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2012 Audie Award Finalist for Audiobook of the Year Walter Isaacson’s “enthralling” (The New Yorker) worldwide bestselling biography of Apple cofounder Steve Jobs. Based on more than forty interviews with Steve Jobs conducted over two years—as well as interviews with more than 100 family...

Instant New York Times Bestseller In time for Apple’s 50th anniversary, CBS Sunday Morning correspondent David Pogue tells the iconic company’s entire life story: how it was born, nearly died, was born again under Steve Jobs, and became, under CEO Tim Cook, the most valuable company in the...

Rick Howard, the Chief Security Officer, Chief Analyst, and Senior fellow at The Cyberwire, challenges the conventional wisdom of current cybersecurity best practices, strategy, and tactics and makes the case that the profession needs to get back to first principles.

‘The greatest danger of the artificial intelligence (AI) age is not smarter machines.It is humans slowly losing belief in their own uniqueness.’Something unsettling is happening around us.Young people are beginning to feel average before life has even started. Professionals are exhausting...

Genius programmer Angela Hoot has always been at the top of her class, but now she's at the bottom of the FBI food chain—until her first case threatens everyone around her. ​ Angela's graduate school days at MIT come to an abrupt end when she uses her hacking skills on another student's...

Artificial Intelligence is transforming every industry, but if you want to win with AI, you have to put it first on your priority list. AI-First companies are the only trillion-dollar companies, and soon they will dominate even more industries, more definitively than ever before. These companies...

You press the start button, hear the hum, feel the faint vibration—and still have no idea what is actually happening under the hood. Hundreds of controlled explosions per second, electric motors twisting silently, sensors watching every wheel, airbags and crumple zones waiting in reserve, software deciding how and when your car should intervene. This book turns that mystery into a clear, satisfying picture you can finally hold in your head. Inside this book, readers will learn how to: See what really happens in a four‑stroke engine and why most fuel becomes heat, not motion Compare ...

Think in Sets – A Beginner’s Guide to Discrete Maths is a friendly, simple, and clear introduction to the most important subject in computer science: Discrete Mathematics. Written especially for beginners, this book removes fear and confusion and replaces them with confidence and clarity. Whether you are a first-year engineering student, a computer science learner, or someone returning to math after years, this book explains each concept in an easy, intuitive, and learner-friendly way—without sacrificing correctness.

Do you have a dream you must pursue, but everyone says it's unrealistic? Or that you're not qualified? Too old, too out of shape? Or you don't have the "right experience?" Glenn Damato was a 41-year-old software instructor who sought to exceed the bounds of his comfortable but humdrum existence. He embarked on an adventure for which he was miserably unprepared. Why did he do this? How did he answer the ancient human question: how do we jump-start growth in our lives? We become something we were not.

Arthur C. Clarke’s 2061: Odyssey Three is truly a masterful elaboration on one man’s epic vision of the universe. Only rarely does a novelist weave a tapestry so compelling that it captures the imagination of the entire world. But that is precisely what Arthur C. Clarke accomplished with...

A top cybersecurity journalist tells the story behind the virus that sabotaged Iran’s nuclear efforts and shows how its existence has ushered in a new age of warfare—one in which a digital attack can have the same destructive capability as a megaton bomb. “Immensely enjoyable...

The world's first programmable computer was the legendary ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer), built by John Mauchly and Presper Eckert. Based on original interviews with surviving participants and the first study of Mauchly and Eckert's personal papers, ENIAC is a dramatic human story and a vital contribution to the history of technology, and it restores to the two inventors the legacy they deserve.

While you may have never thought of networking in detail, this book will introduce you to the basics of networking, the different types of networks available, the types of network topologies that you will encounter, the concept of server virtualization, and details of how to handle network breaches.

Now including a new translation, this is a chilling piece of Russian dystopian fiction by Dmitry Glukhovsky and the basis of the bestselling computer games Metro 2033, Metro: Last Light, Metro: Exodus, and the highly-anticipated Metro 2039 A WORLD IN DARKNESS. A SINGLE HOPE. The year is 2033...

**UPDATED FOR 2026** The perfect, frustration-free gift for parents and grandparents who want to master technology! Tired of waiting for the grandkids to come over and provide "tech support"? Computers for Seniors Made Easy is the ultimate, jargon-free guide designed exclusively for older adults who want to master their Windows computers with confidence. Whether you are setting up your very first email account or just looking to sharpen your skills, this book skips the confusing tech-speak and provides clear, patient, and practical instructions. Inside this step-by-step guide, you will ...

This book offers an overview of computer science from a perspective that is accessible to those without an extensive technical background. While the field of computer science encompasses a vast array of complex topics and applications, this work endeavors to present these concepts in a clear and approachable manner. Through the exploration of various aspects of computer science, readers will gain a foundational understanding of this rapidly-evolving field, even in the absence of prior experience or technical expertise. This literary work is not intended to serve as a technical reference or ...

Without my book, most people spend too long trying to learn C# with Unity the hard way. This book is the only one that will get you to learn Unity fast without wasting so much time. It includes nine chapters that painlessly teach you the necessary skills to master C# with Unity and to create both 2D and 3D interactive games.

You do not need a computer science degree to build a real app. You need to know how to direct AI — and this book teaches you by taking one complete project from an empty screen to a live link. Everyone says "anyone can build apps with AI now." Almost no book actually walks a complete beginner from a blank screen to a finished, published app. This one does. You will build TapGlint, a fast reflex web game where a target appears, you tap it to score, and the challenge gets harder as you play. Then you will connect a shared online leaderboard, add a Challenge a friend button, and publish the ...

Award Winning author, T.L. Williams, has crafted another spellbinding journey through the murky world of intelligence operations as CIA Operations Officer, Logan Alexander, goes under deep cover to do battle against China’s massive cyber hacking apparatus. Based in Hong Kong, under the auspices of Alexander Maritime, a maritime consulting firm and defense contractor, Logan is at the forefront of a U.S. government program to identify and mitigate Chinese cyber hacking against U.S. targets. China’s state-sponsored hacking machine costs the U.S. billions of dollars in intellectual property...

Plunge into a gripping archaeological mystery and decode the lost ancient technology of a submerged celestial machine. Found among early twentieth-century shipwreck ruins, these corroded bronze gears sparked a century-long scientific quest to understand what our ancestors could truly build...