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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

$11.99 USD

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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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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Enshittification

Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It

by Cory Doctorow ...

Winner of the 2026 Locus Award for NonfictionEnshittification: It’s not just you—the internet sucks now. It’s been enshittified. That was no accident, and it’s not gonna fix itself. Here’s how we’ll disenshittify it so we can have a new, good internet.We are all living through the Enshittocene—the Great Enshittening—a time in which the services that matter to us, that we rely on, are being turned ... Read more

$15.99 USD

Winner of the 2026 Locus Award for NonfictionEnshittification: It’s not just you—the internet sucks now. It’s been enshittified. That was no accident, and it’s not gonna fix itself. Here’s how we’ll disenshittify it so we can have a new, good internet.We are all living through the Enshittocene—the Great Enshittening—a time in which the services that matter to us, that we rely on, are being turned
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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 • S... ... Read more

$18.99 USD

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 • S...
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The Linux Command Line, 3rd Edition

A Complete Introduction

by William Shotts ...

Banish Your Mouse.The Linux Command Line isn’t just a reference manual. It’s a complete education on how Linux really works. From your first tentative keystrokes to writing powerful shell scripts, you’ll build the confidence and understanding to make your system work for you.Now in its third edition, this best-selling guide has been fully updated with modern examples, nearly 40 pages of new ... Read more

$34.99 USD

Banish Your Mouse.The Linux Command Line isn’t just a reference manual. It’s a complete education on how Linux really works. From your first tentative keystrokes to writing powerful shell scripts, you’ll build the confidence and understanding to make your system work for you.Now in its third edition, this best-selling guide has been fully updated with modern examples, nearly 40 pages of new
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Brought to You By

How Corporations Warped the Truth, Conned the Public, and Broke Democracy

by Amy Westervelt ...

Recommended by BILL McKIBBEN on the EZRA KLEIN SHOW"A book that every citizen needs to read." -JILL ABRAMSON, author of Merchants of TruthA gripping account of the corporate propaganda that has invaded our media, our democracy, and now the very nature of truth itself-from investigative reporter and Drilled podcast host Amy Westervelt.Whether it's the tobacco industry lying about the... ... Read more

$17.29 USD

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Recommended by BILL McKIBBEN on the EZRA KLEIN SHOW"A book that every citizen needs to read." -JILL ABRAMSON, author of Merchants of TruthA gripping account of the corporate propaganda that has invaded our media, our democracy, and now the very nature of truth itself-from investigative reporter and Drilled podcast host Amy Westervelt.Whether it's the tobacco industry lying about the...
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The Soul of A New Machine

by Tracy Kidder ...

Tracy Kidder's "riveting" (Washington Post) story of one company's efforts to bring a new microcomputer to market won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award and has become essential reading for understanding the history of the American tech industry.Computers have changed since 1981, when The Soul of a New Machine first examined the culture of the computer revolution. What has not ... Read more

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Tracy Kidder's "riveting" (Washington Post) story of one company's efforts to bring a new microcomputer to market won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award and has become essential reading for understanding the history of the American tech industry.Computers have changed since 1981, when The Soul of a New Machine first examined the culture of the computer revolution. What has not
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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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American Kingpin

The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road

by Nick Bilton ...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. The unbelievable true story of the man who built a billion-dollar online drug empire from his bedroom—and almost got away with itIn 2011, a twenty-six-year-old libertarian programmer named Ross Ulbricht launched the ultimate free market: the Silk Road, a clandestine Web site hosted on the Dark Web where anyone could trade anything—drugs, hacking software, forged ... Read more

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. The unbelievable true story of the man who built a billion-dollar online drug empire from his bedroom—and almost got away with itIn 2011, a twenty-six-year-old libertarian programmer named Ross Ulbricht launched the ultimate free market: the Silk Road, a clandestine Web site hosted on the Dark Web where anyone could trade anything—drugs, hacking software, forged
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How Not To Use AI

by Abi Awomosu ...

"Turned my brain ON and my anxiety OFF."— Brand & Creative Consultant"Women, you're going to absolutely bloody love this. Men, you're going to find this uncomfortable — in a good way."— Cindy Gallop, Founder & CEO, MakeLoveNotPorn"How Not to Use AI is radicalizing, and in a very good way."— Founder & CEO, Healthcare IndustryTHE BOOK SILICON VALLEY HOPED YOU WOULD NEVER READ.Everyone is telling you ... Read more

$9.99 USD

"Turned my brain ON and my anxiety OFF."— Brand & Creative Consultant"Women, you're going to absolutely bloody love this. Men, you're going to find this uncomfortable — in a good way."— Cindy Gallop, Founder & CEO, MakeLoveNotPorn"How Not to Use AI is radicalizing, and in a very good way."— Founder & CEO, Healthcare IndustryTHE BOOK SILICON VALLEY HOPED YOU WOULD NEVER READ.Everyone is telling you
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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,
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Visualization Analysis and Design

by Tamara Munzner ...

