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The Science of Racism

Everything you need to know but probably don't - yet

by Keon West ...

**Shortlisted for the 2026 Unwin AwardLonglisted for the 2026 Jhalak PrizePolls show that over fifty per cent of us don’t believe racism exists.In a world made for White people, The Science of Racism uses clear scientific research to expose what we know about racism, exactly how we know it, and what we can do about it.**‘Charismatic and funny’ - The Guardian'Illuminating, surprising, unnerving, ... Read more

£5.99

**Shortlisted for the 2026 Unwin AwardLonglisted for the 2026 Jhalak PrizePolls show that over fifty per cent of us don’t believe racism exists.In a world made for White people, The Science of Racism uses clear scientific research to expose what we know about racism, exactly how we know it, and what we can do about it.**‘Charismatic and funny’ - The Guardian'Illuminating, surprising, unnerving,
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Invisible Women

the Sunday Times number one bestseller exposing the gender bias women face every day

by Caroline Criado Perez ...

*THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER**A TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE 21st CENTURY**OVER A MILLION COPIES SOLD*Discover the shocking gender bias that affects our everyday lives in this groundbreaking gift of a book.'Nothing delights me more than a well-written and well-researched book that teaches you and never bores you' Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie'HELL YES. This is... ... Read more

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*THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER**A TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE 21st CENTURY**OVER A MILLION COPIES SOLD*Discover the shocking gender bias that affects our everyday lives in this groundbreaking gift of a book.'Nothing delights me more than a well-written and well-researched book that teaches you and never bores you' Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie'HELL YES. This is...
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Oracle Quick Guides Part 3 - Coding in Oracle: SQL and PL/SQL

by Malcolm Coxall ...

Series Book 3 - Oracle Quick Guides
This is Part 3 of a series of quick learning guides for Oracle designers, developers and managers. Part 3 introduces completely new entrants to the main concepts of the SQL language and to the use and development of Oracle's PL/SQL procedural version of SQL. The guide includes details of how to install and use a SQL*Plus client and the basic use of Oracle's SQL Developer tool. The guide also ... Read more

£2.43

This is Part 3 of a series of quick learning guides for Oracle designers, developers and managers. Part 3 introduces completely new entrants to the main concepts of the SQL language and to the use and development of Oracle's PL/SQL procedural version of SQL. The guide includes details of how to install and use a SQL*Plus client and the basic use of Oracle's SQL Developer tool. The guide also
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The Thinking Machine

Jensen Huang and Nvidia, the company shaping the future of AI

by Stephen Witt ...

WINNER OF THE FT SCHRODERS BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025A SUNDAY TIMES, ECONOMIST AND FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR‘Gripping and brilliantly told’ MUSTAFA SULEYMAN‘Highly entertaining’ GUARDIAN‘Excellent’ ECONOMIST'Riveting ... exceptional' RAY KURZWEIL‘Page-turning’ DAVID EPSTEIN<... ... Read more

£6.99

WINNER OF THE FT SCHRODERS BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025A SUNDAY TIMES, ECONOMIST AND FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR‘Gripping and brilliantly told’ MUSTAFA SULEYMAN‘Highly entertaining’ GUARDIAN‘Excellent’ ECONOMIST'Riveting ... exceptional' RAY KURZWEIL‘Page-turning’ DAVID EPSTEIN<...
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Designing Data-Intensive Applications

The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems

by Martin Kleppmann, Chris Riccomini ...

Data is at the center of many challenges in system design today. Difficult issues such as scalability, consistency, reliability, efficiency, and maintainability need to be resolved. In addition, there's an overwhelming variety of systems, including relational databases, NoSQL datastores, data warehouses, and data lakes. There are cloud services, on-premises services, and embedded databases. What ... Read more

£29.15

Data is at the center of many challenges in system design today. Difficult issues such as scalability, consistency, reliability, efficiency, and maintainability need to be resolved. In addition, there's an overwhelming variety of systems, including relational databases, NoSQL datastores, data warehouses, and data lakes. There are cloud services, on-premises services, and embedded databases. What
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Fundamentals of Data Engineering

Plan and Build Robust Data Systems

by Joe Reis, Matt Housley ...

Data engineering has grown rapidly in the past decade, leaving many software engineers, data scientists, and analysts looking for a comprehensive view of this practice. With this practical book, you'll learn how to plan and build systems to serve the needs of your organization and customers by evaluating the best technologies available through the framework of the data engineering lifecycle ... Read more

£31.13

Data engineering has grown rapidly in the past decade, leaving many software engineers, data scientists, and analysts looking for a comprehensive view of this practice. With this practical book, you'll learn how to plan and build systems to serve the needs of your organization and customers by evaluating the best technologies available through the framework of the data engineering lifecycle
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Kafka: The Definitive Guide

Real-Time Data and Stream Processing at Scale

by Gwen Shapira, Todd Palino, Rajini Sivaram, Krit Petty ...

