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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.

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.

The internet has revolutionized how individuals and businesses speak to each other, conduct business, and flourish. People used to go there to talk about their ideas, but today it's a place where people can live, companies can thrive, and opportunities come up faster than before. Things change rapidly, so it's not enough to be distinctive and grab notice every once in a while. Do it all the time.

In a world where digital transformation drives every industry, cybersecurity risk has become one of the most defining challenges of modern project delivery. Cybersecurity Risk Management in Projects is your essential guide to navigating this high stakes landscape with clarity, confidence, and strategic insight. This audiobook demystifies the complex world of cyber threats, vulnerabilities, and risk management by breaking it down into practical, actionable steps that project teams can apply immediately.

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.

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.

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.

In this, the first book to take a big-picture view of the entire post punk period, acclaimed author and music journalist Simon Reynolds recreates a time of tremendous urgency and idealism in pop music. Full of anecdote and insight, and featuring the likes of Joy Division, The Fall, Pere Ubu, PiL and Talking Heads, Rip It Up And Start Again stands as one of the most inspired and inspiring books on popular music ever written.

Great software is something to marvel at: powerful, elegant, functional, a pleasure to work with as both a developer and as a user. Great software isn’t written by machines. It is written by professionals with an unshakable commitment to craftsmanship. The Clean Coder will help you become one of them - and earn the pride and fulfillment that they alone possess. 

In Spies, Lies, and Algorithms, Amy Zegart separates fact from fiction as she offers an engaging and enlightening account of the past, present, and future of American espionage as it faces a revolution driven by digital technology. Drawing on decades of research and hundreds of interviews with intelligence officials, Zegart provides a history of US espionage, gives an overview of intelligence basics and life inside America's intelligence agencies, and explores the vexed issues of traitors, covert action, and congressional oversight.

When it comes to choosing, using, and maintaining a database, understanding its internals is essential. But with so many distributed databases and tools available today, it's often difficult to understand what each one offers. With this practical guide, Alex Petrov guides developers through the concepts behind modern database and storage engine internals.

In Coaching Agile Teams, Lyssa Adkins gives agile coaches the insights they need to adopt this new mind-set and to guide teams to extraordinary performance in a re-energized work environment. You’ll gain a deep view into the role of the agile coach, discover what works and what doesn’t, and learn how to adapt powerful skills from many allied disciplines, including the fields of professional coaching and mentoring.

This practical guide explains how you can apply key principles in psychology to build products and experiences that are more intuitive and human-centered. Author Jon Yablonski deconstructs familiar apps and experiences to provide clear examples of how UX designers can build experiences that adapt to how users perceive and process digital interfaces.

सोर्स कोड पुस्तक एक बीस वर्षीय नौजवान जिसने एक सॉफ्टवेयर कंपनी शुरू करने के लिए हार्वर्ड से पढ़ाई छोड़ दी। यह...

From the bestselling author of Blood, Sweat, and Pixels comes the next definitive, behind-the-scenes account of the video game industry: how some of the past decade's most renowned studios fell apart—and the stories, both triumphant and tragic, of what happened next. Jason Schreier's...

Kubernetes has become the dominant container orchestrator, but many organizations that have recently adopted this system are still struggling to run actual production workloads. In this practical book, four software engineers from VMware bring their shared experiences running Kubernetes in production and provide insight on key challenges and best practices.

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.

When we think about the future, it can be difficult to feel that we have any control. We aren't confident that we can take actions and make decisions that help determine what happens next. We want to feel prepared, hopeful and equipped and to face the future with optimism. Or, better yet, change the future. But how do we map out our lives when it feels impossible to predict what the world will be like next week, let alone next year? Jane McGonigal, a renowned future forecaster, reveals that 'unimaginable' events aren't unimaginable before they happen. 

Быть разработчиком—трудно, а делать первые шаги—еще труднее. Вам предстоит постоянно практиковаться, осваивать большие объемы сложной информации, вы обязательно столкнетесь с неожиданными вызовами, которые могут легко отпугнуть даже самого заинтересованного и мотивированного специалиста. Владимир Швец — востребованный разработчик с 15-летним опытом работы. Он поможет вам не сойти с пути и преодолеть все трудности с честью. В этой аудиокниги есть исчерпывающие сведения о проблемах каждого разработчика и способах их решения.