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  • How AI Thinks

    How we built it, how it can help us, and how we can control it

    by Nigel Toon ...
    **THE #2 TIMES BESTSELLER'Artificial intelligence is going to have a massive impact on everyone’s lives... an accessible and sensible read that helps demystify AI' Deborah Meaden, entrepreneur and star of Dragon's Den'Nigel Toon is a visionary leader in the field of artificial intelligence... a must-read' Marc Tremblay, Distinguished Engineer, Microsoft**Those who understand how AI thinks are ... Read more

    $99.69 HKD

  • The Technological Republic

    Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West

    by Alexander C. Karp, Nicholas W. Zamiska ...
    INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • “A cri de coeur that takes aim at the tech industry for abandoning its history of helping America and its allies.”—The Wall Street JournalFrom the Palantir co-founder, one of Time’s 100 Most Influential People of 2025, and his deputy, a critically-acclaimed and sweeping indictment of the West’s culture of complacency, arguing ... Read more

    $99.09 HKD

  • Steve Jobs: The Apple of Our i

    by Daniel Alef ...
    Biographical profile of Steve Jobs the founder of Apple Computers and the man who led an evolution in American technology and culture. He ushered in the world of personal computing with the Apple and Mac line of computers changed the way we buy and listen to music with the iPod iTunes and the iTunes Store introduced us to a new wave of animated films and technology through Pixar with such hits as ... Read more

    $23.38 HKD

  • Introduction to Algorithms, fourth edition

    by Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest, Clifford Stein ...
    A comprehensive update of the leading algorithms text, with new material on matchings in bipartite graphs, online algorithms, machine learning, and other topics.Some books on algorithms are rigorous but incomplete; others cover masses of material but lack rigor. Introduction to Algorithms uniquely combines rigor and comprehensiveness. It covers a broad range of algorithms in depth, yet makes their ... Read more

    $844.29 HKD

  • The Code Book

    The Secret History of Codes and Code-breaking

    by Simon Singh ...
    The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum CryptographyFrom the best-selling author of Fermat’s Last Theorem, The Code Book is a history of man’s urge to uncover the secrets of codes, from Egyptian puzzles to modern day computer encryptions.As in Fermat’s Last Theorem, Simon Singh brings life to an anstonishing story of puzzles, codes, languages and riddles that reveals man’s continual ... Read more

    $76.89 HKD

  • The Unofficial History of Minecraft

    The Complete Gaming Chronicles

    by Jakob Baker ...
    Series series The Complete Gaming Chronicles
    Embark on an epic journey through the evolution of one of gaming's most revolutionary titles in "The Unofficial History of Minecraft: From Cave Game to Global Phenomenon." This comprehensive chronicle traces Minecraft's documented journey from Markus "Notch" Persson's experimental Cave Game to its current status as a worldwide cultural touchstone that has shaped a generation of gamers and creators ... Read more

    $39.99 HKD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Googled

    The End of the World As We Know It

    by Ken Auletta ...
    A revealing, forward-looking examination of the outsize influence Google has had on the changing media Landscape.There are companies that create waves and those that ride or are drowned by them. As only he can, bestselling author Ken Auletta takes readers for a ride on the Google wave, telling the story of how it formed and crashed into traditional media businesses?from newspapers to books, to ... Read more

    $41.19 HKD

  • GCSE ICT for AQA

    by P Evans ...
    This e-book provides a complete text of 30 chapters supported by examination style questions that cover the theory content for AQA GCSE ICT (4520). The author is a former Principal Examiner for GCSE ICT. ... Read more

    $135.00 HKD

  • Androids

    The Team that Built the Android Operating System

    by Chet Haase ...
    The fascinating inside story of how the Android operating system came to be.In 2004, Android was two people who wanted to build camera software but couldn't get investors interested. Today, Android is a large team at Google, delivering an operating system (including camera software) to over 3 billion devices worldwide. This is the inside story, told by the people who made it happen.Androids: The ... Read more

    $112.59 HKD

  • The System

    Who Owns the Internet, and How It Owns Us

    by James Ball ...
    'A fascinating exposé of the world behind your screen. Timely, often disturbing, and so important'Caroline Criado Perez, author of Invisible Women'Takes us beyond Zuckerberg, Bezos et al to a murkier world where we discover how everything online works and who benefits from it. Fascinating, engaging and important'Observer'Could not be more timely'<s... ... Read more

    $75.09 HKD

  • This Machine Kills Secrets

    Julian Assange, the Cypherpunks, and Their Fight to Empower Whistleblowers

    by Andy Greenberg ...
    At last, the first full account of the cypherpunks who aim to free the world’s institutional secrets, by Forbes journalist Andy Greenberg who has traced their shadowy history from the cryptography revolution of the 1970s to Wikileaks founding hacker Julian Assange, Anonymous, and beyond.WikiLeaks brought to light a new form of whistleblowing, using powerful cryptographic code to hide leakers’ ... Read more

    $41.19 HKD

  • The Cult of Mac, 2nd Edition

    by Leander Kahney, David Pierini ...
    It's been nearly fifteen years since Apple fans raved over the first edition of the critically-acclaimed The Cult of Mac. This long-awaited second edition brings the reader into the world of Apple today while also filling in the missing history since the 2004 edition, including the creation of Apple brand loyalty, the introduction of the iPhone, and the death of Steve Jobs.Apple is a global luxury ... Read more

