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Deep Unlearning

The Rise of AI and the Radicalization of a Tech Idealist

by Timnit Gebru ...

Timnit Gebru, one of the fiercest voices in the world speaking truth to power, chronicles her journey as a refugee and Black woman in STEM—delivering an inspiring vision for better, human-centered, equitable technology.Timnit Gebru has been present at nearly every inflection point in tech’s recent history. She was an engineer at Apple on the cusp of the iPhone’s first release, a PhD student at ... Read more

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Timnit Gebru, one of the fiercest voices in the world speaking truth to power, chronicles her journey as a refugee and Black woman in STEM—delivering an inspiring vision for better, human-centered, equitable technology.Timnit Gebru has been present at nearly every inflection point in tech’s recent history. She was an engineer at Apple on the cusp of the iPhone’s first release, a PhD student at
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CUCKOO'S EGG

by Clifford Stoll ...

Before the Internet became widely known as a global tool for terrorists, one perceptive U.S. citizen recognized its ominous potential. Armed with clear evidence of computer espionage, he began a highly personal quest to expose a hidden network of spies that threatened national security. But would the authorities back him up? Cliff Stoll's dramatic firsthand account is "a computer-age detective ... Read more

$13.99 USD

Before the Internet became widely known as a global tool for terrorists, one perceptive U.S. citizen recognized its ominous potential. Armed with clear evidence of computer espionage, he began a highly personal quest to expose a hidden network of spies that threatened national security. But would the authorities back him up? Cliff Stoll's dramatic firsthand account is "a computer-age detective
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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

$13.99 USD

**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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AI Native

The Mandate to Transform Your Company

by Kai-Fu Lee ...

**A sweeping roadmap for business leaders in the AI age, when every organization must rethink how it operates, competes, and creates value—from AI legend and New York Times bestselling author of AI Superpowers and AI 2041 Kai-Fu Lee“Kai-Fu Lee is among our most prescient thinkers and writers…. Powerful.”—Satya Nadella, Microsoft CEO**Two years ago, the best AI agents could autonomously complete ... Read more

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**A sweeping roadmap for business leaders in the AI age, when every organization must rethink how it operates, competes, and creates value—from AI legend and New York Times bestselling author of AI Superpowers and AI 2041 Kai-Fu Lee“Kai-Fu Lee is among our most prescient thinkers and writers…. Powerful.”—Satya Nadella, Microsoft CEO**Two years ago, the best AI agents could autonomously complete
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CompTIA Security+ Study Guide with over 500 Practice Test Questions

Exam SY0-701

by Mike Chapple, David Seidl ...

Series series Sybex Study Guide
Master key exam objectives and crucial cybersecurity concepts for the CompTIA Security+ SY0-701 exam, along with an online test bank with hundreds of practice questions and flashcardsIn the newly revised ninth edition of CompTIA Security+ Study Guide: Exam SY0-701, veteran cybersecurity professionals and educators Mike Chapple and David Seidl deliver easy-to-follow coverage of the security ... Read more

$33.00 USD

Master key exam objectives and crucial cybersecurity concepts for the CompTIA Security+ SY0-701 exam, along with an online test bank with hundreds of practice questions and flashcardsIn the newly revised ninth edition of CompTIA Security+ Study Guide: Exam SY0-701, veteran cybersecurity professionals and educators Mike Chapple and David Seidl deliver easy-to-follow coverage of the security
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Trust Me, I'm Lying

Confessions of a Media Manipulator

by Ryan Holiday ...

The cult classic that predicted the rise of fake news—revised and updated for the post-Trump, post-Gawker age.Hailed as "astonishing and disturbing" by the Financial Times and "essential reading" by TechCrunch at its original publication, former American Apparel marketing director Ryan Holiday’s first book sounded a prescient alarm about the dangers of fake news. It's all the more relevant today ... Read more

$9.99 USD

The cult classic that predicted the rise of fake news—revised and updated for the post-Trump, post-Gawker age.Hailed as "astonishing and disturbing" by the Financial Times and "essential reading" by TechCrunch at its original publication, former American Apparel marketing director Ryan Holiday’s first book sounded a prescient alarm about the dangers of fake news. It's all the more relevant today
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Trustworthy Online Controlled Experiments

A Practical Guide to A/B Testing

by Ron Kohavi, Diane Tang, Ya Xu ...

