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Programming Microsoft Azure Open AI
Prompt Engineering with Large Language Models (LLM) and Cognitive
Services
Francesco Esposito

Key Selling Points:
Learn to use the power of Microsoft's Azure OpenAI framework to program using Large
Language Models (LLMs) and Generative AI
Illustrates and demonstrates new classes of applications affected by AI
Shows how easy the technical part can be and how the human vision andcreativity can take the reins of AI
Azure OpenAI can be used on any platform, not just .NET

Summary

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The advent of LLMs represents a breakthrough that makes possible things which
weren't possible before. For several types of applications, in fact, the user interface, as
we know it today, is destined to change forever, replaced by a conversational,
task-based approach in which users just talk or write to the application and theapplication understands and responds. It's not magic, but the simple outcome of
applying a new concept - prompt engineering. Prompt engineering is crucial to instruct
an LLM (e.g., GPT4) to face different tasks without re-training. LLMs today have thepower to reason about any unknown data, without dedicated training, as long as they
are given appropriate prompts. This is a game-changer for the software industry inmuch the same way as was the advent of commercial Internet over two decades ago.
This book is your guide to harnessing this new power. It is split in three parts. The first
discusses the set of tools available in the ecosystem of Azure Open AI services...

Contributor Bio
Francesco Esposito serves as the Head of Development in a sport-tech company andleads teams behind the platform that run every-day, worldwide operations for
professional tennis and padel tennis. He leads the computer-vision team and practices
every day with creative ways to increase internal productivity. Franseco co-founded adata science company that is experimenting with digital therapy and is...

Table of Contents
Chapter 1 - Conversational Programming
Chapter 2 - Service Models Topology
Chapter 3 - Cognitive Services Overview
Chapter 4 - Core Prompt Learning Techniques
Chapter 5 - Engineering Advanced Learning Prompts
Chapter 6 - Security Concerns in Prompt Engineering
Chapter 7 - Chat with Your Data
Chapter 8 - Structured Data, Raw Input and Business Logic
Chapter 9 - Even Simpler Business Apps

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NO JACKETApplied Machine and Deep Learning with TensorFlow
and PyTorch
Justin London

Key Selling Points:
Master real-world machine learning applications through new case studies
using state-of-the-art methods
Covers leading solutions for natural language processing, computer vision, object
detection, image processing, pattern recognition, prediction, data visualization,and more
Provides TensorFlow and PyTorch code for all case study applications
Includes valuable tips and insights for improving prediction results
Covers crucial deployment topics most books neglect
Promotes understanding with many figures, images, and visual aids

Summary
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This is the definitive practitioner's guide to solving today's real-world problems withmachine learning, using tools that are soaring in popularity and marketplace demand.
Pioneering machine learning researcher Justin London teaches via in-depth applicationcase studies you can use to jumpstart your own custom solutions in natural language
processing, computer vision, object detection/image processing, pattern recognition,
prediction, data visualization, and beyond. Numerous applications in each chapter
provide code in TensorFlow and PyTorch, with insightful discussions of what the code
does, and why.
London's examples address industries including healthcare, medicine, genetics,
consumer marketing, finance, autonomous vehicles, and more, offer valuable domainspecific starting points for your own work. You'll find in-depth coverage of key ML
topics, essential algorithms, and state-of-the-art methods, with sufficient mathematicaldetail to apply them successfully.

Contributor Bio
Justin London (Chicago, IL) is a machine learning researcher at the Illinois Instituteof Technology and chief data officer at Techopia. He has extensive industry experiencein predictive modelling, optimization problems, quantitative analysis and simulations,and currently specializes in design and implementation of deep/machine learningalgorithms.

TOC
1. Natural Language Processing
2. Computer Vision and Image
Processing
3. Medicine and Pathology Applications
4. Recommender Systems
5. Pattern Recognition
6. Predictive Analytics
7. Deep Learning and Autoencoders
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NO JACKETGenerative Analysis
The Power of Generative AI for Object-Oriented Software Engineering withUML
Jim Arlow, Ila Neustadt

Key Selling Points:
Learn about a new method of object-oriented analysis called "Generative
Analysis"
Generative AI is changing the face of software engineering and generative
analysis enables software engineers to transition to this new world.
Shows how to use Generative AI effectively in software engineering throughGenerative Analysis.
Teaches advanced, practical, and precise analysis skills and techniques, using
Literate Modelling, M++, multivalent logic, and UML, for the new world ofsoftware engineering with Generative AI.
Encourages "teaching yourself" by following ready-made prompts in the book andusing your favorite Generative AI tool.
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Chapter 1: Generative Analysis
for Generative AI
Chapter 2: Launching theexample project
Chapter 3: Simple tools for
Generative Analysis
Chapter 4: OLAS Elaboration
Chapter 5: Communication
Chapter 6: M++
Chapter 7: Literate Modeling
Chapter 8: Processing informationin Generative Analysis
Chapter 9: Generative Analysis inpractice
Chapter 10: Use case modeling
Chapter 11: Administration
subsystem
Chapter 12: Security subsystem
Chapter 13: The Catalog
subsystem
Chapter 14: The
RestrictedCatalog subsyste
Chapter 15: The Loan subsystem
Chapter 16: The InnsmouthInterface
Chapter 17: Meta Magic

Summary
Software engineering is about to undergo a seismic change, where there will
be a pivot away from code towards analysis.
Generative AI is set to revolutionize many fields including software engineering. There
will be a significant de-emphasis on manual code production because much of that will
be automated. A new type of analyst, skilled in Generative Analysis, will be needed to
produce the precise analysis artifacts to feed the AI code generation process.
To leverage these new code generation systems effectively, many programmers will
have to work at a higher level of abstraction, being able to state what they require
the software to do (analysis) rather than how the software is to do it(design/programming). Similarly, Business Analysts, who are pretty much already at
the right level of abstraction for these systems, will need to be much more precise to
get good results. This book will address both of those needs by providing a set of
specific Generative Analysis tools and techniques that cross the analyst/programmer
divide and create outputs suitable as input for these new AI systems. In summary, forprogrammers, the level of abstraction is too low, and for Business Analysts the levelof abstraction is too high. Generative Analysis defines a "Goldilocks" zone for
abstraction that is just right for Generative AI.
Apart from generating code, we will also increasingly need ways of fact checking thecode and non-code outputs of AIs. The M++ and multivalent logic strands ofGenerative Analysis speak directly to this problem and provide specific techniques tocheck the quality of AI output. Interestingly, we can query AIs to get businessinformation that once fact-checked can be fed directly into the Generative Analysis
process creating a virtuous feedback cycle.

Contributor Bio
Dr. Jim Arlow (Isle of Wight) has been programming and designing object-oriented
software systems since 1990. He has created object models for blue chip companies
such as British Airways and J P Morgan. Jim was instrumental in introducing object
orientation to BA and other UK companies through his work with the Object Interest
Group. He is a respected consultant and trainer.

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The AI Revolution in Project Management
Elevating Productivity with Generative AI
Vijay Kanabar, Jason Wong

Key Selling Points:
Provides an in-depth understanding of AI and its role as a digital assistant orcoach to project managers, and their team members.
Demonstrates how AI can be utilized across different project performancedomains, offering insights and best practices to enhance performance andachieve intelligent results.
Includes examples, case studies, and various AI tools such as ChatGPT, making ita practical guide for project managers looking to incorporate AI into their work.
Explores both predictive and agile methodologies, offering a comprehensive viewof how AI can be utilized across different project management approaches.
Aligns with the latest global standards, making it a valuable resource for thoselooking to apply AI in line with industry standards and best practices.
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Summary
Designed to be accessible to project managers of all levels of experience, and written
in clear, straightforward language, this book combines theoretical concepts withpractical advice and real-world examples, making it a valuable resource for anyone
looking to incorporate AI into their project management work.
This book takes a practical approach to the topic of AI as a coach for project
management. It references the various AI technologies as well as tools andrequirements of project management, and ultimately how to bridge the two subject
areas. Clear, step-by-step guidance on how project managers can leverage AI as acoach, supplemented with a variety of examples, case studies, and insights into various
AI tools ensures that readers can apply the concepts and tools presented in the book totheir own work in a systematic and effective way. This book offers a unique andvaluable perspective on the topic of AI in project management. The combination of
topic, approach, author expertise and practical focus make it a worthwhile addition to
the project management literature.

Contributor Bio
Vijay Kanabar, PhD., MBA, PMP, CSM, PMI-ACP, is the director and associate
professor of Project Management programs at Boston University, Metropolitan College.
He is one of the earliest PMP credentialed practitioners from the Project Management
Institute. ason Wong, MSCIS, PMP, PMI-ACP, CSPO, is a seasoned IT leader withextensive experience in project management and a passion for AI.

1. Overview of Artificial Intelligence and Project Management
2. Stakeholders: Identifying and Engaging Using AI
3. Teams: Building and Managing Using AI
4. Introduction to Predictive and Adaptive Approaches and Tailoring Development Approach with AI
5. Planning: Defining and Scheduling Predictive Projects with AI
6. Planning: Estimating and Prioritizing Agile Projects with AI
7. Project Work: Executing and Controlling Predictive Projects with AI
8. Project Work: Measurement, Monitoring, and Reporting with AI
9. Delivery: Releasing, Validating, and Closing with AI
10. Realizing Project Value and Strategy through AI
11. The Future of AI in Project Management

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The AI Revolution in Networking, Cybersecurity, andEmerging Technologies
Omar Santos, Samer Salam, Hazim Dahir

Key Selling Points:
This book will not only educate but also inspire-serving as a catalyst that propels
individuals and organizations into the future of AI-integrated technology.

Summary"The AI Revolution in Networking, Cybersecurity, and Emerging Technologies" offers an
immersive journey into the world of artificial intelligence and its profound impact on
key domains of technology. This book demystifies AI's emergence, growth, and current
impact, shedding light on its revolutionary applications in computer networking,cybersecurity, collaboration technologies, IoT, cloud computing, and other emerging
technologies.

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From explaining AI's role in managing and optimizing networks to its integral part insecuring the digital frontier, the authors offer a wealth of insights. They explore how AI
is building robust bridges in collaboration tools and turning IoT into a super-intelligent
network of devices. The reader will also discover how AI is transforming the cloud into
a self-managing, secure, and ultra-efficient environment and propelling othertechnologies towards unprecedented advancements.

Contributor Bio
Omar Santos is a cybersecurity thought leader with a passion for driving industry-wide
initiatives to enhance the security of critical infrastructures. Omar is the lead of the
DEF CON Red Team Village, chair of the Common Security Advisory Framework (CSAF)
technical committee, and board member of the OASIS Open standards organization.
Omar's collaborative efforts extend to numerous organizations, including the Forum of
Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST) and the Industry Consortium for
Advancement of Security on the Internet (ICASI).

Chapter 1: Introducing the Age of AI: Emergence, Growth, and Impact on Technology
Chapter 2: Connected Intelligence: AI in Computer Networking
Chapter 3: Securing the Digital Frontier: AI's Role in Cybersecurity
Chapter 4: AI and Collaboration: Building Bridges, Not Walls
Chapter 5: AI in Internet of Things (IoT) or AIoT: The Intelligence Behind Billions of Devices
Chapter 6: Revolutionizing Cloud Computing with AI
Chapter 7: Impact of AI in Other Emerging Technologies

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The AI Revolution in Medicine
GPT-4 and BeyondPeter Lee, Carey Goldberg, Isaac Kohane

Key Selling Points:
Learn about ChatGPT from the experts!
Fully updated for the brand-new ChatGPT version 4
Foreword by Sam Altman, CEO of ChatGPT
Written for a general audience, not specialists
Written by world-class experts who have been working with the technology for
years
Discusses both the transformational possibilities as well as the limits andcautions behind AI in medicine

Summary
AI is about to transform medicine. Here's what you need to know right now.

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Wt
Status: ACTIVE''The development of AI is as fundamental as the creation of the personal computer. It
will change the way people work, learn, and communicate--and transform healthcare.
But it must be managed carefully to ensure its benefits outweigh the risks. I'm
encouraged to see this early exploration of the opportunities and responsibilities of AI
in medicine.''--Bill Gates
Just months ago, millions of people were stunned by ChatGPT's amazing abilities -and its bizarre hallucinations. But that was 2022. GPT-4 is now here: smarter, moreaccurate, with deeper technical knowledge. GPT-4 and its competitors and followers areon the verge of transforming medicine. But with lives on the line, you need tounderstand these technologies.

What can they do? What can't they do -- yet? What shouldn't they ever do? To decide,
Chapter 1: First Contact
experience the cutting edge for yourself. Join three insiders who've had months ofChapter 2: Medicina ex
early access to GPT-4 as they reveal its momentous potential -- to improve diagnoses,
Machina
Chapter 3: The Big Question: summarize patient visits, streamline processes, accelerate research, and much more.
You'll see real GPT-4 dialogues -- unrehearsed and unfiltered, brilliant and blundering
Does It “Understand?”alike -- all annotated with invaluable context, candid commentary, real risk insights,
Chapter 4: Trust but Verify
and up-to-the-minute takeaways.
Chapter 5: The AIAugmented PatientContributor Bio
Chapter 6: So Much More:Peter Lee, PhD, Corporate VP for Research and Incubations at Microsoft, has focused
Math, Coding, and Logic
for the past six years on AI's uses in healthcare and the life sciences. He formerly led
Chapter 7: The Ultimate
computing projects at DARPA and chaired the computer science department at
Paperwork Shredder
Carnegie Mellon University.
Chapter 8: Smarter Science
Chapter 9: Safety First
Carey Goldberg, a longtime medical and science journalist, has covered topics ranging
from healthcare costs to genomic research. She has been on staff for The New York
Chapter 10: The Big BlackTimes, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, WBUR/NPR, and Bloomberg News.
Bag
Isaac "Zak" Kohane, MD, PhD, inaugural chair of Harvard Medical School's
Department of Biomedical Informatics, has worked on medical AI since the 1990s. He
is urgently focused on helping doctors become more effective and fulfilled as theywork with machine intelligence.

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Responsible AI
Best Practices for Creating Trustworthy AI Systems
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

Key Selling Points:
A practical guide for operationalizing responsible AI across the development lifecycle:
from governance to design patterns and software engineering
Written by the experts at Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial
Research Organisation (CSIRO)
Helps you accelerate AI adoption as you reduce its risks, translating ethicalprinciples into more effective products, better consulting, and greater impact
Includes detailed coverage of applying principle-specific techniques for fairness,
privacy, and explainability
Previews the future of responsible AI
Supported by a continually-updated online repository of patterns, techniques,
examples, and playbooks
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Summary
AI systems are solving real-world challenges and transforming industries, but there areserious concerns about how responsibly they operate on behalf of the humans that relyon them. Many ethical principles and guidelines have been proposed for AI systems,
but they're often too "high-level" to be translated into practice. Conversely, AI/ML
researchers often focus on algorithmic solutions that are too "low-level" to adequately
address ethics and responsibility. In this timely, practical guide, pioneering AI
practitioners bridge these gaps. The authors illuminate issues of AI responsibility
across the entire system lifecycle and all system components, offer concrete andactionable guidance for addressing them, and demonstrate these approaches in three
detailed case studies.Writing for technologists, decision-makers, students, users, andother stakeholders,they cover:
Governance mechanisms at industry, organization, and team levels
Dev process perspectives, including software engineering best practices for AI
System perspectives, including quality attributes, architecture styles, and patterns
Techniques for connecting code with data and models, including key tradeoffs
Principle-specific techniques for fairness, privacy, and explainability
A preview of the future of responsible AI
Contributor Bio
Dr. Jon Whittle (Melbourne) is a world-renowned expert in software engineering andhuman-computer interaction, with a particular interest in IT for social good, AI
research in health sciences, and sustainable development. He leads CSIRO's Data61,
Australia's largest digital innovation organization.

