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Love and Sex with Robots [September 26, 2021]
David Levy
Love, marriage, and sex with robots? Not in a million years? Maybe a whole lot sooner!A leading expert in artificial intelligence, David Levy argues that the entities we once deemed cold and mechanical will soon become the objects of real companionsh...
Brocabulary [September 26, 2021]
Daniel Maurer
Scala for the Impatient [September 26, 2021]
Cay S. Horstmann
The Personal MBA [September 26, 2021]
Josh Kaufman
Teaching Statistics [September 26, 2021]
Andrew Gelman,Deborah Nolan
Bayesian Data Analysis [September 26, 2021]
Andrew Gelman, John B. Carlin, Hal S. Stern, David B. Dunson, Aki Vehtari, Donald B. Rubin
The omnivore's dilemma: a natural history of four meals [September 26, 2021]
Michael Pollan
EDITORIAL REVIEW: A national bestseller that has changed the way readers view the ecology of eating, this revolutionary book by award winner Michael Pollan asks the seemingly simple question: What should we have for dinner? Tracing from source to tab...
Handbook of Markov Chain Monte Carlo [September 26, 2021]
Steve Brooks, Andrew Gelman, Galin L. Jones, Xiao-Li Meng
Handbooks of Modern Statistical Methods [1]:
Sell Your Business Your Way: Getting Out, Getting Rich, and Getting on With Your Life [September 8, 2021]
Rick Rickertsen
Sell Your Business Your Way features a treasure trove of sample documents, adaptable forms, and - whether you plan to hire one consultant or dozens - a resource listing hundreds of business brokers, valuation firms, accountants, investment firms, de...
Handbook of Polytomous Item Response Theory Models [September 8, 2021]
Michael L. Nering , Remo Ostini
This comprehensive Handbook focuses on the most used polytomous item response theory (IRT) models. These models help us understand the interaction between examinees and test questions where the questions have various response categories. The book re...
Using the Stan Program for Bayesian Item Response Theory [September 8, 2021]
Hong Jiao
The Code of Trust [September 8, 2021]
Robin Dreeke
Robin Dreeke is a 28-year veteran of federal service, including the United States Naval Academy, United States Marine Corps. He served most recently as a senior agent in the FBI, with 20 years of experience. He was, until recently, the head of the Co...
Sizing People Up: A Veteran FBI Agent's User Manual for Behavior Prediction [September 8, 2021]
Robin Dreeke and Cameron Stauth
A former FBI agent shares his simple but powerful toolkit for assessing who you can trust--and who you can't.After two decades as a behavior analyst in the FBI, Robin Dreeke knows a thing or two about sizing people up. He's navigated complex situati...
The Basics of Item Response Theory Using R [September 8, 2021]
Frank B. Baker , Seock-Ho Kim
This graduate-level textbook is a tutorial for item response theory that covers both the basics of item response theory and the use of R for preparing graphical presentation in writings about the theory. Item response theory has become one of the mos...
Item Response Theory Graded Response Model [September 8, 2021]
Jessen Ho
IOS Hacker's Handbook [September 8, 2021]
Charlie Miller , Dion Blazakis , Dino Daizovi , Stefan Esser , Vincenzo Iozzo , Ralf-Philip Weinmann
Discover all the security risks and exploits that can threaten iOS-based mobile devices iOS is Apple's mobile operating system for the iPhone and iPad. With the introduction of iOS5, many security issues have come to light. This book explains and di...
The Imposter's Handbook, Season 2 [September 8, 2021]
Rob Conery, Scott Hanselman
Logic, binary, encryption and more!
The Imposter's Handbook: A CS Primer for Self-Taught Developers [September 8, 2021]
Rob Conery
Don't have a CS degree? Neither does Rob. That's why he wrote this book: to fill the gaps in his career. The result? Over 450 pages of essentials skills and ideas every developer should know with illustrations by the author, who loves to sketch. An ...
Thinking About Macro [August 1, 2021]
Howard Marks
Unscaled: How AI and a New Generation of Upstarts Are Creating the Economy of the Future [August 1, 2021]
Hemant Taneja
Unscaled identifies the forces that are reshaping the global economy and turning one of the fundamental laws of business and society -- the economies of scale -- on its head. An innovative trend combining technology with economics is unraveling beh...
Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco [July 14, 2021]
Bryan Burrough , John Helyar
“One of the finest, most compelling accounts of what happened to corporate America and Wall Street in the 1980’s.” —New York Times Book ReviewA #1 New York Times bestseller and arguably the best business narrative ever written, Barbarians at the Gate...
HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing Yourself [July 14, 2021]
Harvard Business Review
The path to your professional success starts with a critical look in the mirror. If you read nothing else on managing yourself, read these 10 articles (plus the bonus article "How Will You Measure Your Life?" by Clayton M. Christensen). We've combed ...
Hbr's 10 Must Reads on Emotional Intelligence: With Featured Article What Makes a Leader? [July 14, 2021]
Harvard Business Review , Daniel Goleman , Richard E. Boyatzis , Annie McKee , Sydney Finkelstein
In his defining work on emotional intelligence, bestselling author Daniel Goleman found that it is twice as important as other competencies in determining outstanding leadership. If you read nothing else on emotional intelligence, read these 10 artic...
Investments [July 14, 2021]
Alex Kane and Alan Marcus and Zvi Bodie
The unifying theme is that security markets are nearly efficient, meaning that most securities are priced appropriately given their risk and return attributes. The content places greater emphasis on asset allocation and offers a much broader and de...
HBR's 10 Must Reads 2021: The Definitive Management Ideas of the Year From Harvard Business Review (With Bonus Article "The Feedback Fallacy" by Marcus Buckingham and Ashley Goodall) [July 14, 2021]
Harvard Business Review , Marcus Buckingham , Amy C. Edmondson and Peter Cappelli and Laura Morgan Roberts
A year's worth of management wisdom, all in one place.We've reviewed the ideas, insights, and best practices from the past year of Harvard Business Review to keep you up-to-date on the most cutting-edge, influential thinking driving business today. W...
Concise Guide to Macroeconomics, Second Edition, A [July 14, 2021]
David A. Moss
In this revised and updated edition of A Concise Guide to Macroeconomics , David A. Moss draws on his years of teaching at Harvard Business School to explain important macro concepts using clear and engaging language. This guidebook covers the essent...
The Portable MBA [July 14, 2021]
Kenneth M. Eades , Timothy M. Laseter , Ian Skurnik , Peter L. Rodriguez , Lynn A. Isabella , Paul J. Simko
A totally revised new edition of the bestselling guide to business school basics The bestselling book that invented the "MBA in a book" category, The Portable MBA Fifth Edition is a reliable and information-packed guide to the business school curricu...
Buyout: The Insider's Guide to Buying Your Own Company [July 14, 2021]
Rick Rickertsen and Robert E. Gunther
Successful management buyouts (MBOs) are the pinnacle of business success today and a great way to earn an ever-increasing stake in the American dream. Buyout provides managers and executives with the necessary tools and strategies for leading a comp...
How to Invent Everything: Rebuild All of Civilization (With 96% Fewer Catastrophes This Time) [July 14, 2021]
Ryan North
***One of BBC Focus magazine's top books of 2018***Get ready to make history better... on the second try.Imagine you are stranded in the past (your time machine has broken) and the only way home is to rebuild civilization yourself. But you need to do...
Corporate Finance, Global Edition [July 14, 2021]
Jonathan Berk and Peter Demarzo
For MBA/graduate students taking a course in corporate finance. An Emphasis on Core Financial Principles to Elevate Individuals’ Financial Decision Making Using the unifying valuation framework based on the Law of One Price, top researchers Jonathan ...
Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy [July 14, 2021]
Raghuram G. Rajan
From an economist who warned of the global financial crisis, a new warning about the continuing peril to the world economyRaghuram Rajan was one of the few economists who warned of the global financial crisis before it hit. Now, as the world struggle...
HBR's 10 Must Reads on Leadership [July 14, 2021]
Harvard Business Review
Go from being a good manager to an extraordinary leader. If you read nothing else on leadership, read these 10 articles (featuring "What Makes an Effective Executive," by Peter F. Drucker). We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review art...
Romancing the Balance Sheet: For Anyone Who Owns, Runs or Manages a Business [July 14, 2021]
Anil Lamba
There is no such thing as a non-finance person. It is an error to think that finance management is limited to the Finance Department alone. In fact, it is happening right through the organization-for every action you take impacts the bottom line of ...