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The Codebreakers of Bletchley Park

The Secret Intelligence Station that Helped Defeat the Nazis

by Sir John Dermot Turing ...

'Turing writes on codebreaking with understandable authority and compelling panache.'- Michael Smith, bestselling author of Station X**.**At Bletchley Park, some of Britain's most talented mathematicians, linguists, and intellectuals were assembled to break Nazi codes. Kept secret for nearly thirty years, we have now come to realise the crucial role that these codebreakers played in... ... Read more

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'Turing writes on codebreaking with understandable authority and compelling panache.'- Michael Smith, bestselling author of Station X**.**At Bletchley Park, some of Britain's most talented mathematicians, linguists, and intellectuals were assembled to break Nazi codes. Kept secret for nearly thirty years, we have now come to realise the crucial role that these codebreakers played in...
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More Everything Forever

AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley's Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity

by Adam Becker ...

'Book of the Year' as chosen by The Conversation'Disconcerting . . . a disturbing and important book' NEW SCIENTIST'Smart and wonderfully readable' NEW YORK TIMESThe bad science and sinister ideas behind Silicon Valley's foolish obsession with immortality, AI paradise and limitless growth.Tech billionaires have decided that they should determine ou... ... Read more

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'Book of the Year' as chosen by The Conversation'Disconcerting . . . a disturbing and important book' NEW SCIENTIST'Smart and wonderfully readable' NEW YORK TIMESThe bad science and sinister ideas behind Silicon Valley's foolish obsession with immortality, AI paradise and limitless growth.Tech billionaires have decided that they should determine ou...
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The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI

How to Think About Artificial Intelligence Before It's Too Late

by Cory Doctorow ...

As we enter the age of AI, we are in danger of being reduced to what Cory Doctorow dubs the 'reverse centaur'. With that term he conjures a human being conscripted as the assistant to a dominant machine. It could be a driver made to deliver nonstop, all day long; a warehouse worker packing shelves without bathroom or food breaks; or a programmer reviewing impossible amounts of AI-produced code.Don ... Read more

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As we enter the age of AI, we are in danger of being reduced to what Cory Doctorow dubs the 'reverse centaur'. With that term he conjures a human being conscripted as the assistant to a dominant machine. It could be a driver made to deliver nonstop, all day long; a warehouse worker packing shelves without bathroom or food breaks; or a programmer reviewing impossible amounts of AI-produced code.Don
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Doppelganger

A Trip Into the Mirror World

by Naomi Klein ...

*WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION**THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER****A BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR THE TIMES, NEW YORK TIMES, GUARDIAN, OBSERVER, AND PROSPECT*‘If I had to name a single book that makes sense of these last few dark years, it would be this one’ New York Times**‘A deeply compelling read … urgent and necessary’ Evening Standard</... ... Read more

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*WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION**THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER****A BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR THE TIMES, NEW YORK TIMES, GUARDIAN, OBSERVER, AND PROSPECT*‘If I had to name a single book that makes sense of these last few dark years, it would be this one’ New York Times**‘A deeply compelling read … urgent and necessary’ Evening Standard</...
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Nexus

The Sunday Times bestselling history about humans, technology and AI from the author of Sapiens

by Yuval Noah Harari ...

‘If you read only one non-fiction book this year, consider this one’ TOM HANKS‘If there’s one book that I would urge everyone to read – it is Nexus’ STEPHEN FRYThe mind-blowing story of how information networks – from the stone age to AI - have shaped our world from the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of SapiensStories brought us together.Books ... ... Read more

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‘If you read only one non-fiction book this year, consider this one’ TOM HANKS‘If there’s one book that I would urge everyone to read – it is Nexus’ STEPHEN FRYThe mind-blowing story of how information networks – from the stone age to AI - have shaped our world from the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of SapiensStories brought us together.Books ...
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Invisible Women

the Sunday Times number one bestseller exposing the gender bias women face every day

by Caroline Criado Perez ...

*THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER**A TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE 21st CENTURY**OVER A MILLION COPIES SOLD***Discover the shocking gender bias that affects our everyday lives in this groundbreaking gift of a book.'Nothing delights me more than a well-written and well-researched book that teaches you and never bores you' Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie**'HELL YES. This is one of those books that has t... ... Read more

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*THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER**A TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE 21st CENTURY**OVER A MILLION COPIES SOLD***Discover the shocking gender bias that affects our everyday lives in this groundbreaking gift of a book.'Nothing delights me more than a well-written and well-researched book that teaches you and never bores you' Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie**'HELL YES. This is one of those books that has t...
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Capital Is Dead

Is This Something Worse?

by McKenzie Wark ...

