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Mastering online genealogy

Dan Quillen · Cold Spring Harbor Lab
Pages: 144
Format: Print book

The best introduction to using the Internet to search for your ancestors Quillen's Essentials of Genealogy series examines one topic per book so you can really go in-depth in the search for your ancestors. "Mastering Online Genealogy" covers the use of computers and the Internet...
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Hacking Happiness: Why Your Personal Data Counts and How Tracking it Can Change the World

John Havens · Tarcher
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

In Hacking Happiness, futurist and contributing Mashable writer John C. Havens introduces you to your "quantified self" - your digital identity represented by gigabytes of data produced from tracking your activities on your smartphone and computer. Harvested by megacorporations...
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The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters

Tom Nichols · Oxford University Press
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

People are now exposed to more information than ever before, provided both by technology and by increasing access to every level of education. These societal gains, however, have also helped fuel a surge in narcissistic and misguided intellectual egalitarianism that has crippled informed...
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Reality Mining: Using Big Data to Engineer a Better World

Nathan Eagle · The MIT Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Big Data is made up of lots of little data: numbers entered into cell phones, addresses entered into GPS devices, visits to websites, online purchases, ATM transactions, and any other activity that leaves a digital trail. Although the abuse...
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Concur: Travel and Expense Management with SAP

Sven Ringling · SAP Press
Pages: 300
Format: Print book

New York. Tokyo. Dubai. If your business is on the go, learn how to get the most out of Concur Travel, Concur Expense, and Concur Request! Set up this cloud solution to reflect your travel policies so you can plan trips, settle expenses, and manage critical approvals. Analyze your T&E...
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More Awesome Than Money: Four Boys and Their Heroic Quest to Save Your Privacy from Facebook

Jim Dwyer · Viking
Format: Hardcover

David versus Goliath in Silicon Valley - an epic attempt to take back the InternetTheir idea was simple. Four NYU undergrads wanted to build a social network that would allow users to control their personal data, instead of surrendering it to big businesses like Facebook. They called it Diaspora....
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Targeted: How Technology Is Revolutionizing Advertising and the Way Companies Reach Consumers

Mike Smith · AMACOM
Format: Hardcover

Far from the catchy television spots and sleek magazine spreads are the comparatively modest ads that pop up on websites and in Internet searches. But dont be fooled - online advertising is exploding. Growing at a compound annual rate near 20 per cent, it is now the second-largest advertising...
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Photoshop Elements 12 in Easy Steps

Nick Vandome · In Easy Steps Limited
Format: Paperback

Adobe's best-selling Photoshop Elements for editing images is updated with even more features to enhance pictures. And Photoshop Elements 12 in easy steps reveals all the key features on offer for you to perfect your photos. It'll help you to quickly master Elements' interface...
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Mastering XPages: A Step-by-Step Guide to XPages Application Development and the XSP Language

Martin Donnelly · IBM Press
Pages: 1130
Format: Print book

IBM's Best-Selling Guide to XPages Development-Now Updated and Expanded for Lotus Notes/Domino 9.0.1

XPages instantly revolutionized Notes/Domino application development, and the newest versions deliver unprecedented performance and flexibility. Now, the popular insider's...
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Office 2016 in Easy Steps

Michael Price · In Easy Steps
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

Office 2016 in Easy Steps guides you through Microsoft's latest version of Office, so you can soon master its new features.It concentrates on the most useful and productive elements of Office 2016, covering the basics of Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint.Aimed at both new and experienced...
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Search: How the Data Explosion Makes Us Smarter

Stefan Weitz · Bibliomotion
Format: Hardcover

Search is as old as language. We've always needed to find something in the jumble of human creation. The first web was nothing more than passing verbal histories down the generations so others could find and remember how not to get eaten; the first search used the power of written language...
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iMovie 2015 for Mac & iOS: Beginner's Guide

Steve Markelo · Createspace
Pages: 52
Format: Paperback

Apple Inc. continues to bring innovation and creativity to its products with the release of the iMovie application. The original concept first released in the late 1990s introduced to Apple users the ability to create and edit video clips using their Apple device; iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad...
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