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Careless People

The #1 Sunday Times bestselling memoir that Meta doesn't want you to read

by Sarah Wynn-Williams ...

The number one global bestseller and Book of the Year 2025 for Audible, The Times, Cosmopolitan, The Economist and more.‘Amazing: of all the books in all the world Mr Free Speech Zuckerberg wants to ban, it’s the one about him’ – Marina Hyde‘Jaw-dropping . . . A tell-all tome’ – Financial Times‘A Bridget Jones’s Diary-style tale of a young woman thrown into a series of improbable situation... ... Read more

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The number one global bestseller and Book of the Year 2025 for Audible, The Times, Cosmopolitan, The Economist and more.‘Amazing: of all the books in all the world Mr Free Speech Zuckerberg wants to ban, it’s the one about him’ – Marina Hyde‘Jaw-dropping . . . A tell-all tome’ – Financial Times‘A Bridget Jones’s Diary-style tale of a young woman thrown into a series of improbable situation...
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This Is for Everyone

The Captivating Memoir from the Inventor of the World Wide Web

by Tim Berners-Lee ...

**A Waterstones and Financial Times Book of the Year 2025The instant Sunday Times bestseller‘Charming, clever, self-effacing, interesting and thoughtful’ – The Observer**‘Visionary . . . Full of warmth and humanity’ – Kate Bush‘A remarkable book by a remarkable man’ – The Mail on SundayThe groundbreaking memoir from the inventor of the World Wide Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee. This is the story of ... ... Read more

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**A Waterstones and Financial Times Book of the Year 2025The instant Sunday Times bestseller‘Charming, clever, self-effacing, interesting and thoughtful’ – The Observer**‘Visionary . . . Full of warmth and humanity’ – Kate Bush‘A remarkable book by a remarkable man’ – The Mail on SundayThe groundbreaking memoir from the inventor of the World Wide Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee. This is the story of ...
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Supremacy

Winner of the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award

by Parmy Olson ...

**Winner of the Financial Times Business Book of the Year AwardUpdated edition with a new preface from the author.The astonishing story of the people fighting to control the future of generative artificial intelligence – and, therefore, the future of humanity. From award-winning journalist Parmy Olson.**Two titans of Silicon Valley, Microsoft and Google, rushed to embrace artificial intelligence. ... Read more

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**Winner of the Financial Times Business Book of the Year AwardUpdated edition with a new preface from the author.The astonishing story of the people fighting to control the future of generative artificial intelligence – and, therefore, the future of humanity. From award-winning journalist Parmy Olson.**Two titans of Silicon Valley, Microsoft and Google, rushed to embrace artificial intelligence.
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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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If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies

The Case Against Superintelligent AI

by Eliezer Yudkowsky, Nate Soares ...

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'The most important book of the decade' MAX TEGMARK, author of Life 3.0'A loud trumpet call to humanity to awaken us as we sleepwalk into disaster - we must wake up' STEPHEN FRY‘The best no-nonsense, simple explanation of the AI risk problem I've ever read’ YISHAN WONG, former Reddit CEOAI is the greatest threat to our existence ... ... Read more

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THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'The most important book of the decade' MAX TEGMARK, author of Life 3.0'A loud trumpet call to humanity to awaken us as we sleepwalk into disaster - we must wake up' STEPHEN FRY‘The best no-nonsense, simple explanation of the AI risk problem I've ever read’ YISHAN WONG, former Reddit CEOAI is the greatest threat to our existence ...
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Empire of AI

Inside the reckless race for total domination

by Karen Hao ...

A New York Times and Sunday Times BestsellerWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award 2025Longlisted for the 2025 Financial Times & Schroders Business Book of the YearShortlisted for Foyles Non Fiction Book of the Year 2025An eye-opening account of the tech arms race shaping out planet, from an award-winning journalist and AI insider to the world of Sam Altman a... ... Read more

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A New York Times and Sunday Times BestsellerWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award 2025Longlisted for the 2025 Financial Times & Schroders Business Book of the YearShortlisted for Foyles Non Fiction Book of the Year 2025An eye-opening account of the tech arms race shaping out planet, from an award-winning journalist and AI insider to the world of Sam Altman a...
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Systems Thinking for Agentic AI

Design reliable LLM and agentic AI systems with RAG, MCP, guardrails, evaluation, and observability

by Ediz Najim ...