Part I: Background and Overview
1. What is Responsible AI?
2. Operationalizing Responsible AI
Part II: The Process Perspective
3. Governance Perspective and Best Practices
4. Development Process Perspective and Best Practices
Part III: The System Perspective
5. From Principles to Quality Attributes
6. Architecture Styles and Design Patterns
7. Beyond Code: Data, Models, Configurations, and Parameters
8. Principle-Specific TechniquesPart IV: Case Studies

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Beyond the Algorithm
AI, Security, Privacy, and Ethics
Omar Santos, Petar Radanliev

Key Selling Points:
This book provides comprehensive knowledge, practical guidance, and ethicalconsiderations to a diverse audience, from beginners to seasoned
professionals, involved in the development, deployment, and management ofAI systems

SummaryThis book is a comprehensive, cutting-edge guide designed to educate readers on theessentials of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), while emphasizing
the crucial aspects of security, ethics, and privacy. The book aims to equip AI
practitioners, IT professionals, data scientists, security experts, policy-makers, andstudents with the knowledge and tools needed to develop, deploy, and manage AI and
ML systems securely and responsibly.
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The book is divided into several sections, each focusing on a specific aspect of AI. It
begins by introducing the fundamentals of AI technolgies, providing an overview of
their history, development, and various types. This is followed by a deep dive into
popular AI algorithms and large language models (LLMs), including GPT-4, that are at
the forefront of AI innovation.
Next, the book explores the critical security aspects of AI systems, examining theimportance of security and the key challenges faced in this domain. It also delves into
the common threats, vulnerabilities, and attack vectors, as well as risk assessmentand management strategies. This manuscript covers data security, model security,
system and infrastructure security, secure development practices, monitoring andauditing, supply chain security, and secure deployment and maintenance.

Contributor Bio
Omar Santos is a cybersecurity thought leader with a passion for driving
industry-wide initiatives to enhance the security of critical infrastructures. Omar is thelead of the DEF CON Red Team Village and chair of the Common Security Advisory
Framework (CSAF) technical committee.

Chapter 1: Historical Overview of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine
Learning (ML)
Chapter 2: Fundamentals of AI and ML Technologies and Implementations
Chapter 3: Generative AI and Large Language Models
Chapter 4: Fundamentals of AI and ML Security
Chapter 5: Hacking AI Systems
Chapter 6: System and Infrastructure Security
Chapter 7: Privacy and Ethical Considerations
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Quick Start Guide to Large Language Models
Strategies and Best Practices for Using ChatGPT and Other LLMs
Sinan Ozdemir

Key Selling Points:
The practical, step-by-step quickstart guide to using Large Language Models(LLMs) at scale in your own projects and products
Includes real-world case studies and practical techniques for GPT, T5, and BERT
Covers core techniques for integrating LLM technology and capabilities - from
ChatGPT APIs to prompt engineering, chatbot personas, and cloud deployment
Clear instructions and best practices you can use even if you've never worked
with LLMs before

Summary
The Practical, Step-by-Step Guide to Using LLMs at Scale in Projects andProducts
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Discount Code: yPaperbackLarge Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT are demonstrating breathtaking
capabilities, but their size and complexity have deterred many practitioners fromapplying them. In Quick Start Guide to Large Language Models, pioneering data
scientist and AI entrepreneur Sinan Ozdemir clears away those obstacles and provides
a guide to working with, integrating, and deploying LLMs to solve practical problems.

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Ozdemir brings together all you need to get started, even if you have no direct
experience with LLMs: step-by-step instructions, best practices, real-world casestudies, hands-on exercises, and more. Along the way, he shares insights into LLMs'
inner workings to help you optimize model choice, data formats, parameters, andperformance. You'll find even more resources on the companion website, including
sample datasets and code for working with open- and closed-source LLMs such as
those from OpenAI (GPT-4 and ChatGPT), Google (BERT, T5, and Bard), EleutherAI(GPT-J and GPT-Neo), Cohere (the Command family), and Meta (BART and the LLaMA
family).

Status: FORTHCOMING

Contributor Bio
Sinan Ozdemir is currently the founder and CTO of Shiba Technologies. Sinan is aformer lecturer of Data Science at Johns Hopkins University and the author of multiple
textbooks on data science and machine learning. Additionally, he is the founder of therecently acquired Kylie.ai, an enterprise-grade conversational AI platform with RPA
capabilities. He holds a master's degree in Pure Mathematics.

Chapter 1: Overview of Large Language Models 3
Chapter 2: Semantic Search with LLMs 31
Chapter 3: First Steps with Prompt Engineering 57
Chapter 4: Optimizing LLMs with Customized FineTuning 77
Chapter 5: Advanced Prompt Engineering 97
Chapter 6: Customizing Embeddings and Model
Architectures 125
Chapter 7: Moving Beyond Foundation Models 147
Chapter 8: Advanced Open-Source LLM Fine-Tuning
175
Chapter 9: Moving LLMs into Production 209
Part IV: Appendices 227

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FBF 23 - PROGRAMMINGJVM Performance Engineering
Inside OpenJDK and the HotSpot Java Virtual Machine
Monica Beckwith

Key Selling Points:
The definitive, comprehensive guide to JVM and OpenJDK HotSpot VM
performance engineering
Demystifies complex aspects of JVM performance and provides practical optimization
techniques
Introduces essential skills for diagnosing performance issues and implementing
solutions
Covers performance issues associated with Java's type system, modular Java, OpenJDK
advanced memory management, strings, locks, startup, and more
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SummaryThis comprehensive guide to Java Virtual Machine (JVM) performance engineering is anindispensable resource for every experienced Java developer. World-renowned Java
performance expert Monica Beckwith focuses specifically on the OpenJDK HotSpot VM,
thoroughly demystifies complex aspects of JVM performance, shares powerful diagnosis
techniques, and helps you implement effective optimizations throughout your own
code.
First, Beckwith reviews the evolution of Java and the JVM, illuminating garbage
collection strategies, parallel and concurrent GC threads, and their performance
implications. Next, she expertly discusses the Java type system's evolution, its impact
on performance and efficiency, and potential Project Valhalla enhancements. Beckwith
shows how to transform monolithic Java applications to the modern, modular Java
paradigm, updating project structures, ensuring dependency compatibility, andmanaging modules to optimize performance.

Contributor Bio
Monica Beckwith (Austin, TX Area) is a Java Champion and JavaOne Rock Star who
has made significant performance contributions to the Java HotSpot VM. Prior tojoining Microsoft as Senior Performance Engineer, she served as JVM Performance
Architect at Arm, and led Oracle's Garbage First Garbage Collector performance team.
She is co-author of Java Performance Companion.

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Learn JavaScript the Hard Way
Zed A. Shaw

Key Selling Points:
Takes a true beginner from knowing nothing about programming tounderstanding the basics of programming with JavaScript.
Zed has a fun, proven method for teaching programming to absolute beginners
JavaScript is perhaps the most widely used programming language in the world
The demand for people who know JavaScript is keen
Teaches a thoroughly modern, up-to-date version of JavaScript

Summary

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SeriesStatus: FORTHCOMINGJavaScript is arguably the most successful language in the world, being found ineverything from web browsers, to servers, to phones, and even in billion dollar desktop
applications. As a result there is a huge demand in the marketplace for people whoknow how to program in JavaScript, and a corresponding demand for material whichteaches JavaScript clearly and thoroughly.
While there are many books available which purport to teach JavaScript to beginners,
even the most popular ones assume some basic knowledge of programming practice.
This book, in contrast, is written for the true beginner. The author, Zed Shaw, is widely
known for his unique system of teaching introductory programming, the "Hard Way
Method", which has been used successfully by millions of people. Readers appreciatethat he truly starts at the very beginning. As they learn more, they will grow toappreciate both the thoroughness of his coverage and the fact that the material iscompletely up to date with current JavaScript.

Contributor Bio
Zed A. Shaw is the author of the popular books, Learn Python the Hard Way, Learn
Ruby the Hard Way, and Learn C the Hard Way. He is also the creator of several open
source software projects and has been programming and writing for nearly 25 years.
Most of his free time is devoted to the study of painting and art history.

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Learn Python the Hard Way (5th Edition)
Zed A. Shaw

Key Selling Points:
The Python programming book (and video) for everyone who always wanted
to learn programming, but never thought they could!
Python for beginners: a disciplined, practice-driven training method that works!
By Zed Shaw: top blogger, outstanding teacher, renowned open source project
leaderRefined through Shaw's extensive instructional work online, where he attracts
10-20K visitors per day: an earlier online version of this book earned 500K+
downloads
Completely updated with all new examples focused on using Python for data
analysis

Summary
You Will Learn Python!
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Zed Shaw has perfected the world's best system for learning Python. Follow it and you
will succeed--just like the millions of beginners Zed has taught to date! You bring thediscipline, commitment, and persistence; the author supplies everything else.
In Learn Python the Hard Way, Fifth Edition, you'll learn Python by working
through 60 brilliantly crafted exercises. Read them. Type their code precisely. (Nocopying and pasting!) Fix your mistakes. Watch the programs run. As you do, you'll
learn how a computer works; what good programs look like; and how to read, write,
and think about code.
Install a complete Python environment
Organize and write codeFix and break code
Basic mathematics
Variables
Strings and text
Interact with users
Work with files
Looping and logic
Data structures using lists and dictionaries
Program design
Object-oriented programming
Inheritance and composition
Modules, classes, and objects
Python packaging
Automated testing
Basic data mung...

Contributor Bio
Zed A. Shaw is the author of the popular books, Learn Python the Hard Way, Learn
Ruby the Hard Way, and Learn C the Hard Way. He is also the creator of several open
source software projects and has been programming and writing for nearly 25 years.
Most of his free time is devoted to the study of painting and art history.

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Better Python CodeA Guide for Aspiring Experts
David Mertz

Key Selling Points:
Python makes coding too easy; move beyond code that "mostly works" tocode that is expressive, robust, and efficient.
Quite simply - this book is about writing better Python code
Broad approach to Pythonic best practices including key insights for programmers
new to Python but bringing the baggage of their old coding practices
Based on latest Python release, 3.12
Written by a long-time expert on Python

Summary

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Python is one of the most widely used programming languages in the world. It is usedeverywhere from primary school education to workaday web development, to the mostadvanced scientific research institutes of the world. However, like all programming
languages, Python has a collection of "Pythonic" ways of accomplishing tasks that areeasy to overlook, especially when habits are borrowed wholesale from work in otherprogramming languages.
Better Python Code is a guide to Pythonic programming. The book presents common
mistakes that Python developers make--even Python developers who have used thelanguage for years--often because Python sometimes presents "attractive nuisances."
Throughout, the book is a guide to better programming in the core Python language.
Each section shows a concrete but concise example of some misunderstanding or badhabit in action. Each section contains a description of what is wrong with the sample
code and a suggestion for one or more better ways to code equivalent functionality
without the initial pitfall.

Contributor Bio
David Mertz has been a member of the Python community for 25 years. He hastaught Python to scientists, developers coming from other languages, and toprogramming neophytes. He was a director of the Python Software Foundation (PSF)
for six years and continues to serve on, or chair, a variety of PSF working groups.
David is the author of several technical books and has given keynote addresses atnumerous international programming conferences.

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Bayesian Data Science with Python
Simulation and Probabilistic Programming
Eric Mazur, Hugo Bowne-Anderson

Key Selling Points:
Leverage your Python skills to build powerful Bayesian analysis models forhandling a world of uncertainty

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Master the concepts and ingredients of probabilistic programming with PyMC4
Effectively construct, fit, and evaluate Bayesian models
Use statistical simulation techniques to build your intuition as you work withstatistical models
Build or modify small-to-medium-complexity statistical models of your own data,
and use "cookbook" examples to jumpstart all your model-building
Use PyMC4 and ArviZ together to critique and improve any probabilistic model
Explore general principles and a principled workflow you can use with any
Bayesian analysis project
Ideal for any Python programmer, data analyst, or AI/ML user who wants toapply Bayesian techniques to solve problems that can't be solved any other way

Summary
Bayesian probabilistic techniques can help you create models that reflect randomness
and noise in principled ways, to make better decisions about the world as it actually is.
Now, there's a practical, accessible, project-based guide to Bayesian analysis that helps
you quickly start solving real problems with widely-used Python packages such as
PyMC4 and ArviZ. Ideal for programmers, data analysts, machine language users,
students, and many others, Bayesian Data Science with Python covers all you need,and provides well-annotated cookbook examples that offer a solid foundation for yourown modeling.
Experienced data scientists Hugo Bowne-Anderson and Eric J. Ma start by introducing
fundamental concepts every Bayesian modeler needs to understand, supporting thesewith working code, and preparing you to move from canned statistical methods
towards principled statistical workflow. Next, they build your practical mastery through"case story" projects based on their experience - from measuring the impact of websitechanges to capturnig insights from high throughput biological measurements.

Contributor Bio
Hugo Bowne-Anderson (New York, NY), Data Scientist at DataCamp, has extensive
experience teaching data science at institutions such as Yale University and Cold Spring
Harbor Laboratory, conferences such as SciPy, PyCon, and organizations such as Data
Carpentry. He has developed 25+ courses on the DataCamp platform, reaching morethan 300,000 learners worldwide.

FBF 23 - PROGRAMMINGThe Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide
Challenges Every Scrum Team Faces and How to Overcome Them
Stefan Wolpers

Key Selling Points:
Scrum is simple, but it is not easy. This book compiles the most common
challenges that every Scrum Team faces and shows how to overcome them.
The book takes a hands-on approach, offering insights for course corrections andfixes in the moment for Scrum practitioners.
The number of organizations adopting agile has seen massive growth due to thepandemic.
The author has created a large following among Scrum practitioners on several
media channels, from blog readers to newsletter subscribers to community
members, providing an eager audience for the new book.

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Series: The Professional Scrum
SeriesStatus: FORTHCOMINGThe Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide provides beginners and advanced Scrum and Agile
practitioners alike with a guidethey can use to better understand why their use of
Scrum might be falling short of their expectation, and what they can try to improve.
While the beginner may read the Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide end to end, moreadvanced practitioners will probably delve directly into a specific problem tounderstand possible solutions.
The book uses the Scrum Guide as a template to structure the content. Scrumanti-patterns are categorized by roles, events, artifacts, and commitments and their
combinations. For example, the Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide explores the Sprint
Planning in general before delving into the contributions of individual roles ofparticipants: How are Scrum Masters, Product Owners, Developers, and stakeholders
or line-managers, respectively, contributing to the overall anti-patterns of the Sprint
Planning?

Contributor Bio
Stefan Wolpers is a Professional Scrum Trainer with Scrum.org, an Agile Coach, andScrum Master. Additionally, he is a licensed facilitator of the Agile Fluency™ Team
Diagnostic. His agile coaching expertise focuses on scaling product deliveryorganizations of fast-growing, venture-capital funded startups, and transitioning
existing product teams in established enterprise organizations.

FBF 23 - PROGRAMMING

Facilitating Professional Scrum Teams
Improve Team Alignment, Effectiveness, and Productivity
Patricia Kong, Glaudia Califano, David Spinks

Key Selling Points:
The practical guide to expert facilitation in Scrum environments: all the tips,
tools, and case studies you need!
Proven techniques for facilitating Scrum teams, specific guidance on how, when,
and why to use them, and expert insight into outcomes
Shows how skillfully facilitating a Scrum team's interactions and dynamics canunleash the entire team's potential
Reaches a growing market, exemplified by the introduction and growth of
Scrum.org's accredited class in Professional Scrum Facilitation Skills

Summary
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Series: The Professional Scrum
SeriesStatus: FORTHCOMINGFor Scrum to deliver maximum value, Scrum teams, participants, and stakeholders
must collaborate effectively. This doesn't just happen: it requires expert facilitation.
While Scrum's rules are well documented, and much has been written about facilitationin general, there's been little guidance for facilitating the specific interactions that
occur on Scrum projects. Now, three leading experts in agile facilitation fill this gap,
helping every participant find better ways to collaborate, and to leverage the uniqueinsights and knowledge they each bring to the table.
After concisely reviewing core facilitation principles and theory, the authors present
representative scenarios illustrating common Scrum Team challenges, and showing
how to adapt facilitation best practices to overcome them. You'll walk throughfacilitating sprint planning, daily Scrum, sprint review, the sprint itself, retrospectives,
backlogs, and more. For each Scrum task, the authors reveal which facilitation
approaches to use, when to use them, how they can be combined, and what they canhelp you achieve.

