Technology

A Short History of Nearly Everything is Bill Bryson's quest to understand everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization....

Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is a collection of techniques for managing moods and modifying behaviors. Build a robust self-improvement toolkit with this expert guidance....

The authors of the best-selling Bold and The Rise of Superman explore altered states of consciousness and how they can ignite passion, fuel creativity, and accelerate problem solving....

Best-selling author Simon Winchester writes a magnificent history of the pioneering engineers who developed precision machinery to allow us to see as far as the moon and as close as the Higgs boson....

James Gleick explains the theories behind the fascinating new science called chaos. Alongside relativity and quantum mechanics, it is being hailed as the 20th century's third revolution....

In his provocative new book, Dr. Kai-Fu Lee - one of the world’s most respected experts on artificial intelligence - reveals that China has suddenly caught up to the US, the leader in AI, at an astonishingly rapid pace....

The best-selling author of The Big Switch returns with an explosive look at technology’s effect on the mind....

This audiobook by award-winning journalist and author David Ewalt explores of the history, development, and future of virtual reality, a technology with world-changing potential, stemming from Ewalt's 2015 Forbes cover story about the Oculus Rift and its creator Palmer Luckey...

The Amazon Way on IoT is for the leader who wants to understand how the Internet of things is transforming business and society....

In Ten Arguments For Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now, Jaron Lanier draws on his insider's expertise to explain precisely how social media works....

How do today's most successful tech companies - Amazon, Google, Facebook - design, develop, and deploy the products that have earned the love of literally billions of people around the world? Find out....

In the very near future, smart “technologies and big data” will allow us to make large-scale and sophisticated interventions in politics, culture, and everyday life....

Schilling shares the science behind the convergence of traits that increases the likelihood of success. And, as Schilling also reveals, there is much to learn about nurturing breakthrough innovation in our own lives....

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

Drawing on over 200 in-depth interviews, Valley of Genius takes listeners from the dawn of the personal computer and the Internet, through the heyday of the web, up to the very moment when our current technological reality was invented....

From one of our leading technology thinkers and writers, a guide through the 12 technological imperatives that will shape the next 30 years and transform our lives....

Dr. Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, and Gene Kim set out to find a way to measure software delivery performance - and what drives it - using rigorous statistical methods. This book presents both the findings and the science behind that research....

The creative and technical logistics that go into building today's hottest games can be more harrowing and complex than the games themselves....

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Blockchain Revolution by Don and Alex Tapscott, read by John Chancer....

The U.S. scientific community has long led the world in research on such areas as public health, environmental science, and issues affecting quality of life....

The Internet of Money by Andreas M. Antonopoulos contains 11 of his most inspiring and thought-provoking talks, including: Introduction to Bitcoin; Blockchain vs Bullshit; Fake News, Fake Money; Currency Wars; Bubble Boy and the Sewer Rat; Rocket Science and Ethereum's Killer App; and many more....

Few companies have ever been as successful and as admired as Google, the company that has transformed the Internet and become an indispensable part of our lives....

Welcome to the age of the algorithm, the story of a not-too-distant future where machines rule supreme, making important decisions - in health care, transport, finance, security, what we watch, where we go, even whom we send to prison....

We stand on the brink of a technological revolution. In the near future, most of us will not own automobiles but will travel in driverless electric vehicles summoned at the touch of an app. Autonomy tells the story of the engineers and computer experts who triggered the revolution....

In Once Upon an Algorithm, Martin Erwig explains computation as something that takes place beyond electronic computers, and computer science as the study of systematic problem solving. Erwig points out that many daily activities involve problem solving....

Gene Kim and John Willis present this nine-part series that includes an oral history of the DevOps movement....

Robotics at its best! Discover a book that tells you what you should do and how....