Category: Free eBooks

Data Paradoxes

Data Paradoxes

Why healthcare cannot—and should not—become data-driven, despite the many promises of intensified data sourcing. In contemporary healthcare, everybody seems to want more data, of higher quality, on more people, and...

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328 pages
2023-04-18 Published
The Space between Look and Read

The Space between Look and Read

Unleashing the potential that can be found in the space between words and images. Designers have long understood that image, text, and typeface can work together to produce new meanings,...

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232 pages
2023-04-18 Published
C++ Annotations

C++ Annotations

This document is intended for knowledgeable users of C (or any other language using a C-like grammar, like Perl or Java) who would like to know more about, or make the transition to, C++. This document is...

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1158 pages
2024-05-27 Published
Lecture Notes on Quantum Electrical Circuits

Lecture Notes on Quantum Electrical Circuits

During the last 30 years, stimulated by the quest to build superconducting quantum processors, a theory of quantum electrical circuits has emerged, which is called circuit quantum electrodynamics or circuit-QED....

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172 pages
2024-02-13 Published
Supply Chain Operations in the Arctic

Supply Chain Operations in the Arctic

The extant corpus of research on supply chain sustainability in the Arctic exhibits a conspicuous neglect of the social dimension, rendering it the most underprivileged among the three pillars of...

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346 pages
2023-11-22 Published
GUI Design for Android Apps

GUI Design for Android Apps

GUI Design for Android Apps is the perfect—and concise—introduction for mobile app developers and designers. Through easy-to-follow tutorials, code samples, and case studies, the book shows the must-know principles for user-interface...

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167 pages
2014-08-17 Published
The InfoSec Handbook

The InfoSec Handbook

The InfoSec Handbook offers the reader an organized layout of information that is easily read and understood. Allowing beginners to enter the field and understand the key concepts and ideas, while...

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416 pages
2014-08-30 Published
The Videogame Industry Does Not Exist

The Videogame Industry Does Not Exist

The precarious reality of videogame production beyond the corporate blockbuster studios of North America. The videogame industry, we're invariably told, is a multibillion-dollar, high-tech business conducted by large corporations in...

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248 pages
2023-04-18 Published
Living with Algorithms

Living with Algorithms

A nuanced account from a user perspective of what it's like to live in a datafied world. We live in a media-saturated society that increasingly transforms our experiences, relations, and...

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234 pages
2023-04-25 Published
The Science-Music Borderlands

The Science-Music Borderlands

Interdisciplinary essays on music psychology that integrate scientific, humanistic, and artistic ways of knowing in transformative ways. Researchers using scientific methods and approaches to advance our understanding of music and...

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408 pages
2023-05-02 Published