Everyone imagines top CEOs as larger-than-life figures who do things no one else could. But deep down, a good business leader is an everyman who combines vision and high energy with the ability to connect with and learn from all types of people. In The Power of Being Yourself, renowned business leader Joe Plumeri offers simple yet profound guidance on how to stay positive, motivate yourself and others, and achieve success in your life and work.Plumeri's Game Plan for Succe...

You're a developer who knows nothing to WPF. Which is fine, except that you need to start coding your next application using WPF and the MVVM pattern.Don't worry: I have you covered. I've been training hundreds of developers like you during 15 years, and converted my experience into this book. I know from experience teaching what takes more time to learn in WPF, and will spend time only where appropriate.Plus this book is packed with exercises which build up into a full pro...

This passionate and monumental biography reassesses the life and legacy of one of the most significant cultural figures of the twentieth century Unevenly respected, easily hated, almost always suspected of being inferior to his reputation, Jean Cocteau has often been thought of as a jack-of-all-trades, master of none. In this landmark biography, Claude Arnaud thoroughly contests this characterization, as he celebrates Cocteau’s “fragile genius—a combination almost unlivabl...

This book presents a comprehensive overview of the state of the art in additive manufacturing in the world of concrete construction.3D Concrete Printing tackles its subject from several angles, including issues relating to concrete materials (such as their formulation or fresh-state behavior), the various printing processes that have been developed, and how to describe the mechanical behavior and architectural and structural designs of printed structures. ...

A powerful new understanding of global currency trends, including the rise of the Chinese yuanAt first glance, the modern history of the global economic system seems to support the long-held view that the leading world power’s currency—the British pound, the U.S. dollar, and perhaps someday the Chinese yuan—invariably dominates international trade and finance. In How Global Currencies Work, three noted economists provide a reassessment of this history and ...

A fascinating retelling of the first banking and financial collapse in eighteenth-century France.The Scottish economist John Law has been described as the architect of modern central banking. His "System," established in Regency France between 1716 and 1720, saw the founding of a bank issuing paper money and the establishment of state commercial and colonial enterprises aimed at consolidating public debt. What at first seemed like financial wizardry, however, resul...

Have you ever wondered what it truly felt like to sit in the cold, stone courtroom of a medieval inquisitor, hearing the rustle of parchment as every whisper from your home village was read back to you word for word?In The Last Consolamentum, historian Winston Maddox delivers a masterclass in microhistory, transporting you directly into the high-altitude, paranoid world of the Sabarthès mountains between 1311 and 1321. This is not a distant, dry s...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Arnaud de Coudrée has been practicing erotic spanking for thirty years. Here he tells of his adventures, selecting the most remarkable ones. During these years, he has known many partners, very different from each other. Each partner was a discovery, often full of surprises. To satisfy them, he listened to their most secret desires, which we discover in the course of his adventures.

You're a developer who knows nothing to Docker. Which is fine, except that you need to create and run your first containerized application using Docker.Don't worry: I have you covered. I've been training hundreds of developers like you during 17 years, and converted my experience into this book. I know from experience teaching what takes more time to learn in Docker, and will spend time only where appropriate.Plus this book is packed with exercises and samples where you run...

You're a developer who knows nothing to Microservices. Which is fine, except that you need to start coding your next Microservices-based application using ASP.NET Core and Docker.Don't worry: I have you covered. I've been training hundreds of developers like you during 16 years, and converted my experience into this book. I know from experience teaching what takes more time to learn in Microservices, and will spend time only where appropriate.Plus this book is packed with e...

In this ambitious and broad-reaching essay, Arnaud Frade explores the transformative potential of artificial intelligence as a true co-founder in an AI-first modern startup, which he labels as The Sentient Startup. Inspired by Sam Altman’s 2023 prediction of AI enabling one-person unicorns, this book examines how AI’s rapid advancements could empower entrepreneurs to build effective companies, able to grow fast and rival much larger firms by leveraging both human capabilities and ...

This volume of eight essays written by French scholars analyzes Daniel Mendelsohn's first three volumes of nonfiction (The Elusive Embrace, 1999; The Lost, 2006; and An Odyssey, 2017) and includes an illustrated interview (2019) in which Mendelsohn tackles various aspects of his work as a literary and cultural critic, as a professor of classical literature, as a translator, and as a memoirist. The essay discussing The Elusive Embrace (1999) argues that, in addition to offering a subtle ref...