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300+ Free Python Books for All Developers - DataDrivenInvestor
Download links to over 300 books - written by Priyesh Sinha
Apps/DevOps
97 Things Every Information Security Professional Should Know by Christina Morillo
In this practical guide, author Christina Morillo introduces technical knowledge from a diverse range of experts in the infosec field. Through 97 concise and useful tips, you'll learn how to expand your skills and solve common issues by working through everyday security problems.
Security
Advancing into Analytics: From Excel to Python and R: 1st Edition by George Mount 
With this hands-on guide, intermediate Excel users will gain a solid understanding of analytics and the data stack. By the time you complete this book, you'll be able to conduct exploratory data analysis and hypothesis testing using a programming language.
Data & Analytics
AI and Machine Learning for Coders: A Programmer's Guide to Artificial Intelligence 1st Edition by Laurence Moroney 
If you're looking to make a career move from programmer to AI specialist, this is the ideal place to start. Based on Laurence Moroney's extremely successful AI courses, this introductory book provides a hands-on, code-first approach to help you build confidence while you learn key topics.
Artificial Intelligence
AI & Data Literacy: Empowering Citizens of Data Science by Bill Schmarzo
We'll explore AI's inner workings, user intent, and the critical role of the AI Utility Function. Additionally, we'll briefly touch on statistics and probabilities to build decision models leveraging AI and data for making informed, more accurate, and less risky decisions.
Data & Analytics
An Artificial Revolution: On Power, Politics and AI by Ivana Bartolettii
World-leading privacy expert Ivana Bartoletti exposes the reality behind the AI revolution, from the low-paid workers who train algorithms to recognise cancerous polyps, to the rise of data violence and the symbiotic relationship between AI and right-wing populism.
Artificial Intelligence
Applied Ethics in a Digital World by Ingrid Vasiliu-Feltesand Jane Thomason 
Covering topics such as artificial intelligence (AI) ethics, digital equity, and translational ethics, this book is a dynamic resource for policymakers, civil society, CEOs, ethicists, technologists, security advisors, sociologists, cyber behavior specialists, criminologists, data scientists, global governments, students, researchers, professors, academicians, and professionals.
Artificial Intelligence
Analytics Best Practices: A Business-driven Playbook for Creating Value through Data Analytics by Prashanth Southekal , PHD
This book provides ten key analytics best practices that will improve the odds of delivering enterprise data analytics solutions successfully. It is intended for anyone who has a stake and interest in deriving insights from data analytics
Data Analytics
Artificial Intelligence By Example: Acquire advanced AI, machine learning, and deep learning design skills by Denis Rothman
This book will make you an adaptive thinker and help you apply concepts to real-world scenarios. Using some of the most interesting AI examples, right from computer programs such as a simple chess engine to cognitive chatbots, you will learn how to tackle the machine you are competing with.
Artificial Intelligence
Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence by Kate Crawford
Drawing on more than a decade of research, award‑winning scholar Kate Crawford reveals how AI is a technology of extraction: from the minerals drawn from the earth, to the labor pulled from low-wage information workers, to the data taken from every action and expression.
Artificial Intelligence
Automating Humanity by Joe Toscano
Automating Humanity is the shocking and eye-opening new manifesto from international award-winning designer Joe Toscano that unravels and lays bare the power agendas of the world's greatest tech titans in plain language, and delivers a fair warning to policymakers, civilians, and industry professionals alike: we need a strategy for the future, and we need it now.
Privacy & Security
Big Data MBA: Driving Business Strategies with Data Science by Bill Schmarzo
Big Data MBA brings insight and expertise to leveraging big data in business so you can harness the power of analytics and gain a true business advantage
Data & Analytics
Breached!: Why Data Security Law Fails and How to Improve it by Daniel J. Solove and Woodrow Hartzog
Despite the passage of many data security laws, data breaches
are increasing at a record pace. In Breached!, Daniel Solove and Woodrow Hartzog, two of the world's leading experts on privacy and data security, argue that the law fails because, ironically, it focuses too much on the breach itself.
Data Privacy
Building Industrial Digital Twins: Design, develop, and deploy digital twin solutions for real-world industries using Azure Digital Twins by Shyam Varan Nath, Pieter van Schalkwyk
"Shyam and Pieter are both recognized professionals in the industrial internet, IoT, and Digital Twins community. They converted the OT/IT task group to the Digital Twins Interoperability task group at the Industry IoT Consortium (formerly known as the Industrial Internet Consortium).
