Category: Free eBooks

Open Data Structures

Open Data Structures

Offered as an introduction to the field of data structures and algorithms, Open Data Structures covers the implementation and analysis of data structures for sequences (lists), queues, priority queues, unordered dictionaries, ordered...

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336 pages
2013/6/1 Published
Cracking the Bro Code

Cracking the Bro Code

Why dominant racial and gender groups have preferential access to jobs in computing, and how feminist labor activism in computing culture can transform the field into a force that serves...

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206 pages
2024/4/9 Published
Tor

Tor

A biography of Tor—a cultural and technological history of power, privacy, and global politics at the internet's core. Tor, one of the most important and misunderstood technologies of the digital...

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242 pages
2024/4/16 Published
The Curious Culture of Economic Theory

The Curious Culture of Economic Theory

An essay collection that insightfully explores the professional culture of contemporary economic theory, highlighting key features of successful economic theory from the last quarter century. When is a theoretical result...

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216 pages
2024/4/16 Published
Counting Feminicide

Counting Feminicide

Why grassroots data activists in Latin America count feminicide—and how this vital social justice work challenges mainstream data science. What isn't counted doesn't count. And mainstream institutions systematically fail to...

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392 pages
2024/4/30 Published
Navigating the Polycrisis

Navigating the Polycrisis

An innovative work of realism and utopianism that analyzes the possible futures of the world-system and helps us imagine how we might transition beyond capitalism. The world-system of which we...

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312 pages
2024-4-23 Published
The Left Hand of Data

The Left Hand of Data

A speculative framework that imagines how we can use education data to promote play, creativity, and social justice over normativity and conformity. Educational analytics tend toward aggregation, asking what a...

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212 pages
2024-4-23 Published
Imagining Transmedia

Imagining Transmedia

How the blurring of media forms—transmedia—became the default for how we experience narratives, and how that cultural transformation has redefined the worlds of education, entertainment, and our increasingly polarized public...

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496 pages
2024-4-23 Published
Demystifying the Academic Research Enterprise

Demystifying the Academic Research Enterprise

What next-generation scholars need to know in order to thrive, and how they can actively participate in shaping the academic research enterprise. The academic research enterprise is highly complex, involving...

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350 pages
2023-12-19 Published
GANs in Action

GANs in Action

Deep learning systems have gotten really great at identifying patterns in text, images, and video. But applications that create realistic images, natural sentences and paragraphs, or native-quality translations have proven...

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240 pages
2019-10-07 Published