Arjun Srivastava's Library

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...

Theory of Games and Economic Behavior: 60th Anniversary Commemorative Edition (Princeton Classic Editions) [December 3, 2020]
John von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern

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...

Hacking Academia [November 30, 2020]
Unknown

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...

The Phantom Pattern Problem: The Mirage of Big Data [November 30, 2020]
Gary Smith and Jay Cordes
Pattern-recognition prowess served our ancestors well, but today we are confronted by a deluge of data that is far more abstract, complicated, and difficult to interpret. The number of possible patterns that can be identified relative to the number ...

Data Analytics; Handbook of Formulas and Techniques [November 30, 2020]
Adedeji B. Badiru
Whoever has the data has the ability to extract information promptly and effectively to make pertinent decisions. The premise of this handbook is to empower users and tool developers with a collection of formulas and techniques for data analytics and...

Advanced Analytics With Spark: Patterns for Learning From Data at Scale [November 26, 2020]
Sandy Ryza and Uri Laserson and Sean Owen and Josh Wills
In the second edition of this practical book, four Cloudera data scientists present a set of self-contained patterns for performing large-scale data analysis with Spark. The authors bring Spark, statistical methods, and real-world data sets together...

High Performance Spark: Best Practices for Scaling and Optimizing Apache Spark [November 26, 2020]
Holden Karau and Rachel Warren
Apache Spark is amazing when everything clicks. But if you haven’t seen the performance improvements you expected, or still don’t feel confident enough to use Spark in production, this practical book is for you. Authors Holden Karau and Rachel Warre...

Learning Spark: Lightning-Fast Big Data Analysis [November 26, 2020]
Holden Karau and Matei Zaharia
Data in all domains is getting bigger. How can you work with it efficiently? Recently updated for Spark 1.3, this book introduces Apache Spark, the open source cluster computing system that makes data analytics fast to write and fast to run. With Sp...

R for Data Science: Import, Tidy, Transform, Visualize, and Model Data [November 25, 2020]
Hadley Wickham and Garrett Grolemund
Learn how to use R to turn raw data into insight, knowledge, and understanding. This book introduces you to R, RStudio, and the tidyverse, a collection of R packages designed to work together to make data science fast, fluent, and fun. Suitable for ...

The Age of Em: Work, Love, and Life When Robots Rule the Earth [November 25, 2020]
Robin Hanson
Robots may one day rule the world, but what is a robot-ruled Earth like? Many think the first truly smart robots will be brain emulations or ems. Scan a human brain, then run a model with the same connections on a fast computer, and you have a robot...

Private Truths, Public Lies. The Social Consequences of Preference Falsification [November 25, 2020]
Timur Kuran

The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life [November 25, 2020]
Kevin Simler and Robin Hanson
Human beings are primates, and primates are political animals. Our brains, therefore, are designed not just to hunt and gather, but also to help us get ahead socially, often via deception and self-deception. But while we may be self-interested schem...

Invent and Wander [November 25, 2020]
Jeff Bezos , Walter Isaacson
In Jeff Bezos's own words, the core principles and philosophy that have guided him in creating, building, and leading Amazon and Blue Origin.In this collection of Jeff Bezos's writings—his unique and strikingly original annual shareholder letters, pl...

Conscious Capitalism, With a New Preface by the Authors: Liberating the Heroic Spirit of Business [November 25, 2020]
John Mackey , Rajendra Sisodia
Uploaded by [StormRG]The bestselling book, now with a new preface by the authorsAt once a bold defense and reimagining of capitalism and a blueprint for a new system for doing business, Conscious Capitalism is for anyone hoping to build a more cooper...

Conscious Leadership: Elevating Humanity Through Business [November 25, 2020]
John Mackey , Steve Mcintosh , Carter Phipps
A WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER!From Whole Foods CEO John Mackey and his coauthors, a follow-up to groundbreaking bestseller Conscious Capitalism—revealing what it takes to lead a purpose-driven, sustainable business.John Mackey started a movement ...

