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What's Next? AI & The Antichrist

by Jimmy Evans, Mark Hitchcock ...

The final pages of history are being written.Recent global upheavals, exponential technological advances, collapsing morality, and calls for a one-world government are all preparing the way for the Antichrist's reign. Gathering fascinating insights from biblical prophecy, authors Jimmy Evans and Mark Hitchcock encourage readers to:Recognize the "signs of the times" heralding the approach of earth ... Read more

$13.99 CAD

The final pages of history are being written.Recent global upheavals, exponential technological advances, collapsing morality, and calls for a one-world government are all preparing the way for the Antichrist's reign. Gathering fascinating insights from biblical prophecy, authors Jimmy Evans and Mark Hitchcock encourage readers to:Recognize the "signs of the times" heralding the approach of earth
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Human + Machine, Updated and Expanded

Reimagining Work in the Age of AI

by Paul R. Daugherty, H. James Wilson ...

AI—including generative AI—is radically transforming business. Are you ready? Accenture technology leaders Paul Daugherty and Jim Wilson provide crucial insights and advice to help you meet the challenge.Look around you. Artificial intelligence is no longer just a futuristic notion. It's here right now—in software that senses what we need, supply chains that "think" in real time, and now ... Read more

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AI—including generative AI—is radically transforming business. Are you ready? Accenture technology leaders Paul Daugherty and Jim Wilson provide crucial insights and advice to help you meet the challenge.Look around you. Artificial intelligence is no longer just a futuristic notion. It's here right now—in software that senses what we need, supply chains that "think" in real time, and now
... Read more
App Inventor 2

Create Your Own Android Apps

by David Wolber, Hal Abelson, Ellen Spertus, Liz Looney ...

Yes, you can create your own apps for Android devices—and it’s easy to do. This extraordinary book introduces you to App Inventor 2, a powerful visual tool that lets anyone build apps. Learn App Inventor basics hands-on with step-by-step instructions for building more than a dozen fun projects, including a text answering machine app, a quiz app, and an app for finding your parked car!The second ... Read more

$28.99 CAD

Yes, you can create your own apps for Android devices—and it’s easy to do. This extraordinary book introduces you to App Inventor 2, a powerful visual tool that lets anyone build apps. Learn App Inventor basics hands-on with step-by-step instructions for building more than a dozen fun projects, including a text answering machine app, a quiz app, and an app for finding your parked car!The second
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Futureproof

Amplifying Agility with AI and Insightful Business Analysis

by Tim Coventry, Angela Wick ...

Every organization performs business analysis, but how well? Are you ready to bring your business analysis practices into the AI era?While C-suite leaders hail business analysis as a cornerstone capability in their organizations, many professionals, practices, and processes are ill-prepared for the demands of tomorrow. Influencing virtually every project and product team, business analysis is on ... Read more

$27.99 CAD

Every organization performs business analysis, but how well? Are you ready to bring your business analysis practices into the AI era?While C-suite leaders hail business analysis as a cornerstone capability in their organizations, many professionals, practices, and processes are ill-prepared for the demands of tomorrow. Influencing virtually every project and product team, business analysis is on
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Windows 10: Learn How to Transition from Windows 7 to Windows 10

by Chris Shcekler ...

Technology is everything in both our business and personal lives nowadays. With technology comes both hardware and software upgrades. So now you find yourself needing to upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 10. While some like taking the exploration route after installing a new operating system, others prefer to gather information and plan accordingly. It can sometimes be a bit of a challenge to ... Read more

$5.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Technology is everything in both our business and personal lives nowadays. With technology comes both hardware and software upgrades. So now you find yourself needing to upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 10. While some like taking the exploration route after installing a new operating system, others prefer to gather information and plan accordingly. It can sometimes be a bit of a challenge to
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Instant Google Drive Starter

by Mike Procopio ...

Get to grips with a new technology, understand what it is and what it can do for you, and then get to work with the most important features and tasks. This book is a Starter which teaches you how to use Google Drive practically. This book is perfect for people of all skill levels who want to enjoy the benefits of using Google Drive to safely store their files online and in the cloud. It's also ... Read more

$11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Get to grips with a new technology, understand what it is and what it can do for you, and then get to work with the most important features and tasks. This book is a Starter which teaches you how to use Google Drive practically. This book is perfect for people of all skill levels who want to enjoy the benefits of using Google Drive to safely store their files online and in the cloud. It's also
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PMP Project Management Professional Lab Manual

by Joseph Phillips ...

