Top Computers & Technology Audiobooks

On a cold January morning in 1986, NASA launched the Space Shuttle Challenger, despite warnings against doing so by many individuals including Allan McDonald. The fiery destruction of Challenger on live television moments after launch remains an indelible image in the nation's collective memory...

Newly adapted for audiobook listeners. Today, software engineers need to know not only how to program effectively but also how to develop proper engineering practices to make their codebase sustainable and healthy. This book emphasizes this difference between programming and software engineering...

In a simultaneously compelling personal narrative and comprehensive historical exposition, Waldrop tells the story of the man who not only instigated the work that led to the internet, but also shifted our understanding of what computers were and could be....

Technology moves fast, and so should your learning. This comprehensive audiobook study guide is designed for modern learners who want to prepare effectively for the CompTIA A+ Core 1 (220-1201) and Core 2 (220-1202) exams without putting life on hold.

Newly adapted for audiobook listeners. As organizations shift from monolithic applications to smaller, self-contained microservices, distributed systems have become more fine-grained. But developing these new systems brings its own host of problems. This expanded second edition takes a holistic...

Through a recent series of breakthroughs, deep learning has boosted the entire field of machine learning. Now, even programmers who know close to nothing about this technology can use simple, efficient tools to implement programs capable of learning from data. This bestselling book uses concrete...

Whether you're an aspiring network technician, IT support specialist, or cybersecurity professional, mastering networking fundamentals is essential-and this comprehensive crash course gives you everything you need to succeed.

The #1 New York Times and global bestseller from Walter Isaacson—the acclaimed author of Steve Jobs, Einstein: His Life and World, Benjamin Franklin, and Leonardo da Vinci—is the astonishingly intimate story of the most fascinating, controversial innovator of modern times. For two years...

As Marc Raboy shows us in this enthralling and comprehensive biography, Marconi was the first truly global figure in modern communications....

Every network administrator needs Networking All-in-One for Dummies, the comprehensive learning resource and reliable desk reference.

Advanced Algorithms and Data Structures teaches you powerful approaches to a wide range of tricky coding challenges that you can adapt and apply to your own applications....

At a time when Steve Jobs was only a teenager and Mark Zuckerberg wasn’t even born, a group of visionary engineers and designers—some of them only high school students—in the late 1960s and 1970s created a computer system called PLATO, which was light-years ahead in experimenting with how...

This fully updated study guide covers every topic on the current version of the CompTIA Security+ exam. Get complete coverage of all objectives included on the CompTIA Security+ exam SY0-601 from this comprehensive resource. Written by a team of leading information security experts, this...

The bestselling book on Python deep learning, now covering generative AI, Keras 3, PyTorch, and JAX! Deep Learning with Python (Third Edition) puts the power of deep learning in your hands.

In There's No Such Thing as Crypto Crime, accomplished cybersecurity and forensics consultant Nick Furneaux delivers an expert discussion of the key methods used by cryptocurrency investigators, including investigations on Bitcoin and Ethereum type blockchains. The book explores the criminal...

Early in his software developer career, John Sonmez discovered that technical knowledge alone isn't enough to break through to the next income level - developers need "soft skills" like the ability to learn new technologies....

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....

When scholars write the history of the world twenty years from now, what will they say was the most crucial development in the first few years of the twenty-first century? The attacks on the World Trade Center on 9/11 and the Iraq war? Or the convergence of technology and events that allowed...

At the heart of many fields - physics, chemistry, engineering - lies thermodynamics. While this science plays a critical role in determining the boundary between what is and is not possible in the natural world, it occurs to many as an indecipherable black box, thus making the subject a...

The author of The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible explores the history and potential future of civilization, tracing the converging crises of our age to the illusion of the separate self Our disconnection from one another and the natural world has mislaid the foundations of...