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Building Machine Learning Systems with a Feature Store: Batch, Real-Time, and LLM Systems

Get up to speed on a new unified approach to building machine learning (ML) systems with a feature store. Using this practical book, data scientists and ML engineers will learn in detail how to develop and operate batch, real-time, and agentic ML systems. Author Jim Dowling introduces fundamental principles and practices for developing, testing, and operating ML and AI systems at scale. You'll see how any AI system can be decomposed into independent feature, training, and inference pipelines connected by a shared data layer. Through example ML systems, you'll tackle the hardest part of ML systems&emdash;the data, learning how to transform data into features and embeddings, and how to design a data model for AI. Develop batch ML systems at any scale Develop real-time ML systems by shifting left or shifting right feature computation Develop agentic ML systems that use LLMs, tools, and retrieval-augmented generation Understand and apply MLOps principles when developing and operating ML systems

Building Micro-Frontends: Distributed Systems for the Frontend

Is your frontend slowing down innovation and complicating team collaboration? Consider micro-frontends—a practical way to break development silos and accelerate feature delivery. In this updated second edition, software architects, tech leads, and software developers will learn how to design, build, and deploy independent micro-frontends that compose unique frontend systems. Author Luca Mezzalira, principal serverless specialist solutions architect at AWS, shows you how micro-frontends enable agility within an organization, decentralize decision-making, and optimize for fast flow. This gives your organization technical flexibility and allows you to hire and retain a broad spectrum of talent. Micro-frontends also support distributed or colocated teams more efficiently. Start transforming your frontend strategy today with proven techniques for speed of delivery, autonomy, and scale. Accelerate delivery with four foundational pillars for micro-frontend success Apply actionable principles and best practices to empower your teams Navigate the benefits and pitfalls of micro-frontend architectures Integrate micro-frontends seamlessly with microservices and distributed systems Architect client-side and server-side micro-frontend solutions for maximum impact

Building Sustainable Tourism Communities: A Blueprint for the Future (Routledge Insights in Tourism Series)

This book offers a comprehensive framework for fostering sustainable tourism communities, providing actionable strategies to balance economic growth, environmental preservation, and social equity. It serves as a vital resource for professionals and scholars striving to create resilient tourism models.Featuring real-world case studies, actionable frameworks, and interdisciplinary perspectives, the book combines theory with practice to equip readers to address challenges such as climate change, cultural preservation, and stakeholder collaboration effectively. Readers will gain practical insights and tools to design and implement sustainable tourism initiatives as this book explores the crucial interactions between tourism, environmental protection, socio-cultural integrity, and economic growth, drawing on substantial research and case studies.This book is ideal for tourism professionals, policymakers, sustainability advocates, scholars, and students in tourism and environmental studies as well as community leaders seeking to build tourism strategies rooted in sustainability and resilience.

Building a Positive Math Identity: A Brain-Science Approach (Corwin Mathematics Series)

When brain science meets math success Emotions drive learning. This is an essential component of understanding how a student’s math identity is closely connected to their math success. How a student sees themselves in relation to math is dynamically constructed in their brain and is constantly changing. Every learner deserves to exist in harmony with mathematics. This book shows you how to make that mantra a reality for all students. Liesl McConchie offers an exciting new perspective on math identity through her extensive research on how the brain learns. Liesl walks readers through cognitive neuroscience in a humorous and friendly way, using metaphors and everyday stories to explain how emotions and cognition interact. She offers engaging and simple brain-based strategies and activities to implement in the classroom. In Building a Positive Math Identity: A Brain Science Approach, Liesl Translates complex brain science principles for educators in an accessible and engaging way Provides practical exercises and lessons that you can use in classroom right away Shares real-world stories that provide deeper insight into how math identity is shaped over the years Offers activities to help teachers gain insight into the math identities of our students Guides teachers to explore our own math identity and the impact it can have on our students Most important, the book pushes back on the prevailing message about math identity that tends to focus on student efficacy alone. This approach puts the burden on the individual, which can lead to additional oppression of those who have been most marginalized in math. Here’s our opportunity as educators to reexamine what it means to have a positive math identity--and to learn to use brain-based tools to build on a positive math identity for our students from the earliest ages.