Every enterprise application creates data, whether it consists of log messages, metrics, user activity, or outgoing messages. Moving all this data is just as important as the data itself. With this updated edition, application architects, developers, and production engineers new to the Kafka streaming platform will learn how to handle data in motion. Additional chapters cover Kafka's AdminClient ... Read more

£26.63

Every enterprise application creates data, whether it consists of log messages, metrics, user activity, or outgoing messages. Moving all this data is just as important as the data itself. With this updated edition, application architects, developers, and production engineers new to the Kafka streaming platform will learn how to handle data in motion. Additional chapters cover Kafka's AdminClient
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Microsoft Excel VBA Codes Are Fun, Simple, and Easy to Learn In One Hour or Less: VBA for Students, Parents, and Professionals (First Edition)

by Kenny L Keys ...

This book is the first of three books to come in a series that is dedicated to making VBA in Microsoft Excel less scary for regular, everyday people. I’m committed to providing tutorials in a way that will allow my books to be as easily understood as watching a cartoon on your television screen; this is why pictorial examples dominates this book; the images will follow me step by step in the ... Read more

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This book is the first of three books to come in a series that is dedicated to making VBA in Microsoft Excel less scary for regular, everyday people. I’m committed to providing tutorials in a way that will allow my books to be as easily understood as watching a cartoon on your television screen; this is why pictorial examples dominates this book; the images will follow me step by step in the
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Database Internals

A Deep Dive into How Distributed Data Systems Work

by Alex Petrov ...

When it comes to choosing, using, and maintaining a database, understanding its internals is essential. But with so many distributed databases and tools available today, it’s often difficult to understand what each one offers and how they differ. With this practical guide, Alex Petrov guides developers through the concepts behind modern database and storage engine internals.Throughout the book, ... Read more

£26.63

When it comes to choosing, using, and maintaining a database, understanding its internals is essential. But with so many distributed databases and tools available today, it’s often difficult to understand what each one offers and how they differ. With this practical guide, Alex Petrov guides developers through the concepts behind modern database and storage engine internals.Throughout the book,
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The Data Journalism Handbook

How Journalists Can Use Data to Improve the News

by Jonathan Gray, Lucy Chambers, Liliana Bounegru ...

When you combine the sheer scale and range of digital information now available with a journalist’s "nose for news" and her ability to tell a compelling story, a new world of possibility opens up. With The Data Journalism Handbook, you’ll explore the potential, limits, and applied uses of this new and fascinating field.This valuable handbook has attracted scores of contributors since the European ... Read more

£6.20

When you combine the sheer scale and range of digital information now available with a journalist’s "nose for news" and her ability to tell a compelling story, a new world of possibility opens up. With The Data Journalism Handbook, you’ll explore the potential, limits, and applied uses of this new and fascinating field.This valuable handbook has attracted scores of contributors since the European
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Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet Data Formulas

by Kenny L Keys ...

This book will allow users to quickly master Microsoft Excel data formulas: left, right, mid, trim, len, find, index, if, and, or, iserror, hlookup, vlookup, concatenate, offset, match, small, and large. In order to create powerful mega-formulas, which are used to extract and manipulate data without using VBA or macros, users will learn how to nestle formulas. This book makes it much easier for ... Read more

£2.37

This book will allow users to quickly master Microsoft Excel data formulas: left, right, mid, trim, len, find, index, if, and, or, iserror, hlookup, vlookup, concatenate, offset, match, small, and large. In order to create powerful mega-formulas, which are used to extract and manipulate data without using VBA or macros, users will learn how to nestle formulas. This book makes it much easier for
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Grokking Algorithms

An illustrated guide for programmers and other curious people

by Aditya Bhargava ...

"This book does the impossible: it makes math fun and easy!" - Sander Rossel, COAS Software SystemsGrokking Algorithms is a fully illustrated, friendly guide that teaches you how to apply common algorithms to the practical problems you face every day as a programmer. You'll start with sorting and searching and, as you build up your skills in thinking algorithmically, you'll tackle more complex ... Read more

£27.10

"This book does the impossible: it makes math fun and easy!" - Sander Rossel, COAS Software SystemsGrokking Algorithms is a fully illustrated, friendly guide that teaches you how to apply common algorithms to the practical problems you face every day as a programmer. You'll start with sorting and searching and, as you build up your skills in thinking algorithmically, you'll tackle more complex
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MongoDB: The Definitive Guide

Powerful and Scalable Data Storage

by Shannon Bradshaw, Eoin Brazil, Kristina Chodorow ...

