Architecture Development

Salary surveys worldwide regularly place software architect in the top ten best jobs, yet no real guide exists to help developers become architects. Until now. This updated edition provides a comprehensive overview of software architecture's many aspects, with five new chapters covering the...

What if the best investment you could make wasn't just in a building—but in the way people feel when they walk through the door? We live in the most connected generation in history, and yet we are increasingly disconnected from one another. Radical Hospitality is an invitation to build differently. Architect, developer, entrepreneur, and hotel owner Zeke Freeman has spent more than two decades creating places and businesses designed to bring people together. Along the way, he discovered that the principles behind great hospitality reach far beyond hotels and restaurants.

Most books explain what Retrieval-Augmented Generation is. This one makes you build it. Over six hands-on labs and a capstone project, you grow one code base into an enterprise-grade RAG system on PostgreSQL + pgvector and Groq. Each chapter adds exactly one capability to the same system, so by the last page you own a working stack – and the architectural judgment to defend every decision inside it. What you will have built A private knowledge store on PostgreSQL upgraded into a vector database, with parent-child chunks linked by foreign keys An ingestion pipeline for messy real-world ...

Journalist Julie Satow's thrilling, unforgettable history of how one illustrious hotel has defined our understanding of money and glamour, from the Gilded Age to the Go-Go Eighties to today's Billionaire Row. From the moment in 1907 when New York millionaire Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt strode...

Most AI books teach you prompts. This book teaches you systems. If you’ve ever felt that building AI applications is more than just calling an API… you’re right. This book takes you beyond chatbots and into the world of Agentic AI — where intelligent agents plan, reason, use tools, remember context, and collaborate to solve real problems. What Makes This Book Different? Unlike typical AI books that focus on isolated concepts, this guide shows you how to engineer complete AI systems. You won’t just learn what agents are — you’ll build them. ✔ Design intelligent agents with ...

Move beyond the internet memes and superficial stereotypes. If you are tired of reductive personality tests that label the INTJ as a cold, emotionless mastermind, this book is your definitive guide to the truth. Built upon the rigorous frameworks of Jungian depth psychology, John Beebe’s eight-function shadow model, and modern Socionics, [Insert Title Here] is a masterclass in the cognitive architecture of the INTJ mind. This is not casual pop-psychology. It is a profound, clinical, and highly actionable exploration of how the INTJ truly operates, processes the world, and pursues self-...

What if AI could do more than answer your questions and actually plan, reason, use tools, make decisions, and work toward a goal? That is what Agentic AI is designed to do. Complete Agentic AI Guide takes you beyond basic prompting and introduces you to the systems powering a new generation of autonomous, goal-driven AI agents. Whether you are a developer, entrepreneur, AI enthusiast, student, or technology professional, this practical guide will help you understand how LLM-powered agents are designed, built, deployed, and scaled for real-world use. Inside, you will learn how to: Understand...

About the Book "Agentic System Design & Development" is a comprehensive and practical guide to understanding, designing, developing and implementing autonomous intelligent systems. It is meticulously crafted to serve as a primary textbook for undergraduate and postgraduate courses in computer science and artificial intelligence, fully compliant with the syllabi of major international universities. Philosophy The guiding philosophy of this book is "learning by doing." While a solid theoretical understanding is essential, true mastery comes from practical application. This text deliberately ...

This stunning book by renowned television historian Dan Cruickshank tells the history of architecture through the stories of 100 iconic buildings. Journeying through time and place, from the ancient Egyptian pyramids to the soaring skyscrapers of Manhattan, renowned architectural historian Dan...

Power is not given. It is descended. Why do some individuals effortlessly command the room, build massive wealth, and dictate the terms of their own lives, while the rest of the world waits for permission? The answer wasn't discovered in a modern boardroom. It was forged 5,000 years ago in the unforgiving deserts of Sumer, Babylon, and Egypt. The architects of human civilization didn't rely on luck, passive habits, or asking nicely. They relied on a ruthless, calculated psychology of power. You are currently playing by rules designed to keep you a subject. While you wait for validation, the...

