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In Defense of Elitism: Why I'm Better Than You and You're Better Than Someone Who Didn't Buy This Book

Joel Stein - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover

The night Donald Trump won the presidency, our author Joel Stein, Thurber Prize finalist and former staff writer for Time Magazine, instantly knew why. The main reason wasn't economic anxiety or racism. It was that he was anti-elitist. Hillary Clinton represented Wall Street, academics,...
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A Practical Guide to Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (7th Edition)

Mark G. Sobell - Prentice Hall; 7 edition
Format: Paperback

“I have found this book to be a very useful classroom text, as well as a great Linux resource. It teaches Linux using a ground-up approach that gives students the chance to progress with their skills and grow into the Linux world. I have often pointed to this book when asked to recommend...
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iPhone for Seniors in easy steps: Covers iOS 11

NICK VANDOME - In Easy Steps Limited
Format: Paperback

In full colour and straightforward, jargon-free language, iPhone for Seniors in easy steps, 4th edition, gives you all the information you need to get up and running with your new iPhone and quickly feel you are in control of it.iPhone for Seniors in easy steps, 4th editioncovers everything...
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Raising Humans in a Digital World: Helping Kids Build a Healthy Relationship with Technology

Diana Graber - AMACOM
Format: Paperback

Sexting, cyberbullying, revenge porn, online predators ... all of these potential threats can tempt parents to snatch the smartphone or tablet right out of their children's hands. While avoidance might eliminate the dangers, that approach also means your child misses out on technology's...
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The Pragmatic Programmer: your journey to mastery, 20th Anniversary Edition

David Thomas - Addison-Wesley Professional
Format: Hardcover

"One of the most significant books in my life." - Obie Fernandez, Author, The Rails Way "Twenty years ago, the first edition of The Pragmatic Programmer completely changed the trajectory of my career. This new edition could do the same for yours." - Mike Cohn, Author...
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Excel 2013 in Easy Steps

Michael Price - In Easy Steps Limited; 2013 Edition edition
Format: Paperback

Excel 2013 in easy steps shows you how to quickly get to grips with the new features of Microsoft’s latest version of this popular spreadsheet application. Excel 2013 brings more intuitive ways to explore, analyze and display your data, and simplifies sharing and collaborating using...
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Tribe of Hackers: Cybersecurity Advice from the Best Hackers in the World

Marcus J Carey - Independently published
Format: Paperback

There are already hundreds of thousands of cybersecurity professionals and according to some sources, there is a shortage of several more hundreds of thousands. Tribe of Hackers wants to change that. We asked for industry, career, and personal advice from 70 cybersecurity luminaries who are ready...
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QuickBooks 2018 For Dummies

Stephen L. Nelson - For Dummies
Format: Paperback

The perennial bestseller - now in a new edition for QuickBooks 2018 QuickBooks 2018 For Dummies is here to make it easier than ever to familiarize yourself with the latest version of the software. It shows you step by step how to build the perfect budget, simplify tax return preparation,...
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WordPress Absolute Beginner's Guide

Tris Hussey - Que Publishing; 1 edition
Format: Book

More than 70 million websites and blogs run on WordPress its the worlds 1 web development tool. Now, you can make the most of WordPress without becoming a technical expert. WordPress Absolute Beginners Guide is the fastest way to get comfortable and productive with WordPress and its most...
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Microsoft Project 2019 For Dummies

Cynthia Snyder Dionisio - For Dummies
Format: Paperback

Keep projects on track Microsoft Project 2019 is a powerhouse project management, portfolio management, and resource management tool. Whether you're a full-time project manager or manage projects as part of a larger set of duties, Microsoft Project 2019 For Dummies will get you thinking...
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Knock em Dead Social Networking: For Job Search and Professional Success

Martin Yate CPC - Adams Media
Format: Paperback

Network your way to success!. New York Times bestselling author Martin Yate has helped millions of job seekers land the job they want. Now, he shows you how to use his proven social networking strategies to build your brand and market your skills across an ever-growing network. Today, most...
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Office 2010 For Dummies, Book + DVD Bundle

Wallace Wang - For Dummies; 1 edition
Format: Paperback

A value-priced book-and-DVD bundle for getting started with the latest release of Microsoft Office Eager to harness the power of Office 2010? Then this is the perfect book-and-DVD package for you! Featuring the enormously popular Office For Dummies book, the bundle also includes a must-have...
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SharePoint 2019 For Dummies