Apply systems thinking to build production-ready LLM and agentic AI systems using RAG, MCP, tools, memory, guardrails, evaluation, observability, and practical architecture patternsKey FeaturesArchitect reliable AI agent systems beyond prototypes and demosBuild with RAG, MCP, tool calling, memory, and agent orchestrationEngineer for safety, evaluation, observability, cost, and failure handlingBook ... Read more

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Apply systems thinking to build production-ready LLM and agentic AI systems using RAG, MCP, tools, memory, guardrails, evaluation, observability, and practical architecture patternsKey FeaturesArchitect reliable AI agent systems beyond prototypes and demosBuild with RAG, MCP, tool calling, memory, and agent orchestrationEngineer for safety, evaluation, observability, cost, and failure handlingBook
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The AI Con

How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want

by Emily M. Bender, Alex Hanna ...

A smart, incisive take-down of so-called ‘artificial intelligence’, exposing the real harm these technologies do to our jobs, health, society and environment, who stands to gain from them, and how to fight back.‘You need to read this book’ BRIAN ENO‘Written with absolute authority and incredible wit and verve’ KAREN HAOHave tech companies created artificial minds? Are they going to replace all our ... Read more

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A smart, incisive take-down of so-called ‘artificial intelligence’, exposing the real harm these technologies do to our jobs, health, society and environment, who stands to gain from them, and how to fight back.‘You need to read this book’ BRIAN ENO‘Written with absolute authority and incredible wit and verve’ KAREN HAOHave tech companies created artificial minds? Are they going to replace all our
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Pogue's Basics

Essential Tips and Shortcuts (That No One Bothers to Tell You)

by David Pogue ...

Learn to master the tech gadgets in your life with this New York Times –bestselling collection of easy-to-follow tips and shortcuts.Did you know that you can scroll a web page just by tapping the space bar?How do you recover photos you've deleted by accident?What can you do if your cell phone's battery is dead by dinnertime each day?When it comes to technology, there's no... ... Read more

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Learn to master the tech gadgets in your life with this New York Times –bestselling collection of easy-to-follow tips and shortcuts.Did you know that you can scroll a web page just by tapping the space bar?How do you recover photos you've deleted by accident?What can you do if your cell phone's battery is dead by dinnertime each day?When it comes to technology, there's no...
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Superintelligence

Paths, Dangers, Strategies

by Nick Bostrom ...

The human brain has some capabilities that the brains of other animals lack. It is to these distinctive capabilities that our species owes its dominant position. Other animals have stronger muscles or sharper claws, but we have cleverer brains. If machine brains one day come to surpass human brains in general intelligence, then this new superintelligence could become very powerful. As the fate of ... Read more

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The human brain has some capabilities that the brains of other animals lack. It is to these distinctive capabilities that our species owes its dominant position. Other animals have stronger muscles or sharper claws, but we have cleverer brains. If machine brains one day come to surpass human brains in general intelligence, then this new superintelligence could become very powerful. As the fate of
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The Nerd Reich

Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy

by Gil Durán ...

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA fearless and urgent exposé of technofascism – and a road map to resistance.When Silicon Valley ‘moves fast and breaks things’, the world interprets the chaos as a necessary cost of innovation. Gil Durán reveals something far more sinister afoot: a decades-long campaign to replace elected governments with corporate rule.Drawing on insider political exper... ... Read more

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AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA fearless and urgent exposé of technofascism – and a road map to resistance.When Silicon Valley ‘moves fast and breaks things’, the world interprets the chaos as a necessary cost of innovation. Gil Durán reveals something far more sinister afoot: a decades-long campaign to replace elected governments with corporate rule.Drawing on insider political exper...
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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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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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Pivot

The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One

by Jenny Blake ...