Series series AK Peters Visualization Series
Learn How to Design Effective Visualization SystemsVisualization Analysis and Design provides a systematic, comprehensive framework for thinking about visualization in terms of principles and design choices. The book features a unified approach encompassing information visualization techniques for abstract data, scientific visualization techniques ... Read more

$94.99 USD

Learn How to Design Effective Visualization SystemsVisualization Analysis and Design provides a systematic, comprehensive framework for thinking about visualization in terms of principles and design choices. The book features a unified approach encompassing information visualization techniques for abstract data, scientific visualization techniques
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Alone Together

Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other

by Sherry Turkle ...

A groundbreaking book by one of the most important thinkers of our time shows how technology is warping our social lives and our inner onesTechnology has become the architect of our intimacies. Online, we fall prey to the illusion of companionship, gathering thousands of Twitter and Facebook friends, and confusing tweets and wall posts with authentic communication. But this relentless connection ... Read more

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A groundbreaking book by one of the most important thinkers of our time shows how technology is warping our social lives and our inner onesTechnology has become the architect of our intimacies. Online, we fall prey to the illusion of companionship, gathering thousands of Twitter and Facebook friends, and confusing tweets and wall posts with authentic communication. But this relentless connection
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Raspberry Pi Book of Making 2027

Projects for Makers and Hackers

by The Makers of Raspberry Pi Official magazine ...

The future is here, and it's digital.Technology isn't just something you buy — you can build it yourself! With a bit of know-how you can 3D print moulds to make personalised soap bars, control a robot arm, add sensors and reactive LEDs to an old quilt, or anything else you put your mind to. Book of Making 2027 distils the essence of our favourite maker projects. Whether you want to build an ... Read more

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The future is here, and it's digital.Technology isn't just something you buy — you can build it yourself! With a bit of know-how you can 3D print moulds to make personalised soap bars, control a robot arm, add sensors and reactive LEDs to an old quilt, or anything else you put your mind to. Book of Making 2027 distils the essence of our favourite maker projects. Whether you want to build an
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UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook

by Evi Nemeth, Garth Snyder, Trent Hein, Ben Whaley, Dan Mackin ...

“As an author, editor, and publisher, I never paid much attention to the competition—except in a few cases. This is one of those cases. The UNIX System Administration Handbook is one of the few books we ever measured ourselves against.”—Tim O’Reilly, founder of O’Reilly Media“This edition is for those whose systems live in the cloud or in virtualized data centers; those whose administrative work ... Read more

$60.29 USD

“As an author, editor, and publisher, I never paid much attention to the competition—except in a few cases. This is one of those cases. The UNIX System Administration Handbook is one of the few books we ever measured ourselves against.”—Tim O’Reilly, founder of O’Reilly Media“This edition is for those whose systems live in the cloud or in virtualized data centers; those whose administrative work
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In the Beginning...Was the Command Line

by Neal Stephenson ...

This is "the Word" -- one man's word, certainly -- about the art (and artifice) of the state of our computer-centric existence. And considering that the "one man" is Neal Stephenson, "the hacker Hemingway" (Newsweek) -- acclaimed novelist, pragmatist, seer, nerd-friendly philosopher, and nationally bestselling author of groundbreaking literary works (Snow Crash, Cryptonomicon, etc., etc.) -- the ... Read more

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This is "the Word" -- one man's word, certainly -- about the art (and artifice) of the state of our computer-centric existence. And considering that the "one man" is Neal Stephenson, "the hacker Hemingway" (Newsweek) -- acclaimed novelist, pragmatist, seer, nerd-friendly philosopher, and nationally bestselling author of groundbreaking literary works (Snow Crash, Cryptonomicon, etc., etc.) -- the
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Information Visualization

Perception for Design

by Colin Ware ...

Series series Interactive Technologies
Information Visualization: Perception for Design, Fourth Edition explores the art and science of why we see objects the way we do. Based on the science of perception and vision, the author presents the key principles at work for a wide range of applications--resulting in visualization of improved clarity, utility and persuasiveness. This new edition has been revised and updated to include the ... Read more

$56.99 USD

Information Visualization: Perception for Design, Fourth Edition explores the art and science of why we see objects the way we do. Based on the science of perception and vision, the author presents the key principles at work for a wide range of applications--resulting in visualization of improved clarity, utility and persuasiveness. This new edition has been revised and updated to include the
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Simplified PHP

by James Blanchette ...