Contributor Bio
Patricia Kong (Wakefield, MA) helps organizations thrive in a complex world byfocusing on enterprise innovation, leadership and teamwork. A people advocate, she isfascinated by organizational behavior and misbehavior. She is a co-author of The
Nexus Framework for Scaling Scrum, The Guide to Evidence-Based Management, andNexus Guide, as well as a sought-after speaker at industry conferences and events.
Glaudia Califano (Milton Keynes, UK) is an agile and lean practitioner and mentor,
working both with and within teams. She has served as Courseware Team Developer
for Scrum.org, and as Scrum Master / Mentor and Agile Change Coach for Office
Depot. With David Spinks, she co-founded Red Tangerine to release people's potential
and transform work environments.
David Spinks (Milton Keynes, UK) has served as an Agile trainer and coach, Scrum
Master, product owner, Kanban Service Delivery Manager, team leader and softwaredeveloper in industries including finance, eCommerce, social housing and education.
He is a Kanban University Accredited Kanban Trainer (AKT) and Kanban Coaching
Professional (KCP), a Scrum.org Professional Scrum Trainer (PST) and an ICAgile
Authorized Instructor. He is a co-author of Mastering Collaboration in a Product Teamand Adopting Agile Across Borders. With Glaudia Califano, he co-founded Red
Tangerine to release people's potential and transform work environments.

FBF 23 - PROGRAMMING

Essential Test-Driven Development
Robert C. MyersKey Selling Points:
Understand TDD's real practical value for individual contributors as well asorganizations
TDD for the next generation: today's best ways to begin (and then master) TDD
Use TDD, Relentless Refactoring, and Characterization Testing to improve existing
code, and maintain and extend software products
Master proven team collaboration for establishing and preserving a strong TDD
practice and a healthy TDD environment
Implement test-driven development (TDD) -- painlessly, professionally,
successfully

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Understand TDD's real practical value for individual contributors as wellas organizations
TDD for the next generation: today's best ways to begin (and thenmaster) TDD
Use TDD, Relentless Refactoring, and Characterization Testing to
improve existing code, and maintain and extend software products
Master proven team collaboration for establishing and preserving astrong TDD practice and a healthy TDD environment

Summary
Test-Driven Development (TDD) is at the heart of low-defect agile softwaredevelopment, enabling incremental development and emergent design without
degrading quality. By allowing software teams to create comprehensive regression
tests that immediately pinpoint tiny errors, it gives them confidence ...
Test-Driven Development (TDD) is at the heart of low-defect agile softwaredevelopment, enabling incremental development and emergent design without
degrading quality. By allowing software teams to create comprehensive regression
tests that immediately pinpoint tiny errors, it gives them confidence to enhancefunctionality with incredible speed.
Essential Test-Driven Development will help you discover how TDD helps
developers take back the joy of software development, as you glimpse of the future of
TDD and software development as a profession. Leading TDD coach and instructor Rob
Myers shares his experiences, suggestions, and stories, plus focused and fun
self-directed Java, C#, C++, and JavaScript lab work from his acclaimed TDD course.
Throughout, this guide reflects the author's unsurpassed experience practicing TDD on
real production code and helping hundreds of teams adopt TDD practices.

Contributor Bio
Rob Myers (San Francisco Bay Area, CA) has been a professional software developer
since 1986. In 1998, his passion for programming was rekindled when he learned
about test-first and refactoring techniques (precursors of TDD). Myers and the teams
he coached built quality production software using these techniques until 2004. In
2002, he began delivering courses in Agile and TDD practices.

FBF 23 - PROGRAMMING

Unlocking Business Agility with Evidence-BasedManagement
Satisfy Customers and Improve Organizational Effectiveness
Patricia Kong, Todd Miller, Kurt Bittner, Ryan Ripley

Key Selling Points:
Accomplish customer outcome-based goals, as you help your organization use
evidence-based management to rediscover its purpose
Clarify your goals, move towards them in uncertain and fast-changing times, anduse agile metrics to demonstrate your performance
Apply empiricism and experimentation to find solutions for complex problems
Learn from real-world anonymized case studies from the authors' personal
experience
Part of The Professional Scrum Series, co-published with Scrum.org
Recommended reading for Scrum.org's Professional Agile Leader (PAL) andProfessional Agile Leader - Evidence-Based Management (PAL-EBM) certifications
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BUS101000
Series: The Professional Scrum
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Summary
Learn how to accomplish customer outcome-based goals and help your organization
rediscover purpose with evidence-based management practices.

Unlocking Business Agility with Evidence-Based Management: Satisfy
Customers and Improve Organizational Effectiveness teaches you empiricallydriven management. This book describes how organizations can use goals to reconnect
their work to improving the value that they deliver to customers, and to escape thetrap they often create for themselves of having goals that are internally focused.
Evidence-based management enables organizations to become adaptable to feedback.
Most organizations find themselves with a deeply entrenched planning-centered culturethat determines everything from how work is funded, to how success is measured, to
how people are rewarded. It takes time for an organization's culture to evolve into a
feedback-oriented culture and there are inevitably setbacks along the way. This bookwill guide organizations in their efforts to develop feedback-oriented cultures.

Contributor Bio
Patricia Kong helps organizations thrive in a complex world by focusing on enterpriseinnovation, leadership, and teams. She is a people advocate and fascinated byorganizational behavior and misbehaviors. She is co-author of The Nexus Framework
for Scaling Scrum (Addison-Wesley, 2017).
Todd Miller has practical experience as a Scrum Master, Product Owner, Software
Developer, and Agile coach on a variety of technical and creative projects across amultitude of industries. He has been a professional Scrum trainer with Scrum.org
since 2016.
Kurt Bittner has been delivering working products in short, feedback-driven cycles formore than 40 years, and has helped many organizations do the same. He isparticularly interested in helping people form strong, self-organizing, highperformance teams that deliver solutions that customers love, and helping
organizations use empirical feedback to achieve customer outcome-focused goals.
Ryan Ripley is a Professional Scrum Trainer with Scrum.org, and has experience as asoftware developer, manager, director, and Scrum Master at various Fortune 500
companies in the medical device, wholesale, and financial services industries. He is
the host of "Agile for Humans," the top agile podcast on iTunes. He recently co-wrote
Fixing Your Scrum: Practical Solutions for Common Scrum Problems

FBF 23 - PROGRAMMINGThe Async-First Playbook
Remote Collaboration Techniques for Agile Software Teams
Sumeet Gayathri Moghe

Key Selling Points:
The hands-on, full-color guide to improving the effectiveness of remote work:
master better asynchronous approaches to distributed software development
Reinvent agile practices for today's asynchronous work environments: revamp
kickoffs, sprints, stand-ups, pair programming, retrospectives, and more
Discover new best practices for culture and leadership optimized for today's
remote realities
Help your teams overcome daunting obstacles to work-life balance, meaningful
work, and diversity and inclusion
Hands-on, nuts-and-bolts practices, proven in the trenches - not just theory or
handwaving
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Summary
Reimagining Agile for Distributed and Remote Teams
Distributed work is now inevitable, but conventional agile approaches are too"synchronous" for today's remote teams. Meetings, ceremonies, and rituals canbecome unsustainable when teams are scattered across the globe. The result: burnout,
constant interruptions, a lack of deep work, poor work-life balance, greater frustration,
and workplaces with poor diversity.
In The Async-First Playbook, Thoughtworks Principal Product Manager Sumeet
Gayathri Moghe provides tools and techniques to embed remote-native, asynchronous
practices into traditional agile methods, making remote work more efficient, inclusive,
thoughtful, and fun.
Drawing on extensive experience leading distributed teams, Moghe addresses the "nutsand bolts" of specific practices and the crucial "softer" elements such as culture,mindset, and leadership. Short, practical chapters show how to adapt traditional agile
techniques such as sprints and pair programming for the realities of today's distributed
environments.

Contributor Bio
Sumeet Gayathri Moghe, Principal Product Manager at Thoughtworks, is an agile
specialist with 20+ years of IT consulting experience. He has helped clients deliver new
products and adopt agile ways of working in travel, payments, financial services,education, analytics, consulting, retail, and beyond. Moghe has always worked in
distributed teams, and went "all-remote" in 2017, long before it was commonplace.

FBF 23 - PROGRAMMINGNO JACKETSoftware as a ProductBridging the Gap Between Technology and Product Development
Steffen Hartmann

Key Selling Points:
Create software products with a product mindset that includes all parts of anorganization, enabling true cooperation and bridging the gap between
technology and product to better drive the development of Software as a
Product.
Shows how to achieve convergence between technology and product that isessential for organizations striving to succeed in digital transformation efforts
Covers both product management and software design
Helps break down the wall between software and product disciplines while notlimiting readers to one point of view
Fosters a shared understanding between product and technology that uncovers
new ways of cooperating for all roles involved in developing software products
Uses case studies to illustrate the points covered
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Status: FORTHCOMING

Summary
Software is eating the world, and software products have taken control of our daily
businesses and lives. Products are everywhere around us. This book is about theessential characteristics of software as a product, and how to create new ways ofcooperation and collaboration between technology development and productdevelopment. This book does not rely on established schools of thought about softwaredevelopment and product development. It offers a fresh approach to developing
software as a true product. It is a book that shows how cooperation between
technology and product at an architectural level can connect both worlds.
This book offers guidelines and approaches to help organizations successfully deliver
Software as a Product (SaaP). It teaches the first principles of product development
and how to apply them cross-functionally. It does these things through the frameworkof Shu-Ha-Ri. ("Shu-Ha-Ri is a way of thinking about how you learn a technique. The
name comes from Japanese martial arts, particularly Aikido.

Contributor Bio
As a product manager, Steffen Hartmann and his agile teams oversee demanding
customer projects. He constantly rethinks products and brings product development on
track with software development to achieve his goal to create better and moresustainable products. Steffen has been focusing on product development, User
Experience, mobile, and team communication in his daily business for more than adecade.

FBF 23 - PROGRAMMING

Software Architecture and Decision-Making
Leveraging Leadership, Technology, and Product Management to Build Great
Products
Srinath Perera

Key Selling Points:
Make better decisions about software architecture, by mastering the nexus oftechnology, leadership, and product management

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Master five key questions for understanding uncertainty, and seven essential
principles for optimizing judgment calls and tradeoffs
Learn how diverse elements of a modern macro architecture design fit together,and get more value with less cost and effort
Approach designs systematically; first at macro level and then at individual
service level
Explore default design choices for common technical issues, and when to preferother solutions
For wide audiences of technical leaders, software architects, senior software
engineers, and other decision-makers

Summary
Leverage leadership knowledge to make better software architecture decisions. Think
deeply but implement slowly.

The overarching goal of software systems (hence, for software architecture) is to build
systems that meet quality standards and that provide the highest return on investment(ROI) in the long run or within a defined period of time.

Status: FORTHCOMING

A great product requires a combination of technology, leadership, and productmanagement (including UX). Leadership is primarily about managing uncertainty andmaking the right judgment. To build great products, technical leaders need to combine
technology, leadership, and product management knowledge, and make the rightdecisions. Many technical mistakes come from the gap between knowledge about thesethree items and judgment.

In Software Architecture and Decision-Making, Srinath Perera explains principles
and concepts that software architects must understand deeply and how to employ
those principles to manage uncertainty.

Contributor Bio
Srinath Perera has been an Apache open source developer for the last 20 years. He
has played a major role in the architecture of Apache Axis2, Apache Airavata, WSO2
CEP (Siddhi), and WSO2 Choreo. He has designed two SOAP engines and helped build
four. He is a committer (a developer who can commit to a code base) for Apache Axis,
Axis2, Apache Geronimo, and Apache Airavata.

FBF 23 - PROGRAMMING

Balancing Coupling in Software Design
Successful Software Architecture in General and Distributed Systems
Vlad Khononov

Key Selling Points:
Why modular distributed systems still fail to deliver easy, rapid change – andhow to solve the problem
Harness coupling as a purposeful software design tool, and improve your designs
whether you use microservices or not
Get practical guidance for designing any modular distributed system
The latest book in Vaughn Vernon’s important Addison-Wesley Signature Series –by Vladik (Vlad) Khononov, a world-renowned expert in modern softwarearchitecture

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Status: FORTHCOMING

Harness coupling as a purposeful software design tool, and improve your designs
whether you use microservices or not
Get practical guidance for designing any modular distributed system
The latest book in the important Addison-Wesley Signature Series from Vaughn
Vernon—by Vladik (Vlad) Khononov, a world-renowned expert in modern
software architecture

SummaryThis book identifies the deeper problem—how software architects and designers
approach coupling – and introduces an important new approach for creating more
successful designs whether you use microservices or not. Instead of blindly avoiding
coupling, leading software architecture expert Vladik (Vlad) Khononov proposes anovel method that transforms it into a powerful design tool: “balanced multidimensional coupling.”
Microservices become immensely popular because it promised to help organizations
build loosely-coupled systems that allow for fast, easy change. But microservices
systems haven’t always kept that promise. This book identifies the deeper problem -how software architects and designers approach coupling – and introduces animportant new approach for creating more successful designs whether you use
microservices or not.Instead of blindly avoiding coupling, leading softwarearchitecture expert Vladik (Vlad)Khononov proposes a novel method that transforms
it into a powerful design tool:“balanced multi-dimensional coupling.” Khononov begins
by surveying existing methods of evaluating coupling, and illuminating their strengths
and limitations in the context of modern distributed systems. Next, he introduces a
new multi-dimensional coupling model, and demonstrates how to harness it to build
modular software.

Contributor Bio

Vladik (Vlad) Khononov (Israel) is a software engineer with more than 20 years ofindustry experience working for companies large and small in roles ranging fromwebmaster to chief architect. A long-time proponent of domain-driven design andevolutionary architecture, he currently helps companies make sense of their businessdomains, untangle monoliths, and tackle complex architectural challenges....

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Patterns of Distributed Systems
Unmesh Joshi

Key Selling Points:
30 essential patterns for every architect and developer working with modern
enterprise platforms and frameworks
Focuses on the unique programming and synchronization challenges presented
by distributed systems
Demonstrates patterns with working Java code examples
Presents solutions you can apply across multiple systems, including Amazon S3,
EKS, Azure CosmosDB, MongoDB, Kafka, Kubernetes, Cassandra, Akka, andmore
Offers insights you can use in making better technology choices and architecturaldecisions, and in confidently traversing open source code bases

Summary
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Learn How to Better Understand Distributed System Design and Solve
Common Problems
Enterprises today rely on a range of distributed software handling data storage,
messaging, system management, and compute capability. Distributed system designs
need to be implemented in some programming language, and there are common
problems that these implementations need to solve. These problems have common
recurring solutions. A patterns approach is very suitable to describe these
implementation aspects.
Patterns by nature are generic enough to cover a broad range of products from cloudservices like Amazon S3 to message brokers like Apache Kafka to infrastructure
frameworks like Kubernetes to databases like MongoDB or Actor frameworks like Akka.
At the same time the pattern structure is specific enough to be able to show real code.
The beauty of this approach is that even if the code structure is shown in one
programming language (Java in this case), the structure applies to many otherprogramming languages

Contributor Bio
Unmesh Joshi is a Principal Consultant at Thoughtworks with 22 years of industry
experience. He is a software architecture enthusiast, who believes that understanding
principles of distributed systems is as essential today as understanding web
architecture or object-oriented programming was in the last decade. For the last two
years he has been publishing patterns of distributed systems on martinfowler.com

FBF 23 - PROGRAMMING

Clean Architecture with .NET
Dino Esposito

Key Selling Points:
Shows how to apply the principles in Bob Martin's Clean Architecture in .NET
and ASP.NET development
Build a complete reference application, from start to finish
Use .NET's power to achieve modularity in web applications: build high-value
solutions without unnecessary complexity
By Dino Esposito, world-renowned expert in .NET development and architecture

Summary

Microsoft Press
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Series: Developer Reference
Status: FORTHCOMING

As more software professionals question the benefits of microservices, many find thatthe "modular monolith" architectural pattern can be a more effective, efficient, andmanageable solution for their own systems. Microsoft.NET and ASP.NET are
exceptionally well suited to this approach. However, effective modularity doesn't comeautomatically: it requires techniques and precautions that are often described as "cleanarchitecture." In this book world-renowned .NET author and developer Dino Esposito
has written the first comprehensive guide to successfully modularizing web applications
with today's .NET and ASP.NET.
Clean Architecture with .NET first presents the rationale behind modular softwarearchitectures, considers today's leading approaches, and identifies the architecturalprinciples embodied by each of them. Next, Esposito walks you through building acomplete reference application for modular monoliths that makes it easy to implement
individual services.

