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  • The Atlas of AI

    Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence

    by Kate Crawford ...
    The hidden costs of artificial intelligence, from natural resources and labor to privacy and freedomWhat happens when artificial intelligence saturates political life and depletes the planet? How is AI shaping our understanding of ourselves and our societies? In this book Kate Crawford reveals how this planetary network is fueling a shift toward undemocratic governance and increased inequality. ... Read more

    18,43 €

  • End Times Fascism

    And the Fight for the Living World

    by Naomi Klein, Astra Taylor ...
    THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA 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 ... Read more

    14,99 €

  • The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State

    by Jill Lepore ...
    Longlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year 2026'Superb' Philip Pullman'Revelatory' George SaundersIt presented itself as a form of futurism. But the future envisioned by the architects of the Artificial State looked, chillingly, like the very worst of the past…We live in the age of data. Over the past century, rapidly evolving technologies have transformed every aspect of our ... Read more

    14,99 €

  • Το Δαχτυλίδι της Σαπουνόφουσκας

    Βασισμένο σε αληθινές εφηβικές ιστορίες γύρω από παιχνίδια στο διαδίκτυο

    by Ιωάννα Σκαρλάτου ...
    Μια δεκαοχτάχρονη κοπέλα, η Ζέφη, παίζει το γνωστό διαδικτυακό παιχνίδι "The second life". Κάποια στιγμή μπερδεύεται... πού είναι η αλήθεια... πού η εικονική πραγματικότητα. Τελικά αποφασίζει να βάλει τέρμα στη ζωή της...Ενώ βρίσκεται στην εντατική με την καρδιά της να παλεύει και να παλεύει, λίγο πριν σταματήσει οριστικά... προσεύχεται για μια δεύτερη ευκαιρία και ένας άγγελος από τη Μυτιλήνη ... Read more

    6,99 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Coming Wave

    AI, Power and Our Future: The instant Sunday Times bestseller from the ultimate AI insider

    by Mustafa Suleyman, Michael Bhaskar ...
    *An Economist, Financial Times, Guardian, Prospect and Sunday Times Book of the Year*Shortlisted for the FT and Schroders Business Book of the YearThis is the only book you need to understand our new world – from the ultimate AI insider, the CEO of Microsoft AI and co-founder of the pioneering AI company DeepMind.'If you want to understand the rise of AI, ... ... Read more

    9,49 €

  • If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies

    Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All

    by Eliezer Yudkowsky, Nate Soares ...
    **INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | The New Yorker's Best Books of 2025 | The Guardian's Best Books of 2025 | A 2025 Booklist Editors' Choice PickThe scramble to create superhuman AI has put us on the path to extinction—but it’s not too late to change course, as two of the field’s earliest researchers explain in this clarion call for humanity."May prove to be the most important book of our time. ... Read more

    10,99 €

  • 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 FRYDiscover the 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 Sapiens. The perfect Christmas gift for curious minds.Stories</str... ... Read more

    10,99 €

  • The Quick Guide to Cloud Computing and Cyber Security

    by Marcia R.T. Pistorious ...
    This is a Quick Guide to Cloud Computing and Cyber Security - For Beginners.Cloud computing has appeared in many small forms and now it is emerging as a huge solution to the problem of the fast changing and increasingly cyber world in which we live and work.Table of ContentsWhat is Cloud Computing?Types of Cloud ComputingCloud Computing ExamplesCyber SecurityCyber Security DangersPhysical ... Read more

    Free

  • Beginner's Guide to Information Security

    by Limor Elbaz ...
    The Beginner’s Guide to Information Security offers insight and resources to help readers embark on a career in one of the 21st century’s most important—and potentially lucrative—fields. Maybe you want to move into information security from IT, say, from a developer or system administrator role. Or maybe you just graduated with your bachelor’s or master’s degree. Whatever your education or prior ... Read more

    Free

  • 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

    10,99 €

  • Alan Turing: The Enigma

    by Andrew Hodges ...
    A new edition to celebrate Alan Turing's centenary, includes a new foreword by the author and a preface by Douglas Hofstadter.Alan Turing was the extraordinary Cambridge mathematician who masterminded the cracking of the German Enigma ciphers and transformed the Second World War. But his vision went far beyond this crucial achievement. Before the war he had formulated the concept of the universal ... Read more

    10,99 €

  • Rust Atomics and Locks

    Low-Level Concurrency in Practice

    by Mara Bos ...
    The Rust programming language is extremely well suited for concurrency, and its ecosystem has many libraries that include lots of concurrent data structures, locks, and more. But implementing those structures correctly can be very difficult. Even in the most well-used libraries, memory ordering bugs are not uncommon.In this practical book, Mara Bos, leader of the Rust library team, helps Rust ... Read more

    24,48 €

  • 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

    5,49 €

  • Designing Data-Intensive Applications

    The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems

    by Martin Kleppmann, Chris Riccomini ...
    Data is at the center of many challenges in system design today. Difficult issues such as scalability, consistency, reliability, efficiency, and maintainability need to be resolved. In addition, there's an overwhelming variety of systems, including relational databases, NoSQL datastores, data warehouses, and data lakes. There are cloud services, on-premises services, and embedded databases. What ... Read more

