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Navigating the digital transformation in the public sector of Pakistan
by Naveed Elahi and Bushra Bashir
Public administration is often judged by its outcomes, yet the processes, decisions, and constraints that shape those outcomes remain largely unseen. It is in the quiet corridors of institutions, in the weight of competing pressures, and in the daily exercise of judgment that the true character of governance is forged. This volume seeks to bring to light the practical realities of public service, by publishing together a compelling set of case studies authored by senior civil servants of Pakistan, during their training at the National Management Course, Pakistan Administrative Staff College (PASC), National School of Public Policy (NSPP), offering rare insight into the practical realities of governance, reform, and institutional transformation.
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Redefining hacking
by Omar Santos
Redefining Hacking: A Comprehensive Guide to Red Teaming and Bug Bounty Hunting in an AI-Driven World
Equips cybersecurity professionals, students, and tech enthusiasts with modern hacking methodologies and the tools to combat evolving threats. Written by industry experts, this book blends real-world insights with forward-looking perspectives on AI, automation, and quantum computing. Packed with hands-on exercises, actionable strategies, and case studies, it empowers readers to think like attackers while proactively strengthening their defenses. Gain practical knowledge to master red teaming, bug bounty hunting, and prepare for an AI-influenced cybersecurity landscape.
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The AI revolution in customer service and support
by Ross Smith
In the rapidly evolving AI landscape, customer service and support professionals find themselves in a prime position to take advantage of this innovative technology to drive customer success. The AI Revolution in Customer Service and Support is a practical guide for professionals who want to harness the power of generative AI within their organisations to create more powerful customer and employee experiences. This book is designed to equip you with the knowledge and confidence to embrace the AI revolution and integrate the technology, such as large language models (LLMs), machine learning, predictive analytics, and gamified learning, into the customer experience. Start
your journey toward leveraging this technology effectively to optimise organisational productivity.
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AI valley
by Gary Rivlin
A veteran Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist shadows the top thinkers in the field of Artificial Intelligence, introducing the breakthroughs and developments that will change the way we live and work. Artificial Intelligence has been “just around the corner” for decades, continually disappointing those who long believed in its potential. But now, with the emergence and growing use of generative AI tools like ChatGPT, Gemini, and a rapidly multiplying number of others, many are wondering: Has AI’s moment finally arrived? In AI Valley, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Gary Rivlin brings us deep into the world of AI development in Silicon Valley. Over the course of more than a year, Rivlin closely follows founders and venture capitalists trying to capitalize on this AI moment.
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Asynchronous programming in rust
by Carl Fredrik Samson
Step into the world of asynchronous programming with confidence by conquering the challenges of unclear concepts with this hands-on guide. Using functional examples, this book simplifies the trickiest concepts, exploring goroutines, fibers, futures, and callbacks to help you navigate the vast Rust async ecosystem with ease. You’ll start by building a solid foundation in asynchronous programming and explore diverse strategies for modeling program flow. The book then guides you through concepts like epoll, coroutines, green threads, and callbacks using practical examples. The final section focuses on Rust, examining futures, generators, and the reactor-executor pattern. You’ll apply your knowledge to create your own runtime, solidifying expertise in this dynamic domain.
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Cloud application architecture patterns
by Kyle Brown
There are more applications running in the cloud than there are ones that run well there. If you're considering taking advantage of cloud technology for your company's projects, this practical guide is an ideal way to understand the best practices that will help you architect applications that work well in the cloud, no matter which vendors, products, or languages you use. Architects and lead developers will learn how cloud applications should be designed, how they fit into a larger architectural picture, and how to make them operate efficiently. Authors Kyle Brown, Bobby Woolf, and Joseph Yoder take you through the process step-by-step.
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Implementing cellular IoT solutions for digital transformation
by Dennis McCain
Even if you’re an IoT technology manager with a sound understanding of wireless local area network technologies like Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, you may face many unique challenges when implementing a wireless wide area network (WWAN) IoT solution with cellular technologies with respect to choosing the optimal IoT device, cellular connectivity, and architecture. To help you overcome such roadblocks, this digital transformation book guides you in implementing a robust, end-to-end cellular IoT solution using best practices for all aspects of managing the IoT solution. Starting with an introduction to the top IoT markets and solutions in the context of an enterprise’s digital transformation, this book will show you how this leads to cost savings and new business models.
