**REVISED 2025 EDITION WITH AN INSPIRING NEW EPILOGUENATIONAL BESTSELLER"Gripping . . . An engaging, compassionate story of a woman's quest for hope in the wake of trauma and violence." —Winnipeg Free Press**When Shannon Moroney married in October of 2005, she had no idea that her happy life as a newlywed was about to come crashing down around her. One month after her wedding, a police officer arrived at her door to tell her that her husband, Jason, had bee...

**REVISED 2025 EDITION WITH AN INSPIRING NEW EPILOGUENATIONAL BESTSELLER"Gripping . . . An engaging, compassionate story of a woman's quest for hope in the wake of trauma and violence." —Winnipeg Free Press**When Shannon Moroney married in October of 2005, she had no idea that her happy life as a newlywed was about to come crashing down around her. One month after her wedding, a police officer arrived at her door to tell her that her husband, Jason, had bee...

Plan how to build a better app, grow it into a business, and earn money from your hard work using Firebase. In this book, Laurence Moroney, Staff Developer Advocate at Google, takes you through each of the 15 Firebase technologies, showing you how to use them with concrete examples. You’ll see how to build cross-platform apps with the three pillars of the Firebase platform: technologies to help you develop apps with a real-time database, remote configuration, cloud messagi...

Eager to learn AI and machine learning but unsure where to start? Laurence Moroney's hands-on, code-first guide demystifies complex AI concepts without relying on advanced mathematics. Designed for programmers, it focuses on practical applications using PyTorch, helping you build real-world models without feeling overwhelmed.From computer vision and natural language processing (NLP) to generative AI with Hugging Face Transformers, this book equips you with the skills most in demand...

If you're looking to make a career move from programmer to AI specialist, this is the ideal place to start. Based on Laurence Moroney's extremely successful AI courses, this introductory book provides a hands-on, code-first approach to help you build confidence while you learn key topics.You'll understand how to implement the most common scenarios in machine learning, such as computer vision, natural language processing (NLP), and sequence modeling for web, mobile, cloud, and embed...

This intriguing volume takes a different path to heaven. Rather than imaginatively guessing at what heaven will be like, or sorting through the problematic accounts of those who have supposedly been there, this work explores what the Bible teaches about what will not be there.What You Won't Find in Heaven is filled with hope by contrasting everyday life now and future life in heaven. It explores how heavenly life will indeed be blissful because of what is missing.

Rip a young boy of fourteen from his Impoverished Irish family in the middle of the twentieth century and send him off to live with virtual strangers in Chicago. Raise him well. Then watch him survive the hell of Viet Nam. Meet Dan Quinn. A story of love and redemption.

In 1987 Jim Moroney had an extraterrestrial encounter at a small truck stop just outside Manitoba, Canada. It changed his life forever. He spent the next twenty years studying the phenomenon of extraterrestrials. His book will provide answers to all your questions about visitors from other planets, including:Why are they here?When were the first recorded sightings of aliens?Where do most sightings occur?What kind of scientific evidence is there for the presence of aliens?How is the governm...

AI is nothing without somewhere to run it. Now that mobile devices have become the primary computing device for most people, it's essential that mobile developers add AI to their toolbox. This insightful book is your guide to creating and running models on popular mobile platforms such as iOS and Android.Laurence Moroney, lead AI advocate at Google, offers an introduction to machine learning techniques and tools, then walks you through writing Android and iOS apps powered by common...

“Chicagoland Dream Houses is an engaging addition to the growing body of scholarship concerning Chicago’s twentieth-century residential landscape characterized by a diverse group of architects and builders.”--Michelangelo Sabatino, coauthor of Modern in the Middle: Chicago Houses 1929–1975

In a time when terrorism is a global threat, it is easy to forget the faces of the individuals caught inside a conflict that exists beyond understanding and continues without the hope of an end. For the members of a Palestinian terrorist gang and their opponents in the Israeli Mossad, such an intellectual distance from the true costs of conflict would be a blessing. For them, its all too real, too present, and too personal. For them, its a literal fight to the death. Both sides are led by ...

Step into the remarkable life of Jay H. Dakelman, a combat medic with the 86th Pontoon Division of the First Army Corps of Engineers during World War II. In "The Bridge to Victory," discover the untold stories of the brave men who built the vital pontoon bridges that ensured the success of the American Army on the European front. Part I of this gripping biography takes you through the harrowing experiences and travels of the 86th, highlighting their indispensable role in the war effort and...