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  • The Cranky Man's Guide to LoRA and QLoRA

    by F. P. Ham ...
    "AGI on your toaster by Tuesday," they promised. Hahahaha!If you're tired of the AI hype, sick of impenetrable techno-babble, and ready to get your hands dirty fine-tuning your own Large Language Models, this is the book you've been searching for.Written in a distinctly cranky, humorous, and often cynical voice by an experienced programmer who didn't just use the AI tools—he built them—this guide ... Read more

    $22.99 NZD

  • Scary Smart

    The Future of Artificial Intelligence and How You Can Save Our World

    by Mo Gawdat ...
    There has never been a time when the risk of technology ruining our humanity has been bigger. This book is not for the engineers that write the code, the policy makers who claim they can regulate it or the experts that keep creating the buzz around it. They all know what I’m about to tell you. This is a book for you. Because, believe it or not, you are the only one that can fix it' Mo GawdatNo one ... Read more

    Was $9.99 NZD Now $3.99 NZD

  • The God We Made

    The Threat and Promise of Artificial Intelligence; Quarterly Essay 102

    by Anna Goldsworthy ...
    Series Book 102 - Quarterly Essay
    Humanity in the age of AIHow will we be changed by the rise of artificial intelligence? In this scintillating essay, Anna Goldsworthy argues that AI is a rupture that makes us confront what it is to be human – what we do, and want. As it learns human ways, AI raises big questions about work, leisure and education. It brings new existential, social and ethical risks. Above all, it invites us to ... Read more

    $13.99 NZD

  • Empire of AI

    Inside the reckless race for total domination

    by Karen Hao ...
    Winner 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 2025**A New York Times BestsellerAn 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 and OpenAI**When longtime AI expert and jo... ... Read more

    $20.99 NZD

  • Building Apps for the Universal Windows Platform

    Explore Windows 10 Native, IoT, HoloLens, and Xamarin

    by Ayan Chatterjee ...
    Series series Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
    Develop Windows 10 applications faster and more efficiently using the Universal Windows Platform. You will use Xamarin to create apps for macOS, iOS, and Android devices.Building Apps for the Universal Windows Platform is a complete guide covering PCs, tablets, phones, and other devices such as HoloLens. You will use Windows 10 to develop apps for desktop, mobile, holographic, wearable, and IoT ... Read more

    $66.46 NZD

  • Human Compatible

    AI and the Problem of Control

    by Stuart Russell ...
    **FROM THE BBC REITH LECTURER 2021'The most important book I have read in quite some time' Daniel Kahneman; 'A must-read' Max Tegmark; 'The book we've all been waiting for' Sam Harris**Humans dream of super-intelligent machines. But what happens if we actually succeed?Creating superior intelligence would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, according to the world's pre-eminent AI ... Read more

    $20.99 NZD

  • 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

    $17.99 NZD

  • Disrupt With Impact

    Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World

    by Roger Spitz ...
    WINNER: 2024 Foreword Indies Book of the Year - Bronze, Business & Economics; WINNER: 2024 Chanticleer International Book Awards (CIBA), Harvey Chute First Place Category Winner - Non-Fiction Business & Enterprise; WINNER: Readers' Favorite Book Awards 2025 - Bronze Medal in Non-Fiction Business; FINALIST: 2025 International Book Awards (IBA) - Business: General and Management & Leadership</e... ... Read more

    $50.99 NZD

  • Data Governance Handbook

    A practical approach to building trust in data

    by Wendy S. Batchelder ...
    Build an actionable, business value driven case for data governance to obtain executive support and implement with excellence Free with your book: DRM-free PDF version + access to Packt's next-gen Reader\*Key FeaturesDevelop a solid foundation in data governance and increase your confidence in data solutionsAlign data governance solutions with measurable business results and apply practical ... Read more

    $61.99 NZD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Love Machines

    How Artificial Intelligence is Transforming Our Relationships

    by James Muldoon ...
    A captivating, uncanny journey to the frontier of human-computer interaction.'It's hard to imagine a timelier book right now than this . . . you probably won't look at ChatGPT the same again.'GQ'Urgent, humane.' GUARDIAN'Engrossing.' INDEPENDENT'Existentially chilling.' THE TIMESI know we haven't known each for long, but ... ... Read more

    $22.99 NZD

  • Elasticsearch 8 for Developers - 2nd Edition

    A beginner's guide to indexing, analyzing, searching, and aggregating data (English Edition)

    by Anurag Srivastava ...
    Elasticsearch is a powerful tool for handling and managing large amount of data. It is scalable, reliable, and fast, with various features for data analysis and search. This book is a comprehensive guide to using Elasticsearch to manage data. It starts with an overview of Elasticsearch, detailing its importance in today's world. The book further covers the basics of Elasticsearch, including ... Read more

