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  • THE COMPUTER ALWAYS WINS -15%
    THE COMPUTER ALWAYS WINS
    ELLIOT LICHTMAN
    An engaging and approachable resource for beginning-to-intermediate coders eager to learn advanced ideas in computer programming.Too often, the magic of computer science is locked behind an intimidating wall of syntax and mathematics. Students of all ages are drawn to the idea of using computers to ask questions and solve problems, but the standard computer science curriculum d...
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    Q. 215Q. 183

  • BILINGUALISM -15%
    BILINGUALISM
    PENELOPE GARDNER-CHLOROS
    All about bilingualism, in science and in life: the benefits and controversies, the individual experience, and the social significance.Nearly half the world's people are bilingual, but many have no clear understanding of what—aside from being fluent in more than one language—bilingualism means. This lively introduction by linguist Penelope Gardner-Chloros covers everything a bi...
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    Q. 180Q. 153

  • CHATGPT AND THE FUTURE OF AI -15%
    CHATGPT AND THE FUTURE OF AI
    SEJNOWSKI, TERRENCE J
    An insightful exploration of Chat GPT and other advanced AI systems—how we got here, where we’re headed, and what it all means for how we interact with the world.In ChatGPT and the Future of AI, the sequel to The Deep Learning Revolution, Terrence Sejnowski offers a nuanced exploration of large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT and what their future holds. How should we go ab...
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    Q. 240Q. 204

  • ON DISINFORMATION -15%
    ON DISINFORMATION
    LEE MCINTYRE
    A powerful, pocket-sized citizen’s guide on how to fight back against the disinformation campaigns that are imperiling American democracy, from the bestselling author of Post-Truth and How to Talk to a Science Denier.The effort to destroy facts and make America ungovernable didn’t come out of nowhere. It is the culmination of seventy years of strategic denialism. In On Disinfor...
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    Q. 160Q. 136

  • ART FOR COEXISTENCE -15%
    ART FOR COEXISTENCE
    CHRISTINE ROSS
    u003cbu003eAn exploration of how contemporary art reframes and humanizes migration, calling for coexistence—the recognition of the interdependence of beings.u003c/bu003eu003cbru003eu003cbru003eIn u003ciu003eArt for Coexistenceu003c/iu003e, art historian Christine Ross examines contemporary art’s response to migration, showing that art invites us to abandon our preconceptions ab...
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    Q. 400Q. 340

  • THE NEW ECONOMICS FOR INDUSTRY, GOVERNMENT, EDUCATION -15%
    THE NEW ECONOMICS FOR INDUSTRY, GOVERNMENT, EDUCATION
    W. EDWARDS DEMING
    u003cpu003eu003cbu003eA new edition of a book that details the system of transformation underlying the 14 Points for Management presented in Deming's u003ciu003eOut of the Crisisu003c/iu003e.u003c/bu003eu003c/pu003eu003cpu003eIt would be better if everyone would work together as a system, with the aim for everybody to win. What we need is cooperation and transformation to a new...
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    Q. 360Q. 306

  • OUT OF THE CRISIS -15%
    OUT OF THE CRISIS
    W. EDWARDS DEMING
    Essential reading for managers and leaders based on Deming's famous 14 Points for ManagementThis is the classic and deeply influential work on business management, leadership, problem solving, and quality control, reissued for readers todayTranslated into 12 languages and continuously in print since its original publication in 1982, this highly influential framework presents th...
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    Q. 360Q. 306

  • INVENTION AND INNOVATION -15%
    INVENTION AND INNOVATION
    SMIL, VACLAV
    u003cbu003eFrom the u003ciu003eNew York Timesu003c/iu003e-bestselling author, a new volume on the history of human ingenuity—and its attendant breakthroughs and busts.u003c/bu003eu003cbru003eu003cbru003eThe world is never finished catching up with Vaclav Smil. In his latest and perhaps most readable book, u003ciu003eInvention and Innovationu003c/iu003e, the prolific author—a fa...
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    Q. 260Q. 221

  • HAPPINESS -15%
    HAPPINESS
    TIM LOMAS
    u003cbu003eA concise and engaging exploration of how we understand happiness.u003c/bu003eu003cbru003eu003cbru003eWhat does it mean to feel happiness? As a state of mind, it’s elusive. As a concept—despite the plethora of pop psychology books on the subject—it’s poorly understood. In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, psychologist Tim Lomas offers a concise...
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    Q. 180Q. 153

