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The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI

How to Think About Artificial Intelligence—Before It's Too Late

by Cory Doctorow ...

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNational Indie Bestseller"[Doctorow] resembles the great rock critics of an earlier era, a high-tech Greil Marcus or even a Lester Bangs." —Stephen Marche, The New York Times Book ReviewA short, provocative guide to what's good, bad, and stupid about AI and the discourse around AI, by the author of Enshittification.In modern tech parlance, a c... ... Read more

$16.99 CAD

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNational Indie Bestseller"[Doctorow] resembles the great rock critics of an earlier era, a high-tech Greil Marcus or even a Lester Bangs." —Stephen Marche, The New York Times Book ReviewA short, provocative guide to what's good, bad, and stupid about AI and the discourse around AI, by the author of Enshittification.In modern tech parlance, a c...
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The Master Algorithm

How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World

by Pedro Domingos ...

**Recommended by Bill GatesA thought-provoking and wide-ranging exploration of machine learning and the race to build computer intelligences as flexible as our own**In the world's top research labs and universities, the race is on to invent the ultimate learning algorithm: one capable of discovering any knowledge from data, and doing anything we want, before we even ask. In The Master Algorithm, ... Read more

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**Recommended by Bill GatesA thought-provoking and wide-ranging exploration of machine learning and the race to build computer intelligences as flexible as our own**In the world's top research labs and universities, the race is on to invent the ultimate learning algorithm: one capable of discovering any knowledge from data, and doing anything we want, before we even ask. In The Master Algorithm,
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AI for Good

How Real People Are Using Artificial Intelligence to Fix Things That Matter

by Josh Tyrangiel ...

In contrast to the wave of noisy polemics around AI, AI For Good explores how, in practice, it can actually improve our lives and tells the stories of everyday citizens at the forefront of this new “AI entrepreneurship.”AI is often framed as a force of radical transformation, either catapulting us into a utopian future or dragging us toward existential ruin. But this book tells a different story. ... Read more

$20.99 CAD

In contrast to the wave of noisy polemics around AI, AI For Good explores how, in practice, it can actually improve our lives and tells the stories of everyday citizens at the forefront of this new “AI entrepreneurship.”AI is often framed as a force of radical transformation, either catapulting us into a utopian future or dragging us toward existential ruin. But this book tells a different story.
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More Than Words

How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI

by John Warner ...

In this revised and updated paperback edition, a veteran writing teacher argues that writing is a form of thinking and feeling and shows why it can’t be replaced by AI.“Compelling.” —Joseph Epstein, Wall Street JournalIn the age of artificial intelligence, generating an essay is as simple as typing a prompt and pressing enter. What does this mean for the art of writing? According to longtime ... Read more

$22.99 CAD

In this revised and updated paperback edition, a veteran writing teacher argues that writing is a form of thinking and feeling and shows why it can’t be replaced by AI.“Compelling.” —Joseph Epstein, Wall Street JournalIn the age of artificial intelligence, generating an essay is as simple as typing a prompt and pressing enter. What does this mean for the art of writing? According to longtime
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AI 2041

Ten Visions for Our Future

by Kai-Fu Lee, Chen Qiufan ...

How will AI change our world within twenty years? A pioneering technologist and acclaimed writer team up for a “dazzling” (The New York Times) look at the future that “brims with intriguing insights” (Financial Times). This edition includes a new foreword by Kai-Fu Lee.A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Financial TimesLong before the advent of ChatGPT, Kai-Fu ... Read more

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How will AI change our world within twenty years? A pioneering technologist and acclaimed writer team up for a “dazzling” (The New York Times) look at the future that “brims with intriguing insights” (Financial Times). This edition includes a new foreword by Kai-Fu Lee.A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Financial TimesLong before the advent of ChatGPT, Kai-Fu
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Army of None

Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War

by Paul Scharre ...

**Winner of the 2019 William E. Colby Award"The book I had been waiting for. I can't recommend it highly enough." —Bill Gates**The era of autonomous weapons has arrived. Today around the globe, at least thirty nations have weapons that can search for and destroy enemy targets all on their own. Paul Scharre, a leading expert in next-generation warfare, describes these and other high tech weapons ... Read more

$17.81 CAD

**Winner of the 2019 William E. Colby Award"The book I had been waiting for. I can't recommend it highly enough." —Bill Gates**The era of autonomous weapons has arrived. Today around the globe, at least thirty nations have weapons that can search for and destroy enemy targets all on their own. Paul Scharre, a leading expert in next-generation warfare, describes these and other high tech weapons
... Read more
AI for Nonprofits

Putting Artificial Intelligence to Work for Your Cause

by Darian Rodriguez Heyman, Cheryl Contee ...

