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The Night Watchman

WINNER OF THE 2021 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTIONNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWASHINGTON POST, AMAZON, NPR, CBS SUNDAY MORNING, KIRKUS, CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY, AND GOOD HOUSEKEEPING BEST BOOK OF 2020Based on the extraordinary life of National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich's grandfather who worked as a night watchman and carried the fight against Native dispossession from rural North Dakota all the way to Washington, D.C., this powerful novel explores themes of love and death with lightness and gravity and unfolds with the elegant prose, sly humor, and depth of feeling of a master craftsman.Thomas Wazhashk is the night watchman at the jewel bearing plant, the first factory located near the Turtle Mountain Reservation in rural North Dakota. He is also a Chippewa Council member who is trying to understand the consequences of a new "emancipation" bill on its way to the floor of the United States Congress. It is 1953 and he and the other council members know the bill isn't about freedom; Congress is fed up with Indians. The bill is a "termination" that threatens the rights of Native Americans to their land and their very identity. How can the government abandon treaties made in good faith with Native Americans "for as long as the grasses shall grow, and the rivers run"?Since graduating high school, Pixie Paranteau has insisted that everyone call her Patrice. Unlike most of the girls on the reservation, Patrice, the class valedictorian, has no desire to wear herself down with a husband and kids. She makes jewel bearings at the plant, a job that barely pays her enough to support her mother and brother. Patrice's shameful alcoholic father returns home sporadically to terrorize his wife and children and bully her for money. But Patrice needs every penny to follow her beloved older sister, Vera, who moved to the big city of Minneapolis. Vera may have disappeared; she hasn't been in touch in months, and is rumored to have had a baby. Determined to find Vera and her child, Patrice makes a fateful trip to Minnesota that introduces her to unexpected forms of exploitation and violence, and endangers her life.Thomas and Patrice live in this impoverished reservation community along with young Chippewa boxer Wood Mountain and his mother Juggie Blue, her niece and Patrice's best friend Valentine, and Stack Barnes, the white high school math teacher and boxing coach who is hopelessly in love with Patrice.In the Night Watchman, Louise Erdrich creates a fictional world populated with memorable characters who are forced to grapple with the worst and best impulses of human nature. Illuminating the loves and lives, the desires and ambitions of these characters with compassion, wit, and intelligence, The Night Watchman is a majestic work of fiction from this revered cultural treasure.

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The Night Watchman (eBook, ePUB)

WINNER OF THE 2021 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTIONNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWASHINGTON POST, AMAZON, NPR, CBS SUNDAY MORNING, KIRKUS, CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY, AND GOOD HOUSEKEEPING BEST BOOK OF 2020Based on the extraordinary life of National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich's grandfather who worked as a night watchman and carried the fight against Native dispossession from rural North Dakota all the way to Washington, D.C., this powerful novel explores themes of love and death with lightness and gravity and unfolds with the elegant prose, sly humor, and depth of feeling of a master craftsman.Thomas Wazhashk is the night watchman at the jewel bearing plant, the first factory located near the Turtle Mountain Reservation in rural North Dakota. He is also a Chippewa Council member who is trying to understand the consequences of a new emancipation bill on its way to the floor of the United States Congress. It is 1953 and he and the other council members know the bill isn't about freedom; Congress is fed up with Indians. The bill is a termination that threatens the rights of Native Americans to their land and their very identity. How can the government abandon treaties made in good faith with Native Americans for as long as the grasses shall grow, and the rivers run?Since graduating high school, Pixie Paranteau has insisted that everyone call her Patrice. Unlike most of the girls on the reservation, Patrice, the class valedictorian, has no desire to wear herself down with a husband and kids. She makes jewel bearings at the plant, a job that barely pays her enough to support her mother and brother. Patrice's shameful alcoholic father returns home sporadically to terrorize his wife and children and bully her for money. But Patrice needs every penny to follow her beloved older sister, Vera, who moved to the big city of Minneapolis. Vera may have disappeared; she hasn't been in touch in months, and is rumored to have had a baby. Determined to find Vera and her child, Patrice makes a fateful trip to Minnesota that introduces her to unexpected forms of exploitation and violence, and endangers her life.Thomas and Patrice live in this impoverished reservation community along with young Chippewa boxer Wood Mountain and his mother Juggie Blue, her niece and Patrice's best friend Valentine, and Stack Barnes, the white high school math teacher and boxing coach who is hopelessly in love with Patrice.In the Night Watchman, Louise Erdrich creates a fictional world populated with memorable characters who are forced to grapple with the worst and best impulses of human nature. Illuminating the loves and lives, the desires and ambitions of these characters with compassion, wit, and intelligence, The Night Watchman is a majestic work of fiction from this revered cultural treasure.