The Art of R Programming: A Tour of Statistical Software Design [November 25, 2020]
Norman Matloff
R is the world's most popular language for developing statistical software: Archaeologists use it to track the spread of ancient civilizations, drug companies use it to discover which medications are safe and effective, and actuaries use it to asses...

Hands-On Programming With R: Write Your Own Functions and Simulations [November 25, 2020]
Garrett Grolemund
Learn how to program by diving into the R language, and then use your newfound skills to solve practical data science problems. With this book, you’ll learn how to load data, assemble and disassemble data objects, navigate R’s environment system, wr...

Impractical Python Projects: Playful Programming Activities to Make You Smarter [November 25, 2020]
Lee Vaughan
Impractical Python Projects is a collection of fun and educational projects designed to entertain programmers while enhancing their Python skills. It picks up where the complete beginner books leave off, expanding on existing concepts and introducin...

Data Science on AWS: Implementing End-To-End, Continuous AI and Machine Learning Pipelines [November 25, 2020]
Chris Fregly and Antje Barth
If you use data to make critical business decisions, this book is for you. Whether you're a data analyst, research scientist, data engineer, ML engineer, data scientist, application developer, or systems developer, this guide helps you broaden your ...

Straight and Crooked Thinking [November 23, 2020]
Robert H. Thouless
A new edition of a much loved guide to how to think and reason your way logically through difficult and challenging arguments This new edition of a timeless classic demonstrates how the use of clear, rational thinking and logic can win any argument...

2019 SAI Letter: Money for Nothing: Dire Straits in Valuations; Stocks for Free; The Imperative of No; And - The Berkshire Fumblerooskie, Plus More! [November 23, 2020]
Christopher P. Bloomstran

1200 Questions to Help You Pass the Emergency Medicine Boards [November 23, 2020]
Amer Z. Aldeen , David H. Rosenbaum
1200 Questions to Help You Pass the Emergency Medicine Boards, Second Edition is a unique resource designed to help emergency medicine residents and physicians pass their exam on the first attempt. This review book contains 1200 questions and answers...

Computer Age Statistical Inference: Algorithms, Evidence, and Data Science [November 23, 2020]
Bradley Efron and Trevor Hastie
The twenty-first century has seen a breathtaking expansion of statistical methodology, both in scope and in influence. 'Big data', 'data science', and 'machine learning' have become familiar terms in the news, as statistical methods are brought to b...

Berkshire Hathway Chairman's Letter 1985 [November 23, 2020]
Warren Buffet
stock options, compensation, value investing

Effective Java [November 21, 2020]
Joshua Bloch

The Death and Life of Great American Cities [November 20, 2020]
Jane Jacobs
Thirty years after its publication, The Death and Life of Great American Cities was described by The New York Times as "perhaps the most influential single work in the history of town planning....[It] can also be seen in a much larger context. It is...

From Third World to First: The Singapore Story, 1965-2000 [November 19, 2020]
Lee Kuan Yew
Few gave tiny Singapore much chance of survival when independence was thrust upon it in 1965. Today the former British trading post is a thriving Asian metropolis with one of the world’s highest per capita income. The story of that transformation is...

Scala Cookbook: Recipes for Object-Oriented and Functional Programming [November 19, 2020]
Alvin Alexander
Save time and trouble when using Scala to build object-oriented, functional, and concurrent applications. With more than 250 ready-to-use recipes and 700 code examples, this comprehensive cookbook covers the most common problems you’ll encounter whe...

Spark: The Definitive Guide: Big Data Processing Made Simple [November 19, 2020]
Bill Chambers and Matei Zaharia
Learn how to use, deploy, and maintain Apache Spark with this comprehensive guide, written by the creators of the open-source cluster-computing framework. With an emphasis on improvements and new features in Spark 2.0, authors Bill Chambers and Mate...

