In a rain-soaked San Francisco where AI and ancient greed dance in the shadows, private investigator Havelock Holmes finds himself drawn into a web of digital deception that threatens to consume everything he holds dear. When brilliant software engineer Eliza Dimas arrives at his Ferry Building office with evidence of an autonomous AI agent calling itself Robin H—a digital phantom draining bank accounts through fraudulent identities—Holmes enters a world where the line between flesh and co...

BESTSELLER!Victory Has a Body Count.The Reckoning Is Personal.When Harry Martinez volunteered, he was a police officer and a father who understood what war demands. He had served in the Marine Corps in the first Gulf War. In 2005, he arrived in Ramadi with the Army National Guard—where Al-Qaeda in Iraq hid among its citizens and every breath could be your last.Their sniper section was tasked with one mission: find the enemy and stop them. From rooftop hides a...

We often attend church with an expectation that our lives will somehow become perfected. We enter the church with the weight of the world on our shoulders: financial problems, relationship troubles, failing health, etc. All too often, we walk out the church door and all of our problems are still there. The bills are still overdue, the marriage is still struggling, the kids still don't listen, and your health is still not great. The truth is, we live in a fast-food culture. If your order is...

The acclaimed exploration of how public education can cultivate innovators—with a foreword by Russlynn Ali, a leading advocate for remaking schoolsDime-a-dozen ideas for reforming education seem to be everywhere these days but few actually transform the everyday experience of the 50-million-plus students who are regularly subjected to traditional lecturing, note-taking, and rote learning—often with dismal results. Enter Deeper Learning, "a fast read [that]...

The acclaimed exploration of how public education can cultivate innovators—with a foreword by Russlynn Ali, a leading advocate for remaking schoolsDime-a-dozen ideas for reforming education seem to be everywhere these days but few actually transform the everyday experience of the 50-million-plus students who are regularly subjected to traditional lecturing, note-taking, and rote learning—often with dismal results. Enter Deeper Learning, "a fast read [that]...

An inspirational journey from tragedy to triumphIn 2003, nineteen-year-old Private J.R. Martinez was on a routine patrol when the Humvee he was driving hit an antitank mine in Iraq, resulting in severe injuries and burns on his face and more than one-third of his body. Out of that tragedy came an improbable journey of inspiration, motivation, and dreams come true. In Full of Heart, Martinez shares his story in intimate detail, from his upbringing in the Am...

" W..what are you-" " Do you want me to show all those people who you belong to the easy way or the hard way?" He says deeply, a dark look in his eyes as he looks down at my lips then back to my eyes. I feel my heart start to beat insanely fast at his close presence, the smell of his expensive cologne intoxicating me, almost like he was trying to lure me into his lips. • Sofia Novikov, youngest daughter of the Russian Mafia leader was kept away from the public eye her whole life.He...

BESTSELLER!Victory Has a Body Count.The Reckoning Is Personal.When Harry Martinez volunteered, he was a police officer and a father who understood what war demands. He had served in the Marine Corps in the first Gulf War. In 2005, he arrived in Ramadi with the Army National Guard-where Al-Qaeda in Iraq hid among its citizens and every breath could be your last.Their sniper section was tasked with one mission: find the enemy and stop them. From rooftop hides ...

The first text to take a systems engineering approach to artificial intelligence (AI), from architecture principles to the development and deployment of AI capabilities.Most books on artificial intelligence (AI) focus on a single functional building block, such as machine learning or human-machine teaming. Artificial Intelligence takes a more holistic approach, addressing AI from the view of systems engineering. The book centers on the people-process-technology tri...

Marcha is a multidisciplinary survey of the individuals, organizations, and institutions that have given shape and power to the contemporary immigrant rights movement in Chicago. A city with longstanding historic ties to immigrant activism, Chicago has been the scene of a precedent-setting immigrant rights mobilization in 2006 and subsequent mobilizations in 2007 and 2008.Positing Chicago as a microcosm of the immigrant rights movement on national level, these essays plumb...

Chronology of Venezuelan Oil (1969) covers all aspects of the Venezuelan petroleum industry’s historical evolution: technical, legal, economic, social and political to create a reference source for scholars, teachers, executives, professionals and technicians, as well as students of the industry.

Over the past several decades, applications permeated by advances in digital signal processing have undergone unprecedented growth in capabilities. The editors and authors of High Performance Embedded Computing Handbook: A Systems Perspective have been significant contributors to this field, and the principles and techniques presented in the handbook are reinforced by examples drawn from their work.The chapters cover system components found in today’s HPEC systems by addressing des...