Computers & Technology

“Lepore is our best scholar of the culture of governance. … Here she repudiates the prospect of AI as a replacement for democracy. This is the issue of our times … Lepore is the voice of sanity.”—Jaron Lanier, author of You Are Not a Gadget “Much in history is headlong but few grand...

The Art of Game Design guides you through the design process step-by-step, helping you to develop new and innovative games that will be played again and again. It explains the fundamental principles of game design and demonstrates how tactics used in classic board, card, and athletic games also...

“A thought-provoking analysis on what exactly we’re doing with all our many hours of screen time.” —Harper’s Bazaar An eye-opening look at how social media shapes the stories we tell and the lives we lead Over the past two decades, platforms like Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok have...

Artificial intelligence will transform law. That does not mean it will produce justice. Courts are backlogged. Legal help remains unaffordable for billions of people. Rules designed for an earlier age are struggling to keep pace with modern life. AI now gives us an extraordinary opportunity, not...

Experience the world's most promising technological innovations and the science behind them in this entertaining photo-rich book. For futurists and sci-tech enthusiasts, every moment reveals advances powering our future, with on-site interviews, deep explainers, and helpful visuals.

Conquer tech anxiety and master the digital world with this calming, jargon-free guide to everyday technology. Whether you are commuting, relaxing at home, or feeling frustrated by confusing apps, this soothing exploration transforms digital dread into confident tech literacy. Stop feeling left...

How much technology have you taken for granted today? It is human nature to make things and to apply knowledge in ingenious ways to survive and to make life easier. From renewable energy to entertainment streaming and electric vehicles to gene-editing, technology shapes our world. The Technology...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. The first time you turn to a chatbot for something that actually matters, you are asking a machine to help you run your business. The machine answers with a confidence that makes you forget it is guessing. Maybe you ask for a refund policy or a...

Claude AI Bible 2-in-1 is more than another AI book. It's your complete guide to using Claude AI to work smarter, automate repetitive tasks, create better content, and build a more profitable business. Most people waste hours experimenting with prompts, juggling multiple AI tools, and following outdated tutorials that never produce consistent results. The problem isn't Claude AI but the lack of a proven system that shows you exactly what to do and why it works.

Two years ago, AI was a tool you tried. Today, it is becoming a workforce you manage. The companies that understand the difference are about to pull away from the ones that don't. In Agents, Inc.: How to Rebuild Your Company in the AI Age, Adam Brotman and Andy Sack, co-authors of AI First, lay out what changes when AI stops being something employees use and starts being something they direct.

What is engineering for: private profit or the public good? In this incisive essay from *Civilization in the United States*, mechanical engineer O. S. Beyer, Jr. examines the transformation of American engineering and the economic forces reshaping the profession. Beyer traces the field from its...

Master the fundamentals of artificial intelligence and machine learning without decoding dense technical jargon. Perfect for your morning commute, this encouraging audio experience translates intimidating concepts into clear, everyday language. Whether you are upskilling for a career shift or...

Master software architecture and tame tangled legacy code by aligning your development team with real business needs. Follow a struggling cross-functional team at a fictional logistics company as they transform late projects and fragile systems into clean, evolving models. Perfect for your...

In Artificial Organizations, Barry O'Reilly shows how to redesign how you sense, frame, decide, and act with human and machine intelligence. You begin by identifying the traits that make you most effective, then the tasks where you create disproportionate value. Only then do you apply AI tools—so they sharpen judgment, not noise.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Most creators treat Claude as a search engine that generates text instead of links. They ask it questions, accept its first answer at face value, and move on without ever engaging in the kind of iterative back and forth that transforms decent output...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Organic search has changed forever. AI-generated answers now appear above traditional links, and ranking no longer guarantees traffic. The rules of the game have shifted, and the old keyword playbook is obsolete. This book provides a complete, practical...

Master computer science fundamentals and Turing machines through a calm, intuitive approach to complex mathematics. Whether you are commuting to campus or deep in a focused study session, this audio journey replaces dense notation with vivid mental pictures. Grasp exactly what algorithms can and...

Break the endless cycle of doomscrolling and reclaim your mental clarity with a gentle, realistic digital detox. If you feel constantly drained by notifications but intimidated by extreme offline challenges, this grounding approach fits perfectly into your busy commute or daily routine...

Essays by international bestselling author Edward Tenner that explore both the negative and positive surprises of human ingenuity How did the addition of lifeboats after the Titanic shipwreck contribute to another tragedy in Chicago harbor three years later? How efficient are wild animals as...

Artificial Intelligence and Animal Ecology: A Review explores the transformative synergy between AI and animal ecology, unveiling how cutting-edge technology is revolutionizing ecological research and conservation. This pioneering book bridges these dynamic fields, demonstrating how AI...

Master software architecture and build scalable cloud systems without getting lost in endless vendor hype or buzzwords. Perfect for your daily commute or focused upskilling sessions, this pragmatic deep dive transforms how tech leads and developers approach system complexity. Stop guessing with...

Transform your personal productivity and master autonomous AI before the next tech revolution leaves you behind. Perfect for an engaged commute, this pragmatic guide demystifies how software actually sets goals and acts on your behalf. Turn your daily drive into a focused masterclass on the...

The greatest threat to an undercover operative's life isn't a suspicious target—it's the smartphone in their pocket. In Shadows in the Stream, Dr. Joseph L. Martell, a 30-year veteran of U.S. government intelligence and special operations, introduces the groundbreaking Inadvertent Digital Detriment Paradox (IDDP) Theory.

