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The Loop: How AI Is Creating a World Without Choices and How to Fight Back
$19.99 Add to cartThis eye-opening narrative journey into the rapidly changing world of artificial intelligence reveals the dangerous ways AI is exploiting the unconscious habits of our minds, and the real threat it po
- Author: Ward, Jacob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 031648718X
- Language: English
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A Theory of Fun for Game Design
$44.99 Add to cartNow in full color, the 10th anniversary edition of this classic book takes you deep into the influences that underlie modern video games, and examines the elements they share with traditional games su
- Author: Koster, Raph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 297
- Publish Date: December 31, 2013
- ISBN10: 1449363210
- Language: English
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iPad for Seniors in Easy Steps: Covers All Models with Ipados 17
$18.99 Add to cartThis bestselling guide, iPad for Seniors in easy steps, 13th edition, is updated to cover iPadOS 17. Written in larger type, it’ll help senior folks learn how to use and enjoy myriad iPad features wit
- Series: In Easy Steps
- Author: Vandome, Nick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 06, 2024
- ISBN10: 1787910067
- Language: English
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Software Architecture: The Hard Parts: Modern Trade-Off Analyses for Distributed Architectures
$79.99 Add to cartThere are no easy decisions in software architecture. Instead, there are many hard parts–difficult problems or issues with no best practices–that force you to choose among various compromises. With
- Author: Ford, Neal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 459
- Publish Date: November 30, 2021
- ISBN10: 1492086894
- Language: English
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The Soul of a New Machine
$19.99 Add to cartTracy Kidder’s “riveting” (Washington Post) story of one company’s efforts to bring a new microcomputer to market won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award and has become essential readi… [more below]
- Author: Kidder, Tracy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0316491977
- Language: English
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Generative AI on AWS: Building Context-Aware Multimodal Reasoning Applications
$79.99 Add to cartCompanies today are moving rapidly to integrate generative AI into their products and services. But there’s a great deal of hype (and misunderstanding) about the impact and promise of this technology.
- Author: Fregly, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 309
- Publish Date: December 19, 2023
- ISBN10: 1098159225
- Language: English
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Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective
$32.99 Add to cartWhy does modern life revolve around objectives? From how science is funded, to improving how children are educated — and nearly everything in-between — our society has become obsessed with a seducti
- Author: Stanley, Kenneth O.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 141
- Publish Date: May 18, 2015
- ISBN10: 3319155237
- Language: English
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The Apple II Age: How the Computer Became Personal
$28.00 Add to cartAn engrossing origin story for the personal computer–showing how the Apple II’s software helped a machine transcend from hobbyists’ plaything to essential home appliance.
Skip the iPhone, the iPod,- Author: Nooney, Laine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 0226816524
- Language: English
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Data Science from Scratch: First Principles with Python
$65.99 Add to cartTo really learn data science, you should not only master the tools–data science libraries, frameworks, modules, and toolkits–but also understand the ideas and principles underlying them. Updated for
- Author: Grus, Joel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 403
- Publish Date: June 11, 2019
- ISBN10: 1492041130
- Language: English
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A History of Fake Things on the Internet
$28.00 Add to cartA Next Big Idea Club “Must Read” for December 2023
As all aspects of our social and informational lives increasingly migrate online, the line between what is “real” and what is digitally fabricated gr
- Author: Scheirer, Walter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: December 5, 2023
- ISBN10: 1503632881
- Language: English
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Causal Inference in Python: Applying Causal Inference in the Tech Industry
$79.99 Add to cartHow many buyers will an additional dollar of online marketing bring in? Which customers will only buy when given a discount coupon? How do you establish an optimal pricing strategy? The best way to de
- Author: Facure, Matheus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 406
- Publish Date: August 22, 2023
- ISBN10: 1098140257
- Language: English
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A Hacker’s Mind: How the Powerful Bend Society’s Rules, and How to Bend Them Back
$30.00 Read moreA hack is any means of subverting a system’s rules in unintended ways. The tax code isn’t computer code, but a series of complex formulas. It has vulnerabilities; we call them “loopholes.” We call exp
- Author: Schneier, Bruce
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 07, 2023
- ISBN10: 0393866661
- Language: English
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Deep Learning
$18.95 Add to cartAn accessible introduction to the artificial intelligence technology that enables computer vision, speech recognition, machine translation, and driverless cars.
Deep learning is an artificial intellige
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Kelleher, John D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: September 10 2019
- ISBN10: 0262537559
- Language: English
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Explain the Cloud Like I’m 10
$21.99 Add to cartWhat is the cloud? Discover the secrets of the cloud through simple explanations that use lots of pictures and lots of examples.
Why learn about the cloud? It’s the future. The cloud is the future of s
- Author: Hoff, Todd
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 290
- Publish Date: January 18, 2018
- ISBN10: 0979707110
- Language: English
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iPhone for Seniors in Easy Steps: For All Models of iPhone with IOS 17
$18.99 Add to cartiPhone for Seniors in easy steps, 10th edition will help you to quickly feel confident using your iPhone. It covers all models of iPhone using iOS 17 and shows you how to:
- Send messages, make and rec
- Series: In Easy Steps
- Author: Vandome, Nick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 02, 2024
- ISBN10: 1787910059
- Language: English
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The AI Revolution in Medicine: GPT-4 and Beyond
$29.99 Add to cartAI is about to transform medicine. Here’s what you need to know right now.
”The development of AI is as fundamental as the creation of the personal computer. It will change the way people work, learn
- Author: Lee, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 06, 2023
- ISBN10: 0138200130
- Language: English
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Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks
$30.00 Read more“Unsettling, absolutely riveting, and–for better or worse–necessary reading.” –Brian Christian, author of Algorithms to Live By and The Alignment Problem
An entertaining account of the philosophy an- Author: Shapiro, Scott J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 23 2023
- ISBN10: 0374601178
- Language: English
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Quantum Supremacy: How the Quantum Computer Revolution Will Change Everything
$30.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – An exhilarating tour of humanity’s next great technological achievement–quantum computing–which may supercharge artificial intelligence, solve some of humanity’s biggest
- Author: Kaku, Michio
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 02, 2023
- ISBN10: 0385548362
- Language: English
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What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work?
$14.95 Add to cartNobody expected this–not even its creators: ChatGPT has burst onto the scene as an AI capable of writing at a convincingly human level. But how does it really work? What’s going on inside its “AI min
- Author: Wolfram, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: March 09, 2023
- ISBN10: 1579550819
- Language: English
