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Python is an excellent way to get started in programming, and this clear, concise guide walks you through Python a step at a time--beginning with basic programming concepts before moving on to functions, data structures, and object-oriented design. This revised third edition reflects the growing role of large language models (LLMs) in programming and includes exercises on effective LLM prompts, testing code, and debugging skills. With this pop...

Large language models (LLMs) and diffusion models such as ChatGPT and Stable Diffusion have unprecedented potential. Because they have been trained on all the public text and images on the internet, they can make useful contributions to a wide variety of tasks. And with the barrier to entry greatly reduced today, practically any developer can harness LLMs and diffusion models to tackle problems previously unsuitable for automation. With this b...

System downtime is a common pain point for a great many organizations. Recently, a 12-hour store outage cost one Silicon Valley giant $25 million. And a 14-hour outage cost another corporation an estimated $90 million. News like this reminds companies that they need an incident management program before the unexpected happens. And there's no better time to get started than now. But where do you begin? What elements does your program require? W...

Two polymath movement experts draw from their 100 years of collective training, helping others learn how to walk effortlessly, breathe easily, think creatively, and feel deeply alive Walking is good for you. It can regulate weight, improve sleep, elevate mood, transform stress, and boost creativity and productivity. Most people want to walk more. But what if the key isn’t just to walk more, but to walk better? To connect with your physical bod...

An indispensable guide, Frommer’s Ireland is a comprehensive and photo-filled look at one of the world’s most beloved destinations. Written by leading Emerald Isle expert Yvonne Gordon, it takes you to many places only locals know, along with giving tips and tricks for seeing the iconic sights…without having to hassle with crowds.Frommer’s Ireland is:• Completely updated printed in large, easy-to-read type• Packed with colorful photos and help...

A fly-fishers manual of style for aspiring writers and readers by two accomplished and published veterans of the sport and the literature.

What You Do Next Will Rewrite the FutureAs the enemy ruthlessly advances his demonic assault on this generation, are you praying for change that never happens? For victory that never comes?We live in critical, twisted times where wickedness is celebrated and truth is reviled. Yet from the Book of Genesis onward, God has revealed His supernatural solution to an increasingly upside-down world: supernaturally empowered women. Like Queen Esther, w...

By-the-book forensic scientist Harry Steinbeck and rogue BCA agent Van Reed must catch a cold-case killer who's returned to abduct a small town's children one by one in this heart-stopping novel from the Edgar Award-nominated author of Unspeakable Things.In 1998 an Alku, Minnesota, family of five was brutally murdered in their sleep. The event shook the insulated community but, without any solid leads, was relegated to the cold case files, whe...

Drawing on a wealth of ethnographic and historical sources, Havatzelet Yahel offers an engaging and sometimes surprising history of Israel's policy toward Bedouin tribalism in the Negev desert in southern Israel. The study opens with a detailed look at the 1940s and 1950s in the region, which shaped the relationship between Israel and the Bedouin, most notably Israel's effort to accommodate tribalism in collaboration with the sheikhs. The stor...

Most histories of wounded Civil War veterans construe them as feminized men whose manhood has suffered due to their inability to provide for and raise families or engage in business. Wounded for Life complicates this picture by examining how seven veterans-six soldiers and one physician-coped with their changed bodies in their postwar lives. Through these intimate stories, author Robert D. Hicks looks at the veteran's body as shaped by the tra...

Staging Tianxia explores the ancient Chinese vision of world order tianxia (all under heaven) by focusing on the historical, performative, and rhetorical processes of expressive arts and cultural heritages that inform a vision of China as a historically multiethnic and cosmopolitan nation. Staging Tianxia unites multimedia ethnographic research and theoretical insights from ethnomusicology, philosophy, religious studies, performance studies, a...

Drawing on a wealth of ethnographic and historical sources, Havatzelet Yahel offers an engaging and sometimes surprising history of Israel's policy toward Bedouin tribalism in the Negev desert in southern Israel. The study opens with a detailed look at the 1940s and 1950s in the region, which shaped the relationship between Israel and the Bedouin, most notably Israel's effort to accommodate tribalism in collaboration with the sheikhs. The stor...

What can women's scholastic pursuits tell us about what building an Islamic state looks like for women who are loyal to its project? And what can an ethnographic study of women who are using Islamic education to transform their conditions in Iran teach us about our own humanity? Paths Made by Walking provides insight into these questions by examining how Iranian women have participated in Islamic education since the 1979 revolution. This grou...

Staging Tianxia explores the ancient Chinese vision of world order tianxia (all under heaven) by focusing on the historical, performative, and rhetorical processes of expressive arts and cultural heritages that inform a vision of China as a historically multiethnic and cosmopolitan nation. Staging Tianxia unites multimedia ethnographic research and theoretical insights from ethnomusicology, philosophy, religious studies, performance studies, a...

What can women's scholastic pursuits tell us about what building an Islamic state looks like for women who are loyal to its project? And what can an ethnographic study of women who are using Islamic education to transform their conditions in Iran teach us about our own humanity? Paths Made by Walking provides insight into these questions by examining how Iranian women have participated in Islamic education since the 1979 revolution. This grou...

In Global Yorùbá, renowned scholar Toyin Falola covers the history, people, traditions, environment, religion, spirituality, cosmology, culture, and philosophy of one of Africa's largest cultural groups, the Yorùbá, all while considering the people's relationship with their immediate and distant neighbors. Falola examines how the Yorùbán people have adapted to their environment and tapped it to (re)invent their civilization, shape their cultu...

This long-awaited volume of The Collected Writings of John Sallis presents his lectures on Martin Heidegger's monumental Being and Time. The lectures were presented during the 1985¿86 academic year at Loyola University of Chicago and during the fall semester of 1999 at Pennsylvania State University. The fourteen years separating the beginning of the two courses is significant in that many of the Gesamtausgabe volumes appeared in that interval,...

This long-awaited volume of The Collected Writings of John Sallis presents his lectures on Martin Heidegger's monumental Being and Time. The lectures were presented during the 1985¿86 academic year at Loyola University of Chicago and during the fall semester of 1999 at Pennsylvania State University. The fourteen years separating the beginning of the two courses is significant in that many of the Gesamtausgabe volumes appeared in that interval,...

In Global Yorùbá, renowned scholar Toyin Falola covers the history, people, traditions, environment, religion, spirituality, cosmology, culture, and philosophy of one of Africa's largest cultural groups, the Yorùbá, all while considering the people's relationship with their immediate and distant neighbors. Falola examines how the Yorùbán people have adapted to their environment and tapped it to (re)invent their civilization, shape their cultu...

Three boys were taken and murdered fifteen years ago. The killer is in jail. So why is history repeating itself?A family outing to Tattershall Castle comes to a chilling end when eleven-year-old Tommy Burton disappears without a trace in broad daylight. All that remains in his place is a small blue teddy bear. DS Karen Hart and her team are called in to investigate the unusual circumstances--but for DI Morgan the crime scene is eerily familiar...