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Building Smart Robots Using ROS: Design, Build, Simulate, Prototype and Control Smart Robots Using ROS, Machine Learning and React Native Platform (English Edition) (eBook, ePUB)

A beginner's guide to learn ROS, robotics platform, and practice building robotics system KEY FEATURES ● A step-by-step guide covering the robot's design, assembly, navigation and control.● Numerous techniques, ROS packages, object detection and image processing concepts included.● Practical exercises and sample codes to robotics design, simulation, and visualization tools. DESCRIPTION This book is a practical introduction to the Robotics operating system (ROS). It will expose you to the essential principles, tools, and packages in ROS and assist you in configuring and recombining components for additional tasks. If you are new to the world of robotics, you will enjoy the companionship of this book as it guides you through the process of building your first robot. The book introduces robotics and advances through numerous concepts such as sensors and actuators, SLAM, Aruco markers, CAD (computer-aided design), React native application development, image processing in ROS, machine learning and object detection. Every point raised above is illustrated in a live robotics environment. Along the way, other packages required for developing ROS apps will be presented, including serial, OpenCV, and cv bridge. You'll learn about tools like SolidWorks, Moveit, Rviz, as well as simulation platforms like gazebo and turtlesim, which will give you a complete picture of what it takes to build a robot. This book presents an in-depth examination of Robot Operating Systems (ROS), the sole foundation for developing robotics applications. The book guides the readers through investigating and embedding machine learning code to introduce intelligence into the robot. WHAT YOU WILL LEARN● Develop a stronghold on basics of robotics with code samples and illustrations.● Familiarity with ROS, the configuration of nodes, and 3D robot simulations.● Learn how to publish data to the ROS network for web integration.● Learn about SLAM, CAD, React Native, and ROS image processing.● Learn about Artificial Intelligence principles and object detection with ROS.● Complete design, simulation, and assembly of a robot. WHO THIS BOOK IS FORThe book is aimed at robotics developers, hardware product designers, full-stack application developers, machine learning enthusiasts, and students who want to obtain real-world experience in robotics development from start to finish. Having some experience with Ubuntu and the python programming language would be helpful. AUTHOR BIO Robin is a Rapid Innovation Strategist, Sustainability and Purpose Thought leader, who for the past 16 years has been working with customers globally and partners designing technology solutions using emerging technologies and accelerated prototyping methodologies. He has filed over 90 patents across technologies and design and won several awards for his contributions for social impact solutions. His research areas include emerging technology driven solutioning, science of customer habit, design led product development Ajithkumar Manaparambil is a robotics developer with expertise in simulation, design and manufacturing of projects pertaining to robotics, automobiles, and special purpose machines. Ajith is currently pursuing his Masters in Robotic Systems Engineering in RWTH Aachen University. Rinu Michael is a technical expert in Artificial Intelligence and Edge Analytics and she is currently heading the TCS Rapid Labs at Amsterdam.

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Words and Music Into the Future (eBook, ePUB)