Building a Positive Math Identity: A Brain-Science Approach (Corwin Mathematics Series)

When brain science meets math success Emotions drive learning. This is an essential component of understanding how a student’s math identity is closely connected to their math success. How a student sees themselves in relation to math is dynamically constructed in their brain and is constantly changing. Every learner deserves to exist in harmony with mathematics. This book shows you how to make that mantra a reality for all students. Liesl McConchie offers an exciting new perspective on math identity through her extensive research on how the brain learns. Liesl walks readers through cognitive neuroscience in a humorous and friendly way, using metaphors and everyday stories to explain how emotions and cognition interact. She offers engaging and simple brain-based strategies and activities to implement in the classroom. In Building a Positive Math Identity: A Brain Science Approach, Liesl Translates complex brain science principles for educators in an accessible and engaging way Provides practical exercises and lessons that you can use in classroom right away Shares real-world stories that provide deeper insight into how math identity is shaped over the years Offers activities to help teachers gain insight into the math identities of our students Guides teachers to explore our own math identity and the impact it can have on our students Most important, the book pushes back on the prevailing message about math identity that tends to focus on student efficacy alone. This approach puts the burden on the individual, which can lead to additional oppression of those who have been most marginalized in math. Here’s our opportunity as educators to reexamine what it means to have a positive math identity--and to learn to use brain-based tools to build on a positive math identity for our students from the earliest ages.

Building the Belt and Road Initiative in the Arab World: China's Middle East Math (Changing Dynamics in Asia-Middle East Relations)

This book analyses the expansion of Chinese power and influence in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) through Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) projects undertaken in the “1+ 2+ 3 cooperation pattern.” Under this framework, 1 represents energy, 2 represents infrastructure and trade and investment, and 3 represents nuclear energy, space satellites, and renewable energy. Taken together these elements indicate the trajectory of China’s MENA presence, and by examining each element in different states across the region, this book provides empirical evidence of which states or subregions are most important for Beijing’s regional ambitions, as well as a better understanding of which sectors are being developed. The book will draw substantial interest from a wide range of readers including academics in the field of Chinese foreign policy, international relations, international political economy, foreign policy analysis, and area studies. Professionals in the corporate world will also be engaged and governmental practitioners and non-government agencies will also find it an important resource.

Building the City: Everyday Lives of Migrant Workers (Routledge Studies in Urbanism and the City)

Building the City elaborates new critical insights into the everyday lives of migrant workers in cities around the world.The book offers complementary blending of longstanding political-economic accounts of migration, gender, labour, and urban life alongside advances in feminist, postcolonial, post-structural, materialist, and more-than-representational theories. Drawing on these critical resources the authors explore the complexities of migrant’s everyday past, present, and future lives. More specifically, they interrogate diverse and heterogeneous connections between work, domestic, and family times and spaces as well as foregrounding new theoretical and empirical terrain regarding consumption, pleasure, leisure, fashioned, sexual identities, and digital lives within and beyond cities.Premised on ethnographic research undertaken in cities across China the authors develop a detailed relational comparative dialogue with the most up-to-date international interdisciplinary research.This critically challenging yet engaging and accessible research monograph provides an excellent resource for scholars at all career stages as well as undergraduate and postgraduate students in diverse disciplines including anthropology, cultural studies, economics, management, organisation, and business studies, human geography, planning, political science, sociology, and urban studies.

Bunyip vs. Chupacabra

A Bunyip crawls out of the swamp and roars. A Chupacabra emerges from the trees and flashes its fangs. Both cryptids are fierce, but who would win in a battle? That question and more are answered in this entertaining hi-lo book that highlights each creature's history, characteristics, and behaviors.

Burnout Intervention Mechanisms for Online Learning Processes Enabled by Predictive Learning Analytics

This book aims to fully demonstrate the burnout of learners in online learning processes. The authors propose a series of feasible and reliable solutions to sufficiently obtain and analyze massive instances of online learning behavior.In order to flexibly perceive and intervene in the "burnout state" and improve online learning processes and learning effectiveness, the authors design and construct various novel data analysis models and decision prediction methods using technological means and data-driven learning strategies. Their innovative methods, techniques, and decisions would benefit autonomous learning behavior tracking and stimulate the learning interest of online learning processes enabled by predictive learning analytics. By employing behavioral science research strategies, they build adaptive prediction and optimization measures for positive online learning patterns, improve learning behaviors, optimize learning states, and establish dynamic and sustainable knowledge tracing paths and behavior scheduling methods, enabling users to achieve self-organization and self-mobilization in their overall learning processes.The book will appeal to scholars and learners in Europe, North America, and Asia, especially those majoring in educational statistics and measurement, educational big data, learning analytics, educational psychology, artificial intelligence in education, computer science, and online collaborative learning.

