This book examines how Apple helped build China’s dominance in electronics assembly and manufacturing only to find itself trapped in a relationship with an authoritarian state making ever-increasing demands. Patrick McGee explains how after struggling to build its products on three continents, Apple was lured by China’s seemingly inexhaustible supply of cheap labor. 

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This fully revised third edition shows how to use Python to write programs that do in minutes what would take you hours to do by hand—no prior programming experience required. In early chapters Al Sweigart show the fundamentals of Python through clear explanations and engaging examples. From writing a first Python program, readers learn how to work with strings, lists, dictionaries, and other data structures; then use regular expressions to find and manipulate text patterns. Having mastered the basics, the book moves on to projects that teach how to use Python to automate tasks.

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The book presents practical guidance on state-of-the-art systems thinking methods and offers case study applications describing systems thinking methods in novel areas. Paul M. Salmon et al explain how to translate the outputs of systems thinking methods in practice and introduce systems thinking with an overview of human factors and ergonomics applications.

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This book looks at what it takes to design games from concept to completion. Alexia Mandeville, an experienced video game developer, explains the theory behind great gaming experiences, and the tools to bring game ideas to life. Choose the right game engines and design tools for any project and get step-by-step advice on testing and debugging the games you've made.

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Written for programmers with a background in another high-level language, in this book Harvey Deitel teaches modern Java development hands on using the latest Java idioms and features and genAIs. In the context of 200+ real-world code examples, readers begin with Java fundamentals then move on to arrays, strings, regular expressions, JSON/CSV processing with the Jackson library.

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This book covers the essential mathematics that will take you from basic coding to serious software development. Ronald T. Kneusel shows how vectors and matrices give you the power to handle complex data, how calculus drives optimization and machine learning, and how graph theory leads to advanced search algorithms.

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This book asks the question "Can you trust results from modeling and simulation?" and provides a framework for assessing the reliability of and uncertainty included in the results used by decision makers and policy makers in industry and government. The emphasis is on models described by PDEs and their numerical solution. William L. Oberkampf and Christopher J. Roy consider procedures and results from all aspects of verification and validation, integrated with modern methods in uncertainty quantification and stochastic simulation.

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Web browsers are the most common and widely-used platform  for code to run on. In this book Pavel Panchekha and Chris Harrelson describe how they work and how that impacts web developers and other software engineers whose work touches the web. The authors build their own web browser, including rich visual effects, multithreaded architecture, JavaScript APIs, and comprehensive security policies, and explore the challenges, interesting algorithms, and clever optimizations this entails.

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This book, written for developers comfortable with another programming language, concisely covers programming basics, while introducing Python's comprehensive standard library and unique features in depth and detail. In this fourth edition, Naomi Ceder has added new coverage of AI coding tools like Copilot and Google's Colaboratory (Colab), new interactive notebooks, quick-check questions, and end-of-chapter labs.

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Subtitled "A Playful Introduction to Algorithms through Puzzles and Strategy Games", in this book Elliot Lichtman explores computer science concepts by exploring them through word games, board games, and strategy games.  Learn recursion by playing tic-tac-toe, efficient search through puzzle games like sudoku and Wordle, and machine learning by way of the playground classic rock-paper-scissors.

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This recipe-based guide looks at using ASP.NET Core 9 for building modern web APIs that are both scalable and secure. Luke Avedon and Garry Cabrera demonstrate how to build, optimize, and secure APIs using this cutting-edge technology. Recipes include creating RESTful APIs, implementing advanced data access strategies, securing APIs, creating custom middleware, and enhancing logging capabilities.

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This book teaches SQL in just 24 fun and friendly lessons. Jeff Iannucci emphasizes practical uses for the language in the real-world, so you’ll just learn the most useful skills for business data analysis. Readers will learn how to write their own queries, modify existing SQL statements, and work with data like a pro.

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