Literary criticism, songwriting analysis, and cultural commentary, Words and Music Into the Future is an uncompromising examination of the current state of popular songs and songwriting in the English-speaking world. Devoid of hero worship and celebrity gossip, using mostly well-known songs from recent decades as examples, Michael Koppy presents a compelling case that we listeners have been force-fed a steady diet of industrial illiteracy, and that the timer has come for songwriting and song criticism to riser to greater heights.Whether you agree or disagree with the challenging, even heretical ideas presented in Words and Music Into the Future, it will forever change how you think about and hear popular music.Sample chapters:1. No, Don, the Levee Wasn't Dry-And No One Was Drinking Whiskey and Rye2. There Goes The Robert E. Lee?3. To What End?4. A Personal Remembrance5. A Later Kick in the Pants6. Don't Shoot, Dammit! I'm Just the Messenger!7. Politics? Religion? How About SONGS?!?8. Ground Rule Number One9. I'm Your Fan! You're My Hero!10. Herds of Wildebeests Stampeding Across the Veldt!11. Why Peeing Your Pants Beats the Hell Out Of Nostalgia12. Madonna, Kanye, Coldplay, Bieber, U2, One Direction-Effluvia, Ephemera, Etcetera, Etcetera13. See You at the Grammys!-A Note on Industrial Smarm Festivals14. Ethics? In Popular Music...?!?15. Dunno Much 'Bout Art, But I Know What I Like16. Ever Notice the Worst Writing in an Insightful Pop Music Review-Even a Rave-Usually Shows Up When the Critic Quotes the Band's Lyrics?17. Those Pesky, Over-Idealized Nineteen-Sixties18. So Where Are We?19. "Yeah, But You Really Hafta See 'Em Live!"20. Over the Top? Ya Think?21. Yes, We Too Are All So Very Sorry You Weren't Born on a Mississippi Cotton Plantation22. Art School Confidential23. Dance? Okay, Fine. Dance! Now Go Away.24. It's All Greek-French, Swahili, Latin, Klingon-To Me.25. Country Music is "Three Chords and the Truth" Computerized Drums, a Catering Truck, and a Smirk26. Country's Brainier Half-Sibling: Americana27. Tradition and Illusions of Same28. The Disarmingly Enabling Inscience of Rap and Hip-Hop29. Come to the Cabaret, Old Chum30. Under a Stack of Marshall Amplifiers31. Ethics? In SONGWRITING ITSELF...?!?32. The Twentieth Century Ended Two Decades Ago33. The Insolvency of 'Po-Mo'34. Song Lyrics vs. Poems35. "But It's Poetry!"-Refuge for the Inarticulate36. Sincerity Ain't Depth37. The Kids Are Alright!38. La-Da-Da / Sha-La-Ti-Da39. Is 'The Folk Process' an Expired Merchanism?40. Lessons from Browne's "These Days" and Kristofferson's "Bobby McGee"41. How About That! Some Country Music Is...42. Get Me Rewrite!43. Bob Dylan: Bad Writer, Bad Influence44. Shallowness, Thy Name is Bob45. Dying is Easy, Comedy is Hard46. If Ya Wanna Send a Message...47. McCartney's Song Writing Lesson48. Steve Sondheim Desperately Wishes He Were Right49. Didn't I Just Hear That Song in a Commercial for Paper Towels? Insurance? Gum?50. Should We Use A Number 37-A?51. On Brightly Wrapped Packages52. On Gilded Frames53. Making Sausages54. Making Music55. Sure 'Authenticity' is Great-But It Doesn't Guarantee Good Work56. Form Follows Function57. Words Seek Music. Object: Matrimony.58. Rules Were Made to be Broken. However-59. Swan Song

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Bitcoin Secrets: Learn about the faults in the Bitcoin system that no one will tell you about. This is the only instruction you need to read before you begin (cryptocurrency) (eBook, ePUB)

