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  1. The AI-Powered Freelancer
    The AI-Powered Freelancer
    Master the Essential AI Toolkit to Double Your Income and Reclaim Your Time.
    Alex R. Insight

    Unlock the future of work: Learn how to 10x your productivity, automate your workflow, and scale your freelance business using the latest AI tools in 2026. This comprehensive guide is designed for freelancers and digital nomads looking to master Generative AI and Prompt Engineering. Discover how to use Artificial Intelligence for content automation, AI-driven marketing, and client acquisition. Whether you want to build a high-paying side hustle or generate passive income, this book provides the roadmap for scaling a freelance business and staying ahead in the global gig economy.

  2. After Answers
    After Answers
    Living With Responsibility When Everything Explains Itself
    S. R. Ahmad

    Answers are no longer scarce.Explanations appear instantly. Systems respond before questions fully form. Relevance is calculated, sorted, and delivered with minimal friction. The surface appears efficient.Yet something shifts beneath this abundance.When selection is automated and signals fluctuate continuously, orientation does not strengthen. It fragments. Attention becomes reactive. Judgment becomes distributed. Decision-making persists, but its center grows less visible.After Answers does not argue against technology. It does not offer recovery strategies or productivity corrections. Instead, it observes what happens when explanation becomes constant and responsibility becomes ambient.What changes when systems anticipate preference? What weakens when relevance is delegated? What remains when guidance is automated but accountability is not?This book studies saturation without dramatizing it. It examines autonomy without romanticizing it. It approaches responsibility without prescribing solutions.For readers attentive to structural shifts in cognition, authority, and digital mediation, this work begins where answers stop stabilizing orientation.

  3. The Paradox of the Steel Maiden
    The Paradox of the Steel Maiden
    Human Freedom in a World Designed by Algorithms
    Kang San Lee

    In a world designed for efficiency, can a choice beyond calculation still matter? A philosophical inquiry into how human freedom emerges at the limits of algorithmic logic.

  4. Chastity's Code Cookbook
    Chastity's Code Cookbook
    Computer Programming Recipes for Technical Math Nerds
    Chastity White Rose

    I am a programmer who knows clever tricksI convert integers to bases two to thirty sixBy using character arrays as stringsI can show you amazing math things While others talk about politics and sportsI read about computers of all sortsProgramming languages are all the sameWhen you see arithmetic as a game I don’t write code for a job to be paidBut to understand the video games I playedTo see what works and find out whyTo create, use, study, share, and modify

  5. Только мы: История программного обеспечения Крей Рисёрч и создание самого быстрого суперкомпьютера в мире

    Ветеран Cray Research (Крей Рисёрч) рассказывает, как первопроходцы справлялись с подавляющей сложностью: распознавание закономерностей, предвосхитившее Мидуэй, системное мышление, изобретшее память на магнитных сердечниках. Опыт из одной области, применённый по-новому, сформировал суперкомпьютерную отрасль.

  6. Generative- und Agentic-AI für IT-Manager
    Generative- und Agentic-AI für IT-Manager
    Hype trifft auf Realität in großen Unternehmen
    Wolfgang Keller

    LLMs und Agentic AI sind derzeit Hype. Richtig angewendet können sie extreme positive Effekte bringen. Dieses Buch zeigt, vor welchen Herausforderungen man in großen Unternehmen und speziell auch in regulierten Umfeldern bei der Einführung stehen wird. Das Buch ist eine leicht lesbare Einführung für IT-nahe Führungskräfte und Enterprise Architekten und auch nützlich für IT-Profis allgemein, die in das Thema einsteigen möchten und absehbare Projektfehler vermeiden möchten

  7. A Guide to Desktop Linux in 2025
    A Guide to Desktop Linux in 2025
    What Most of Your Penguin Friends Won't Tell You
    James North

    It's not 1998 anymore. It's been over 30 years since Linux was first released, and the Linux Desktop has undergone seismic shifts in usability and capability over the years. This book is designed for the modern age and helps you take advantage of all the latest technology available for desktop Linux. Even if you've used Linux before, things have changed a lot in just the last few years. Whether you're worried Windows no longer has your best interests at heart, or you're just plain curious, this guide will help you get up and running while avoiding all of the usual potholes and footguns along the way.