A collection of actionable AI tools you can apply immediately to help your nonprofit drive social impact and changeIn AI for Nonprofits: Putting Artificial Intelligence to Work for Your Cause, a team of leading nonprofit experts and social entrepreneurs delivers a startlingly insightful, strategic “how-to guide” for nonprofit and foundation leaders, board members, and volunteers, as well as higher ... Read more

$32.99 CAD

A collection of actionable AI tools you can apply immediately to help your nonprofit drive social impact and changeIn AI for Nonprofits: Putting Artificial Intelligence to Work for Your Cause, a team of leading nonprofit experts and social entrepreneurs delivers a startlingly insightful, strategic “how-to guide” for nonprofit and foundation leaders, board members, and volunteers, as well as higher
... Read more
More Than Words

How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI

by John Warner ...

In this revised and updated paperback edition, a veteran writing teacher argues that writing is a form of thinking and feeling and shows why it can’t be replaced by AI.“Compelling.” —Joseph Epstein, Wall Street JournalIn the age of artificial intelligence, generating an essay is as simple as typing a prompt and pressing enter. What does this mean for the art of writing? According to longtime ... Read more

$19.99 CAD

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In this revised and updated paperback edition, a veteran writing teacher argues that writing is a form of thinking and feeling and shows why it can’t be replaced by AI.“Compelling.” —Joseph Epstein, Wall Street JournalIn the age of artificial intelligence, generating an essay is as simple as typing a prompt and pressing enter. What does this mean for the art of writing? According to longtime
... Read more
Cloudmoney

Cash, Cards, Crypto, and the War for Our Wallets

by Brett Scott ...

Axiom Award Gold Medalist for Business CommentaryThe reach of Corporations into our lives via cards and apps has never been greater; many of us rarely use cash these days. But what we’re told is a natural and inevitable move is actually the work of powerful interests. And the great battle of our time is the battle for ownership of the digital footprints that make up our lives.In Cloudmoney, Brett ... Read more

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Axiom Award Gold Medalist for Business CommentaryThe reach of Corporations into our lives via cards and apps has never been greater; many of us rarely use cash these days. But what we’re told is a natural and inevitable move is actually the work of powerful interests. And the great battle of our time is the battle for ownership of the digital footprints that make up our lives.In Cloudmoney, Brett
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The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State

by Jill Lepore ...

**INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERLonglisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the YearBest Books of August: Barnes & Noble, GoodreadsA New York Times New and Notable Title“Lepore is our best scholar of the culture of governance, and our most vital historian. Here she repudiates the prospect of AI as a replacement for democracy. This is the issue of our times, and Lepore is the voice of ... Read more

$28.07 CAD

**INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERLonglisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the YearBest Books of August: Barnes & Noble, GoodreadsA New York Times New and Notable Title“Lepore is our best scholar of the culture of governance, and our most vital historian. Here she repudiates the prospect of AI as a replacement for democracy. This is the issue of our times, and Lepore is the voice of
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Searches

Selfhood in the Digital Age

by Vauhini Vara ...

**From the author of The Immortal King Rao, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, a personal exploration of how technology companies have both fulfilled and exploited the human desire for understanding and connectionA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Esquire, Slate, Scientific American, Vox, Electric Literature, Book Riot, Culture Study, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus, Library Journal**"I cannot imagine a better ... Read more

$15.99 CAD

**From the author of The Immortal King Rao, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, a personal exploration of how technology companies have both fulfilled and exploited the human desire for understanding and connectionA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Esquire, Slate, Scientific American, Vox, Electric Literature, Book Riot, Culture Study, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus, Library Journal**"I cannot imagine a better
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Practical Tutorials on Machine Learning with Python GUI

by Vivian Siahaan, Rismon Hasiholan Sianipar ...

In this book, you will learn how to use NumPy, Pandas, OpenCV, Scikit-Learn and other libraries to how to plot graph and to process digital image. Then, you will learn how to classify features using Perceptron, Adaline, Logistic Regression (LR), Support Vector Machine (SVM), Decision Tree (DT), Random Forest (RF), and K-Nearest Neighbor (KNN) models. You will also learn how to extract features ... Read more

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In this book, you will learn how to use NumPy, Pandas, OpenCV, Scikit-Learn and other libraries to how to plot graph and to process digital image. Then, you will learn how to classify features using Perceptron, Adaline, Logistic Regression (LR), Support Vector Machine (SVM), Decision Tree (DT), Random Forest (RF), and K-Nearest Neighbor (KNN) models. You will also learn how to extract features
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The Thinking Machine

Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World's Most Coveted Microchip

by Stephen Witt ...

