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Decades of GMing experience! Whether it’s advice from grognards who were running games at the dawn of RPGs, or suggestions from the new generation of game designers, these 21 essays by experts are here to help you improve your GMing skills and create fun, amazing, memorable campaigns that’ll be talked about for years. In this audiobook, master GMs and storytellers give you advice about solo campaigns, shy players, cell phones, and making rulings on the fly.

Will becoming a millionaire really set you free? Americans continue to work longer and harder to pursue freedom based on the belief that more money and success will lead to a better life, yet most feel less free than ever. While the typical American trades the vast majority of their time and energy with the hope that someday in the future they will be free, they tragically fail to realize that their intense pursuit of financial success is the very thing robbing them of the freedom they desire. So where do we find freedom?

Stop clicking through menus and start automating everything — then make your scripts intelligent with AI. The complete PowerShell guide for system administrators, DevOps engineers, and IT professionals in 2026. PowerShell Scripting with AI takes you from your very first Get-Process command through cmdlets, pipelines, functions, file management, remote administration, Active Directory, Azure cloud automation, and DevOps CI/CD workflows — and then into integrating OpenAI and LLM APIs to build AI-powered log analysers, intelligent monitoring dashboards, and automated IT reporting systems. ...

Learn the most loved programming language in the world — the one replacing C and C++ in operating systems, browsers, and high-performance backends — and build AI-powered systems and intelligent tools with it, from the ground up. Rust Programming with AI takes you from your very first Rust program through ownership, borrowing, lifetimes, traits, generics, async programming, REST APIs, unsafe code, and database integration — and then into integrating OpenAI and LLM APIs to build high-performance AI backends, intelligent command-line tools, and AI-driven data processing pipelines. ...

Fully dramatized by best-selling narrator Steve Cook, with cinematic music and sound effects, this unabridged re-telling of Dickens' classic Christmas tale has something for everyone. All the sounds of 19th-century London are captured, from clopping hooves on cobblestones to booming Westminster chimes at midnight to the supernatural comings and goings of Scrooge’s four nocturnal visitors. Plus, a complete soundtrack of suspenseful and seasonal music throughout puts the finishing touches on a true, old-fashioned radio theatre-style experience.

Master the world's most advanced open-source relational database — the one powering Apple, Instagram, Spotify, and Supabase — and build AI-powered data systems on top of it, from scratch. PostgreSQL with AI takes you from your very first SQL query through advanced query optimization, window functions, JSONB, full-text search, replication, cloud deployment, and pgvector — and then into integrating modern AI APIs to build semantic search engines, intelligent recommendation systems, and AI-driven data pipelines. Written for the 2026 ecosystem, every chapter is practical, current, and ...

Learn the most widely deployed database in the world — the one already running on your phone, inside your browser, in Python's standard library, and on NASA spacecraft — and build AI-powered local data applications with it, from scratch. SQLite with AI takes you from your very first SQL query through joins, indexes, views, triggers, full-text search, JSON support, mobile and desktop integration, and query optimization — and then into integrating OpenAI and LLM APIs to build AI-powered analytics dashboards, intelligent search applications, and local AI data workflows. Written for the ...

Learn Kotlin from scratch and build real AI-powered Android and backend applications — in a single, comprehensive guide designed for the 2026 development landscape. Whether you are coming from Java, Python, or have never written a line of code professionally, Kotlin Programming with AI takes you step by step from your very first variable declaration to deploying intelligent, production-ready applications. Written for the 2026 ecosystem, every chapter targets Kotlin 2.0, Android API 34+, Jetpack Compose 1.7, and Ktor 3.x — so everything you learn is current and practical. What you will ...

The Functional Language Microsoft Built — Now with AI Superpowers F# is the best-kept secret in the .NET world. It gives you full access to ASP.NET Core, Azure SDKs, Entity Framework, and over 300,000 NuGet packages — while bringing the elegance, safety, and testability of functional programming that makes your code dramatically easier to reason about and maintain. F# Programming with AI is your complete guide to mastering it, from your first immutable variable to building five production-grade, AI-powered applications. In 2026, as AI workloads and data pipelines dominate backend ...

This is the full, uninterrupted reading of the Book of Revelation, performed by number-one best-selling faith-based narrator Steve Cook.

