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    Get the eBook free when you register your print book at Manning.When you need a language model to respond accurately and quickly about a specific field of knowledge, the sprawling capacity of a LLM may hurt more than it helps. This book teaches you to build generative AI models optimized for specific fields.Perfect for cost- or hardware-constrained environments, Small Language Models (SLMs) train ... Read more

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    In "The Women of the Caesars," Guglielmo Ferrero presents a captivating exploration of the influential women who shaped the Roman Empire's political and cultural landscapes. Blending meticulous historical research with a literary style rich in narrative flair, Ferrero delves into the lives of notorious figures like Livia, Agrippina, and Cleopatra, capturing their complexities and ambitions. The ... Read more

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    Lucy! is a buoyant picture book biography of trailblazer Lucille Ball, the comedy queen who loved to make the world laugh, from authors Amy Guglielmo and Jacqueline Tourville and bestselling illustrator Brigette Barrager.Lucy was not a proper little girl. She was sassy. She was bold. She was funny. She was a rule-breaking, chance-taking, comedy pioneer.Can’t act? Can’t sing? Can’t ... ... Read more

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    Navigating platform power: Agency and resistance in digital spaces is a groundbreaking and timely exploration of how digitalisation shapes political agency while actors navigate between infrastructure, power, and resistance. Bringing together leading voices from feminism, Marxism, and post-structuralism, it offers a theoretical and conceptual framework for understanding how platforms both restrict ... Read more

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  • Pocket Full of Colors

    The Magical World of Mary Blair, Disney Artist Extraordinaire

    Amy Guglielmo, Jacqueline Tourville, and Brigette Barrager team up to tell the joyful and unique story of the trailblazing Disney artist Mary Blair.Mary Blair lived her life in color: vivid, wild color.From her imaginative childhood to her career as an illustrator, designer, and animator for Walt Disney Studios, Mary wouldn’t play by the rules. At a time when studios wanted to hire men and think ... Read more

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  • I Take Thee, Angela

    A Life in Poetry

    by Guglielmo ...
    Guglielmo and Angela's story is one of quiet, enduring love-a love that blossomed in their youth, carried them through marriage, and sustained them through life's many seasons. Their bond was a reflection of the generations before them, a testament to love's simplicity and beauty. Together, they raised four children and weathered the joys and challenges of life, side by side, their hearts entwined ... Read more

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  • Divisions

    A New History of Racism and Resistance in America's World War II Military

    The first comprehensive narrative of racism in America's World War II military and the resistance to it. America's World War II military was a force of unalloyed good. While saving the world from Nazism, it also managed to unify a famously fractious American people. At least that's the story many Americans have long told themselves. Divisions offers a decidedly different view. Prizewinning ... Read more

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  • I Take Thee, Angela

    A Life in Poetry

    by Guglielmo ...
    Guglielmo and his wife, Angela, were just two ordinary people who fell in love very young, married, and continued on with their lives, just as their parents had done before them. They raised four children and dealt with the ups and downs of life over many decades of marriage. And then they found themselves facing a battle with pancreatic cancer.I Take Thee, Angela presents poems that were the ... Read more

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  • The Woman Who Wasn't There

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    It was a tale of loss and recovery, of courage and sorrow, of horror and inspiration. Tania Head’s astonishing account of her experience on September 11, 2001—from crawling through the carnage and chaos to escaping the seventy-eighth-floor sky lobby of the burning south tower to losing her fiancé in the collapsed north tower—transformed her into one of the great victims and heroes of that tragic ... Read more

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  • Capitalism in the 21st Century

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    Contemporary capitalism is always evolving. From digital technologies to cryptocurrencies, current trends in political economy are much discussed, but often little understood. So where can we turn for clarity? As Michael Roberts and Guglielmo Carchedi argue, new trends don’t necessarily call for new theory.In Capitalism in the 21**st Century, the authors show how Marx’s law of value explains ... Read more

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  • Characters and events of Roman History

    Unveiling the Intrigues of Ancient Rome: Key Figures and Events Revealed

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    In "Characters and Events of Roman History," Guglielmo Ferrero presents a meticulous exploration of the lives and influences of pivotal figures in ancient Rome, framed within major historical events. Written in Ferrero's engaging prose, the work combines narrative rigor with analytical depth, illustrating the intersection of individual agency and broader historical currents. The book emerges from ... Read more

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  • White on Arrival

    Italians, Race, Color, and Power in Chicago, 1890-1945

    Immigrating to the United States, Italians, like all others arriving on America's shores, were made to fill out a standardized immigration form. In the box for race, they faced two choices: North Italian or South Italian. On the line requesting information on color, they wrote simply "white." By World War II, the only option they had for race and color questions was "white." This identification is ... Read more

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