Digital Twins
CISSP (ISC)² Certification Practice Exams and Tests: Over 1,000 practice questions and explanations covering all 8 CISSP domains for the May 2021 exam version by Ted Jordan 
The exam covers eight important security domains - risk management, security architecture, data security, network security, identity management, auditing, security operations, and software development security.
Security
Confident Cyber Security: How to Get Started in Cyber Security and Futureproof Your Career by Dr Jessica Barker 
Exploring everything from the human side to the technical and physical implications, this book takes you through the fundamentals: how to keep secrets safe, how to stop people being manipulated and how to protect people, businesses and countries from those who wish to do harm.
Security
Connected Planning: A Playbook for Agile Decision Making by Ron Dimon
The book is intended for business owners, managers and executives who want to improve their ability to execute their strategy sustainably.
Management Strategy
Containing Big Tech by Tom Kemp
This richly detailed book exposes the consequences of Big Tech’s digital surveillance, exploitative use of AI, and monopolistic and anticompetitive practices.
Tech4Good
Corporate Cybersecurity: Identifying Risks and the Bug Bounty Program by John Jackson
Corporate Cybersecurity gives cyber and application security engineers (who may have little or no experience with a bounty program) a hands-on guide for creating or managing an effective bug bounty program
Security
Crisis of Control: How Artificial SuperIntelligences May Destroy or Save the Human Race by Peter J. Scott
Peter Scott lays out the stark choices and consequences facing us in clear, provocative, and sometimes humorous language. This book is for those with the courage to face unpleasant facts head-on: the stakes could not be higher.
Artificial Intelligence
Cult of the Dead Cown by Joseph Menn
He hopes that by describing the maturity journey of the cDc, from internet pranksters to seasoned and respected “graybeards,” that millennials – born between 1981 and 1996 – who are now in charge of “Big Tech” might use that journey as a blueprint to guide them in the future.
Security
Cyber Minds: Insights on cybersecurity across the cloud, data, artificial intelligence, blockchain, and IoT to keep you cyber safe by Shira Rubinoff
Cyber Minds brings together an unrivalled panel of international experts who offer their insights into current cybersecurity issues in the military, business, and government.
Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity and Third-Party Risk: Third Party Threat Hunting by Gregory Rasner
You’ll discover how to move beyond a simple checklist and create an active, effective, and continuous system of third-party cybersecurity risk mitigation.
Privacy & Security
Cybersecurity Career Master Plan: Proven techniques and effective tips to help you advance in your cybersecurity career Kindle Edition by Dr. Gerald Auger, Jaclyn Scott, Jonathan Helmus, Kim Nguyen
The book starts by helping you gain a foundational understanding of cybersecurity, covering cyber law, cyber policy, and frameworks. Next, you’ll focus on how to choose the right career field best suited to you from options such as security operations, penetration testing, and risk analysis.
Security Careers
Cybersecurity Leadership: Powering the Modern Organization by Dr. Mansur Hasib
Managing cybersecurity requires a multi-disciplinary holistic business approach. Many of the current cybersecurity approaches in organizations and most books are based on an outdated 1991 model of cybersecurity - focused solely on technology solutions.
Privacy & Security
Cybersecurity Sales by Neil Saltman, Anthony Johnson
Cybersecurity should be a collaborative effort between vendors and security teams because what’s at stake truly matters
Cybersecurity
Damage Control: Cyber Insurance and Compliance by Joseph E. Brunsman MSL, Daniel W. Hudson CPCU, Kenneth J. Reiners CISSP
Damage Control is an approachable, non-technical, collection of knowledge and experience from a Master’s in Cybersecurity Law (MSL), a Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter (CPCU), and a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)
Privacy & Security
Data For All by John K. Thompson
For years, companies have had free rein to use every click, purchase, and “like” you make, to earn money. Now, across the globe, new laws have been written, passed, and are coming into force, giving individuals the right to access, delete, and monetise their own data. This book provides a vision of how you can use these laws, regulations, and services to directly benefit from your data in new and lucrative ways.