Do you believe you know anything about Bitcoin and Austrian Economics?If so, you may be ready for Cryptoeconomics. This does not work for the uninitiated. The information is dense and does not repeat itself. It is not a contribution to the echo chamber, and it will not teach you how to set up a wallet, the future price, or what to do. Cryptoeconomics applies rational economic concepts to Bitcoin, exposing weaknesses, unnecessary complications, and popular understandings of Bitcoin. It will help you comprehend both. Bitcoin necessitates a new, rigorous, and complete discipline. Bitcoin is a novel concept. It seems to be beyond comprehension. Is there ever a time when money had a limited supply? Is there another example of manufacturing costs changing directly with product price? Is there anything else with a competitive yet set rate of translatability? This may be your sole source for seeing beyond the hoopla and understanding the value proposition, security model, and economic behavior. Bitcoin is about economics, technology, and security. Errors will occur if all of these components are not considered. Economists, engineers, security professionals, and even numerologists have sought to explain it. Each gives a restricted viewpoint that overlooks essential features. The author found himself in a unique position to merge them. His involvement with Bitcoin started with the purchase of a hardware wallet. He spent a year evaluating dangers and collaborating with specialists in electronics design, hardware exploitation, and governmental monitoring. He picked the Lib bitcoin software bookshop since Satoshi's prototype was not considered for development and was funded mainly by the Bitcoin Foundation, a business consortium. He then committed himself to Libbitcoin, ultimately developing or revising all 500,000 lines of code. Few people have similar expertise with such a full Bitcoin stack. He faced state threats as a combat-experienced fighter pilot in the United States Navy. He advanced to the rank of Strike Fighter Tactics Instructor, where he was primarily responsible for tactics analysis and threat presentation. He also assisted the Navy on the Strike Fighter Training System network, the Joint Strike Fighter, early GPS munitions, and F/A-18 systems. His grasp of the physical basis of all security was heightened by decades of training in Japanese martial arts, where he achieved black belt grades in five disciplines. His degree and skills in computer science were combined with substantial business knowledge, which he gained by launching multiple firms. He has worked for IBM and Microsoft, two of the world's most significant corporations. The latter bought his first company, while Veritas Capital acquired his second. He was granted three related US patents. He eventually became an angel investor, sharing his knowledge with new startups. As CTO of his first business, he issued three computer security alerts via the Computer Emergency Response Team. Each was fully developed from his perusal of user manuals. For his efforts in software patching, he later won a place on the DHS Open Vulnerability Assessment Language advisory board. In recent years, he discovered substantial security issues in each of the first three incarnations of a popular "secure element" hardware wallet via an examination of user documentation. Cryptoeconomics arose from the capacity to synthesize these disparate and relevant experiences; this is your next stop.

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Bitcoin Seecrets

Do you believe you know anything about Bitcoin and Austrian Economics? If so, you may be ready for Cryptoeconomics. This is not a work for the uninitiated. The information is dense and does not repeat itself. It is not a contribution to the echo chamber, and it will not teach you how to set up a wallet, the future price, or what to do. Cryptoeconomics applies rational economic concepts to Bitcoin, exposing weaknesses and unneeded complications in it and in popular understandings of Bitcoin. It will help you comprehend both. Bitcoin necessitates a new, rigorous, and complete discipline. This is it. Bitcoin is a novel concept. It seems to be beyond comprehension. Is there ever a time when money had a limited supply? Is there another example of manufacturing costs changing directly with product price? Is there anything else with a competitive yet set rate of transactability? This may be your sole source for seeing beyond the hoopla and understanding the value proposition, security model, and economic behavior. Bitcoin is about economics, technology, and security. Errors will occur if all of these components are not considered. Economists, engineers, security professionals, and even numerologists have sought to explain it. Each gives a restricted viewpoint that overlooks important features. The author found himself in a unique position to merge them. His involvement with Bitcoin started with the purchase of a hardware wallet. He spent a year evaluating dangers and collaborating with specialists in electronics design, hardware exploitation, and governmental monitoring. He picked the Lib bitcoin software bookshop since Satoshi's prototype was not considered for development and was mostly funded by the Bitcoin Foundation, a business consortium. He then committed himself to Libbitcoin, ultimately developing or revising all 500,000 lines of code. Few people have similar expertise with such a full Bitcoin stack. He faced state threats as a combat-experienced fighter pilot in the United States Navy. He advanced to the rank of Strike Fighter Tactics Instructor, where he was primarily responsible for tactics analysis and threat presentation. He also assisted the Navy on the Strike Fighter Training System network, the Joint Strike Fighter, early GPS munitions, and F/A-18 systems. His grasp of the physical basis of all security was heightened by decades of training in Japanese martial arts, where he achieved black belt grades in five disciplines. His degree and skills in computer science were combined with substantial business knowledge, which he gained by launching multiple firms. He has worked for IBM and Microsoft, two of the world's greatest corporations. The latter bought his first company, while Veritas Capital acquired his second. He was granted three related US patents. He eventually became an angel investor, sharing his knowledge with new startups. As CTO of his first business, he issued three computer security alerts via the Computer Emergency Response Team. Each was fully developed from his perusal of user manuals. For his efforts on software patching, he later won a place on the DHS Open Vulnerability Assessment Language advisory board. In recent years, he discovered substantial security issues in each of the first three incarnations of a popular "secure element" hardware wallet via an examination of user documentation. Thirty years of self-study in free market economics were supplemented by significant worldwide travel. He has engaged with individuals from five continents throughout his visits to over 80 countries. He still travels on a motorbike with just a shoulder bag, gaining an intimate insight of global economic realities. From Zimbabwean black market currency dealers to Tanzanian coffee pickers, Venezuelan exiles, Mongolian shepherds, Okinawan jazz artists, Lao monks, and others - the globe is sel...

