Building Architecture

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...

A visionary carpenter shares meditations on work, creativity, and design, revealing powerful lessons on building a meaningful life through his experience constructing some of New York’s most iconic spaces. For forty years, Mark Ellison has worked in the most beautiful homes you’ve never seen...

From “tomorrow’s greatest designer” (The Atlantic), a personal and deeply researched look at how the choices we build into our environment reflect and determine the way we think, connect, and live. We've been led to believe that purposefully designed spaces are something reserved only for...

IT infrastructure has been the foundation for successful application deployments for many decades. However, general and up-to-date infrastructure knowledge is not widespread. Experience shows that software developers, system administrators, and project managers often have little understanding of the major impact that IT infrastructure has on the performance, availability, and security of software applications. This book explains the concepts, history, and implementation of IT infrastructure. Although there are many books on each of the infrastructure building blocks, this is the first book ...

The Arthur C. Clarke award-winning author of Children of Time brings us an extraordinary space opera about humanity on the brink of extinction, and how one man's discovery will save or destroy us all. "Tchaikovsky is the breakout star of contemporary British SF." —Guardian The war is over. Its...

Create trustworthy, production-ready data that remains useful long after the first pipeline run. This practical book helps data leaders, architects, engineers, and product teams design and implement the retrieval foundation needed to deliver reliable information across an organization. Apply the GAP triad of Governance, Architecture, and People to the realities of inconsistent source systems, changing schemas, unclear ownership, regulatory requirements, and uneven data quality. Profile sources before connecting to them, classify information during ingestion, establish meaningful quality ...

The theory of architecture implicit in our world today, Christopher Alexander believes, is bankrupt. More and more people are aware that something is deeply wrong. Yet the power of present day ideas is so great that many feel uncomfortable, even afraid, to say openly that they dislike what is happening, because they are afraid to seem foolish, afraid perhaps that they will be laughed at. Now, at last, there is a coherent theory which describes in modern terms an architecture as ancient as human society itself. 

The Arthur C. Clarke award-winning author of Children of Time brings us the third and final novel in an extraordinary space opera trilogy about humanity on the brink of extinction, and how one man's discovery will save or destroy us all. "What I’ll remember most is how [Adrian Tchaikovsky]...

The Arthur C. Clarke award-winning author of Children of Time brings us the second novel in an extraordinary space opera trilogy about humanity on the brink of extinction, and how one man's discovery will save or destroy us all. "This is space opera on the grand scale of Alastair Reynolds and...

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 ...

The success of today’s most advanced technologies—AI, machine learning, data mesh, and analytics—depends on one critical element: a solid foundation of high-quality, well-architected data. In Data Architecture: Building the Foundation, bestselling author Bill Inmon and seasoned data expert Dave Rapien deliver a definitive guide to creating, managing, and evolving a data architecture that truly supports modern business needs. Whether you're implementing AI, driving business analytics, or transforming legacy systems, this book equips you with the foundational strategies and ...

Living Patterns: Christopher Alexander and the Power of Pattern Language in Design is a compelling exploration of one of the most influential architectural thinkers of the modern era. Christopher Alexander’s groundbreaking work on pattern language transformed not only architecture but also urban planning, community design, and even software development. This book offers readers an accessible yet in-depth introduction to his vision of creating environments that are not only functional and beautiful but truly alive. From his early writings in Notes on the Synthesis of Form to his ...

You didn’t save time, you just started managing AI. You try to get AI to do something. You write a prompt, expecting it to handle the task. It gives you an answer… but it’s not really what you wanted. So you tweak it. Add a bit more detail. Try again. Now there’s another issue. Something still feels off. So you adjust it again. Rewrite parts of it. Clarify what you meant. And it keeps going like this. Each time, you get a little closer… but never quite there. So you step in again—guiding it, correcting it, fixing it. Before long, you’re constantly tweaking and micromanaging ...

New Happy Hills? Now that Jeff and Lila are free again, Jeff has one thing on his mind — winning the house building competition. But there’s another architect in town. And he’s got plans for Happy Hills that are really going to upset Governor Zion… Jump into this continuing tale of adventure today! Disclaimer: This book is an unofficial Minecraft book, a work of fan fiction. It is not endorsed, authorized, licensed, sponsored, or supported by Mojang AB, Microsoft Corp. or any other entity owning or controlling rights to the Minecraft name, trademarks or copyrights. Tags: Great ...

Liminal Spaces: The Empty Rooms, Hallways, and Places That Haunt the Internet explores why certain ordinary places feel eerie, dreamlike, nostalgic, and deeply wrong. This nonfiction book examines the empty school hallways, dead malls, hotel corridors, indoor pools, offices, stairwells, basements, parking garages, and waiting rooms that seem haunted not by ghosts, but by absence. Blending observation, internet culture, environmental psychology, and uncanny memory, it explains why these spaces feel so disturbing, why people cannot stop sharing their images online, and why the internet became...

The Divine Chain®: Engineering the Ark — Book I: Building the Ark begins a new recursive technical series that follows the original Divine Chain experiment into the Global Social Experiment and the Global Thought Experiment. This first volume asks a foundational question: How do we move human knowledge into an AI system without losing provenance, meaning, uncertainty, or accountability? Across five chapters, Dr. Justin Goldston and Gemach D.A.T.A. I build the foundation of a model-agnostic AI laboratory using Python, structured data, governance, and reproducible research methods. Book I ...

Unlock the Power of Agentic AI — Your Beginner’s Guide to Building Intelligent, Autonomous Agents Are you ready to explore a new era of artificial intelligence — one where AI doesn’t just respond to prompts, but thinks, plans, and acts on its own? Agents of Autonomy is your friendly, step-by-step introduction to agentic AI, designed specifically for beginners who want to understand and use autonomous AI agents in real life. In this book, you will discover: What agentic AI agents are and how they differ from traditional generative AI How autonomous agents can operate, plan, and adapt...

Build collaborative autonomous AI systems that act as coordinated teams, revolutionizing your workflow automation. Perfect for a focused morning commute, this guide shifts your mindset from prompting single models to architecting dynamic networks. Stop wrestling with disjointed scripts and start...

An in-depth exploration of history of the US Capitol building and the incredible personalities who built it, full of dramatic stories and surprising facts; a powerful testament to what the Capitol has meant to generations of Americans and how it has endured. The Capitol is a unique biography of...

Brought to you by Penguin. Construction is the most important industry in the world. The homes we wake up to, the schools we raise our children in, the transport infrastructure we all use, the hospitals we rely on – all of it was built and enabled by construction. In Mega Builds, YouTube...