You survived what happened to you. But who are you when survival is no longer the only thing keeping you going?For years, survival may have taught you how to be strong, stay guarded, keep moving, care for everyone else, and endure what should have broken you.Those skills may have helped you make it through.But surviving and living are not the same thing.In Beyond Survival: Discovering Who You Are After What You've Been T...

Comprehensive and timely, Cloud Computing: Concepts and Technologies offers a thorough and detailed description of cloud computing concepts, architectures, and technologies, along with guidance on the best ways to understand and implement them. It covers the multi-core architectures, distributed and parallel computing models, virtualization, cloud developments, workload and Service-Level-Agreements (SLA) in cloud, workload management. Further, resource management issues in...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this thoughtful and revealing memoir, readers will accompany one of the world’s most recognizable women on her journey of self-discovery.“I have always felt that life is a solitary journey, that we are each on a train, riding through our hours, our days, our years. We get on alone, we leave alone, and the decisions we make as we travel on the train are our responsibility alone.”A remarkable life story rooted ...

Winner of the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing, Priyanka Champaneri’s transcendent debut novel brings us inside India’s holy city of Banaras, where the manager of a death hostel shepherds the dying who seek the release of a good death, while his own past refuses to let him go.Banaras, Varanasi, Kashi: India’s holy city on the banks of the Ganges has many names but holds one ultimate promise for Hindus. It is the place where pilgrims come for a good de...

Make the most of Oracle Apex with this guide to best practices and its Tips and Tricks. It will help you look at the bigger picture when building applications and take more elements into account and deal with everyday common issues that are faced.Who This Book Is ForThis book is filled with tips on how to make the most of Oracle APEX. Developers beginning with application development as well as those who are experienced will benefit from this book. You will need to have basi...

Large Language Models (LLMs) are rapidly transforming how enterprises operate, powering customer support, internal assistants, automated workflows, search, analytics, and decision-making systems. But as organizations adopt AI at scale, they are also introducing a new and expanding attack surface. Jailbreaking LLMs explores how attackers manipulate AI systems through prompt injection, jailbreaks, adversarial inputs, data poisoning, context manipulation, retrieval attacks, and unsafe tool us...

When I looked up Nisha had removed his trousers, and was walking towards me, his C0CK was jutting out like a large cigar, dark in colour, and about 10 inches long, instinctively, I put my other hand out to hold it.. Nisha was longer, but slimmer than his brother was, and I immediately began wanking him, too..My head was spinning, it was my wedding night, my new husband was nakéd and snoring on our bed, but here I was wanking my father in law and one of his uncles..

Visual Studio .NET is one of the most versatile and extensible programming tools released by Microsoft. Unlock the secrets of Visual Studio—learning tips and shortcuts for optimizing the editor, search, navigation, windows layouts, and other capabilities. The number of features and shortcuts available in VS.NET is truly immense, and it grows tremendously with each release."Visual Studio Tips and Tricks" is written analyzing nearly every feature in the core environment—unearthing th...

SQL Server - Tips and Tricks book has solutions of some real time SQL Server problems that a developer face in most of the real time projects. All solutions are written with best practices and comes with complete to-the-point description and source code.You know the basics of the SQL query language, yet you feel you aren't taking full advantage of SQL's expressive power. You'd like to learn how to do more work with SQL inside the database before pushing data across the network to yo...

Do you have the skills but struggle to get them recognized? Do your ideas get overlooked in meetings, your emails go unanswered, or your presentations fall flat, even when you know you have the right answer?The problem is rarely intelligence. It's communication. And communication is a skill that can be learned, practiced, and improved.Business Communication Mastery gives you a practical, research-backed system to help you speak clearly, write effectively, and commu...

Woman: The Second Name of StruggleIn a world that celebrates strength yet often overlooks the silent battles behind it, Woman: The Second Name of Struggle is a heartfelt tribute to the resilience, courage, and unbreakable spirit of women.This book delves into the everyday realities of womanhood—where dreams are nurtured amidst responsibilities, voices rise despite suppression, and identities are forged through countless sacrifices. From societal expectations to personal bat...

This masterfully crafted poetry collection is far more than a mere anthology of verses; it is a profound and soulful journey through the multifaceted landscape of human existence. It serves as a mirror to the soul, reflecting the delicate interplay of life, emotions, and the intricate web of relationships that define our being. Each poem within these pages captures a singular, resonant experience—navigating the spectrum from the untainted innocence of childhood and the nurturing warmth of ...