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Stonewalled: My Fight for Truth Against the Forces of Obstruction, Intimidation, and Harassment in Obama's Washington.

Sharyl Attkisson · Broadside Books
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

Seasoned CBS reporter Sharyl Attkisson reveals how she has been electronically surveilled while digging deep into the Obama Administration and its scandals, and offers an incisive critique of her industry and the shrinking role of investigative journalism in today's media.Americans...
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My iPhone

BRAD MISER · Que Publishing
Pages: 736
Format: Paperback

Covers all iPhones capable of running iOS 11. Step-by-step instructions with callouts to iPhone images that show you exactly what to do. Help when you run into iPhone problems or limitations. Tips and Notes to help you get the most from your iPhone. Full-color, step-by-step...
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Photoshop CC For Dummies

Peter Bauer · For Dummies
Pages: 448
Format: Paperback

The fast and easy way to grasp Photoshop CC essentials Photoshop is the gold standard when it comes to photo and image editing tools. But unless you've ever taken a class or gotten help from a Photoshop guru, you may find yourself a bit confused on where to start and how to get things...
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Advanced Genealogy Research Techniques

George G. Morgan · McGraw-Hill Education
Pages: 206
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 Boy Who Could Change the World: The Writings of Aaron Swartz

Aaron Swartz · The New Press
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

In his too-short life, Aaron Swartz reshaped the Internet, questioned our assumptions about intellectual property, and touched all of us in ways that we may not even realize. His tragic suicide in 2013 at the age of twenty-six after being aggressively prosecuted for copyright infringement...
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The Forgers

Bradford Morrow · Mysterious Press
Pages: 242
Format: Hardcover

From critically acclaimed novelist Bradford Morrow, called "a mesmerizing storyteller who casts an irresistible spell" by Joyce Carol Oates and "one of America's major literary voices" by Publishers Weekly, comes The Forgers, a richly told literary thriller about the dark...
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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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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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The Return of George Washington: 1783-1789

Edward Larson · William Morrow; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Edward J. Larson recovers a crucially important—yet almost always overlooked—chapter of George Washingtons life, revealing how Washington saved the United States by coming out of retirement to lead the Constitutional Convention and serve as our first...
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The End of Absence: Reclaiming What We’ve Lost in a World of Constant Connection

Michael Harris · Current
Format: Hardcover

Soon enough nobody will remember life before the Internet What does this unavoidable fact mean For future generations it wont mean anything very obvious They will be so immersed in online life that questions about the Internets basic purpose or meaning will vanish But those of us who have...
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Access 2013 All-in-One For Dummies

Alison Barrows · John Wiley & Sons Inc
Pages: 760
Format: Paperback

Get started with the new Access 2013 with this impressive all-in-one reference! Microsoft Access allows you to store, organize, view, analyze, and share data; the new release enables you to build even more powerful, custom database solutions that integrate with the web and enterprise data...
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Networking All-in-One For Dummies

Doug Lowe · John Wiley & Sons, 2015.
Pages: 912
Format: Print book

Are you ready to build a network, but aren't sure where to start? Networking All-In-One For Dummies, 6th Edition walks you through the basics. With nine self-contained minibooks that feature the latest updates on networking trends, including revised content for Windows 10 and Windows...
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Unaccountable: How Elite Power Brokers Corrupt our Finances, Freedom, and Security

Janine Wedel · Pegasus; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

A groundbreaking book that challenges Americans to reevaluate our views on how a new and more sophisticated style of corruption and private interests have infiltrated every level of society.From the Tea Party to Occupy Wall Street, however divergent their political views, these groups seem...
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QuickBooks 2014 For Dummies

Stephen L. Nelson · For Dummies; 1 edition
Format: Print book

Take control of the books and keep your finances in the black with QuickBooks and For Dummies With over four million of his books in print, CPA and perennial bestselling For Dummies author Stephen L. Nelson knows how to make QuickBooks and basic accounting easy for the rest of us. Small...
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Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, Yosemite Edition

David Pogue · O'Reilly Media; 1 edition
Format: Print book

What makes Windows refugees decide to get a Mac? Enthusiastic friends? The Apple Stores? Great-looking laptops? A halo effect from the popularity of iPhones and iPads? The absence of viruses and spyware? The freedom to run Windows on a Mac? In any case, theres never been a better time to switch...
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