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NotebookLM Made Easy for Beginners and Seniors: How to Make Sense of Your Documents, Find Important Information Faster, and Learn Without Getting Overwhelmed (Smart App guide series Book 6)
English | September 25, 2026 | ASIN: B0HKZ7K8B8 | 248 pages | Epub | 1.51 MB
NotebookLM Made Easy for Beginners and Seniors is a practical, easy-to-follow guide for anyone who wants to understand and use NotebookLM without feeling overwhelmed by technology.Designed especially for beginners and seniors, this book explains how to use NotebookLM to work with documents, notes, research materials, study resources, and other information. You do not need advanced computer skills or technical knowledge. The book takes you through the process step by step, using simple language and practical examples.You will learn how to get started with NotebookLM, create and organize notebooks, add useful sources, and ask questions in everyday language. You will discover how to find important information quickly, understand complicated subjects, summarize long documents, compare sources, and turn information into useful checklists and study materials.The book also shows how NotebookLM can become a personal learning companion. You will learn how to break large subjects into smaller pieces, create review questions, build glossaries, practice active recall, and develop simple learning routines. These techniques can make studying and learning new subjects more manageable at any age.Beyond learning, you will discover practical ways to use NotebookLM in everyday life. The book explores using it for personal research, household projects, meeting preparation, presentations, reading, planning, hobbies, and ongoing projects. It also explains important habits for checking information, protecting private data, and keeping yourself in control when using AI.Most importantly, this guide does not expect you to master everything at once. It encourages you to start small, ask simple questions, work through information step by step, and build confidence through practice.Whether you are completely new to AI, returning to learning later in life, or simply looking for an easier way to manage information, NotebookLM Made Easy for Beginners and Seniors gives you a clear and reassuring starting point.By the end of the book, you will have a simple approach to remember:Gather → Ask → Understand → Check → Use.You remain in control. NotebookLM is simply a tool to help you make sense of information, learn with greater confidence, and accomplish everyday tasks with less frustration.

Neomania: How Our Obsession With Innovation is Failing Science, and How to Restore Trust
English | February 6, 2026 | ASIN: B0GM13MLLS | 250 pages | EPUB (True) | 6.34 MB
Contemporary science faces a profound poly-crisis: replication failures, weak theories, poor generalizability, and declining public trust. Neomania contends that these symptoms stem not merely from flawed practices or institutional pressures, but from a deeper cultural pathology—our collective obsession with innovation. This valorization of the new for its own sake has reshaped the scientific enterprise, privileging novelty over reliability and fragmentation over coordination.Drawing on metascience as well as the philosophy and sociology of science, Neomania offers a critical analysis of how this ethos has permeated the norms and institutions of modern science. The book traces its historical emergence, diagnoses its systemic consequences, and articulates a reform agenda centered on coordination, shared research programs, and epistemic integrity—an agenda that goes well beyond the principles of Open Science.Neomania advances a constructive vision for rebuilding science as a coherent and truth-oriented system. Combining philosophical depth with institutional analysis, it addresses students, scholars, policymakers, and practitioners concerned with the organization of knowledge production in an era of epistemic crisis. It is both a critique of contemporary scientific culture and a normative proposal for its renewal.

