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 across a variety of fields - physics, chemistry, biology, technology, and psychology - this book examines how and why we see color; how color relates to light; what the real primary colors are; how biology, language, and culture affect the colors that we see; and much more. Full of clear and elegant infographics, What Is Color? is a must-have for artists and designers, scientists, students, and decorators, and anyone else whose work or play involves color.
Abrams
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9781419734519
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Hardcover
Crash Override
By Quinn, Zoë
You've heard the stories about the dark side of the internet--hackers, #gamergate, anonymous mobs attacking an unlucky victim, and revenge porn--but they remain just that: stories. Surely these things would never happen to you.Zoe Quinn used to feel the same way. She is a video game developer whose ex-boyfriend published a crazed blog post cobbled together from private information, half-truths, and outright fictions, along with a rallying cry to the online hordes to go after her. They answered in the form of a so-called movement known as #gamergate--they hacked her accounts; stole nude photos of her; harassed her family, friends, and colleagues; and threatened to rape and murder her. But instead of shrinking into silence as the online mobs wanted her to, she raised her voice and spoke out against this vicious online culture and for making the internet a safer place for everyone.In the years since #gamergate, Quinn has helped thousands of people with her advocacy and online-abuse crisis resource Crash Override Network. From locking down victims' personal accounts to working with tech companies and lawmakers to inform policy, she has firsthand knowledge about every angle of online abuse, what powerful institutions are (and aren't) doing about it, and how we can protect our digital spaces and selves.Crash Override offers an up-close look inside the controversy, threats, and social and cultural battles that started in the far corners of the internet and have since permeated our online lives. Through her story--as target and as activist--Quinn provides a human look at the ways the internet impacts our lives and culture, along with practical advice for keeping yourself and others safe online.
PublicAffairs
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9781610398084
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Hardcover
Block Wonders
By Kearney, Kirsten
Block Wonders is the ultimate guidebook for seasoned Minecraft players eager to take the game's "creative mode" to the max, presenting more than 30 of the most spectacular buildings, structures, and objects created by master Minecraft builders. This guide includes step-by-step instructions as well as interviews and tips with representations of ancient wonders, modern landmarks, and icons of transportation, as well as fantastic structures and working contraptions. Architectural gems such as the Colosseum, Beijing Stadium, and Taj Mahal are featured alongside gamer favorites like giant floating dragons and incredible panoramas of fantasy worlds. From the pyramids of Giza to a perfect space shuttle replica, these enormous projects are showcased in full color.
ABRAMS
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9781419720161
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Print book
QuickBooks 2013 The Guide
By Capachietti, Leslie
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 Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisor with years of experience supporting and training QuickBooks users this practical resource shows you step by step how to use the software to control your businesses finances process invoices track inventory and manage payroll Get the most from the software and run your small business smoothly and effectively using the proven techniques and time-saving tips inside this authoritative guide to QuickBooks Customize QuickBooks for your business Enter transactions quickly and accurately Manage accounts payable and receivable Monitor and manage inventory Integrate with online banking services Track employee hours and manage payroll Reconcile bank accounts Manage budgets and project cash flow Prepare for tax time Share and secure your QuickBooks data Produce and analyze business reports Make sound business decisions with confidence.
McGraw-Hill Osborne Media; 1 edition
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9780071809344
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Paperback
100 Things We've Lost to the Internet
By Paul, Pamela
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 the fact that nearly every aspect of modern life now takes place in filtered, isolated corners of cyberspace - a space that has slowly subsumed our physical habitats, replacing or transforming the office, our local library, a favorite bar, the movie theater, and the coffee shop where people met one another's gaze from across the room. Even as we've gained the ability to gather without leaving our house, many of the fundamentally human experiences that have sustained us have disappeared.
Crown
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9780593136775
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Hardcover
The Ransomware Hunting Team
By Dudley, Renee
"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 Way and Horse SoldiersA real-life technological thriller about a band of eccentric misfits taking on the biggest cybersecurity threats of our time. Scattered across the world, an elite team of code-cracking techies is working tirelessly on your behalf to thwart the most notorious cyber scourge of our time. You've probably never heard of them. But if you work for a school, a business, a hospital, or a municipal government, especially if its cybersecurity is imperfect, chances are that you're painfully familiar with the group's sworn enemy: ransomware.