Contributor Bio
Dino Esposito (Rome, Italy) has written more than twenty books and 1,000 articles
through his more than thirty year programming career. His content has promoted theprofessional growth of thousands of .NET developers and architects worldwide. After
two years of consulting in energy, he now leads the IT team that built and maintains an
ASP.NET platform that runs worldwide operations for professional tennis and leads
another team building ASP.NET software for digital therapies at the Vatican's hospital.

FBF 23 - PROGRAMMINGNO JACKET

Absolute Beginner's Guide to Algorithms
Kirupa Chinnathambi

Key Selling Points:
The easy, friendly way to master the algorithms and data structures every
programmer needs to know

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Status: FORTHCOMING

Illuminates concepts and theory with working JavaScript implementations
Helps you write more efficient code, no matter what programming languages youuse
Comprehensive coverage: arrays, hash tables, linked lists, stacks, queues,
graphs, recursion, performance optimization, searches, sorts, A*, and much
more
Includes many popular examples, from Towers of Hanoi to ciphers and theFisher-Yates Shuffle
Author's companion video available to make algorithms and data structures eveneasier to understand
Perfect for developers who need to demonstrate understanding of algorithms anddata structures in job interviews

Summary
As datasets grow, and applications become more diverse and complex, programmers
increasingly need a practical working understanding of algorithms and data structures.
Whatever languages you use, this knowledge will help you solve more problems, write
more effective code, and ace interviews for today's most desirable programming jobs.
If you've ever thought the subject was too complicated or abstract, this is the friendly
guide you've been waiting for. Kirupa Chinnathambi demystifies all the algorithms anddata structures you'll need, combining easy-to-understand explanations, working
reusable JavaScript implementation examples, and companion video that makes the
subject even easier to understand. Both a tutorial and concise reference, Chinnathambi
covers all this:Data structures: arrays, hash tables, sets, linked lists, stacks, queues, graphs,
and more
Algorithms: recursion, searches, sorts, A*, and other opportunities for program
optimization
Popular examples: Towers of Hanoi, Square Matrix Rotation, Caesar's Cipher...

Contributor Bio
Kirupa Chinnathambi (Kirkland, WA) spends his waking hours giving developers
superpowers as a Product Manager at Google. In 1999, before blogging was even aword, he started posting tutorials on kirupa.com. In the years since then, he has
written hundreds of articles, written several books, and recorded multiple YouTube
training videos for developers.

FBF 23 - PROGRAMMINGThe AWK Programming Language (2nd Edition)
Alfred V. Aho, Brian W. Kernighan, Peter J. Weinberger

Key Selling Points:
The definitive guide to Awk scripting, from the language's creators - now fully
updatedRefined and improved throughout, with modern examples based on today's
versions of Awk
Includes a complete tutorial for beginners
Presents full chapters on exploratory data analysis, data processing, reports anddatabases, text processing, experiments with algorithms, and more
For Awk users on any platform: Unix, Linux, MacOS, Windows, and beyond

Summary

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Status: FORTHCOMING

Awk was developed in 1977 at Bell Labs, and it's still a remarkably useful tool forsolving a wide variety of problems quickly and efficiently. In this update of the classic
Awk book, the creators of the language show you what Awk can do and teach you how
to use it effectively.
Here's what programmers today are saying: "I love Awk." "Awk is amazing." "It is justso damn good." "Awk is just right." "Awk is awesome." "Awk has always been alanguage that I loved."
It's easy: "Simple, fast and lightweight." "Absolutely efficient to learn because there
isn't much to learn." "3-4 hours to learn the language from start to finish." "I can teachit to new engineers in less than 2 hours."
It's productive: "Whenever I need to do a complex analysis of a semi-structured text
file in less than a minute, Awk is my tool." "Learning Awk was the best bang for buckinvestment of time in my entire career." "Designed to chew through lines of text files
with ease, with great defaults that minimize the amount of coding you actually have towrite to do anything.Contributor Bio
Alfred V. Aho is Lawrence Gussman Professor Emeritus of Computer Science atColumbia University, and former department chair. Well known for his work on
algorithms, data structures, programming languages, compilers, and the foundations ofcomputer science, he has received the ACM A. M. Turing Award and the IEEE John von
Neumann Medal.
Brian W. Kernighan was a member of the Computing Science Research Center at Bell
Labs and is currently a professor in the Computer Science department at Princeton. He
is the co-creator of several programming languages and the co-author of numerous
books, including the computing classic, The C Programming Language.
Peter J. Weinberger, currently at Google, has served as chief technology officer at
Renaissance Technologies and as leader of computer science research at Bell Labs. He
is a Fellow of the AAAS.

FBF 23 - PROGRAMMING

Programming with Rust
Donis Marshall

Key Selling Points:
The expert, up-to-date Rust programming guide developers have been waitingfor!
Overcome Rust's steep learning curve through short, easy-to-consume chapters
supported with well-designed companion videos
Reflects the latest versions of Rust, and thoroughly demystifies innovative
features such as lifetimes, ownerships, and patterns
Practical, focused, complete, and up-to-date: a Rust guide that's ideal fornewcomers and professional developers alike

Summary

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Rust's exciting innovations have made it the most loved programming language in
Stack Overflow's influential survey for five straight years—but its steep learning curve
has made many other developers reluctant to dive in. Now, with a growing
commitment to Rust from many of the world's leading development organizations, it's
the perfect time to start—especially now that there's an up-to-date, accessible,
example-rich book to guide you. Long-time enterprise developer Donis Marshall has
made Rust easier to understand than ever, with a guide expertly organized into short,bite-sized chapters and supported with focused video tutorials that bring you
up-to-speed fast.
Writing for developers at all levels, Marshall starts with the absolute basics, andthoroughly demystifies the Rust technical advances that make it so attractive fornext-generation development. Everything's here, from types and assignments toownership, lifetimes, traits, and crates.

Contributor Bio
Donis Marshall (San Francisco Bay Area, CA) has 20+ years of experience indesigning and building enterprise software with Microsoft technologies for leading
companies in multiple industries. An endorsed trainer for Microsoft Global Learning
Services, he has trained Microsoft developers and engineers for many years. His
Microsoft Press books include Solid Code and Programming Microsoft Visual C#.

FBF 23 - PROGRAMMING

Essential C# 12.0 (8th Edition)
Mark Michaelis

Key Selling Points:
An extremely well-written and well-organized guide to C# 12, which willappeal to programmers at all levels of experience
Offers complete, in-depth coverage of all the new features of C# 11 and C#12
Concise yet deep coverage with no fluff
Appeals equally to programmers new to C# as well as those who have used aprevious version of C#
Design Guidelines for programming in C#

Summary
The Comprehensive, Expert Guide to C# 12.0 for Programmers at All Levels

Addison-Wesley Professional
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COM051310
Series: Addison-Wesley Microsoft
Technology Series
Status: FORTHCOMING

Updated for the Microsoft C# 12.0 Long Term Support (LTS) release, Essential C#
12.0 is a well-organized, no-fluff C# guide, suitable for every programmer. Buildingon
the proven high-value content of previous editions, world-class C# expert MarkMichaelis illuminates key enhancements in C# 12, including any-type aliases, inline
arrays, default lambda expression parameters, expanded support for primaryconstructors, and experimental interceptors.
Michaelis presents a comprehensive tutorial and reference for the entire C# 12
language, helping you accelerate your journey to expert-level C# programmer.
Succinct examples illustrate central constructs, and modern coding guidelines help you
minimize bugs and write code that's easier to evolve. To help you quickly find what
you need and maintain compatibility, the book includes version-specific indexes ofrecent C# versions, and icons and notes identifying when each innovation was
introduced.

Contributor Bio
Mark Michaelis is founder, chief technical architect, and trainer for IntelliTect. A
world-class C# expert, he has been a Microsoft Regional Director since 2007 and a
Microsoft MVP for 25 years. He founded the Spokane .NET Users Group, co-organizes
the annual TEDx Coeur d'Alene events, and is adjunct professor at Eastern Washington
University.

FBF 23 - PROGRAMMINGNO JACKET

Network Automation with Go
Vinit Jain

Key Selling Points:
All the knowledge you need to program networks and use network
automation tools with the best language for the job: Go
Use programmability and automation to rapidly deploy new network
infrastructure, manage existing infrastructure, improve agility, and reduce cost
Covers all Cisco network operating system environments: IOS-XE, IOS-XR and
NX-OS
Helps you achieve better code quality, concurrency, and application performance
than is typically possible with Python
Requires minimal knowledge of computer networking: explains the concepts youneed to create high-value network programmability and automation solutions

Summary
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9780137924929
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Administration
COM088000
Series: Safari Live Training
Status: FORTHCOMINGAs networks grow ever larger and more complex, automation is crucial to theirsuccess, and developers that can write effective automation tools and applications havea major competitive advantage. This code must be optimized for quality, concurrency,
performance, and scalability. This is far easier to achieve with Go than Python or otherconventional languages.
Network Automation using Go is a start-to-finish guide to using Go to build scalable
and high performing network automation tools for enterprise, service provider, anddata center environments. You'll first gain expertise and confidence with key Go
language facilities, from concurrency to data serialization, RESTful APIs, RPCs, and
WebSockets. Next, you'll use your new Go skills to interact with network elements andautomate operations and tasks across your network infrastructure. Along the way,
you'll also learn how to make the most of the powerful Gornir package for network
automation.

Contributor Bio
Vinit Jain, CCIE No. 22854 (R&S, SP, Security & DC), is a Senior Technical Leader for
Network Engineering at Cisco focused on architecting network infrastructure for edge
computing solutions. He previously worked as a Network Development Engineer as partof Amazon's backbone network operations team and as a technical leader at Cisco
Technical Assistance Center (TAC)FBF 23 - PROGRAMMING

Serverless as a Game Changer
How to Get the Most Out of the Cloud
Joseph Emison

Key Selling Points:
Use serverless development to build and deploy software faster, better, and atlower cost

Addison-Wesley Professional
9780137392629
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Series: Addison-Wesley Signature
Series (Vernon)
Status: FORTHCOMING

Evolve your cloud tech stack and mindset to finally gain the full benefits of thecloud
Use serverless architectures and managed services to offload tasks that don't
add value
Real-world case study takes you from where you are to where you want to be
Exclusive managed services directory helps you find resources to streamline yourserverless transition
The latest book in The Addison-Wesley Signature Series: Vaughn Vernon—expert
guides to improving software development maturity and succeeding withbusiness-centric practices

Summary
Leverage the “serverless mindset” to build and deploy software faster, better, and withless expense.
In this definitive guide, Joseph Emison shows how to leverage “serverless” formaximum customer value. He reveals why mindset is crucial to modern IT strategy andexplains why and how to move toward a truly serverless mindset.
Many organizations are falling short when it comes to leveraging the cloud. Drawing on
his experience as a pioneering CTO across multiple industries, Emison shows why andhow you can gain immense business value from the cloud. While many serverless
adopters focus on converting and building apps on serverless compute platforms like
AWS Lambda, Emison offers better ways to think about your tech stack, optimize buildor-buy decisions, choose the right vendor for each commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) or
open-source solution, and draw on the industry's best managed services.
To help you develop a serverless mindset, Emison includes a case study demonstratinga real-world enterprise transition to severless.

Contributor Bio
Joe Emison is the co-founder and CTO of Branch, a personal lines insurance company.
Before Branch, Joe built five other companies as a technical co-founder, across manyindustries, including consumer electronics, local government, big data analysis, andcommercial real estate. Joe graduated with degrees in English and Mathematics from
Williams College and has a law degree from Yale Law School.

FBF 23 - PROGRAMMING

Functional Design
Principles, Patterns, and Practices
Robert C. Martin

Key Selling Points:
The practical guide to designing and writing better, cleaner code withfunctional programming - from Bob Martin
Master highly-effective functional design principles, patterns, architectural
techniques, practices, and methodologies
Put functional approaches to work, using the elegant Clojure language
Start applying functional programming and Clojure in a wide range of projects
and environments
Compare functional, object-oriented, and structured paradigms, make the mostof all of them, and judiciously use them together in concert

Summary
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9780138176396
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Development & Engineering
COM051240
Series: Robert C. Martin Series
Status: FORTHCOMING

A Practical Guide to Better, Cleaner Code with Functional Programming
In Functional Design, renowned software engineer Robert C. Martin ("Uncle Bob")
explains how and why to use functional programming to build better systems for realcustomers. Martin compares conventional object-oriented coding structures in Java to
those enabled by functional languages, identifies the best roles for each, and shows
how to build better systems by judiciously using them in context.
Martin's approach is pragmatic, minimizing theory in favor of "in the-trenches"
problem-solving. Through accessible examples, working developers will discover how
the easy-to-learn, semantically rich Clojure language can help them improve codecleanliness, design, discipline, and outcomes. Martin examines well-known SOLID
principles and Gang of Four Design Patterns from a functional perspective, revealing
why patterns remain extremely valuable to functional programmers, and how to usethem to achieve superior results.

Contributor Bio

Robert C. Martin ("Uncle Bob") wrote his first line of code at the age of 12 in 1964
and has been employed as a programmer since 1970. He is cofounder ofcleancoders.com, offering online video training for software developers, and is founderof Uncle Bob Consulting LLC, offering software consulting, training, and skill
development services to major corporations worldwide.

FBF 23 - PROGRAMMINGMySQL Crash Course (2nd Edition)
Ben Forta

Key Selling Points:
The fast, easy way to get productive with MySQL – now extensively updated
for MySQL 8!
30 highly focused hands-on lessons, now with color-coded examples and newchallenges in every chapter
New coverage includes: JSON, security enhancements, table encryption, windowfunctions, and much more
Covers all you need to know - from basic data inserts to stored procedures,
triggers, and performance optimization
By world-renowned author Ben Forta, author of the world's best-selling guide to
SQL

Summary

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9780138223021
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Status: FORTHCOMINGMySQL is one of the world's most popular database management systems, powering
everything from Internet powerhouses to individual corporate databases to simple
end-user applications. MySQL Crash Course, Second Edition will teach you
everything you need to be immediately productive with today's powerful versions of
MySQL. Thoroughly updated for MySQL 8, this full-color guide offers extensive newcoverage, including: JSON support, modern security features, table encryption, windowfunctions, and more. Best-selling author Ben Forta has added color-coded examples
throughout, as well as realistic new hands-on challenges at the end of every chapter.
Step by step, you'll learn how to do all this, and much more:
Retrieve, sort, filter, summarize, group, and manipulate data
Search using regular expressions, and perform full-text searches
Create calculated fields
Work with subqueries
Join tables, create advanced joins, and combine queriesInsert, update, and delete data
Create and manipulate tables

Contributor Bio
Ben Forta (Oak Park, MI), Adobe Systems Senior Director of Education Initiatives,
spends much of his time teaching, talking, and writing about technology products,
coding and application development, creativity, and digital literacy, and helping toshape the future of Adobe products. A best-selling author, his books have 750,000+
copies in print in English alone, and have been translated into 15 languages.