NANOTECHNOLOGY: Fundamentals, Nanomaterials, Nanoelectronics, Nanofabrication, and Applications in Next-Generation Technologies (Nanotechnology and Nanoelectronics)
English | October 12, 2026 | ASIN: B0HMRYW79X | 314 pages | Epub | 5.59 MB
Few fields have changed so many parts of science and engineering in so short a time as nanotechnology. Within a single working lifetime the subject has moved from a lecture delivered to a physics meeting in 1959 to the transistors inside the telephone in every pocket, the lipid nanoparticles that carried messenger RNA vaccines to billions of people, and the quantum dots that make a television screen glow with saturated colour. Two Nobel Prizes announced in the past three years - the 2023 Prize in Chemistry for quantum dots and the 2025 Prize in Chemistry for metal-organic frameworks - are reminders that the subject continues to be a source of fundamental discoveries as well as of technology.This book was written to give a student or a practising scientist a single, coherent path through that landscape. It begins with the physical and chemical ideas that make the nanoscale special - surface-to-volume ratio, quantum confinement, size-dependent optical, magnetic and thermal behaviour - and then follows the logic of the field: the materials (zero-, one- and two-dimensional, porous and composite), the ways in which they are made (bottom-up synthesis and top-down nanofabrication), the instruments with which they are seen and measured, the devices that are built from them (nanoelectronics, photonics, energy and biomedical systems), and the societal framework - safety, ethics, standards and regulation - within which these technologies must operate.Three principles guided the writing. First, fundamentals before fashion: every application chapter is anchored in the physics and chemistry developed earlier, so that the reader can reason about a new device rather than memorise a catalogue. Second, quantitative honesty: wherever a number is given it is a representative literature value, rounded appropriately, and wherever a figure is schematic it is labelled as such. Third, currency: the book reflects the state of the field as of late 2026, including the introduction of gate-all-around nanosheet transistors into volume manufacturing at the 2 nm class, the 2025 Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry that bear directly on this field, and the continuing maturation of quantum, neuromorphic and nano-enabled energy technologies.The book is organised in sixteen chapters. Chapters 1 and 2 introduce the history, scope and physical foundations. Chapters 3 to 5 survey nanomaterials. Chapters 6 to 8 deal with synthesis, nanofabrication and characterisation. Chapters 9 and 10 are devoted to nanoelectronics. Chapters 11 to 15 treat photonics and the principal application areas, ending with technologies that are likely to define the coming decades. Chapter 16 addresses safety, ethics, regulation and commercialisation, and closes with an outlook. Each chapter opens with learning objectives and closes with key points and review questions. A glossary, appendices of constants and units, and a list of selected references and further reading are included at the end.No textbook is ever finished, and a field that moves as quickly as this one outpaces any printed page. Readers are encouraged to treat the references as starting points and to consult the primary literature, the roadmaps of the semiconductor and materials communities, and the standards of bodies such as ISO and IEC for the latest information. Any errors that remain are the author's responsibility, and corrections and suggestions from readers will be gratefully received.

N.O. to A.I.: A Skeptic's Guide to Using Artificial Intelligence Without Losing Your Job, Your Mind, or Yourself
English | September 25, 2026 | ASIN: B0HKYY6Y11 | 112 pages | Epub | 1.50 MB
Be curious. Be cautious. Stay in charge.Artificial intelligence is moving fast. Your job. Your information. Your future. If you've felt overwhelmed, skeptical, or quietly worried you're already behind, you're not alone. In one national survey, half of Americans said they feel more concerned than excited about AI.N.O. to A.I. is the book for everyone who looked at AI and said "absolutely not." It doesn't brush off your worries. It takes them seriously, looks at what the research actually says, and then gives you a clear, practical plan to use AI on your terms.This isn't about rejecting technology. It's about staying the boss.Inside, you'll learn:* The Boss Rule: why AI drafts and you decide, and how to stay the decision-maker* The Job Ticket: a simple four-part formula for getting useful answers every time* The Family Safe Word: how to protect the people you love from AI voice-clone scams* The H.U.M.A.N. Method: how to use AI without losing the skills that make you valuable* Real history, real research: what the printing press, the ATM, and the elevator teach us about this moment* Real-world uses: at home, at work, in your job search, and in your small businessPlus the 30-Day AI Challenge, with ten minutes a day to go from doubter to confident user, and five practical worksheets to put it all into practice.No tech background needed. If you can send a text or write an email, you have every skill you need to start.Written by a kid from Birmingham who went to work in banking and got a front-row seat to how fast the world is changing, N.O. to A.I. gives everyday people straight answers, not hype.You don't have to love AI. You just have to understand it well enough to make it work for you.Grab your copy today.