Practice the Project Management Skills Essential for Your Success50+ lab exercises challenge you to solve problems based on realistic case studiesStep-by-step scenarios require you to think criticallyLab analysis tests measure your understanding of lab resultsKey term quizzes help build your vocabularyCovers all PMP exam objectives, including:Exploring PMP FoundationsExamining the Project Life ... ... Read more

$46.99 CAD

Practice the Project Management Skills Essential for Your Success50+ lab exercises challenge you to solve problems based on realistic case studiesStep-by-step scenarios require you to think criticallyLab analysis tests measure your understanding of lab resultsKey term quizzes help build your vocabularyCovers all PMP exam objectives, including:Exploring PMP FoundationsExamining the Project Life ...
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Artificially Intelligent

The Very Human Story of AI

by David Eliot ...

The story of AI isn’t finished yet. The question is: how will you be part of it?With the unprecedented adoption of artificial intelligence and its far-reaching implications, people everywhere are witnessing the world change around them. Artificially Intelligent answers today’s most pressing questions about AI – from the fundamental to the futuristic – offering readers a new, informed worldview.In ... Read more

$26.99 CAD

The story of AI isn’t finished yet. The question is: how will you be part of it?With the unprecedented adoption of artificial intelligence and its far-reaching implications, people everywhere are witnessing the world change around them. Artificially Intelligent answers today’s most pressing questions about AI – from the fundamental to the futuristic – offering readers a new, informed worldview.In
... Read more
Automated Reasoning

11th International Joint Conference, IJCAR 2022, Haifa, Israel, August 8–10, 2022, Proceedings

Edited by Jasmin Blanchette, Laura Kovács, Dirk Pattinson ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This volume, LNAI 13385, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning, IJCAR 2022, held in Haifa, Israel, in August 2022.The 32 full research papers and 9 short papers presented together with two invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 85 submissions. The papers focus on the following topics: Satisfiability, SMT Solving ... Read more

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This volume, LNAI 13385, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning, IJCAR 2022, held in Haifa, Israel, in August 2022.The 32 full research papers and 9 short papers presented together with two invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 85 submissions. The papers focus on the following topics: Satisfiability, SMT Solving
... Read more
Learning OpenCV 3 Computer Vision with Python (Update)

Unleash the power of computer vision with Python using OpenCV

by Joe Minichino, Joseph Howse ...

Unleash the power of computer vision with Python using OpenCV Key FeaturesBook DescriptionOpenCV 3 is a state-of-the-art computer vision library that allows a great variety of image and video processing operations. Some of the more spectacular and futuristic features such as face recognition or object tracking are easily achievable with OpenCV 3. Learning the basic concepts behind computer vision ... Read more

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Unleash the power of computer vision with Python using OpenCV Key FeaturesBook DescriptionOpenCV 3 is a state-of-the-art computer vision library that allows a great variety of image and video processing operations. Some of the more spectacular and futuristic features such as face recognition or object tracking are easily achievable with OpenCV 3. Learning the basic concepts behind computer vision
... Read more
The Irrational Decision

How We Gave Computers the Power to Choose for Us

by Benjamin Recht ...

How the computer revolution shaped our conception of rationality—and why human problems require solutions rooted in human intuition, morality, and judgmentIn the 1940s, mathematicians set out to design computers that could act as ideal rational agents in the face of uncertainty. The Irrational Decision tells the story of how they settled on a peculiar mathematical definition of rationality in ... Read more

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How the computer revolution shaped our conception of rationality—and why human problems require solutions rooted in human intuition, morality, and judgmentIn the 1940s, mathematicians set out to design computers that could act as ideal rational agents in the face of uncertainty. The Irrational Decision tells the story of how they settled on a peculiar mathematical definition of rationality in
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Linked Open Data -- Creating Knowledge Out of Interlinked Data

Results of the LOD2 Project

Edited by Sören Auer, Volha Bryl, Sebastian Tramp ...

Series series Computer Science (R0)
Linked Open Data (LOD) is a pragmatic approach for realizing the Semantic Web vision of making the Web a global, distributed, semantics-based information system. This book presents an overview on the results of the research project “LOD2 -- Creating Knowledge out of Interlinked Data”. LOD2 is a large-scale integrating project co-funded by the European Commission within the FP7 Information and ... Read more

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Linked Open Data (LOD) is a pragmatic approach for realizing the Semantic Web vision of making the Web a global, distributed, semantics-based information system. This book presents an overview on the results of the research project “LOD2 -- Creating Knowledge out of Interlinked Data”. LOD2 is a large-scale integrating project co-funded by the European Commission within the FP7 Information and
... Read more
J2EE Design Patterns

Patterns in the Real World

by William Crawford, Jonathan Kaplan ...

