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The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age [December 25, 2020]
James Dale Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg
Two renowned investment advisors and authors of the bestseller The Great Reckoning bring to light both currents of disaster and the potential for prosperity and renewal in the face of radical changes in human history as we move into the next century...
Life After Google: The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy [December 25, 2020]
George Gilder
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 tumb...
Machine Learning With R, the Tidyverse, and Mlr [December 18, 2020]
Hefin I. Rhys
Summary Machine learning (ML) is a collection of programming techniques for discovering relationships in data. With ML algorithms, you can cluster and classify data for tasks like making recommendations or fraud detection and make predictions for sa...
Advanced R, Second Edition [December 18, 2020]
Hadley Wickham
Advanced R helps you understand how R works at a fundamental level. It is designed for R programmers who want to deepen their understanding of the language, and programmers experienced in other languages who want to understand what makes R different...
Data Visualization: A Practical Introduction [December 18, 2020]
Kieran Healy
An accessible primer on how to create effective graphics from data This book provides students and researchers a hands-on introduction to the principles and practice of data visualization. It explains what makes some graphs succeed while others fail...
Bioinformatics Data Skills: Reproducible and Robust Research With Open Source Tools [December 18, 2020]
Vince Buffalo
Learn the data skills necessary for turning large sequencing datasets into reproducible and robust biological findings. With this practical guide, you’ll learn how to use freely available open source tools to extract meaning from large complex biolo...
R Cookbook: Proven Recipes for Data Analysis, Statistics, and Graphics [December 18, 2020]
Jd Long and Paul Teetor
Perform data analysis with R quickly and efficiently with more than 275 practical recipes in this expanded second edition. The R language provides everything you need to do statistical work, but its structure can be difficult to master. These task-o...
Probability Theory: The Logic of Science [December 18, 2020]
E. T. Jaynes
The standard rules of probability can be interpreted as uniquely valid principles in logic.
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs [December 18, 2020]
Harold Abelson, Gerald Jay Sussman, Julie Sussman
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs has had a dramatic impact on computer science curricula over the past decade. This long-awaited revision contains changes throughout the text.
The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master [December 18, 2020]
Andrew Hunt and David Thomas
What others in the trenches say about The Pragmatic Programmer... “The cool thing about this book is that it’s great for keeping the programming process fresh. The book helps you to continue to grow and clearly comes from people who have been there....
The Diversity Myth: Multiculturalism and Political Intolerance on Campus [December 14, 2020]
David O. Sacks and Peter A. Thiel
This is a powerful exploration of the debilitating impact that politically-correct “multiculturalism” has had upon higher education and academic freedom in the United States. In the name of diversity, many leading academic and cultural institutions ...
The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner [December 14, 2020]
Daniel Ellsberg
Shortlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in NonfictionFinalist for The California Book Award in NonfictionThe San Francisco Chronicle's Best of the Year ListForeign Affairs Best Books of the Year In These Times “Best Books of the Yea...
A Layered Grammar of Graphics [December 14, 2020]
Hadley Wickham
Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, 2010, Volume19, Number1, 3-28
Statistical Analysis With Missing Data [December 14, 2020]
Roderick J. A. Little and Donald B. Rubin
* Emphasizes the latest trends in the field. * Includes a new chapter on evolving methods. * Provides updated or revised material in most of the chapters.
Teamwork Means You Can't Pick the Side That's Right [December 11, 2020]
Scott Adams
He's the icon of millions of corporate workers, the most popular cubicle dweller on this planet. He spends his days in endless meetings with incompetent supervisors, performing perfunctory tasks mixed with the occasional team-building, brainstorming,...
When Body Language Goes Bad [December 11, 2020]
Scott Adams
"Dilbert is easily one of the most clever and consistently funny comics in current circulation. Like all great comic strips, it provides a much-needed daily dose of comedy and, most importantly, keeps its finger firmly planted on the pulse of truth w...
Dilbert 2.0: The Early Years [December 11, 2020]
Scott Adams
In the tradition of The Complete Far Side and The Complete Calvin and Hobbes, Dilbert 2.0 celebrates the 20th anniversary of Scott Adams's Dilbert, the touchstone of office humor. This first volume of the four-volume e-book edition of Dilbert 2.0 cov...
