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Getting Started with SQL: A hands-on approach for beginners

Thomas Nield · O'Reilly Media
Pages: 124
Format: Print book

Quickly master the fundamentals of SQL right in your own home, without having to use a database server environment. Ideal for business professionals as well as absolute beginners who want to acquire data proficiency, this practical guide teaches you how to pull and transform data in meaningful...
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Microsoft PowerPoint 2016 Step by Step

Joan Lambert · Microsoft Press; 1 edition
Format: Print book

Now in full color! Easy lessons for essential tasks
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HTML, CSS and JavaScript All in One, Sams Teach Yourself: Covering HTML5, CSS3, and jQuery

Julie C. Meloni · Sams Publishing; 2 edition
Format: Book

In just a short time, you can learn how to use HTML5, Cascading Style Sheets CSS3, and JavaScript together to design, create, and maintain world-class websites. Using a straightforward, step-by-step approach, each lesson in this book builds on the previous ones, enabling you to learn...
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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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Library Robotics: Technology and English Language Arts Activities for Ages 8-24

Sarah Kepple · Libraries Unlimited
Format: Paperback

A dive-right-in, quick-start guide for busy library professionals who want to build literacy, STEAM, and other 21st-century skills using simple robots in a fun, collaborative environment.* Provides the only guidebook currently available about robotics written by a librarian, for librarians...
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Beyond Bullet Points: Using PowerPoint to tell a compelling story that gets results

CLIFF ATKINSON · Microsoft Press
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback

Unlock the amazing story buried in your presentation-and forget boring, bullet-point-riddled slides forever! Guided by communications expert Cliff Atkinson, you'll walk through an innovative, three-step methodology for increasing the impact of your presentation. Discover how to combine...
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Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War

Fred Kaplan · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 338
Format: Print book

"An important, disturbing, and gripping history" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) , the never-before-told story of the computer scientists and the NSA, Pentagon, and White House policymakers who invent and employ cyber wars - where every country can be a major power player and every...
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Learning Swift: Building Apps for macOS, iOS, and Beyond

PARIS MANNING JON NUGENT TIM BUTTFIELD-ADDISON · O'Reilly Media
Pages: 500
Format: Paperback

Dive into Swift 4.x, the latest version of Apple's easy-to-use programming language for macOS, iOS, watchOS, and tvOS. With this practical guide, you'll quickly get up to speed on language basics and then use Swift to build three complete apps, all tightly linked together: an iOS note-taking...
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MacBook in easy steps: Covers macOS High Sierra

NICK VANDOME · In Easy Steps Limited
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback

The MacBook is one of the most iconic devices of its kind and continues to develop as a stylish and powerful laptop computer. The MacBook now comes with the latest Apple operating system, macOS High Sierra, bringing an increased range of features and functionality. MacBook in easy steps,...
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TCP/IP in 24 Hours, Sams Teach Yourself

Joe Casad · Sams Publishing
Pages: 522
Format: Paperback

Sams Teach Yourself TCP/IP in 24 Hours, Sixth Edition is a practical guide to the simple yet illusive protocol system that powers the Internet. A step-by-step approach reveals how the protocols of the TCP/IP stack really work and explores the rich array of services available on the Internet...
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20 Easy Raspberry Pi Projects: Toys, Tools, Gadgets, and More!

Rui Santos · No Starch Press
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback

Twenty projects using the Raspberry Pi, a tiny and affordable computer, for beginners looking to make cool things right away. Projects are explained with full-color visuals and simple step-by-step instructions.Raspberry Pi Project Handbook is a beginner-friendly collection of electronics...
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The Sentient Machine: The Coming Age of Artificial Intelligence

AMIR HUSAIN · Scribner
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

In the tradition of Michio Kaku's The Future of the Mind, acclaimed technologist and inventor Amir Husain answers the universal question of how we can live amidst the coming age of sentient machines and artificial intelligence - and not only survive, but thrive.The future is now. Artificial...
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Rise of the Machines: A Cybernetic History

Thomas Rid · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 432
Format: Print book

A sweeping history of our deep entanglement with technology.As lives offline and online merge even more, it's easy to forget how we got here. Rise of the Machines reclaims the spectacular story of cybernetics, a control theory of man and machine. In a history that unpacks one of the twentieth...
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Fully Connected: Surviving and Thriving in an Age of Overload

Julia Hobsbawm · Bloomsbury Business
Pages: 232
Format: Hardcover

In 1946, the World Health Organization defined health as: "a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity." Until now, no one has defined this third dimension to health, or described strategies to deliver it. This...
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