FBF 23 - PROGRAMMING

Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) Complete Guide
Ned Zaldivar, James Hill

Key Selling Points:
The complete, practical guide to designing, implementing, and operating
multi-factor authentication
Use MFA to prevent identity theft, secure remote access, and deter password
compromise
Discover product-agnostic best practices for MFA configuration, administration,and troubleshooting
Explore the full spectrum of MFA use cases, technology options, and risks
Compare the latest biometric options, from behavioral biometrics to TouchID and
FaceID
Plan for next steps beyond MFA

Summary
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COM043050
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Information Technology Series
Status: FORTHCOMING

With over 15 billion stolen credentials to work with, cybercriminals can hijack accounts,
discover company secrets, compromise personal information and health care records,
and steal virtually any high-value digital asset. To help deter cybersecurity disaster,
more and more organizations rely on Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA). Now, there's asingle source, vendor-neutral guide to today's leading MFA technologies, applications,best practices, and operations. Enterprise security experts James Hill and Ned Zaldivar
reveal how MFA can prevent identity theft, unauthorized remote access, and otherattacks, and guide you through configuring, operating and troubleshooting popularsolutions across multiple use cases. You'll find proven techniques for integrating MFA
into your current environment, leveraging MFA standards, using SMS and push
notifications, and much more. A full chapter on biometrics introduces password-lesssystems, behavioral biometrics, WebAuthn, TouchID, and FaceID.

Contributor Bio
James Hill (CCIE No. 29455, CISSP; Houston, TX Area) is co-owner and CTO of H5
Strategic Alliances, LLC, an IT consulting firm specializing in cybersecurity, network
access control, architectural design, implementation, and support. He has designed andimplemented infrastructure and security solutions at several Fortune® 500 companies,
working with a wide spectrum of security, access control, and routing/switch
technologies. His most recent experience includes designing and implementing new
network services, segmenting Payment Card Industry (PCI) and Process Control
Network (PCN) networks, implementing next-generation firewalls, and creating
network technical runbooks.
Ned Zaldivar (Houston, TX Area) has 30 years of industry experience. As Multi-domain
Technical Solutions Architect at Cisco, he helps leading global enterprises address
cybersecurity problems ranging from remote access to Zero Trust with Secure Access
Service Edge (SASE). Within Cisco, he brings the customer's voice to help ProductManagement and Engineering teams bring new products, features and solutions tomarket. His technology specialties include Next Generation Firewalls, VPN, PKI, Zero
Trust, and SASE.

FBF 23 - PROGRAMMINGThe Art and Science of UX Design
A step-by-step guide to designing amazing user experiences
Anthony Conta

Key Selling Points:
A full-color, step-by-step guide to building world-class user experience
Covers all facets of human-centered design, including using empathy as a design
tool
Guides you through problem definition, ideation, prototyping, testing,
implementation, iteration, and more
Based on a curriculum developed by an award-winning, internationallyrecognized designer: packed with real-world examples and hands-on activities

Summary

New Riders
9780138060268
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Wt
Status: ACTIVE

Today, every product or service needs to delight its users and that means delivering an
outstanding user experience (UX). In this full-color guide, leading user experience
designer Anthony Conta guides you step by step through crafting these exceptionaluser experiences. The Art and Science of UX Design introduces a complete humancentered design framework for success, using practical examples based on his
pioneering experience in the field.
Learn to apply design thinking to understand your users’ wants, needs, goals, andfrustrations as you transform empathy into one of your most powerful design tools.
Once you’ve defined the right problems, you’ll master proven ideation techniques toquickly create promising solutions. You’ll walk through prototyping preliminary designs,
testing and refining them based on users’ actual reactions, and clearly communicating
all you’ve learned so colleagues can build what you’ve envisioned. Finally, you’ll learn
practical ways to continually iterate and improve your offerings so they staycompetitive (and delightful) far into the future.

Contributor Bio
Anthony Conta’s career in design began when he was four years old, thanks to thecarelessness of another student at his school. His mother, Christina, was the school
nurse for a K-12 school in New York City. One day, a student forgot their Game Gear in
his mother’s office. After a month of asking every student who came in if it was theirs
and no one claiming it, she gave it to her son and opened his world.

FBF 23 - PROGRAMMING

A Project Guide to UX Design (3rd Edition)
For User Experience Designers in the Field or in the Making
Russ Unger, Carolyn Chandler

Key Selling Points:
The definitive guide to User Experience (UX) design - now extensively
updated to reflect the field's growing maturity and sophistication
Now fully reflects agile, Scrum, lean, and iterative approaches to UX design
Adds extensive coverage of discovery, workshops, mapping, anddevelopment/release processes
Contains thoroughly updated coverage of project ecosystems, user research,personas and profiles, information architecture, design testing, and much more
Ideal for newcomers to UX design for any industry, product, or service - and forexperienced UX/UI professionals who need to up-level their skills

Summary
New Riders
9780138188221
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Computers / Internet
COM060130
Series: Voices That Matter
Status: FORTHCOMING

User Experience (UX) design is now a core expectation for virtually all products andservices, and today's UX teams must help their organizations deliver exceptionallyuseful, usable, and accessible offerings while also serving stakeholder goals andmissions. To achieve these goals, UX professionals must master and apply bothtraditional and new skills and best practices in increasingly complex, agile, and iterativeenvironments. For more than a decade, UX students and practitioners have turned to A
Project Guide to UX for the authoritative, practical, and comprehensive guidance theyneed. This new Third Edition has been thoroughly revised and improved to support UX
designers in today's roles in today's organizations.
Renowned UX design leaders Russ Unger and Carolyn Chandler guide you through acomplete modern UX development process, sharing valuable new insights into projectecosystems, discovery, design workshops, customer journey mapping, research-baseduser personas and profiles.

Contributor Bio
Russ Unger (Chicago, IL), Chief Experience Officer at IntelliBridge, leads execution
and delivery of the IntelliBridge Experience practices, including User Experience
Design, User Interface Design, Content Strategy, and Marketing Strategy. These
practice areas blend human-centered strategies and commercial sector bestpractices to design outstanding products, services, and processes. As the firstExperience Design Director at 18F, GSA's internal office to support the modernizationand digital transformation of U.S. government services, Unger helped build andshape the team responsible for ensuring a user-centered approach to every
engagement. Earlier, as Experience Design Director at GE Capital Americas, hehelped stand up a Center of Excellence focused on bringing a modern, humancentered approach to robust legacy applications. He is co-author of Designing theConversation: Techniques for Successful Facilitation and Speaker Camp: A SelfPaced Workshop for Planning, Pitching, Preparing, and Presenting at Conferences.
Carolyn Chandler (Chicago, IL), Director of User Experience, Eight Bit Studios, has
worked in User Experience Design for more than twenty years, building on her deep
interests in psychology and anthropology. Her current roles include design strategy
and leadership, interaction design, and user research and modeling. She is the coauthor of Adventures in Experience Design with Anna van Slee. Carolyn was named
one of Chicago's Tech 50 by Crain's magazine.

FBF 23 - PROGRAMMING

Talk to the Elephant
Design Learning for Behavior Change
Julie Dirksen

Key Selling Points:
A full-color, start-to-finish guide to designing learning experiences that create
real, lasting behavior change
Powerful learning and training techniques backed by science, research, andreal-world experience
Thoroughly covers the realistic role of training, behavior change mechanisms,
motivation, value assessment, and problem diagnosis/analysis
Presents complete strategies for persuasion, practice, ownership, and more
Includes a complete behavior-change case study that runs throughout the book,identifying challenges and solutions for every step of the process
Applicable in any domain that requires behavior change - from healthcare andsafety to finance, product design, and marketing
New Riders
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EDU039000
Series: Voices That Matter
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Wt
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Summary
What do you do when your learners know what to do but still aren’t doing it?
Training is created with the goal of changing learners’ behaviors, but anyone who hascreated learning experiences knows that there’s a big gap between knowing and doing.
You can create an engaging learning experience that informs and helps people
remember, but often those people go back to their regular world and continue to do
things the same way they always have.
In the last few decades, the fields of psychology, behavioral economics, and otherbehavioral sciences have brought an enormous amount of scientific research into
helping people with behavior change. Only a fraction of that research has made its way
back into learning design.
Talk to the Elephant: Design Learning for Behavior Change shows you how to add
critical tools to your learning design toolbox to affect behavior change. You’ll find out
how to use frameworks and strategies from behavioral science to help you research
and analyze challenges, feel more confident that you’re solving the right problem, anddesign and test solutions that can help people with difficult behavior changes.

Contributor Bio
JULIE DIRKSEN is an international writer, speaker, and workshop facilitator for
professional organizations like the Association for Talent Development, the Learning
Guild, and others. She is an award-winning translator of research into practice to help
workplace practitioners.

FBF 23 - PROGRAMMING

CompTIA Security+ SY0-701 Exam Cram (7th Edition)
Martin M. Weiss

Key Selling Points:
The smartest, fastest, most effective preparation for CompTIA's brand-new
Security+ Exam!
Fully reflects major changes in the new Security+ SY0-701 exam - including
more how-to help, and more coverage of security scenarios
Designed to help candidates rapidly assess where they stand - and quickly
master what they need to learn
Includes test-taking strategies, time-saving tips, Exam Notes, and two practiceexams

Summary

Pearson IT Certification
9780138225575
Pub Date: 2/25/2024
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COM055010
Series: Exam Cram
Status: FORTHCOMING

CompTIA® Security+ SY0-701 Exam Cram, is the perfect late-stage study guide tohelp you pass the newly updated version of the CompTIA Security+ exam. It provides
coverage and practice questions for every exam topic. Extensive prep tools include
quizzes, Exam Alerts, and our essential last-minute review Cram Sheet. The powerful
Pearson Test Prep practice software provides real-time practice and feedback with twocomplete exams.
Covers the critical information you'll need to know to score higher on your Security+
SY0-701 exam!
Assess the different types of attacks, threats, and vulnerabilities organizations
face
Understand security concepts across traditional, cloud, mobile, and IoT
environments
Explain and implement security controls across multiple environments
Identify, analyze, and respond to operational needs and security incidents
Understand and explain the relevance of concepts related to governance, risk,
and complianceExclusive State-of-the-Art Web-based Test Engine with Practice Questions.

Contributor Bio
Marty M. Weiss has spent most of his career in information security and risk
management, helping large organizations. Marty holds a bachelor of science degree incomputer studies from the University of Maryland University College and an MBA fromthe Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

FBF 23 - PROGRAMMING

CompTIA Security+ SY0-701 Cert Guide
Lewis Heuermann

Key Selling Points:
The ultimate core self-study guide for the latest CompTIA Security+ SY0-701
exam: the most comprehensive study reference available!
Fully reflects major changes in the new 2023 Security+ exam, including
reorganized domains and updated focus on security operations and security
program management
Two full practice tests based on the real Security + exam
Memory tables, study strategies, tips, cautions, key terms, troubleshooting
scenarios, last-minute review tearsheet, and more

Summary
Pearson IT Certification
9780138293086
Pub Date: 2/28/2024
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COM055010
Series: Certification Guide
Status: FORTHCOMING

Learn, prepare, and practice for CompTIA Security+ SY0-701 exam success with this
CompTIA Security+ SY0-701 Cert Guide from Pearson IT Certification, a leader in IT
certification learning.
CompTIA Security+ SY0-701 Cert Guide presents you with an organized test
preparation routine through the use of proven series elements and techniques. "Do I
Know This Already?" quizzes open each chapter and enable you to decide how muchtime you need to spend on each section. Exam topic lists make referencing easy.
Chapter-ending Exam Preparation Tasks help you drill on key concepts you must know
thoroughly.
CompTIA Security+ SY0-701 Cert Guide focuses specifically on the objectives for the
CompTIA Security+ SY0-601 exam. The author shares preparation hints andtest-taking tips, helping you identify areas of weakness and improve both yourconceptual knowledge and hands-on skills. Material is presented in a concise manner,
focusing on increasing your understanding and retention of exam topics.

Contributor Bio
With more than a decade of submarine military service and extensive experience intech and cybersecurity, Lewis Heuermann (Corpus Christie, TX) offers a uniqueperspective on cybersecurity risk management. As a skilled systems engineer, network
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Network Defense and Countermeasures (4th Edition)
Principles and Practices
William Easttom II

Key Selling Points:
The most up-to-date network defense text on the market
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Contains end-of-chapter exercises, projects, review questions, and plenty ofreal-world tips

Summary
All you need to know about defending networks, in one book
Pearson IT Certification
9780138200589
Pub Date: 11/3/2023
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Clearly explains concepts, terminology, challenges, tools, and skills Covers key security
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You’ll learn how to harden operating systems, defend against malware and network
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Contributor Bio
Dr. Chuck Easttom is the author of 41 books, including several on computer security,
forensics, and cryptography. He is also an inventor with 25 patents and the author ofover 70 research papers. He holds a Doctor of Science in cybersecurity, a Ph.D. in
nanotechnology, a Ph.D. in computer science, and three master’s degrees (one inapplied computer science, one in education, and one in systems eng...

FBF 23 - PROGRAMMING

VCP-DCV for vSphere 8.x Official Cert Guide (5th Edition)
John A. Davis, Steve Baca

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The complete, in-depth study guide for all VCP-DCV for vSphere 8.x exam
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By a team of well-known, well-regarded VMware authors with a proven trackrecord of success
Ideal both for new VCP-DCV candidates and for 100,000+ VCPs who need tore-certify

Summary
Pearson IT Certification
9780138169886
Pub Date: 12/21/2023
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VCP-DCV for vSphere 8.x Official Cert Guide presents you with an organized test
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VCP-DCV for vSphere 8.x Official Cert Guide from Pearson IT Certification allows you
to succeed on the VMware Certified Professional - Data Center Virtualization forvSphere 8 exam by directly addressing the exam's objectives as stated by VMware.
Leading experts John A. Davis, Steve Baca, and Owen Thomas share preparation hints
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Contributor Bio
John A. Davis, an independent contractor and Senior Integration Architect at MEJEER,
LLC, became a VMware Certified Instructor (VCI) and VMware Certified Professional(VCP) in 2004, and he has been a vExpert since 2014. His recent work has involved
designing and implementing solutions for hybrid clouds, cloud automation, disasterrecovery, and virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI).

Pearson Professional Computing
Oracle Press/CISCO

FBF 23 - ORACLE/CISCO

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Expert Insights forDevelopers and Architects
Phil Wilkins

Key Selling Points:
The definitive practical exploration of Oracle Cloud technologies and bestpractices: unsurpassed insights from a team of world-class Oracle experts
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low-code, APIs, integration, DevOps, serverless, Kubernetes, Web 3.0, and muchmore
For developers and architects working in all facets of Oracle Cloud development including OCI newcomers who need to become productive and effective quickly

Summary
Oracle Press
9780138215743
Pub Date: 3/3/2024
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COM091000
Series: Oracle Press Cloud
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The most indispensable resource for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
developers, architects, and other technical professionals at all levels!
Oracle Cloud Developer Evangelist and long-time Oracle Ace Director Phil Wilkins hasbrought together expert-authored, practical content across an unprecedented range ofOracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) technologies. In each chapter, a leading expert draws
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Contributor Bio
Phil Wilkins (Hampshire, England, UK) recently joined Oracle as a Cloud Developer
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FBF 23 - ORACLE/CISCO

CCNP and CCIE Security Core SCOR 350-701 Official
Cert Guide (2nd Edition)
Omar Santos

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Assessment, review, and practice for the CCNP and CCIE Security Core SCOR
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Cisco Press
9780138221263
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CCNP and CCIE Security Core SCOR 350-701 Official Cert Guide (Version 1.1
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CCNP and CCIE Security Core SCOR 350-701 Official Cert Guide, from Cisco
Press allows you to succeed on the exam the first time and is the only self-study
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Santos shares preparation hints and test-taking tips.

Contributor Bio
Omar Santos is an active member of the security community, where he leads several
industry-wide initiatives and standard bodies. His active role helps businesses,
academic institutions, state and local law enforcement agencies, and other participants
dedicated to increasing the security of the critical infrastructure.
Omar is the author of more than 20 books and video courses.

