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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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Breaking the Social Media Prism: How to Make Our Platforms Less Polarizing

Chris Bail - Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover

In an era of increasing social isolation, platforms like Facebook and Twitter are among the most important tools we have to understand each other. We use social media as a mirror to decipher our place in society but, as Chris Bail explains, it functions more like a prism that distorts our identities,...
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100 Things We've Lost to the Internet

Pamela Paul - Crown
Format: Hardcover

Remember all those ingrained habits, cherished ideas, beloved objects, and stubborn preferences from the pre-Internet age? They're gone.To some of those things we can say good riddance. But many we miss terribly. Whatever our emotional response to this departed realm, we are faced with...
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The Disney Revolt: The Great Labor War of Animation's Golden Age

Jake S. Friedman - ?Chicago Review Press
Format: Hardcover

An essential piece of Disney history has been unreported for eighty years. Soon after the birth of Mickey Mouse, one animator raised the Disney Studio far beyond Walt's expectations. That animator also led a union war that almost destroyed it. Art Babbitt animated for the Disney studio...
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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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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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Microsoft® Word 2013 QuickSteps

Carole Matthews - McGraw-Hill Osborne Media; 3 edition
Format: Paperback

Step-by-Step, Full-Color Graphics! Get up and running on Microsoft Word 2013 right away--the QuickSteps way. Full-color screenshots and clear instructions make it easy to start using the latest release of the leading word processing application. Take control and learn how to create and format...
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What Is Color?: 50 Questions and Answers on the Science of Color

Arielle Eckstut - Abrams
Format: Hardcover

A comprehensive illustrated exploration of the fascinating science of color Arielle and Joann Eckstut, authors of The Secret Language of Color, offer a thorough, readable, and highly visual exploration of the science of color. Organized by 50 of the most essential questions about color...
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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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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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