Manage your data with a system designed to support modern application development. Updated for MongoDB 4.2, the third edition of this authoritative and accessible guide shows you the advantages of using document-oriented databases. You’ll learn how this secure, high-performance system enables flexible data models, high availability, and horizontal scalability.Authors Shannon Bradshaw, Eoin Brazil, ... Read more

£26.63

Manage your data with a system designed to support modern application development. Updated for MongoDB 4.2, the third edition of this authoritative and accessible guide shows you the advantages of using document-oriented databases. You’ll learn how this secure, high-performance system enables flexible data models, high availability, and horizontal scalability.Authors Shannon Bradshaw, Eoin Brazil,
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Storytelling with Data

Let's Practice!

by Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic ...

Influence action through data!This is not a book. It is a one-of-a-kind immersive learning experience through which you can become—or teach others to be—a powerful data storyteller.Let’s practice! helps you build confidence and credibility to create graphs and visualizations that make sense and weave them into action-inspiring stories. Expanding upon best seller storytelling with data’s ... Read more

£24.99

Influence action through data!This is not a book. It is a one-of-a-kind immersive learning experience through which you can become—or teach others to be—a powerful data storyteller.Let’s practice! helps you build confidence and credibility to create graphs and visualizations that make sense and weave them into action-inspiring stories. Expanding upon best seller storytelling with data’s
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Driving Data Quality with Data Contracts

A comprehensive guide to building reliable, trusted, and effective data platforms

by Andrew Jones ...

Everything you need to know to apply data contracts and build a truly data-driven organization that harnesses quality data to deliver tangible business value Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBookKey FeaturesUnderstand data contracts and their power to resolving the problems in contemporary data platformsLearn how to design and implement a cutting-edge data platform powered ... Read more

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Everything you need to know to apply data contracts and build a truly data-driven organization that harnesses quality data to deliver tangible business value Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBookKey FeaturesUnderstand data contracts and their power to resolving the problems in contemporary data platformsLearn how to design and implement a cutting-edge data platform powered
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Build a Reasoning Model (From Scratch)

by Sebastian Raschka ...

Get the eBook free when you register your print book at Manning."An exceptional deep dive into the next frontier of AI.”—Aman Chadha, GoogleThis book is a practical guide to understanding how modern reasoning-oriented LLMs work by building their core methods step by step. The book tells a clear engineering story: start with a conventional pre-trained LLM, learn how text generation works, build ... Read more

£31.99

Get the eBook free when you register your print book at Manning."An exceptional deep dive into the next frontier of AI.”—Aman Chadha, GoogleThis book is a practical guide to understanding how modern reasoning-oriented LLMs work by building their core methods step by step. The book tells a clear engineering story: start with a conventional pre-trained LLM, learn how text generation works, build
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SQL and Relational Theory

How to Write Accurate SQL Code

by C.J. Date ...

SQL is full of difficulties and traps for the unwary. You can avoid them if you understand relational theory, but only if you know how to put that theory into practice. In this book, Chris Date explains relational theory in depth, and demonstrates through numerous examples and exercises how you can apply it to your use of SQL.This third edition has been revised, extended, and improved throughout. ... Read more

£15.92

SQL is full of difficulties and traps for the unwary. You can avoid them if you understand relational theory, but only if you know how to put that theory into practice. In this book, Chris Date explains relational theory in depth, and demonstrates through numerous examples and exercises how you can apply it to your use of SQL.This third edition has been revised, extended, and improved throughout.
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Mulheres invisíveis

O viés dos dados em um mundo projetado para homens

by Caroline Criado Perez ...

Translated by Renata Guerra ...

Como a coleta e o uso dos dados contribuem para o enorme desequilíbrio entre as experiências de homens e mulheres na sociedadeDesde o controle do fogo e o domínio da agricultura até as evoluções tecnológicas da atualidade, as conquistas dos seres humanos sempre começaram com a observação do mundo, algo conhecido hoje como coleta de dados. Como base da ciência, são os dados que determinam a ... Read more

£2.78

Como a coleta e o uso dos dados contribuem para o enorme desequilíbrio entre as experiências de homens e mulheres na sociedadeDesde o controle do fogo e o domínio da agricultura até as evoluções tecnológicas da atualidade, as conquistas dos seres humanos sempre começaram com a observação do mundo, algo conhecido hoje como coleta de dados. Como base da ciência, são os dados que determinam a
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Microsoft Power BI Quick Start Guide

The ultimate beginner's guide to data modeling, visualization, digital storytelling, and more

by Devin Knight, Erin Ostrowsky, Mitchell Pearson, Bradley Schacht ...

