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Building your first PC doesn’t have to be intimidating. If you’ve ever stared at a pile of computer parts and felt overwhelmed, The Frame Rate Frontier is your calm, step-by-step roadmap from unopened boxes to a fully powered machine. Written in plain English without unnecessary jargon this beginner-friendly guide walks you through every stage of the build with confidence and clarity.

Power On Your Machine walks absolute beginners through every step of building a custom computer from scratch. If you’ve ever looked inside a PC case and felt intimidated by the cables, chips, and unfamiliar terms, this audiobook breaks everything down into simple, clear language anyone can understand.

The Machine Economy explores the coming shift where machines, artificial intelligence, and blockchain technology begin interacting economically without human intervention. As digital assets and decentralized networks evolve, a new financial system is emerging where value can move instantly between machines, systems, and people across the world. In this short book, Carl Aguillard explains the concept of the machine economy and how technologies like blockchain, AI, and digital assets could transform global commerce.

AI Agents for Business Leaders introduces the Agentic Maturity Model—a five-level framework that shows exactly where your business sits today, what the next level looks like, and what changes when you get there. Most businesses are stuck at Level 1 or 2. The ones pulling ahead have reached Level 3 and beyond—where AI doesn't assist work, it owns it.

Every click, search, swipe, and movement through digital space leaves behind a trace. Invisible to most users yet meticulously recorded by platforms, brokers, and algorithms, these traces accumulate into what can be understood as a hidden account — an unseen system where personal information is continuously extracted, analyzed, traded, and monetised. The Invisible Ledger explores this silent economy and its profound implications for privacy, autonomy, and human identity. This audiobook examines how modern technology has transformed everyday behavior into a valuable commercial asset.

We live under the comforting assumption that the digital world is permanent — that what we upload, store, and share online will remain accessible forever. Digital Memory & Identity challenges this illusion by exploring the fragility, decay, and impermanence of our modern digital archives. This book examines how our personal histories, cultural artifacts, creative works, and collective knowledge are increasingly stored on technological foundations that are far more vulnerable than traditional physical records.

If you've ever felt locked out of software development because you lack a computer science degree, this book is your breakthrough guide. "Claude Code and GitHub for Beginners" shows non-technical founders, freelancers, and creators how to build real applications using AI coding tools and professional version control.

The greatest professional disruption since the internet is happening right now—and most leaders are responding with the one strategy guaranteed to fail: random experimentation. While they chase tools, a small cohort of strategic leaders is quietly building an advantage that compounds daily. They're not learning faster. They're learning differently—with systems that turn AI into operational leverage instead of another item on the to-do list.

A joyous exploration of the cultural phenomenon that created Mario, Zelda and Pokémon, and an ode to our love of gaming, by one of the most trusted voices in video games writing. 'Among the best things ever written about Nintendo.' Tom Bissell , author of Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter From the instant classics to the hidden gems, Nintendo's video games occupy a special place in the hearts of hundreds of millions of people around the globe.

A beautifully written insight into the stresses, strains and successes of working for the London Ambulance service. Is there anyone who hasn't wondered about the state of the occupant of an ambulance, screaming along with its sirens on and blue lights flashing? Have you? And have you wondered about the other people inside the ambulance, maybe fighting to save the patient's life?

Starting a blog is one of the most exciting journeys you can take in today’s digital world. It’s an opportunity to share your passions, build your personal brand, connect with like-minded readers, and even open the door to new income streams. Yet for many beginners, the dream feels intimidating. Words like domain names, hosting, plugins, SEO, and monetization sound like a foreign language. The mountain seems too steep to climb.

Written by an airline pilot and a clinical psychologist, this combination of practical explanation and self-help techniques is the definitive guide to help nervous passengers overcome their fear of flying. Lighthearted, unpatronising and informative.

Agile Project Management for Dummies introduces you to the planning and execution approaches that can help you complete projects more quickly, with higher quality and using fewer resources. For companies in any industry—not just software development—agile project management reduces waste and increases transparency, while addressing customers' ever-changing requirements. You'll learn all the important terms, tools, and concepts, so you can infuse agility into your projects right away. Create a product roadmap and prepare for product launches with ease, thanks to this Dummies guide.

Sierra On-Line was one of the very first computer game companies and at one time dominated the industry. The author, Ken Williams, founded Sierra On-Line with his wife Roberta who went on to create many of the company's best-selling games. Sierra grew from just Ken and Roberta to over 1,000 employees and a fan base that still exists today, despite the fact that the company was torn apart by criminal activities, scandal, and corruption that resulted in jail sentences and the collapse of Sierra.

Unlock the potential of Generative AI with this Large Language Model production-ready playbook for seamless deployment, optimization, and scaling. This hands-on guide takes you beyond theory, offering expert strategies for integrating LLMs into real-world applications using retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), vector databases, PEFT, LoRA, and scalable inference architectures. Whether you're an ML engineer, data scientist, or MLOps practitioner, you’ll gain the technical know-how to operationalize LLMs efficiently, reduce compute costs, and ensure rock-solid reliability in production.

Stop struggling with traditional coding tutorials that lead nowhere. Claude Code for Beginners is your complete roadmap to mastering AI-assisted development—even if you've never written a line of code. Written by Michael Patterson, who leads 120 engineers at a major tech company, this book bridges the gap between surface-level AI prompts and the development of production-ready applications. Whether you're an entrepreneur with a SaaS idea, a career changer, or a professional looking to automate workflows, this practical guide gets you there in 90 days.

How do you detangle a monolithic system and migrate it to a microservice architecture? How do you do it while maintaining business-as-usual? As a companion to Sam Newman’s extremely popular Building Microservices, this new book details a proven method for transitioning an existing monolithic system to a microservice architecture.

Transform your game development process with the power of artificial intelligence and create immersive gaming experiences that captivate players. Whether you're an indie game developer working solo or a programming student exploring cutting-edge technology, this comprehensive guide reveals how AI is revolutionizing modern game creation from concept to launch. Discover practical techniques for implementing machine learning in game development, from intelligent NPC behavior systems to procedural content generation that creates infinite worlds.

This practical guide reveals exactly how to leverage three revolutionary AI coding assistants (Claude Code, Cursor AI, and GitHub Codex) to create functional web applications at lightning speed. Whether you are a complete beginner, an entrepreneur, or an experienced developer looking to accelerate your workflow, you will discover the step-by-step process to transform ideas into working applications.

Most AI agents today impress in demos but fail in real-world applications. They forget context between conversations, hallucinate information, and break down on complex multi-step tasks. How to Give Your AI Agents a Brain is the practical developer's guide to building autonomous AI agents with advanced memory systems and intelligent reasoning. This isn't another surface-level AI book filled with theory. Instead, it provides concrete implementation strategies for creating agents that can handle complex workflows, maintain context across interactions, and continuously improve their performance.