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CompTIA Network Study Guide: Exam N10-007

Todd Lammle · Sybex
Pages: 1008
Format: Paperback

Todd Lammle's bestselling CompTIA Network Study Guide for the N10-007 exam! CompTIA's Network certification tells the world you have the skills to install, configure, and troubleshoot today's basic networking hardware peripherals and protocols. First, however, you have to pass...
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The Players Ball: A Genius, a Con Man, and the Secret History of the Internet's Rise

David Kushner · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

A Wild West look at the early days of the internet - the incredible battle between the founder of Match.com and the con man who swindled him out of the online domain name Sex.com in an all-out war for control over the fuel that still powers the online world to this day: love and lust.In...
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Hacking Life: Systematized Living and Its Discontents

Joseph M. Reagle Jr. · The MIT Press
Pages: 216
Format: Hardcover

In an effort to keep up with a world of too much, life hackers sometimes risk going too far.Life hackers track and analyze the food they eat, the hours they sleep, the money they spend, and how they're feeling on any given day. They share tips on the most efficient ways to tie shoelaces...
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Race Me in a Lobster Suit: Absurd Internet Ads and the Real Conversations that Followed

Kelly Mahon · Quirk Books
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback

This collection of prank Craigslist ads and the real email exchanges that followed is the perfect gift for fans of offbeat humor. When New York City copywriter Kelly Mahon started posting fake gig ads online as a creative outlet, she was surprised to find that there was someone interested...
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Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World

Clive Thompson · Penguin Press
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

Hello, world.Facebook's algorithms shaping the news. Self-driving cars roaming the streets. Revolution on Twitter and romance on Tinder. We live in a world constructed of code--and coders are the ones who built it for us. From acclaimed tech writer Clive Thompson comes a brilliant anthropological...
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Gray Day: My Undercover Mission to Expose America's First Cyber Spy

Eric O'Neill · Crown
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

A cybersecurity expert and former FBI "ghost" tells the thrilling story of how he helped take down notorious FBI mole Robert Hanssen, the first Russian cyber spy.Eric O'Neill was only twenty-six when he was tapped for the case of a lifetime: a one-on-one undercover investigation...
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