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The Art of Screen Time: How Your Family Can Balance Digital Media and Real Life

ANYA KAMENETZ - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover

"Blending scholarly evidence and the experiences of numerous families, The Art of Screen Time is a well-researched and reassuring guide to raising kids in a world where technology is everywhere." -danah boyd, author of It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked TeensFinally...
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Beginning Programming with Java For Dummies

Barry Burd - For Dummies; 6th edition
Format: 6th Edition

Consider Beginning Programming with Java For Dummies your indispensable guide to learning how to program in one of the most popular programming languages -- Java! Java is an invaluable language to master, as it's widely used for application development, including Android, desktop, and server-side...
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Bitwise: A Life in Code

Markus Witte - Pantheon
Format: Hardcover

An exhilarating crossover between memoir and argument that demonstrates how computers and algorithms shape our understanding of the world and who we are.As we engineer ever-more intricate algorithms to translate our experiences and narrow the gap that divides us from the machine, we willingly...
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CompTIA Linux Study Guide: Exam XK0-005

RICHARD BLUM - Sybex
Format: Paperback

The best-selling, hands-on roadmap to acing the new Linux examIn the newly updated Fifth Edition of CompTIA Linux Study Guide: Exam XK0-005, IT industry veterans and tech education gurus Richard Blum and Christine Bresnahan deliver a concise and practical blueprint to success on the CompTIA...
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Ham Radio For Dummies

H. Ward Silver - For Dummies; 4th edition
Format: 4th Edition

Amateur radio has been a popular pastime for years, and its popularity continues to grow. Ham Radio For Dummies is your guide to everything there is to know about ham radio. This updated edition provides new and additional information on digital mode operating, as well as use of amateur...
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Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control

Stuart J Russell - Penguin Audio
Format: Audiobook

"The most important book on AI this year." (The Guardian) "Mr. Russells exciting book goes deep, while sparkling with dry witticisms." (The Wall Street Journal) "The most important book I have read in quite some time" (Daniel Kahneman) "A must-read"...
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Interaction Design: From Concept to Completion

Jamie Steane - Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Format: Paperback

Interaction Design explores common pitfalls, effective workflows and innovative development techniques in contemporary interaction design by tracking projects from initial idea to the critical and commercial reception of the finished project.The book is divided into six chapters, each focusing...
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The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone

BRIAN MERCHANT - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

We know the iPhone as the device that transformed our world, changing everything from how we talk to each other and do business, to how we exercise, travel, shop, and watch TV. But packed within its slim profile is the fascinating, untold story of scientific, technological, and business...
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The Story of Technology: How We Got Here and What the Future Holds

Daniel M. Gerstein - Prometheus Books
Format: Hardcover

A leading technology expert examines ways to manage the rapid proliferation of technology and come to grips with its pervasive influence.Technology--always a key driver of historical change--is transforming society as never before and at a far more rapid pace. This book takes the reader...
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Superminds: The Surprising Power of People and Computers Thinking Together

THOMAS W MALONE - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

From the founding director of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence comes a fascinating look at the remarkable capacity for intelligence exhibited by groups of people and computers working together. If you're like most people, you probably believe that humans are the most intelligent...
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