Data Privacy
Data for Business Performance: The Goal-Question-Metric (GQM) Model to Transform Business Data into an Enterprise Asset by Prashanth Southekal, PHD
Today, digitization is dramatically changing the business landscape, and many progressive organizations have started to treat data as a valuable business asset. While many enterprises are investing in improved data management, only a few have leveraged data to truly impact business performance
Data Analytics
Data Privacy - a runbook for engineeers by Nishant Bhajaria 
Engineer privacy into your systems with these hands-on techniques for data governance, legal compliance, and surviving security audits.
Data Privacy
Deep Learning with Python, Second Edition by François Chollet
Learn directly from the creator of Keras and master practical Python deep learning techniques that are easy to apply in the real world.
DevOps
Democratizing Artificial Intelligence to Benefit Everyone: Shaping a Better Future in the Smart Technology Era by Jacques Ludik
Not only is the book aimed to help with the drive towards democratizing AI and its applications to maximize the beneficial outcomes for humanity, but Dr Ludik is specifically arguing for a more decentralized beneficial human-centric future where AI and its benefits can be democratized to as many people as possible.
Artificial Intelligence
Develop Your Cybersecurity Career Path: How to Break into Cybersecurity at Any Level by Gary Hayslip, Christophe Foulon, Renee Small
Whether you are just starting and are looking for an entry-level position or want to translate many years of experience to the right level, this book will help.
Security Careers
DevOps Overture: What you Need to Know When Starting a DevOps Journey by Shawn D. Doyle
It begins with an overview of what software development methodologies came before DevOps and of the problems associated with those systems. It then explains what DevOps is and how it works to address these problems
DevOps
Driving Digital by Isaac Sacolick
In Driving Digital, author Isaac Sacolick shares the lessons he's learned over the years as he has successfully spearheaded multiple transformations and helped shape digital-business best practices.
Digital Transformation
Everybody Wants to Rule the World - Surviving And Thriving In A World Of Digital Giants by R. "Ray" Wang
Ultimately, you will understand how the business world is changing in the face of extreme competition and, most importantly, you will learn how to adapt now to stay relevant and in demand.
Digital Transformation
Expert Python Programming: Master Python by learning the best coding practices and advanced programming concepts by Michał Jaworski, Tarek Ziadé 
Attain a deep understanding of building, maintaining, packaging, and shipping robust Python applications
Apps/DevOps
Exploring Smart Cities Activity Book for Kids by Dr Jonathan Reichental, Brett Hoffstadt
Learning Adventures Through Coloring, Games, Puzzles, Projects, and More! (STEAM-Powered Kids)
Smart Cities
Extended Reality in Practice by Bernard Marr
You will discover how businesses and organisations are implementing the technology, with case examples, including some of the world’s biggest brands, to showcase how they are starting to use XR in practice.
VR
Fail Fast, Learn Faster by Randy Bean
Visionary and Author Releases New Book Explaining Why, Now More Than Ever, Industry Leaders Must Adapt to Compete in an Era of Disruption, Big Data, and AILeadership
Firewalls Don't Stop Dragons by Carey Parker
A Step-by-Step Guide to Computer Security and Privacy for Non-Techies
Privacy & Security
Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn, Keras, and TensorFlow: Concepts, Tools, and Techniques to Build Intelligent Systems by Aurélien Géron
Through a series of recent breakthroughs, deep learning has boosted the entire field of machine learning. Now, even programmers who know close to nothing about this technology can use simple, efficient tools to implement programs capable of learning from data. This practical book shows you how
Machine Learning
Harness Your Speaking Anxiety: And Connect Emotionally With Your Audience by Nathan Gold
When it’s your turn to speak, do you experience: ✓ Heart racing ✓ Tunnel vision ✓ Shoulder tension ✓ Butterflies in your gut ✓ Shortness of breath ✓ Cold clammy hands ✓ A blank mind ✓ Dry mouth ✓ Nauseousness Yes? Good! You read that right. Good! Anyone of these symptoms means you are human and someone who cares about their audience when you speak
Leadership
Human Hacking: Win Friends, Influence People, and Leave Them Better Off For Having Met You by Christopher Hadnagy
Christopher Hadnagy is the founder and CEO of Social-Engineer, LLC. In his sixteen years in the industry, he has written the world’s first social engineering–framework, created the first social engineering–based podcast and newsletter, and written four books on the topic.