Ken Withee - For Dummies
Format: Paperback

All you need to know about SharePoint Online and SharePoint Server 2019 SharePoint is an enterprise portal server living under the Microsoft Office umbrella. It can be used as a local installation (on-premises) or an online service. The SharePoint Online service comes bundled with Office...
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SQL in 24 Hours, Sams Teach Yourself

Ryan Stephens - Sams Publishing
Format: Paperback

In just 24 sessions of one hour or less, you'll learn how to use SQL to build effective databases, efficiently retrieve your data, and manage everything from performance to security! Using this book's straightforward, step-by-step approach, you'll learn hands-on through practical examples....
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Breaking News: The Remaking of Journalism and Why It Matters Now

ALAN RUSBRIDGER - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

An urgent account of the revolution that has upended the news business, written by one of the most accomplished journalists of our timeTechnology has radically altered the news landscape. Once-powerful newspapers have lost their clout or been purchased by owners with particular agendas....
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QuickBooks 2019 For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech))

Stephen L Nelson - For Dummies
Format: Paperback

The bestselling guide to QuickBooks - now in a new editionQuickBooks 2019 For Dummies is here to make it easier than ever to familiarize yourself with the latest version of the software. It shows you step by step how to build the perfect budget, simplify tax return preparation, manage inventory,...
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Instagram For Dummies

Jenn Herman - For Dummies
Format: Paperback

Go from Instagram newbie to star! Instagram is the fastest-growing social network in the world, soaring from 500 million to 1 billion active users in just two years. Users flock to the site thanks to its simplicity and use of the most popular social media features -- image and video sharing,...
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Programming Clojure

ALEX MILLER - Pragmatic Bookshelf
Format: Paperback

Drowning in unnecessary complexity, unmanaged state, and tangles of spaghetti code? In the best tradition of Lisp, Clojure gets out of your way so you can focus on expressing simple solutions to hard problems. Clojure cuts through complexity by providing a set of composable tools--immutable...
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The Secret Life: Three True Stories of the Digital Age

Andrew O'Hagan - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

A trio of reported essays exploring identity and the InternetThe slippery online ecosystem is the perfect breeding ground for identities: true, false, and in between. The Internet shorthand IRL -- "in real life" -- now seems nave. We no longer question the reality of online experiences...
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Guac Is Extra But So Am I: The Reluctant Adult's Handbook

Sarah Solomon - powerHouse Books
Format: Hardcover

Navigating the landscape of young adulthood is fraught with challenges big, small, and existential that leave even the best of us screaming internally. Guac Is Extra But So Am I: The Reluctant Adult's Handbook explains the realities of life people expect you to know - but aren't...
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Cult of the Dead Cow: How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the World

Joseph Menn - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover

The shocking untold story of the elite secret society of hackers fighting to protect our privacy, our freedom -- even democracy itselfCult of the Dead Cow is the tale of the oldest, most respected, and most famous American hacking group of all time. Though until now it has remained...
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Effective Python: 59 Specific Ways to Write Better Python

Brett Slatkin - Addison-Wesley Professional; 1 edition
Format: Print book

Its easy to start writing code with Python thats why the language is so immensely popular. However, Python has unique strengths, charms, and expressivity that can be hard to grasp at first -- as well as hidden pitfalls that can easily trip you up if you arent aware of them. Effective Python...
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Future Histories: What Ada Lovelace, Tom Paine, and the Paris Commune Can Teach Us About Digital Technology

Lizzie O'Shea - Verso
Format: Hardcover

A highly engaging tour through progressive history in the service of emancipating our digital tomorrow.When we talk about technology we always talk about tomorrow and the future -- which makes it hard to figure out how to even get there. In Future Histories, public interest lawyer...
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C# Programming in easy steps

Mike McGrath - In Easy Steps
Format: Print book

C# Programming in easy steps will teach you to code applications and demonstrates every aspect of the C# language that you will need to produce professional programming results. Its examples provide clear syntax-highlighted code showing C# language basics including variables, arrays, logic,...
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The Players Ball: A Genius, a Con Man, and the Secret History of the Internet's Rise

David Kushner - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

A Wild West look at the early days of the internet - the incredible battle between the founder of Match.com and the con man who swindled him out of the online domain name Sex.com in an all-out war for control over the fuel that still powers the online world to this day: love and lust.In...
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HBR's 10 Must Reads on Women and Leadership