**Winner of the FT and Schroders Business Book of the Year AwardNamed a Best Book of 2025 by The Economist“Framed as a biography of Jensen Huang, the only CEO Nvidia has ever had, the book is also something more interesting and revealing: a window onto the intellectual, cultural, and economic ecosystem that has led to the emergence of superpowerful AI.” —James Surowiecki, The Atlantic“A lively ... Read more

$16.99 CAD

**Winner of the FT and Schroders Business Book of the Year AwardNamed a Best Book of 2025 by The Economist“Framed as a biography of Jensen Huang, the only CEO Nvidia has ever had, the book is also something more interesting and revealing: a window onto the intellectual, cultural, and economic ecosystem that has led to the emergence of superpowerful AI.” —James Surowiecki, The Atlantic“A lively
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Our Final Invention

Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era

by James Barrat ...

Elon Musk named Our Final Invention one of five books everyone should read about the future—a Huffington Post Definitive Tech Book of 2013.Artificial Intelligence helps choose what books you buy, what movies you see, and even who you date. It puts the "smart" in your smartphone and soon it will drive your car. It makes most of the trades on Wall Street, and controls vital energy, water, and ... Read more

$17.27 CAD

Elon Musk named Our Final Invention one of five books everyone should read about the future—a Huffington Post Definitive Tech Book of 2013.Artificial Intelligence helps choose what books you buy, what movies you see, and even who you date. It puts the "smart" in your smartphone and soon it will drive your car. It makes most of the trades on Wall Street, and controls vital energy, water, and
... Read more
Machine Learning

A Practical Approach on the Statistical Learning Theory

by Moacir Antonelli Ponti, RODRIGO F MELLO ...

Series series Computer Science (R0)
This book presents the Statistical Learning Theory in a detailed and easy to understand way, by using practical examples, algorithms and source codes. It can be used as a textbook in graduation or undergraduation courses, for self-learners, or as reference with respect to the main theoretical concepts of Machine Learning. Fundamental concepts of Linear Algebra and Optimization applied to Machine ... Read more

$92.87 CAD

This book presents the Statistical Learning Theory in a detailed and easy to understand way, by using practical examples, algorithms and source codes. It can be used as a textbook in graduation or undergraduation courses, for self-learners, or as reference with respect to the main theoretical concepts of Machine Learning. Fundamental concepts of Linear Algebra and Optimization applied to Machine
... Read more
Science Year by Year

The Ultimate Visual Guide to the Discoveries that Changed the World

by DK ...

Series series DK Definitive Visual Histories
This epic journey of scientific discovery starts in ancient times and travels through centuries of invention before fast forwarding into the future.From simple machines to modern-day marvels, you’ll follow incredible illustrated timelines that plot the entire history of science and highlight the most momentous discoveries. A jaw-dropping collection of more than 1,500 photographs, illustrations, ... Read more

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This epic journey of scientific discovery starts in ancient times and travels through centuries of invention before fast forwarding into the future.From simple machines to modern-day marvels, you’ll follow incredible illustrated timelines that plot the entire history of science and highlight the most momentous discoveries. A jaw-dropping collection of more than 1,500 photographs, illustrations,
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Artificial Intelligence

A Guide for Thinking Humans

by Melanie Mitchell ...

**“After reading Mitchell’s guide, you’ll know what you don’t know and what other people don’t know, even though they claim to know it. And that’s invaluable.” —The New York TimesA leading computer scientist brings human sense to the AI bubble.**No recent scientific enterprise has proved as alluring, terrifying, and filled with extravagant promise and frustrating setbacks as artificial ... Read more

$17.99 CAD

**“After reading Mitchell’s guide, you’ll know what you don’t know and what other people don’t know, even though they claim to know it. And that’s invaluable.” —The New York TimesA leading computer scientist brings human sense to the AI bubble.**No recent scientific enterprise has proved as alluring, terrifying, and filled with extravagant promise and frustrating setbacks as artificial
... Read more
Mastering Sovereign Artificial Intelligence

Owning and Shaping the Future in the Age of AI

by Mark Nasila ...

Data, like oil or minerals, is a vital resource – and who owns it is critical, especially as it fuels the artificial intelligence (AI) revolution. Sovereign AI is about much more than countries merely owning their data, it's about control. It ensures AI aligns with their cultural, ethical, and legal frameworks. It's about making sure AI works for people and not the other way around.Businesses, ... Read more

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Data, like oil or minerals, is a vital resource – and who owns it is critical, especially as it fuels the artificial intelligence (AI) revolution. Sovereign AI is about much more than countries merely owning their data, it's about control. It ensures AI aligns with their cultural, ethical, and legal frameworks. It's about making sure AI works for people and not the other way around.Businesses,
... Read more
The Human Use of Human Beings

Cybernetics and Society

by Norbert Wiener ...

