Computers & Information Technology

'The story told here is instrumental to your own' - Jared Lanier 'Timely, erudite, important' - Ayad Akhtar What happens when our cultural and artistic lives are dictated to us by an algorithm? What does it mean when shareability supersedes innovation?...

How do today's most successful tech companies--Amazon, Google, Facebook, Netflix, Tesla--design, develop, and deploy the products that have earned the love of literally billions of people around the world? Perhaps surprisingly, they do it very...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593716717Author Ethan MollickFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint PortfolioPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 357gDimensions(mm) 217mm * 147mm *...

Gambling Man is the biography of one of the world's least known but most consequential investors.Japan's Masayoshi Son has made and lost several fortunes, investing or controlling assets worth $1 trillion in the past two decades through his media-tech...

'BRILLIANTLY CLEAR AND CAPTIVATING PROSE' STEPHEN FRY A WATERSTONES BOOK OF YEAR 2023 An award-winning mathematician explores the maths behind the games we love and...

The essential guide to all things Pokemon, this year's Encyclopedia includes all of the details of Ash Ketchum's battle to become Pokemon World Champion! The new updated and expanded final edition of the Pokemon...

***WINNER OF THE FINANCIAL TIMES AND SCHRODERS BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2024***'Astonishing . . . [Olson has] exclusive access to a network of high-ranking sources' - Financial Times'A riveting tale . . . Olson is a compelling storyteller' - New...

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING SENSATION'The Lean Startup changes everything.' - Harvard Business Review----------Most new businesses fail. But most of those failures are preventable.The Lean Startup is a new approach to business that's being adopted...

'This is a riveting book, with as much to say about the transformation of modern life in the information age as about its supernaturally gifted and driven subject' - Telegraph Based on more than forty interviews with Steve Jobs conducted over two years -...

'Essential for any leader in any industry' - Kim Scott, bestselling author of Radical CandorWorking Backwards gives an insider's account of Amazon's approach to culture, leadership and best practices from two long-time, top-level Amazon executives.Colin...

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER WITH OVER 500,000 COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE.IN 'HOOKED', NIR EYAL REVEALS HOW SUCCESSFUL COMPANIES CREATE PRODUCTS PEOPLE CAN'T PUT DOWN.'Hooked changed my life. It's essential reading for anyone who wants to better understand...

In the Age of Software, will your business dominate and maintain relevance-or will it become a digital relic?As tech giants and startups disrupt every market, those who master large-scale software delivery will define the economic landscape of the 21st...

The inspiring, long-awaited autobiography of video-game designer and DOOM cocreator John Romero."DOOM Guy: Life in First Person is...arguably the best non-fiction gaming book of all time, giving a unique insight into one of the industry's most...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250096067Author Jacquie McNishFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Flatiron BooksPublisher Flatiron BooksWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 140mm...

"a provocative new book" -- The New York TimesAI-centric organizations exhibit a new operating architecture, redefining how they create, capture, share, and deliver value.Marco Iansiti and Karim R. Lakhani show how reinventing the firm around data,...

One of the BBC's most anticipated books for 2024An i-D non-fiction book of 2024A Stylist non-fiction book of 2024'An essential book' i-DWhat happens when our cultural and artistic lives are dictated to us by an algorithm? What does it mean when...

'Kocienda reveals the real secret of Steve Jobs's leadership and Apple's magic' - Kim Scott, bestselling author of Radical CandorA Wall Street Journal bestseller.An inside account of Apple's creative process during the golden years of Steve Jobs.'If...

'Brilliantly clear and captivating prose' Stephen Fry A WATERSTONES BOOK OF YEAR 2023 An award-winning mathematician explores the maths behind the games we love and why we love to play them. ...

***NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER***Feel like you're always drowning in email? How much more would you achieve without them - and how much happier would you be? 'A World Without Email crystallizes what so many of us feel intuitively but haven't been able to...

Dive into Bitcoin technology with this hands-on guide from one of the leading teachers on Bitcoin and Bitcoin programming. Author Jimmy Song shows Python programmers and developers how to program a Bitcoin library from scratch. You'll learn how to work...

