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  Testing in Software Development...

  Ben Rizer

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  In today's fast-paced world of software development, ensuring the reliability and quality of applications is crucial. Testing in Software Development for Beginners: Building a Strong Foundation in Software Testing Principles and Practices serves as a comprehensive guide for those starting their journey into the vital field of software testing. 
  This book breaks down complex testing concepts into easily digestible sections, making it an ideal starting point for beginners. From understanding the fundamentals of different types of testing—like unit, integration, system, and user acceptance testing—to exploring essential testing techniques and tools, this guide provides a solid foundation for developing high-quality software. The book also introduces industry best practices, including Test-Driven Development (TDD), Continuous Testing in CI/CD pipelines, and how to incorporate testing into agile and iterative methodologies. 
  This book will help you grasp the principles and equip you with practical skills for testing modern software applications. Featuring real-world examples, practical exercises, and step-by-step tutorials, Testing in Software Development for Beginners is your go-to resource for building confidence and competence in software testing from the ground up. 
  Prepare to embark on a rewarding journey to mastering the essential skills needed to contribute to the success of software projects, ensuring quality and consistency in every release! 
   

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  Regrow: The Hidden Power of...

  Alex Southwick

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  All over the world, life is returning — often where we least expect it. Wolves are roaming once-empty forests. Rivers, freed from their dams, are carving new paths. Meadows are blooming on forgotten farmland. Nature, long subdued, is finding its way back. 
  In Regrow, Alex Southwick explores the quiet revolution of rewilding — the global movement to restore ecosystems, revive biodiversity, and rekindle our relationship with the living world. From the Scottish Highlands to the savannas of Kenya, from urban green corridors to community-led restoration projects, Southwick meets the people proving that healing the Earth is not a dream, but a process already underway. 
  Blending science, storytelling, and hope, Regrow reveals that recovery is not only possible but astonishingly swift when given the chance. It’s a reminder that the planet’s wounds can be mended — and that rewilding nature begins with rewilding ourselves.

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  Progressive Planet - Modern...

  Alexander Hodzic

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  "Progressive Planet: Modern Techniques for Recycling and Reclaiming Earth" is a groundbreaking guide to modern, sustainable living, offering insights into our environmental challenges and empowering readers to shape a sustainable future. Starting with an overview of the planet's state, the book addresses climate change and biodiversity loss, emphasizing the importance of acknowledging and understanding these issues. 
   
  Chapter 2 delves into the complexities of our waste problem, exploring both obvious and hidden culprits like food waste. The book advocates a shift to a circular economy to combat environmental degradation caused by waste overload. Chapter 4 explores advanced recycling techniques, from plastic recycling to industrial composting and e-waste recycling, making readers informed eco-conscious consumers. 
   
  Chapter 6 emphasizes individual responsibility, providing practical tips for small changes that collectively make a big difference. The book extends beyond recycling, introducing concepts like upcycling, repurposing, urban mining, habitat restoration, and support for renewable energy and regenerative agriculture. 
   
  "Progressive Planet" concludes with actionable steps, including reviewing government policies, corporate responsibility, and activism. The book ends on a hopeful note, empowering readers to contribute to a sustainable and resilient Earth. 
   
  With a call to action, "Progressive Planet: Modern Techniques for Recycling and Reclaiming Earth" is not just a book but a guide for responding to the planet's needs with knowledge, consciousness, and care.

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  Standing in a Field with Horses

  Maeve Birch

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  A memoir of equine connection. 
  If you're not "boss mare" material, can you still work with horses? This was the question Maeve faced each time she interacted with a horse. If it wasn't in her nature to dominate this animal, could she be around them and still stay true to herself? The equestrian world shouted in unison, "Get after him! Tell him who's boss!" Yet Maeve couldn't. When she did, it grated against her soul. Could she successfully navigate a life with equines if her leadership looked different? 
  In this moving memoir, Maeve Birch explores the dynamics between traditional horse handling and her communications with horses, which often didn’t align with what she was taught. In the stories shared, human issues such as codependency, lack of boundaries, impatience, violence, and fear crop up again and again, shaping horse and human relationships. Standing in a Field With Horses provides a window into the mind, spirituality, and social undercurrents of a woman trapped between obedience and self-expression along with the horses. Will she be able to stand in the current or will she be pulled under? 
  As horse care and training evolve, so too do the humans who cherish their hooved companions. The two are inescapably linked together, both in the physical realm and in spirit. In the future, will we break horses to fit us and our human world, or will we allow them to guide us into new worlds, new ways of existing and experiencing? The horses have a lot to say if we are still enough to perceive their whispers through the demands of our human psyche. A new way of being with horses is on the horizon. The hoofbeats approach. Come, stand in a field, and listen closely… You may hear more than you expect.

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  Deep Learning with Python -...

  Simon Winston

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  Deep learning has revolutionized the field of artificial intelligence, enabling computers to perform complex tasks that were once thought to be exclusive to human intelligence. Python, with its rich ecosystem of libraries and frameworks, has emerged as the language of choice for implementing deep learning algorithms. 
  "Deep Learning with Python: Bridging the Gap for Advanced AI" is a comprehensive guide that takes readers on a journey through the world of deep learning, equipping them with the knowledge and skills necessary to bridge the gap between basic understanding and advanced applications. 
  This book begins with a solid foundation in the fundamentals of deep learning, covering neural networks, deep architectures, and optimization techniques. Readers will explore the building blocks of deep learning with Python, including data preparation and preprocessing, model selection and evaluation, and an in-depth look at popular deep learning libraries and tools like TensorFlow, Keras, and PyTorch. 
  Moving beyond the basics, the book dives into advanced techniques such as convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for image classification and object detection, recurrent neural networks (RNNs) for sequence modeling and language generation, and generative adversarial networks (GANs) for image generation and style transfer. 
  The book also delves into deep learning for natural language processing, covering word embeddings, language modeling, and text classification. It explores transfer learning and deep reinforcement learning, providing insights into how pre-trained models can be leveraged and how deep learning can be applied to solve complex problems in reinforcement learning domains.

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  Living Through The Gale - Being...

  Tom Cunliffe

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  Heavy weather is a lurking spectre that most of us hope and plan to avoid, but not even internet forecasting can make it go away. Anyone intent on crossing oceans must be ready to deal with it if it comes, as well it may. Even well-informed inshore and continental-shelf sailors will inevitably be caught out sooner or later. The object of this slim, quickly absorbed volume is to give everyone, whatever their passage-making aspirations, a sound brief so that whether they find themselves at the wrong end of a force-six blow along the coast, or confronting serious waves far out at sea, they are fully aware of their options for taking it in their stride.Heavy weather is a lurking spectre that most of us hope and plan to avoid, but not even internet forecasting can make it go away. Anyone intent on crossing oceans must be ready to deal with it if it comes, as well it may. Even well-informed inshore and continental-shelf sailors will inevitably be caught out sooner or later. The object of this slim, quickly absorbed volume is to give everyone, whatever their passage-making aspirations, a sound brief so that whether they find themselves at the wrong end of a force-six blow along the coast, or confronting serious waves far out at sea, they are fully aware of their options for taking it in their stride.

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