Getting numbers is easy; getting numbers you can trust is hard. This practical guide by experimentation leaders at Google, LinkedIn, and Microsoft will teach you how to accelerate innovation using trustworthy online controlled experiments, or A/B tests. Based on practical experiences at companies that each run more than 20,000 controlled experiments a year, the authors share examples, pitfalls, ... Read more

$36.99 USD

Getting numbers is easy; getting numbers you can trust is hard. This practical guide by experimentation leaders at Google, LinkedIn, and Microsoft will teach you how to accelerate innovation using trustworthy online controlled experiments, or A/B tests. Based on practical experiences at companies that each run more than 20,000 controlled experiments a year, the authors share examples, pitfalls,
... Read more
A Hacker's Mind

How the Powerful Bend Society's Rules, and How to Bend them Back

by Bruce Schneier ...

**“A Hacker's Mind…sheds vital light on the beginnings of our journey into an increasingly complex world.” —Financial TimesIt’s not just computers—hacking is everywhere.Legendary cybersecurity expert and New York Times best-selling author Bruce Schneier reveals how using a hacker’s mindset can change how you think about your life and the world.**A hack is any means of subverting a system’s rules ... Read more

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**“A Hacker's Mind…sheds vital light on the beginnings of our journey into an increasingly complex world.” —Financial TimesIt’s not just computers—hacking is everywhere.Legendary cybersecurity expert and New York Times best-selling author Bruce Schneier reveals how using a hacker’s mindset can change how you think about your life and the world.**A hack is any means of subverting a system’s rules
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Dark Wire

The Incredible True Story of the Largest Sting Operation Ever

by Joseph Cox ...

Written “in the manner of a good crime thriller” (The Wall Street Journal), the inside story of the largest law-enforcement sting operation ever, in which the FBI created its own tech start-up to wiretap the worldIn 2018, a powerful app for secure communications called Anom took root among organized criminals. They believed Anom allowed them to conduct business in the shadows. Except for one thing ... Read more

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Written “in the manner of a good crime thriller” (The Wall Street Journal), the inside story of the largest law-enforcement sting operation ever, in which the FBI created its own tech start-up to wiretap the worldIn 2018, a powerful app for secure communications called Anom took root among organized criminals. They believed Anom allowed them to conduct business in the shadows. Except for one thing
... Read more
Showstopper!

The breakneck race to create Windows NT and the next generation at Microsoft

by G. Pascal Zachary ...

Republished by 8080 Books in 2026 with a new introduction by the author and a new foreword written by one of the characters in the story.G. Pascal Zachary managed to get total access to the formerly unseen programming catacombs of Microsoft and has made the most of it with this riveting look inside one of the world’s most fascinating corporations. He traces the tumultuous creation of Windows NT, ... Read more

$9.99 USD

Republished by 8080 Books in 2026 with a new introduction by the author and a new foreword written by one of the characters in the story.G. Pascal Zachary managed to get total access to the formerly unseen programming catacombs of Microsoft and has made the most of it with this riveting look inside one of the world’s most fascinating corporations. He traces the tumultuous creation of Windows NT,
... Read more
After Effects for Designers

Graphic and Interactive Design in Motion

by Chris Jackson ...

After Effects for Designers teaches design students, artists, and web, graphic, and interactive designers how to design, develop, and deploy motion design projects using Adobe After Effects. Author Chris Jackson balances fundamental aspects of time-based design with related techniques, and explores the principles of animation; composition and layout; visual hierarchy; typography; cinematic ... Read more

$61.99 USD

After Effects for Designers teaches design students, artists, and web, graphic, and interactive designers how to design, develop, and deploy motion design projects using Adobe After Effects. Author Chris Jackson balances fundamental aspects of time-based design with related techniques, and explores the principles of animation; composition and layout; visual hierarchy; typography; cinematic
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Digital Minimalism: Simple Living in a Hyperconnected World

A Practical Guide to Digital Detox, Reducing Screen Time, and Breaking Cell Phone Addiction for a More Mindful Life

by Bendis A. I. Saage - English ...

In our hyperconnected world, finding balance between digital convenience and personal well-being has become increasingly challenging. 'Digital Minimalism' offers a thoughtful and practical approach to reclaiming your time and attention in the age of smartphones and social media. This comprehensive guide explores the principles of Digital Minimalism and provides actionable strategies for ... Read more

$11.41 USD

In our hyperconnected world, finding balance between digital convenience and personal well-being has become increasingly challenging. 'Digital Minimalism' offers a thoughtful and practical approach to reclaiming your time and attention in the age of smartphones and social media. This comprehensive guide explores the principles of Digital Minimalism and provides actionable strategies for
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You Are Here

A Field Guide for Navigating Polarized Speech, Conspiracy Theories, and Our Polluted Media Landscape

by Whitney Phillips, Ryan M. Milner ...

