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33 questions. 46 minutes. No calculator. You haven’t done math in years — and this test decides your future. The IBEW electrical apprenticeship pays $60,000 to $100,000+ a year with full benefits, a pension, and zero student debt. But first, you have to pass the aptitude test. Score below a 4 and you wait six months to a year before you can try again — while the class moves on without you. This workbook exists because most people in your position share the same fear: I forgot everything. Good. That is exactly where this book starts. What’s inside • Math from zero, for real — the...

You installed OpenClaw. You ran a test prompt. Then you stared at the screen. Now what? You have the most powerful open-source AI agent on your machine, and you have no idea what to build with it. You're not alone. The r/openclaw subreddit is full of people asking the same question: "Why is everyone so hyped? I can't find any use for it." Meanwhile, solopreneurs on Twitter are replacing $4,000/month virtual assistants with three OpenClaw agents running on a $15 VPS. The difference isn't technical skill. It's having the right workflow templates. This book gives you 30 copy-paste workflow ...

Still paying $20 a month to ask an AI questions that get logged, stored, and used to train the next version? Run AI locally on your own laptop, desktop, or Android phone, completely free, with no subscription and no data leaving your device. Every month, people pay for AI subscriptions they barely question. Their medical questions, proprietary code, and private drafts go to a remote server. The limit hits mid-task. The price goes up. The company changes the terms. You keep paying because it became automatic. It does not have to work that way. Run AI on Your Own Device with Gemma 4 is the ...

You installed Ollama. Pulled a model. Thirteen minutes later, you got a response. You went back to ChatGPT. Meanwhile, developers on Reddit run 26-billion-parameter models at 300 tokens per second on a Mac Studio. Someone compiled llama.cpp on their hardware and doubled their inference speed overnight. Another pooled a junk drawer of GPUs into one endpoint and got 1.86x the speed of Ollama alone. The difference is not better hardware. The difference is not money. It is configuration. This is not another install guide. This book makes Ollama run fast. By chapter 3, you will benchmark your ...

You installed OpenClaw. You followed the README. And now it just sits there, doing nothing useful. You're not alone. The 145K-star GitHub project that Jensen Huang called "the most important software release probably ever" has a dirty secret: most people who install it never get past "Hello World." They burn through API credits, get confused by YAML configs, and end up with an expensive chatbot that can't even manage their calendar. This book turns that dead install into a staff of AI agents that run your email, write your content, and send you money while you sleep. You won't read about ...

While doing research for his ninth-grade civics class in 1976, Mike Marshall found an article in Time magazine about William Moore, a thirty-five-year-old postman from Binghamton, New York. In 1963, Moore arrived at the Chattanooga bus station from Washington, DC, where he strapped on his protest signs. He planned to walk to the governor's mansion in Jackson, Mississippi, and hand-deliver a letter to Governor Ross Barnett. On the third day of his walk as he pushed his cart through Keener, Alabama, he saw a car parked under a walnut tree, its headlights and motor off.

You don't need a data center. You don't need a PhD. You just need a garage, a Mac Mini, and this guide. The AI revolution isn't waiting for Silicon Valley — and neither should you. A Cowboy's Guide to Setting Up Your Own Garage AI Agent is the no-nonsense, budget-friendly playbook for everyday Americans who want to run powerful artificial intelligence right from their own home, on their own hardware, completely under their own control. Built around Apple's game-changing M4 and upcoming M5 Mac Mini — the most capable, energy-efficient, and affordable AI hardware available to consumers ...

Stop chasing one-off projects. Start building monthly recurring revenue with AI. Most AI agency books teach you to land a client, deliver a project, collect a check — and then start the exhausting cycle all over again. Your income graph looks like a heart rate monitor. February is a $25,000 month. March is zero. You're talented, you're working harder than ever, and you're still broke half the year. This book teaches a fundamentally different model. The AI Retainer Playbook shows you how to build an agency that charges local businesses $1,500 to $5,000 per month — every month — for AI-...

It’s all change at Mill Street Station. The old hierarchy has been retired and a new broom has swept its last vestiges away. As a consequence Fiona Madden has been promoted to detective inspector and now heads up the CID unit. Sean Tracy has taken her post as detective sergeant. Their first case under the new regime comes quickly. A man has been shot in the back outside the holiday village of Letterfrack. The dead man is not a local but has a connection to a past that the villagers would like to forget. The victim is identified be a for former member of the Society of Christian Brothers ...