    $30.35 NZD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Pyside GUI Application Development- Second Edition

    Develop more dynamic and robust GUI applications using PySide, an open source cross-platform UI framework

    by Gopinath Jaganmohan, Venkateshwaran Loganathan ...
    Develop more dynamic and robust GUI applications using PySide, an open source cross-platform UI frameworkKey Features\[\*\]Designed for beginners to help you get started with GUI application development\[\*\]Develop your own applications by creating customized widgets and dialogs\[\*\]Written in a simple and elegant structure so you easily understand how to program various GUI componentsBook ... Read more

    $42.42 NZD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Pro MERN Stack

    Full Stack Web App Development with Mongo, Express, React, and Node

    by Vasan Subramanian ...
    Series series Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
    Assemble the complete stack required to build a modern web app using React: MongoDB (a NoSQL database) and Express (a framework for web application servers), which runs on Node (JavaScript on the server side), complement React very nicely. This book will also cover many other tools that go into building a complete web application: React Router, React-Bootstrap, Redux, Babel, and webpack.Though the ... Read more

    $89.23 NZD

  • The Falls

    The number one bestselling series that inspired BBC One’s REBUS

    by Ian Rankin ...
    Series Book 12 - A Rebus Novel
    The twelfth Inspector Rebus bestseller - a powerfully gripping novel where past and present collide...From the No.1 bestselling author of A SONG FOR THE DARK TIMES'This is, quite simply, crime writing of the highest order' DAILY EXPRESS'The unopposed champion of the British police procedural' GUARDIANA student has gone missing in Edinburgh. She's not just any student, though, but the daughter of ... Read more

    $13.99 NZD

  • 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

    $20.99 NZD

  • 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

    Was $21.99 NZD Now $18.99 NZD

  • Seen to Be Believed

    A tense and suspenseful crime thriller

    by Louisa Scarr ...
    Series Book 4 - Butler & West
    'Butler and West are fast becoming my favourite detective partnership... Addictive reading!' Alison Belsham, author of The Tattoo ThiefNothing is as it seems, for Butler and West.One spring evening, a mother and her children are brutally attacked in their home. The unprovoked and violent assault leaves DS Robin Butler and DC Freya West in the dark the luxury items were left untouched and there is ... Read more

    $22.18 NZD

  • The Island

    by Ben Coes ...
    Series series Dewey Andreas Thrillers
    Dewey Andreas is the last line of defence. The latest in the New York Times bestselling series from Ben Coes.America is about to face the deadliest terrorist attack since 9/11. Iran has been planning revenge, with three goals in mind: assassinate the President. Bring America to its knees. And neutralize their most successful agent, Dewey Andreas.When the President arrives in New York to address ... Read more

    $27.13 NZD

  • 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

    $18.99 NZD

  • 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

    $21.72 NZD

  • Life 3.0

    Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

    by Max Tegmark ...
    ***'*This is the most important conversation of our time, and Tegmark's thought-provoking book will help you join it' Stephen HawkingTHE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER. DAILY TELEGRAPH AND THE TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEARSELECTED AS ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVOURITE BOOKS OF 2018**AI is the future - but what will that future look like? Will superhuman intelligence be our slave, or become our god?Taking us to ... Read more

    $17.99 NZD

  • 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

    $13.99 NZD

  • Co-Intelligence

    The Definitive, Bestselling Guide to Living and Working with AI

    by Ethan Mollick ...
    The New York Times BestsellerThe urgent and definitive guide to working, learning, and living in the new age of artificial intelligence from the acclaimed Wharton Professor of Management and author of the One Useful Thing Substack.'The very best book I know about the ins, outs, and ethics of generative AI. Drop everything and read it cover to cover NOW' Angela Duckworth, bestselling author of Grit ... Read more

    Was $18.99 NZD Now $15.99 NZD

  • The New Age of Sexism

    How the AI Revolution is Reinventing Misogyny

    by Laura Bates ...
    'I urge you to read every syllable' JO BRAND‘Reads like a thriller’ DAILY TELEGRAPH‘Illuminating and frequently chilling’ JAMES O’BRIEN‘Urgent’ EMMA LOUISE-BOYNTONAI is here, bringing a seismic shift in the way our society operates.With misogyny baked into their design, new AI-driven technologies are putting women in danger, their rights and safety sacrificed at the alt... ... Read more

    $14.99 NZD