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Microsoft 365 in easy steps: Covers Microsoft Office essentials

Michael Price - In Easy Steps Limited
Format: Paperback

Microsoft 365 in easy steps guides you through the essential functions of Microsoft 365 - whether you are new to the Microsoft 365 suite or just upgrading. Covers Microsoft 365 and Office 2019. Microsoft 365 in easy steps will take you through the key features so you can be productive straight...
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Means of Control: How the Hidden Alliance of Tech and Government Is Creating a New American Surveillance State

Byron Tau - Crown
Format: Hardcover

You are being surveilled right now. This sweeping exposé reveals how the U.S. government allied with data brokers, tech companies, and advertisers to monitor us through the phones we carry and the devices in our home.. "A revealing . . . startling . . . timely . . . fascinating, sometimes...
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The Book of Proposition Bets: Using Mathematics to Reveal the Odds of Friendly

Owen O'Shea - Prometheus
Format: Paperback

In the modern world the theory of probability is used extensively in mathematics, science, engineering, medicine and, of course, gambling. A proposition bet is one that involves the use of probability -both estimated and actual -where an individual makes an apparently attractive bet to someone...
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Macs All-In-One For Dummies

Joe Hutsko - For Dummies
Format: Paperback

Your all-in-one guide to the wonderful world of your Mac Are you getting the most from your Mac? Given what's possible, it's pretty unlikely. Whether you're just beginning your journey or are already a seasoned traveler, the six information-packed minibooks included in Macs...
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My iPad mini

Gary Rosenzweig - Que
Format: Paperback

Covers iOS 7 Step-by-step instructions with callouts to iPad mini photos that show you exactly what to do. Help when you run into iPad mini problems or limitations. Tips and Notes to help you get the most from your iPad mini. Full-color, step-by-step tasks walk you through getting and keeping...
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Crash Override: How Gamergate

Zoe? Quinn - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover

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...
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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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The Internet Is Not the Answer

Andrew Keen - Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Hardcover

The Internet, created during the Cold War, has now ushered in one of the greatest shifts in society since the Industrial Revolution. There are many positive ways in which the Internet has contributed to the world, but as a society we are less aware of the Internets deeply negative effects...
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Learn to Program

CHRIS PINE - Pragmatic Bookshelf
Format: Paperback

Its easier to learn how to program a computer than it has ever been before. Now everyone can learn to write programs for themselves - no previous experience is necessary. Chris Pine takes a thorough, but lighthearted approach that teaches you the fundamentals of computer programming, with...
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Beginning SQL Queries: From Novice to Professional

Clare Churcher - Apress
Format: Print book

Clare Churcher's Beginning SQL Queries is your guide to mastering the lingua franca of the database industry: the SQL language. Good knowledge of SQL is crucial to anyone working with databases, because it is with SQL that you retrieve data, manipulate data, and generate business results....
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