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Your coworker just shipped a feature that should have taken a week. He did it in an afternoon, from a single terminal window. When the CTO asked how, he said "Claude Code" and went back to typing. The CTO canceled two planned hires. That gap between developers who've figured out Claude Code and developers who haven't is getting wider every week. By the end of this book, you'll have a deployed SaaS app with Stripe payments and paying customers. Not a tutorial toy. A real application you built from your terminal, plus three automated workflows reviewing your code and auditing your ...

You open Claude Code. It doesn't know your coding style. It doesn't remember your project rules. It doesn't follow your architecture. Again. Meanwhile, developers on r/ClaudeCode are posting about setups where Claude writes production-ready code on the first try, follows their exact conventions, and improves itself between sessions. The difference isn't talent. It's a folder of markdown files called Skills. This book gives you the complete SKILL.md system that Anthropic built but barely documented. You'll build your first working skill in 10 minutes, then stack 5 essential skills that ...

Everyone's talking about OpenClaw. Nobody's showing you how to actually make money with it. You've seen the 145K GitHub stars. You've heard Jensen Huang call it "the most important software release probably ever." You've watched people on Twitter show off their AI agents booking meetings and trading markets. And you're still wondering: where do I start? This book gives you the complete system — from first install to first revenue. You won't read about theory. You'll build 7 working projects, each with step-by-step code, real cost breakdowns, and a concrete deliverable at the end. By ...

You keep hearing about AI agents. You've seen the demos. But every time you try to connect AI to your actual tools, you hit the same wall. Custom integrations. Brittle API wrappers. Hours of glue code that breaks the moment something changes. Meanwhile, developers on Reddit are posting "2-3x faster development with MCP" and you're stuck wondering what you're missing. This book hands you the protocol that fixes all of it, and walks you through building real systems in a single weekend. By Sunday night, you'll have a working MCP server connected to your database, your GitHub repos, and your ...

You've seen the screenshots. $300 turned into $11,550. A "quant mesh" bot printing money while someone sleeps. You opened Twitter, saw the numbers, and thought: "How do I build that?" Then you searched Amazon and found 50 books that promise "AI trading" but deliver recycled crypto theory and zero working code. This book is different. You will build a working AI trading bot this weekend. Not theory. Not "concepts." A real Python bot connected to live market data through Claude and Unusual Whales MCP, placing paper trades on Alpaca, and validated with Monte Carlo backtesting before you risk a...

Stop watching from the sidelines. The AI agent gold rush is happening RIGHT NOW — and the people cashing in aren't programmers. They're freelancers, virtual assistants, and small business owners who figured out how to build AI agents using no-code tools like n8n, Make, and ChatGPT. They're charging $5,000 setup fees and $1,500/month retainers. And they started with zero coding experience. This book is your step-by-step blueprint to join them. Inside, you'll build real AI agents that: Generate and qualify leads on autopilot Write, schedule, and repurpose content across platforms Handle ...

You installed Claude Code. You ran a few prompts. Then you hit a wall. You're stuck in the gap between "installed" and "productive." You've seen the tweets. Developers shipping full apps in an afternoon. Non-coders launching SaaS products over a weekend. Meanwhile, you're copy-pasting error messages and watching your API bill climb. Sound familiar? This book closes that gap with 12 real projects you build yourself. Not toy examples. Not "hello world." You'll build a working web app before lunch on Day 1, connect MCP servers to live databases and APIs by Day 7, and ship a revenue-ready Micro...

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 ...

101 Famous Poems, compiled by Roy J. Cook and first published in 1916, is a collection of one familiar poem each by the best-known poets in the English language, including Alfred Tennyson, William Shakespeare, Robert Frost, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Milton, Elizabeth Barret Browning, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Robert Louis Stevenson, Walt Whitman, Lord Byron, Emily Dickinson and William Wordsworth. The anthology is indexed by title, author and first line.