In this radical and visionary new book, McKenzie Wark argues that the all-pervasive presence of data in our networked society has given rise to a new mode of production, one not ruled over by capitalists and their factories but by those who own and control the flow of information. Yet, if this is not capitalism anymore, could it be something worse? What if the world we're living in is more ... Read more

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In this radical and visionary new book, McKenzie Wark argues that the all-pervasive presence of data in our networked society has given rise to a new mode of production, one not ruled over by capitalists and their factories but by those who own and control the flow of information. Yet, if this is not capitalism anymore, could it be something worse? What if the world we're living in is more
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Camp Zero

by Michelle Min Sterling ...

**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**'A page-turning feminist mystery thriller' Observer'Distinctive and involving' Daily Mail'Surprising and satisfying' GuardianRose wants a better life for herself and her mother. Taking a job as a hostess in the Floating City's elite club feels like her best hope.It means she has a steady pay cheque, that she can stay cool as the... ... Read more

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**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**'A page-turning feminist mystery thriller' Observer'Distinctive and involving' Daily Mail'Surprising and satisfying' GuardianRose wants a better life for herself and her mother. Taking a job as a hostess in the Floating City's elite club feels like her best hope.It means she has a steady pay cheque, that she can stay cool as the...
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The Tangled Tree

A Radical New History of Life

by David Quammen ...

Longlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction and A New York Times Notable Book of 2018.Our understanding of the ‘tree of life’, with powerful implications for human genetics, human health and our own human nature, has recently completely changed.This book is about a new method of telling the story of life on earth – through molecular phylogenetics. It involves a fairly simple method – the ... Read more

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Longlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction and A New York Times Notable Book of 2018.Our understanding of the ‘tree of life’, with powerful implications for human genetics, human health and our own human nature, has recently completely changed.This book is about a new method of telling the story of life on earth – through molecular phylogenetics. It involves a fairly simple method – the
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Hello World

How to be Human in the Age of the Machine

by Hannah Fry ...

**'One of the best books yet written on data and algorithms. . .deserves a place on the bestseller charts.' (The Times)You are accused of a crime. Who would you rather determined your fate - a human or an algorithm?**An algorithm is more consistent and less prone to error of judgement. Yet a human can look you in the eye before passing sentence.Welcome to the age of the algorithm, the story of a ... Read more

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**'One of the best books yet written on data and algorithms. . .deserves a place on the bestseller charts.' (The Times)You are accused of a crime. Who would you rather determined your fate - a human or an algorithm?**An algorithm is more consistent and less prone to error of judgement. Yet a human can look you in the eye before passing sentence.Welcome to the age of the algorithm, the story of a
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Counter-Intelligence

What the Secret World Can Teach Us About Problem-solving and Creativity

by Robert Hannigan ...

Best Books of 2024, The EconomistFrom the codebreakers and problem solvers, to the engineers, mathematicians and other problem-solvers – what the secret world can teach us about performance and creativityHow do you hire smart people who can work together to prevent terrorist attacks and decode encrypted technology?How do you come up with creative, counterintuitive solutions to solve major global ... Read more

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Best Books of 2024, The EconomistFrom the codebreakers and problem solvers, to the engineers, mathematicians and other problem-solvers – what the secret world can teach us about performance and creativityHow do you hire smart people who can work together to prevent terrorist attacks and decode encrypted technology?How do you come up with creative, counterintuitive solutions to solve major global
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Linux Essentials - A Beginner's Guide To Linux Operating System

by Adidas Wilson ...

Linux is the only endpoint OS that is growing globally. As one person put it, "Linux is the Nikola Tesla of information technology". This OS is used in a myriad of devices including smartphones, digital video recorders, televisions, airline entertainment systems, digital signage, automobile control systems, switches, routers, the desktop, among many others. The Microsoft Windows vs Linux OS debate ... Read more

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Linux is the only endpoint OS that is growing globally. As one person put it, "Linux is the Nikola Tesla of information technology". This OS is used in a myriad of devices including smartphones, digital video recorders, televisions, airline entertainment systems, digital signage, automobile control systems, switches, routers, the desktop, among many others. The Microsoft Windows vs Linux OS debate
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The Art of Street Photography

Express the Moment

by Joshua K Jackson, Sean Tucker ...

In The Art of Street Photography, photographers Joshua K. Jackson and Sean Tucker present a more interpretive and artistic approach to street photography.This book expands the scope of street photography from its more traditional 'reportage' roots to uncover your own subjective and creative visual voice. Throughout the book you will get ideas about how to use the public space as your canvas and ... Read more

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In The Art of Street Photography, photographers Joshua K. Jackson and Sean Tucker present a more interpretive and artistic approach to street photography.This book expands the scope of street photography from its more traditional 'reportage' roots to uncover your own subjective and creative visual voice. Throughout the book you will get ideas about how to use the public space as your canvas and
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A Brief History of Intelligence

Why the Evolution of the Brain Holds the Key to the Future of AI

by Max Bennett ...