    $185.69 HKD

  • Head First Java

    by Kathy Sierra, Bert Bates, Trisha Gee ...
    What will you learn from this book?Head First Java is a complete learning experience in Java and object-oriented programming. With this book, you'll learn the Java language with a unique method that goes beyond how-to manuals and helps you become a great programmer. Through puzzles, mysteries, and soul-searching interviews with famous Java objects, you'll quickly get up to speed on Java's ... Read more

    $382.79 HKD

  • Fancy Bear Goes Phishing

    The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks

    by Scott J. Shapiro ...
    “Unsettling, absolutely riveting, and—for better or worse—necessary reading.” —Brian Christian, author of Algorithms to Live By and The Alignment ProblemAn entertaining account of the philosophy and technology of hacking—and why we all need to understand it.It’s a signal paradox of our times that we live in an information society but do not know how it works. And without understanding how our ... Read more

    $84.29 HKD

  • CompTIA Cloud+ Certification Study Guide (Exam CV0-001)

    by Nate Stammer, Scott Wilson ...
    Series series Certification Press
    The best fully integrated study system available for the CompTIA Cloud+ Certification examWith hundreds of practice questions, CompTIA Cloud+ Certification Study Guide covers what you need to know—and shows you how to prepare—for this challenging exam. McGraw-Hill Professional is a Gold-Level CompTIA Authorized Partner offering Authorized CompTIA Approved Quality Content to give you the ... Read more

    $253.29 HKD

  • Mark Zuckerberg: The Face Behind Facebook And Social Networking

    by Daniel Alef ...
    Mark Zuckerberg, the 26-year-old founder of Facebook, is the youngest self-made billionaire in history. He is also considered by many to be one of the most influential persons in the information age. His impact on American culture is virtually unprecedented. The recent film, "Social Network" does not portray him in the kindest light, but is it a work of fact or fiction? Separating fiction from ... Read more

    $23.38 HKD

  • Gamish

    A Graphic History of Gaming

    by Edward Ross ...
    *Shortlisted for the British Book Design and Production Award for Graphic Novels*'A love letter to gaming in all its forms - from board games, to role-play, to virtual reality and video games. For fans of gaming, this is the perfect read. For those new to gaming, it is the perfect introduction' The ScotsmanA thrilling illustrated journey through the history of video games and what they really mean ... Read more

    $192.49 HKD

  • Computer Architecture

    by Charles Fox ...
    Not since the 1980s has computer architecture been so exciting! This book captures the moment, mining the history of computing to teach key concepts in modern hardware design and introduce the neural and quantum architectures of the future.Computer Architecture is an in-depth exploration of the principles and designs that have shaped computer hardware through the ages, from counting devices like ... Read more

    $270.19 HKD

  • Crypto

    How the Code Rebels Beat the Government--Saving Privacy in the Digital Age

    by Steven Levy ...
    If you've ever made a secure purchase with your credit card over the Internet, then you have seen cryptography, or "crypto", in action. From Stephen Levy-the author who made "hackers" a household word-comes this account of a revolution that is already affecting every citizen in the twenty-first century. Crypto tells the inside story of how a group of "crypto rebels"—nerds and visionaries turned ... Read more

    $99.09 HKD

  • Multiflow Computer: A Start-up Odyssey

    by Elizabeth Fisher ...
    Multiflow Computer is the personal story of a computer start-up, centered on Josh Fisher and his creation of VLIW architecture. Written by his wife, the book describes Multiflow's initial funding problems, its emergence as a rising star, increasingly desperate searches for funding, and its shutting down after the failure of negotiations with the Digital Equipment Corporation.The computer industry ... Read more

    $23.99 HKD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The New Digital Age

    Transforming Nations, Businesses, and Our Lives

    by Eric Schmidt, Jared Cohen ...
    In an unparalleled collaboration, two leading global thinkers in technology and foreign affairs give us their widely anticipated, transformational vision of the future: a world where everyone is connected—a world full of challenges and benefits that are ours to meet and to harness.Eric Schmidt is one of Silicon Valley’s great leaders, having taken Google from a small startup to one of the world’s ... Read more

    $57.69 HKD

  • For Fun and Profit

    A History of the Free and Open Source Software Revolution

    by Christopher Tozzi ...
    Series series History of Computing
    The free and open source software movement, from its origins in hacker culture, through the development of GNU and Linux, to its commercial use today.In the 1980s, there was a revolution with far-reaching consequences—a revolution to restore software freedom. In the early 1980s, after decades of making source code available with programs, most programmers ceased sharing code freely. A band of ... Read more

    $196.99 HKD

  • Tablet Topics

    by Jon Paul Olivier ...
    Do you have a tablet or smartphone and only use it for one or two functions? Do you want to find out what else your device can do? This book is a compilation of a weekly mailing list I wrote for my employer. With their permission, I have released it as a free e-book to show many of the things your mobile device is capable of doing. From the office, to the home, to vacation, read about things you ... Read more

    Free

  • Java Pocket Guide

    Instant Help for Java Programmers

    by Robert Liguori, Patricia Liguori ...
    Any time you need quick answers for developing or debugging Java programs, this pocket guide is the ideal reference to standard features of the Java programming language and its platform. Youâ??ll find helpful programming examples, tables, figures, and lists fastâ??including Java 9 features such as modular source code and the new JShell interactive command-line REPL. Itâ??s a handy companion, ... Read more

    $123.79 HKD