Functional Programming, Simplified: (Scala Edition) [November 19, 2020]
Alvin Alexander
If you've had trouble trying to learn Functional Programming (FP), you're not alone. In this book, Alvin Alexander -- author of the Scala Cookbook and former teacher of Java and Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) classes -- writes about his own proble...

Zero Trust Networks: Building Secure Systems in Untrusted Networks [November 19, 2020]
Evan Gilman and Doug Barth
The perimeter defenses guarding your network perhaps are not as secure as you think. Hosts behind the firewall have no defenses of their own, so when a host in the "trusted" zone is breached, access to your data center is not far behind. That’s an a...

One Man's View of the World [November 19, 2020]
Lee Kuan Yew
Born in 1923, Singapore's former Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew has spent a lifetime being intimately involved in international affairs. He has met every major Chinese leader from Mao Zedong to Xi Jinping and hobnobbed with American presidents from Lynd...

Practical Common Lisp [November 10, 2020]
Peter Seibel
...it has a fresh view on the language and the examples in the later chapters are usable in your day-to-day work as a programmer. — Frank Buss, Lisp Programmer and Slashdot Contributor If you're interested in Lisp as it relates to Python or Perl, a...

The New Hacker's Dictionary [November 10, 2020]
Admin

Kotlin Programming [November 9, 2020]
Josh Skeen and David Greenhalgh
Kotlin is a statically typed programming language designed to interoperate with Java and fully supported by Google on the Android operating system. Based on Big Nerd Ranch's popular Kotlin Essentials course, this guide shows you how to work effec...

Domain Modeling Made Functional: Tackle Software Complexity With Domain-Driven Design and F# [November 9, 2020]
Scott Wlaschin
You want increased customer satisfaction, faster development cycles, and less wasted work. Domain-driven design (DDD) combined with functional programming is the innovative combo that will get you there. In this pragmatic, down-to-earth guide, you'll...

Trading and Exchanges: Market Microstructure for Practitioners [November 9, 2020]
Larry Harris
This book is about trading, the people who trade securities and contracts, the marketplaces where they trade, and the rules that govern it. Readers will learn about investors, brokers, dealers, arbitrageurs, retail traders, day traders, rogue trader...

Emacs Beginner's HOWTO [November 7, 2020]
Unknown

Mastering Emacs [November 7, 2020]
Mickey Petersen

Can 100 Machines Agree? [November 7, 2020]
Rachid Guerraoui, Jad Hamza, Dragos-Adrian Seredinschi, Marko Vukolic

Subprime Attention Crisis: Advertising and the Time Bomb at the Heart of the Internet [November 7, 2020]
Tim Hwang
From FSGO x Logic : a revealing examination of digital advertising and the internet's precarious foundation In Subprime Attention Crisis, Tim Hwang investigates the way big tech financializes attention. In the process, he shows us how digital adver...

Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media [November 7, 2020]
Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky
In this pathbreaking work, now with a new introduction, Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky show that, contrary to the usual image of the news media as cantankerous, obstinate, and ubiquitous in their search for truth and defense of justice, in their a...

The Reasoned Schemer [October 30, 2020]
Daniel P. Friedman and William E. Byrd and Oleg Kiselyov and Jason Hemann
A new edition of a book, written in a humorous question-and-answer style, that shows how to implement and use an elegant little programming language for logic programming.The goal of this book is to show the beauty and elegance of relational program...

The New Right [October 30, 2020]
Michael Malice
The definitive firsthand account of the movement that permanently broke the American political consensus.What do internet trolls, economic populists, white nationalists, techno-anarchists and Alex Jones have in common? Nothing, except for an unremitt...

The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense [October 30, 2020]
Gad Saad
"Read this book, strengthen your resolve, and help us all return to reason." — JORDAN PETERSON There's a war against truth... and if we don't win it, intellectual freedom will be a casualty. The West’s commitment to freedom, reason, and true liber...

The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind [October 30, 2020]
Gostave Le Bon