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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9780374603304
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Hardcover
Microsoft® Word 2013 QuickSteps
By Matthews, Carole
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 documents, apply templates and themes, use mail merge, add tables and illustrations, use special features such as forms and translation, save Word documents as web pages, and much more. Screenshots with callouts show and explain exactly what you'll see on your computer screen while you're doing a task. This practical, fast-paced guide gets you started in no time! Use these handy guideposts: Shortcuts for accomplishing common tasks Need-to-know facts in concise narrative Helpful reminders or alternate ways of doing things Bonus information related to the topic being covered Errors and pitfalls to avoid .
McGraw-Hill Osborne Media; 3 edition
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9780071805971
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Paperback
iPad for Seniors QuickSteps
By Matthews, Marty
Step-by-Step, Full-Color Graphics!. Written by a senior for seniors, this practical, fast-paced guide helps you get up and running on your iPad right away. Color photos and screenshots with clear instructions make it easy to accomplish everything you want to do.. Follow along and quickly learn how to set up your iPad, navigate the touch screen, use apps and email, and browse the Internet. Find out the best ways to manage photos, video chat with FaceTime, use iTunes and the iBook store, read eDocuments, listen to music, watch movies, play games, and use iCloud. iPad maintenance tips are also included.. The unique, landscape layout of the QuickSteps series displays graphics and explanations side by side, and lays flat so you can easily refer to the book while working on your iPad.. Use these handy guideposts:. Shortcuts for accomplishing common tasks. Personal insights from other seniors. Need-to-know facts in concise narrative. Helpful reminders or alternative ways of doing things. Bonus information related to the topic being covered. Errors and pitfalls to avoid.
McGraw-Hill Osborne Media; 1 edition
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9780071821506
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Paperback
Breaking the Social Media Prism
By Bail, Chris
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, empowers status-seeking extremists, and renders moderates all but invisible. Breaking the Social Media Prism challenges common myths about echo chambers, foreign misinformation campaigns, and radicalizing algorithms, revealing that the solution to political tribalism lies deep inside ourselves.Drawing on innovative online experiments and in-depth interviews with social media users from across the political spectrum, this book explains why stepping outside of our echo chambers can make us more polarized, not less.
What Is Color?
By Eckstut, Arielle
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 across a variety of fields - physics, chemistry, biology, technology, and psychology - this book examines how and why we see color; how color relates to light; what the real primary colors are; how biology, language, and culture affect the colors that we see; and much more. Full of clear and elegant infographics, What Is Color? is a must-have for artists and designers, scientists, students, and decorators, and anyone else whose work or play involves color.
Crash Override
By Quinn, Zoë
You've heard the stories about the dark side of the internet--hackers, #gamergate, anonymous mobs attacking an unlucky victim, and revenge porn--but they remain just that: stories. Surely these things would never happen to you.Zoe Quinn used to feel the same way. She is a video game developer whose ex-boyfriend published a crazed blog post cobbled together from private information, half-truths, and outright fictions, along with a rallying cry to the online hordes to go after her. They answered in the form of a so-called movement known as #gamergate--they hacked her accounts; stole nude photos of her; harassed her family, friends, and colleagues; and threatened to rape and murder her. But instead of shrinking into silence as the online mobs wanted her to, she raised her voice and spoke out against this vicious online culture and for making the internet a safer place for everyone.In the years since #gamergate, Quinn has helped thousands of people with her advocacy and online-abuse crisis resource Crash Override Network. From locking down victims' personal accounts to working with tech companies and lawmakers to inform policy, she has firsthand knowledge about every angle of online abuse, what powerful institutions are (and aren't) doing about it, and how we can protect our digital spaces and selves.Crash Override offers an up-close look inside the controversy, threats, and social and cultural battles that started in the far corners of the internet and have since permeated our online lives. Through her story--as target and as activist--Quinn provides a human look at the ways the internet impacts our lives and culture, along with practical advice for keeping yourself and others safe online.