Social Engineering
Infonomics: How to Monetize, Manage, and Measure Information as an Asset for Competitive Advantage by Douglas B. Laney
One of CIO Magazine's top five "must read" books of the year, Infonomics provides the foundation and methods for quantifying information asset value and tactics for using information as your competitive edge to drive growth.
Data Management
INVENTING WORLD 3.0: Evolutionary Ethics for Artificial Intelligence by Matthew James Bailey
In this future, artificial intelligence has become evolutionary, operating at lightning speed within every aspect of society. It understands and honours human values and ethics
Artificial Intelligence
IQ EQ DQ: New Intelligence in the AI Age by Yuhyun Park
This book is about Park's social impact journey to develop DQ (Digital Intelligence) as the global standard for digital literacy, digital skills, and digital readiness with the belief that 'technology is only meaningful when it enhances humanness.
Artificial Intelligence
Managing Your Business Risk in the Cybersecurity Minefield: Critical Strategies from 21 Cybersecurity Experts by Chris Wiser, Amir Sachs, Brian Artigas, Brian Galli & 18 more
Is co-written by a group of 21 high-level IT & Cybersecurity experts who have come together to teach business owners what you need to know about protecting your business from cybersecurity threats.  
Security
Manipulated: Inside the Cyberwar to Hijack Elections and Distort the Truth by Theresa Payton
Cybersecurity expert Theresa Payton tells battlefront stories from the global war being conducted through clicks, swipes, internet access, technical backdoors and massive espionage schemes.
Privacy & Security
MINDFUL AI: Reflections on Artificial Intelligence by Murat Durmus
Mindful AI refers to designing and building artificial intelligence (AI) systems with awareness and consideration of their ethical, moral, and societal implications. Mindful AI involves taking a holistic approach to AI that incorporates considerations of fairness, transparency, accountability, and respect for human rights.
Artificial Intelligence
Mobilizing the C-Suite: Waging War Against Cyberattacks by Frank Riccardi
Mobilizing the C-Suite: Waging War Against Cyberattacks is a call to arms for c-suite leaders to implement the tried-and-true cybersecurity countermeasures proven to thwart cyberattacks. In addition, this book is a handy, entertaining guide explaining fundamental cybersecurity principles to non-geek c-suite leaders.
Security
Move Over Brokers Here Comes the Blockchain by Keír Finlow-Bates
Join Keir on a fascinating journey as he explores everything from how the technology behind blockchain works, through to what it means to us as a society, and assesses whether it will change the way we view the world.
Blockchain
Natural Language Processing with Transformers by Lewis Tunstall, Leandro von Werra, Thomas Wolf
If you're a data scientist or machine learning engineer, this practical book shows you how to train and scale these large models using HuggingFace Transformers, a Python-based deep learning library.
NLP
Navigating the Cybersecurity Career Path by Helen E. Patton
In Navigating the Cybersecurity Career Path, decorated Chief Information Security Officer Helen Patton delivers a practical and insightful discussion designed to assist aspiring cybersecurity professionals entering the industry and help those already in the industry advance their careers and lead their first security team
Tech Careers
No Safe Harbor by Mark Sangster
The Inside Truth About Cybercrime, and How to Protect Your Business
Privacy & Security
Online Innovation by Gijs van Wulfen, Maria Vittoria Colucci, Andrew Constable, Florian Hameister, Rody Vonk
Finally, do not be misled by the title, its relevance goes far beyond digital transformation: it’s a fundamental toolkit to fully exploit all dimensions of innovation, and prosper in the ‘Phygital’ economy.
Innovation
Open Source Law, Policy and Practice by Amanda Brock
The work delivers an in-depth examination of the community, legal, and commercial structures relating to the usage and exploitation of Open Source. This enables readers to understand the legal environment within which Open Source operates and what is required for its appropriate governance and curation in enterprise and the public sector.
Open Source
Our Next Reality: How the AI-powered Metaverse Will Reshape the World by Alvin Graylin, Dr. Louis Rosenberg
Powered by immersive eyewear and driven by interactive AI agents, this new age of computing has the potential to make our world a magical place where the boundaries between the real and the virtual, the human and the artificial, rapidly fade away. If managed well, this could unleash a new age of abundance. If managed poorly, this technological revolution could easily go astray, deeply compromising our privacy, autonomy, agency, and even our humanity.
