Computers & Information Technology

THE SUNDAY TIMES AND #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - with a new foreword by Silicon Valley legend Marc Andreessen.'For my money, a better book about Jobs than Walter Isaacson's biography' New Yorker'A fascinating reinterpretation of the Steve Jobs story'...

Effective visualization is the best way to communicate information from the increasingly large and complex datasets in the natural and social sciences. But with the increasing power of visualization software today, scientists, engineers, and business...

Use this practical guide to the Splunk operational data intelligence platform to search, visualize, and analyze petabyte-scale, unstructured machine data. Get to the heart of the platform and use the Search Processing Language (SPL) tool to query the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307588692Author Kevin PoulsenFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 236gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

**Available now: Whistleblower Frances Haugen's searing expose of the internal workings of Facebook revealing the company's struggles to regain control over its platform and to stop the spread of misinformation**__________In the spring of 2021, when news...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948122481Author Thomas M. SiebelFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Rosetta BooksPublisher Rosetta Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781933820736Author Chris RisdonFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Rosenfeld MediaPublisher Rosenfeld Media

Slow systems are frustrating. They waste time and money. But making consistently great decisions about performance can be easy, if you understand what's going on. This book explains in a clear and thoughtful voice why systems perform the way they do...

Written with the verve of such works as The Big Short, The History of the Future, and The Spider Network, here is the fascinating, true story of the rise of Ethereum, the second-biggest digital asset in the world, the growth of cryptocurrency, and the...

'It is rare for a business analysis to read like a thriller - this one does.' - Azeem Azhar, Founder, Exponential View 'Vital to understanding how[TikTok] works and the impact it's having.' - Damian Collins MP, former chairman of the House of Commons...

Work with petabyte-scale datasets while building a collaborative, agile workplace in the process. This practical book is the canonical reference to Google BigQuery, the query engine that lets you conduct interactive analysis of large datasets. BigQuery...

In their short history, Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have gone through booms, busts, and internecine wars, recently reaching a market valuation of more than $2 trillion. The central promise of crypto endures-vast fortunes made from decentralized...

Radio 4's Book of the WeekA Financial Times Book of the YearShortlisted for the 2020 Financial Times / McKinsey Business Book of the YearLonglisted for the National Book Award 'The story of the original data science hucksters of the 1960s is hilarious,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525540175Author Emily ChangFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint PortfolioPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

The Internet Age: on the face of it, an era of unprecedented freedom in both communication and culture. Yet in the past, each major new medium, from telephone to satellite television, has crested on a wave of similar idealistic optimism, before...

The conventional wisdom on how technology will change the future is wrong. Mark Mills lays out a radically different and optimistic vision for what's really coming.The mainstream forecasts fall into three camps. One considers today as the "new normal,"...

A definitive guide to the metaverse: why it's important, why it matters to society, and how to create a metaverse that works for all of us---------------'Brimming with big and convincing arguments about where human life is heading' Arianna...

'A fascinating book . . . Bhaskar is a reassuringly positive and often witty guide'Observer'A fascinating, must-read book covering a vast array of topics from the arts to the sciences, technology to policy. This is a brilliant and thought-provoking...

Jeff Lawson, developer turned CEO of Twilio (one of Bloomberg Businessweek's Top 50 Companies to Watch in 2021), creates a new playbook for unleashing the full potential of software developers in any organization, showing how to help management utilize...

Valve Radio and Audio Repair Handbook is not only an essential read for every professional working with antique radio and gramophone equipment, but also dealers, collectors and valve technology enthusiasts the world over. The emphasis is firmly on...

'A fascinating book . . . Bhaskar is a reassuringly positive and often witty guide'Observer'A fascinating, must-read book covering a vast array of topics from the arts to the sciences, technology to policy. This is a brilliant and thought-provoking...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525566045Author Gary MarcusFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA Inc

Remove your doubts about AI and explore how this technology can be future-proofed using blockchain's smart contracts and tamper-evident ledgers. With this practical book, system architects, software engineers, and systems solution specialists will learn...

Named one of "The five best books to understand AI" by The EconomistThe impact AI will have is profound, but the economic framework for understanding it is surprisingly simple.Artificial intelligence seems to do the impossible, magically bringing...

With emerging technology transforming customer expectations, it's important to keep a laser focus on the experience companies provide their customers. Tomorrow's customers need to be targeted today!Customer experience futurist Blake Morgan outlines ten...

Radio 4's Book of the WeekA Financial Times Book of the YearShortlisted for the 2020 Financial Times / McKinsey Business Book of the YearLonglisted for the National Book Award 'The story of the original data science hucksters of the 1960s is hilarious,...

Discover the extraordinary realities of the world's most advanced cybersecurity companies and tech In The Battle for Your Computer: Israel and the Growth of the Global Cyber-Security Industry, Israeli Defense Force (IDF) cyberwarfare veteran and tech...

From the Wall Street Journal's Tripp Mickle, the dramatic, untold story inside Apple after the passing of Steve Jobs by following his top lieutenants-Jony Ive, the Chief Design Officer, and Tim Cook, the COO-turned-CEO-and how the fading of...

What's it like to start a revolution?How do you build the biggest tech company in the world?And why do you walk away from it all?Paul Allen co-founded Microsoft. Together he and Bill Gates turned an idea - writing software - into a company and then an...

We like to think that we are in control of the future of "artificial" intelligence. The reality, though, is that we--the everyday people whose data powers AI--aren't actually in control of anything. When, for example, we speak with Alexa, we contribute...

"Blockchains will matter crucially; this book, beautifully and clearly written for a wide audience, powerfully demonstrates how."-Lawrence Lessig"Attempts to do for blockchain what the likes of Lawrence Lessig and Tim Wu did for the Internet and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524758868Author Klaus SchwabFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Crown Publishing Group, Division of Random House IncPublisher Random House USA...

Cybersecurity threats are on the rise. As a leader, you need to be prepared to keep your organization safe.Companies are investing an unprecedented amount of money to keep their data and assets safe, yet cyberattacks are on the rise--and the problem is...

TRUST IS FUNDAMENTAL TO EVERY ACTION, EVERY RELATIONSHIP, EVERY TRANSACTIONAND IT MATTERS NOW MORE THAN EVER BEFORE...In this ground-breaking book world-renowned trust expert Rachel Botsman reveals that we are at the tipping point of one of the biggest...

A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE MONTH FROM THE WALL STREET JOURNAL: "Nothing Mr. Gilder says or writes is ever delivered at anything less than the fullest philosophical decibel... Mr. Gilder sounds less like a tech guru than a poet, and his words tumble...

'A penetrating portrait of one of the most significant companies in the world' Ronan Farrow, author of Catch and Kill'With the skill of an award-winning journalist, Horwitz details the inner workings of the tech giant and their outcomes...A must-read.'...

Prepares leaders for the 2020s-an accessible guide to the key technologies that will reshape business in the coming decade Most businesses identify six key digital technologies-artificial intelligence (AI), distributed ledgers and blockchain, the...

A New York Times bestseller and winner of a 2015 Prose Award!There is a threat lurking online. A secret war with the power to destroy your finances, steal your personal data, and endanger your life.In Spam Nation, investigative journalist and...

Buy now with one-click. Amazon's business model is deceptively simple: make online shopping so easy and convenient that customers won't think twice. Yet Amazon's success is largely down to CEO and founder Jeff Bezos, a man described as both a...

In their short history, Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have gone through booms, busts, and internecine wars, recently reaching a market valuation of more than $2 trillion. The central promise of crypto endures-vast fortunes made from decentralized...