'Looking to make a career change? Pivot is the book you will turn to again and again' Dan Pink, author of To Sell is Human and Drive'Now you, too, can think like a start-up and fix your ailing life' Sunday Times'A guide for people who want a career change but are too scared to really go for it' ElleIt's always the right time to think about your next move.... ... Read more

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'Looking to make a career change? Pivot is the book you will turn to again and again' Dan Pink, author of To Sell is Human and Drive'Now you, too, can think like a start-up and fix your ailing life' Sunday Times'A guide for people who want a career change but are too scared to really go for it' ElleIt's always the right time to think about your next move....
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Why Information Grows

The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to Economies

by César Hidalgo ...

In Why Information Grows, rising star César Hidalgo offers a radical interpretation of global economicsWhile economists often turn to measures like GDP or per-capita income, César Hidalgo turns to information theory to explain the success or failure of a country's economic performance. Through a radical rethinking of what the economy is, Hidalgo shows that natural constraints in our ability to ... Read more

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In Why Information Grows, rising star César Hidalgo offers a radical interpretation of global economicsWhile economists often turn to measures like GDP or per-capita income, César Hidalgo turns to information theory to explain the success or failure of a country's economic performance. Through a radical rethinking of what the economy is, Hidalgo shows that natural constraints in our ability to
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Logging Off

The Human Cost of Our Digital World

by Adele Zeynep Walton ...

A WATERSTONES NON-FICTION BESTSELLER'You won't look at your screens in the same way after reading this book' Grace Blakeley, author of VULTURE CAPITALISM'Read this book!' Jeremy Corbyn'A book never more sorely needed than now' David Larbi'Urgent...Persuasive and brilliantly written' Yasmin Alibhai-Brown'A must-read!' Deborah Frances-White, host of The G... ... Read more

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A WATERSTONES NON-FICTION BESTSELLER'You won't look at your screens in the same way after reading this book' Grace Blakeley, author of VULTURE CAPITALISM'Read this book!' Jeremy Corbyn'A book never more sorely needed than now' David Larbi'Urgent...Persuasive and brilliantly written' Yasmin Alibhai-Brown'A must-read!' Deborah Frances-White, host of The G...
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Digital Minimalism

Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World

by Cal Newport ...

Learn how to switch off and find calm - from the New York Times bestselling author of A World Without Email'Digital Minimalism is the Marie Kondo of technology' Evening Standard*****Do you find yourself endlessly scrolling through social media or the news while your anxiety rises? Are you feeling frazzled after a long day of endless video calls?In this timely book, professor Cal Ne... ... Read more

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Learn how to switch off and find calm - from the New York Times bestselling author of A World Without Email'Digital Minimalism is the Marie Kondo of technology' Evening Standard*****Do you find yourself endlessly scrolling through social media or the news while your anxiety rises? Are you feeling frazzled after a long day of endless video calls?In this timely book, professor Cal Ne...
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Dark Angel

by John Sandford ...

Series Book 2 - Letty Davenport series
Letty Davenport is back, and this time she's taking no prisoners. The new incredible thriller from the #1 global bestseller.Letty Davenport's days working a desk job are behind her. Her previous actions at a gunfight in Texas and her incredible skills with firearms draw the attention of several branches of the US government, and make her a perfect fit for even more dangerous work.The Department of ... Read more

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Letty Davenport is back, and this time she's taking no prisoners. The new incredible thriller from the #1 global bestseller.Letty Davenport's days working a desk job are behind her. Her previous actions at a gunfight in Texas and her incredible skills with firearms draw the attention of several branches of the US government, and make her a perfect fit for even more dangerous work.The Department of
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Your Code as a Crime Scene, Second Edition

Use Forensic Techniques to Arrest Defects, Bottlenecks, and Bad Design in Your Programs

by Adam Tornhill ...

