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An imprint I founded, and twenty-three titles across agentic AI, secure systems, intelligent networks, and practical AI guides. Three are published; five are in production; fifteen are publisher-adapted drafts awaiting expert review.

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Cover of Engineering Secure Agentic Systems: a layered agent architecture with orchestration, planning, reasoning, acting, governance, policy gates, audit, and a secure trust foundation.

Cover of Runtime Safety for Multi-Agent AI Systems: blue, red, and teal agent networks connected by directed safety and coordination paths.

Cover of Governing AI Agents Before They Act: an AI agent core encircled by policy, guardrails, audit, approval and control nodes.

Editorial still life on warm paper showing an open notebook, unbranded books, a pen, a leaf, and quiet diagrams — Reading, making, revisingGenerated editorial artwork

Editorial still life · books

Ideas take a material form.

A still life for the reading, making, and revising that sits behind long-form work.

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Cover of Engineering Secure Agentic Systems: a layered agent architecture with orchestration, planning, reasoning, acting, governance, policy gates, audit, and a secure trust foundation.

Engineering Secure Agentic Systems

Agentic AI ·Security ·Systems architecture

An Undergraduate Introduction to Building, Constraining, and Governing Autonomous AI Agents

Published · 2026View details

Cover of Runtime Safety for Multi-Agent AI Systems: blue, red, and teal agent networks connected by directed safety and coordination paths.

Runtime Safety for Multi-Agent AI Systems

Agentic AI ·Runtime safety ·Multi-agent systems

Principles, Patterns, and Practices for Safe and Reliable Autonomous Collaboration

Published · 2026View details

Cover of Governing AI Agents Before They Act: an AI agent core encircled by policy, guardrails, audit, approval and control nodes.

Governing AI Agents Before They Act

AI governance ·Agentic AI ·Assurance

Policy, Control, and Assurance for Trustworthy Autonomous Systems

Published · 2026View details

Cover of Multi-Agent Systems for Systemic Risk and Resilience: clustered network graphs with red contagion paths and green recovery paths.

Multi-Agent Systems for Systemic Risk and Resilience

Multi-agent systems ·Systemic risk ·Resilience

Governance, Stress Testing, and Adaptive Coordination

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Cover of Intelligent Hybrid VLC/RF Networks: a visible-light downlink beam and an RF tower serving shared client devices.

Intelligent Hybrid VLC/RF Networks

Intelligent communications ·VLC/RF ·Beyond-5G

Architectures, Resource Management, and Beyond-5G Applications

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Cover of AI Agents for Smart and Sustainable Agriculture: crops above a dense root network, with drone, weather station and sensor nodes.

AI Agents for Smart and Sustainable Agriculture

Smart agriculture ·Agentic AI ·IoT sensing

Autonomy, Sensing, and Decision Support for Resilient Farming

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Cover of Edge Computing and Distributed Systems for the Internet of Things: edge server nodes on a mesh beneath a data-shedding cloud and a city skyline.

Edge Computing and Distributed Systems for the Internet of Things

Edge computing ·Distributed systems ·IoT

Architectures, Orchestration, and Real-World Implementations

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Cover of Service-Oriented Computing and Software Engineering: a central service hexagon linked to cloud, data, security and analytics nodes.

Service-Oriented Computing and Software Engineering

Service-oriented computing ·Software engineering ·Architecture patterns

Principles, Patterns, and Real-World Applications

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From Prompt to Agency
How AI Agents Reason, Use Tools, Remember, and Act
Prepared draftA02
The Agent Builder's Blueprint
Design Patterns for Tools, Memory, Context, and Multi-Agent Systems
Prepared draftA03
The Agent Reliability Loop
Evals, Observability, Testing, and Production Operations
Prepared draftA04
Permission to Act
Identity, Security, Guardrails, and Recovery for AI Agents
Prepared draftA05
Leading the Agentic Shift
Strategy, Workflow Redesign, Governance, and Human Accountability

Prepared draftN01
Small Teams, Smart Systems
A Practical Guide to AI Workflows for Owner-Led Businesses
Prepared draftN02
Managing the Machine Team
How to Lead People and AI Without Losing Accountability
Prepared draftN03
When Familiar Voices Lie
A Verification Protocol for Deepfakes, Voice Clones, and AI Scams
Prepared draftN04
The AI-Wise Family
Raising Capable, Creative, and Safe Kids in an Algorithmic World
Prepared draftN05
The Proof-of-Learning Classroom
Teaching With AI While Protecting Thinking, Privacy, and Trust
Prepared draftN06
Human Advantage Compounds
Build a Career That Gets Stronger as AI Improves
Prepared draftN07
Local First, AI Second
A Practical Guide to Private Models for Sensitive Work
Prepared draftN08
The AI Buyer's Field Guide
Choose, Contract, Test, and Govern AI Vendors
Prepared draftN09
Projects With Judgment
Lead AI-Enhanced Work from Idea to Measured Outcome
Prepared draftN10
The Creator's Provenance Playbook
Use AI Without Losing Your Voice, Rights, or Audience Trust

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Every book begins with a research question and a commitment to evidence. The path from inquiry to a finished volume is deliberate: investigate, synthesize, write, then publish with a clear record of what is known and what remains provisional.

Research
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Synthesize
Connect ideas into clear frameworks
Write
Craft with clarity, precision, and evidence
Publish
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