The definitive MATLAB guide for engineers, scientists, and researchers — covering everything from your first matrix operation to deploying AI-powered engineering applications in production. MATLAB Programming with AI is the most comprehensive MATLAB book available for 2026. With 53 chapters across five structured parts and seven real-world projects, it takes you from MATLAB fundamentals through scientific computing, signal and image processing, control systems, Simulink, deep learning, neural networks, and full AI API integration — all in a single, practical volume. Used by over 6 ...

This is a full, unabridged, uninterrupted version of the Book of Daniel, read by best-selling faith-based narrator Steve Cook. It contains no commentary or other human adornment; only the pure, living Word of God, profitable for teaching, convicting, correcting, and instructing in righteousness.

Will becoming a Millionaire really set you free? How about the American Dream? If we, as a nation, declare freedom to be our number one priority, then why do so many of us, at a gut-level, feel less freedom than ever? Americans are working harder than ever to obtain financial success and material possessions based on the delusion that more will lead to a better life. The typical American is trading away the vast majority of their life in hopes that, someday, they will have enough to experience ‘the good life.’ Meanwhile, this tradeoff is the very thing that is robbing them of their ...

The books of Genesis, Jubilees, and Jasher contain largely the same narrative, with the Genesis account of the Bible ending roughly at Jubilees 46:8 and at Jasher 59:28. However, the latter two books also include several striking deviations from Genesis which are quite revealing from a biblical standpoint. We believe that hearing them in this type of synchronized format allows for much more clarity in terms of perceiving both subtle and overt differences in the three narratives.

Learn server-side JavaScript with the runtime powering Netflix, Uber, LinkedIn, and NASA and build AI-powered backends, real-time systems, and intelligent APIs from the ground up. Node.js with AI takes you from your first HTTP server through Express.js REST APIs, asynchronous programming, database integration, Redis caching, WebSockets, Docker, and cloud deployment — and then into integrating OpenAI and LLM APIs to build AI-powered chat systems, recommendation engines, and intelligent automation workflows. Written for the 2026 ecosystem, every chapter is practical, current, and ...

Learn the programming language built for developer happiness — the one powering Shopify, GitHub, and Airbnb — and build AI-powered automation systems and intelligent backends with it, from scratch. Ruby Programming with AI takes you from your very first puts statement through object-oriented programming, blocks, mixins, gems, functional patterns, database integration, background jobs, and testing — and then into integrating OpenAI and LLM APIs to build AI-powered chat assistants, intelligent automation scripts, and data analysis tools. Written for Ruby 3.4 with modern idioms and 2026 ...

This is a full, unabridged, uninterrupted version of the Gospel of Jesus Christ According to John, read by best-selling, faith-based narrator Steve Cook. It contains no commentary or other human adornment; only the pure, living word of God; profitable for teaching, convicting, correcting, and instructing in righteousness.

Build Real-World Web APIs and AI-Powered Applications with ASP.NET Core Whether you're a complete beginner or coming from another language, ASP.NET Core with AI is the hands-on guide you need to master modern backend development with C# — and take it further with cutting-edge AI integration. In 2026, ASP.NET Core powers backends at Microsoft, Stack Overflow, and thousands of enterprise teams worldwide. It is consistently ranked among the fastest web frameworks on the planet. This book teaches you not just how to use it — but how to build with it confidently, from your first API to ...

Build Fault-Tolerant, Real-Time, AI-Powered Systems with Elixir Discord serves millions of concurrent users with it. Pinterest relies on it for notification infrastructure. PagerDuty trusts it for real-time alerting. Elixir — built on the legendary Erlang BEAM virtual machine — is the language purpose-built for the distributed, real-time, AI-driven world of 2026. Elixir Programming with AI is your complete guide to mastering it, from your very first function to building five production-grade distributed applications. Where other languages bolt concurrency on as an afterthought, ...

Master the Language of the Machine — Now with AI-Assisted Development Every program ever written — in Python, C#, Java, or any other language — ultimately becomes a sequence of Assembly instructions the CPU executes one by one. Assembly Programming with AI takes you inside that bedrock layer, teaching you x86-64 Assembly from scratch while showing you how AI tools are transforming low-level development in 2026. This isn't just a theory book. You'll build a working calculator, a memory inspection tool, a file processing utility, and an AI-assisted debugging helper — all in Assembly. ...