What this book is about, is not to teach you how to program in PHP but to show you more structured way to improve what you're already doing by reusing code and building better functions that will be useful in the long term. Beyond that, working with code that is easily readable and understandable by just applying a few programming practices. This doesn't produce the most efficient code but it does ... Read more

$2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

What this book is about, is not to teach you how to program in PHP but to show you more structured way to improve what you're already doing by reusing code and building better functions that will be useful in the long term. Beyond that, working with code that is easily readable and understandable by just applying a few programming practices. This doesn't produce the most efficient code but it does
... Read more
Agentic Intelligence

Strategy at the Speed of Data

by Manish Sood, Venkat Venkatraman ...

Make Your Data Work Together—and Work FastMost organizations aren’t held back by a lack of information, but by slow, scattered data that’s impossible to use when decisions are on the line. In Agentic Intelligence, Manish Sood and Venkat Venkatraman show how companies can break free from outdated systems, unify their data, and operate with the speed today’s business environment demands.This ... Read more

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Make Your Data Work Together—and Work FastMost organizations aren’t held back by a lack of information, but by slow, scattered data that’s impossible to use when decisions are on the line. In Agentic Intelligence, Manish Sood and Venkat Venkatraman show how companies can break free from outdated systems, unify their data, and operate with the speed today’s business environment demands.This
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Play Nice

The Rise, Fall, and Future Of Blizzard Entertainment

by Jason Schreier ...

**A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND AN NPR BEST BOOK OF 2024From a New York Times bestselling author and investigative journalist comes The Social Network for the video game industry: a riveting examination of Blizzard Entertainment's rise and shocking downfall—"A fast paced thrill ride, perfect for anyone who has ever played a video game" (Ben Mezrich).**For video game fans, the name Blizzard ... Read more

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**A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND AN NPR BEST BOOK OF 2024From a New York Times bestselling author and investigative journalist comes The Social Network for the video game industry: a riveting examination of Blizzard Entertainment's rise and shocking downfall—"A fast paced thrill ride, perfect for anyone who has ever played a video game" (Ben Mezrich).**For video game fans, the name Blizzard
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Learn PostgreSQL

Use, manage, and build secure and scalable databases with PostgreSQL 18 or higher

by Luca Ferrari, Enrico Pirozzi ...

All you need to know about using PostgreSQL efficiently and reliably.Key FeaturesLearn the fundamentals of PostgreSQL, advanced statements, user management, database monitoring, replication, and securityEnhance your learning journey with the provided Docker images for practical hands-on exercisesManage large databases with advanced techniques like partitioning to optimize your databasesPurchase of ... Read more

$32.99 USD

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All you need to know about using PostgreSQL efficiently and reliably.Key FeaturesLearn the fundamentals of PostgreSQL, advanced statements, user management, database monitoring, replication, and securityEnhance your learning journey with the provided Docker images for practical hands-on exercisesManage large databases with advanced techniques like partitioning to optimize your databasesPurchase of
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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

$11.39 USD

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
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The Official Raspberry Pi Beginner's Guide

How to use your new computer

by Gareth Halfacree ...

Learn how to set up your Raspberry Pi, write code, and build projects with electronic components.Raspberry Pi is a small, clever, British-built computer that's packed with potential. Made using a desktop-class, energy-efficient processor, Raspberry Pi is designed to help you learn coding, discover how computers work, and build your own amazing things. This book was written to show you just how ... Read more

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Learn how to set up your Raspberry Pi, write code, and build projects with electronic components.Raspberry Pi is a small, clever, British-built computer that's packed with potential. Made using a desktop-class, energy-efficient processor, Raspberry Pi is designed to help you learn coding, discover how computers work, and build your own amazing things. This book was written to show you just how
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The Model Thinker

What You Need to Know to Make Data Work for You

by Scott E. Page ...

Work with data like a pro using this guide that breaks down how to organize, apply, and most importantly, understand what you are analyzing in order to become a true data ninja.From the stock market to genomics laboratories, census figures to marketing email blasts, we are awash with data. But as anyone who has ever opened up a spreadsheet packed with seemingly infinite lines of data knows, ... Read more

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Work with data like a pro using this guide that breaks down how to organize, apply, and most importantly, understand what you are analyzing in order to become a true data ninja.From the stock market to genomics laboratories, census figures to marketing email blasts, we are awash with data. But as anyone who has ever opened up a spreadsheet packed with seemingly infinite lines of data knows,
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