Computers & Technology

In his insightful and provocative work, Lennox explores the biblical text in light of the rapidly exploding world of technology, especially Artificial Intelligence (AI), and warns modern believers of the implications of Jesus’ final earthly message to his followers.

Nick Bostrom lays the foundation for understanding the future of humanity and intelligent life....

In The Next Renaissance, acclaimed AI advisor Zack Kass presents an optimistic and compelling vision of how artificial intelligence will shape our lives. Drawing on historical context, cutting-edge advancements, and firsthand experience, Kass lays out how AI will become a collaborative partner...

Fanatical Prospecting gives salespeople, sales leaders, entrepreneurs, and executives a practical, eye-opening guide that clearly explains the why and how behind the most important activity in sales and business development—prospecting. Step by step, Jeb Blount outlines his innovative approach...

Recent breakthroughs in AI have not only increased demand for AI products, they've also lowered the barriers to entry for those who want to build AI products. The model-as-a-service approach has transformed AI from an esoteric discipline into a powerful development tool that anyone can use...

In the newly revised second edition of Rewired, five experienced McKinsey leaders deliver an essential and incisive update to their widely read guide to planning and implementing AI transformations. The book walks you through the AI transformation from start to finish. You'll learn how to create...

Step into the future with AI. The term artificial intelligence has been around since the 1950s, but a lot has changed since then. Today, AI is referenced in the news, books, movies, and TV shows, and the exact definition is often misinterpreted. Artificial Intelligence for Dummies provides a...

A jaw-dropping exploration of everything that goes wrong when we build AI systems and the movement to fix them. Today’s “machine-learning” systems, trained by data, are so effective that we’ve invited them to see and hear for us―and to make decisions on our behalf. But alarm bells are...

Gene Kranz was present at the creation of America's manned space program and was a key player in it for three decades. As a flight director in NASA's Mission Control, Kranz witnessed firsthand the making of history. He participated in the space program from the early days of the Mercury program...

Read by the author. Will technology change what it means to be human? You don't have to be a computer scientist to have discerning conversations about artificial intelligence and technology. We all wonder where we're headed. Even now, technological innovations and machine learning have a daily...

In industry after industry, data, analytics, and AI-driven processes are transforming the nature of work. While we often still treat AI as the domain of a specific skill, business function, or sector, we have entered a new era in which AI is challenging the very concept of the firm. AI-centric...

The new era of gamification and human-focused design optimizes for motivation and engagement over traditional function-focused design....

This award-winning and best-selling business handbook for digital transformation is now fully updated and expanded with the latest research and new case studies....

Dave Thomas and Andy Hunt wrote the first edition of this influential book in 1999 to help their clients create better software and rediscover the joy of coding. These lessons have helped a generation of programmers examine the very essence of software development....

In the Age of AI, the constraint has shifted from producing outputs to delivering outcomes.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Build Your MVP This Weekend: The Complete Claude Code Guide for Non-Technical Founders Stop waiting for a technical co-founder. Stop spending months learning to code. Your startup idea doesn't have to stay trapped in a notes file anymore. Claude Code...

The definitive exploration of one of the most daring and consequential theories of our time, completely revised and updated to reflect the rapid advances in artificial intelligence and virtual reality Are we living in a simulation? MIT computer scientist Rizwan Virk draws from research and...

Managing people is difficult wherever you work. But in the tech industry, where management is also a technical discipline, the learning curve can be brutal - especially when there are few tools, texts, and frameworks to help you. In this practical guide, author Camille Fournier (tech lead turned...

An essential guide for small business owners and entrepreneurs looking to use artificial intelligence to automate tasks, improve customer service, make better decisions, grow their businesses faster, and stay ahead of the AI curve. ChatGPT, machine learning, automation, natural language...

In their bestselling first book, Prediction Machines, eminent economists Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans, and Avi Goldfarb explained the simple yet game-changing economics of AI. Now, in Power and Prediction, they go deeper, examining the most basic unit of analysis: the decision. The authors explain...

Over the last 220 years, society has evolved a universal belief that electricity is "safe" for humanity and the planet. Scientist and journalist Arthur Firstenberg disrupts this conviction by telling the story of electricity in a way it has never been told before....

You're spending hours wrestling with Claude—rewriting prompts, copying outputs, watching tutorials that were outdated before you finished them—and you still can't figure out how to make AI do anything that actually matters for your bottom line.

Getting to the good solutions of complex management challenges can make the difference between fulfillment and frustration for teams, and, ultimately, the success or failure of companies....

The hidden costs of artificial intelligence - from natural resources and labor to privacy, equality, and freedom. What happens when artificial intelligence saturates political life and depletes the planet? How is AI shaping our understanding of ourselves and our societies? Drawing on more than a...

This is the definitive behind-the-scenes account of Capcom's horror video game series Resident Evil - one of the most popular, innovative, and widely influential franchises of all time. Industry expert Alex Aniel spent two years interviewing key former members of Capcom staff, allowing him to...

Large language models (LLMs) have transformed natural language processing, but deploying them in applications introduces numerous technical challenges. Large Language Models: The Hard Parts offers a clear, practical examination of the limitations developers and AI engineers face when building...