AI/Metaverse
Practical Data Privacy: Enhancing Privacy and Security in Data by Katharine Jarmul 
This essential guide will give you a fundamental understanding of modern privacy building blocks, like differential privacy, federated learning, and encrypted computation. Based on hard-won lessons, this book provides solid advice and best practices for integrating breakthrough privacy-enhancing technologies into production systems.
Privacy & Security
Privacy and AI - Protecting Individuals' Rights in the Age of AI by Federico Marengo
In this book, which is based on my Ph.D. thesis defended earlier this year, I try to find an adequate balance between the understanding of the privacy provisions, the technical challenges of #AI systems and what privacy professionals can do to reduce the risks posed by AI systems when they process personal data.
Privacy & AI
Privacy Engineering by Nishant Bhajaria
Engineer privacy into your systems with these hands-on techniques for data governance, legal compliance, and surviving security audits.
Privacy & Security
Privacy Engineering: A Dataflow and Ontological Approach by Ian Oliver
This book presents an approach based upon data flow modelling, coupled with standardised terminological frameworks, classifications and ontologies to properly annotate and describe the flow of information into, out of and across these systems.
Privacy & Security
Privacy in the Age of Big Data: Recognizing Threats, Defending Your Rights, and Protecting Your Family by Theresa Payton and Ted Claypoole
We have a global privacy problem. The average person provides more information about themselves to more outsiders than any time in history. Corporations, governments and even our neighbors can know where we are at times, can quickly learn our preferences and priorities and see who we meet.
Data Privacy
Privacy is Power: Why and How You Should Take Back Control of Your Data by Carissa Véliz
Carissa is an Associate Professor for Ethics in AI at University of Oxford.
The book  paints a comprehensive and compelling picture of where we are at with copious amounts of data being generated and collected and analyzed with AI systems and what we can do to circumvent some of it.

Privacy & Security
Privacy’s Blueprint: The Battle to Control the Design of New Technologies by Woodrow Hartzog
In Privacy’s Blueprint, Woodrow Hartzog pushes back against this state of affairs, arguing that the law should require software and hardware makers to respect privacy in the design of their products.
Data Privacy
 Probability and Statistics for Data Science: Math + R + Data by Norman Matloff 

* Leads the student to think critically about the "how" and "why" of statistics, and to "see the big picture." * Not "theorem/proof"-oriented, but concepts and models are stated in a mathematically precise manner. *Prerequisites are calculus, some matrix algebra, and some experience in programming.

Data & Analytics
Python for Data Analysis, 3E by Wes McKinney
Python for Data Analysis is a book that focuses on processing, cleaning and visualizing data with Python. It is also a practical introduction to scientific computing, tailored for data-intensive applications.
Data & Analytics
Python Machine Learning: Unlock deeper insights into Machine Leaning with this vital guide to cutting-edge predictive analytics by Sebastian Raschka
If you want to find out how to use Python to start answering critical questions of your data, pick up Python Machine Learning – whether you want to get started from scratch or want to extend your data science knowledge, this is an essential and unmissable resource.
Data & Analytics
Rebooting AI: Building Artificial Intelligence We Can Trust by Gary Marcus, Ernest Davis
Professors Gary Marcus and Ernest Davis have spent their careers at the forefront of AI research and have witnessed some of the greatest milestones in the field, but they argue that a computer beating a human in Jeopardy! does not signal that we are on the doorstep of fully autonomous cars or superintelligent machines.
Artificial Intelligence
Responsible AI in the Enterprise: Practical AI risk management for explainable, auditable, and safe models with hyperscalers and Azure OpenAI by Adnan Masood, Heather Dawe
Responsible AI in the Enterprise is a comprehensive guide to implementing ethical, transparent, and compliant AI systems in an organization. With a focus on understanding key concepts of machine learning models, this book equips you with techniques and algorithms to tackle complex issues such as bias, fairness, and model governance.
Artificial Intelligence
Small Teaching Online: Applying Learning Science in Online Classes by Flower Darby, James M. Lang
The concept of small teaching is simple: small and strategic changes have enormous power to improve student learning. Instructors face unique and specific challenges when teaching an online course. This book offers small teaching strategies that will positively impact the online classroom.