  8. Traffic Domination Blueprint: Skyrocket Your Website Traffic & Rule Google’s First Page
    Traffic Domination Blueprint: Skyrocket Your Website Traffic & Rule Google’s First Page
    Proven Strategies to Skyrocket Website Traffic, Dominate Google Rankings, and Build Lasting Online Authority
    Elite Readers

    Unlock the secrets to skyrocketing website traffic, mastering SEO, and dominating Google’s first page with practical strategies, expert insights, and long-term growth techniques.

  9. Where Real Lives
    Where Real Lives
    Sarah Gordon

    Some things talk. Some things glow. Some things smile— but don’t really know!! In a world full of blinking lights and friendly voices, this book is a soft reminder: Real listens. Real stays. Real holds. For children and the grown-ups who love them, Where Real Lives is a quiet journey toward recognizing what’s real—and keeping it close.

  10. Built To Be Believed
    Built To Be Believed
    Design Ethics for an Age of Simulation
    Sarah Gordon

    A manifesto against simulated empathy.A blueprint for ethical design.This is not a book about AI—it’s about what we mistake it for.

  11. How Software Fails
    How Software Fails
    The Hidden Laws of Complex Systems
    Engin Yöyen

    How Software Fails: A Field Guide to Understanding Complex System DisastersSoftware failures aren’t accidents, they’re inevitable. From cosmic rays flipping bits to tiny files crashing millions of machines, our most critical systems collapse in ways no one foresaw. Through gripping cases, the $460M Knight Capital meltdown, the lethal Therac-25, a file grounding global air travel, this book uncovers the hidden rules of complex disasters. Drawing on Richard Cook’s principles, it shows why testing can’t guarantee safety, how “reasonable” choices spawn chaos, and why scale makes the impossible certain. But it’s also about resilience: NASA’s Mars rovers, Netflix’s chaos engineering, and the ethics of life-critical systems. For engineers, managers, or curious readers, this guide reshapes how you see the fragile systems running our world.

  12. The Insider Goes Deep into the Consumer Protection System
    The Insider Goes Deep into the Consumer Protection System
    A Journey NOT for the Faint of Heart
    Lefty Insider

    This is a work of fiction that attempts to document what might happen if a fictional Wisc senior citizen named Lefty Insider attempts to seek justice against exploitation from a fictional monopolistic corporation, (identified as Charpectrum), through the Federal and State Consumer Protection systems.This fictional tale seeks to imagine what a realistic experience would be like if a well-informed, educated and technically competent persistently stubborn consumer, of German ancestry, sought the protection of government agencies against the financial and marketing exploitation from a rapacious and malevolent incumbent monopoly Internet service provider corporation.This is also a story about elected idiots, liars, fools, incompetents, bureaucrats, and of course is but a fictional story about imagined government run Consumer Protection systems.

  13. Audiencing
    Audiencing
    A guide to four audiencing types in everyday life & why this matters
    A. Claudius (PhD)

    Audiencing is something we do everyday. We do it all the time. In fact, we are so familiar with giving attention to someone or something how we audience and the types of audiencing we are do are invisible. This book makes visible four types of audiencing, and you will discover what it means to do each form of audiencing and why this matters. Playful popular quotes, academic research, and anecdotes from numerous fields of endeavour from computer programming to jujitsu, from movie editing to watching a friend play football, are all used to demonstrate the characteristics and challenges of each audiencing type. Audiencing presents a far-reaching concept and a useful language to see and understand ourselves as audiences in our work and study, in the arts, communications, sport, on the internet, and in our everyday lives as we audience each other. To discover more – audience on.

  14. Beyond Benchmark - Framework for Comparing GenAI Models & Frontends

    Did you ever wonder which ChatBot fits you better? Could bots have distinct personalities? And what about inference transparency, like system prompts? Explore how AI models and frontends differ in structure, personality, and usability – and find the best fit for your needs!

  15. How do we know how much we don't know?
    How do we know how much we don't know?
    From Socrates to AI, a fast-forward journey throughout the human understanding of knowledge and how XXI century organisations attempt to manage their own.
    Gianguglielmo Calvi

    Can we imagine a world where everything we collectively know as humans, everywhere, is available and understandable to everyone of us, anytime, with the same quality of the clearest and strongest memory we can recall? If such a world would exist, how would it be and which characteristics the global society in it would have?