FBF 23 - ORACLE/CISCO

CCNP Enterprise Design ENSLD 300-420 Official Cert
Guide (2nd Edition)
Anthony Bruno, Steve Jordan

Key Selling Points:
Straight from Cisco: official complete assessment, review, and practice for the
newly updated Designing Cisco Enterprise Networks (ENSLD 300-420) exam
Authoritative coverage of every ENSLD 300-420 exam topic, with all the context
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security/network services, and SDA
Includes realistic practice tests, plus extensive proven features to help you
review more efficiently
By two of the world's leading experts in Cisco enterprise networking
For all candidates pursuing CCNP Enterprise certifications
Cisco Press
9780138247263
Pub Date: 2/12/2024
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Summary
CCNP Enterprise Design ENSLD 300-420 Official Cert Guide: Designing Cisco
Enterprise Networks, 2/e, from Cisco Press allows you to succeed on the exam the firsttime andis the only self-study resource approved by Cisco. Expert authors Anthony Bruno andSteve Jordan share preparation hints and test-taking tips, helping you identify areas of
weakness and improve both your conceptual knowledge and hands-on skills. This
complete study package includes
Thoroughly revised for the 2023 revision of the exam
A test-preparation routine proven to help you pass the exams
Do I Know This Already? quizzes, which allow you to decide how much time youneed to spend on each section
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know thoroughly
The powerful Pearson Test Prep Practice Test software, complete with hundreds ofwell-reviewed, exam-realistic questions, customization options, and detailed
performance reports

Contributor Bio
Anthony Bruno, CCIE No. 2738, is an architect and technical resource manager with
British Telecom (BT) with more than 27 years of experience in the internetworking
field. Previously, he worked for International Network Services (INS) and Lucent
Technologies, and he was a captain in the U.S. Air Force.

FBF 23 - ORACLE/CISCO

CCNP Enterprise Wireless Design ENWLSD 300-425 and
Implementation ENWLSI 300-430 Official Cert Guide (2nd
Edition)David Hucaby, Jerome Henry

Key Selling Points:
Straight from Cisco: official complete assessment, review, and practice forboth of the newly revised CCNP Enterprise wireless exams: ENWLSD 300-425(design) ENWLSI 300-430 (implementation)

Cisco Press
9780138249892
Pub Date: 2/19/2024
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Systems
COM020090
Series: Official Cert Guide
Status: FORTHCOMING

Authoritative coverage of every ENWLSD 300-425 and ENWLSI 300-430 exam
topic, with all the context and practical examples you need
Logical, well-organized, practical coverage: site surveys, infrastructure, mobility,
WLAN high availability, FlexConnect, QoS, multicast, location, security,
monitoring, and device hardening
Covers all wireless network layers; conceptual/theoretical, and practicalcomponents; and the entire wireless network lifecycle
Includes realistic practice tests, plus extensive proven features to help you
review more efficiently
By top experts in Cisco enterprise wireless networking
For all candidates pursuing CCNP Enterprise certification with a focus on wirelesstechnology

Summary
CCNP Enterprise Wireless Design ENWLSD 300-425 and Implementation ENWLSI
300-430 Official Cert Guide, 2/e, from Cisco Press allows you to succeed on the exam
the first time and is the only self-study resource approved by Cisco. The authors sharepreparation hints and test-taking tips, helping you identify areas of weakness andimprove both your conceptual knowledge and hands-on skills. This complete study
package includes
A test-preparation routine proven to help you pass the exams
Do I Know This Already? quizzes, which allow you to decide how much time youneed to spend on each section
Chapter-ending Key Topic tables, which help you drill on key concepts you must
know thoroughly
The powerful Pearson Test Prep Practice Test software, complete with hundreds ofwell-reviewed, exam-realistic questions, customization options, and detailed
performance reports
An online, interactive Flash Cards application to help you drill on Key Terms bychapter

Contributor Bio
David Hucaby, CCIE No. 4594, CWNE No. 292, is a lead network engineer for
University of Kentucky HealthCare, where he focuses on wireless networks in a large
medical environment. David holds bachelor's and master's degrees in electricalengineering. He has been writingCisco Press titles for twenty years.

FBF 23 - ORACLE/CISCO

CCNP and CCIE Enterprise Core ENCOR 350-401 Official
Cert Guide (2nd Edition)
Brad Edgeworth, Ramiro Garza Rios, Jason Gooley, David Hucaby

Key Selling Points:
Official assessment, review, and practice for the CCNP ENCOR exam
The #1 selling CCNP preparation self-study guide, completely revised for the
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Book and online materials are packed with features to help candidates masterdifficult testing methods on actual exams
Practice tests contain exam-realistic questions that closely mimic the difficulty of
the actual exam.
In-depth expert explanations of all protocols, commands, and technologies on
the ENCOR exam
Cisco Press
9780138216764
Pub Date: 10/27/2023
Ship Date: 10/17/2023$69.99
Discount Code: yPaperback1072 Pages
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Summary
Trust the best-selling Official Cert Guide series from Cisco Press to help you learn,
prepare, and practice for the CCNP and CCIE ENCOR 350-401 exam. Well regarded forits level of detail, study plans, assessment features, and challenging review questions
and exercises, CCNP and CCIE Enterprise Core ENCOR 350-401 Official Cert Guide,
Second Edition helps you master the concepts and techniques that ensure your exam
success and is the only self-study resource approved by Cisco. Expert authors Brad
Edgeworth, Ramiro Garza Rios, Jason Gooley, and Dave Hucaby share preparation hints
and test-taking tips, helping you identify areas of weakness and improve both yourconceptual knowledge and hands-on skills.
This complete study package includes
A test-preparation routine proven to help you pass the exam
Do I Know This Already? quizzes, which let you decide how much time you needto spend on each section
Exam Topic lists that make referencing easy

Contributor Bio
Brad Edgeworth, CCIE No. 31574 (R&S and SP), is a SD-WAN technical solutions
architect at Cisco Systems. Brad is a distinguished speaker at Cisco Live, where he haspresented on various topics. Before joining Cisco, Brad worked as a network architect
and consultant for various Fortune 500 companies.

FBF 23 - ORACLE/CISCO

CCNP Enterprise Core ENCOR 350-401 and Advanced
Routing ENARSI 300-410 Official Cert Guide Library (2nd
Edition)Brad Edgeworth, Ramiro Garza Rios, David Hucaby, Jason Gooley, Raymond Lacoste

Key Selling Points:
Revised editions of the #1 selling CCNP preparation self-study guides in avalue-priced bundle

Cisco Press
9780138201548
Pub Date: 11/9/2023
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Heavily discounted price when purchasing both books together in this package
Book content is fully updated to cover all the new CCNP exam objectives
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Heavily discounted price when purchasing both books together in this package
Book content is fully updated to cover all the new CCNP exam objectives
Books and online materials are packed with features to help candidates mastermore difficult testing methods on the actual exams
Practice tests contain exam-realistic questions that closely mimic the difficulty of
the actual exam
Includes supplemental video training

Summary
Cisco Press has the only Study Guides approved by Cisco for the new CCNPEnterprise Certification. This Second Edition of the best-selling, two-bookvalue-priced CCNP Enterprise Core and Advanced Routing Official Cert Guide
Library includes updated content, new online practice exercises, more than
400 practice exam questions, and more than 3 hours of Video Training.
Well regarded for its level of detail, study plans, assessment features, and challenging
review questions and exercises, the CCNP Enterprise Core ENCOR 350-401 andAdvanced Routing ENARSI 300-410 Official Cert Guide Library is a comprehensive
review and practice package for the latest CCNP Enterprise exams. The two books
contained in this package, CCNP and CCIE Enterprise Core ENCOR 350-401 Official
Cert Guide, Second Edition and CCNP Enterprise Advanced Routing ENARSI 300-410
Official Cert Guide, Second Edition present complete reviews and a more challenging
and realistic preparation experience.

Contributor Bio
Brad Edgeworth, CCIE No. 31574 (R&S and SP), is an SD-WAN technical solutions
architect at Cisco Systems. Brad is a distinguished speaker at Cisco Live, where he haspresented on various topics. Before joining Cisco, Brad worked as a network architect
and consultant for various Fortune 500 companies.

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CCNP and CCIE Collaboration Core CLCOR 350-801
Official Cert Guide (2nd Edition)
Jason Ball

Key Selling Points:
Straight from Cisco: official complete assessment, review, and practice for therevised version of the Implementing Cisco Collaboration Core Technologies(CLCOR 350-801) exam

Cisco Press
9780138200947
Pub Date: 12/15/2023
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Authoritative coverage of every CLCOR 350-801 exam topic, with all the context
and practical examples you needCompletely updated for the 2023 revised version of the exam
Includes realistic practice tests, plus extensive proven features to help you
review more efficiently
By a leading Cisco subject matter expert specializing in Cisco collaboration
technologies
For all candidates pursuing CCNP Collaboration certifications

Summary
Trust the best-selling Official Cert Guide series from Cisco Press to help you learn,
prepare, and practice for exam success. They are built with the objective of providing
assessment, review, and practice to help ensure you are fully prepared for yourcertification exam.
CCNP and CCIE Collaboration Core CLCOR 350-801 Official Cert Guide presents you
with an organized test preparation routine through the use of proven series elements
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CLCOR 350-801 exam. Jason Ball shares preparation hints and test-taking tips, helping
you identify areas of weakness and improve both your conceptual knowledge andhands-on skills. Material is presented in a concise manner, focusing on increasing yourunderstanding and retention of exam topics.
This complete study package includes
A test-preparation routine proven to help you pass the exams
Do I Know This Already? quizzes, which enable you to decide how much time youneed to decide how much time you need to spend on each section

Contributor Bio
Jason Ball, CCSI No. 33717, is a solutions readiness engineer for Cisco Americas
Partner Organization (APO) through a company called ANI. In this position, he createsand hosts tech talks and labs for Cisco partners on current Cisco Collaboration
products.has been installing, consulting, and teaching technology for many years.

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Cisco Certified Support Technician CCST Networking
100-150 Official Cert Guide
Russ WhiteKey Selling Points:
Direct from Cisco, the only official study guide for the new Cisco Certified
Support Technician (CCST) Networking certification exam
Helps entry-level students and professionals learn networking foundations, andcore principles and techniques for network infrastructure, services, security,
troubleshooting, management, and WANs
Demonstrates the real-world significance of key ideas and techniques
Provides a solid foundation for achieving deeper networking mastery and earning
additional Cisco certifications
Offers extensive study aids designed to prepare students to pass the exam on
the first attempt
Cisco Press
9780138213428
Pub Date: 11/23/2023
Ship Date: 11/13/2023$49.99
Discount Code: xPaperback608 Pages
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Status: FORTHCOMING

Summary
Trust the best-selling Official Cert Guide series from Cisco Press to help you learn,
prepare, and practice for the CCST Networking 100-150 exam. Well regarded for its
level of detail, study plans, assessment features, and challenging review questions andexercises, Cisco Certified Support Technician Networking 100-150 Official Cert Guide
helps you master the concepts and techniques that ensure your exam success and is
the only self-study resource approved by Cisco. Leading Cisco technology expert andbest-selling author Russ White shares preparation hints and test-taking tips, helping
you identify areas of weakness, and improve both your conceptual knowledge andhands-on skills.
This complete study package includes:
A test-preparation routine proven to help you pass the exam
Do I Know This Already? quizzes, which allow you to decide how much time youneed to spend on each section
Exam Topic lists that make referencing easy

Contributor Bio
Russ White (CCIE #2635, CCDE 2007::1, Louisville, TN) has more than thirty years ofexperience in designing, deploying, and troubleshooting large-scale networks. He has
co-authored 40+ software patents; helped develop several Internet standards as wellas Cisco's CCDE and CCAr certifications; and worked in Internet governance with theInternet Society.

FBF 23 - ORACLE/CISCO

31 Days Before your Cisco Certified Support Technician(CCST) Networking 100-150 Exam
A Day-By-Day Review Guide for the CCST-Networking Certification Exam
Allan Johnson

Key Selling Points:
A Day-By-Day Review Guide for the new CCST-N Exam Certification Exam
Visual calendar summarises each day's study topic to help students get througheverything
The checklist offers expert advice on preparation activities leading up to theexam
Descriptions of exam organization and sign-up processes help to make surenothing falls between the cracks
Proven strategies help students to prepare mentally, organizationally, andphysically

Summary
Cisco Press
9780138222918
Pub Date: 4/15/2024
On Sale Date: 11/30/2023
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31 Days Before Your CCST-N Exam: A Day-By-Day Review Guide for the
CCST-N Certification Exam is the friendliest, most practical guide to understand the
Cisco Certified Support Technician - Networking (CCST-N) certification process. This
book will help students prepare for the CCST-N exam using a variety of primary andsupplemental study resources.
This portable guide offers a complete day-by-day plan for what and how to study. The
book breaks down key exam topics into 31 daily review sessions using shortsummaries, lists, tables, examples, and graphics. A Study Resources section provides
students with a quick reference for locating more in-depth treatment of a day's topics
within Foundational and Supplemental resources. This book includes the basics ofswitch configuration and IP address through the modern cloud, virtualization, SDN,
SDA, and network automation concepts.
How this book helps students to fit exam prep into their busy schedule:•

Contributor Bio
Allan Johnson entered the academic world in 1999, after 10 years as a businessowner/operator, in order to dedicate his efforts to his passion for teaching. He holds
both an MBA and an MEd in occupational training and development. He taught a variety
of technology courses to high school students and is an adjunct instructor at Del Mar
College in Corpus Christi, Texas. .

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Networking Essentials Lab Manual v3 (2nd Edition)
Cisco Certified Support Technician (CCST) Networking 100-150
Cisco Networking Academy

Key Selling Points:
The only authorized Lab Manual for the Cisco Networking Academy
Networking Essentials course Curriculum Objectives.
Completely revised for the new version of the course
Excellent companion material for any student taking the Cisco Networking
Academy Networking Essentials course

Summary
The only authorized Lab Manual for the Cisco Networking Academy
Networking Essentials Course - fully updated for the revised course!

Cisco Press
9780138293727
Pub Date: 11/29/2023
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Status: FORTHCOMINGThe Networking Essentials course is for entry-level developers, data scientists,
cybersecurity specialists, and other professionals looking to broaden their networking
domain knowledge. It's also an excellent launching point for students pursuing a wide
range of career pathways-from cybersecurity to software development and more. A
Networking Academy digital badge is available for the instructor-led version of thiscourse. No prerequisites required.
You'll Learn These Core Skills:
Plan and install a home or small business network using wireless technology, andthen connect it to the Internet
Develop critical thinking and problem-solving skills using Cisco Packet Tracers
Practice verifying and troubleshooting network and Internet connectivity
Recognize and mitigate security threats to a home network. T

Contributor Bio
Cisco Networking Academy is an innovative Cisco education initiative that delivers
information and communication technology skills to improve career and economic
opportunities around the world. The Academy provides online courses, interactive
tools, and lab activities to prepare individuals for information technology andnetworking careers in virtually every industry.

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Networking Essentials Companion Guide v3 (2nd Edition)
Cisco Certified Support Technician (CCST) Networking 100-150
Cisco Networking Academy

Key Selling Points:
Networking Essentials Companion Guide is the official supplemental textbook
for the Networking Essentials course in the Cisco Networking Academy.
Check Your Understanding: Evaluate your readiness with the end-of-chapter
questions that match the style of questions you see in the online course quizzes.
Interactive Activities: Reinforce your understanding of topics with dozens of
exercises from the online course identified throughout the book with this icon.
Videos: Watch the videos embedded within the online course.
Hands-on Labs: Work through all the labs and other activities that are included in
the course and published in the separate Labs and Study Guide.
Cisco Press
9780138321338
Pub Date: 2/22/2024
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Summary
Networking Essentials Companion Guide is the official supplemental textbook for the
Networking Essentials course in the Cisco Networking Academy.
Networking is at the heart of the digital transformation. The network is essential to
many business functions today, including business-critical data and operations,cybersecurity, and so much more. A wide variety of career paths rely on the network,
so it's important to understand what the network can do, how it operates, and how toprotect it.
This course is an excellent launching point for students pursuing a wide range of career
pathways-from cybersecurity to software development to business and more.
The Companion Guide is designed as a portable desk reference to use anytime,
anywhere to reinforce the material from the course and organize your time.
The book's features help you focus on important concepts to succeed in this course:* Chapter objectives: Review core concepts by answering the focus questions listed
at the beginning of each chapter.

Contributor Bio
Cisco Networking Academy is an innovative Cisco education initiative that delivers
information and communication technology skills to improve career and economic
opportunities around the world. The Academy provides online courses, interactive
tools, and lab activities to prepare individuals for information technology andnetworking careers in virtually every industry.