Harvard Business Review - Harvard Business Review Press
Format: Paperback

What will it take to create a more gender-balanced workplace?If you read nothing else on leadership and gender at work, read these 10 articles by experts in the field. We've combed through hundreds of articles in the Harvard Business Review archive and selected the most important ones...
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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power

Shoshana Zuboff - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover

The challenges to humanity posed by the digital future, the first detailed examination of the unprecedented form of power called "surveillance capitalism," and the quest by powerful corporations to predict and control our behavior.Shoshana Zuboff's interdisciplinary breadth and depth...
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Live Work Work Work Die: A Journey into the Savage Heart of Silicon Valley

Corey Pein - Metropolitan Books
Format: Hardcover

A scathing, sardonic exploration of Silicon Valley tech culture, laying bare the greed, hubris, and retrograde politics of an industry that aspires to radically transform society for its own benefitAt the height of the startup boom, journalist Corey Pein set out for Silicon Valley with...
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Computers For Seniors For Dummies

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Format: Paperback

The bestselling guide - now in a new edition A computer provides a great resource for learning new things and keeping in touch with family and friends, but it may seem intimidating at first. The bestselling Computers For Seniors For Dummies is here to help the 50 set conquer and overcome...
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Breaking and Entering: The Extraordinary Story of a Hacker Called "Alien"

Jeremy N. Smith - Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

This taut, true thriller dives into a dark world that touches us all, as seen through the brilliant, breakneck career of an extraordinary hacker - a woman known only as Alien. When she arrived at MIT in the 1990s, Alien was quickly drawn to the school's tradition of highrisk physical trespassing:...
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WordPress All-In-One For Dummies

Lisa Sabin-Wilson - For Dummies
Format: Paperback

Set up your WordPress site today! WordPress is a state-of-the-art blog publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. The latest version of WordPress.org will be replaced in the fall of 2018 with WordPress 5.0. This will include a major change with the addition...
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The Wrong Kind of Woman: Dismantling the Gods of Hollywood

McDougall Jones, Naomi - Beacon Press
Format: Hardcover

A brutally honest look at the systemic exclusion of women in film--an industry with massive cultural influence--and how, in response, women are making space in cinema for their voices to be heard.Generation after generation, women have faced the devastating reality that Hollywood is a system...
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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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Scratch by Example: Programming for All Ages

Eduardo Vlieg - Apress
Format: Paperback

This is a book about learning the Scratch language so that you can use it in teaching and other instructional situations. The book explains the visual nature of the language, showing you how to write programs by dragging and dropping visual blocks representing common compute operations.
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Computers for Seniors: Get Stuff Done in 13 Easy Lessons

Carrie Ewin - No Starch Press
Format: Print book

Computers for Seniors is a step-by-step guide that will take you all the way from pressing the "On" button on your new computer to being a confident user who can send email to family and friends, shop online safely, read the latest news, watch funny YouTube videos, share cute...
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Left to Their Own Devices: How Digital Natives Are Reshaping the American Dream

Julie M. Albright - Prometheus Books
Format: Hardcover

A sociologist explores the many ways that digital natives' interaction with technology has changed their relationship with people, places, jobs, and other stabilizing structures and created a new way of life that is at odds with the American Dream of past generations.Digital natives...
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How the Internet Happened: From Netscape to the iPhone

Brian McCullough - Liveright
Format: Hardcover

Tech-guru Brian McCullough delivers a rollicking history of the internet, why it exploded, and how it changed everything.The internet was never intended for you, opines Brian McCullough in this lively narrative of an era that utterly transformed everything we thought we knew about technology....
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Python for Data Science For Dummies

John Paul Mueller - For Dummies
Format: Paperback

The fast and easy way to learn Python programming and statistics Python is a general-purpose programming language created in the late 1980s - and named after Monty Python - that's used by thousands of people to do things from testing microchips at Intel, to powering Instagram, to building...
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Samsung Galaxy S6 for Dummies

Bill Hughes - For Dummies; 1 edition
Format: Print book

Explore the capabilities of your Samsung Galaxy S 6 with this definitive guide! Learning to use a new phone can be both difficult and frustrating. With confusing documentation and baffling support, the references provided by phone manufacturers can be intimidating. Enter Samsung Galaxy...
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HTML, CSS, and JavaScript All in One: Covering HTML5, CSS3, and ES6, Sams Teach Yourself