Myths about pianists
English | October 5, 2026 | ASIN: B0HLZBDMFN | 206 Pages | Epub | 2.59 MB
Do you need large hands to play the piano? Is it too late to start as an adult? Does practising longer always mean learning more?The piano is surrounded by stories about natural talent, extraordinary memory, perfect technique, and tormented genius. Some contain a grain of truth. Others turn a useful observation into a rule that can discourage learners and distort the way we listen.Myths About Pianists explores 40 familiar beliefs through research, anatomy, the psychology of music, and historical evidence. With clear explanations, musical examples, and a touch of humour, it examines what happens behind the keyboard-and what popular legends leave out.Discover how hand size relates to playing, why strength is different from coordination, and what absolute pitch can and cannot tell us about musicianship. Explore piano practice, musical memory, sight-reading, mental rehearsal, rest, pedalling, and interpretation. Revisit the stories surrounding Mozart, Beethoven, Liszt, Rachmaninoff, and Glenn Gould with a closer look at the documents behind them.Written for adult learners, piano students, music teachers, and curious listeners, this accessible book requires no specialist knowledge. A narrative glossary, black-and-white illustrations, and references offer ways to explore further.A thoughtful companion for anyone who wants to understand piano playing, question inherited advice, and listen with greater insight.Before you measure a pianist's hands, discover what those hands are actually doing.

Mysteries and Secrets of Ancient China - Volume I: Origins and the First Empire: Lost Dynasties, Forbidden Cities, Hidden Wisdom, and the Greatest Enigmas ... (Mysteries of the Ancient World Book 5)
English | September 28, 2026 | ASIN: B0HLBXL3MM | 1196 pages | Epub | 32.97 MB
Ancient China was built on rivers, ritual, war, memory-and the dream of creating an empire that would last forever.Long before the Forbidden City, before the Great Wall became a symbol of China, and before emperors claimed authority over a unified realm, powerful kingdoms rose and fell across an ancient landscape shaped by the Yellow River, ancestral worship, bronze, warfare, and political ambition.Mysteries and Secrets of Ancient China - Volume I: Origins and the First Empire explores the extraordinary world that existed before and during the creation of the first unified Chinese empire.From the uncertain beginnings of the Xia dynasty and the oracle bones of the Shang kings to the Mandate of Heaven and the violence of the Warring States, this volume follows the forces that transformed scattered kingdoms into one of history's most influential imperial systems.At the center of the story stands Qin Shi Huang, the First Emperor-a ruler who conquered rival states, standardized writing and measurement, reshaped administration, expanded defensive walls, and attempted to impose unity upon a civilization that had been divided for centuries.But his ambition extended far beyond politics.Why did the First Emperor become obsessed with immortality?What lies inside his still-unopened tomb?Were the legendary rivers of mercury beneath Mount Li real?What can the Terracotta Army reveal about the empire he intended to rule even after death?And how much of the traditional story of book burning, persecution, and absolute tyranny can be separated from later political memory?This book examines the evidence behind the legends, combining archaeology, ancient texts, historical interpretation, and material culture to distinguish what is known from what remains uncertain.Inside this volume:the rivers that shaped early Chinese civilization;the mystery of the Xia dynasty;Shang kings and the oracle bones;bronze, ritual, and political authority;the Mandate of Heaven;the Warring States and the collapse of the old order;the rise of Qin;the childhood and palace struggles of Ying Zheng;the unification of China;standardization of writing, measures, currency, and administration;the beginnings of the Great Wall tradition;the burning of books and the problem of historical memory;the First Emperor's search for eternal life;the mystery of mercury beneath his tomb;the Terracotta Army;and the unopened mausoleum that remains one of archaeology's greatest enigmas.The First Emperor failed to defeat death.The empire he created changed history.This is the opening volume in the China sequence within Mysteries and Secrets of the Ancient World, leading from the birth of Chinese civilization to the creation of the first empire-and toward the hidden world of imperial palaces, court power, and the Forbidden City.