E-Learning
Smart Cities for Dummies by Dr. Jonathan Reichental
At its core, a smart city is a collection of technological responses to the growing demands, challenges, and complexities of improving the quality of life for billions of people now living in urban centers across the world.
Smart Cities
Social Engineering: The Science of Human Hacking by Christopher Hadnagy
Undetectable by firewalls and antivirus software, social engineering relies on human fault to gain access to sensitive spaces; in this book, renowned expert Christopher Hadnagy explains the most commonly-used techniques that fool even the most robust security personnel, and shows you how these techniques have been used in the past
Privacy & Security
Software Wasteland: How the Application-Centric Mindset is Hobbling our Enterprises by Dave McComb
This is the book your Systems Integrator and your Application Software vendor don't want you to read. Enterprise IT (Information Technology) is a $3.8 trillion per year industry worldwide. Most of it is waste.
Application Development
 Solar Powered Auto-irrigation system using PLC Programming by Faazla Iqbal
Join us on a journey through the innovative world of solar-powered agriculture, where smart technology takes center stage. Learn how automatic irrigation systems, equipped with advanced sensors, detect soil conditions and deliver precise care to crops, even in unfavorable weather conditions. By integrating renewable energy sources such as solar power, these systems become a lifeline for regions plagued by unreliable electricity supplies.
Sustainability
Stone Age Code: From Monkey Business to AI by Shane Neeley
Stone Age Code illustrates the evolution of improbable data scientists. Shane Neeley, the author of this exceptional book, shows the easiest and funniest approach to learning to code.
AI & DevOps
The Active Defender: Immersion in the Offensive Security Mindset by Dr. Catherine J. Ullman
In the book, you’ll learn to understand and embrace the knowledge you can gain from the offensive security community. You’ll become familiar with the hacker mindset, which allows you to gain emergent insight into how attackers operate and better grasp the nature of the risks and threats in your environment.
Security
The Age of Living Machines: How Biology Will Build the Next Technology Revolution by Susan Hockfield
The Age of Living Machines describes some of the most exciting new developments and the scientists and engineers who helped create them. Virus-built batteries. Protein-based water filters. Cancer-detecting nanoparticles. Mind-reading bionic limbs. Computer-engineered crops.
Emerging Tech
The AI Dilemma: A Leadership Guide to Assess Enterprise AI Maturity & Explore AI's Impact in Your Industry by Dr. Cindy Gordon
Understand the Impact of AI in Industries and Assess Your Organizational AI Readiness
Artificial Intelligence
The Alignment Problem by Brian Christian
Today’s “machine-learning” systems, trained by data, are so effective that we’ve invited them to see and hear for us—and to make decisions on our behalf. But alarm bells are ringing. Recent years have seen an eruption of concern as the field of machine learning advances. When the systems we attempt to teach will not, in the end, do what we want or what we expect, ethical and potentially existential risks emerge. Researchers call this the alignment problem.
Machine Learning
The Art of Attack by Maxie Reynolds
The book shows ethical hackers, social engineers, and pentesters what an attacker mindset is and how to and how to use it to their advantage
Security
The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma by Mustafa Suleyman, Michael Bhaskar
An urgent warning of the unprecedented risks that AI and other fast-developing technologies pose to global order, and how we might contain them while we have the chance—from a co-founder of the pioneering artificial intelligence company DeepMind.
Artificial Intelligence
The Data-Centric Revolution: Restoring Sanity to Enterprise Information Systems by Dave McComb
This book is the first part of a trilogy to follow "Software Wasteland". In "Software Wasteland", we detailed the current poor state of application software development.
Information Systems
The Data Path Less Traveled by Dr. Zacharias Voulgaris
In this book, we explore heuristics from a practical perspective. We
illustrate how heuristics can help you solve challenging problems through
simple examples and real-life situations. Apply Jaccard Similarity and a
variant, F1 score, Entropy, Ectropy, Area Under Curve, Particle Swarm
Optimization, and Genetic Algorithms (along with GA variants).
Data & Analytics
The Economics of Data, Analytics, and Digital Transformation: The theorems, laws, and empowerments to guide your organization's digital transformation by Bill Schmarzo
This book frames the big data problem from a business perspective. It focuses on how important economic concepts can help organizations exploit the new economic assets of data and analytics to fuel economic growth – assets that actually appreciate, not depreciate, in value the more that they are used.
