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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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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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Professional Hackers

Andrew Morkes - Mason Crest
Format: Library Binding


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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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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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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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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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QuickBooks 2013 The Guide

Leslie Capachietti - McGraw-Hill Osborne Media; 1 edition
Format: Paperback

Master the bestselling financial software Set up and maintain a complete efficient small business financial management system with ease QuickBooks The Guide is filled with best practices for handling essential business tasks and customizing QuickBooks for the way you work Written by an Advanced...
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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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