Knowledge = Power

East of Eden   The masterpiece of Steinbeck’s later years, East of Eden is  a sprawling epic in which Steinbeck created his most mesmerizing  characters and explored his most enduring themes: the mystery of  identity, the inexplicability of love, and the murderous consequences of  love’s absence.

Gilgamesh is considered one of the masterpieces of world  literature, but until now there has not been a version that is a  superlative literary text in its own right. Acclaimed by  critics and scholars, Stephen Mitchell's version allows us to enter an  ancient masterpiece as if for the first time, to see how startlingly  beautiful, intelligent, and alive it is.

The Grapes of Wrath

Whether we’ve experienced small setbacks or major traumas, we are all  influenced by memories and experiences we may not remember or don’t  fully understand. Getting Past Your Past offers practical procedures  that demystify the human condition and empower listeners looking to  achieve real change.Francine Shapiro, the creator of EMDR (Eye Movement  Desensitization and Reprocessing), explains how our personalities  develop and why we become trapped into feeling, believing and acting in  ways that don’t serve us. Through detailed examples and exercises  listeners will learn to understand themselves, and why the people in  their lives act the way they do. Most importantly, listeners will also  learn techniques to improve their relationships, break through emotional  barriers, overcome limitations and excel in ways taught to Olympic  athletes, successful executives and performers.An easy conversational  style, humor and fascinating real life stories make it simple to  understand the brain science, why we get stuck in various ways and what  to do about it.

The real Hugh Hefner-the extraordinary inside story of an American icon ""Riveting... Watts packs in plenty of gasp-inducing passages.""-Newark Star Ledger ""Like it or not, Hugh Hefner has affected all of us, so I treasured learning about how and why in the sober biography.""-Chicago Sun Times ""This  is a fun book. How could it not be? Watts aims to give a full account  of the man, his magazine and their place in social history. Playboy is no longer the cultural force it used to be, but it made a stamp on society.""-Associated Press

At the age of twenty-four, in 1913, Adolf Hitler was eking out a living as a painter of pictures for tourists in Munich. Nothing marked him in any way as exceptional, but he did possess certain distinguishing characteristics: a capacity to hate, an inability to accept criticism, and a massive overconfidence in his own abilities. He was a socially and emotionally inadequate individual without direction, from whence came a sense of personal mission that would transform these weaknesses and liabilities into strengths—certainties that would provide him not only with a sense of identity, but of purpose in a communal enterprise. This is the focus of Laurence Rees’s social, psychological, and historical investigation into a personality that would end up articulating the hopes and dreams of millions of Germans.

Revolution 1989 is the first in-depth, authoritative account of a few months that changed the world. At  the start of 1989, six European nations were Soviet vassal states. By  year's end, they had all declared national independence and embarked on  the road to democracy. How did it happen so quickly? Victor Sebestyen,  who was on the scene as a reporter, draws on his firsthand knowledge of  the events, on scores of interviews with witnesses and participants, and  on newly uncovered archival material. He tells the story through the  eyes of ordinary men and women as well as through the strategic moves of  world leaders. He shows how the KGB helped bring down former allies;  how the United States tried to slow the process; and why the collapse of  the Iron Curtain was the catalyst for the fall of the entire Soviet  empire.

Poker champion turned business  consultant Annie Duke teaches you how to get comfortable with  uncertainty and make better decisions as a result. In Super  Bowl XLIX, Seahawks coach Pete Carroll made one of the most  controversial calls in football history: With 26 seconds remaining, and  trailing by four at the Patriots' one-yard line, he called for a pass  instead of a handing off to his star running back. The pass was  intercepted, and the Seahawks lost. Critics called it the dumbest play  in history. But was the call really that bad? Or did Carroll actually  make a great move that was ruined by bad luck? Even the best  decision doesn't yield the best outcome every time. There's always an  element of luck that you can't control, and there is always information  that is hidden from view. So the key to long-term success (and avoiding  worrying yourself to death) is to think in bets: How sure am I? What are  the possible ways things could turn out? What decision has the highest  odds of success? Did I land in the unlucky 10% on the strategy that  works 90% of the time? Or is my success attributable to dumb luck rather  than great decision making? Annie Duke, a former World Series  of Poker champion turned business consultant, draws on examples from  business, sports, politics, and (of course) poker to share tools anyone  can use to embrace uncertainty and make better decisions. For most  people, it's difficult to say "I'm not sure" in a world that values, and  even rewards, the appearance of certainty. But professional poker  players are comfortable with the fact that great decisions don't always  lead to great outcomes and bad decisions don't always lead to bad  outcomes. By shifting your thinking from a need for certainty to  a goal of accurately assessing what you know and what you don't, you'll  be less vulnerable to reactive emotions, knee-jerk biases, and  destructive habits in your decision making. You'll become more  confident, calm, compassionate, and successful in the long run. Includes a bonus PDF of charts and graphs. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

”This book takes an impossibly broad area of computer science and  communicates what working developers need to understand in a clear and  thorough way.” - David Jacobs, Product Advance Local Key Features Master the core algorithms of deep learning and AI Build an intuitive understanding of AI problems and solutions Written in simple language, with lots of illustrations and hands-on examples Creative coding exercises, including building a maze puzzle game and exploring drone optimization About The Book “Artificial  intelligence” requires teaching a computer how to approach different  types of problems in a systematic way. The core of AI is the algorithms  that the system uses to do things like identifying objects in an image,  interpreting the meaning of text, or looking for patterns in data to  spot fraud and other anomalies.  Mastering the core algorithms for  search, image recognition, and other common tasks is essential to  building good AI applications Grokking Artificial Intelligence  Algorithms uses illustrations, exercises, and jargon-free explanations  to teach fundamental AI concepts.You’ll explore coding challenges like  detect­ing bank fraud, creating artistic masterpieces, and setting a  self-driving car in motion. All you need is the algebra you remember  from high school math class and beginning programming skills.  What You Will Learn Use cases for different AI algorithms Intelligent search for decision making Biologically inspired algorithms Machine learning and neural networks Reinforcement learning to build a better robot This Book Is Written For For software developers with high school–level math skills. About the Author Rishal Hurbans is a technologist, startup and AI group founder, and international speaker. Table of Contents 1 Intuition of artificial intelligence 2 Search fundamentals 3 Intelligent search 4 Evolutionary algorithms 5 Advanced evolutionary approaches 6 Swarm intelligence: Ants 7 Swarm intelligence: Particles 8 Machine learning 9 Artificial neural networks 10 Reinforcement learning with Q-learning

Newly adapted for audiobook listeners. Today,  software engineers need to know not only how to program effectively but  also how to develop proper engineering practices to make their codebase  sustainable and healthy. This book emphasizes this difference between  programming and software engineering. How can software engineers  manage a living codebase that evolves and responds to changing  requirements and demands over the length of its life? Based on their  experience at Google, software engineers Titus Winters and Hyrum Wright,  along with technical writer Tom Manshreck, present a candid and  insightful look at how some of the world’s leading practitioners  construct and maintain software. This book covers Google’s unique  engineering culture, processes, and tools and how these aspects  contribute to the effectiveness of an engineering organization. You’ll  explore three fundamental principles that software organizations should  keep in mind when designing, architecting, writing, and maintaining  code: How time affects the sustainability of software and how to make your code resilient over time How scale affects the viability of software practices within an engineering organization What trade-offs a typical engineer needs to make when evaluating design and development decisions