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Bushmasters

In this action-packed graphic novel, readers discover the thrilling story of the Bushmasters, a highly skilled military unit that fought during World War II. Known for their ability to navigate dense jungles and execute daring raids, the Bushmasters were instrumental in fighting Japanese forces in some of the most challenging environments of the Second World War. Made up of individuals from varied backgrounds, including Hispanic and Indigenous peoples, this elite unit demonstrated bravery, teamwork, and tactical genius. Through gripping action sequences and striking artwork, readers will experience the triumphs and challenges faced by these remarkable soldiers.

Business Modeling and Software Design: 15th International Symposium, BMSD 2025, Milan, Italy, July 1–3, 2025, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing #559)

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15h International Symposium on Business Modeling and Software Design, BMSD 2025, which took place in Milan, Italy, during July 1-3, 2025. The 9 full papers and 14 short papers included in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 48 submissions. BMSD is a leading international forum that brings together researchers and practitioners interested in business modeling and its relation to software design. Particular areas of interest are: Business Processes and Enterprise Engineering, Business Models and Requirements, Business Models and Services, Business Models and Software, Information Systems Architectures and Paradigms, Data Aspects in Business Modeling and Software Development, Blockchain-Based Business Models and Information Systems, IoT and Implications for Enterprise Information Systems.

Business Networks and Organizational Resilience: Relational Capital of Companies and Times of Crisis (Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society)

Business Networks and Organizational Resilience: Relational Capital of Companies and Times of Crisis is a comprehensive monograph that investigates the interplay between a company’s relational capital and its ability to withstand and rebound from crises.Drawing on theoretical frameworks and empirical research, this book explores how relational capital influences organizational resilience in times of adversity, offering valuable insights for both scholars and practitioners. Through a blend of original research and empirical analysis conducted in two stages – the initial study in 2018 and its validation in 2024 – this monograph uncovers the intricate relationship between a company’s relational capital and its resilience to turbulent circumstances.Readers will gain a deep understanding of the fundamental role of relational capital in crisis management and learn practical strategies for enhancing organizational resilience. The book provides actionable recommendations for measuring and managing relational capital effectively, equipping readers with the tools they need to safeguard their organizations from potential crises and navigate challenges with confidence.This book is essential reading for scholars and researchers seeking to deepen their understanding of relational capital and crisis management. Business practitioners, including entrepreneurs and organizational leaders, will also find valuable insights and actionable recommendations for improving organizational resilience. With its practical guidance and scholarly rigor, this book serves as a valuable resource for anyone interested in the intersection of relational capital and crisis management, bridging the gap between theory and practice in this critical area of study.

Business Process Management Forum: BPM 2025 Forum, Seville, Spain, August 31 – September 5, 2025, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing #564)

This book constitutes the proceedings of the BPM Forum held at the 23rd International Conference on Business Process Management, BPM 2025, which took place in Seville, Spain, during September 2025. The BPM Forum hosts innovative research which has a high potential of stimulating discussions. The papers cover a diverse and timely set of topics, reflecting the evolving socio-technical and AI-enhanced landscape of BPM. They explore themes such as the use of large language models in process monitoring and predictive analytics, RPA-induced technostress, blockchain-based compliance and documentation systems, process similarity and fairness in decision making, as well as new methods for model orchestration and simulation. The 23 papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 132 submissions to the conference. They were organized in research tracks on foundations, engineering, and management.

Business Process Management: 23rd International Conference, BPM 2025, Seville, Spain, August 31 – September 5, 2025, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #16044)

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Business Process Management, BPM 2025, which took place in Seville, Spain, in September 2025. The 30 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 132 submissions. They were organized in topical sections on foundation, engineering, and management.