Architects of buildings and architects of software have more in common than most people think. Both professions require attention to detail, and both practitioners will see their work collapse around them if they make too many mistakes. It's impossible to imagine a world in which buildings get built without blueprints, but it's still common for software applications to be designed and built ... Read more

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Architects of buildings and architects of software have more in common than most people think. Both professions require attention to detail, and both practitioners will see their work collapse around them if they make too many mistakes. It's impossible to imagine a world in which buildings get built without blueprints, but it's still common for software applications to be designed and built
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On the Quest for Computable Knowledge

by Stephen Wolfram ...

Wolfram discusses the history of computation from its earliest beginnings to current applications and the emergence of computable knowledge. Notable figures include: Pythagoras, Archimedes, Isaac Newton, Galileo, Gottfried Leibniz, Carl Linnaeus, John von Neumann, and many others. ... Read more

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Wolfram discusses the history of computation from its earliest beginnings to current applications and the emergence of computable knowledge. Notable figures include: Pythagoras, Archimedes, Isaac Newton, Galileo, Gottfried Leibniz, Carl Linnaeus, John von Neumann, and many others.
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AI Aesthetics

AI-Generated Images between Artistics and Aisthetics

Edited by Jan-Noël Thon, Lukas R.A. Wilde ...

Series series Routledge Focus on Digital Media and Culture
This volume investigates the intersection of generative AI and media aesthetics from an interdisciplinary perspective. Combining in-depth theoretical reflection with a diverse selection of case studies, its authors explore the aesthetic forms of AI-generated medial objects as well as the cultural imaginaries that the latter draw upon.Bringing together a group of scholars from various geographic ... Read more

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This volume investigates the intersection of generative AI and media aesthetics from an interdisciplinary perspective. Combining in-depth theoretical reflection with a diverse selection of case studies, its authors explore the aesthetic forms of AI-generated medial objects as well as the cultural imaginaries that the latter draw upon.Bringing together a group of scholars from various geographic
... Read more
Digital Gold

Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money

by Nathaniel Popper ...

A New York Times reporter's "vivid" account of the dramatic rise of Bitcoin and how it has led to untold riches for some—and prison terms for others ( Financial Times).Shortlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the YearA New York Times Book Review Editor's ChoiceThe notion of a new currency, maintained by the computers of users around the world, has been th... ... Read more

$19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

A New York Times reporter's "vivid" account of the dramatic rise of Bitcoin and how it has led to untold riches for some—and prison terms for others ( Financial Times).Shortlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the YearA New York Times Book Review Editor's ChoiceThe notion of a new currency, maintained by the computers of users around the world, has been th...
... Read more
Microsoft Dynamics Sure Step 2010

The smart guide to the successful delivery of your Dynamics business solutions

by Chandru Shankar, Vincent Bellefroid ...

The smart guide to the successful delivery of your Dynamics business solutionsKey FeaturesLearn how to effectively use Microsoft Dynamics Sure Step to implement the right Dynamics business solution with quality, on-time and on-budget results.Leverage the Decision Accelerator offerings in Microsoft Dynamics Sure Step to create consistent selling motions while helping your customer ascertain the ... Read more

$55.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

The smart guide to the successful delivery of your Dynamics business solutionsKey FeaturesLearn how to effectively use Microsoft Dynamics Sure Step to implement the right Dynamics business solution with quality, on-time and on-budget results.Leverage the Decision Accelerator offerings in Microsoft Dynamics Sure Step to create consistent selling motions while helping your customer ascertain the
... Read more
Enterprise Architecture Patterns

Practical Solutions for Recurring IT-Architecture Problems

by Thierry Perroud, Reto Inversini ...

Series series Computer Science (R0)
Every enterprise architect faces similar problems when designing and governing the enterprise architecture of a medium to large enterprise. Design patterns are a well-established concept in software engineering, used to define universally applicable solution schemes. By applying this approach to enterprise architectures, recurring problems in the design and implementation of enterprise ... Read more

$73.99 CAD

Every enterprise architect faces similar problems when designing and governing the enterprise architecture of a medium to large enterprise. Design patterns are a well-established concept in software engineering, used to define universally applicable solution schemes. By applying this approach to enterprise architectures, recurring problems in the design and implementation of enterprise
... Read more
Search Patterns

Design for Discovery

by Peter Morville, Jeffery Callender ...