Data Analytics
The Essential Cybersecurity Exercise Playbook by Lester Chng
If you take cyber readiness seriously,run your exercises and establish your program today.
Security
The Fight for Privacy: Protecting Dignity, Identity, and Love in the Digital Age by Danielle Keats Citron
As a MacArthur fellow and distinguished professor of law at the University of Virginia, acclaimed civil rights advocate Danielle Citron has spent decades working with lawmakers and stakeholders across the globe to protect what she calls intimate privacy―encompassing our bodies, health, gender, and relationships.
Privacy
The Founder's Guide to Presenting by Claudio Sennhauser
Gain the mindset, knowledge, and techniques to persuade with ease and motivate others to take action. Learn the importance emotions play in any presentation and how to deliver your message to resonate and make it highly memorable. Master a delivery style that is entertaining and keeps your audience's attention focused on your message
Leadership
The Future Is Faster Than You Think by Peter Diamandis & Steven Kotler
In this gripping and insightful roadmap to our near future, Diamandis and Kotler investigate how wave after wave of exponentially accelerating technologies will impact both our daily lives and society as a whole.
Tech Trends
The Future of Workplace Fear: How Human Reflex Stands in the Way of Digital Transformation by Steve Prentice
Workplace fear comes in many forms, including the fear of change, the fear of looking stupid, and the fear of working relationships, and in all cases these fears have deep roots that extend far below having to learn a new technology
Automation & Productivity
The Future Starts Now: Expert Insights into the Future of Business, Technology and Society by Theo Priestley, Bronwyn Williams
In light of this uncertainty, The Future Starts Now looks toward the various innovations and technologies that may shape our future. Authors Theo Priestley and Bronwyn Williams have brought together the world's leading futurists to articulate and clarify the current trajectories in technology, economics, politics and business.
Emerging Tech
The Metaweb: The Next Level of the Internet by Bridgit DAO
Those who give it careful consideration will never see the Web the same way again.
This book proclaims into existence decentralized public space above the webpage that enables the shift from personal to collective computing.
Internet
The Pentester BluePrint: Starting a Career as an Ethical Hacker by Phillip L. Wylie, Kim Crawley
Accomplished pentester and author Phillip L. Wylie and cybersecurity researcher Kim Crawley walk you through the basic and advanced topics necessary to understand how to make a career out of finding vulnerabilities in systems, networks, and applications.
Security
The Privacy Engineer's Manifesto: Getting from Policy to Code to QA to Value by Michelle Finnerman Dennedy, Jonathan Fox, Thomas Finnerman
The authors, a uniquely skilled team of longtime industry experts, detail how you can build privacy into products, processes, applications, and systems.
Privacy & Security
The Rise of Skeleton Marketing: How AI is Revolutionizing the Marketing Industry by Jeff Locke
From the death of traditional marketing roles to the birth of AI-powered marketing and the future of marketing departments, this ebook offers insights and strategies for professionals looking to adapt to the changing landscape.
AI/Marketing Tech
The SINET Risk Executive Handbook
A CISO’s Guide to a Robust Employment Agreement, Employment Risks, and Technology Risk Governance
Security
The Smartest Person in the Room: The Root Cause and New Solution for Cybersecurity by Christian Espinosa
With his seven-step methodology and stories from the field, Christian helps you develop your team’s technical minds so they become better humans and strong leaders who excel in every role.
Security
The Ultimate Job Search Companion: Strategies for a Changing Market by Angie Callen
 As a multi-award-winning coach, Angie has been recognized globally for her commitment to her clients, an ethos she has weaved deeply into Career Bender’s culture and approach to career development coaching.
Tech Jobs
The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI by Fei-Fei Li
The Worlds I See is a story of science in the first person, documenting one of the century’s defining moments from the inside. It provides a riveting story of a scientist at work and a thrillingly clear explanation of what artificial intelligence actually is―and how it came to be. Emotionally raw and intellectually uncompromising, this book is a testament not only to the passion required for even the most technical scholarship but also to the curiosity forever at its heart.
Artificial Intelligence
Titaniam - Back to Basics
The primary theme of this book is that adhering to basic security building blocks creates a strong foundation for cyber resilience.The idea is to share our learnings in small accessible and practical chunks.