You have lost a fight to a housefly. Everyone has. It was not close. Measured in its own body lengths, a fly moves faster than any aircraft humanity has ever built, rolls faster than a fighter jet, and reacts ten times more quickly than the hand coming toward it. None of this is because the fly is clever. It has a brain smaller than a grain of rice and no plans for the weekend. It wins because it is small, and small is not a scaled-down copy of our world. It is a different world, with a different set of forces in charge. This is a tour of that discovery and of everything it quietly demolishes.

Learn C++ the way beginners actually understand it—by building real programs step by step. Most people do not struggle with C++ because they are not smart enough. They struggle because they get thrown into complicated syntax, dry explanations, and endless theory before they ever build something that actually works. C++ Projects for Beginners fixes that.

As cyber attacks dominate front-page news, as hackers join the list of global threats, and as top generals warn of a coming cyber war, few books are more timely and enlightening than Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War by Slate columnist and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Fred Kaplan.

Nintendo has continually set the standard for video game innovation in America, starting in 1981 with a plucky hero who jumped over barrels to save a girl from an ape. The saga of Mario, the portly plumber who became the most successful franchise in the history of gaming, has plot twists worthy of a video game. Jeff Ryan shares the story of how this quintessentially Japanese company found success in the American market.

When two Stanford graduate students set out to create a new kind of cigarette that wouldn’t kill them, they didn’t foresee all the obstacles that lay ahead — or the powerful forces their invention would unleash. Nearly 10 years after the launch of the JUUL, Backfired: The Vaping Wars asks: Could e-cigarettes have been the solution to one of the world’s most pressing public health problems—or was this technology doomed to introduce a whole new generation to nicotine, and end up perpetuating an intractable addiction?

Most people think about technology as something we created to serve us, but we may well be getting to the point where we are the ones who're serving an ever more sophisticated technology. With pragmatism and optimism, Dr Tim Sharp, aka Dr Happy, outlines strategies and tools to build your confidence to positively cope with the modern world.

In 24 thought-provoking lectures designed for nonscientists, this course explores today's exciting field of genomics, the study of the vast storehouse of information contained within chromosomes. Your professor is Princeton University biologist Lee M. Silver, an acclaimed teacher, scientist, and author of popular books on biotechnology, genetics, and their impact on society.

Sometimes designed objects reject their users: a computer mouse that doesn't work for left-handed people, for example, or a touchscreen payment system that only works for people who read English phrases, have 20/20 vision, and use a credit card. These mismatches are the building blocks of exclusion. In Mismatch, Kat Holmes describes how design can lead to exclusion, and how design can also remedy exclusion.

Recoding History: The Audacious Women Who Shaped Our Digital World is an immersive look into the lives of some of computer history's most ingenious and audacious women. Pulling from the Computer History Museum’s archives and hosted by Reshma Saujani, the founder of Girls Who Code, listeners will learn and laugh along with these great minds as they recount their stories in their own words.

 In the pattern of her popular 40-Day Sugar Fast, Wendy Speake offers you The 40-Day Social Media Fast. This "screen sabbatical" is designed to help you become fully conscious of your dependence on social media so you can purposefully unplug from screens and plug into real life with the help of a very real God. Take a break from everyone and everything you follow online. Disconnect in order to reconnect with the only one who said "follow me." 

In this witty, often terrifying work of cultural criticism, Postman chronicles our transformation into a Technopoly: a society that no longer merely uses technology as a support system but instead is shaped by it. According to Postman, technology is rapidly gaining sovereignty over social institutions and national life to become self-justifying, self-perpetuating, and omnipresent. He warns that this will have radical consequences for the meanings of politics, art, religion, family, education, and more.

Early True Believers: The Untold Story of Silicon Alley is a 1990s saga of ambition and innovation set in Manhattan’s Silicon Alley, a swath of downtown that served as New York City’s nerve center of tech entrepreneurship. The series features the stories of a forgotten cohort of early internet visionaries, countercultural social networks, the digital gold rush, and the lavish events that came with it, including one held in an underground Tribeca bunker that abruptly ended in a police raid—a harbinger of the upheaval to come.

On January 15, 2009, a US Airways Airbus A320 had just taken off from LaGuardia Airport in New York when a flock of Canada Geese collided with it, destroying both of its engines. The plane's pilot, Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, managed to glide it to a safe landing in the Hudson River. It was an instant media sensation---the "Miracle on the Hudson"---and Captain Sully was the hero. But how much of the success of this dramatic landing can actually be credited to the genius of the pilot?

This Is Not a Game is the extraordinary untold story of the internet’s first conspiracy theory, the legend of Ong’s Hat. Marc Fennell will dive deep into a previously unexplored world of tech hippies, eccentric web subcultures and simmering paranoia, uncovering how this tongue-in-cheek artistic experiment backfired on its creator and went on to influence much of what’s wrong with the internet today.

Ready to propel your business into the AI revolution? Curious about how to harness the power of AI, even without technical know-how? Launch into a world of limitless opportunities with ChatGPT, the AI tool that's revolutionizing the landscape of business.

The invention of the telephone changed the world. That’s no exaggeration. Phones are such ubiquitous features of our lives now that it can be difficult to imagine life without them, or to understand just how astonishing this invention truly was in the 19th century.

Although we usually think of technology as something unique to modern times, our ancestors began to create the first technologies millions of years ago in the form of prehistoric tools and weapons. Over time, eight key technologies gradually freed us from the limitations of our animal origins.