How to understand a media environment in crisis, and how to make things better by approaching information ecologically.Our media environment is in crisis. Polarization is rampant. Polluted information floods social media. Even our best efforts to help clean up can backfire, sending toxins roaring across the landscape. In You Are Here, Whitney Phillips and Ryan Milner offer strategies for ... Read more

$17.99 USD

How to understand a media environment in crisis, and how to make things better by approaching information ecologically.Our media environment is in crisis. Polarization is rampant. Polluted information floods social media. Even our best efforts to help clean up can backfire, sending toxins roaring across the landscape. In You Are Here, Whitney Phillips and Ryan Milner offer strategies for
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Your First Github Repository Setup With Claude Code

A Beginner's Guide to Creating, Connecting, and Managing Your First Git Repository with an AI Coding Assistant

by Jason Green ...

You picked up this book because Git and GitHub have felt like a wall, with words like repository and commit blocking the work you want to do. Maybe you are a writer who lost a draft, a designer who needs history, or a student told to submit via GitHub with no steps. Maybe the terminal makes your stomach tighten and a command line feels like a place to break things. Whatever brought you here, you ... Read more

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You picked up this book because Git and GitHub have felt like a wall, with words like repository and commit blocking the work you want to do. Maybe you are a writer who lost a draft, a designer who needs history, or a student told to submit via GitHub with no steps. Maybe the terminal makes your stomach tighten and a command line feels like a place to break things. Whatever brought you here, you
... Read more
Introduction to Information Retrieval

by Christopher D. Manning, Prabhakar Raghavan, Hinrich Schütze ...

Class-tested and coherent, this textbook teaches classical and web information retrieval, including web search and the related areas of text classification and text clustering from basic concepts. It gives an up-to-date treatment of all aspects of the design and implementation of systems for gathering, indexing, and searching documents; methods for evaluating systems; and an introduction to the ... Read more

$65.99 USD

Class-tested and coherent, this textbook teaches classical and web information retrieval, including web search and the related areas of text classification and text clustering from basic concepts. It gives an up-to-date treatment of all aspects of the design and implementation of systems for gathering, indexing, and searching documents; methods for evaluating systems; and an introduction to the
... Read more
Motion Graphic Design

Applied History and Aesthetics

by Jon Krasner ...

Enhance your knowledge of motion graphic design aesthetics and history with this authoritative look at the evolution of the art form.Motion Graphic Design, Third Edition provides a historical and critical overview of how the language of traditional graphic design is combined with the dynamic visual language of cinema in film, television, and interactive media. It features works from highly ... Read more

$84.99 USD

Enhance your knowledge of motion graphic design aesthetics and history with this authoritative look at the evolution of the art form.Motion Graphic Design, Third Edition provides a historical and critical overview of how the language of traditional graphic design is combined with the dynamic visual language of cinema in film, television, and interactive media. It features works from highly
... Read more
Motion Design Toolkit

Principles, Practice, and Techniques

by Austin Shaw, John Colette ...

This book offers a comprehensive overview of techniques, processes, and professional practices in the area of Motion Design, from fundamental building blocks of organizing time and space in production to managing workflow, budgets, and client relationships. The authors provide insight into the production process from concept through execution in areas as diverse as social media to large-scale ... Read more

$67.99 USD

This book offers a comprehensive overview of techniques, processes, and professional practices in the area of Motion Design, from fundamental building blocks of organizing time and space in production to managing workflow, budgets, and client relationships. The authors provide insight into the production process from concept through execution in areas as diverse as social media to large-scale
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50 ML Projects To Understand LLMs

Investigate transformer mechanisms through data analysis, visualization, and experimentation

by Mike X Cohen ...

Most books teach you how to build LLMs from scratch or deploy them via APIs. This book uses guided machine learning projects to teach you how to understand, visualize, and investigate LLMs including GPT and BERT.Key FeaturesEach project is built around three learning goals: machine learning techniques, LLM mechanisms, and Python coding with data visualization.This is not a dense theoretical ... Read more

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Most books teach you how to build LLMs from scratch or deploy them via APIs. This book uses guided machine learning projects to teach you how to understand, visualize, and investigate LLMs including GPT and BERT.Key FeaturesEach project is built around three learning goals: machine learning techniques, LLM mechanisms, and Python coding with data visualization.This is not a dense theoretical
... Read more
Dealers of Lightning

Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age

by Michael A. Hiltzik ...

