Mastering Linux Administration - Second Edition: Take Your Sysadmin Skills to the Next Level by Configuring and Maintaining Linux Systems by Alexandru Calcatinge & Julian Balog, 2024
A one-stop Linux administration guide to developing advanced strategies for on-premises and cloud environmentsA one-stop Linux administration guide to developing advanced strategies for on-premises and cloud environments.
To Halt or Not to Halt? That Is the Question by Cristian Calude, 2024
Can mathematics be done by computers only? Can software testing be fully automated? Can you write an anti-virus program which never needs any updates? Can we make the Internet perfectly secure? Your guess is correct: the answer to each question is negative.
The winners of the 2024 Pulitzer Prizes have been announced. The New York Times took three: One for its coverage of the war in Gaza and others in the Features and Investigative categories. The Washington Post tied with wins in Commentary, Editorial Writing and National Reporting. The Fiction Pulitzer went to West Virginia writer Jayne Anne Phillips for her novel, "Night Watch," while the Nonfiction prize went to "A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy," by Nathan Thrall, which tells the story of a Palestinian father living under Israeli occupation of the West Bank. Here's the full list from NPR. This Poynter.org story has links to all the winning pieces of journalism.
New: J.M. Snyder's MM fantasy romance out: Waylaid.
It’s only supposed to be one night. Until it isn’t.
When the Queen’s guardsman enters my inn, the last thing I expect is to be propositioned. But this far north, it can get lonely at times, and my bed fits two easily enough. ...
Today's review! The Sins on Their Bones by Laura R. Samotin:
"A dark themed story infused with Jewish folklore... magic, demons, secrets, violence, abuse, gore, romance and true love, along with a raft of other emotions. I highly recommend The Sins on Their Bones." ...
"Around year 2000 BCE, the Sumerian language, in which the poems are written, died out as a native language, becoming instead a language of scholarship and religious rituals, much like Latin in Europe and Sanskrit in India. And so, it had to be taught in schools, and the copying of Sumerian poems—including those attributed to Enheduana—was a key part of the school curriculum in ancient Babylonian cities like Nippur and Ur."
Lesley never expected to fall into bed with a stranger. Jonathan is handsome and powerful but he also has a secret agenda: he wants Lesley as his sexual partner, and his mother will do anything to make it happen. Will Lesley succumb to Jonathan's charm and his mother's manipulation?
"As I set out to write a book on honey bee biology, I kept Humboldt as an aspirational model. Rather than write the typical biology text that reflected an excavation of levels of biological organization like taxonomy, biogeography, physiology, anatomy, etc., I built chapters around themes relating to honey bee impacts, behavior, and ecology."
The 15th Science Fiction MEGAPACK: 70 Modern and Classic Science Fiction Stories by Editors of Wildside Press, 2020
70 tales by some of the science fiction field's all-time greatest authors! Here are interplanetary tales, space opera, thought pieces, cats, and even a few modern classics.
Aristotle and Xunzi on Shame, Moral Education, and the Good Life by Jingyi Jenny Zhao, 2024
The first major work that takes two philosophers from the ancient Greek and early Chinese traditions to stimulate discussion of an interdisciplinary nature on the rich and complex topic of the emotions-in particular, of shame.
100 Mistakes in Software Engineering by Luis Cordero
An invaluable list of mistakes to consider on your daily job as a software engineering, that will definitely increase your value as a professional, by giving you situations that you will face, but now with knowledge of what the bests in the industry have done and what they've found to be the wrong paths.
Seeing the Mind: Spectacular Images from Neuroscience, and What They Reveal about Our Neuronal Selves by Stanislas Dehaene, 2023
A lavishly illustrated and accessibly explained deep dive into the major new findings from cognitive neuroscience.
Who are we? To this age-old question, contemporary neuroscience gives a simple answer: we are exquisite neuronal machines.
Around 2018, I read a popular (and excellent) book about cognition and many other things. It highlighted the insidious effects of GPS on the navigational capacity of the human brain.
It posited that human ability to navigate is so critical to our cognition that our gradual loss of that ability thanks to "helpful" technology could have untold effects.
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If you read large print or dyslexic font paperback books do you prefer this to be indicated on the cover (say on a banner at the top) to help you identify the accommodation?
I compiled a quick poll based on different perspectives I've read.
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@bookstodon many months ago I received feedback that some readers disliked how I labeled my large-font edition of Late Identified #AuDHD workbook. So I could do better, I asked.
The majority that participated reported they wanted the accommodation labeled on their paperback in a visible way.