Bring your data to life with this accessible yet fast-paced introduction to Power BI, now in color. Get With Your Book: PDF Copy, AI Assistant, and Next-Gen Reader FreeKey FeaturesLearn faster with practical examples of the latest features of Power BI, including navigator buttons, column-level security, visualizing goals, and moreMigrate your existing Excel and data analysis skills to Power ... Read more

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Bring your data to life with this accessible yet fast-paced introduction to Power BI, now in color. Get With Your Book: PDF Copy, AI Assistant, and Next-Gen Reader FreeKey FeaturesLearn faster with practical examples of the latest features of Power BI, including navigator buttons, column-level security, visualizing goals, and moreMigrate your existing Excel and data analysis skills to Power
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Python: Data Analytics and Visualization

by Phuong Vo.T.H, Martin Czygan, Ashish Kumar, Kirthi Raman ...

Understand, evaluate, and visualize dataAbout This BookLearn basic steps of data analysis and how to use Python and its packagesA step-by-step guide to predictive modeling including tips, tricks, and best practicesEffectively visualize a broad set of analyzed data and generate effective resultsWho This Book Is ForThis book is for Python Developers who are keen to get into data analysis and wish to ... Read more

£42.83 or Free with Kobo Plus

Understand, evaluate, and visualize dataAbout This BookLearn basic steps of data analysis and how to use Python and its packagesA step-by-step guide to predictive modeling including tips, tricks, and best practicesEffectively visualize a broad set of analyzed data and generate effective resultsWho This Book Is ForThis book is for Python Developers who are keen to get into data analysis and wish to
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Mastering Kafka Streams and ksqlDB

by Mitch Seymour ...

Working with unbounded and fast-moving data streams has historically been difficult. But with Kafka Streams and ksqlDB, building stream processing applications is easy and fun. This practical guide shows data engineers how to use these tools to build highly scalable stream processing applications for moving, enriching, and transforming large amounts of data in real time.Mitch Seymour, data ... Read more

£26.95

Working with unbounded and fast-moving data streams has historically been difficult. But with Kafka Streams and ksqlDB, building stream processing applications is easy and fun. This practical guide shows data engineers how to use these tools to build highly scalable stream processing applications for moving, enriching, and transforming large amounts of data in real time.Mitch Seymour, data
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Generative Deep Learning

Teaching Machines to Paint, Write, Compose, and Play

by David Foster ...

Generative modeling is one of the hottest topics in AI. It’s now possible to teach a machine to excel at human endeavors such as painting, writing, and composing music. With this practical book, machine-learning engineers and data scientists will discover how to re-create some of the most impressive examples of generative deep learning models, such as variational autoencoders,generative ... Read more

£31.13

Generative modeling is one of the hottest topics in AI. It’s now possible to teach a machine to excel at human endeavors such as painting, writing, and composing music. With this practical book, machine-learning engineers and data scientists will discover how to re-create some of the most impressive examples of generative deep learning models, such as variational autoencoders,generative
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The Minimum You Need to Know to Be an OpenVMS Application Developer

by Roland Hughes ...

For years now the question has been surfacing in the OpenVMS community "Where are the pimply faced kids?" The other situation which seems to continually occur is a developer of one language suddenly finding themselves having to modify or maintain an appli ... Read more

£39.41

For years now the question has been surfacing in the OpenVMS community "Where are the pimply faced kids?" The other situation which seems to continually occur is a developer of one language suddenly finding themselves having to modify or maintain an appli
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SQL Cheat Sheet - Quick Reference Guide

by Kaitlyn Chick ...

SQL Cheat Sheet & Guide, is designed as a quick reference, goto book for the working Microsoft and MySQL user. If you are like me, you like to keep all of your reference material together and not in a hundred internet searches. This QUICK LOOK reference is intended for the working IT professional in real world scenarios without having to find what you are looking for within a sea of webpage ... Read more

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SQL Cheat Sheet & Guide, is designed as a quick reference, goto book for the working Microsoft and MySQL user. If you are like me, you like to keep all of your reference material together and not in a hundred internet searches. This QUICK LOOK reference is intended for the working IT professional in real world scenarios without having to find what you are looking for within a sea of webpage
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