Bridges the gap between AI and neuroscience by telling the story of how the brain came to be.'I found this book amazing' Daniel Kahneman, Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics and bestselling author of Thinking Fast & SlowThe entirety of the human brain’s 4-billion-year story can be summarised as the culmination of five evolutionary breakthroughs, starting from the very first brains, all the way ... Read more

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Bridges the gap between AI and neuroscience by telling the story of how the brain came to be.'I found this book amazing' Daniel Kahneman, Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics and bestselling author of Thinking Fast & SlowThe entirety of the human brain’s 4-billion-year story can be summarised as the culmination of five evolutionary breakthroughs, starting from the very first brains, all the way
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If Then

How One Data Company Invented the Future

by Jill Lepore ...

Radio 4's Book of the WeekA Financial Times Book of the YearShortlisted for the 2020 Financial Times / McKinsey Business Book of the YearLonglisted for the National Book Award'The story of the original data science hucksters of the 1960s is hilarious, scathing and sobering - what you might get if you crossed Mad Men with Theranos' David RuncimanThe Simulmatics Corpor... ... Read more

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Radio 4's Book of the WeekA Financial Times Book of the YearShortlisted for the 2020 Financial Times / McKinsey Business Book of the YearLonglisted for the National Book Award'The story of the original data science hucksters of the 1960s is hilarious, scathing and sobering - what you might get if you crossed Mad Men with Theranos' David RuncimanThe Simulmatics Corpor...
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Think Stats

Exploratory Data Analysis

by Allen B. Downey ...

If you know how to program, you have the skills to turn data into knowledge. This thoroughly revised edition presents statistical concepts computationally, rather than mathematically, using programs written in Python. Through practical examples and exercises based on real-world datasets, you'll learn the entire process of exploratory data analysis—from wrangling data and generating statistics to ... Read more

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If you know how to program, you have the skills to turn data into knowledge. This thoroughly revised edition presents statistical concepts computationally, rather than mathematically, using programs written in Python. Through practical examples and exercises based on real-world datasets, you'll learn the entire process of exploratory data analysis—from wrangling data and generating statistics to
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Fundamentals of Data Engineering

Plan and Build Robust Data Systems

by Joe Reis, Matt Housley ...

Data engineering has grown rapidly in the past decade, leaving many software engineers, data scientists, and analysts looking for a comprehensive view of this practice. With this practical book, you'll learn how to plan and build systems to serve the needs of your organization and customers by evaluating the best technologies available through the framework of the data engineering lifecycle ... Read more

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Data engineering has grown rapidly in the past decade, leaving many software engineers, data scientists, and analysts looking for a comprehensive view of this practice. With this practical book, you'll learn how to plan and build systems to serve the needs of your organization and customers by evaluating the best technologies available through the framework of the data engineering lifecycle
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Data Quality Fundamentals

A Practitioner's Guide to Building Trustworthy Data Pipelines

by Barr Moses, Lior Gavish, Molly Vorwerck ...

Do your product dashboards look funky? Are your quarterly reports stale? Is the data set you're using broken or just plain wrong? These problems affect almost every team, yet they're usually addressed on an ad hoc basis and in a reactive manner. If you answered yes to these questions, this book is for you.Many data engineering teams today face the "good pipelines, bad data" problem. It doesn't ... Read more

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Do your product dashboards look funky? Are your quarterly reports stale? Is the data set you're using broken or just plain wrong? These problems affect almost every team, yet they're usually addressed on an ad hoc basis and in a reactive manner. If you answered yes to these questions, this book is for you.Many data engineering teams today face the "good pipelines, bad data" problem. It doesn't
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Sea of Rust

The post-apocalyptic science fiction epic about AI and what makes us human

by C. Robert Cargill ...

*One of Financial Times' Best Books of 2017*"SEA OF RUST is a 40-megaton cruise missile of a novel - it'll blow you away and lay waste to your heart . . . visceral, relentless, breathtaking" Joe Hill, Sunday Times bestselling authorAn action-packed post-apocalyptic thriller from the critically acclaimed author, screenwriter, and noted film critic.Humankind is extinct. Wiped out in a global ... Read more

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*One of Financial Times' Best Books of 2017*"SEA OF RUST is a 40-megaton cruise missile of a novel - it'll blow you away and lay waste to your heart . . . visceral, relentless, breathtaking" Joe Hill, Sunday Times bestselling authorAn action-packed post-apocalyptic thriller from the critically acclaimed author, screenwriter, and noted film critic.Humankind is extinct. Wiped out in a global
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Operation Sandworm

The Hunt for the Kremlin's Elite Cyber Army

by Andy Greenberg ...

