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Console Wars

Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation

by Blake J. Harris ...

Now a documentary on CBS All Access.Following the success of The Accidental Billionaires and Moneyball comes Console Wars—a mesmerizing, behind-the-scenes business thriller that chronicles the history of video games and how Sega, a small, scrappy gaming company led by an unlikely visionary and a team of rebels, took on the juggernaut Nintendo and revolutionized the video game industry.In 1990, ... Read more

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Now a documentary on CBS All Access.Following the success of The Accidental Billionaires and Moneyball comes Console Wars—a mesmerizing, behind-the-scenes business thriller that chronicles the history of video games and how Sega, a small, scrappy gaming company led by an unlikely visionary and a team of rebels, took on the juggernaut Nintendo and revolutionized the video game industry.In 1990,
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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 ...

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNational Indie Bestseller"[Doctorow] resembles the great rock critics of an earlier era, a high-tech Greil Marcus or even a Lester Bangs." —Stephen Marche, The New York Times Book ReviewA short, provocative guide to what's good, bad, and stupid about AI and the discourse around AI, by the author of Enshittification.In modern tech parlance, a c... ... Read more

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AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNational Indie Bestseller"[Doctorow] resembles the great rock critics of an earlier era, a high-tech Greil Marcus or even a Lester Bangs." —Stephen Marche, The New York Times Book ReviewA short, provocative guide to what's good, bad, and stupid about AI and the discourse around AI, by the author of Enshittification.In modern tech parlance, a c...
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Replacement

The AI Revolution Isn't Coming for Your Job. It Already Took It.

by Nicolas Chaillan ...

What happens when artificial intelligence doesn't just change work but eliminates it? Not someday. Now.Nicolas Chaillan served as the first Chief Software Officer of the U.S. Air Force and Space Force. He watched the shift happen inside the Pentagon-then built it himself, running thirteen AI agents for roughly $200 a day to replace work that once required a full team.Replacement is a firsthand ... Read more

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What happens when artificial intelligence doesn't just change work but eliminates it? Not someday. Now.Nicolas Chaillan served as the first Chief Software Officer of the U.S. Air Force and Space Force. He watched the shift happen inside the Pentagon-then built it himself, running thirteen AI agents for roughly $200 a day to replace work that once required a full team.Replacement is a firsthand
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We Are Not Machines

The Fight for the Future of Work

by Sarah O’Connor ...

**“Original and enlightening....the kind of writing that AI will never replace.”—The TimesFrom award-winning Financial Times journalist Sarah O’Connor, a deeply reported investigation into how AI and robotics are transforming the way we work.**Automation, we were told, was meant to do away with dull and dangerous tasks, freeing us to pursue more fulfilling work. But AI now threatens to turn even ... Read more

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**“Original and enlightening....the kind of writing that AI will never replace.”—The TimesFrom award-winning Financial Times journalist Sarah O’Connor, a deeply reported investigation into how AI and robotics are transforming the way we work.**Automation, we were told, was meant to do away with dull and dangerous tasks, freeing us to pursue more fulfilling work. But AI now threatens to turn even
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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 ...

This "smart and wonderfully readable" (New York Times) exposé shows why Silicon Valley’s heartless, baseless, and foolish obsessions—with escaping death, building AI tyrants, and creating limitless growth—are about oligarchic power, not preparing for the futureNamed a Best Book of the Year by Science News • Conversation •... ... Read more

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This "smart and wonderfully readable" (New York Times) exposé shows why Silicon Valley’s heartless, baseless, and foolish obsessions—with escaping death, building AI tyrants, and creating limitless growth—are about oligarchic power, not preparing for the futureNamed a Best Book of the Year by Science News • Conversation •...
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Nexus

A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

by Yuval Noah Harari ...

**#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of Sapiens comes the groundbreaking story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world.“Strikingly original . . . A historian whose arguments operate on the scale of millennia has managed to capture the zeitgeist perfectly.”—The Economist“This deeply important book comes at a critical time as we all think through the implications of ... Read more

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**#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of Sapiens comes the groundbreaking story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world.“Strikingly original . . . A historian whose arguments operate on the scale of millennia has managed to capture the zeitgeist perfectly.”—The Economist“This deeply important book comes at a critical time as we all think through the implications of
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The Laws of Thought

The Quest for a Mathematical Theory of the Mind

by Tom Griffiths ...

From the coauthor of Algorithms to Live By, an exploration of the quest to use mathematics to describe the ways we think, from its origins three hundred years ago to the ideas behind modern AI systems and the ways in which they still differ from human mindsEveryone has a basic understanding of how the physical world works. We learn about physics and chemistry in school, letting us explain the ... Read more

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From the coauthor of Algorithms to Live By, an exploration of the quest to use mathematics to describe the ways we think, from its origins three hundred years ago to the ideas behind modern AI systems and the ways in which they still differ from human mindsEveryone has a basic understanding of how the physical world works. We learn about physics and chemistry in school, letting us explain the
... Read more
Deciphering Data Architectures

Choosing Between a Modern Data Warehouse, Data Fabric, Data Lakehouse, and Data Mesh

by James Serra ...

