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  Automation with SaltStack -...

  Yogesh Raheja

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  Empower Your Infrastructure with SaltStack Automation. 
  Book Description
  Unleash the full potential of SaltStack to transform your infrastructure management and automation practices. This book is crafted to provide clear, step-by-step guidance, ensuring you can apply SaltStack's capabilities to automate and streamline your workflows effectively. 
  Starting with the basics, the book introduces the fundamentals and SaltStack framework, guiding you through configuring and managing infrastructure with this versatile tool. Detailed chapters cover the architecture of SaltStack, various deployment models, and the prerequisites for setting up SaltStack masters and minions. You will learn how to effectively manage modules and perform remote execution tasks, mastering state file management and highstate concepts along the way. 
  Dive deep into advanced features such as grains for targeting and customizing data, Jinja templates for dynamic configuration, and multi-environment infrastructure management. Understand the critical role of pillars in SaltStack, their configuration, and their importance in managing sensitive data and configuring the state tree. 
  With a focus on practical application, this book includes real-world examples and scenarios to help you implement what you have learned. You will discover industry best practices for optimal configuration, deployment, maintenance, and scaling of SaltStack-managed infrastructure, ensuring your automation processes are efficient and robust. 
  
  Table of Contents
  
  1. Introduction to SaltStack and Its Framework
  2. Architecture and SaltStack Deployment
  3. Modules and Remote Execution with SaltStack
  4. State File Management
  5. HighState and Salt Tree
  6. Grains, Jinja Templates, and Environments
  7. Pillars
  8. The Salt Event-Driven Infrastructure
  9. Masterless and Agentless Salt   
  Index

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  Data Science on AWS - Unleashing...

  Saimon Carrie

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  "Data Science on AWS: Unlocking Scalable Solutions" is an essential guide for data scientists, machine learning engineers, and IT professionals seeking to leverage the comprehensive capabilities of Amazon Web Services to enhance their data science projects. This book provides a detailed exploration of the AWS ecosystem, offering insights into how its powerful tools and services can be used to store, process, and analyze vast amounts of data efficiently. 
  Starting with a foundation in cloud computing concepts and the basics of AWS, the book guides you through setting up a secure and robust data science environment. From managing data storage options like S3 and Redshift to conducting exploratory data analysis with tools like Athena and QuickSight, this guide ensures you have the know-how to handle data at scale. 
  Dive deeper into the mechanics of building, training, and deploying machine learning models using Amazon SageMaker, and explore advanced techniques using AWS's cutting-edge services for deep learning and reinforcement learning. Learn about scalable data processing capabilities with services like EMR and AWS Glue, and discover strategies for real-time and batch processing to keep your projects agile and responsive. 
  "Data Science on AWS" also covers vital operational practices, including securing your data infrastructure, monitoring and automating deployments, and optimizing costs. With practical advice and real-world examples, this book is not just about theory but about applying what you learn to solve real business problems effectively. 
  Whether you're looking to start a new data science project on AWS, streamline existing processes, or scale your applications, this book will be an invaluable resource, providing you with the tools and knowledge needed to succeed in the evolving landscape of data science in the cloud. 
   

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  Thirsting Earth The: The Global...

  Alex Southwick

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  Water is the essence of life — yet across the world, it’s vanishing. Rivers are drying, aquifers collapsing, and once-fertile plains turning to dust. From Cape Town to California, scarcity is no longer a distant threat but a daily reality. 
  In The Thirsting Earth, Alex Southwick journeys across a planet running out of its most vital resource. Through powerful reportage and vivid human stories, Southwick uncovers the fault lines where drought, politics, and inequality collide — and where innovation and resilience are beginning to take root. 
  We meet the communities reviving ancient water-harvesting traditions, scientists reimagining desalination, and activists fighting to reclaim water as a common good rather than a commodity. Together, they offer a glimpse of a future where survival depends not on conquest of nature, but on collaboration with it. 
  Urgent, humane, and unforgettable, The Thirsting Earth is both a warning and a testament — a chronicle of crisis, and a call to rediscover our most elemental connection to the world.

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  Scientific Figures and Tables:...

  Mitchell P. Jones Ph.D.

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  Mitchell P. Jones’ Scientific Figures and Tables: Quick Tips is a must-have for anyone wanting to improve the aesthetics, impact, clarity and interpretability of their figures and tables. In clear, concise and precise language, Jones lays out recommendations on setting up effective micrographs, graphs, tables and schematics including points on selection, layout and content formatting. Comprehensive and firmly instructional, this guide features step-by-step directions with useful examples in addition to tips on captions, equations and unit formatting. Featuring an easy-to-navigate approach and with no assumed knowledge required it caters to all levels of experience and is fundamental reading for students wanting to maximise their chances of success in science. 
  This mini guide is specifically formatted for students whose interests are restricted to creating scientific figures and tables. Full guides for producing bachelor’s, master’s/Ph.D. theses, journal articles, conference papers and book chapters are also available as part of the Scientific Writing for Beginners series.

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  The Peregrine

  J. A. Baker, Mark Cocker, Robert...

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  David Attenborough reads J. A. Baker’s extraordinary classic of British nature writing. 
  The nation’s greatest voice, David Attenborough, reads J. A. Baker’s extraordinary classic of British nature writing, The Peregrine. 
  J. A. Baker’s classic of British nature writing was first published in 1967. Greeted with acclaim, it went on to win the Duff Cooper Prize, the pre-eminent literary prize of the time. Luminaries such as Ted Hughes, Barry Lopez and Andrew Motion have cited it as one of the most important books in twentieth-century nature writing. 
  Despite the association of peregrines with the wild, outer reaches of the British Isles, The Peregrine is set on the flat marshes of the Essex coast, where J. A. Baker spent long winters looking and writing about the visitors from the uplands – peregrines that spend the winter hunting the huge flocks of pigeons and waders that share the desolate landscape with them. 
  J. A. Baker's The Peregrine is a testament to the beauty of nature, a special observation of the animal kingdom from the perspective of birds. It's a top choice for those interested in ecotourism and birdwatching, offering a comparative study of different species in their natural habitat. 
  For fans of Barry Holstun Lopez (EMBRACE FEARLESSLY THE BURNING WORLD), Robert Macfarlane (Is a River Alive?), Werner Herzog (Of Walking In Ice), Roger Deakin (Waterlog), and Annie Ernaux (The Years).

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  So Others May Live: Coast...

  Martha J. LaGuardia-Kotite, Tom...

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  Fourteen true, amazing and inspiring stories of some of the bravest men and women you'll ever meet 
  So Others May Live is the untold story of the U.S. Coast Guard's quiet but resolute rescue swimmers. From deep ocean caves on the Oregon coast to the panicked and chaotic streets of post-Katrina New Orleans, here are their stunningly heroic stories - some of the greatest maritime rescues attempted since the program was started in 1985. These feats, told through the eyes of the heroes, reveal an understanding of how and why the rescuer, with flight crew assistance, risks his or her own life to reach out to save a stranger. Covering diverse environments- oceans, hurricanes, oil rigs, caves, sinking vessels, floods, and even Niagara Falls - this is truly a can't-put-it-down collection.

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