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Intelligent workloads at the edge
by Indraneel Mitra
The Internet of Things (IoT) has transformed how people think about and interact with the world. The ubiquitous deployment of sensors around us makes it possible to study the world at any level of accuracy and enable data-driven decision-making anywhere. Data analytics and machine learning (ML) powered by elastic cloud computing have accelerated our ability to understand and analyze the huge amount of data generated by IoT. Now, edge computing has brought information technologies closer to the data source to lower latency and reduce costs. This book will teach you how to combine the technologies of edge computing, data analytics, and ML to deliver next-generation cyber-physical outcomes. You’ll begin by discovering how to create software applications that run on edge devices with AWS IoT Greengrass.
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Internet of things for smart buildings
by Harry G. Smeenk
Imagine working in a building with smart features and tenant applications that allow you to monitor, manage, and control every
aspect of your user experience. Internet of Things for Smart Buildings
is a comprehensive guide that will help you achieve that with smart building architecture, ecosystems, technologies, and key components
that create a smart building. In this book, you’ll start by examining all
the building systems and applications that can be automated with IoT devices. You’ll learn about different apps to improve efficiency, reduce consumption, and improve occupant satisfaction. You’ll explore IoT sensors, devices, computing platforms, analytics software, user interfaces, and connectivity options, along with common challenges
you might encounter while developing the architecture.
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Modern computer architecture and organization
by Jim Ledin
Are you a software developer, systems designer, or computer architecture student looking for a methodical introduction to digital device architectures, but are overwhelmed by the complexity of modern systems? This step-by-step guide will teach you how modern computer systems work with the help of practical examples and exercises. You’ll gain insights into the internal behavior of processors down to the circuit level and will understand how the hardware executes code developed in high-level languages. This book will teach you the fundamentals of computer systems including transistors, logic gates, sequential logic, and instruction pipelines. You will learn details of modern processor architectures and instruction sets including x86, x64, ARM, and RISC-V.
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The impact of artificial intelligence on human rights legislation
by John-Stewart Gordon
The unmatched technological achievements in artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, computer science, and related fields over the last few decades can be considered a success story. The technological sophistication has been so groundbreaking in various types of applications that many experts believe that we will see, at some point or another, the emergence of general AI (AGI) and, eventually, superintelligence. This book examines the impact of AI on human rights by focusing on potential risks and human rights legislation and proposes creating a Universal Convention for the Rights of AI Systems (AI Convention).
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Generative AI design patterns
by Valliappa Lakshmanan
Generative AI enables powerful new capabilities, but they come with some serious limitations that you'll have to tackle to ship a reliable application or agent. Luckily, experts in the field have compiled a library of 32 tried-and-true design patterns to address the challenges you're likely to encounter when building applications using LLMs, such as hallucinations, nondeterministic responses, and knowledge cutoffs. This book codifies research and real-world experience into advice you can incorporate into your projects. Each pattern describes a problem, shows a proven way to solve it with a fully coded example, and discusses trade-offs. Design around the limitations of LLMs Ensure that generated content follows a specific style, tone, or format Maximize creativity while balancing different types of risk Build agents that plan, self-correct, take action, and collaborate with other agents Compose patterns into agentic applications for a variety of use cases
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Data pipelines with apache airflow
by Julian de Ruiter
Data Pipelines with Apache Airflow has empowered thousands of data engineers to build more successful data platforms. This new second edition has been fully revised for Airflow 3 with coverage of all the latest features of Apache Airflow, including the Taskflow API, deferrable operators, and Large Language Model integration. Filled with real-world scenarios and examples, you'll be carefully guided from Airflow novice to expert. Using real-world scenarios and examples, this book teaches you how to simplify and automate data pipelines, reduce operational overhead, and smoothly integrate all the technologies in your stack. Part reference and part tutorial, each technique is illustrated with engaging hands-on examples, from training machine learning models for generative AI to optimizing delivery routes.