Business Process Management: Analysis, Modeling, Optimization, and Controlling of Processes

This textbook bridges the gap between business-administrative and organizational methods and their digital implementation, since process management increasingly means shaping operational tasks. In addition to methodological fundamentals, the book offers many practical examples and exercises. Prof. Gadatsch&’s book is now considered the &“current classic&”, the authoritative standard work for IT-supported design of business processes. The eleventh edition has been improved and adapted to the requirements of digital transformation. Another related trend is the increased use of data science methods for process management. Of particular importance are recent research findings published under the term &“exploratory process management.&” These show that the first main phase of process management was more focused on optimizing existing processes and business models. New practical examples have been added throughout the book, such as migration strategies for the ERP system SAP S/4 HANA, which serves as the basis for many industrial and service processes. The chapter on process modeling has been updated and newer methods, such as the Business Model Canvas, have been included.

Business Process Management: BPM 2025 RBPM, PT, and Educators Forum, Seville, Spain, August 31 – September 5, 2025, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing #565)

This book constitutes the proceedings of the BPM 2025 Responsible BPM Forum, Process Technology Forum, and Educators Forum held at the 23rd International Conference on Business Process Management, BPM 2025, which took place in Seville, Spain, during September 2025. The Responsible Business Process Management (RBPM) Forum provides a platform for exploring how to integrate responsibility into BPM practices, addressing challenges from three perspectives: technological, managerial, and conceptual. The Process Technology Forum covers technical and engineering aspects related to the study, design, development, and maintenance of software systems that support the modeling, simulation, analysis, enactment, and monitoring of business processes. The Educators Forum deals with possibilities to improve BPM teaching in a dynamic and practice-oriented way. The total of 32 papers included in this book was carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 65 papers submitted to these forums.

Business Valuation: Real-World Applications in Emerging Markets

Business Valuation: Real-World Applications in Emerging Markets serves as a useful guide for those who want to learn business valuation methodology from scratch, applying corporate finance theory to real-world cases. Based on the author’s extensive professional and teaching experience, this text illustrates how basic corporate finance principles and theories shape decisions made by market practitioners and offers an in-depth discussion of various business valuation methods and models with a focus on emerging markets.By adopting a step-by-step approach, it helps the reader to gain a deeper understanding of this topic, starting with an explanation of essential concepts before gradually moving on to more advanced valuation techniques. To help the reader navigate common valuation processes, brief real-world examples are woven throughout the text with the final part containing four real valuation cases on which the author served as the appraiser. Vital learning and teaching features include: key terminologies; discussion questions; boxed examples and real-world cases; mathematical appendices; and a suite of supplementary instructor’s resources.This will be a valuable textbook for students taking advanced undergraduate and postgraduate-level courses in business valuation, as well as a practical guide for appraisers.

Business and Professional Communication: A Human-Centered Approach

Business and Professional Communication: A Human-Centered Approach prepares students to succeed in today’s workplace defined by changing technology, a diversifying workforce, and an increase in remote and hybrid work. Authors Curtis Newbold and Jessie Lynn Richards guide students through the principles, practices, and techniques, helping them see that business communication is more than just a series of documents, meetings, and presentations – it’s a human-centered process that requires a holistic understanding of communication across modes and contexts. With accessibility and inclusion leading the way, this text encourages students to be more conscientious, purposeful, and ethical in the way they communicate at work and beyond.

Business and Professional Communication: A Human-Centered Approach

Business and Professional Communication: A Human-Centered Approach prepares students to succeed in today’s workplace defined by changing technology, a diversifying workforce, and an increase in remote and hybrid work. Authors Curtis Newbold and Jessie Lynn Richards guide students through the principles, practices, and techniques, helping them see that business communication is more than just a series of documents, meetings, and presentations – it’s a human-centered process that requires a holistic understanding of communication across modes and contexts. With accessibility and inclusion leading the way, this text encourages students to be more conscientious, purposeful, and ethical in the way they communicate at work and beyond.

Business and Society: Ethical, Legal, and Digital Environments

Recipient of a 2021 Most Promising New Textbook Award from the Textbook & Academic Authors Association (TAA) Business and Society: Ethical, Legal, and Digital Environments, Second Edition prepares students for the modern workplace by exploring the opportunities and challenges that individuals and businesses face in today′s increasingly global and digital world. Authors Cynthia E. Clark and Kabrina K. Chang present unique chapters on social media, big data and hacking, and privacy, diving deeper into the new legal and ethical challenges that are unleashed by our society′s use of and dependence on technology. Real-world case studies, ethical dilemmas, and point-counterpoint debates provide students with hands-on opportunities to apply chapter concepts and develop critical thinking skills as they explore the relationship among businesses, their stakeholders, and their shareholders. The Second Edition includes new cases and expanded coverage of global issues, the future of work, artificial intelligence and consumer rights.