Data fabric, data lakehouse, and data mesh have recently appeared as viable alternatives to the modern data warehouse. These new architectures have solid benefits, but they're also surrounded by a lot of hyperbole and confusion. This practical book provides a guided tour of these architectures to help data professionals understand the pros and cons of each.James Serra, big data and data ... Read more

$48.99 USD

Data fabric, data lakehouse, and data mesh have recently appeared as viable alternatives to the modern data warehouse. These new architectures have solid benefits, but they're also surrounded by a lot of hyperbole and confusion. This practical book provides a guided tour of these architectures to help data professionals understand the pros and cons of each.James Serra, big data and data
... Read more
Managing Data as a Product

Design and build data-product-centered socio-technical architectures

by Andrea Gioia ...

Learn everything you need to know to manage data as a product and shift toward a more modular and decentralized socio-technical data architecture to deliver business value in an incremental, measurable, and sustainable way Free with your book: DRM-free PDF version + access to Packt's next-gen Reader\*Key FeaturesLeverage data-as-product to unlock the modular platform potential and fix flaws in ... Read more

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Learn everything you need to know to manage data as a product and shift toward a more modular and decentralized socio-technical data architecture to deliver business value in an incremental, measurable, and sustainable way Free with your book: DRM-free PDF version + access to Packt's next-gen Reader\*Key FeaturesLeverage data-as-product to unlock the modular platform potential and fix flaws in
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Why the Mind Is Not a Computer

A Pocket Lexicon of Neuromythology

by Raymond Tallis ...

Series Book 7 - Societas
The equation "Mind = Machine" is false. This pocket lexicon of "neuromythology" shows why. Taking a series of key words such as calculation, language, information and memory, Professor Tallis shows how their misuse has a lured a whole generation into accepting the computational model of the mind.First of all these words were used literally in the description of the human mind. Then computer ... Read more

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The equation "Mind = Machine" is false. This pocket lexicon of "neuromythology" shows why. Taking a series of key words such as calculation, language, information and memory, Professor Tallis shows how their misuse has a lured a whole generation into accepting the computational model of the mind.First of all these words were used literally in the description of the human mind. Then computer
... Read more
Supremacy

AI, ChatGPT, and the Race That Will Change the World

by Parmy Olson ...

WINNER OF THE FINANCIAL TIMES AND SCHRODERS 2024 BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDIn November of 2022, a webpage was posted online with a simple text box. It was an AI chatbot called ChatGPT, and was unlike any app people had used before. It was more human than a customer service agent, more convenient than a Google search. Behind the scenes, battles for control and prestige between the world’s two ... Read more

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WINNER OF THE FINANCIAL TIMES AND SCHRODERS 2024 BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDIn November of 2022, a webpage was posted online with a simple text box. It was an AI chatbot called ChatGPT, and was unlike any app people had used before. It was more human than a customer service agent, more convenient than a Google search. Behind the scenes, battles for control and prestige between the world’s two
... Read more
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
... Read more
Fundamentals of Software Architecture

A Modern Engineering Approach

by Mark Richards, Neal Ford ...

Salary surveys worldwide regularly place software architect in the top 10 best jobs, yet no real guide exists to help developers become architects. Until now. This updated edition provides a comprehensive overview of software architecture's many aspects, with five new chapters covering the latest insights from the field. Aspiring and existing architects alike will examine architectural ... Read more

$48.99 USD

Salary surveys worldwide regularly place software architect in the top 10 best jobs, yet no real guide exists to help developers become architects. Until now. This updated edition provides a comprehensive overview of software architecture's many aspects, with five new chapters covering the latest insights from the field. Aspiring and existing architects alike will examine architectural
... Read more
A Brief History of Intelligence

Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains

by Max S. Bennett ...

“I found this book amazing. I read it through quickly because it was so interesting, then turned around and read much of it again.”—Daniel Kahneman, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics and bestselling author of Thinking Fast & Slow“I've been recommending A Brief History of Intelligence to everyone I know. A truly novel, beautifully crafted thesis on what intelligence is and how it has developed ... Read more

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“I found this book amazing. I read it through quickly because it was so interesting, then turned around and read much of it again.”—Daniel Kahneman, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics and bestselling author of Thinking Fast & Slow“I've been recommending A Brief History of Intelligence to everyone I know. A truly novel, beautifully crafted thesis on what intelligence is and how it has developed
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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 work of technology criticism that examines the technologies sold as artificial intelligence, the drawbacks of systems sold under this banner, and why it’s crucial to recognize the many ways in which AI hype covers for a small set of power-hungry actors.Is artificial intelligence going to take over the world? Have big tech scientists created an artificial lifeform that can think ... Read more

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A smart, incisive work of technology criticism that examines the technologies sold as artificial intelligence, the drawbacks of systems sold under this banner, and why it’s crucial to recognize the many ways in which AI hype covers for a small set of power-hungry actors.Is artificial intelligence going to take over the world? Have big tech scientists created an artificial lifeform that can think
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Software Architecture: The Hard Parts

Modern Trade-Off Analyses for Distributed Architectures

by Neal Ford, Mark Richards, Pramod Sadalage, Zhamak Dehghani ...