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Introduction to hidden semi-markov models
by John Van Der Hoek
Markov chains and hidden Markov chains have applications in many areas of engineering and genomics. This book provides a basic introduction to the subject by first developing the theory of Markov processes in an elementary discrete time, finite state framework suitable for senior undergraduates and graduates. The authors then introduce semi-Markov chains and hidden semi-Markov chains, before developing related estimation and filtering results. Genomics applications are modelled by discrete observations of these hidden semi-Markov chains. This book contains new results and previously unpublished material not available elsewhere. The approach is rigorous and focused on applications.
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Discovering statistics using R and Rstudio
by Andy Field
Taking you on a voyage of discovery through R and RStudio, this completely updated second edition combines real-world examples and humour with a hands-on ′how to′ approach that brings statistics and programming to life. In his characteristic irreverent and engaging style, Andy Field takes a fun and flexible yet rigorous approach to doing statistics in a book that: Builds statistical understanding at an accessible pace, giving you the confidence to develop your statistics and programming knowledge Encourages self-testing and reflection so you can practice your new skills Offers support and resources for whatever your learning style and wherever you are on your journey via a cast of colourful characters With an exciting new look and new characters to meet, this is the go-to text for anyone in the social and behavioural sciences who wants to learn about statistics in R and R Studio.
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Calculus with applications
by Margaret L. Lial, et al.
Calculus with Applications make mathematics relevant and accessible through timely applications, real data, examples, exercise sets and supplementary resources. You'll have ample opportunity to relate what you're learning to realistic career situations, while preparing for success in your career.
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Great women of islam
by Mahmood Ahmed Ghadanfer
The Great Women of Islam book is Mahmood Ahmad Ghadanfar's English compilation of biographies covering the Mothers of the Believers — the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him)'s wives — and sixteen women companions who were personally given the news of Paradise by the Prophet (PBUH) during their own lifetimes. It was originally written in Urdu and translated into English for this Darussalam edition, which is where most of its English-language readership comes from.
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Development of science & technology in Islamic history
by Shabeer Ahmed
"Development of Science and Technology in Islamic History" is an exploration of the symbiotic relationship between Islam and scientific progress. Bridging the past and present, Ahmed proficiently presents an objective narrative, that emphasizes the integral role Islamic civilization played in the advancement of science and technology. This Book clarifies the common perception that science and Islam are separate entities. The author reveals how Islamic texts, the Qur'an, and the Sunnah, not only encouraged the exploration of the physical world but also catalyzed numerous scientific discoveries and technological advancements.
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Al-Ghazālī’s political thought and other essays on Hujjatu’l-Islām
by Muddathir 'Abd al-Rahim, et al.
Ghazālī offers a treasure-trove of sophisticated insights in his massive oeuvre of writings, and this collection of essays draws on multiple aspects of his multifaceted scholarship. Prof Muddathir ‘Abd al-Rahīm offers his own unique insights on Ghazālī’s politics, and the conversation he convenes in this volume refines and deepens our understanding of Ghazālī as a pivotal figure in Islamic thought.
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Family law in Islam
by Dr. Muhammad Tahir Mansoori
The book explores and investigates the ideals and precepts on marriage and divorce both in classical jurisprudence as well as in the modern legal codes of personal status of Muslim countries. The book also highlights areas of tension between the classical jurisprudence and the modern legislation on a number of issues of Islamic Family Law. Although the focus of the book is primarily on the traditional law of Islam as explained and interpreted by the early jurists, nevertheless, it also examines modern legislation in the sphere of family law to offer points of comparison and contrast between the theory and practice.
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Tareekh adab urdu
by Dr. Jamil Jalibi
Tareekh adab urdu by Dr. Jamil Jalibi is a monumental, highly authoritative, and research-based multi-volume history of Urdu literature that traces ts evolution from its earliest origins up to the 18th century. Volume 1: Covers the origins and early periods of Urdu literature up to 1750, giving equal scholarly weight and analysis to both Delhi and Dakhni literary traditions. Volume 2 (Parts 1 & 2): Extends the comprehensive historical and critical investigation into the 18th century, detailing the shifting cultural and linguistic paradigms.
Volumes 3 & 4: Continues deep documentation, biographical
accounts, and textual analysis of subsequent periods in the
chronological development of Urdu poetry and prose.
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