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The Mass Psychology of Fascism [August 9, 2020]
Wilhelm Reich
In this classic study, Reich provides insight into the phenomenon of fascism, which continues to ravage the international community in ways great and small.Drawing on his medical experiences with men and women of various classes, races, nations, and ...
Security Engineering: A Guide to Building Dependable Distributed Systems [August 9, 2020]
Ross J. Anderson
The world has changed radically since the first edition of this book was published in 2001. Spammers, virus writers, phishermen, money launderers, and spies now trade busily with each other in a lively online criminal economy and as they specialize,...
Defending AI Research: A Collection of Essays and Reviews [July 29, 2020]
John McCarthy
CSLI Lecture Notes [192]: John McCarthy's influence in computer science ranges from the invention of LISP and time-sharing to the coining of the term AI and the founding of the AI laboratory at Stanford University. One of the foremost figures in comp...
Natural [July 28, 2020]
Alan Levinovitz
Illuminates the far-reaching consequences the myth of "natural" has over our lives, from misinformation about health choices to mistaken justifications of sexism, racism, and flawed economic policies.Modern nature worship shares key elements with mos...
Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art [July 28, 2020]
James Nestor
'I highly recommend this book' Wim HofTHE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERAS HEARD ON THE CHRIS EVANS SHOWThere is nothing more essential to our health and wellbeing than breathing: take air in, let it out, repeat 25,000 times a day. Yet, as a species, huma...
Trance and Treatment: Clinical Uses of Hypnosis [July 28, 2020]
Herbert Spiegel and David Spiegel
What is hypnosis? Despite widespread misconceptions, hypnosis is not a treatment in itself; instead, it is a facilitator -- a useful diagnostic tool that can help the practitioner choose an appropriate treatment modality and accelerate various prima...
Tika in Action [July 26, 2020]
Chris Mattmann and Jukka Zitting
SummaryTika in Action is a hands-on guide to content mining with Apache Tika. The book's many examples and case studies offer real-world experience from domains ranging from search engines to digital asset management and scientific data processing.A...
Kafka: The Definitive Guide: Real-Time Data and Stream Processing at Scale [July 24, 2020]
Neha Narkhede and Gwen Shapira and Todd Palino
Learn how to take full advantage of Apache Kafka, the distributed, publish/subscribe queue for handling real-time data feeds. With this comprehensive book, you’ll understand how Kafka works and how it’s designed. Authors Neha Narkhede, Gwen Shapira, ...
The UNIX Hater's Handbook: The Best of UNIX-Haters On-Line Mailing Reveals Why UNIX Must Die! [July 24, 2020]
Simson L. Garfinkel
In the tradition of 12-step programs that help people overcome their addictions by sharing stories, The UNIX-Haters Handbook is the self-help guide for people affected by the world's most esoteric and most widely used operating system. Turn here for...
The Best Way to Rob a Bank Is to Own One: How Corporate Executives and Politicians Looted the S&L Industry [July 24, 2020]
William K. Black
The catastrophic collapse of companies such as Enron, WorldCom, ImClone, and Tyco left angry investors, employees, reporters, and government investigators demanding to know how the CEOs deceived everyone into believing their companies were spectacul...
Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life [July 24, 2020]
Steve Martin
The riveting, mega-bestselling, beloved and highly acclaimed memoir of a man, a vocation, and an era named one of the ten best nonfiction titles of the year by Time and Entertainment Weekly. In the mid-seventies, Steve Martin exploded onto the come...
Elements of Programming Interviews in Python: The Insider's Guide [July 10, 2020]
Adnan Aziz, Tsung-Hsien Lee, Amit Prakash
This is the Python version of our book. See the website for links to the C++ and Java version.Have you ever... Wanted to work at an exciting futuristic company? Struggled with an interview problem thatcould have been solved in 15 minutes? Wished you...
Probability Concepts in Engineering Emphasis on Civil and Enviromental Engineering [July 9, 2020]
Alfredo H-S.Ang, Wilson H. Tang
Probability Concepts in Engineering Emphasis on Civil and Enviromental Engineering
Ogilvy on Advertising [July 9, 2020]
David Ogilvy
A candid and indispensable primer on all aspects of advertising from the man Time has called "the most sought after wizard in the business." **Told with brutal candor and prodigal generosity, David Ogilvy reveals: • How to get a job in advertising...
Trading and Exchanges: Market Microstructure for Practitioners [July 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...
Should I Stay or Should I Go: Surviving a Relationship With a Narcissist [July 9, 2020]
Ramani Durvasula
How do you know if you are in a relationship with a narcissist—and what can you do about it? Narcissism is a modern epidemic—and it’s spreading rapidly. Narcissists tend to be pretty on the outside, but empty on the inside. While they are often succ...
Programming in Haskell [July 9, 2020]
Graham Hutton
Haskell is one of the leading languages for teaching functional programming, enabling students to write simpler and cleaner code, and to learn how to structure and reason about programs. This introduction is ideal for beginners: it requires no previ...
On Liberty [July 9, 2020]
John Stuart Mill
Discussed and debated from time immemorial, the concept of personal liberty went without codification until the 1859 publication of On Liberty. John Stuart Mill's complete and resolute dedication to the cause of freedom inspired this treatise, an en...
Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes [July 9, 2020]
Jacques Ellul
From one of the greatest French philosophers of the 20th century, comes a seminal study and critique of propaganda. Taking not only a psychological approach, but a sociological approach as well, Ellul’s book outlines the taxonomy for propaganda, and ...
The Road to Serfdom [July 9, 2020]
Friedrich A von Hayek
Routledge Classics [1]: A classic work in political philosophy, intellectual and cultural history, and economics, The Road to Serfdom has inspired and infuriated politicians, scholars, and general readers for half a century. Originally published in ...
Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism: A Study of 'Brainwashing' in China [July 9, 2020]
Robert Jay Lifton
Informed by Erik Erikson's concept of the formation of ego identity, this book, which first appreared in 1961, is an analysis of the experiences of fifteen Chinese citizens and twenty-five Westerners who underwent "brainwashing" by the Communist Chi...
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