  • RETHINKING GENDER -15%
    RETHINKING GENDER
    LOUIE LÄUGER
    A lively, informative, and engaging guide to gender by an author-illustrator who helps readers understand the multiplicity of answers to "What even is gender?"Queer, cisgender, transgender, nonbinary, androgynous, maverique, intergender, genderfluid. Louie and their cat (a.k.a. "Cat") take you on a journey through the world of gender--without claiming to have it all figured out...
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    Q. 260Q. 221

  • THE POWER OF EXPERIMENTS -15%
    THE POWER OF EXPERIMENTS
    MICHAEL LUCA / BAZERMAN, MAX H.
    How organizations—including Google, StubHub, Airbnb, and Facebook—learn from experiments in a data-driven world.Have you logged into Facebook recently? Searched for something on Google? Chosen a movie on Netflix? If so, you’ve probably been an unwitting participant in a variety of experiments—also known as randomized controlled trials—designed to test the impact of different on...
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    Q. 185Q. 157

  • SCIENCE FICTION -15%
    SCIENCE FICTION
    SHERRYL VINT
    How science fiction has been a tool for understanding and living through rapid technological change.The world today seems to be slipping into a science fiction future. We have phones that speak to us, cars that drive themselves, and connected devices that communicate with each other in languages we don’t understand. Depending the news of the day, we inhabit either a technologic...
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    Q. 150Q. 128

  • NIHILISM -15%
    NIHILISM
    GERTZ, NOLEN
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    Q. 165Q. 140

  • STREAMING, SHARING, STEALING -15%
    STREAMING, SHARING, STEALING
    MICHAEL D. SMITH / RAHUL TELANG
    How big data is transforming the creative industries, and how those industries can use lessons from Netflix, Amazon, and Apple to fight back.“[The authors explain] gently yet firmly exactly how the internet threatens established ways and what can and cannot be done about it. Their book should be required for anyone who wishes to believe that nothing much has changed.” —The Wall...
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    Q. 210Q. 179

  • INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY STRATEGY (MIT PRESS ESSENTIAL KNOWLEDGE) -15%
    INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY STRATEGY (MIT PRESS ESSENTIAL KNOWLEDGE)
    PALFREY, JOHN
    Most managers leave intellectual property issues to the legal department, unaware that an organization's intellectual property can help accomplish a range of management goals, from accessing new markets to improving existing products to generating new revenue streams. In this book, intellectual property expert and Harvard Law School professor John Palfrey offers a short briefin...
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    Q. 160Q. 136

  • MEMES IN DIGITAL CULTURE (MIT PRESS ESSENTIAL KNOWLEDGE) -15%
    MEMES IN DIGITAL CULTURE (MIT PRESS ESSENTIAL KNOWLEDGE)
    SHIFMAN, LIMOR
    In December 2012, the exuberant video "Gangnam Style" became the first YouTube clip to be viewed more than one billion times. Thousands of its viewers responded by creating and posting their own variations of the video--"Mitt Romney Style," "NASA Johnson Style," "Egyptian Style," and many others. "Gangnam Style" (and its attendant parodies, imitations, and derivations) is one o...
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    Q. 170Q. 145

  • THE TECHNOLOGICAL SINGULARITY (MIT PRESS ESSENTIAL KNOWLEDGE) -15%
    THE TECHNOLOGICAL SINGULARITY (MIT PRESS ESSENTIAL KNOWLEDGE)
    SHANAHAN, MURRAY
    The idea that human history is approaching a "singularity" -- that ordinary humans will someday be overtaken by artificially intelligent machines or cognitively enhanced biological intelligence, or both -- has moved from the realm of science fiction to serious debate. Some singularity theorists predict that if the field of artificial intelligence (AI) continues to develop at it...
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    Q. 170Q. 145

  • SUSTAINABILITY (MIT PRESS ESSENTIAL KNOWLEDGE) -15%
    SUSTAINABILITY (MIT PRESS ESSENTIAL KNOWLEDGE)
    PORTNEY, KENT E
    The word "sustainability" has been connected to everything from a certain kind of economic development to corporate promises about improved supply sourcing. But despite the apparent ubiquity of the term, the concept of sustainability has come to mean a number of specific things. In this accessible guide to the meanings of sustainability, Kent Portney describes the evolution of ...
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    Q. 170Q. 145

  • MACHINE LEARNING -15%
    MACHINE LEARNING
    ALPAYDIN ETHEM
    Today, machine learning underlies a range of applications we use every day, from product recommendations to voice recognition -- as well as some we don't yet use everyday, including driverless cars. It is the basis of the new approach in computing where we do not write programs but collect data; the idea is to learn the algorithms for the tasks automatically from data. As compu...
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    Q. 165Q. 140