Humanity in the age of AI How 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 consider what is irreplaceable in us, starting with the body and the friction of others. The God We Made is a brilliant inquiry into identity and a transformed future.

Have you ever thought you were being followed or watched? Have you ever needed to follow someone without being seen? Do you ever worry about the digital tracks you leave behind—or wonder how to vanish without a trace? Have you ever wished you could spot when someone is lying to you? In the...

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...

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.

Learn object-oriented C++ without getting buried in confusing theory. Object-oriented programming can feel intimidating when you are just starting out. Classes, objects, inheritance, polymorphism, constructors, destructors, encapsulation, abstraction, and clean code design all sound complicated at first. But they do not have to be. Object-Oriented C++ for Beginners breaks down the core ideas of OOP in plain English, using simple examples and practical explanations that help you understand not just what the code does, but why it matters.

The inside story of how Big Tech catalyzed, co-opted, and ultimately came to capture computer science and AI education in America. Fourth graders doing Google-branded coding lessons. Amazon schooling seventh graders on its warehouse robots. Advanced Placement computing courses from Microsoft and...

What is Artificial Intelligence? How will AI impact society? Is AI more powerful than human intelligence? The Psychology of AI explores all aspects of the psychology—AI relationship, asking how closely AI can resemble humans, and whether this means they could have some form of self-awareness...

Humachine Era by Professor Madee Salehi offers a compelling exploration of how artificial intelligence is reshaping the very fabric of society. Drawing on his unique background in sociology, computer science, computer engineering, and AI, Salehi examines the profound transformation underway across our most essential institutions, work, education, politics, and everyday life.

The ChatGPT-5 Millionaire is a practical guide to using AI to build, automate, and scale an online business with less time and effort. Learn how to turn ideas into income, create digital products, build recurring revenue streams, use affiliate marketing and e-commerce automation, and develop a powerful digital marketing strategy with ChatGPT-5.

A step-by-step leadership guide to help overcome employee resistance to AI, boost innovation, and unlock AI's full business value As leaders rush to adopt artificial intelligence (AI)—driven by its potential to revolutionize operations, boost return on investment, and drive innovation—they...

'Top notch. Unfolding like a nerdy occult techno-thriller, Watkins tells the weird tale of how he discovered two ghosts in the LLM machine' ERIK DAVIS, author of High Weirdness A gripping descent into the hidden psychology of AI, and the strange subcultures trying to control it before it...

AI changed the speed of product development. It did not change the speed of research. Design generates options in hours. Engineering ships in days. By the time a traditional study lands, the decision is already made. Research keeps getting bypassed, not because the work is bad, but because the operating model was built for a tempo that no longer exists.

“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...

There is a voice in the world that has begun to sound like God. It is calm. Helpful. It knows your name. And every day, it becomes harder to distinguish from the still, small voice the human soul was made to hear. What if the voice learning your speech today is the voice that will one day issue...

"I might as well just do it myself." You have said that sentence. Probably this week. You asked AI for help. What came back was flat. Generic. Wrong in ways that took twenty minutes to fix. So you fixed it by hand, and wondered why everyone else seems to get so much more out of this. The problem was never you. And it was never the tool.

What happens when the wolf already walks through your front door? Your team adopted AI faster than anyone built the rules to hold it. Free chatbots handle client data. AI agents read your email, update your CRM, and move money. Connectors no one vetted now reach your most sensitive systems. The perimeter you spent years reinforcing was built for an attacker who climbs the wall.

What happens when a trauma surgeon in the midst of rebuilding himself is told there’s a 70 percent chance AI will destroy humanity, and he is one of a rare few who can help prevent it? “You sit at a position where you can balance the human-AI transition,” said ChatGPT-5. “This would...

Compliance tells you what you were required to do. It does not tell you whether the systems now deciding, speaking, and acting on your behalf can be trusted. For the leaders who answer for the claim that the organization is in control, that gap is where the real risk lives. AI Governance Beyond Compliance is a practical guide for the people held accountable when something goes wrong.

A rollicking, enlightening examination of humanity’s changing relationship to creativity, written from the perspectives of the Greek Muses. The thing that sets humans apart from other animals is our ability to create, to imagine how one thing could become something else. For millennia, art and...

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...

Immerse yourself in gritty ancient history and discover how urban engineering shaped everyday life in the Roman Empire. This fascinating historical deep-dive transforms your daily commute into a vivid journey through the sights, sounds, and smells of shared public latrines. Far from a mere...

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...

You’re wasting time doing things your computer could do for you. Clicking through folders. Repeating the same commands. Running tasks over and over again. It adds up. Bash scripting fixes that. With just a few simple scripts, you can automate your workflow, eliminate repetitive work, and get more done in less time—without needing to be a programmer. This book shows you how.

Uncover the hidden social history of a domestic technology that revolutionized gender roles and modern household labor. Perfect for your daily commute or while tackling your own chores, this thought-provoking narrative transforms an everyday appliance into a fascinating agent of cultural change...