Privacy & Security
Toward a Post-Digital Society: Where Digital Evolution Meets People’s Revolution by Antonio Grasso
Embark on a thought-provoking journey with "Toward a Post-Digital Society - Where Digital Evolution Meets People's Revolution," a book that delves deep into the interplay between cutting-edge tech advancements and the evolving dynamics of our societies, with a nuanced exploration of how these advancements reshape the fabric of our daily lives, economies, and ethical frameworks.
Emerging Tech
Truth from the Trenches: A Practical Guide to the Art of It Management by Mark Settle
Settle describes the key constituencies that an IT leader needs to influence, seduce, leverage, and manage to be successful.
IT Management
Truth from the Valley: A Practical Primer on IT Management for the Next Decade by Mark Settle
Truth from the Valley describes the organizational challenges confronting Silicon Valley IT teams and proposes ways of transforming such challenges into organizational opportunities
IT Management
Understand the Cyber Attacker Mindset: Build a Strategic Security Program to Counteract Threats by Sarah Armstrong-Smith
This book examines different types of cyber attackers, explores their motivations and examines the methods used. It also reviews key industry developments such as cybercrime as a service, brokers and syndicates, nation-sponsored actors, insider sabotage and the challenges faced by law enforcement in tracking and apprehending attackers.
Security
Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What is Human in a World of Machines By Joy Buolamwini
"I take you behind the scenes to the moments of doubt, the defeats, and the ongoing work of challenging tech companies, governments, and AI researchers to create more ethical and accountable AI systems."
Artificial Intelligence
Unwritten Laws of Engineering by by James G. Skakoon and original by W. J. King
 It addresses three areas: what the beginner needs to learn at once; "laws" relating chiefly to engineering executives; and purely personal considerations for engineers.
Engineering
Vital Foresight - The Case for Active Transhumanism by David W. Wood
Oncoming waves of technological change are poised to deliver either global destruction or a paradise-like sustainable superabundance, with the outcome depending on the timely elevation of transhumanist vision, transhumanist politics, and transhumanist education.
Artifical Intelligence
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy by Cathy O'Neil
Tracing the arc of a person’s life, O’Neil exposes the black box models that shape our future, both as individuals and as a society. These “weapons of math destruction” score teachers and students, sort résumés, grant (or deny) loans, evaluate workers, target voters, set parole, and monitor our health.
Data & Analytics
What Is ChatGPT Doing ... and Why Does It Work? by Stephen Wolfram
Find out how the success of ChatGPT brings together the latest neural net technology with foundational questions about language and human thought posed by Aristotle more than two thousand years ago.
ChatGPT
What We Call Security by Greg van der Gaast
A thought-provoking and business-focused look at problems and missed opportunities within the field and practice of Information Security for business and security leaders alike.
Security
When Machines Become Customers: Ready or not, AI enabled non-human customers are coming to your business. How you adapt will make or break your future by Don Scheibenreif, Mark Raskino
For thousands of years, customers have been individual humans, families or organizations. But soon, generative AI enabled software and hardware machines will start to act as customers. First they will shop for us, later they will act for themselves. You can’t take them to dinner, and they won’t fall for your slogans, but they might help grow your market – if you know how.
Artificial Intelligence
Why Privacy Matters by Neil Richards
If we want to build a digital society that is consistent with our hard-won commitments to political freedom, individuality, and human
flourishing, then we must make a meaningful commitment to privacy.
Privacy
Your Face Belongs to Us: A Secretive Startup's Quest to End Privacy as We Know It by Kashmir Hill
The story of a small AI company that gave facial recognition to law enforcement, billionaires, and businesses, threatening to end privacy as we know it.
Privacy
Your Amazing Itty Bitty Guide to Being TED-Worthy: 15 Essential Secrets of Successful Speaking Based in Human Neurobiology by John-Alfred Kohler Bates
In this deeply insightful Itty Bitty Book, John Bates shows you how to use the powerful principles he teaches to TED and TEDx speakers, the NASA astronauts, top executives, and other leaders around the world.You will:•Discover the incredible power of mirror neurons as applied to public speaking and leadership.
Leadership

ESC

Eddy, a super-smart generative AI, opening up ways to have tailored queries and responses