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Teach Yourself VISUALLY OS X Yosemite

Paul McFedries · Visual
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback

Take a guided tour of Yosemite to discover just how much your Mac can do Teach Yourself VISUALLY OS X Yosemite is the perfect introduction to Apple's operating system. With clear, step-by-step instructions and plenty of rich visuals, this book walks you through the new OS X and demonstrates...
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A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age

Jimmy Soni · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

The life and times of one of the foremost intellects of the twentieth century: Claude Shannon - the neglected architect of the Information Age, whose insights stand behind every computer built, email sent, video streamed, and webpage loaded.Claude Shannon was a groundbreaking polymath,...
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Advanced Genealogy Research Techniques

George G. Morgan · McGraw-Hill
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback

Break through brick walls in your genealogical research "Easy to read, provides clear explanations, examples and is well-illustrated, thus definitely meeting the needs of libraries and individuals seeking a book to guide family historians who are beyond the basics and need help solving...
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The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe

David I. Kertzer · Random House; 1st Edition, 1st Printing edition
Format: Hardcover

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER From National Book Award finalist David I. Kertzer comes the gripping story of Pope Pius XI's secret relations with Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. This groundbreaking work, based on seven years of research in the Vatican and Fascist archives, including reports...
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Age of Opportunity: Lessons from the New Science of Adolescence

Laurence Steinberg · Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

A leading authority draws on new research to explain why the adolescent years are so developmentally crucial, and what we must do to raise happier, more successful kids.Adolescence now lasts longer than ever before. And as world-renowned expert on adolescent psychology Dr. Laurence Steinberg...
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The Art of Invisibility: The World's Most Famous Hacker Teaches You How to Be Safe in the Age of Big Brother and Big Data

Kevin Mitnick · Little
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

Kevin Mitnick, the world's most famous hacker, teaches you easy cloaking and counter-measures for citizens and consumers in the age of Big Brother and Big Data.Like it or not, your every move is being watched and analyzed. Consumer's identities are being stolen, and a person's every step...
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Photoshop CC: Visual QuickStart Guide

Elaine Weinmann · Peachpit Press; 1 edition
Format: Print book

This best-selling guide from authors Elaine Weinmann and Peter Lourekas has been the go-to tutorial and reference book for photographydesign professionals and the textbook of choice in college classrooms for decades. This edition includes their trademark features of clear, concise, step-by-step...
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The Glass Cage: Automation and Us

Nicholas Carr · W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

In The Glass Cage, best-selling author Nicholas Carr digs behind the headlines about factory robots and self-driving cars, wearable computers and digitized medicine, as he explores the hidden costs of granting software dominion over our work and our leisure and reveals something we already...
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Secrets of the Lighthouse: A Novel

Santa Montefiore · Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

"Ellen Trawton is running away from it all - quite literally. She is engaged to marry an aristocratic man she doesn't love, she hates her job, and her mother...well, her mother is not a woman to be crossed. So Ellen escapes to the one place she knows her mother won't follow...
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WordPress For Dummies

Lisa Sabin-Wilson · For Dummies; 6 edition
Format: Paperback

The bestselling WordPress guide, fully updated to cover the 2013 enhancements WordPress has millions of users, and this popular guide has sold more than 105,000 copies in its previous editions. With the newest releases of WordPress, author and WordPress expert Lisa Sabin-Wilson has completely...
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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

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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macOS High Sierra For Dummies

LeVitus · For Dummies
Pages: 480
Format: Paperback

Work, play, connect, and share with the ultimate tour to macOS 'X' macOS 'X' For Dummies is the ultimate tour guide to the Mac operating system, written by Bob "Dr. Mac" LeVitus himself! Whether you're upgrading your trusty old MacBook or venturing into new territory...
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Computers for Seniors: Get Stuff Done in 13 Easy Lessons

Carrie Ewin · No Starch Press
Pages: 250
Format: Print book

Computers for Seniors is a step-by-step guide that will take you all the way from pressing the "On" button on your new computer to being a confident user who can send email to family and friends, shop online safely, read the latest news, watch funny YouTube videos, share cute...
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iMac For Dummies

Mark L Chambers · John Wiley & Sons
Pages: 432
Format: Print book

Take a bite out of your iMac with this bestselling guide Even if you're already in love with your iMac, it helps to have a little guidance to really get the most out of this ultimate all-in-one computer. With loads of updated and brand new content, this new edition of iMac For Dummies...
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Dawn of the New Everything: Encounters with Reality and Virtual Reality

Jaron Lanier · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 351
Format: Hardcover

The father of virtual reality explains its dazzling possibilities by reflecting on his own lifelong relationship with technologyBridging the gap between tech mania and the experience of being inside the human body, Dawn of the New Everything is a look at what it means to be human at a moment...
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