What people are saying about Search Patterns"Search Patterns is a delight to read -- very thoughtful and thought provoking. It's the most comprehensive survey of designing effective search experiences I've seen." --Irene Au, Director of User Experience, Google"I love this book! Thanks to Peter and Jeffery, I now know that search (yes, boring old yucky who cares search) is one of the coolest ways ... Read more

$28.99 CAD

What people are saying about Search Patterns"Search Patterns is a delight to read -- very thoughtful and thought provoking. It's the most comprehensive survey of designing effective search experiences I've seen." --Irene Au, Director of User Experience, Google"I love this book! Thanks to Peter and Jeffery, I now know that search (yes, boring old yucky who cares search) is one of the coolest ways
... Read more
Redis Cookbook

Practical Techniques for Fast Data Manipulation

by Tiago Macedo, Fred Oliveira ...

Two years since its initial release, Redis already has an impressive list of adopters, including Engine Yard, GitHub, Craigslist, and Digg. This open source data structure server is built for speed and flexibility, making it ideal for many applications. If you're using Redis, or considering it, this concise cookbook provides recipes for a variety of issues you're likely to face.Each recipe solves ... Read more

$14.99 CAD

Two years since its initial release, Redis already has an impressive list of adopters, including Engine Yard, GitHub, Craigslist, and Digg. This open source data structure server is built for speed and flexibility, making it ideal for many applications. If you're using Redis, or considering it, this concise cookbook provides recipes for a variety of issues you're likely to face.Each recipe solves
... Read more
Accessibility Handbook

Making 508 Compliant Websites

by Katie Cunningham ...

Get practical guidelines for making your website accessible to people with disabilities. With this handbook, you’ll learn how to design or develop a site that conforms to Section 508 of the US Rehabilitation Act—and in the process you’ll discover how to provide a better user experience for everyone.The Accessibility Handbook introduces you to several audiences that have difficulty using today’s ... Read more

$12.99 CAD

Get practical guidelines for making your website accessible to people with disabilities. With this handbook, you’ll learn how to design or develop a site that conforms to Section 508 of the US Rehabilitation Act—and in the process you’ll discover how to provide a better user experience for everyone.The Accessibility Handbook introduces you to several audiences that have difficulty using today’s
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Python: Master the Art of Design Patterns

by Dusty Phillips, Chetan Giridhar, Sakis Kasampalis ...

Ensure your code is sleek, efficient and elegant by mastering powerful Python design patternsAbout This BookLearn all about abstract design patterns and how to implement them in Python 3Understand the structural, creational, and behavioral Python design patternsGet to know the context and application of design patterns to solve real-world problems in software architecture, design, and application ... Read more

$76.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Ensure your code is sleek, efficient and elegant by mastering powerful Python design patternsAbout This BookLearn all about abstract design patterns and how to implement them in Python 3Understand the structural, creational, and behavioral Python design patternsGet to know the context and application of design patterns to solve real-world problems in software architecture, design, and application
... Read more
AI Futures

by Evgeny Morozov ...

A sober assessment of AI today, and a bold vision for what it could be.Generative AI tools, released by a handful of rich tech companies, are remaking the economy, society, and human life as we know it. Must their vision be our common destiny?Leading a forum, acclaimed technology writer Evgeny Morozov—author of To Save Everything, Click Here and host of the podcast A Sense of Rebellion—takes a ... Read more

$11.99 CAD

A sober assessment of AI today, and a bold vision for what it could be.Generative AI tools, released by a handful of rich tech companies, are remaking the economy, society, and human life as we know it. Must their vision be our common destiny?Leading a forum, acclaimed technology writer Evgeny Morozov—author of To Save Everything, Click Here and host of the podcast A Sense of Rebellion—takes a
... Read more
Managing Mission - Critical Domains and DNS

Demystifying nameservers, DNS, and domain names

by Mark E.Jeftovic ...

This book will give you an all encompassing view of the domain name ecosystem combined with a comprehensive set of operations strategies. Key FeaturesManage infrastructure, risk, and management of DNS name servers. Get hands-on with factors like types of name servers, DNS queries and and so on.Practical guide for system administrators to manage mission-critical serversBased on real-world ... Read more

$41.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

This book will give you an all encompassing view of the domain name ecosystem combined with a comprehensive set of operations strategies. Key FeaturesManage infrastructure, risk, and management of DNS name servers. Get hands-on with factors like types of name servers, DNS queries and and so on.Practical guide for system administrators to manage mission-critical serversBased on real-world
... Read more

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