insight into what it is like to be young when bad things...

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.Taco is a deep dive into the most iconic Mexican food from the perspective of a Mexico City native. In a narrative that moves from Mexico to the United States and back, Sánchez Prado discusses the definition of the taco, the question of the tortilla and the taco shell, and the existence of the taco as a modern social touchstone that has been shaped by ...

Este pequeno livro não é um curso de astrofísica, tampouco um estudo acadêmico, mas apenas comentários complementares, em linguagem simples, sobre alguns temas já estudados pela astrofísica, trazendo novas interpretações com o objetivo de propiciar novas reflexões, acadêmicas ou não. Discorre sobre a razão de as noites serem escuras, propõe ensaio para a verificação de característica eletromagnética da atração gravitacional (com contraposição ao conceito de deformação do tecido espaço-temp...

This latest edition of Lonely Planet's Experience Mexico travel guide reveals exciting new ways to explore this iconic country with all the tools you need to create your own unique trip.Discover amazing local experiences from surfing the swells of Puerto Escondido along Oaxaca's largely unspoiled Pacific Coast; to bird-watching in San Blas on the Nayarit coast to spot the area's 2...

Lonely Planet's local travel experts reveal all you need to know to plan the trip of a lifetime in this latest edition of our guide to the USA.Discover the USA's most popular experiences and best kept secrets from exploring Chicago's hidden architecture and lakefront beache, to immersing yourself in the New Orleans jazz scene, and hiking through miles of misty trails in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.Build a trip to remember with Lonely Pla...