Computers & Technology

"May prove to be the most important book of our time.”—Tim Urban, Wait But Why The 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. In 2023...

An Instant New York Times Bestseller One of NPR's Best Books of the Year Nominated for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year From one of our leading chroniclers of the intersection of innovation and capitalism, a landmark reckoning—based on unprecedented access—with one of...

A New York Times Notable Book Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction A New York Times Bestseller Named a Best Book of the Year by Smithsonian, Scientific American, and Elle Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, NYPL Helen Bernstein Award, Whiting...

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From Wharton professor and author of the popular One Useful Thing Substack newsletter Ethan Mollick comes the definitive playbook for working, learning, and living in the new age of AI Something new entered our world in November 2022 — the first general...

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...

Before the internet became widely known as a global tool for terrorists, one perceptive US citizen recognized its ominous potential. Armed with clear evidence of computer espionage, he began a highly personal quest to expose a hidden network of spies that threatened national security. But would...

From bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize finalist Robert Wright comes a sweeping new view of artificial intelligence—as an evolutionary force that will pose deep political and spiritual challenges and could, in the process, give our species a unifying sense of purpose. The God Test is the...

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...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the author of Sapiens comes the groundbreaking story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world. “Strikingly original . . . A historian whose arguments operate on the scale of millennia has managed to capture the zeitgeist perfectly...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An urgent warning of the unprecedented risks that AI and other fast-developing technologies pose to global order, and how we might contain them while we have the chance—from a co-founder of the pioneering artificial intelligence company DeepMind and current CEO of...

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...

Winner of the FT and Schroders Business Book of the Year Award Named a Best Book of 2025 by The Economist “Framed as a biography of Jensen Huang, the only CEO Nvidia has ever had, the book is also something more interesting and revealing: a window onto the intellectual, cultural, and economic...

The dramatic story of the secretive decade-long Pentagon campaign to bring AI-powered targeting systems onto the battlefield. In 2017, a small crew gathered in a windowless Pentagon room to put AI at the heart of how America makes war. Led by a Marine Corps colonel haunted by the deaths of US...

The #1 New York Times bestseller from David McCullough, two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize—the dramatic story-behind-the-story about the courageous brothers who taught the world how to fly—Wilbur and Orville Wright. On a winter day in 1903, in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, two...

GenAI is fundamentally changing the world of software development like nothing since the internet. Vibe Coding is a first-of-its-kind, groundbreaking book that shows developers how to embrace this new frontier. Science fiction is now reality. Programmers no longer need to toil over code and syntax.

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.

The noted inventor and futurist’s successor to his landmark book The Singularity Is Near explores how technology will transform the human race in the decades to come Since it was first published in 2005, Ray Kurzweil’s The Singularity Is Near and its vision of an exponential future have...

In contrast to the wave of noisy polemics around AI, AI For Good explores how, in practice, it can actually improve our lives and tells the stories of everyday citizens at the forefront of this new “AI entrepreneurship.” AI is often framed as a force of radical transformation, either...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An exhilarating tour of humanity's next great technological achievement—quantum computing—which may supercharge artificial intelligence, solve some of humanity's biggest problems, like global warming, world hunger, and incurable disease, and eventually...

The revered New York Times bestselling author traces the development of technology from the Industrial Age to the Digital Age to explore the single component crucial to advancement—precision—in a superb history that is both an homage and a warning for our future. The rise of manufacturing...

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

The dramatic inside story of the first four historic flights that launched SpaceX—and Elon Musk—from a shaky startup into the world's leading edge rocket company. In 2006, SpaceX—a brand-new venture with fewer than 200 employees—rolled its first, single-engine rocket onto a launch pad at...

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...

Data is at the center of many challenges in system design today. Difficult issues such as scalability, consistency, reliability, efficiency, and maintainability need to be resolved. In addition, there's an overwhelming variety of systems, including relational databases, NoSQL datastores, data...

From 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...

“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...

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...

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.

New tech is changing the contours of geopolitical stability—America must act now, or risk losing its global standing forever. Technology has always driven political competition. For decades, the US set the international rules on innovation, standards, and export regulations, using soft power...

Bloomsbury presents AI at Work: How to build a full stack organization, written and read by James Poulter 'My view is that the future belongs to the minority of businesses that follow this advice.' Rory Sutherland, Vice Chairman, Ogilvy Group As fears of agentic obsolescence abound...

Claude AI Bible 2-in-1 is more than another AI book. It's your complete guide to using Claude AI to work smarter, automate repetitive tasks, create better content, and build a more profitable business. Most people waste hours experimenting with prompts, juggling multiple AI tools, and following outdated tutorials that never produce consistent results. The problem isn't Claude AI but the lack of a proven system that shows you exactly what to do and why it works.

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...

“Sutskever’s List” is a guided intellectual journey through the ideas that made modern AI possible. Each chapter is anchored in papers, books, or other sources from Sutskever’s list. The papers themselves are not the focus. Instead, the author uses them as entry points into the larger breakthroughs, arguments, interconnections, and shifts in thinking that transformed the field.