There are no easy decisions in software architecture. Instead, there are many hard parts--difficult problems or issues with no best practices--that force you to choose among various compromises. With this book, you'll learn how to think critically about the trade-offs involved with distributed architectures.Architecture veterans and practicing consultants Neal Ford, Mark Richards, Pramod Sadalage, ... Read more

$48.99 USD

There are no easy decisions in software architecture. Instead, there are many hard parts--difficult problems or issues with no best practices--that force you to choose among various compromises. With this book, you'll learn how to think critically about the trade-offs involved with distributed architectures.Architecture veterans and practicing consultants Neal Ford, Mark Richards, Pramod Sadalage,
... Read more
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

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**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.
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The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State

by Jill Lepore ...

**“Lepore is our best scholar of the culture of governance, and our most vital historian. Here she repudiates the prospect of AI as a replacement for democracy. This is the issue of our times, and Lepore is the voice of sanity.”—Jaron Lanier, author of You Are Not a Gadget**“Much in history is headlong but few grand transformations have been more precipitate or more heedless than the rise of . . . ... Read more

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**“Lepore is our best scholar of the culture of governance, and our most vital historian. Here she repudiates the prospect of AI as a replacement for democracy. This is the issue of our times, and Lepore is the voice of sanity.”—Jaron Lanier, author of You Are Not a Gadget**“Much in history is headlong but few grand transformations have been more precipitate or more heedless than the rise of . . .
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The Psychology of Software Teams

by Cat Hicks ...

To build the future, we need new ways of supporting software teams. This book will give you a secret weapon: the psychology that creates resilience for developers, sustainable practices for software teams, and innovation for organizations. You’ll learn from rigorous empirical evidence gathered from top engineering organizations and thousands of developers around the world, revealing powerful ... Read more

$27.99 USD

To build the future, we need new ways of supporting software teams. This book will give you a secret weapon: the psychology that creates resilience for developers, sustainable practices for software teams, and innovation for organizations. You’ll learn from rigorous empirical evidence gathered from top engineering organizations and thousands of developers around the world, revealing powerful
... Read more
The God Test

Artificial Intelligence and Our Coming Cosmic Reckoning

by Robert Wright ...

From bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize finalist Robert Wright comes a sweeping new view of artificial intelligence—as an evolutionary force that will pose deep political and spiritual challenges and could, in the process, give our species a unifying sense of purpose.The God Test is the first book to capture the power behind the AI revolution—to clearly explain the breakthroughs that sparked ... Read more

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From bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize finalist Robert Wright comes a sweeping new view of artificial intelligence—as an evolutionary force that will pose deep political and spiritual challenges and could, in the process, give our species a unifying sense of purpose.The God Test is the first book to capture the power behind the AI revolution—to clearly explain the breakthroughs that sparked
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Securing AI Agents

Foundations, Frameworks, and Real-World Deployment

by Ken Huang, Chris Hughes ...

Series series Business and Management (R0)
This book focuses on agentic AI security, providing a comprehensive guide to the theoretical foundations and practical techniques required to secure the increasingly prevalent AI agent systems. It examines the security challenges posed by multi-agent environments and presents real-world examples of open-source frameworks and commercial solutions to mitigate these risks. It answers key questions, ... Read more

$71.99 USD

This book focuses on agentic AI security, providing a comprehensive guide to the theoretical foundations and practical techniques required to secure the increasingly prevalent AI agent systems. It examines the security challenges posed by multi-agent environments and presents real-world examples of open-source frameworks and commercial solutions to mitigate these risks. It answers key questions,
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Making Futures Work

Integrating Futures Thinking for Design, Innovation, and Strategy

by Phil Balagtas ...

Learn how to get started with Futures Thinking. With this practical guide, Phil Balagtas, founder of the Design Futures Initiative and the global Speculative Futures network, shows you how designers and futurists have made futures work at companies such as Atari, IBM, Apple, Disney, Autodesk, Lufthansa, and McKinsey & Company.This book demystifies the process of Futures Thinking into a language ... Read more

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Learn how to get started with Futures Thinking. With this practical guide, Phil Balagtas, founder of the Design Futures Initiative and the global Speculative Futures network, shows you how designers and futurists have made futures work at companies such as Atari, IBM, Apple, Disney, Autodesk, Lufthansa, and McKinsey & Company.This book demystifies the process of Futures Thinking into a language
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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

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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
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

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"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

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