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IT Essentials Companion Guide v8
Cisco Networking Academy

Key Selling Points:
The only Cisco authorized textbook for the revised IT Essentials course (v8),from the Cisco Networking Academy
Portable, desk references for take-home study and reference anytime, anywhere
Aligns to the online course chapters
Provides students with the only authorized, full-featured textbook for the Cisco
Networking Academy IT Essentials course
Book-based pedagogy that serves as additional reinforcement in helping thestudent learn the topics covered in the course

Summary
Cisco Press
9780138166106
Pub Date: 7/30/2023
On Sale Date: 8/30/2023
Ship Date: 7/25/2023$90.00Discount Code: k
Paperback1136 Pages
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COM043060
Series: Companion Guide
9.1 in H | 8 in W | 1.6 in T | 4 lb
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Status: ACTIVE

IT Essentials v8 Companion Guide supports the Cisco Networking Academy IT
Essentials Version 8 course. The course is designed for Cisco Networking Academy
students who want to pursue careers in IT and learn how computers work, how toassemble computers, and how to safely and securely troubleshoot hardware andsoftware issues.
The features of the Companion Guide are designed to help you study and succeed inthis course:
Chapter objectives—Review core concepts by answering the focus questions
listed at the beginning of each chapter.
Key terms—Refer to the updated lists of networking vocabulary introduced andturn to the highlighted terms in context.
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text.
Check Your Understanding Questions and Answer Key—Evaluate yourreadiness with the updated end-of-chapter questions that match the style ofquestions you see on the online course quizzes.

Contributor Bio
Cisco Networking Academy is an innovative Cisco education initiative that delivers
information and communication technology skills to improve career and economic
opportunities around the world. The Academy provides online courses, interactive
tools, and lab activities to prepare individuals for information technology andnetworking careers in virtually every industry.

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IT Essentials Labs and Study Guide Version 8
Cisco Networking Academy

Key Selling Points:
The only authorized Lab Manual for the Cisco Networking Academy IT
Essentials v8 course
Presents all labs associated with A+ objectives related to basic PC technology,
operating systems, networking, security and troubleshooting
Enables students to easily highlight, take notes, and study offline
Links directly to Cisco Networking Academy's online curriculum

Summary
The only authorized Labs & Study Guide for the Cisco Networking Academy IT
Essentials, Version 8 course

Cisco Press
9780138166304
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IT Essentials Lab Manual is a supplemental book prepared for students in the Cisco®
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Each chapter of this book is divided into a Study Guide section followed by a Lab
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The Study Guide section offers exercises that help you learn the concepts,
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Contributor Bio
Cisco Networking Academy is an innovative Cisco education initiative that delivers
information and communication technology skills to improve career and economic
opportunities around the world. The Academy provides online courses, interactive
tools, and lab activities to prepare individuals for information technology andnetworking careers in virtually every industry.

FBF 23 - ORACLE/CISCO

Cisco Security Fundamentals
Aamir Lakhani, Anthony K Giandomenico

Key Selling Points:
Bridge the knowledge gap between CCNA and the CCNP Security (SCOR)
certification you want to move your career forward
Gain a practical, Cisco-focused understanding of key insights and solutions you'll
need as a security architect, consultant, security sales engineer, or other network
security professional
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Cisco and beyond
Wide-ranging, up-to-date coverage: cloud security, network defense, securing
the edge, the MITRE ATT&CK® framework, authentication, critical infrastructure,
threat hunting, and more

Summary
Cisco Press
9780137872091
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Status: FORTHCOMING

For decades, Cisco certification has been one of the best ways to demonstrate yourexpertise and grow your career in networking. If you're interested in the high-growthfield of network security, your new Cisco certification path starts with CCNA, and thenmoves to the more advanced Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) Security
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This guide bridges that gap, building on what you already know to fully prepare you for
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Contributor Bio
Aamir Lakhani (Agyle, TX), a leading senior security strategist, creates technicalsecurity strategies and leads security implementation projects for Fortune® 500
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Pearson Professional Computing
Microsoft Press

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Exam Ref MD-102 Microsoft Endpoint Administrator
Andrew Warren, Andrew Bettany

Key Selling Points:
Prepare for Exam MD-102 - and demonstrate real-world mastery of deploying,configuring, securing, managing, and monitoring devices and client apps in
Microsoft 365 environments

Microsoft Press
9780138254933
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Authoritative and complete Exam MD-102 preparation content, straight fromMicrosoft
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Contains up-to-date Microsoft 365 Certified: Endpoint Administrator Associate
preparation tips from a leading expert
For IT pros who administer endpoint devices of all kinds in any Microsoft 365
environment, regardless of size or type

Summary
Prepare for Microsoft Exam MD-102—and help demonstrate your real-world mastery of
the skills and knowledge required to deploy, manage, and protect modern endpoints at
scale in Microsoft 365 environments. Designed for endpoint administrators, this Exam
Ref focuses on the critical thinking and decision-making acumen needed for success at
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Deploy Windows client
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Manage applications
This Microsoft Exam Ref:
Organizes its coverage by exam objectives
Features strategic, what-if scenarios to challenge you
Assumes you have experience deploying, configuring, protecting, managing, andmonitoring devices and client applications in a Microsoft 365 environment
About the Authors
Andrew Bettany is a Microsoft MVP and consults on Microsoft 365, Azure, and Windows
client.

Contributor Bio
Andrew Bettany is a Microsoft MVP and consults on Microsoft 365, Azure, andWindows client. He has authored Windows exam prep guides, official Microsoft training,and video training for LinkedIn Learning and Pluralsight. He co-created the IT
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FBF 23 - MICROSOFT PRESS

Exam Ref MS-102 Microsoft 365 Administrator
Orin Thomas

Key Selling Points:
Prepare for Exam MS-102 - and demonstrate real-world mastery of Microsoft 365
administration for any environment

Microsoft Press
9780138199463
Pub Date: 11/18/2023
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Authoritative and complete Exam MS-102 preparation content, straight fromMicrosoft
Covers deploying and managing Microsoft 365 tenants, implementing andmanaging identity and access in Azure AD; managing security and threats with
Microsoft 365 Defender, and managing compliance with Microsoft Purview
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Strategic, what-if scenarios help you master the big-picture thinking the exam
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Contains up-to-date Microsoft 365 Certified: Administrator Expert preparation
tips from a leading expert
For IT pros who evaluate, plan for, migrate to, deploy, and/or manage Microsoft
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Summary
Prepare for the new Microsoft Exam MS-102 and help demonstrate your real-world
mastery of the skills needed to help deploy and manage Microsoft 365 services in any
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Focus on the expertise measured by these objectives:
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This Microsoft Exam Ref:
Organizes its coverage by exam objectives
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Provides exam preparation tips written by a top trainer, consultant, and sysadmin
Assumes you have experience with the Microsoft 365 Admin Center and anunderstanding of Exchange Online, Skype for Business, SharePoint Online,
Microsoft 365 ProPlus, Microsoft 365 Defender, Microsoft Purview and Microsoft
Azure Active Directory
The Exam Ref is the official study guide for Microsoft certification exams. Featuring
concise, objective-by-objective reviews and strategic case scenarios and Thought
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Contributor Bio
Orin Thomas (Endeavour Hills, Australia) is a Principal Cloud Operations Advocate at
Microsoft. A recognized cloud and datacenter subject matter expert, he has written
more than 40 books for Microsoft Press including the company's leading book on the
Windows Server operating system, Windows Server 2019 Inside Out.

FBF 23 - MICROSOFT PRESS

Exam Ref DP-500 Designing and ImplementingEnterprise-Scale Analytics Solutions Using Microsoft
Azure and Microsoft Power BI
Daniil Maslyuk, Justin Frebault

Key Selling Points:
Prepare for Exam DP-500 - and demonstrate real-world mastery of designing,
creating, and deploying enterprise-scale data analytics solutions

Microsoft Press
9780138097370
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Authoritative and complete Exam DP-500 preparation content, straight fromMicrosoft
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demands
Contains up-to-date Microsoft Certified: Azure Enterprise Data Analyst Associate
preparation tips from a leading expert
For IT pros who work with data analytics in Azure environments, and collaborate
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Summary
Prepare for Microsoft Exam DP-500 and demonstrate your real-world ability to design,
create, and deploy enterprise-scale data analytics solutions. Designed for businessintelligence developers, architects, data analysts, and other professionals, this Exam
Ref focuses on the critical thinking and decision-making acumen needed for success at
the Microsoft Certified: Azure Enterprise Data Analyst Associate level.
Focus on the expertise measured by these objectives:
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This Microsoft Exam Ref:
Organizes its coverage by exam objectives
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Assumes you are a business intelligence developer, architect, data engineer, dataarchitect, data analyst, or another professional with Power BI and Azure
experience.About the Exam
Exam DP-500 focuses on knowledge needed to govern and administer data analytics
environments; integrate analytics platforms into existing IT infrastructure; manage
the analytics development lifecycle; query data with Azure Synapse Analytics; ingest
and transform data with Power BI; design and build tabular models; optimize
enterprise-scale data models; explore data with Azure Synapse Analytics; andvisualize data with Power BI.

Contributor Bio
DANIIL MASLYUK is an independent business intelligence consultant, trainer, andspeaker who specializes in Microsoft Power BI. Daniil blogs at xxlbi.com and tweets as@DMaslyuk.
JUSTIN FRÉBAULT MCT, is an independent data solutions architect and trainer who
specializes in Microsoft data products. He blogs at lafreb.com and is active on LinkedIn.

FBF 23 - MICROSOFT PRESS

Exam Ref DP-900 Microsoft Azure Data Fundamentals(2nd Edition)

Nicola Farquharson

Key Selling Points:
Prepare for Microsoft's Exam DP-900 -- and demonstrate your foundational
knowledge of the fundamentals of working with Microsoft Azure Data
Fully updated for the recently revised version of the exam
Authoritative and complete Exam DP-900 preparation content, straight fromMicrosoft
Covers core data concepts, relational and non-relational data on Azure, andAzure analytics workloads
Organized by exam objectives for efficient study
Strategic, what-if scenarios help you master the big-picture thinking the exam
demands
Contains up-to-date Microsoft Certified Azure Data Fundamentals exam
preparation tips from leading Microsoft experts
Microsoft Press
9780138261900
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Summary
Prepare for the revised version of Microsoft Exam DP-900
Demonstrate your real-world foundational knowledge of core data concepts and how
they are implemented using Microsoft Azure data services. Designed for business
users, functional consultants, and other professionals, this Exam Ref focuses on thecritical thinking and decision-making acumen needed for success at the Microsoft
Certified: Azure Data Fundamentals level.
Focus on the expertise measured by these objectives:
Describe core data concepts
Describe how to work with relational data on Azure
Describe how to work with non-relational data on Azure
Describe an analytics workload on Azure
This Microsoft Exam Ref:
Organizes its coverage by exam objectives
Features strategic, what-if scenarios to challenge you
Assumes you have foundational knowledge of core data concepts and theirimplementation with Microsoft Azure data services, and are beginning to workwith data in the cloudContributor Bio
Nicola Farquharson has more than twenty years of experience in Networking
Infrastructure and Microsoft Technologies including AI, MSSQL, Microsoft Power BI,
Data Science, Dynamic 365, Machine Learning, Microsoft Azure & Azure DevOps. Her
extensive knowledge and expertise in various technologies related to data
management, cloud computing, and Azure data services will allow readers to gain acomprehensive understanding of the fundamental concepts required for Microsoft DP-900 Certification.

FBF 23 - MICROSOFT PRESS

Exam Ref MS-900 (2nd Edition)
Microsoft 365 Fundamentals
Craig Zacker

Key Selling Points:
Prepare for Microsoft's Exam MS-900 - fully updated for the recent revision of
the exam
Authoritative and complete Exam MS-900 preparation content, straight fromMicrosoft
Covers cloud concepts; core Microsoft 365 services and concepts, and Microsoft
365 security, compliance, privacy, trust, pricing, and support
Organized by exam objectives for efficient study
Strategic, what-if scenarios help you master the big-picture thinking the exam
demands

Summary
Microsoft Press
9780138237110
Pub Date: 1/5/2024
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Prepare for the most recent release of the Microsoft Exam MS-900-and help
demonstrate your mastery of real-world foundational knowledge about theconsiderations and benefits of adopting cloud services and the Software as a Service
cloud model, as well as specific options and benefits of Microsoft 365 cloud service
offerings. Designed for IT professionals, Exam Ref focuses on critical thinking anddecision-making acumen needed for success at the Microsoft Certified Fundamentals
level. Focus on the expertise measured by these objectives:
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This Microsoft Exam Ref:
Organizes its coverage by exam objectives
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Assumes you are a business user, IT professional, or student interested in cloudcomputing and technologies, including individuals planning to pursue mo...

Contributor Bio
Craig Zacker is the author or coauthor of dozens of books, manuals, articles, andwebsites on computer and networking topics. He has also been an English professor, atechnical and copy editor, a network administrator, a webmaster, a corporate trainer, atechnical support engineer, a minicomputer operator, a literature and philosophy
student, a library clerk & a photographic darkroom technician.

Pearson Professional Computing
Adobe / Peachpit

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Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic Classroom in a
Book
Rafael Concepcion

Key Selling Points:
The fastest, easiest, most comprehensive way to learn the most recent
version of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom
Official training series from Adobe Systems Inc., developed with the support of
Adobe product experts
Comprehensive, project-based lessons teach key concepts for image editing andadjustment, management of large volumes of digital photographs, and creationof video slideshows with Photoshop Lightroom
Written by award-winning author and instructor at Syracuse University

Summary
The fastest, easiest, most comprehensive way to learn Adobe Photoshop
Lightroom Classic!
Adobe Press
9780138318147
Pub Date: 3/14/2024
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COM087030
Series: Classroom in a Book

Classroom in a Book®, the best-selling series of hands-on software training
workbooks, offers what no other book or training program does - an official training
series from Adobe, developed with the support of Adobe product experts.
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic Classroom in a Book contains lessons that cover
the basics and beyond, providing countless tips and techniques to help you become
more productive with the program. You can follow the book from start to finish or
choose only those lessons that interest you. When you're looking for inspiration you
can peruse the Artist Spotlights sections, which highlight industry leaders and theirwork.

Status: FORTHCOMINGTOC :GETTING STARTED
1 A QUICK TOUR OF
LIGHTROOM CLASSIC
2 BRINGING PHOTOS INTO
LIGHTROOM CLASSIC
3 EXPLORING THE
LIGHTROOM WORKSPACE
4 MANAGING YOUR PHOTO
LIBRARY
5 DEVELOPING BASICS
6 ADVANCED EDITING
7 CREATING A PHOTO BOOK
8 CREATING A SLIDESHOW
9 PRINTING IMAGES
10 MAKING BACKUP

Purchasing this book includes valuable online extras. Follow the instructions in the
book's "Getting Started" section to unlock access to:
Downloadable lesson files you need to work through the projects in the book
Web Edition containing the complete text of the book, interactive quizzes &videos.

Contributor Bio
Rafael "RC" Concepcion (Syracuse) is an award-winning photographer, podcast host,educator, and the author of five best-selling books on Photography, Photoshop,
Lightroom, and HDR. He is a Digital Post-Production Specialist and Adjunct Professor at
the Newhouse School for Visual Communications at Syracuse University.

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Adobe Animate Classroom in a Book
Russell Chun

Key Selling Points:
Classroom in a Book training for the latest version of Adobe Animate-therobust and flexible animation tool from Adobe!
Bestselling Classroom in a Book series is the ideal way for readers to learn how
to create high-quality animation and interactivity for the Web using project-based
lessons.
Aimed at beginning users and designed to teach Adobe Animate features, suchas designing interactive animations and publishing them on multiple platforms for
multiple devices.
Official training series from Adobe, developed with the support of experts from
Adobe product teams.

