Windows Server 2025 Administration Fundamentals: A beginner’s guide to managing and administering Windows Server environments , Fourth Edition ($35.98 Value) FREE for a Limited Time
In this extensively updated fourth edition, veteran author Bekim Dauti delivers practical, real-world guidance for deploying, managing, and securing modern server environments, with a strong focus on virtualization and hybrid cloud integration. Ideal for IT professionals, system administrators, and certification candidates, this hands-on guide equips you to confidently manage, update, and troubleshoot Windows Server 2025 environments using Microsoft-recommended best practices. You’ll be introduced to network fundamentals and installation procedures, and go through post-installation tasks, directory services, and adding roles. This updated edition covers the new and enhanced features of Windows Server 2025 extensively, including Active Directory Domain Services enhancements, SMB over QUIC, advanced security features, and hotpatching with Azure Arc. Additionally, numerous questions and answers at the end of each chapter help you test your knowledge of the concepts covered. By the end of this book, you’ll be fully prepared to ensure server stability, security, and performance, and to pass the Microsoft AZ-800 Administering Windows Server Hybrid Core Infrastructure exam with confidence.
Generative AI with LangChain: Build production-ready LLM applications and advanced agents using Python, LangChain, and LangGraph , Second Edition ($42.99 Value) FREE for a Limited Time
This second edition tackles the biggest challenge facing companies in AI today: moving from prototypes to production. Fully updated to reflect the latest developments in the LangChain ecosystem, it captures how modern AI systems are developed, deployed, and scaled in enterprise environments. This edition places a strong focus on multi-agent architectures, robust LangGraph workflows, and advanced retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines. You’ll explore design patterns for building agentic systems, with practical implementations of multi-agent setups for complex tasks. The book guides you through reasoning techniques such as Tree-of -Thoughts, structured generation, and agent handoffs-complete with error handling examples. Expanded chapters on testing, evaluation, and deployment address the demands of modern LLM applications, showing you how to design secure, compliant AI systems with built-in safeguards and responsible development principles. This edition also expands RAG coverage with guidance on hybrid search, re-ranking, and fact-checking pipelines to enhance output accuracy. Whether you’re extending existing workflows or architecting multi-agent systems from scratch, this book provides the technical depth and practical instruction needed to design LLM applications ready for success in production environments.
Beyond No: Harnessing the Power of Resistance for Positive Organizational Growth ($18.00 Value) FREE for a Limited Time
Start viewing resistance as something beneficial instead of an inconvenience that must be eliminated. Beyond No: Harnessing the Power of Resistance for Organizational Growth is a thought-provoking exploration of the concept of resistance-something that is bound to arise within every organization in response to new projects, policies, or initiatives. Rather than seeing resistance as an inconvenience that needs to be eliminated, this book invites readers to take a new approach to different types of resistance, both hidden and obvious, and instead view resistance as a guiding light to discover objective differences, dissatisfaction, criticism of procedures, or different assessments or values. This book contains a wealth of real stories from a wide variety of business leaders, detailing situations where resistance was encountered, solutions that were implemented, and their outcomes. Readers will also learn about: Shortcuts that lead to dead ends when managing resistance, including thinking “man does not want to change” and “one third is always against it anyways”. Explanatory models behind resistance, including emotional events, attempts at domination, normative control, and expression of a damaged relationship. Principles to productively manage resistance, including commitment, dignity, right to dissent, learning, and mindfulness. Beyond No earns a well-deserved spot on the bookshelves of all business leaders, executives, and managers seeking to achieve excellence in leadership through a thoughtful approach to resistance instead of relying on ineffective command-and-control tactics.
The Zen of Business: Ancient Wisdom to Help Modern Leaders Lead with Intention, Clarity, and Purpose ($17.00 Value) FREE for a Limited Time
Discover your perfect balance with a combination of ancient Eastern wisdom and timeless business advice. In The Zen of Business: Ancient Wisdom to Help Modern Leaders Lead with Intention, Clarity, and Purpose, transformational speaker and leadership expert Keith Roberts delivers an exhilarating guide to personal growth and professional success that incorporates ancient Buddhist wisdom, including the principles of karma, the Eightfold Path, and other Eastern philosophy mainstays. You’ll learn how you can apply this timeless guidance to modern business to increase your profit and impact. Beginning with the concept of Ikigai, a Japanese term that means “a reason for being,” the book moves you through guided exercises and reflective practices that lead you on a journey to uncover your own life’s purpose and vision. Inside the book: A collection of Zen tools and techniques you can apply to your business and personal life. Strategies to cultivate mindfulness, enhance focus, and promote ethical decision-making. A combination of proven, ancient practices with established business techniques. Perfect for managers, executives, and other business leaders, The Zen of Business is also a can’t-miss resource for entrepreneurs, founders, freelancers, and small business owners seeking balance, success, and happiness in business and in life.
Taming the Hacking Storm: A Framework for Defeating Hackers and Malware ($24.00 Value) FREE for a Limited Time
A transformative new approach to Internet security from an experienced industry expert. Taming the Hacking Storm: A Framework for Defeating Hackers and Malware is a groundbreaking new roadmap to solving the ubiquitous Internet security issues currently plaguing countries, businesses, and individuals around the world. In easy-to-understand and non-technical language, author and cybersecurity veteran Roger Grimes describes the most prevalent threats to our online safety today and what ties them all together. He goes on to lay out a comprehensive and robust framework for combating that threat-one that rests on a foundation of identity verification-and explains exactly how to implement it in the real world. The author addresses each of the challenges, pitfalls, and roadblocks that might stand in the way of his solutions, offering practical ways to navigate, avoid, or counter those impediments. The book also includes: How to address peripheral security issues, including software and firmware vulnerabilities. Strategies for addressing a lack of international agreement on the implementation of security standards and practices. Things you can do today to encourage the development of a more secure, trusted Internet. An insightful and original new approach to cybersecurity that promises to transform the way we all use the Internet, Taming the Hacking Storm is a must-read guide for cybersecurity practitioners, academic researchers studying Internet security, and members of the general public with an interest in tech, security, and privacy.
Intentional Ambition: Redefining Your Work for Greater Joy, Freedom, and Fulfillment ($17.00 Value) FREE for a Limited Time
Proven strategies for a more intentional and thoughtful approach to your ideal career. In Intentional Ambition: Redefining Your Work for Greater Joy, Freedom and Fulfillment, soul coach and visionary career consultant Rha Goddess reveals a proven blueprint, already used by hundreds of breakthrough changemakers, cultural visionaries, and social entrepreneurs, to radically and thrillingly reset your life by renegotiating your relationship to work. Drawing on personal anecdotes from highly successful individuals Rha has worked with across industries and roles, this book delivers strategies to intentionally reconsider what you do, why you do it, and how you do it. Based on Goddess’s work with private and small group coaching as well as corporate collaborations with organizations such as Google, Delta, and Lululemon, this book explores topics including: Resigning versus being resigned-intentionally choosing a new path versus letting your environment make your choices for you. Raising the standard of renegotiation, where we have a renewed vision for our mental, spiritual, emotional, and financial aspirations. Unhealthy compartmentalization of our work and real personalities, leading to painful compromise and internal emotional turmoil. Intentional Ambition earns a well-deserved spot on the bookshelves of all professionals, no matter where they are in their careers, who know they deserve better and are looking to intentionally plot a more joyful and fulfilling path forward.
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