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Definitive Bob Dylan Songbook

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Peopleware

For generations of software managers and team members who want their projects to succeed, Peopleware has earned a place on the short list of indispensable reading. Authors Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister were the first to recognize the centrality of managing human beings in the software development process -- and to offer profound insights into doing that well. Software legend Joel Spolsky described this book as the “ Anti-Dilbert Manifesto”: it combines humor and wisdom to give practical advice that every software manager and developer can benefit from. Now, for the first time in 13 years, DeMarco and Lister have updated this legendary classic. In addition to thoughtful updates and reorganization wherever necessary, they’ve added seven valuable new chapters on today’s most important challenges in software project management. Reflecting lengthy personal experience and deep wisdom, DeMarco and Lister bring new insights to: Leadership Managing generational differences Coordinating distributed teams Leading diverse Teams Managing risk Running more effective meetings Using email more effectively Product Description Few books in computing have had as profound an influence on software management as Peopleware. The unique insight of this longtime best seller is that the major issues of software development are human, not technical. They’re not easy issues; but solve them, and you’ll maximize your chances of success. “Peopleware has long been one of my two favorite books on software engineering. Its underlying strength is its base of immense real experience, much of it quantified. Many, many varied projects have been reflected on and distilled; but what we are given is not just lifeless distillate, but vivid examples from which we share the authors’ inductions. Their premise is right: most software project problems are sociological, not technological. The insights on team jelling and work environment have changed my thinking and teaching. The third edition adds strength to strength.” — Frederick P. Brooks, Jr., Kenan Professor of Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Author of The Mythical Man-Month and The Design of Design “Peopleware is the one book that everyone who runs a software team needs to read and reread once a year. In the quarter century since the first edition appeared, it has become more important, not less, to think about the social and human issues in software develop¿ment. This is the only way we’re going to make more humane, productive workplaces. Buy it, read it, and keep a stock on hand in the office supply closet.” —Joel Spolsky, Co-founder, Stack Overflow “When a book about a field as volatile as software design and use extends to a third edition, you can be sure that the authors write of deep principle, of the fundamental causes for what we readers experience, and not of the surface that everyone recognizes. And to bring people, actual human beings, into the mix! How excellent. How rare. The authors have made this third edition, with its additions, entirely terrific.” —Lee Devin and Rob Austin, Co-authors of The Soul of Design and Artful Making For this third edition, the authors have added six new chapters and updated the text throughout, bringing it in line with today’s development environments and challenges. For example, the book now discusses pathologies of leadership that hadn’t previously been judged to be pathological; an evolving culture of meetings; hybrid teams made up of people from seemingly incompatible generations; and a growing awareness that some of our most common tools are more like anchors than propellers. Anyone who needs to manage a software project or software organization will find invaluable advice throughout the book. Features + Benefits The legendary “anti-Dilbert” book on managing software projects by focusing on people - now fully updated for today’s projects and methodologiesIn this classic book, the authors demonstrate the major human - not technical - issues of software development and give challenging, but successful answers to the questions of software managers and developers. For this third edition, the authors have added six new chapters and updated the text throughout, bringing it in line with today's development environments and challenges. The book now discusses pathologies of leadership that hadn't previously been judged to be pathological; an evolving culture of meetings; hybrid teams made up of people from seemingly incompatible generations; and a growing awareness that some of our most common tools are more like anchors than propellers. Anyone who needs to manage a software project or software organization will find invaluable advice throughout the book.

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