Summary
Develop creative animation and multimedia using Adobe Animate
Adobe Press
9780138317713
Pub Date: 3/1/2024
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COM071000
Series: Classroom in a Book
Status: FORTHCOMING

TOC
Getting Acquainted
Creating Graphics and
Text
Animating Symbols withClassic Tweens
Layer Parenting andCharacter Animation
Animating with Modern
Rigging
Animating Symbols with
Motion Tweens
Animating the Camera
Animating Shapes andUsing Masks
Inverse Kinematics with
Bones
Creating Interactive
Navigation

Adobe Animate Classroom in a Book uses real-world, project-based learning to cover
the basics and beyond, providing countless tips and techniques to help you become
more productive with the program. For beginners and experienced users alike, you canfollow the book from start to finish or choose only those lessons that interest you.
Learn to:Harness controls for animation including puppet warping, layer parenting, andpaint brush preferences and symbol options
Use the revamped Asset Warp tool for a modern rigging approach to animating
shapes and bitmap images
Work with a more robust set of playback options for graphic symbols that provide
total control over looping
Quickly publish to social media channels with support for SVG, WebGL, HTML5,
animated GIFs, and HD video
Seamlessly collaborate through Adobe Creative CloudClassroom in a Book, the best-selling series of hands-on software training workbooks,
offers what no other book or training program does - an official training series from
Adobe, developed with the support of Adobe product experts.

Contributor Bio
Russell Chun is an associate professor at the Lawrence Herbert School ofCommunication at Hofstra University, where he teaches multimedia storytelling, data
journalism, and information design. His research examines effective visualcommunication and has been published in Visual Communication Quarterly,
Proceedings of the New York State Communication Association, and Journal of Visual
Literacy

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Adobe Photoshop Classroom in a Book
Conrad Chavez

Key Selling Points:
The best-selling book on Adobe Photoshop, completely updated for the mostrecent release
The official training workbook from Adobe
Contains lessons that cover the basics and beyond, providing countless tips andtechniques to help learners become more productive with the program
The online companion files include all the necessary assets for readers tocomplete the projects featured in each chapter
Includes full access to the Web Edition: a Web-based version of the complete
eBook enhanced with video and multiple-choice quizzes
9780138316488

Summary

Learn to create and edit images using Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Press
9780138262525
Pub Date: 12/27/2023
On Sale Date: 1/5/2024
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Development & Engineering
COM012000
Series: Classroom in a Book
Status: FORTHCOMING

Releasing early: Sept
TOC
Getting Started
1 Getting to Know the WorkArea
2 Basic Photo Corrections
3 Working with Selections
4 Layer Basics
5 Quick Fixes
6 Masks and Channels
7 Typographic Design
8 Vector Drawing
Techniques
9 Advanced Compositing
10 Painting with the Mixer
Brush
11 Editing Video
12 Working with Camera
Raw
13 Preparing Files for The
web
14 Producing and Printing
Consistent Color
15 Exploring Neutral Filters

Adobe Photoshop Classroom in a Book uses real-world, project-based learning to cover
the basics and beyond, providing countless tips and techniques to help you become
more productive with the program. For beginners and experienced users alike, you canfollow the book from start to finish or choose only those lessons that interest you.
Learn to:Correct and improve digital images
Seamlessly remove backgrounds, repair images, and replace skies
Explore advanced filters that use machine learning and cloud processing
Select subjects with complex outlines, including hair, quickly and precisely
Composite multiple images and combine with typography
Edit video, including transitions and motion effects
Edit camera raw images
Automate tasks
Save as a Photoshop cloud document to easily edit across desktop and mobile
devices
Export your work for web, mobile devices, and print
Classroom in a Book®, the best-selling series of hands-on software training workbooks

Contributor Bio
Conrad Chavez writes about digital photography and Adobe Creative Cloud workflows.
Conrad is the author or co-author of many books, including Adobe Photoshop
Classroom in a Book (since the 2015 release) and the last three editions of Real World
Adobe Photoshop for Photographers. He also writes articles for publications such as
CreativePro.com and InDesign Magazine.

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Adobe Illustrator Classroom in a Book
Brian Wood

Key Selling Points:
The best-selling guide to Adobe's powerful illustration program
The official training workbook from Adobe, fully updated for the most recent
releaseContains lessons that cover the basics and beyond, providing countless tips andtechniques to help learners become more productive with the program
The online companion files include all the necessary assets for readers tocomplete the projects featured in each chapter
Includes full access to the Web Edition: a Web-based version of the complete
eBook enhanced with video and multiple-choice quizzes

Summary
Build valuable graphic art skills and create digital artwork using Adobe
Illustrator
Adobe Press
9780138263829
Pub Date: 12/7/2023
On Sale Date: 12/18/2023
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Development & Engineering
COM012000
Series: Classroom in a Book
Status: FORTHCOMING

TOC
Getting Started
What's New in Adobe Illustrator
A Quick Tour of Adobe Illustrator
1 Getting to Know the Work Area
2 Techniques for Selecting
Artwork
3 Make a Logo with Shapes
4 Editing and Combining Shapes
and Paths
5 Transforming Artwork
6 Using the Basic Drawing Tools
7 Drawing with the Pen Tool
8 Using Color to Enhance
Artwork
9 Adding Type to a Project
10 Organizing Your Artwork withLayers11 Gradients, Blends, andPatterns
12 Using Brushes to Create an
Ad

Adobe Illustrator Classroom in a Book uses real-world, project-based learning to cover
the basics and beyond, providing countless tips and techniques to help you become
more productive with the program. For beginners and experienced users alike, you canfollow the book from start to finish or choose only those lessons that interest you.
Learn to:Create artwork, from precise drawings to stylistic paintings
Make logos, illustrations, posters, podcast covers, flyers, and more
Explore selections, shapes, and color
Progress to freeform gradients and layers
Work with dynamic symbols, artistic brushes, and creative effects
Efficiently export assets for the web, print, and moreClassroom in a Book®, the best-selling series of hands-on software training
workbooks, offers what no other book or training program does-an official training
series from Adobe, developed with the support of Adobe product experts.

Contributor Bio
Brian Wood is a speaker, developer and author of dozens of Adobe training books andarticles. As an Adobe Certified trainer, Brian has been consulting with teachers,
designers, marketing pros, business owners and front end developers-all over thecountry. He has spoken at several major design conferences, including Adobe MAX, theHow Interactive Design Conference, the Web Design Conference etc

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Adobe InDesign Classroom in a Book
Kelly Kordes Anton, Tina DeJarld

Key Selling Points:
Best-selling, project-based Adobe InDesign guide, fully updated for the mostrecent release
The official training workbook from Adobe
Contains lessons that cover the basics and beyond, providing countless tips andtechniques to help learners become more productive with the program
The online companion files include all the necessary assets for readers tocomplete the projects featured in each chapter
Includes full access to the Web Edition: a Web-based version of the complete
eBook enhanced with video and multiple-choice quizzes

Summary
Learn page layout and graphic design using Adobe InDesign
Adobe Press
9780138263911
Pub Date: 12/27/2023
On Sale Date: 1/6/2024
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Applications
COM022000
Series: Classroom in a Book
Status: FORTHCOMING

TOC
Getting Started
1 Introducing the Workspace
2 Getting to Know InDesign
3 Setting Up a Document andWorking with Pages
4 Working with Objects
5 Working with Color
6 Flowing Text
7 Editing Text
8 Working with Typography
9 Working with Styles
10 Creating Tables
11 Importing and Modifying
Graphics
12 Working withTransparency
13 Printing and Exporting
14 Creating Adobe PDF Fileswith Form Fields
15 Creating a Fixed Layout
Epub

Adobe InDesign Classroom in a Book uses real-world, project-based learning to cover
the basics and beyond, providing countless tips and techniques to help you become
more productive with the program. For beginners and experienced users alike, you canfollow the book from start to finish or choose only those lessons that interest you.
Learn to:
Build a strong foundation of typographic, page layout, and documentconstruction skills
Handle images from Adobe Photoshop and line drawings from Adobe Illustrator
Create effects with layers and transparency
Bring messages to life with beautiful typography and color
Export work for professional printing, websites, social media, eBooks, and moreClassroom in a Book®, the best-selling series of hands-on software training
workbooks, offers what no other book or training program does-an official training
series from Adobe, developed with the support of Adobe product experts.

Contributor Bio
Kelly Kordes Anton has written and edited dozens of books and training resources on
publishing technologies and InDesign, including nine previous editions of Adobe
InDesign Classroom in a Book. She is a freelance writer based in Littleton, Colorado,and she also writes about ergonomics and lean manufacturing.
Tina DeJarld has worked on the front lines of taking designs from the computer
screen to real-world production since before InDesign 1.0. She is highly accomplishedin both prepress and graphic design production and passionate about building files thatwill work correctly

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Adobe After Effects Classroom in a Book
Lisa Fridsma, Brie Gyncild

Key Selling Points:
The best-selling guide to the powerful illustration program from Adobe
Includes hands-on lessons that use clear, step-by-step instructions withscreenshots to teach students key concepts for creating cinematic visual effects
and sophisticated motion graphics using After Effects
Online components include all lesson files plus video-enhanced Web Edition of
the book
Classroom in a Book is the official training series from Adobe Systems Inc.,
developed with the support of Adobe product experts

Summary
Learn video compositing, motion graphics design, and animation using Adobe
After Effects
Adobe Press
9780138316488
Pub Date: 1/16/2024
On Sale Date: 1/26/2024
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TOC
Getting Started
Getting to Know the
WorkflowCreating a Basic
Animation Using Effects
and Presets
Animating Text
Working with Shape
LayersAnimating a Multimedia
Presentation
Animating Layers
Working with Masks
Distorting Objects with the
Puppet Tools
Using the Roto Brush Tool
Adjusting Color and Mood
Creating Motion Graphics
Templates
Using 3D Features
Working with the 3D
Camera Tracker
Advanced Editing
Techniques
Rendering and Outputting

Adobe After Effects Classroom in a Book uses real-world, project-based learning tocover the basics and beyond, providing countless tips and techniques to help you
become more productive with the program. For beginners and experienced users alike,you can follow the book from start to finish or choose only those lessons that interest
you. Learn to:Create, manipulate, and optimize motion graphics for film, video, the web, andmobile devices
Animate text and images, customize a wide range of effects, track and sync
content, rotoscope, manipulate timing, correct color, and remove unwanted
objects
Customize cameras and lighting to create compelling 3D content
Design Motion Graphics templates for editing in Adobe Premiere Pro
Deform and animate objects and video using robust Puppet tools
Classroom in a Book®, the best-selling series of hands-on software training
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Contributor Bio
Lisa Fridsma has long loved the process of teaching others to use Adobe products.
She has helped create more than thirty books in the Classroom in a Book series overthe last two decades (including books on Photoshop, After Effects, and Acrobat), goingback to her time on-staff at Adobe.

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Modern Graphics Communication (6th Edition)
Shawna Lockhart, Marla Goodman, Cindy M. Johnson

Key Selling Points:
Today's clear, comprehensive, full-color introduction and reference foreveryone creating engineering drawings and graphics with CAD or by hand
Introductory coverage that's especially well-designed for students learning
drafting as part of study for a wide range of careers
Includes convenient tear-out worksheets and practical, hands-on exercises
A long-awaited update to one of the field's top-selling and most widely-praised
guidesProven pedagogical features include key words, chapter summaries, review
questions, chapter exercises, and reverse engineering exercises
Derived from Chapters 1-14 of Technical Drawing, 16th Edition (2023), adding
hands-on exercises and worksheets not included there

Summary
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Modern Graphics Communication, 6/e, is a clear, comprehensive, full-color
introduction and reference for students and professionals who are creating engineeringdrawings and graphics with CAD software or by hand. It provides excellent technicaldetail and motivating real-world examples, illuminating theory with a colorful, highlyvisual format complemented with concise text.
Designed for busy, visually-oriented learners, this guide expands on well-tested
material, fully updated for the latest ASME standards, materials, industries andproduction processes. Its up-to-date examples range from mechanical, plastic, andsheet metal drawings to modern techniques for civil engineering, architecture, andrapid prototyping. Throughout, clear, easy, step-by-step descriptions teach essential
sketching and visualization techniques, including the use of 3D and 2D CAD. All color
visuals are tightly integrated with text to promote rapid mastery.

Contributor Bio
Shawna Lockhart combines her university teaching experience at Montana State
University and Embry Riddle Aeronautical University with wide ranging industrial
experience to write engineering design communication and CAD software texts. An
early adopter of 2D and 3D CAD technology, she is the author of multiple AutoCAD
texts, from AutoCAD Release 10 in 1992 to the current 2018 release.

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Discovering AutoCAD 2024
Mark Dix, Paul Riley, Lee Ambrosius

Key Selling Points:
Created for an introductory course in AutoCAD and updated for the latest
software release, this title presents a hands-on, activity-based approach tothe use of AutoCAD as a drafting tool-complete with techniques, tips,
shortcuts, and insights that improve efficiency.

Peachpit Press
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Lessons are broken down into tasks listed at the beginning of each section,
introducing students to the AutoCAD commands using a structured, intuitive
approach and helping students anticipate what information will be needed ateach new phase of the learning process.
Detailed graphics appear throughout the text, demonstrating what students
should expect to see on their screens and encouraging self-paced study.
Drawing problems appear at the end of the chapter, helping students apply newly
learned techniques immediately to realistic drawing situations. This includes
drawing suggestions, timesaving tips, and explanations of how to use techniquesin actual situations.

Summary
Designed for introductory AutoCAD users, Discovering AutoCAD 2024 presents ahands-on, activity-based approach to the use of AutoCAD as a drafting tool-completewith techniques, tips, shortcuts, and insights that improve efficiency. Topics and tasks
are carefully grouped to lead students logically through the AutoCAD command set,with the level of difficulty increasing steadily as skills are acquired through experienceand practice. Straightforward explanations focus on what is relevant to actual drawing
procedures, and illustrations show exactly what to expect on the computer screen. This
edition features updates for the latest release of AutoCAD 2024, projects, and test
questions for each chapter.
Lessons are broken down into tasks listed at the beginning of each section,
introducing students to the AutoCAD commands using a structured, intuitive
approach and helping students anticipate what information will be needed ateach new phase of the learning process.

Contributor Bio
MARK DIX first worked with AutoCAD as a programmer in 1985. The following year hebegan collaborating with Paul Riley to create AutoCAD training material, combining
Paul's background in industrial design with his own background in writing andcurriculum development. Mark received the M.A.T. from Cornell University and the M.S.
degree from the University of Massachusetts.

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Introduction to AutoCAD 2024
A Modern Perspective
Paul F. Richard

Key Selling Points:
Chock full of hands-on exercises, this book addresses advances in technology
and introduces students to AutoCAD 2024

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Introduces AutoCAD, drafting skills, editing techniques, working with complex
objects, annotating drawings, outputting your work, and advanced drawing andconstruction methods
Pedagogy reinforces learning objectives throughout-with chapter objectives; keyterm definitions; command grids concisely offer multiple ways of achieving task
at hand; "New" in this version icons highlight new software features quickly;
Discipline icons identify the field of study throughout
Hands-on exercises appear throughout the text to reinforce learning and end-ofchapter projects require students to demonstrate a full understanding of theconcepts presented in the chapter

Summary
Introduction to AutoCAD 2024 addresses advances in technology and introduces
students to 2-dimensional drawing skills and commands using the 2024 release of
AutoCAD. Straightforward explanations focus on actual drawing procedures, andillustrations show what to expect on the computer screen. It continuously builds on
concepts covered in previous chapters, contains exercises combined with in-text notes,
and offers examples that provide the “how and why” of AutoCAD fundamentals.
Projects are included at the end of each chapter and provide hands-on experiencecreating various types of mechanical, architectural, civil, and electrical drawings. This
text is appropriate for introductory and intermediate AutoCAD courses.
Introduces AutoCAD, drafting skills, editing techniques, working with complex
objects, annotating drawings, outputting your work, advanced drawing andconstruction methods, and collaborating with others on the web

Contributor Bio
Paul Richard has worked in the CAD/BIM field for more than 35 years, first starting asa CAD drafter/designer in 1985. Since then, he has worked in the AEC industry as a
CAD manager, CAD instructor, author, and software developer. In his spare time, Paul
likes riding and working on motorcycles.