Rant & Dawdle is a fictional memoir comprising thirty-eight interwoven stories from the perspective of a grumpy old man living on a small island off the west coast of Canada and an expectant young boy born into the poverty of WW2 English working class. The old man dreaming in retrospect, the young boy living a developing history, both to eventually rendezvous in the eighties. Filled with the humour and history of a post war generation nurtured on comic books, the Goon Show an...

Brother against Brother: 140 Civil War Memoirs assembles a vast documentary chorus from the American Civil War, illuminating combat, command, captivity, nursing, naval service, campaigning, and the unsettled moral terrain of national rupture. Ranging from terse battlefield recollection and military analysis to reflective autobiography and eyewitness narrative, the volume preserves the varied registers through which participants made meaning of war. Accounts of major operations stand beside...

100+ Civil War Soldier Memoirs assembles a capacious, often conflicting archive of lived experience from the American Civil War. Ranging from battlefield recollection, campaign narrative, naval observation, prison testimony, and partisan chronicle to retrospective meditation, these memoirs reveal how war was recorded in both immediate sensory detail and later acts of remembrance. Accounts of celebrated operations stand beside less familiar episodes of marching, illness, comradeship, comman...

From the critically acclaimed, award-winning S. J. Rozan comes her finest novel to date—an explosive novel about the corrosive power of secrets and corruption in a small town.In the middle of the night, private investigator Bill Smith is awakened by a call from the NYPD. They’re holding fifteen-year-old named Gary—Bill’s nephew. But before Bill can find out what is going on, Gary escapes custody into the dark night and unfamiliar streets. Bill, with the help of his partner Lydia Ch...

Written with the help of Courtney Ryley Cooper, Memories of Buffalo Bill offers an idealized account of William F. Cody’s life from the perspective of his wife, Louisa. True to its origins, this account offers many more details about Cody’s domestic life, including his children, than any other preceding work. Although William and Louisa’s real-life marriage was marred by some high-profile scandals, it endured until her husband’s death in 1917.Memories of Buffalo Bill

"Building Conversational AI with Botpress"Unlock the full potential of conversational AI with "Building Conversational AI with Botpress," a rigorous and comprehensive guide for professionals, developers, and architects. This book lays a robust foundation, starting with the core concepts of linguistics, dialog theory, and the evolving taxonomy of conversational agents. Through in-depth explorations of natural language understanding (NLU), natural language generation (NLG), dialog ma...

"Building Internal Tools with Appsmith""Building Internal Tools with Appsmith" is a comprehensive guide that addresses the evolving landscape of enterprise software development through low-code technology. This book begins by exploring the strategic importance of internal tools in modern organizations, detailing how platforms like Appsmith are revolutionizing efficiency, scalability, and responsiveness within businesses. Readers are introduced to the fundamental capabilities and ar...

"Building Modern Internal Tools with Budibase""Building Modern Internal Tools with Budibase" provides a comprehensive and forward-looking guide to designing, deploying, and scaling internal applications using the Budibase low-code platform. The book opens with an incisive exploration of the changing landscape of internal tools and why the shift toward low-code and no-code solutions like Budibase is transforming organizational efficiency and adaptability. Through detailed case studi...

"Building Reliable Web APIs with Echo and Go""Building Reliable Web APIs with Echo and Go" is the ultimate guide for developers aiming to design, build, and operate robust API services with Go and the Echo web framework. Bridging deep, production-grade Go expertise with modern cloud-native architecture patterns, this book takes readers from advanced language mastery—including concurrency, error management, and project structuring—through to effective use of Echo’s composable middle...

“Archibald Cary Coolidge [1866-1928]... was born into fortunate circumstances and could easily have spent his years in respectable indolence. In his formal boyhood schooling in a variety of educational institutions he showed no particular early promise of orderly thought and study. But he came alive at Harvard College... [H]e returned to his college, after rigorous study and stimulating travel in Europe, to make a memorable career as a professor of history and international affairs, as a t...

How you speak to your kids today will impact your relationship with them tomorrow**.**As a parent, your words are powerful. What you say and how you say it has the potential to either invite your children into deeper relationship with you or push them away. What’s more, in a very real sense, your words represent―or misrepresent―God’s words to his children― meaning they h...

About the Book This book acknowledges the need to identify and embrace todays generations. Under One Roof provides pastors, church leaders, and laypersons with insight for the cultivation of an intergenerational church. This resource offers the necessary tools, allowing each generation to be valued while keeping the church focused on its mission of kingdom building. Book Reflections Congregations interested in closing the generational divide will find Smiths book a must read. He gives keen...