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Rise of the Machines: A Cybernetic History
Thomas Rid · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 432
Format: Print book
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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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The Official Ubuntu Book
Matthew Helmke · Prentice Hall
Pages: 380
Format: Print book
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The Official Ubuntu Book, Ninth Edition introduces readers to Ubuntu, an cost-free open source operating system that combines the latest trends in style and usability with solid, stable technology, and by default includes all the basic productivity packages you need for most people's... |
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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
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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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A World Without "Whom": The Essential Guide to Language in the BuzzFeed Age
EMMY J FAVILLA · Bloomsbury USA
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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A World Without "Whom" is Eats, Shoots & Leaves for the internet age, and BuzzFeed global copy chief Emmy Favilla is the witty go-to style guru of webspeak. As language evolves faster than ever before, what is the future of "correct" writing? When Favilla was tasked... |
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Microsoft Excel Data Analysis and Business Modeling
Wayne Winston · Microsoft
Pages: 864
Format: Print book
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Master business modeling and analysis techniques with Microsoft Excel 2016, and transform data into bottom-line results. Written by award-winning educator Wayne Winston, this hands on, scenario-focused guide helps you use Excel's newest tools to ask the right questions and get accurate,... |
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The Internet Is Not the Answer
Andrew Keen · Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Hardcover
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The Internet, created during the Cold War, has now ushered in one of the greatest shifts in society since the Industrial Revolution. There are many positive ways in which the Internet has contributed to the world, but as a society we are less aware of the Internets deeply negative effects... |
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iPad For Seniors For Dummies
Nancy Muir · John Wiley & Sons
Pages: 387
Format: Print book
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The easy way for seniors to master the iPad - updated for iPad Air 2 and iPad mini 3! Buying and getting started with an iPad or iPad Mini can be intimidating for people of any age, but it doesn't have to be. This new edition of iPad For Seniors For Dummies provides straightforward, easy-to-understand... |
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World of Warcraft: Ultimate Visual Guide, Updated and Expanded
Kathleen Pleet · DK Publishing
Pages: 216
Format: Print book
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Welcome to the realm of Azeroth. Shaped by titans, ruled by ancient magic. Beset by demons and earth-shattering cataclysms. Where good, evil, the living, and the undead battle for supremacy.Created in close collaboration with Blizzard, World of Warcraft®: The Ultimate Visual Guide, Updated... |
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Find It Fast: Extracting Expert Information from Social Networks, Big Data, Tweets, and More
Robert I Berkman · Information Today, Inc., 2015.
Pages: 424
Format: Print book
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Go beyond Google to mine big data and social media Author Robert Berkman gives expert advice on how to search the internet to locate the best information sources, how to find and utilize the professionals behind those sources, and how to combine these techniques to complete an information... |
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My Facebook for Seniors
Michael Miller · Que
Pages: 374
Format: Print book
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The perfect book to help anyone 50 learn Facebook--in full color! Whether you are new to Facebook or would like to explore more of its features, My Facebook for Seniors makes learning to use the world's most popular social media site simple and fun. The full-color, step-by-step instructions... |
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Photoshop Elements 15 For Dummies
BARBARA OBERMEIER · JOHN WILEY & SONS
Pages: 448
Format: Print book
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The top-selling guide to Photoshop Elements - updated for Photoshop Elements 15 No matter if you're a photo-editing newbie or an old hat looking for new tricks, Photoshop Elements 15 For Dummies offers photographers of all skill levels the power to turn run-of-the-mill digital pictures... |
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