Dilbert 2.0: The Modern Era [December 11, 2020]
Scott Adams
In the tradition of The Complete Far Side and The Complete Calvin and Hobbes, Dilbert 2.0 celebrates the 20th anniversary of Scott Adams's Dilbert, the touchstone of office humor. This fourth volume of the four-volume e-book edition of Dilbert 2.0 co...
Dilbert Gives You the Business [December 11, 2020]
Scott Adams
Everyone who reads DILBERT and works in an office will appreciate this collection, Dilbert Gives You the Business.Creator Scott Adams tells it like it is through the insane business world inhabited by Dilbert. If frustration and lunacy are an inevita...
Dilbert 2.0: The Boom Years [December 11, 2020]
Scott Adams
Scott Adams "is a VERY tough act to follow." —Suzanne Tobin, Washington PostIn the tradition of The Complete Far Side and The Complete Calvin and Hobbes, Dilbert 2.0 celebrates the 20th anniversary of Scott Adams's Dilbert, the touchstone of of...
The Dilbert Future: Thriving on Business Stupidity in the 21st Century [December 11, 2020]
Scott Adams
Step aside, Bill Gates! Here comes today′s real technology guru and his totally original, laugh-out-loud New York Times bestseller that looks at the approaching new millennium and boldly predicts: more stupidity ahead. In The Dilbert Principle and D...
Dilbert 2.0: The Dot-com Bubble [December 11, 2020]
Scott Adams
In the tradition of The Complete Far Side and The Complete Calvin and Hobbes, Dilbert 2.0 celebrates the 20th anniversary of Scott Adams's Dilbert, the touchstone of office humor. This third volume of the four-volume e-book edition of Dilbert 2.0 cov...
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future [December 6, 2020]
Blake Masters
If you want to build a better future, you must believe in secrets. The great secret of our time is that there are still uncharted frontiers to explore and new inventions to create. In Zero to One, legendary entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel shows...
Gig: Americans Talk About Their Jobs [December 6, 2020]
John Bowe and Marisa Bowe and Sabin Streeter
“An engaging, humorous, revealing, and refreshingly human look at the bizarre, life-threatening, and delightfully humdrum exploits of everyone from sports heroes to sex workers.” -- Douglas Rushkoff, author of Coercion, Ecstasy Club, and Media Virus...
Solving Mathematical Problems: A Personal Perspective [December 6, 2020]
Terence Tao
Authored by a leading name in mathematics, this engaging and clearly presented text leads the reader through the various tactics involved in solving mathematical problems at the Mathematical Olympiad level. Covering number theory, algebra, analysis,...
Elements of Poker [December 6, 2020]
Tommy Angelo
"Beyond statistics, beyond whether to raise, call, or fold, Elements of Poker reveals a new world of profitability for your bankroll and your life. You know tilt costs you money, but do you know how to make it go away? You know position is important...
Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do [December 6, 2020]
Studs Terkel
A Pulitzer Prize winner interviews workers, from policemen to piano tuners: “Magnificent . . . To read it is to hear America talking.” —The Boston Globe  A National Book Award Finalist and New York Times bestseller   Studs Terkel’s classic oral hist...
Ninety Percent of Everything: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car, and Food on Your Plate [December 6, 2020]
Rose George
On ship-tracking Web sites, the waters are black with dots. Each dot is a ship; each ship is laden with boxes; each box is laden with goods. In postindustrial economies, we no longer produce but buy, and so we must ship. Without shipping there would...
More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of the New Elite [December 6, 2020]
Sebastian Mallaby
Wealthy, powerful, and potentially dangerous, hedge-find managers have emerged as the stars of twenty-first century capitalism. Based on unprecedented access to the industry, More Money Than God provides the first authoritative history of hedge fund...
The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity: The International Bestseller [November 30, 2020]
Carlo M. Cipolla
Sort the intelligent from the stupid, and the helpless from the bandits ahead of the 2019 general election.'A classic' - Simon Kuper, Financial Times'This is brilliant' - James O'Brien, author of How to be RightThe five laws that confirm our worst fe...
The Art of Network Penetration Testing: Taking Over Any Company in the World [November 30, 2020]
Royce Davis
The Art of Network Penetration Testing is a guide to simulating an internal security breach. You’ll take on the role of the attacker and work through every stage of a professional pentest, from information gathering to seizing control of a system an...
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