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She Memes Well: Essays

Quinta Brunson - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

Quinta Brunson is a master at breaking the internet. Before having any traditional background in media, her humorous videos were the first to go viral on Instagram's platform. From there, Brunson's wryly observant POV helped cement her status in the comedy world at large, with roles...
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Modeling and Simulation in Python

ALLEN DOWNEY - No Starch Press
Format: Hardcover

Modeling and Simulation in Python teaches readers how to analyze real-world scenarios using the Python programming language, requiring no more than a background in high school math.Modeling and Simulation in Python is a thorough but easy-to-follow introduction to physical modeling - that...
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Swift Programming in easy steps: Develop iOS apps

Darryl Bartlett - In Easy Steps Limited
Format: Paperback

Swift Programming in easy steps teaches programming novices the skills required to create their own Apple Apps, whilst assisting programmers to gain new skills.For anyone seeking to discover the easiest way to create apps for Apple devices.
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Wild Minds: The Artists and Rivalries That Inspired the Golden Age of Animation

Reid Mitenbuler
Format: Hardcover

In 1911, famed cartoonist Winsor McCay debuted one of the first animated cartoons, based on his sophisticated newspaper strip "Little Nemo in Slumberland," itself inspired by Freud's recent research on dreams. McCay is largely forgotten today, but he unleashed an art form,...
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Easy OS X Mavericks

Kate Binder - Que
Format: Paperback

Easy Mac OS X is the perfect companion for everyone who's bought a new Macintosh with the new OS X pre-installed, every Mac user who's upgrading to the newest version of OS X, and for the many new Mac users who've just switched from Windows. This full-color, utterly simple,...
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Terms of Service: Social Media and the Price of Constant Connection

Jacob Silverman - Harper
Format: Hardcover

Social networking has grown into a staple of modern society, but its continued evolution is becoming increasingly detrimental to our lives. Shifts in communication and privacy are affecting us more than we realize or understand. Terms of Service crystalizes this current moment in technology...
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The Book of GIMP: A Complete Guide to Nearly Everything

Olivier Lecarme - Oreilly & Associates Inc
Format: Paperback

GIMP is a free alternative to Adobe Photoshop with tons of professional-grade features. But with so many powerful tools and menu options, GIMP can be difficult to master. Whether you're struggling to get started or trying to master some of GIMP's more complex features, you'll find the answers...
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The Darkening Web: The War for Cyberspace

ALEXANDER KLIMBURG - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

No single invention of the last half century has changed the way we live now as much as the Internet. Alexander Klimburg was a member of the generation for whom it was a utopian ideal turned reality: a place where ideas, information, and knowledge could be shared and new freedoms found...
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Learn to Program by Solving Problems

Daniel Zingaro
Format: Paperback

Teaches readers how to use Python to solve short, situational problems (for example, how to predict when a gambler will run out of money while playing slot machines; how to create a program to track cell phone data usage; how to set up a system of identifying the popularity of berths in a parking...
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Talking to Robots: Tales from Our Human-Robot Futures

David Ewing Duncan - Dutton
Format: Hardcover

Award-winning journalist David Ewing Duncan considers 24 visions of possible human-robot futures - Incredible scenarios from Teddy Bots to Warrior Bots, and Politician Bots to Sex Bots - Grounded in real technologies and possibilities and inspired by our imagination. What robot and AI systems...
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