Get a free eBook (PDF or ePub) from Manning as well as access to the online liveBook format (and its AI assistant that will answer your questions in any language) when you purchase the print book.Sometimes your LLMs return brilliant responses. Other times, not so much. Do you know why? This book shows you how to move from accidental AI results to reliable, production-grade systems you can deploy with confidence . Written by AI veterans Richard Davies

Learn to lead at the highest levels without compromising what matters most.In Corner Office, Higher Call, Dr. Richard Lytle offers a rare backstage pass into decades of primary research and his personal friendships with hundreds of Christ-following CEOs. These high-level, large-scale business leaders openly share the practices and patterns that have helped them remain grounded and empowered in their marriages, homes, churches, and marketplaces.Join...

A great poem that brings us through darkness to hopeT. S. Eliot, the most famous poet and critic of his age, went through a long period of darkness in his personal life. But it was also a time when he discovered a foundation for existence in the Christian faith. /Four Quartets/, one of the great poems of the twentieth century, written when Eliot was at the height of his powers, reflects that journey while arriving at an ultimate hopefulness about life. This book wi...

A Bold Vision for the Future of HospitalityFor more than 1,400 years, the hotel industry has relied on the same model: build hotels near destinations and fill them with guests.But modern travelers expect something more.In The Hospitality Wildcatter, veteran hotel developer Richard Shawn Ellis explores how hospitality lost its focus on people and became dominated by standardized brands and predictable experiences. Drawing on decades of work ...

Odes and elegies set in Prussia, Lithuania, and on the killing fields of the Eastern Front during World War II. These are war wounds in poetic form, bringing buried history and oppression powerfully into the light.Often compared to the poetry of Paul Celan and Nelly Sachs, the postwar verse of Johannes Bobrowski is set in the East Prussian and Lithuanian landscapes of his childhood, and in the killing fields he witnessed as a young German soldier on the eastern fro...

He can write the words that make a stranger fall in love. He's spent his whole life too afraid to say them himself.Julian Alvarez runs a coffee shop out of a mid-range hotel and a secret out of a community corkboard. Leave a card with your first name, and — if he chooses you — an anonymous love letter arrives, written by a man none of his clients has ever met. No names. No faces. Just the truth, said plainly, by someone with nothing to gain from saying it.It started as a way ...

At the outset of the nineteenth century, Boston was at its zenith as a maritime city even as New England was in decline. Many struggling farmers abandoned the area for more promising opportunities to the west. Yet by 1850, New England had been transformed into one of the most industrialized regions in the world. Former agricultural villages had become specialized manufacturing towns producing consumer goods for sale, and Boston merchant capitalists had established textile complexes that pr...

The data was promising. The sample size wasn't.A year after Dr. Richard Harder's original study made headlines, doctoral candidate Julian Beaumont — sharp, self-aware, and determined to finish what Richard started — takes the reins on the sequel study everyone's been waiting for. This time it's bigger: multiple cities, over a hundred participants, married couples, monogamous partners of every orientation, and a research design built to survive scrutiny the first study never had to f...

BOOK 6 IN THE BESTSELLING CANON CLEMENT MYSTERY SERIES'The best of the new cosy crime writers' Daily Telegraph'You'll want to take a front row pew in Champton while this delicious series unfolds' Janice HallettChristmas in Champton, and Daniel and Neil Vanloo are reluctantly conscripted into the Cathedral's choir. The town is buzzing with preparations, festive merriment prevails, and the concert goes without...

BOOK 6 IN THE BESTSELLING CANON CLEMENT MYSTERY SERIES'The best of the new cosy crime writers' Daily Telegraph'You'll want to take a front row pew in Champton while this delicious series unfolds' Janice HallettChristmas in Champton, and Daniel and Neil Vanloo are reluctantly conscripted into the Cathedral's choir. The town is buzzing with preparations, festive merriment prevails, and the concert goes without...

After years of abuse, Gemma Adderley has finally found the courage to leave her violent husband. She has taken one debilitating beating too many, endured one esteem-destroying insult too much. Taking her seven-year-old daughter Carly, she leaves the house, determined to salvage what she can of her life.She phones Safe Harbour, a women's refuge, and they tell her which street corner to wait on and what the car that will pick her up will look like. They tell her the word the driver w...

Days after Allied forces invaded France on D-Day, June 6, 1944, the American 90th Infantry Division found itself in trouble. The inexperienced division ran up against fierce German resistance in the marshes and impenetrable hedgerows beyond Utah Beach. Gains came slowly, if at all, and with punishing casualties. First one commander, then another, was fired. High command considered breaking up the division. Then, in July, the 90th turned itself around. Seasoned by weeks of war, new leaders ...