The Pulitzer Prize-winner's classic account of the legendary research lab that gave rise to the Digital Age.In the 1970s and '80s, Xerox Corporation brought together a brain-trust of engineering geniuses dubbed PARC (Palo Alto Research Center). This brilliant group created several monumental innovations that triggered a technological revolution, including the first personal computer, the laser ... Read more

$17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

The Pulitzer Prize-winner's classic account of the legendary research lab that gave rise to the Digital Age.In the 1970s and '80s, Xerox Corporation brought together a brain-trust of engineering geniuses dubbed PARC (Palo Alto Research Center). This brilliant group created several monumental innovations that triggered a technological revolution, including the first personal computer, the laser
... Read more
Cybersecurity and Cyberwar

What Everyone Needs to Know®

by P.W. Singer, Allan Friedman ...

Series series What Everyone Needs To Know®
A generation ago, "cyberspace" was just a term from science fiction, used to describe the nascent network of computers linking a few university labs. Today, our entire modern way of life, from communication to commerce to conflict, fundamentally depends on the Internet. And the cybersecurity issues that result challenge literally everyone: politicians wrestling with everything from cybercrime to ... Read more

$10.49 USD

A generation ago, "cyberspace" was just a term from science fiction, used to describe the nascent network of computers linking a few university labs. Today, our entire modern way of life, from communication to commerce to conflict, fundamentally depends on the Internet. And the cybersecurity issues that result challenge literally everyone: politicians wrestling with everything from cybercrime to
... Read more
The Joy of Search

A Google Insider's Guide to Going Beyond the Basics

by Daniel M. Russell ...

**A Google researcher shares tips, tricks, and interesting stories on maximizing the power of search engines like Google and Wikipedia.You don’t have to be a computer whiz to master the art of online search!**We all know how to look up something online by typing words into a search engine. We do this so often that we have made the most famous search engine a verb: we Google it—“Japan population” ... Read more

$18.99 USD

**A Google researcher shares tips, tricks, and interesting stories on maximizing the power of search engines like Google and Wikipedia.You don’t have to be a computer whiz to master the art of online search!**We all know how to look up something online by typing words into a search engine. We do this so often that we have made the most famous search engine a verb: we Google it—“Japan population”
... Read more
Hackers

Heroes of the Computer Revolution - 25th Anniversary Edition

by Steven Levy ...

This 25th anniversary edition of Steven Levy's classic book traces the exploits of the computer revolution's original hackers -- those brilliant and eccentric nerds from the late 1950s through the early '80s who took risks, bent the rules, and pushed the world in a radical new direction. With updated material from noteworthy hackers such as Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Richard Stallman, and Steve ... Read more

$12.99 USD

This 25th anniversary edition of Steven Levy's classic book traces the exploits of the computer revolution's original hackers -- those brilliant and eccentric nerds from the late 1950s through the early '80s who took risks, bent the rules, and pushed the world in a radical new direction. With updated material from noteworthy hackers such as Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Richard Stallman, and Steve
... Read more
Irresistible

The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked

by Adam Alter ...

“Irresistible is a fascinating and much needed exploration of one of the most troubling phenomena of modern times.” —Malcolm Gladwell, author of New York Times bestsellers David and Goliath and Outliers“One of the most mesmerizing and important books I’ve read in quite some time. Alter brilliantly illuminates the new obsessions that are controlling our lives and offers the tools we need to rescue ... Read more

$7.99 USD

“Irresistible is a fascinating and much needed exploration of one of the most troubling phenomena of modern times.” —Malcolm Gladwell, author of New York Times bestsellers David and Goliath and Outliers“One of the most mesmerizing and important books I’ve read in quite some time. Alter brilliantly illuminates the new obsessions that are controlling our lives and offers the tools we need to rescue
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The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State

by Jill Lepore ...

**INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERLonglisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the YearBest Books of August: Barnes & Noble, GoodreadsA New York Times New and Notable Title“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 ... Read more

$20.59 USD

**INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERLonglisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the YearBest Books of August: Barnes & Noble, GoodreadsA New York Times New and Notable Title“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
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