The Best Role in Roleplaying! Whether you're a new game master or a seasoned vet looking for a new angle to shake up your game, these 19 essays by expert game masters help construct your campaign from the ground up - and keep your players engaged until the dramatic conclusion. Complete with discussions on plotting, tone, branching storytelling, pacing, and crafting action scenes, you'll find all the tips and advice you need to take on the best role in role-playing - and become an expert game master, too!

Thirteen bibliomysteries by best-selling and award-winning authors are contained in this first of volume of a must-listen collection.

The Enneagram is a map of the human personality. It’s a tool for navigating relationships. It creates language for what motivates us and helps us look at the way we look at everything else. Most importantly the enneagram is a mirror; because sometimes you need help seeing yourself.

In the frigid winter of 1891, with the nation still reeling from the Barings bank crisis, Inspector Philemon Raft returns from an involuntary sabbatical and is tasked with solving the kidnapping of highly placed peer Alice Dewberry. Thrust into a sordid underworld where the upper classes indulge in disreputable overseas investments designed to fatten their pocketbooks, Raft finds himself at loose ends without his companion, Constable Freddie Crook.

In many US cities, gun violence is the most urgent crime problem. High rates of deadly violence make a city less livable, dragging down quality of life, economic development, and property values. How can police departments find the right balance between over- and under-policing of high-violence areas? What are the best practices for police to preempt and deter gun violence, while engendering support and cooperation from the public?

No topic is more polarizing than guns and gun control. From a gun culture that took root early in American history to the mass shootings that repeatedly bring the public discussion of gun control to a fever pitch, the topic has preoccupied citizens, public officials, and special interest groups for decades. The Gun Debate: What Everyone Needs to Know® delves into the issues that Americans debate when they talk about guns. With a balanced and broad-ranging approach, noted economist Philip J. Cook and political scientist Kristin A. Goss thoroughly cover the latest research.

Celebrities and health gurus swear by intermittent fasting, specifically the 16/8 method, because it’s simple enough that you'll actually do it, but significant enough that you’ll see noticeable changes. For better results, it is advised to pair it with the keto diet - well-known for lowering intake of carbs and increasing consumption of healthy fats. Combining the 16/8 intermittent fasting method and the keto diet makes one powerful tactic to lose weight and improve your overall well-being, while giving you explosive energy and lessening the need to spend hours in the gym!

In The Fourth Branch: Reconstructing the Administrative State for the Commercial Republic Brian J. Cook confronts head-on the accumulating derangements in the American constitutional system and how the administrative state has contributed to the problems, how it has been a key force in addressing the troubles, and how it can be reformed to serve the system better. Cook calls for a decisive, pattern-breaking response in the form of a constitutional redesign to accommodate a fourth branch, an administrative branch.

Dream Lover and Other Tales includes seven paranormal and supernatural stories. The collection includes "Glint", "Dream Lover", "Ben Franklin's Dream", "The Mayor's Cow", "The Maestro's Gift", "Tracks in the Snow", and "The Messiah of Harriman".

Do you find yourself dealing with ever-greater expectations; unable to get all items checked off your to-do list; going to bed tense and waking up exhausted? Slow Down...and Get More Done will show you how to shake the "tyranny of time" so you can tap into productive rhythms and bring a more natural pace to your life. You'll learn to relax, concentrate, and more fully realize yourself and the tasks you face. The end result will be a more efficient, attentive, and productive you.

Veteran police chief Eli Gallagher doesn't ask for much, but he does insist that his officers uphold the "serve" part of "serve and protect". Conscientious young Deputy Stan Leach takes Eli's moto to heart, maintaining a high standard of personal accountability. When Eli's long-distance boyfriend, Gilbert Nees, telephones from Philadelphia, Eli thinks he intends to further cement their relationship. Unfortunately, Gilbert's news is anything but good. But Eli doesn't have time to wallow, because a violent act results in murder in the small town of Morristown.