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Computing Everything: The Amazing Story of Information Technology Book Cover

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Computing Everything: The Amazing Story of Information Technology

Haig Kiremidjian

Sep 29 - Oct 29
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A sweeping, story‑driven journey through the inventions, people, and ideas that built our digital world. Written for readers of all backgrounds, it explains every concept in clear, accessible language while bringing you into the rooms where the breakthroughs happened. How did Alan Turing, in 1936, end up inventing the computer while trying to solve a crisis in mathematics? How did IBM’s research labs in the 1960s shape the software development practices we still rely on? What made AlexNet’s 2012 achievement the spark that ignited modern artificial intelligence? When did society become so dependent on information technology, and at what cost? Through vivid historical storytelling, the book weaves together the key technologies, the science behind them, the personalities who drove them, and the profound impact they’ve had on business, culture, and everyday life. It’s the epic tale of how information technology reshaped the modern world.

Non-fiction
Science

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Hype Immunity : Timeless Lessons for Navigating the AI Revolution

Mike Horton

Oct 1 - Oct 31
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AI isn’t the first technology to promise everything—and threaten everything.

In a world full of AI hype, senior AI executive Dr. Mike Horton knows that in practice, implementation is easier said than done. While technical checklists and training classes may package AI as easy-to-use, business leaders know the truth—shepherding organizations through the emerging AI revolution requires more than abstract promises.

Grounded in timeless lessons from over 250 years of industrial history, Hype Immunity offers leaders a pragmatic guide for implementing AI development in the modern age. From Bell’s telephone to Intel’s microprocessors, history’s innovation narratives have already provided strategies for seizing revolutionary technology and cautioned against the complacency that breeds failure. Horton identifies core principles from these narratives, helping leaders develop a clear mission—the company’s North Star—and a guiding strategic mindset to navigate their business through the before, middle, and after of a technological revolution that’s moving at breakneck speed. Key concepts include:

• recognizing how competency blindness can drown organizations through overconfidence in outdated solutions and processes;
• developing immunity to AI hype, instead choosing solutions based on guaranteed mission impact;
• building a collaborative ecosystem that enables the efficient development of scalable AI solutions;
• embracing the responsible acceleration of AI capabilities that support transparency, trust, veracity, and human expert oversight;
• incorporating in-depth defense systems that prevent potential AI-induced failures;
• crafting a human-centered revolutionary strategy that builds trust beyond technology.

Business
Science

50 copies

Superpowered: The Surprising Science of Becoming Extraordinary

Erika Engelhaupt

Oct 15 - Oct 31
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This thought-provoking work of science journalism reveals what our minds and bodies are capable of through the stories of people with astonishing real-life abilities—and the scientists who are revealing the hidden potential in all of us.

The acclaimed author of Gory Details returns with another fantastic, funny look at the extreme edges of science, in the vein of Mary Roach’s Replaceable You and Joshua Foer’s Moonwalking with Einstein.

Superpowers are real. Okay, maybe our bodies can’t fly or turn invisible, but we do hold the potential for seemingly superhuman feats. This entertaining book will help us understand the science powering our brains and bodies—and discover how we might harness our own special abilities.

Science journalist Erika Engelhaupt, our intrepid guide on this amazing journey, leads us through this world while attempting to develop some “powers” for herself. And she allows us the opportunity to test ourselves to see if we have hidden superhero potential.

In these pages, we’ll meet real-life “supes”
Super-recognizers (those who don’t forget a face)Echolocators (people who navigate the world with bat-like sonar)Super-athletes (including the world's strongest woman)Savants (including human calculators)Super-memorizers (names, dates, full decks of playing cards, and more!)Tummo experts (Tibetan monks with the ability to change their body temperature with their minds)
Filled with startling insights, cutting edge-science, and a large dose of wit, this incredible book is for anyone who wants to unleash the superpowers within.

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Hawking: His Life and Work

Graham Farmelo

Sep 29 - Oct 28
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The authorized biography of a brilliant theoretical physicist and science communicator, featuring revelations from never-before-seen personal records, by an award-winning writer and biographer

“When one is faced with the possibility of early death, it makes one realise that life is worth living.”—Stephen Hawking

An insatiable curiosity and appreciation for life powered Stephen Hawking to the furthest reaches of the universe and human achievement: during his remarkable lifetime he shed light on many of the mysteries of black holes and made key contributions to our understanding of the beginnings of the universe, all while captivating the world and selling more than twenty-five million copies of A Brief History of Time.

A brilliant theoretical physicist, Hawking lived one of the most extraordinary lives of the past century. And yet none of this should have been possible. Diagnosed with ALS at age twenty-one, he was given only a few years to live—and spent the next fifty-five showing what can be achieved despite near-hopeless odds.

Drawing on his parents’ previously unseen letters and diaries, and exclusive interviews with Stephen’s family, friends, and closest colleagues, Costa Award-winning biographer and physicist Graham Farmelo reveals the complex man behind the theories and global celebrity—and the resilience, fortitude and support that enabled him to defy his life-limiting diagnosis.

Vividly told and rigorously researched, Hawking is the definitive portrait of an exceptional man and an extraordinary intellect.

Biography
Science

The Survivor and the Thinker: The Evolutionary Hardware That Keeps Us Alive and Tears Us Apart Book Cover

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The Survivor and the Thinker: The Evolutionary Hardware That Keeps Us Alive and Tears Us Apart

Moti Weizman

Oct 20 - Nov 19
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"This unique and compelling synthesis is truly a book for our times. It presents a beautiful blend of theoretical neurobiology, social neuroscience and evolutionary thinking to address how we maintain our sense of self—and others—in a shared world. Incredibly informative, incredibly thought-provoking and incredibly prescient for current affairs on The World Stage."

—Karl J. Friston, FRS, Professor of Neuroscience, University College London, and one of the most cited neuroscientists in the world.

Two democracies, separated by twenty centuries, failing in the same way.

When a modern political leader echoed the language of Julius Caesar while dismantling the institutions of a republic, Moti Weizman—an engineer who spent decades building networking infrastructure at the core of the internet—recognized a familiar pattern. In engineering, when two systems fail in the same way, it is rarely a coincidence. It usually means they share a design flaw.

That shared flaw, Weizman concluded, lies in the one component that has barely changed: human nature.

In The Survivor and the Thinker, Weizman approaches the human brain as an engineer would approach a complex control system. He develops a model that exposes a fundamental vulnerability: we are attempting to run a massive, interconnected civilization with an evolutionary brain designed to keep a small tribe united. He traces how evolution shaped the brain—and how that architecture, in turn, shaped humanity’s journey from ancient tribes to the political fracturing of the United States and Israel.

At the center of the model are two systems operating inside your skull: the Survivor, the ancient, emotional control system designed to keep the tribe alive, and the Thinker, the logical reasoning engine layered on top of it that believes it is in charge. In reality, the Survivor often sets the direction, leaving the Thinker to explain or defend a decision already made.

Their relationship offers a powerful framework for understanding why people living with unprecedented security and abundance can still feel victimized; why intelligent people defend irrational beliefs with brilliant arguments; why facts so rarely change minds; why humans evolved extraordinary intelligence far beyond what basic survival required; and how demagogues exploit the same handful of tribal triggers to hijack fracturing societies.

You have relied on the most sophisticated computer in history to run your entire life without ever looking under the hood. If you read Daniel Kahneman, Jonathan Haidt, or Yuval Noah Harari—and want to stop being a passenger on your brain’s autopilot—this is your manual.

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Science

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