Artificial intelligence has arrived—and apparently civilization has about fifteen minutes left. AI is going to take your job. Your phone is listening to everything. Robots are taking over. Nobody will know what is real anymore. The government has an AI file on you. Your children may prefer chatbots to people. Somebody asked AI about the Antichrist. And your refrigerator knows entirely too much about what you ate after midnight. Everybody panic! Or maybe…don’t. In Everybody Panic! AI Is Here, John E. Miller takes a humorous, common-sense look at one of the most talked-about—and most ...

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...

From the pioneer of translation AIs like Google, Yahoo, and Bing translate, an accessible and authoritative guide to AI—as well as a framework of empowerment for a future with our artificial children. Included in J.P. Morgan's Summer Reading List Included in The Next Big Idea Club’s June...

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.

For most of the history of computing, we adapted ourselves to machines. We learned their commands, memorized their menus, organized information into forms they could process, and accepted that every meaningful task had to be divided into small, explicit steps. Even the first generation of generative artificial intelligence largely preserved that relationship. We asked a question, received an answer, copied the answer somewhere else, and then continued the work ourselves. Claude Opus 5 and Claude Fable 5 mark a different stage. Their importance is not simply that they can write better ...

For a generation, the prompt appeared to be the essential unit of artificial intelligence. We learned to ask more clearly, provide better context, assign roles, specify formats, and refine our language until the machine returned something useful. Prompting was—and remains—an extraordinary skill. It gave millions of people their first direct experience of shaping intelligence through words. But the prompt was never the destination. It was the doorway. A prompt begins an exchange. A loop creates a process. Instead of waiting for a person to restate every instruction, an AI system can ...

Harness Engineering is a practical guide to designing secure control planes for long-horizon, multi-agent AI systems. It explains how to move beyond prompt-only safety and build the durable harness around agents: autonomy controls, identity, intent contracts, context boundaries, memory governance, observability, runtime steering, scalability, data governance, and evaluation-driven improvement. Written for engineers, security leaders, architects, researchers, and advanced students, the book treats agent safety as an engineering discipline. Each chapter presents design patterns, failure modes...

Conquer tech anxiety and master the digital world with this calming, jargon-free guide to everyday technology. Whether you are commuting, relaxing at home, or feeling frustrated by confusing apps, this soothing exploration transforms digital dread into confident tech literacy. Stop feeling left...

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...

We are entering a new stage in the history of intelligence. For centuries, human beings extended their physical power with machines. Then we extended memory with books, computation with computers, and communication with the internet. Artificial intelligence now extends something even more personal: our ability to explore ideas, organize knowledge, create alternatives, and turn intention into action. That change is larger than any single model number. It is not contained in a product announcement, a benchmark, or a spectacular demonstration. It appears quietly in ordinary work: a teacher ...

How much technology have you taken for granted today? It is human nature to make things and to apply knowledge in ingenious ways to survive and to make life easier. From renewable energy to entertainment streaming and electric vehicles to gene-editing, technology shapes our world. The Technology...

"Claude Code: Write Prompts that Deliver Effective Results" is a definitive, hands-on technical book designed and written specifically to meet the current and future demands of the software and technology industries. As Large Language Models transition from novelties to foundational infrastructure, the ability to effectively design, build, setup, deploy, and maintain applications powered by Claude has become a critical industry requirement. This book is strictly structured to address this exact need, prioritizing absolute practical implementation over abstract theory. Philosophy The core ...

Agentic Internet: Internet of Agents (IoA) is a definitive, comprehensive, and highly practical engineering book designed to bridge the gap between artificial intelligence theory and real-world software production. As the digital ecosystem rapidly evolves toward Web 4.0, industry demands are shifting from traditional web development to the orchestration of autonomous AI agents. This book provides a rigorous, step-by-step methodology for designing, building, deploying, and maintaining these agentic networks from scratch. Philosophy The core philosophy of this book is strictly rooted in ...

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.

"Software Engineering for AI" is a comprehensive, meticulously structured manual designed to bridge the chasm between artificial intelligence concepts and production-grade software engineering. As the tech industry evolves, the ability to merely train an AI model is no longer sufficient. Companies demand end-to-end solutions: applications that are designed, built, deployed, and maintained with rigorous engineering standards. This book provides a clear, practical, and highly detailed roadmap for developing AI applications from scratch to final production. Philosophy The core philosophy of ...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. The spreadsheet let accountants model their finances without a programmer, and the smartphone put a capable computer in nearly every pocket. Now artificial intelligence is quietly performing another shift, and most people still type a question, read an...

Understand how artificial intelligence actually works, from first principles to generative models AI Explained: A Guide for Non-Technical Readers builds understanding of artificial intelligence from first principles rather than diving in at the top. Written by experienced policy and technical...