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How the Internet Happened: From Netscape to the iPhone

Brian McCullough · Liveright
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

Tech-guru Brian McCullough delivers a rollicking history of the internet, why it exploded, and how it changed everything.The internet was never intended for you, opines Brian McCullough in this lively narrative of an era that utterly transformed everything we thought we knew about technology....
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My Pages, Numbers, and Keynote

Brad Miser · Que Publishing; 1 edition
Format: Book

Be More Productive with Pages, Numbers, and Keynote Pages, Numbers, and Keynote are Apple's office/business productivity software applications. Originally a suite of software called iWork, these apps are roughly the equivalent of Microsoft Office's Word, Excel, and PowerPoint - but implemented...
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Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions

Brian Christian · Henry Holt and Company
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

A fascinating exploration of how computer algorithms can be applied to our everyday lives, helping to solve common decision-making problems and illuminate the workings of the human mindAll our lives are constrained by limited space and time, limits that give rise to a particular set of problems....
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Outnumbered: From Facebook and Google to Fake News and Filter-bubbles – The Algorithms That Control Our Lives

David Sumpter · Bloomsbury Sigma
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

Outnumbered is a journey to the dark side of mathematics, from how it dictates our social media activities to our travel routes. Algorithms are running our society, and as Facebook's Cambridge Analytica scandal has revealed, we don't even realize how our data has been used against...
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IPHONE PHOTOGRAPHY FOR EVERYBODY : create awesome photographs

BERT KRAGES · AMHERST MEDIA
Format: Paperback

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Binding and Repairing Books by Hand

David Muir · Arco Pub
Pages: 120
Format: Hardcover

A professional craftsman details the tools, materials, intricacies, skills, and problems involved in book binding and repairing by hand
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The Hello Girls: America's First Women Soldiers

Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman · Harvard University Press
Pages: 370
Format: Hardcover

This is the story of how America's first women soldiers helped win World War I, earned the vote, and fought the U.S. Army. In 1918, the U.S. Army Signal Corps sent 223 women to France. They were masters of the latest technology: the telephone switchboard. General John Pershing, commander...
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