Multimodal AI Applications: Combining vision, audio, and language models into production products.
English | September 20, 2026 | ASIN: B0HKTSX1C4 | 221 pages | EPUB (True) | 192.01 KB
Multimodal AI Applications is a practical engineering guide to building systems that see, hear, and read - and reason across all three at once. It starts from a single observation: multimodal is no longer a niche capability, it is the new default for anything user-facing, and the teams that build it well will own the applications that define the next wave of AI products.The book walks through the full stack - the case for multimodal as a default architecture, vision models from convolutional networks to the current generation of foundation models, audio models for speech and music and environmental sound, language models as the reasoning core that ties the modalities together, fusion techniques from early to late to cross-attention, vision-language models in depth, speech and audio processing pipelines, document understanding with layout and OCR, video understanding and temporal reasoning, multimodal embeddings and retrieval across modalities, multimodal agents that operate GUIs and tools, evaluation for systems where the ground truth is multi-dimensional, deployment and latency and cost engineering, and the trends reshaping the field.It covers the failure modes that quietly wreck multimodal systems: a vision encoder that silently downsamples images below the resolution the task requires, an audio pipeline that loses speaker identity because diarisation runs after transcription, a fusion layer that concatenates embeddings of incompatible scales, a captioning model that hallucinates detail the image does not contain, a video sampler that misses the event because it samples uniformly, a multimodal agent that clicks the wrong button because it misreads a label. Each is presented with the failure, the countermeasure, and the operational tradeoff.

Military Blunders: Twenty Catastrophes of History, and Why the Reason You Were Given Is Wrong
English | October 6, 2026 | ASIN: B0HM5434X5 | 125 pages | Epub | 193.98 KB
Napoleon did not lose his army to the Russian winter. The Light Brigade did not charge because its officers were mad. The guns of Singapore did not point the wrong way. Every famous military disaster comes with a ready explanation, usually a story about one foolish man, and very often the explanation is wrong.From the Athenian invasion of Sicily to the Bay of Pigs, this book examines twenty of the most catastrophic decisions in the history of war, and asks the questions the popular accounts skip. What did the commanders actually know? Who wrote the first account, and whom did it protect?Inside you will discover:why the first person to blame the Russian winter was Napoleon himself;how the "five fateful minutes" of Midway entered history, and how they were disproved fifty years later;why the general blamed for Pickett's Charge was the one who had argued against it;how the officer who surrendered Singapore had predicted, years earlier, exactly how the Japanese would attack;why "lions led by donkeys" has never been found in any German source;and which of history's most famous blunders was not a blunder at all. Every chapter ends with a verdict: a blunder as charged, a blunder but not the one you were told, a reasonable decision that failed, or not a blunder at all. A bonus section examines eight famous military stories that never happened, from the army that fought itself to the angels of Mons.Military history that is fair to the dead, for readers who want to know what really went wrong.

MicroPython Mastery on Raspberry Pi Pico 2: Build Real-World IoT, Sensor, Automation, Wireless & Embedded Projects with the Latest RP2350 Board and MicroPython (22nd century tech and engineering)
English | October 6, 2026 | ASIN: B0HM3RDYSN | 397 Pages | Epub | 560.21 KB
What if you could take a small microcontroller board and turn it into a real sensor system, automation controller, wireless device, diagnostic station, or intelligent embedded platform?What if learning MicroPython wasn't just about blinking an LED, but about understanding how complete embedded systems are actually designed?And what if the new RP2350-powered board could become the foundation for projects that go far beyond basic beginner experiments?This book is designed around those questions.Whether you're completely new to MicroPython, already comfortable with Python, or looking to move from simple microcontroller experiments into more structured embedded development, this book takes you through the process of building practical systems.You'll learn how to:• Set up a MicroPython development environment and work confidently with the REPL• Understand the architecture and capabilities of the latest microcontroller platform• Program digital inputs and outputs for buttons, LEDs, switches, and control systems• Work with analog signals, ADC measurements, sensors, calibration, filtering, and data validation• Use PWM for LED control, servos, buzzers, motors, and other actuators• Build responsive programs using timing, scheduling, interrupts, and event-driven techniques• Communicate with external hardware through UART, I2C, and SPI• Create useful interfaces with OLED displays, TFT displays, buttons, rotary encoders, and status indicators• Connect temperature, humidity, pressure, light, motion, distance, and other sensors• Store information locally using files, structured data, configuration files, and logging systems• Build connected applications with Wi-Fi, Bluetooth Low Energy, web interfaces, and IoT communication• Create automation systems using sensors, actuators, feedback, thresholds, hysteresis, and fault detection• Explore multicore programming and understand when using both cores actually makes sense• Use programmable I/O for timing-sensitive signals and specialized hardware interfaces• Optimize applications for memory, timing, storage, and performance• Design reliable systems that continue operating when networks, sensors, or other components failYou'll also learn how to structure larger applications using configuration modules, hardware drivers, services, state management, logging, diagnostics, recovery procedures, and communication layers.By the time you reach the final projects, you'll be thinking beyond individual components and toward complete embedded platforms capable of coordinating sensors, actuators, displays, user controls, persistent storage, wireless communication, diagnostics, and future expansion.If you want to move from writing small scripts to designing complete, reliable systems, this book gives you a practical path to make that transition.

