Science Books
Lurking: How a Person Became a User
A concise but wide-ranging personal history of the internet from—for the first time—the point of view of the user In a shockingly short amo…
WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us
WTF? can be an expression of amazement or an expression of dismay. In today’s economy, we have far too much dismay along with our amazement, and t…
The Revenge of Analog: Real Things and Why They Matter
One of Michiko Kakutani's ( New York Times ) top ten books of 2016 A funny thing happened on the way to the digital utopia. We've begun to …
How Music Got Free: The End of an Industry, the Turn of the Century, and the Patient Zero of Piracy
What happens when an entire generation commits the same crime? How Music Got Free is a riveting story of obsession, music, crime, and money…
AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order
Dr. Kai-Fu Lee—one of the world’s most respected experts on AI and China—reveals that China has suddenly caught up to the US at an astonishingly r…
The Age of Cryptocurrency: How Bitcoin and Digital Money Are Challenging the Global Economic Order
Bitcoin became a buzzword overnight. A cyber-enigma with an enthusiastic following, it pops up in headlines and fuels endless media debate. You ca…
Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What Is Human in a World of Machines
“The conscience of the AI revolution” (Fortune) explains how we’ve arrived at an era of AI harms and oppression, and what we can do to avoid its p…
How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed
The bold futurist and bestselling author explores the limitless potential of reverse-engineering the human brain Ray Kurzweil is arguably t…
Think Complexity: Complexity Science and Computational Modeling
Expand your Python skills by working with data structures and algorithms in a refreshing context―through an eye-opening exploration of complexity …
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 …