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Listenable: The Content and Delivery System to Set Your Podcast Apart

Bert Weiss - Panta Press
Format: Paperback

There is great news and bad news when it comes to podcasting.The great news? Anybody can start a podcast. The bad news? Anybody can start a podcast. And it seems as if everyone is starting a podcast.A simple Google search reveals countless guides about how to start a podcast. From equipment...
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MLA Guide to Digital Literacy

Ellen C. Carillo - Modern Language Association
Format: Paperback

Updated edition providing students with hands-on strategies for digital literacy.The second edition of this best-selling classroom guide helps students understand why digital literacy is a crucial skill for their education, future careers, and participation in democracy. Offering practical...
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Gray Day: My Undercover Mission to Expose America's First Cyber Spy

Eric O'Neill - Crown
Format: Hardcover

A cybersecurity expert and former FBI "ghost" tells the thrilling story of how he helped take down notorious FBI mole Robert Hanssen, the first Russian cyber spy.Eric O'Neill was only twenty-six when he was tapped for the case of a lifetime: a one-on-one undercover investigation...
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Girls Can Kiss Now: Essays

Jill Gutowitz - Atria Books
Format: Paperback


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The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity

Amy Webb - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover

A call-to-arms about the broken nature of artificial intelligence, and the powerful corporations that are turning the human-machine relationship on its head.We like to think that we are in control of the future of "artificial" intelligence. The reality, though, is that we--the...
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A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains

Max Solomon Bennett - HarperAudio
Format: Hardcover

A Brief History of Brains has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher.
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200 Ways to Protect Your Privacy: Simple Ways to Prevent Hacks and Protect Your Privacy--On and Offline

Jeni Rogers - Adams Media
Format: Paperback

Discover simple strategies for protecting your personal and confidential information on and offline with this essential and easy-to-understand guide. We all know that the internet can serve as a hotbed for identity theft. But it isn't the only place where your privacy can be breached....
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The Sounds of Life: How Digital Technology Is Bringing Us Closer to the Worlds of Animals and Plants

Karen Bakker - Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover

An amazing journey into the hidden realm of nature's soundsThe natural world teems with remarkable conversations, many beyond human hearing range. Scientists are using groundbreaking digital technologies to uncover these astonishing sounds, revealing vibrant communication among our fellow...
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Algorithms

Panos Louridas - The MIT Press
Format: Paperback

Digital technology runs on algorithms, sets of instructions that describe how to do something efficiently. Application areas range from search engines to tournament scheduling, DNA sequencing, and machine learning. Arguing that every educated person today needs to have some understanding...
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Hacking Life: Systematized Living and Its Discontents

Joseph M. Reagle Jr. - The MIT Press
Format: Hardcover

In an effort to keep up with a world of too much, life hackers sometimes risk going too far.Life hackers track and analyze the food they eat, the hours they sleep, the money they spend, and how they're feeling on any given day. They share tips on the most efficient ways to tie shoelaces...
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