Metered: An Illustrated Field Guide to AI Agent and LLM Cost Optimization, with Prompt Caching, Context Engineering, Token Budgets, and FinOps for Engineers
English | October 4, 2026 | ASIN: B0HLXLF6G4 | 278 pages | Epub | 16.96 MB
Your AI agent works. Then the invoice arrives.Volume is on plan, customers are happy, and the model bill is three times the forecast. Nobody decided to spend it. The agent did, one step at a time.Metered is an illustrated field guide to AI agent and LLM cost optimization, written for the engineers who build agentic AI systems and are then asked to explain the bill. It shows where the tokens go and how to bring the cost down without making the product worse.What you will learnRead the bill. Build a token ledger that splits one task into tool definitions, system prompt, history and output, so you know which line to fix first.Prompt caching. Lay out a prompt so the cache is read, measure your cache hit rate, and see why a cache that is switched on can cost more than no cache.Provider pricing. Batch, flex and priority tiers, provisioned capacity, tokenizer changes and regional premiums on Amazon Bedrock, OpenAI, Google Gemini, Anthropic Claude and Azure.Context engineering. Trim tool definitions and MCP tool lists, shrink tool results, move instructions into skills, and decide when sub-agents save tokens.Harness engineering. Compaction, waiting without tokens and retry budgets in the agent loop.Token budgets and guardrails. Step, token and time limits, loop detection, AI gateways with a spending cap per customer, and a policy for coding agents such as Claude Code, GitHub Copilot and Cursor.FinOps for AI. Cost attribution with OpenTelemetry, cost per successful task, unit economics, pricing an AI feature and a forecast that finance can defend.Built to be used16 chapters, each with a running story told in comic strips, a worked example with full arithmetic and a one-page field card16 case files from public sources, covering Uber, GitHub, DoorDash, Shopify, Cloudflare, Cursor, Intercom, Manus, Writer and others18 hands-on labs with tables for your own resultsMore than 120 hand-drawn illustrations, plus checklists, worksheets, self-checks and Python listingsA 30-day plan and a one-page monthly brief for financeThe story that runs through itTallybird launches an AI support agent, and three weeks later the invoice is three times the forecast. Chapter by chapter, its engineers find where the money goes: a clock in the system prompt that defeats the cache, 32 tool definitions when a ticket uses five, a log excerpt resent twelve times, and a ticket that loops for 400 steps overnight. By the last chapter a resolved ticket costs a fifth of what it did at launch, and finance has a forecast with a range and a reason for each end of it.Who it is forSoftware engineers, AI engineers, architects, platform and LLMOps teams, and engineering leaders who run LLM applications in production. You need to be comfortable reading Python. You do not need a finance background.A note on providersThe worked examples use one provider's API so that a single story can run from the first chapter to the last. A guide at the front shows how to apply every chapter on OpenAI, Gemini, Bedrock and Azure, and an appendix compares their caching rules, tiers and usage fields side by side.