Science Books
How Computers Work
Explains the structure and functions of microprocessors, hard drives, disk drives, tape drives, keyboards, CD-ROM, multimedia sound and video, ser…
The Codebreakers: The Comprehensive History of Secret Communication from Ancient Times to the Internet
The magnificent, unrivaled history of codes and ciphers—how they're made, how they're broken, and the many and fascinating roles they've played si…
Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks
An entertaining account of the philosophy and technology of hacking--and why we all need to understand it. It's a signal paradox of our tim…
Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning
Pattern recognition has its origins in engineering, whereas machine learning grew out of computer science. However, these activities can be viewed…
If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future
The Simulmatics Corporation, launched during the Cold War, mined data, targeted voters, manipulated consumers, destabilized politics, and disorder…
Content: Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright, and the Future of the Future
Hailed by Bruce Sterling as a “political activist, gizmo freak, junk collector, programmer, entrepreneur, and all-around Renaissance geek,” Cory D…
The Art of the Metaobject Protocol
The CLOS metaobject protocol is an elegant, high-performance extension tothe CommonLisp Object System. The authors, who developed the metaobject p…
Foundations of Computer Science: C Edition
Aho and Ullman have created a C version of their groundbreaking text. As in that text, this book combines the theoretical foundations of computing…
Readings in Database Systems, Third Edition
Readings in Database Systems, 3rd Edition is the most up-to-date compilation of papers to explore DBMS applications which were first published in …
Elements of Information Theory 2nd Edition
The latest edition of this classic is updated with new problem sets and material The Second Edition of this fundamental textbook maintains …