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Sex Robots and Vegan Meat: Adventures at the Frontier of Birth, Food, Sex, and Death

Jenny Kleeman - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover

A timely investigation into the forces that are driving innovation in the four core areas of human experience: birth, food, sex, and death.In Sex Robots & Vegan Meat, award-winning journalist and documentary-maker Jenny Kleeman takes us on a journey into the world of the people who are changing...
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Artifacts: Fascinating Facts about Art, Artists, and the Art World

Phaidon Phaidon Editors - ?Phaidon Press
Format: Hardcover

The perfect miscellany for every art lover - an essential and engaging collection of facts, figures, and findings about art, artists, and the art world, past and presentThis extraordinary compendium of compelling facts, figures, and findings gathers and distils obscure and fascinating information...
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3D Printing For Dummies

Kalani Kirk Hausman - Wiley & Sons Canada, Limited, John
Format: Paperback

Get started printing out 3D objects quickly and inexpensively! 3D printing is no longer just a figment of your imagination. This remarkable technology is coming to the masses with the growing availability of 3D printers. 3D printers create 3-dimensional layered models and they allow users...
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Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI

Ethan Mollick - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover

From Wharton professor and author of the popular One Useful Thing Substack newsletter Ethan Mollick comes the definitive playbook for working, learning, and living in the new age of AI. Something new entered our world in November 2022 - the first general purpose AI that could pass for a human...
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Learn Enough Python to Be Dangerous: Software Development, Flask Web Apps, and Beginning Data Science with Python

Michael Hartl - Addison-Wesley Professional
Format: 1st Edition

All You Need to Know, and Nothing You Don't, to Solve Real Problems with PythonPython is one of the most popular programming languages in the world, used for everything from shell scripts to web development to data science. As a result, Python is a great language to learn, but you don't...
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The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood

James Gleick - Vintage
Format: Hardcover

James Gleick, the author of the best sellers Chaos and Genius, now brings us a work just as astonishing and masterly: a revelatory chronicle and meditation that shows how information has become the modern era’s defining quality—the blood, the fuel, the vital principle of our world....
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Teach Yourself VISUALLY Windows 8.1

Paul McFedries - Visual
Format: Paperback

A practical guide for visual learners eager to get started with Windows 8.1 If you learn more quickly when you can see how things are done, this Visual guide is the easiest way to get up and running on Windows 8.1. It covers more than 150 essential Windows tasks, using full-color screen...
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Hadoop: The Definitive Guide

Tom White - O'Reilly Media; 4 edition

Get ready to unlock the power of your data. With the fourth edition of this comprehensive guide, you'll learn how to build and maintain reliable, scalable, distributed systems with Apache Hadoop. This book is ideal for programmers looking to analyze datasets of any size, and for administrators...
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Facebook and Twitter For Seniors For Dummies

Marsha Collier - For Dummies; 2 edition
Format: Paperback

New to social media? This easy-to-use guide will get you started in no time! Social media is a ton of fun, and this updated guide makes it easy to set up a Facebook or Twitter account to catch up with old friends, communicate with your family, and enjoy your online experience. Printed...
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