Business and Society: Ethical, Legal, and Digital Environments

Recipient of a 2021 Most Promising New Textbook Award from the Textbook & Academic Authors Association (TAA) Business and Society: Ethical, Legal, and Digital Environments, Second Edition prepares students for the modern workplace by exploring the opportunities and challenges that individuals and businesses face in today′s increasingly global and digital world. Authors Cynthia E. Clark and Kabrina K. Chang present unique chapters on social media, big data and hacking, and privacy, diving deeper into the new legal and ethical challenges that are unleashed by our society′s use of and dependence on technology. Real-world case studies, ethical dilemmas, and point-counterpoint debates provide students with hands-on opportunities to apply chapter concepts and develop critical thinking skills as they explore the relationship among businesses, their stakeholders, and their shareholders. The Second Edition includes new cases and expanded coverage of global issues, the future of work, artificial intelligence and consumer rights.

Butch Heterosexuality in Black Caribbean Womanhood: Exploring Gender Performance and Sexuality (Leading Conversations on Black Sexualities and Identities)

This critical text proposes new ways of conceptualizing Black womanhood by challenging plantation patriarchal culture and its binary constructions, and methods of Black heterosexual coupling. Black Women’s performances of womanhood are understood from juxtapositions with white idealism, resulting in Black womanhood explained negatively or for what it is not, rather than positively and expansively for what it is and could be.This book contextualizes Black womanhood as it was shaped by historical experiences of plantation, trauma, survival and most importantly, triumph. Myrie Obi expands upon her theory of butch heterosexuality, which identifies elements of gender presentation commonly marked as masculine. Using Jack Halberstam’s essential work of queer theory, “Female Masculinity” as a point of departure, Myrie Obi uses the Commonwealth Caribbean as a site of new inquiry. Butch heterosexuality challenges the patriarchal gender binary and encourages an understanding of sexuality and gender performance as distinct, arguing against a conflation of female masculinity and lesbianism. The result is an alternative way to start conversations about decolonial approaches to understanding (Caribbean) Black women, Black sexuality and Black gender performances.This book is critical reading for scholar activists and students in the areas of Black or Caribbean studies, Black sexualities and gender studies, sociology, social work, politics, gender justice and social justice courses.

CBT For Dummies

Easily understand how to apply the principles of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to your own life CBT For Dummies is the gold standard guide to the gold standard form of psychotherapy. This proven treatment helps with common emotional problems like anxiety, depression, panic, and social anxiety. It's also the evidence-based treatment of choice for common mental health problems like PTSD, body dysmorphic disorder, OCD and beyond. CBT can also help you develop healthier habits, manage your social media use, and improve your life in all sorts of other ways. With this book, you get a comprehensive look at practicing CBT on your own or using CBT with your care providers. Work through exercises to identify thinking patterns that are getting in your way, then learn practical techniques for changing them. In classic Dummies fashion, CBT For Dummies offers easy-to-follow guidance and information anyone can understand. Learn about cognitive behavioral therapy and the science behind it Overcome anxiety and depression, boost self-esteem, manage emotions, or simply improve personal productivity and happiness Break free from your behavioral challenges to achieve your goals Begin to heal from trauma and achieve a healthier outlook on life This is a great Dummies guide for anyone who's interested in the many benefits CBT can have—in therapy session or on your own.

CLOUD Computing – CLOUD 2025: 18th International Conference, Held as Part of the Services Conference Federation, SCF 2025, Hong Kong, China, September 27–30, 2025, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #16153)

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Conference on CLOUD Computing – CLOUD 2025, held as part of the Services Conference Federation, SCF 2025, in Hong Kong, China, during September 27–30, 2025. The 7 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 10 submissions. CLOUD 2025 has been a prime international forum for both researchers and industry practitioners to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of cloud computing, identify emerging research topics, and define the future of cloud computing.