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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “This book delivers completely new and refreshing ideas on how to create value in the world.”—Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta “Peter Thiel has built multiple breakthrough companies, and Zero to One shows how.”—Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX and Tesla The...

When her husband mysteriously disappears in a plane crash into the Virginia countryside, a devastated wife must sort out truth from lies in this page-turning New York Times bestseller. Sidney Archer has it all: a husband she loves, a job at which she excels, and a cherished young daughter. Then...

How can we apply technology to drive business value? For years we've been told that the performance of software delivery teams doesn't matter - that it can't provide a competitive advantage to our companies. Through four years of groundbreaking research to include data collected from the State of DevOps reports conducted with Puppet, 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.

Over his four-decade career, Sid Meier has produced some of the world's most popular video games, including Sid Meier's Civilization, which has sold more than 51 million units worldwide and accumulated more than one billion hours of play. Sid Meier's Memoir! is the story of an obsessive young computer enthusiast who helped launch a multibillion-dollar industry. 

In 3001: The Final Odyssey, Arthur C. Clarke brings the greatest and most successful science fiction series of all time to its magnificent, stunningly unforeseen conclusion. As we hurtle toward the new millennium in real time, Clarke brilliantly, daringly leaps one thousand years into the future...

AI made you faster. Hourly billing turned that speed into a pay cut. Your income isn't dropping because AI is replacing you. It's dropping because your billing model penalizes every minute AI saves you. That is the entire mechanism — and almost nobody is naming it. Not the pricing consultants. Not the AI optimists. Not the freelance communities where everyone is giving each other advice that doesn't explain why it stopped working. This is the book that names it — and gives you the framework to dismantle it.

At the nexus of high finance and sophisticated computer programming, a terrifying future may be unfolding even now. Dr. Alex Hoffmann’s name is carefully guarded from the general public, but within the secretive inner circles of the ultrarich he is a legend. He has developed a revolutionary...

The definitive novel of today’s Silicon Valley, After On flash-captures our cultural and technological moment with up-to-the-instant savvy. Matters of privacy and government intrusion, post-Tinder romance, nihilistic terrorism, artificial consciousness, synthetic biology, and much more are...

The New York Times bestselling author J.A. Jance returns with the thirteenth pulse-pounding thriller in the “engaging and entertaining” (Los Angeles Times) Ali Reynolds series. After taking down the man responsible for his best friend’s death, Stuart Ramey believes the case is finally...

A complete introductory course on Artificial Intelligence for middle and high school students. In today’s rapidly advancing technological world, understanding Artificial Intelligence (AI) is no longer just for experts—it’s essential for every student. "Teaching Artificial Intelligence: A Comprehensive Course for Middle and High School Students” is the perfect guide for educators who want to bring AI into the classroom, offering engaging lessons, real-world applications, and hands-on projects designed specifically for secondary students. Why this course is essential for your ...

The Ultimate AP STEM Survival Guide: Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Calculus & Computer Science Stop Memorizing Textbooks. Start Mastering the Exam Logic. Most advanced STEM textbooks overwhelm you with hundreds of pages of dense theory, endless derivations, and academic fluff. Then, you sit down to take the exam and feel completely blindsided. Why? Because high-stakes STEM tests don't just test what you know—they test how quickly you can decode a tricky prompt and map it to a rigid scoring rubric. This isn't a textbook. It’s a combat-tested strategy guide. Written by an experienced ...

This book, "AI for Analog Supremacy: Designing and Controlling Continuous-Time Computers," is an end-to-end, practical guide for creating a new class of computing device. It is built on the conviction that by combining the continuous, high-speed nature of analog circuits with the intelligent, adaptive control of modern AI, we can unlock computational capabilities that are challenging or inefficient for conventional digital computers. Philosophy: The Renaissance of the Continuous For decades, the digital abstraction—representing the world as a series of ones and zeros—has been incredibly...

Ever felt overwhelmed at the idea of making a professional video? Whether it's for work, social media, or content marketing, diving into video production can be daunting. But did you know? The average online user watches more videos than reading texts or browsing images. In fact, over 70 percent of online traffic is video content. Despite its growing popularity, only a few master the art of high-quality video production.

Join Arnet Corporation's co-founder Michael Wells on this unputdownable tale of entrepreneurial triumph. The personal computer revolution of the 1980s spawned thousands of hardware and software enterprises, many of which quickly vanished. Arnet Corporation, a producer of add-on networking adapters for the IBM PC, could have easily become one of these forgotten companies. However, the determined founding team faced adversity head-on, even challenging a bankruptcy ruling from the institution that granted their initial government-backed loan. This resilience paid off as Arnet jumped one ...

When Elizabeth Bennet arrives at the technologically advanced Pemberley Equestrian Center, she expects top-tier dressage training, not a murder investigation. But the sudden death of renowned trainer Marc Lefevre, and the disappearance of a custom Hermès saddle he was unpacking, plunge her into a high-stakes conspiracy. What Elizabeth soon discovers is chilling: the saddle contains a hardware wallet holding millions in cryptocurrency, and Marc was a courier for the deadly Sinaloa cartel. With Darcy, the estate's owner, secretly collaborating with the FBI, and cartel enforcers disguised as ...

The MSPs that are dominating the market aren’t selling IT anymore. They’re selling protection—protection from regulators, cyber insurance denials, and lawsuits that are wiping out businesses like yours. Standardized: The MSP’s Guide to Avoiding Lawsuits, Scaling Compliance, and Winning High-Value Clients isn’t theory—it’s a battle-tested blueprint for turning compliance into a scalable, profitable service that keeps clients loyal and lawyers off your back.

A PIDD is a Perpetual Involuntary Data Donor. Surveillance capitalists love PIDDs because PIDDs materially support the data extraction industry by unwittingly surrendering their personal information, paying for data transport and storage, and tolerating poor technology performance. Our Digital Civics Framework presents a guide to increasing the data literacy of billions of citizens. We outline the data knowledge that society needs and propose exercises that will help citizens interact productively within a data-driven society.

In this vivid, deeply-reported book, Matt Stroud shows that our new policing tools are overhyped and ineffective. Instead of wrestling with tough fundamental questions about their work, police leaders have looked to technology as a silver bullet, and stood by as corporate interests have insinuated themselves ever deeper into the public institution of law enforcement. With a sweeping history of these changes, Thin Blue Lie is a must-listen for anyone seeking to understand how policing became what it is today.

Cloud computing has transformed the way we think about technology infrastructure and application deployment. The benefits of cloud computing, such as scalability, cost savings, and flexibility, have made it a popular choice for organizations of all sizes. This book aims to provide an in-depth understanding of cloud computing architecture, covering the core concepts, principles, and best practices. It will help you gain a comprehensive understanding of cloud computing, from the basics of virtualization to advanced topics such as cloud-native architecture, AI, and edge computing.

The iPod has become a full-blown cultural phenomenon, giving us a new vocabulary (we shuffle our iTunes on our nanos), revolutionizing the way we experience music and radio through the invention of podcasting, opening up new outlets for video, and challenging the traditional music industry as...