Discover the key architectural concepts behind the world's most incredible buildings and structures. The Architecture Book goes beyond other architecture books to analyse not just buildings themselves, but the ideas and principles that make each of the featured structures key to the history and...

AI-Assisted Software Development Mastery is a complete, hands-on guide to working with AI across the entire development lifecycle, prompt engineering, coding, debugging, testing, documentation, and system architecture. Real Java code. Real company examples from Netflix, Stripe, Google, and Amazon. A 25-question quiz closing every chapter, so it actually sticks. Software developers who master AI-assisted workflows aren't just coding faster, they're solving problems junior teams can't touch and shipping features senior teams used to need weeks for. AI-Assisted Software Development Mastery is ...

Build AI Agents That Actually Work in Production — Not Just in Demos. If you've watched AI agent demos go viral on Twitter only to fail the moment you try to deploy them in the real world, this book was written for you. Agentic AI Systems with Manus is a complete, code-first blueprint for designing, building, securing, and monetizing production-ready autonomous agents — the kind that survive real users, real costs, and real failure modes. This isn't another "prompt engineering" book. It's a systems engineering manual for the agentic AI era, covering everything from your first API call ...

Jane Jacobs and the Human City: Exploring the Principles of Human-Centered Urban Design is a powerful exploration of one of the most influential urban thinkers of the twentieth century. Jane Jacobs changed the way the world understands cities by insisting that real urban vitality comes from people—their interactions, diversity, and daily lives—not from abstract blueprints or top-down planning. This book introduces Jacobs’s life and legacy while connecting her ideas to the modern framework of human-centered design. From her defense of sidewalks and public spaces to her critique of ...

What if your repetitive work could become a reliable system instead of another task on your list? The AI Automation Blueprint is a practical guide to designing AI-powered workflows, building bounded AI agents, connecting tools and data, and introducing automation without losing control. This book takes you from the fundamentals of AI automation to practical system design. You will learn how to identify the right tasks to automate, define safe automation boundaries, design AI agent workflows, connect tools and APIs, manage context and data, and build human approval into consequential actions...

"Generative Software Architecture" is a comprehensive textbook and practical guide designed for the new frontier of software engineering, where artificial intelligence plays a pivotal role in high-level system design. It systematically explores how AI can analyze requirements, propose architectural solutions, and generate the essential artifacts needed to build robust, scalable, and modern software systems. Philosophy The core philosophy of this book is that the future of software architecture is a collaborative one. It posits that the role of the human architect is evolving from a sole ...

"Software Engineering for AI" is a comprehensive, meticulously structured manual designed to bridge the chasm between artificial intelligence concepts and production-grade software engineering. As the tech industry evolves, the ability to merely train an AI model is no longer sufficient. Companies demand end-to-end solutions: applications that are designed, built, deployed, and maintained with rigorous engineering standards. This book provides a clear, practical, and highly detailed roadmap for developing AI applications from scratch to final production. Philosophy The core philosophy of ...

Bloomsbury presents How Paris Became Paris by Joan DeJean, read by Patricia Rodriguez "This lively history charts the growth of Paris from a city of crowded alleyways and irregular buildings into a modern marvel."--New Yorker At the beginning of the seventeenth century, Paris was known for...

As a manager or executive working in the architecture, engineering, and construction industry, you’re under pressure to do more with less, reduce waste, produce faster, and still turn a profit.

Discover how the automobile fundamentally reshaped American life beyond mere transportation in this compelling cultural history. From drive-in theaters where families watched movies under the stars to restaurants that served meals on trays attached to car windows, this installment in the best-selling AMERICAN POP series explores how cars became extensions of living space that transformed entertainment, dining, commerce, and even religious worship. This richly detailed narrative examines the rise of distinctive automotive architecture like Googie-style buildings with their space-age ...