Jack the Ripper and legacy codebases have more in common than you'd think. Inspired by forensic psychology methods, you can apply strategies to identify problems in your existing code, assess refactoring direction, and understand how your team influences the software architecture. With its unique blend of criminal psychology and code analysis, Your Code as a Crime Scene arms you with the ... Read more

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Jack the Ripper and legacy codebases have more in common than you'd think. Inspired by forensic psychology methods, you can apply strategies to identify problems in your existing code, assess refactoring direction, and understand how your team influences the software architecture. With its unique blend of criminal psychology and code analysis, Your Code as a Crime Scene arms you with the
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Refactoring to Patterns

by Joshua Kerievsky ...

Series series Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Fowler)
In 1994, Design Patterns changed the landscape of object-oriented development by introducing classic solutions to recurring design problems. In 1999, Refactoring revolutionized design by introducing an effective process for improving code. With the highly anticipated Refactoring to Patterns, Joshua Kerievsky has changed our approach to design by forever uniting patterns with the evolutionary ... Read more

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In 1994, Design Patterns changed the landscape of object-oriented development by introducing classic solutions to recurring design problems. In 1999, Refactoring revolutionized design by introducing an effective process for improving code. With the highly anticipated Refactoring to Patterns, Joshua Kerievsky has changed our approach to design by forever uniting patterns with the evolutionary
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Ansible: Up and Running

Automating Configuration Management and Deployment the Easy Way

by Bas Meijer, Lorin Hochstein, René Moser ...

Among the many configuration management tools available, Ansible has some distinct advantages: It's minimal in nature. You don't need to install agents on your nodes. And there's an easy learning curve. With this updated third edition, you'll quickly learn how to be productive with Ansible whether you're a developer deploying code or a system administrator looking for a better automation solution ... Read more

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Among the many configuration management tools available, Ansible has some distinct advantages: It's minimal in nature. You don't need to install agents on your nodes. And there's an easy learning curve. With this updated third edition, you'll quickly learn how to be productive with Ansible whether you're a developer deploying code or a system administrator looking for a better automation solution
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The Art of Leadership

Small Things, Done Well

by Michael Lopp ...

Many people think leadership is a higher calling that resides exclusively with a select few who practice and preach big, complex leadership philosophies. But as this practical book reveals, what’s most important for leadership is principled consistency. Time and again, small things done well build trust and respect within a team.Using stories from his time at Netscape, Apple, and Slack, Michael ... Read more

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Many people think leadership is a higher calling that resides exclusively with a select few who practice and preach big, complex leadership philosophies. But as this practical book reveals, what’s most important for leadership is principled consistency. Time and again, small things done well build trust and respect within a team.Using stories from his time at Netscape, Apple, and Slack, Michael
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The Singularity Is Near

When Humans Transcend Biology

by Ray Kurzweil ...

'Startling in scope and bravado.' The New York TimesA radical and optimistic view of the future course of human development from the bestselling author of How to Create a Mind and who Bill Gates calls 'the best person I know at predicting the future of artificial intelligence.'For over three decades, Ray Kurzweil has been one of the most respected and provocative advocates of the role of ... Read more

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'Startling in scope and bravado.' The New York TimesA radical and optimistic view of the future course of human development from the bestselling author of How to Create a Mind and who Bill Gates calls 'the best person I know at predicting the future of artificial intelligence.'For over three decades, Ray Kurzweil has been one of the most respected and provocative advocates of the role of
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Quick Start Kubernetes

by Nigel Poulton ...

2025 Edition - Fully Updated for the Latest Kubernetes versions and features!Are you ready to take your tech career to the next level? Curious about Kubernetes but don't know where to start? Look no further!Quick Start Kubernetes by best-selling author Nigel Poulton is the ultimate beginner's guide to Kubernetes - the revolutionary technology driving the future of modern applications and ... Read more

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2025 Edition - Fully Updated for the Latest Kubernetes versions and features!Are you ready to take your tech career to the next level? Curious about Kubernetes but don't know where to start? Look no further!Quick Start Kubernetes by best-selling author Nigel Poulton is the ultimate beginner's guide to Kubernetes - the revolutionary technology driving the future of modern applications and
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