Winter Springs is about to be overrun with the media, and Vanessa Poppy is at the heart of controversy. Now that the holidays are over, Vanessa Poppy’s exhausted. Working overtime at Kris Kringle Inn without a vacation left her feeling burnt out. Not that she could afford time away from the job she loves. Paying for her mom’s care at the facility takes most of her paycheck. Since it was her fault her mom became disabled, she has no choice but to ease her guilt through caring for the woman for the rest of her life. Being a rockstar for over a decade, Edison Monroe’s finally made some ...

The Stafford-Townsend feud began with an 1871 shootout in Columbus, Texas, followed by the deaths of the Stafford brothers in 1890. The second phase blossomed after 1898 with the assassination of Larkin Hope, and concluded in 1911 with the violent deaths of Marion Hope, Jim Townsend, and Will Clements, all in the space of one month.

After travelling the whole world, can exploring a single map ever be enough? Adventurer Alastair Humphreys spends a year investigating the small map around his own home. Can this unassuming landscape, marked by the glow of city lights and the hum of busy roads, satisfy his wanderlust? Could a single map provide a lifetime of exploration?

Born and raised in Hawai‘i by a father whose ancestors are indigenous to the land and a mother from the American South, Jessica Machado wrestles with what it means to be “local.” Feeling separate from the history and tenets of Hawaiian culture that have been buried under the continental imports of malls and MTV, Jessica often sees her homeland reflected back to her from the tourist perspective—as an uncomplicated paradise. Her existence, however, feels far from that ideal. Balancing her parents’ divorce, an ailing mother, and growing anxiety, Jessica rebels.

A barn dance and a body at the Honey Farm - it’s a sticky situation! Winnie Cooper thought the hardest part of running the Herb & Hive Café would be keeping her Jack Russell, Cookie, out of the kitchen. But at the Hillside Honey Farm — launching her new Bee’s Knees Collection of herb infused honey with a Barn Dance — her night of sweet success turns sour. When a glamorous food blogger collapses and the slick honey broker drops dead, the dance floor is a crime scene, the cocktails are suspect, and Winnie’s café is at the center of small‑town suspicion. Was it a tragic mix-up…...

Imagine stepping into a packed Australian pub in the mid-1970s and the late 1980s - the heyday of the pub-rock music scene - where the air was thick with the unmistakable scent of beer, sweat and pot, and the atmosphere was electrifying. Doc Neeson, charismatic lead singer of The Angels...

Your Neighborhood Is the New Goldmine. Tired of cookie-cutter online side hustle ideas that don’t apply to your life or your local community? Hyperlocal Side Hustles 2026 is your strategic guide to building real-world income streams - right where you live. From local services to hybrid offline/online ventures, this book helps you uncover genuine needs in your area and turn them into sustainable, community-focused businesses. Whether you're a skilled professional, a hands-on problem-solver, or just someone looking to earn extra income without staring at a screen all day, this book shows ...

Ghosts of the past, present, and future come together, and it isn’t even Christmas. Greenville, South Carolina, 1972 A string of brutal murders has the city on edge. All the victims have one thing in common—they worked for the Brown Tractor & Farm Supply Co. With the police stumped, Penelope Drake, private detective, takes it upon herself to follow the grisly clues left by the killer. Once again, she calls upon her friends Charles and Zed to help.

Brought to you by Penguin. The unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Local Girl Missing by Claire Douglas, read by Emilla Fox and Hannah Murray. A TENSE PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER RIPPED STRAIGHT FROM THE HEADLINES . . . Twenty years ago 21-year-old Sophie Collier vanishes one night. She...

Unveil your untamed spirit and embrace your wild side with our latest eBook offering "Unveiling the Wilderness Within". This quintessential guide takes you from the comfort of your home into the heart of nature's wonder, all without leaving the familiarity of your local parks and trails. The 15 engaging chapters are carefully crafted to cover all the bases, from discovering your local parks and understanding their true essence, right down to documenting your wonderful adventures. Whether you're a seasoned explorer, or someone looking to find peace and tranquility in local nature, this book ...

At the start of summer, billionaire couple Francis and Lila Cameron set off on their private luxury sailboat to celebrate the high school graduation of their two beloved children. Three weeks later, the Camerons have not been heard from, the captain hasn’t responded to radio calls, and the...