As you move data to the cloud, you need to consider a comprehensive approach to data governance, along with well-defined and agreed-upon policies to ensure your organization meets compliance requirements. Data governance incorporates the ways people,...

Are you up to the challenge? Venture with Link and Princess Zelda in this full-colour activity book based on Nintendo's classic franchise The Legend of Zelda! Fans of The Legend of Zelda series will love this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781544511252Author Nir KalderoFormat PaperbackPage Count 266Imprint Lioncrest PublishingPublisher Lioncrest PublishingWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 216mm...

An intimate look at the legendary British designer behind Apple's most iconic products - including the Apple WatchWith the death of Steve Jobs in 2011, JONY IVE has become the most important person at Apple. Some would argue he always was.Steve Jobs...

A Wall Street Journal BestsellerFormer IBM CEO Ginni Rometty delivers a powerful combination of memoir, leadership lessons, and big ideas on how we can all drive meaningful change.Ginni Rometty led one of the world's most iconic companies, and in Good...

From bestselling author Walter Isaacson comes the landmark biography of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. In Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography, Isaacson provides an extraordinary account of Jobs' professional and personal life. Drawn from three years of...

Here we go! Super Mario fans will love this full-colour activity book starring Nintendo's classic team of Mario, Luigi and their friends! Super Mario fans of all ages will love this full-colour activity book featuring...

'In this book, Klaus Schwab and the World Economic Forum contribute significantly to one of the most important issues of our time - how to move forward in the Fourth Industrial Revolution' Jack Ma, Executive Chairman, Alibaba Group Holding, People's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781634622349Author DAMA InternationalFormat PaperbackPage Count 626Imprint Technics Publications LLCPublisher Technics Publications LLCWeight(grams) 1696g

THE NEW YORK TIMES, USA TODAY, AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER "Kai-Fu Lee believes China will be the next tech-innovation superpower and in AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order, he explains why. Taiwan-born Lee is perfectly...

Adrian Daub's What Tech Calls Thinking is a lively dismantling of the ideas that form the intellectual bedrock of Silicon Valley. Equally important to Silicon Valley's world-altering innovation are the language and ideas it uses to explain and justify...

Distrust That Particular Flavor - an acclaimed nonfiction collection by William Gibson, bestselling author of Neuromancer'The future's already here: it's just not evenly distributed'William Gibson was writing fiction when he predicted the internet. And...

Demystifying technology transfer-an increasingly important but little-understood aspect of research universities' mission.How do we transfer the brilliance of university research results into new products, services, and medicines to benefit society?...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615477091Author Robert RiefstahlFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint Demonstrating to Win!Publisher Demonstrating to Win!Weight(grams)...

An insightful, engaging tour by a noted Silicon Valley insider of how accelerating developments in Artificial Intelligence will transform the way we live and workSelected as one of the 10 best science and technology books of 2015 by The Economist After...

As an engineering manager, you almost always have someone in your company to turn to for advice: a peer on another team, your manager, or even the head of engineering. But who do you turn to if you're the head of engineering? Engineering executives have...

South African born Elon Musk is the renowned entrepreneur and innovator behind PayPal, SpaceX, Tesla, and SolarCity. Musk wants to save our planet; he wants to send citizens into space, to form a colony on Mars; he wants to make money while doing these...

'A well-researched, enjoyable and thoughtful book'. - Calum Chace, ForbesExtraordinary innovations in technology promise to transform the world, but how realistic is the claim that AI will change our lives? In this much needed book the acclaimed...

From award-winning journalist Kara Swisher comes a witty, scathing, but fair accounting of the tech industry and its founders who wanted to change the world but broke it instead.While tech titans bragged they would 'move fast and break things', Kara...

'In a class of its own . . . An outstanding book and a definite page turner for any Fifty Shades fan!' Irresistible. Erotic. Emotionally charged. The unforgettable multi-million copy selling series, which started with an unforgettable indecent...