Showing titles in Computers & Technology

A student has gone missing in Edinburgh. She's not just any student, though, but the daughter of well-to-do and influential bankers. There's almost nothing to go on until DI John Rebus gets an unmistakable gut feeling that there's more to this than just another runaway spaced out on unaccustomed...

Kevin Mitnick, the world’s most wanted computer hacker, managed to hack into some of the country’s most powerful—and seemingly impenetrable—agencies and companies. By conning employees into giving him private information and maneuvering through layers of security, he gained access to...

'Thoughtful, moving and well-written' - Yuval Noah Harari 'An urgent examination of the human attraction to misinformation' - Daniel H. Pink Misinformation affects us daily, from social media to politics and even personal relationships. Policing social media alone cannot solve the complex...

Brought to you by Penguin. Consumer AI has arrived. And with it, inescapable upheaval as we grapple with what it means for our jobs, lives and the future of humanity. Cutting through the noise of AI evangelists and AI doom-mongers, Wharton professor Ethan Mollick has become one of the most...

“Build an AI Agent (From Scratch)” is a fascinating step-by-step journey through design, development, and deployment of a system of autonomous AI agents. Authors Jungjun Hur and Younghee Song guide you concept by concept as you build a sophisticated research agent in Python, designed to solve complex, multi-step tasks from the rigorous GAIA (General AI Assistants) benchmark. By seeing the construction of the system end to end, you’ll understand how the underlying mechanics are unobstructed by any existing blackbox libraries and frameworks.

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...

Are you spending hours on content that no one sees—while others automate and grow? This isn't another AI hype book. It's a clear, tactical playbook designed for real marketers juggling real workloads—without the fluff. Learn how to train AI tools like ChatGPT, Jasper, and Canva to match your voice, plan smarter content, batch posts faster, write better ad copy, and analyze performance without burning out.

*THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER* *A TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE 21st CENTURY* *OVER A MILLION COPIES SOLD* Discover the shocking gender bias that affects our everyday lives in this groundbreaking gift of an audiobook edition, read by Caroline Criado Perez. Imagine a world where... · Your...

Random House presents the audiobook edition of Hello World, written and read by Hannah Fry. You are accused of a crime. Who would you rather determined your fate – a human or an algorithm? An algorithm is more consistent and less prone to error of judgement. Yet a human can look you in the eye...

To live in 19th-century Britain was to experience an astonishing series of changes, of a kind for which there was simply no precedent. There were revolutions in transport, communication and work; cities grew vast; and scientific ideas made the intellectual landscape unrecognisable. This was an exhilarating time but also a horrifying one. In his new book, David Cannadine has created a bold, fascinating new interpretation of the British 19th century in all its energy and dynamism, darkness and vice.

Unravel the secrets of the AI revolution in just 7 days, even if you've never written a line of code! Do terms like "Machine Learning" or "Neural Networks" confuse you? Eager to understand AI but unsure where to start? You're not alone. Many believe mastering AI is only for tech experts. But here's the truth: Anyone can learn AI, and this guide shows you how!

Brought to you by Penguin. In 2011, a 43-foot-high tsunami crashed into a nuclear power plant in Fukushima, Japan. In the following days, explosions would rip buildings apart, three reactors would go into nuclear meltdown, and the surrounding area would be swamped in radioactive water. It is now...

Insightful, surprising and with groundbreaking revelations about our society, Everybody Lies exposes the secrets embedded in our Internet searches, with a foreword by best-selling author Steven Pinker. Everybody lies, to friends, lovers, doctors, pollsters - and to themselves. In Internet searches, however, people confess their secrets - about sexless marriages, mental health problems, even racist views.

A riveting account of the birth and remarkable evolution of the most important development in entertainment since television, Replay is the ultimate history of video games. From its origins in the research labs of the 1940s to the groundbreaking success of the Wii, Replay sheds new light on gaming's past.

¿La inteligencia artificial te parece complicada? No eres la única persona, y no necesitas conocimientos técnicos para entenderla. La inteligencia artificial está transformando nuestra manera de trabajar, comunicarnos, aprender y resolver problemas cotidianos. Esta guía para principiantes explica sus conceptos de forma sencilla, sin tecnicismos confusos.

Brought to you by Penguin. The global, open internet is fragmenting. How To Save the Internet outlines the global cooperation needed to reform Big Tech and preserve the internet as we know it. As democracies aim to control Big Tech, Silicon Valley adopts an America-first agenda, and...

In May 2013, Glenn Greenwald set out for Hong Kong to meet an anonymous source who claimed to have astonishing evidence of pervasive government spying and insisted on communicating only through heavily encrypted channels. That source turned out to be the 29-year-old NSA contractor Edward Snowden, and his revelations about the agency’s widespread, systemic overreach proved to be some of the most explosive and consequential news in recent history, triggering a fierce debate over national security....

The basics of being a ScrumMaster are fairly straightforward: At face value, all a ScrumMaster needs to do is facilitate the Scrum process and remove impediments. But being a great ScrumMaster, one who truly embodies the principles of servant-leadership and helps nurture a high-performing team, is much harder and more elusive.

Audie Award, History/Biography, 2016. On the night of July 20, 1969, our world changed forever when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon. Based on in-depth interviews with 23 of the 24 moon voyagers, as well as those who struggled to get the program moving, A Man on the Moon conveys every aspect of the Apollo missions with breathtaking immediacy and stunning detail.

'From an early age, locked doors, high fences and the secrets kept by businesses, buildings and people, fascinated me. I wanted to find out what they wanted to hide away.' A burglar for hire, con-artist and expert in deception and physical infiltration – Jenny Radcliffe is a professional...