    32,11 €

  • Τεχνητή Νοημοσύνη: Η Τέταρτη Βιομηχανική Επανάσταση

    by Peter Skalfist, Daniel Mikelsten, Vasil Teigens ...
    Η Τέταρτη Βιομηχανική Επανάσταση αντιπροσωπεύει μια θεμελιώδη αλλαγή στον τρόπο με τον οποίο ζούμε, εργαζόμαστε και έχουμε σχέση μεταξύ τους. Πρόκειται για ένα νέο κεφάλαιο στην ανθρώπινη ανάπτυξη, το οποίο επιτρέπει εξαιρετικές τεχνολογικές προόδους ανάλογες με εκείνες της πρώτης, δεύτερης και τρίτης βιομηχανικής επανάστασης. Αυτές οι πρόοδοι είναι η συγχώνευση του φυσικού, του ψηφιακού και του ... Read more

    3,49 €

  • The Scaling Era

    An Oral History of AI, 2019–2025

    by Dwarkesh Patel ...
    An inside view of the AI revolution, from the people and companies making it happen.How did we build large language models? How do they think, if they think? What will the world look like if we have billions of AIs that are as smart as humans, or even smarter?In a series of in-depth interviews with leading AI researchers and company founders—including Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, DeepMind cofounder ... Read more

    9,99 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Artificial Intelligence

    A Guide for Thinking Humans

    by Melanie Mitchell ...
    **“After reading Mitchell’s guide, you’ll know what you don’t know and what other people don’t know, even though they claim to know it. And that’s invaluable.” —The New York TimesA leading computer scientist brings human sense to the AI bubble.**No recent scientific enterprise has proved as alluring, terrifying, and filled with extravagant promise and frustrating setbacks as artificial ... Read more

    9,85 €

  • Building Support Structures, 2nd Ed., Analysis and Design with SAP2000 Software

    by Wolfgang Schueller ...
    This textbook provides a unique and comprehensive perspective on the analysis and design of building structures. Striving to bridge the gap between how engineers and architects view structural support, this book’s numerous examples employing SAP2000 illustrate how modern analysis software can provide a common language for understanding and exploring structural behavior. Using an organic approach ... Read more

    12,49 €

  • Frictionless

    7 Steps to Remove Barriers, Unlock Value, and Outpace Your Competition in the AI Era

    by Nicole Forsgren, Abi Noda ...
    In an era where AI can generate code in minutes, why do software teams still struggle to deliver?While artificial intelligence transforms how we build software, most organizations remain trapped by friction that turns AI's promise of speed into bottleneck nightmares. Slow deployments, brittle systems, and frustrated developers create invisible drag on innovation—costing US companies $1.52 trillion ... Read more

    9,09 €

  • Algorithms to Live By

    The Computer Science of Human Decisions

    by Brian Christian, Tom Griffiths ...
    An exploration of how computer algorithms can be applied to our everyday lives to solve common decision-making problems and illuminate the workings of the human mind.What should we do, or leave undone, in a day or a lifetime? How much messiness should we accept? What balance of the new and familiar is the most fulfilling? These may seem like uniquely human quandaries, but they are not. Computers, ... Read more

    10,59 €

  • Head First Software Architecture

    A Learner's Guide to Architectural Thinking

    by Raju Gandhi, Mark Richards, Neal Ford ...
    What will you learn from this book?If you're a software developer looking for a quick on-ramp to software architecture, this handy guide is a great place to start. From the authors of Fundamentals of Software Architecture, Head First Software Architecture teaches you how to think architecturally and explores the unique challenges of software architecture. You'll learn the distinction between ... Read more

    34,33 €

  • Artificial Intelligence

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Margaret A. Boden ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The applications of Artificial Intelligence lie all around us; in our homes, schools and offices, in our cinemas, in art galleries and - not least - on the Internet. The results of Artificial Intelligence have been invaluable to biologists, psychologists, and linguists in helping to understand the processes of memory, learning, and language from a fresh angle. As a concept, Artificial Intelligence ... Read more

    7,27 €

  • Genesis

    Artificial Intelligence, Hope, and the Human Spirit

    by Eric Schmidt, Henry A. Kissinger, Craig Mundie ...
    **THE FOLLOW UP TO THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER THE AGE OF AIIn his final book, the late Henry Kissinger joins forces with two leading technologists to mount a profound exploration of the epochal challenges and opportunities presented by the revolution in Artificial Intelligence.**As it absorbs data, gains agency, and intermediates between humans and reality, AI (Artificial Intelligence) will help ... Read more

    7,99 €

  • An Introduction to General Systems Thinking

    Systems Thinking, #1

    by Gerald M. Weinberg ...
    Series Book 1 - Systems Thinking
    For more than thirty-five years, An Introduction to General Systems Thinking has been hailed as an innovative introduction to systems theory, with applications in software development and testing, medicine, engineering, social sciences, architecture, and beyond. Used in university courses and professional seminars all over the world, the text has proven its ability to open minds and sharpen ... Read more

    8,99 €