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How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy

Jenny Odell - Melville House
Format: Hardcover

A galvanizing critique of the forces vying for our attention - and our personal information - that redefines what we think of as productivity, reconnects us with the environment, and reveals all that we've been too distracted to see about ourselves and our worldNothing is harder to do these...
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Protecting Your Children Online: What You Need to Know About Online Threats to Your Children

KIMBERLY ANN MCCABE - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover

As parents, our main job is to protect our children. These days, protection from includes not only the individuals we can see but, also, the individuals that we cannot see - yet who wish to harm our children. And with the growth of social networking and social media parents are often unaware...
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Uncanny Valley: A Memoir

Anna Wiener - MCD
Format: Hardcover

"A definitive document of a world in transition: I won't be alone in returning to Uncanny Valley for clarity and consolation for many years to come." -- Jia Tolentino, author of Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion The prescient, page-turning account of a journey in Silicon...
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Like, Comment, Subscribe: How YouTube Conquered the World

MARK BERGEN - Penguin Random House
Format: Book

The definitive, deeply reported account of YouTube, the company that upended media, culture, industry, and democracy - by a leading tech journalistAcross the world, people watch over a billion hours of video on YouTube every day. The sheer amount of video produced there is beyond comprehension....
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Sandy Hook: An American Tragedy and the Battle for Truth

Elizabeth Williamson - Dutton
Format: Hardcover


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The Ransomware Hunting Team: A Band of Misfits' Improbable Crusade to Save the World from Cybercrime

RENEE DUDLEY - ?Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

"What Michael Lewis did for baseball in Moneyball, Dudley and Golden do brilliantly for the world of ransomware and hackers. Cinematic, big in scope, and meticulously reported, this book is impossible to put down." -- Doug Stanton, New York Times bestselling author of In Harm's...
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Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World

Cade Metz - Dutton
Format: Hardcover

What does it mean to be smart? To be human? What do we really want from life and the intelligence we have, or might create? With deep and exclusive reporting, across hundreds of interviews, New York Times Silicon Valley journalist Cade Metz brings you into the rooms where these questions...
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Professional Hackers

Andrew Morkes - Mason Crest
Format: Library Binding


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Pinterest Kickstart

Heather Morris - McGraw-Hill Osborne Media; 1 edition
Format: Paperback

Full-color, concise coverage of Pinterest—the wildly popular virtual pinboard With Pinterest Kickstart, you can kick back and start enjoying the cool features of the unique social networking site that connects you to other users worldwide based on shared tastes and interests. This...
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Microsoft® Excel® 2013 QuickSteps

John Cronan - McGraw-Hill Osborne Media; 3 edition
Format: Paperback

Full-color, step-by-step guide to the new release of the world’s most popular spreadsheet application Get up and running with Excel 2013 right away--the QuickSteps way. Full-color screenshots on every page with clear instructions make it easy to use the latest release of Microsoft's...
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