Julie C. Meloni - Sams Publishing
Format: Paperback

A solid understanding of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript -- and how they work together -- is vital to any kind of contemporary web development. And these core technologies are only growing in importance as contemporary web development moves away from a reliance on proprietary technologies like...
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Teach Yourself VISUALLY Windows 8.1

Paul McFedries - Visual
Format: Paperback

A practical guide for visual learners eager to get started with Windows 8.1 If you learn more quickly when you can see how things are done, this Visual guide is the easiest way to get up and running on Windows 8.1. It covers more than 150 essential Windows tasks, using full-color screen...
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My Social Media for Seniors

Michael Miller - Que Publishing
Format: Paperback

My Social Media for Seniors Step-by-step instructions for the tasks you care about most Large, full-color, close-up photos show you exactly what to do Common-sense help whenever you run into problems Tips and notes to help you along the way Learn how to get the most out of social...
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Teach Yourself VISUALLY Samsung Galaxy S6

Guy Hart-Davis - Visual
Format: Hardcover

Your visual guide to unlocking the full potential of the Samsung GalaxyTeach Yourself VISUALLY Samsung Galaxy is your step-by-step, visual guide to everything your new phone has to offer. With expert guidance from veteran technology author Guy Hart-Davis, it offers clear, concise instructions...
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Adobe Acrobat DC Classroom in a Book

Lisa Fridsma - Adobe Press
Format: Paperback

Adobe Acrobat DC Classroom in a Book, Third Edition, is the most thorough and comprehensive way for you to learn how to reliably create, edit, share, and sign PDF documents and forms with Adobe Acrobat DC. Each of the 13 lessons in this step-by-step, project-based guide contains a project...
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Adobe After Effects CC Classroom in a Book

Lisa Fridsma - Adobe Press
Format: Paperback

Creative professionals seeking the fastest, easiest, most comprehensive way to learn Adobe After Effects CC (2019 release) choose Adobe After Effects CC Classroom in a Book (2019 release) from Adobe Press. The 15 project-based lessons in this book show users step-by-step the key techniques...
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Talk to Me: How Voice Computing Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Think

James Vlahos - Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

The next great technological disruption is coming The titans of Silicon Valley are racing to build the last, best computer that the world will ever need. They know that whoever successfully creates it will revolutionize our relationship with technology - and make billions of dollars in the process....
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Office 2010 For Dummies

Wallace Wang - For Dummies; 1 edition
Format: Print book

The latest edition of one of the bestselling Microsoft Office books of all time!Spend less time figuring out Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Access and more time working on actual projects with this new edition of Office 2010 For Dummies. Filled with straightforward, friendly instruction,...
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The Linux Command Line, 2nd Edition: A Complete Introduction

William E. Shotts - No Starch Press
Format: Paperback

You've experienced the shiny, point-and-click surface of your Linux computer--now dive below and explore its depths with the power of the command line.The Linux Command Line takes you from your very first terminal keystrokes to writing full programs in Bash, the most popular Linux shell...
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Outnumbered: From Facebook and Google to Fake News and Filter-bubbles The Algorithms That Control Our Lives

David Sumpter - Bloomsbury Sigma
Format: Hardcover

Outnumbered is a journey to the dark side of mathematics, from how it dictates our social media activities to our travel routes. Algorithms are running our society, and as Facebook's Cambridge Analytica scandal has revealed, we don't even realize how our data has been used against...
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The Savage Truth on Money

Terry Savage - Wiley
Format: Paperback

Smart strategies for taking control of your money from bestselling author and personal finance expert Terry Savage -- the new, fully updated third edition. The Savage Truths on Money are time-tested, but new technologies and techniques make it easier and more profitable to make your money...
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Java: A Beginner's Guide, Seventh Edition

Herbert Schildt - McGraw-Hill Education
Format: Paperback

Up-to-Date, Essential Java Programming Skills -- Made Easy!Fully updated for Java Platform, Standard Edition 9 (Java SE 9) , Java: A Beginner's Guide, Seventh Edition, gets you started programming in Java right away. Bestselling programming author Herb Schildt begins with the basics,...
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Python Crash Course, 2nd Edition

Eric Matthes - No Starch Press
Format: Paperback

Second edition of the best selling Python book in the world. A fast-paced, no-nonsense guide to programming in Python. This book teaches beginners the basics of programming in Python with a focus on real projects.This is the second edition of the best selling Python book in the world. Python...
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