Block Wonders
By Kearney, Kirsten
Block Wonders is the ultimate guidebook for seasoned Minecraft players eager to take the game's "creative mode" to the max, presenting more than 30 of the most spectacular buildings, structures, and objects created by master Minecraft builders. This guide includes step-by-step instructions as well as interviews and tips with representations of ancient wonders, modern landmarks, and icons of transportation, as well as fantastic structures and working contraptions. Architectural gems such as the Colosseum, Beijing Stadium, and Taj Mahal are featured alongside gamer favorites like giant floating dragons and incredible panoramas of fantasy worlds. From the pyramids of Giza to a perfect space shuttle replica, these enormous projects are showcased in full color.
QuickBooks 2013 The Guide
By Capachietti, Leslie
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 Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisor with years of experience supporting and training QuickBooks users this practical resource shows you step by step how to use the software to control your businesses finances process invoices track inventory and manage payroll Get the most from the software and run your small business smoothly and effectively using the proven techniques and time-saving tips inside this authoritative guide to QuickBooks Customize QuickBooks for your business Enter transactions quickly and accurately Manage accounts payable and receivable Monitor and manage inventory Integrate with online banking services Track employee hours and manage payroll Reconcile bank accounts Manage budgets and project cash flow Prepare for tax time Share and secure your QuickBooks data Produce and analyze business reports Make sound business decisions with confidence.
100 Things We've Lost to the Internet
By Paul, Pamela
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 the fact that nearly every aspect of modern life now takes place in filtered, isolated corners of cyberspace - a space that has slowly subsumed our physical habitats, replacing or transforming the office, our local library, a favorite bar, the movie theater, and the coffee shop where people met one another's gaze from across the room. Even as we've gained the ability to gather without leaving our house, many of the fundamentally human experiences that have sustained us have disappeared.
The Ransomware Hunting Team
By Dudley, Renee
"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 Way and Horse SoldiersA real-life technological thriller about a band of eccentric misfits taking on the biggest cybersecurity threats of our time. Scattered across the world, an elite team of code-cracking techies is working tirelessly on your behalf to thwart the most notorious cyber scourge of our time. You've probably never heard of them. But if you work for a school, a business, a hospital, or a municipal government, especially if its cybersecurity is imperfect, chances are that you're painfully familiar with the group's sworn enemy: ransomware.
Microsoft® Word 2013 QuickSteps
By Matthews, Carole
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 documents, apply templates and themes, use mail merge, add tables and illustrations, use special features such as forms and translation, save Word documents as web pages, and much more. Screenshots with callouts show and explain exactly what you'll see on your computer screen while you're doing a task. This practical, fast-paced guide gets you started in no time! Use these handy guideposts: Shortcuts for accomplishing common tasks Need-to-know facts in concise narrative Helpful reminders or alternate ways of doing things Bonus information related to the topic being covered Errors and pitfalls to avoid .
iPad for Seniors QuickSteps
By Matthews, Marty
Step-by-Step, Full-Color Graphics!. Written by a senior for seniors, this practical, fast-paced guide helps you get up and running on your iPad right away. Color photos and screenshots with clear instructions make it easy to accomplish everything you want to do.. Follow along and quickly learn how to set up your iPad, navigate the touch screen, use apps and email, and browse the Internet. Find out the best ways to manage photos, video chat with FaceTime, use iTunes and the iBook store, read eDocuments, listen to music, watch movies, play games, and use iCloud. iPad maintenance tips are also included.. The unique, landscape layout of the QuickSteps series displays graphics and explanations side by side, and lays flat so you can easily refer to the book while working on your iPad.. Use these handy guideposts:. Shortcuts for accomplishing common tasks. Personal insights from other seniors. Need-to-know facts in concise narrative. Helpful reminders or alternative ways of doing things. Bonus information related to the topic being covered. Errors and pitfalls to avoid.
Breaking the Social Media Prism
By Bail, Chris
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, empowers status-seeking extremists, and renders moderates all but invisible. Breaking the Social Media Prism challenges common myths about echo chambers, foreign misinformation campaigns, and radicalizing algorithms, revealing that the solution to political tribalism lies deep inside ourselves.Drawing on innovative online experiments and in-depth interviews with social media users from across the political spectrum, this book explains why stepping outside of our echo chambers can make us more polarized, not less.
Professional Hackers
By Morkes, Andrew