*This book is published in the US as Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers. The text is unchanged for this edition, except for the addition of a new foreword.***'With the nuance of a reporter and the pace of a thriller writer, Andy Greenberg gives us a glimpse of the cyberwars of the future while at the same time placing his story in the long arc of ... Read more

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*This book is published in the US as Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers. The text is unchanged for this edition, except for the addition of a new foreword.***'With the nuance of a reporter and the pace of a thriller writer, Andy Greenberg gives us a glimpse of the cyberwars of the future while at the same time placing his story in the long arc of
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The Girl in the Spider's Web

the return of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

by David Lagercrantz ...

Translated by George Goulding ...

Series Book 4 - Millennium
Meet Lisbeth Salander, the iconic character who has captivated 100 million readers worldwide"Rest easy, Lisbeth Salander fans - our punk hacker heroine is in good hands" USA TodayLISBETH SALANDER AND MIKAEL BLOMKVIST HAVE FALLEN OUT OF TOUCHThen Blomkvist is contacted by renowned Swedish scientist Professor Balder. Warned that his life is in danger, but more concerned for his son's well-being, ... Read more

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Meet Lisbeth Salander, the iconic character who has captivated 100 million readers worldwide"Rest easy, Lisbeth Salander fans - our punk hacker heroine is in good hands" USA TodayLISBETH SALANDER AND MIKAEL BLOMKVIST HAVE FALLEN OUT OF TOUCHThen Blomkvist is contacted by renowned Swedish scientist Professor Balder. Warned that his life is in danger, but more concerned for his son's well-being,
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End Times Fascism

And the Fight for the Living World

by Naomi Klein, Astra Taylor ...

A blistering exposé of the new far-right apocalyptic alliance that's on the move around the globe - and how we resistThe far right is on the march again – but this time it’s different from anything we’ve seen before. A new, apocalyptic alliance of religious fundamentalists, billionaire Silicon Valley tech kings and ethno-nationalists is on the move. They’re united in their belief that some kind of ... Read more

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A blistering exposé of the new far-right apocalyptic alliance that's on the move around the globe - and how we resistThe far right is on the march again – but this time it’s different from anything we’ve seen before. A new, apocalyptic alliance of religious fundamentalists, billionaire Silicon Valley tech kings and ethno-nationalists is on the move. They’re united in their belief that some kind of
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大话PLC（轻松动漫版）

by 小电哥 ...

PLC编程及应用的理论和实践连接紧密，涉及范围广，实操性强。读者在通过传统图书学习PLC的相关知识时感觉非常枯燥，因为书中大量冗长的文字描述会头昏脑涨，所介绍的编程及应用技能往往也只是纸上谈兵，真正操作时还是无从下手。怎么办？如何在短时间内学会PLC的相关知识？如何真正掌握相关的编程及应用技能？想必很多读者都有此困扰。没关系，本书就可满足此需求！本书采用绘画的形式，通过通俗的语言，介绍PLC的产品性能、外围部件、编程语言、常用控制指令、应用案例等内容。通过本书的学习，读者可以轻松了解并掌握PLC的基础知识及基本应用。本书在相关知识点旁提供微视频。读者通过手机扫描即可观看，配合图文讲解，轻松完成学习。 ... Read more

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PLC编程及应用的理论和实践连接紧密，涉及范围广，实操性强。读者在通过传统图书学习PLC的相关知识时感觉非常枯燥，因为书中大量冗长的文字描述会头昏脑涨，所介绍的编程及应用技能往往也只是纸上谈兵，真正操作时还是无从下手。怎么办？如何在短时间内学会PLC的相关知识？如何真正掌握相关的编程及应用技能？想必很多读者都有此困扰。没关系，本书就可满足此需求！本书采用绘画的形式，通过通俗的语言，介绍PLC的产品性能、外围部件、编程语言、常用控制指令、应用案例等内容。通过本书的学习，读者可以轻松了解并掌握PLC的基础知识及基本应用。本书在相关知识点旁提供微视频。读者通过手机扫描即可观看，配合图文讲解，轻松完成学习。
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Robot-Proof

When Machines Have all the Answers, Build Better People

by Vivienne Ming ...

A compelling story to expand the human’s perspective on the new, unprecedented world of AIIn Robot-Proof: When Machines Have All the Answers, Build Better People, Dr. Vivienne Ming, “a force in AI unlike any we have seen before” (Mark Minevich, Forbes), helps readers grasp the ugly and the amazing of how individuals, companies, and societies will respond to the changes that are already taking hold ... Read more

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A compelling story to expand the human’s perspective on the new, unprecedented world of AIIn Robot-Proof: When Machines Have All the Answers, Build Better People, Dr. Vivienne Ming, “a force in AI unlike any we have seen before” (Mark Minevich, Forbes), helps readers grasp the ugly and the amazing of how individuals, companies, and societies will respond to the changes that are already taking hold
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