  • THE SHARING ECONOMY : THE END OF EMPLOYMENT AND THE RISE OF CROWD-BASED CAPITALI -15%
    THE SHARING ECONOMY : THE END OF EMPLOYMENT AND THE RISE OF CROWD-BASED CAPITALI
    SUNDARARAJAN, ARUN
    Sharing isn't new. Giving someone a ride, having a guest in your spare room, running errands for someone, participating in a supper club -- these are not revolutionary concepts. What is new, in the "sharing economy," is that you are not helping a friend for free; you are providing these services to a stranger for money. In this book, Arun Sundararajan, an expert on the sharing ...
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    Q. 270Q. 230

  • QUEER -15%
    QUEER
    GETSY, DAVID
    Historically, "queer" was the slur used against those who were perceived to be or made to feel abnormal. Beginning in the 1980s, "queer" was reappropriated and embraced as a badge of honor. While queer draws its politics and affective force from the history of non-normative, gay, lesbian, and bisexual communities, it is not equivalent to these categories, nor is it an identity....
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    Q. 250Q. 213

  • TURING'S VISION -15%
    TURING'S VISION
    BERNHARDT, CHRIS / BERHARDT, CHRIS
    In 1936, when he was just twenty-four years old, Alan Turing wrote a remarkable paper in which he outlined the theory of computation, laying out the ideas that underlie all modern computers. This groundbreaking and powerful theory now forms the basis of computer science. In Turing's Vision, Chris Bernhardt explains the theory, Turing's most important contribution, for the gener...
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    Q. 270Q. 230

  • CLOUD COMPUTING -15%
    CLOUD COMPUTING
    RUPARELIA, NAYAN B
    Most of the information available on cloud computing is either highly technical, with details that are irrelevant to non-technologists, or pure marketing hype, in which the cloud is simply a selling point. This book, however, explains the cloud from the user's viewpoint -- the business user's in particular. Nayan Ruparelia explains what the cloud is, when to use it (and when no...
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    Q. 160Q. 136

  • WHY ONLY US -15%
    WHY ONLY US
    BERWICK, ROBERT C / NOAM CHOMSKY / CHOMSKY, NOAH
    "A loosely connected collection of four essays that will fascinate anyone interested in the extraordinary phenomenon of language." -- New York Review of BooksWe are born crying, but those cries signal the first stirring of language. Within a year or so, infants master the sound system of their language; a few years after that, they are engaging in conversations. This remarkable...
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    Q. 230Q. 196

  • THE IMAGE OF THE CITY -15%
    THE IMAGE OF THE CITY
    LYNCH, KEVIN
    What does the city's form actually mean to the people who live there? What can the city planner do to make the city's image more vivid and memorable to the city dweller? To answer these questions, Mr. Lynch, supported by studies of Los Angeles, Boston, and Jersey City, formulates a new criterion -- imageability -- and shows its potential value as a guide for the building and re...
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    Q. 355Q. 302

  • THE INTERNET OF THINGS -15%
    THE INTERNET OF THINGS
    GREENGARD, SAMUEL
    We turn on the lights in our house from a desk in an office miles away. Our refrigerator alerts us to buy milk on the way home. A package of cookies on the supermarket shelf suggests that we buy it, based on past purchases. The cookies themselves are on the shelf because of a "smart" supply chain. When we get home, the thermostat has already adjusted the temperature so that it'...
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    Q. 175Q. 149

  • COMPUTING, A CONCISE HISTORY -15%
    COMPUTING, A CONCISE HISTORY
    CERUZZI, PAUL E
    The history of computing could be told as the story of hardware and software, or the story of the Internet, or the story of "smart" hand-held devices, with subplots involving IBM, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, and Twitter. In this concise and accessible account of the invention and development of digital technology, computer historian Paul Ceruzzi offers a broader and more useful...
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    Q. 170Q. 145

  • HOW TO ARCHITECT -15%
    HOW TO ARCHITECT
    DOUG PATT
    The word "architect" is a noun, but Doug Patt uses it as a verb--coining a term and making a point about using parts of speech and parts of buildings in new ways. Changing the function of a word, or a room, can produce surprise and meaning. In How to Architect, Patt--an architect and the creator of a series of wildly popular online videos about architecture--presents the basics...
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    Q. 130Q. 111

  • THE OPTICAL UNCONSCIOUS -15%
    THE OPTICAL UNCONSCIOUS
    ROSALIND E. KRAUSS
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    Q. 250Q. 213

  • WHY WE COOPERATE -15%
    WHY WE COOPERATE
    TOMASELLO, MICHAEL
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    Q. 170Q. 145