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  They Called Us River Rats - The...

  Macon Fry

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  They Called Us River Rats: The Last Batture Settlement of New Orleans is the previously untold story of perhaps the oldest outsider settlement in America, an invisible community on the annually flooded shores of the Mississippi River. This community exists in the place between the normal high and low water line of the Mississippi River, a zone known in Louisiana as the batture. 
   
   
   
  Until now the stories of this way of life have existed only in the memories of those who have lived here. They Called Us River Rats also explores the troubled relationship between people inside the levees, the often-reviled batture folks, and the river itself. It traces the struggle between batture folks and city authorities, the commercial interests that claimed the river, and Louisiana's most powerful politicians. 
   
   
   
  Today Fry is among the senior generation of "River Rats" living in a vestigial colony of twelve "camps" on New Orleans's river batture, a fragment of a settlement that once stretched nearly six miles and numbered hundreds of homes. It is the last riparian settlement on the Lower Mississippi and a contrarian, independent life outside urban zoning, planning, and flood protection. This book is for everyone who ever felt the pull of the Mississippi River or saw its towering levees and wondered who could live on the other side.

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  Human-Computer Interaction for...

  Robert Francis

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  In this insightful and accessible book, you'll explore the fundamental principles that govern the design of digital interfaces, learning how technology and human behavior converge to create seamless and intuitive interactions. 
  From the early days of computing to the cutting-edge realms of virtual reality and artificial intelligence, this book provides a comprehensive overview of the evolution and significance of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). You'll discover the essential foundations of Interaction Design, delving into the principles of affordances, feedback, and mental models that shape user experiences. 
  Guiding you through the user-centered design process, the book emphasizes the importance of understanding your audience through user research and personas. With practical insights into prototyping and usability testing, you'll learn how to refine and optimize your designs for maximum user satisfaction. 
  Usability and accessibility are at the forefront of effective HCI, and this guide navigates you through the principles of creating user-friendly interfaces while ensuring inclusivity for all users. Explore the common UI elements and controls that make digital experiences intuitive, and learn the art of organizing information with information architecture. 
  As technology continues to evolve, so do the ways we interact with it. Delve into emerging trends in HCI, including virtual and augmented reality, voice user interfaces, and the fascinating world of brain-computer interfaces. The book also addresses ethical considerations, emphasizing the importance of privacy, bias-free design, and digital well-being. 
  Are you ready to shape the future of human-computer interaction? "Human-Computer Interaction" is your gateway to understanding the synergy between minds and machines, unlocking the secrets to creating user experiences that leave a lasting impact. 
   

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  The Investment Revolution - How...

  Francis Gingras Roy

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  Achieving financial freedom so that you can retire and live life on your own terms is the goal of every working Canadian. The problem is that many advisors work for a particular bank or financial advisor firm, and they’re obligated to sell only investments and services that are unique to their financial institution. That is why it's so important to have Senior Investment Advisor, Francis Gingras Roy, on your side.

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  Vector-Borne Diseases -...

  Lilly Richardsen

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  Vector-borne diseases represent one of the most complex and challenging frontiers of global health. These infections, transmitted through the bites of mosquitoes, ticks, and other arthropod vectors, affect hundreds of millions of people annually and have shaped human history, migration patterns, and societal development for millennia. This comprehensive exploration delves into three of the most significant vector-borne threats—Malaria, Dengue Fever, and Lyme Disease—illuminating the sophisticated biological mechanisms, ecological dynamics, and human factors that enable these pathogens to transcend the boundaries between wildlife ecosystems and human communities.  
  The story of vector-borne diseases is fundamentally a narrative of ecological relationships, where microscopic parasites and pathogens have evolved remarkable strategies to navigate between arthropod vectors and human hosts. By examining the intricate life cycles, transmission dynamics, clinical manifestations, and global impact of these diseases, this book unveils the multifaceted challenges they present to modern medicine and public health. Readers will journey through diverse landscapes—from tropical regions where Anopheles mosquitoes transmit the ancient scourge of malaria to suburban forests where ticks harbor the bacteria causing Lyme disease—discovering how climate change, urbanization, and human behavior continue to reshape the epidemiological patterns of these persistent threats. Through scientific insight, historical context, and forward-looking analysis, we explore not only the biological complexity of these pathogens but also the innovative strategies being developed to control vectors, prevent transmission, and ultimately reduce the tremendous burden these diseases impose on human communities worldwide.

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  97 Things Every Data Engineer...

  Tobias Macey

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  Take advantage of today's sky-high demand for data engineers. With this in-depth book, current and aspiring engineers will learn powerful real-world best practices for managing data big and small. Contributors from notable companies including Twitter, Google, Stitch Fix, Microsoft, Capital One, and LinkedIn share their experiences and lessons learned for overcoming a variety of specific and often nagging challenges. 
   
   
   
  Edited by Tobias Macey, host of the popular Data Engineering Podcast, this book presents ninety-seven concise and useful tips for cleaning, prepping, wrangling, storing, processing, and ingesting data. Data engineers, data architects, data team managers, data scientists, machine learning engineers, and software engineers will greatly benefit from the wisdom and experience of their peers. Topics include: 
   
   
   
  ● The Importance of Data Lineage—Julien Le Dem 
   
   
   
  ● Data Security for Data Engineers—Katharine Jarmul 
   
   
   
  ● The Two Types of Data Engineering and Data Engineers—Jesse Anderson 
   
   
   
  ● Six Dimensions for Picking an Analytical Data Warehouse—Gleb Mezhanskiy 
   
   
   
  ● The End of ETL as We Know It—Paul Singman

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  End of Abundance in Tech - How...

  Ben DeBow

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  Sustainable Tech Solutions for Enterprise Scalability 
   
  The modern economy runs on technology; it is the backbone of all major businesses. From firing packets of information between customers and websites to tracking customer demographics and purchase history–every bit of information that occurs online is captured through data. As businesses scale and transactions grow, the volume of data (and the number of servers required to store it) creates an increasingly complex environment that makes managing and monitoring the overall health of your organization’s technology stack a dizzying task for even the most well-informed IT professional. 
   
  Fortunately for today’s CDOs, CTOs, CIOs, and even CFOs, the founder and CEO of Fortified, a leading database managed service provider, Ben DeBow has written End of Abundance in Tech: How IT Leaders Can Find Efficiencies to Drive Business Value. 
   
  DeBow’s patent-pending approach allows IT executives to: 
  Develop a technology environment that’s more efficientIncrease server resource productivityProvide better financial transparency into the technology costsOptimize system scalability, performance, and stabilityPotentially save millions that were previously tied up in inefficient technology practices 
   
  To determine the health, efficiency, and capacity of their systems, leaders need solutions they can act on. Yet, many technology leaders lack real insights into the health of their technology environment at the organizational level. In a refreshing shakeup of the status quo, DeBow’s book equips IT executives with actionable solutions for managing and monitoring technology health so they can maximize the efficiency of the enterprise’s entire tech stack and deliver measurable value to the bottom line.

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