For the 75th anniversary, a new edition of The Human Use of Human Beings—the landmark book that delves into the relationship between humans and computers, and presciently anticipates many contemporary dilemmas surrounding AI technology. With a new introduction by Brian Christian, author of the bestselling Algorithms to Live By and The Alignment Problem.In 1950, mathematician-philosopher Norbert ... Read more

$11.99 CAD

For the 75th anniversary, a new edition of The Human Use of Human Beings—the landmark book that delves into the relationship between humans and computers, and presciently anticipates many contemporary dilemmas surrounding AI technology. With a new introduction by Brian Christian, author of the bestselling Algorithms to Live By and The Alignment Problem.In 1950, mathematician-philosopher Norbert
... Read more
Co-Existence

The Next Phase of AI

by Ethan Mollick ...

How do we live alongside machines that are sometimes smarter than us?We are entering a new era. AI systems can already outperform humans in some domains while failing spectacularly in others. They can act as tutors, collaborators, researchers, strategists, and creators...yet they can also produce falsehoods, generate convincing nonsense, and fail unpredictably. The challenge is no longer simply ... Read more

$18.99 CAD

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How do we live alongside machines that are sometimes smarter than us?We are entering a new era. AI systems can already outperform humans in some domains while failing spectacularly in others. They can act as tutors, collaborators, researchers, strategists, and creators...yet they can also produce falsehoods, generate convincing nonsense, and fail unpredictably. The challenge is no longer simply
... Read more
Your Life, Solved: 42 Practical Ways AI Can Help You Save Time, Reduce Stress, and Get More Done

by Marlon Buchanan ...

Your Life, SolvedDo you ever feel like you're juggling too many tasks, too much information, and not enough time?You're not alone.Most people don't need more productivity hacks. They need better systems. The challenge isn't knowing what to do. It's remembering everything, staying organized, following through on commitments, and finding the time and energy to keep up with it all.Artificial ... Read more

$8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Your Life, SolvedDo you ever feel like you're juggling too many tasks, too much information, and not enough time?You're not alone.Most people don't need more productivity hacks. They need better systems. The challenge isn't knowing what to do. It's remembering everything, staying organized, following through on commitments, and finding the time and energy to keep up with it all.Artificial
... Read more
Genius Makers

The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World

by Cade Metz ...

"This colorful page-turner puts artificial intelligence into a human perspective. Through the lives of Geoff Hinton and other major players, Metz explains this transformative technology and makes the quest thrilling."—Walter Isaacson, author of The Code BreakerRecipient of starred reviews in both Kirkus and Library JournalTHE UNTOLD TECH STORY OF OUR TIMEWhat does it mean to be smart? To be human? ... Read more

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"This colorful page-turner puts artificial intelligence into a human perspective. Through the lives of Geoff Hinton and other major players, Metz explains this transformative technology and makes the quest thrilling."—Walter Isaacson, author of The Code BreakerRecipient of starred reviews in both Kirkus and Library JournalTHE UNTOLD TECH STORY OF OUR TIMEWhat does it mean to be smart? To be human?
... Read more
I Am Not a Robot

My Year Using AI to Do (Almost) Everything

by Joanna Stern ...

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWhat happens when intelligent machines aren’t just in our pockets but are also driving our cars, making our decisions, folding our laundry, and educating our kids?You’ve heard the hype: AI will make us healthier, give every child a personalized tutor, run our businesses more efficiently, return hours of free time to our overworked brains, and make discoveries ... Read more

$14.99 CAD

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWhat happens when intelligent machines aren’t just in our pockets but are also driving our cars, making our decisions, folding our laundry, and educating our kids?You’ve heard the hype: AI will make us healthier, give every child a personalized tutor, run our businesses more efficiently, return hours of free time to our overworked brains, and make discoveries
... Read more
No-Code AI Agents

Design and Launch Intelligent Workflows with No-Code AI Agents

by Vincent Abara ...

Build AI agents without coding. Automate tasks with LLMs and visual workflows.Are you ready to create intelligent assistants that work for you—without writing a single line of code? No-Code AI Agents by Vincent Abara is the definitive guide for beginners and professionals who want to harness the power of large language models, tools, and workflows using visual platforms. This practical, hands-on ... Read more

$6.99 CAD

Build AI agents without coding. Automate tasks with LLMs and visual workflows.Are you ready to create intelligent assistants that work for you—without writing a single line of code? No-Code AI Agents by Vincent Abara is the definitive guide for beginners and professionals who want to harness the power of large language models, tools, and workflows using visual platforms. This practical, hands-on
... Read more

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