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Dawn of the New Everything: Encounters with Reality and Virtual Reality

Jaron Lanier - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover

The father of virtual reality explains its dazzling possibilities by reflecting on his own lifelong relationship with technologyBridging the gap between tech mania and the experience of being inside the human body, Dawn of the New Everything is a look at what it means to be human...
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Excel Formulas & Functions For Dummies

Ken Bluttman - For Dummies
Format: Paperback

Grab these Excel formulas and functions to make your life easier! Are you intimidated by major financial choices, like which loan to get or how to grow your savings? Don't worry - we all are! But Excel Formulas & Functions For Dummies, 4th Edition can take some of the pain out of the data...
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Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now

JARON LANIER - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover

A timely call-to-arms from a Silicon Valley pioneer.You might have trouble imagining life without your social media accounts, but virtual reality pioneer Jaron Lanier insists that we're better off without them. In his important book, Lanier, who participates in no social media, offers powerful...
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The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect

Judea Pearl - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover

How the study of causality revolutionized science and the world"Correlation is not causation." This mantra, chanted by scientists for more than a century, has led to a virtual prohibition on causal talk. Today, that taboo is dead. The causal revolution, instigated by Judea Pearl...
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PCs For Dummies

Dan Gookin - For Dummies
Format: Paperback

The bestselling PC reference on the planet - now available in its 13th edition Completely updated to cover the latest technology and software, the 13th edition of PCs For Dummies tackles using a computer in friendly, human terms. Focusing on the needs of the beginning computer user, while...
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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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Data for the People: How to Make Our Post-Privacy Economy Work for You

Andreas Weigend - Basic Books
Format: Print book

Every time we Google something, Facebook someone, Uber somewhere, or even just turn on a light, we create data that businesses collect and use to make decisions about us. In many ways this has improved our lives, yet, we as individuals do not benefit from this wealth of data as much as we could....
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Learning Python, 5th Edition

Mark Lutz - O'Reilly Media; Fifth Edition edition
Format: Paperback

Get a comprehensive, in-depth introduction to the core Python language with this hands-on book. Based on author Mark Lutz’s popular training course, this updated fifth edition will help you quickly write efficient, high-quality code with Python. It’s an ideal way to begin, whether...
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Get going with Amazon Echo and Alexa in easy steps

NICK VANDOME - In Easy Steps Limited
Format: Paperback

The days of only being able to search for items on computers using text searches are long gone: voice search is rapidly becoming one of the most popular ways to find content on computing devices and the web. One of the leaders in this area is the Amazon Echo: a high-quality speaker which...
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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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The Fourth Age: Smart Robots, Conscious Computers, and the Future of Humanity

Byron Reese - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover

As we approach a great turning point in history when technology is poised to redefine what it means to be human, The Fourth Age offers fascinating insight into AI, robotics, and their extraordinary implications for our species.In The Fourth Age, Byron Reese makes the case...
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The Art of Invisibility: The World's Most Famous Hacker Teaches You How to Be Safe in the Age of Big Brother and Big Data

Kevin Mitnick - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

Be online without leaving a trace.Your every step online is being tracked and stored, and your identity literally stolen. Big companies and big governments want to know and exploit what you do, and privacy is a luxury few can afford or understand.In this explosive yet practical book, Kevin...
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Office 365 For Dummies

KEN WITHEE ROSEMARIE REED JENNIFER WITHEE - For Dummies
Format: Paperback

Everything you need to get productive in the Cloud with Office 365 With 70 million users worldwide, Microsoft Office 365 combines the familiar Office desktop suite with cloud-based versions of Microsoft's next-generation communications and collaboration services. It offers many benefits...
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Office 2019 For Dummies

WALLACE WANG - For Dummies
Format: Paperback

Now updated and revised to cover the latest features of Microsoft Office 2019The world's leading suite of business productivity software, Microsoft Office helps users complete common business tasks, including word processing, email, presentations, data management and analysis, and much...
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C Programming Absolute Beginner's Guide

Dean Miller - Que Publishing; 3 edition
Format: Paperback

Updated for C11 Write powerful C programswithout becoming a technical expert! This book is the fastest way to get comfortable with C, one incredibly clear and easy step at a time. Youll learn all the basics how to organize programs, store and display data, work with variables,...
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My Samsung Galaxy S 4

Steve Schwartz - Que Publishing; 1 edition
Format: Paperback

Step-by-step instructions with callouts to Samsung Galaxy S 4 photos that show you exactly what to do. Help when you run into Samsung Galaxy S 4 problems or limitations. Tips and Notes to help you get the most from your Samsung Galaxy S 4. Full-color, step-by-step tasks walk you through...
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Possible Minds: Twenty-Five Ways of Looking at AI

John Brockman - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

Science world luminary John Brockman assembles twenty-five of the most important scientific minds, people who have been thinking about the field artificial intelligence for most of their careers, for an unparalleled round-table examination about mind, thinking, intelligence and what it means...
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3D Printing with Autodesk 123D, Tinkercad, and MakerBot

Lydia Cline - McGraw-Hill Education TAB; 1 edition
Format: Paperback

Master the art of 3D printing with step-by-step tutorials and DIY projects Are you ready to join the new industrial revolution? 3D Printing with Autodesk 123D, Tinkercad, and MakerBot reveals how to turn your ideas into physical products that you can use or sell! You'll learn how to operate...
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Windows 8 and Office 2013 For Dummies, Book 2 DVD Bundle

Andy Rathbone - John Wiley & Sons
Format: DVD video

An ideal starting point for Windows 8 and Office 2013! In this value-priced portable book-and-two DVD video training package, veteran and bestselling authors Andy Rathbone and Wallace Wang provide you with everything you need to know to tackle the basics in Windows 8 and Office 2013. Featuring...
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Python Programming for the Absolute Beginner, 3rd Edition

Michael Dawson - Cengage Learning PTR; 3rd edition
Format: Paperback

If you are new to programming with Python and are looking for a solid introduction, this is the book for you. Developed by computer science instructors, books in the "for the absolute beginner" series teach the principles of programming through simple game creation. You will acquire...
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Learning PHP, MySQL & JavaScript: With jQuery, CSS & HTML5

Robin Nixon - O'Reilly Media
Format: Paperback

Build interactive, data-driven websites with the potent combination of open-source technologies and web standards, even if you only have basic HTML knowledge. With this popular hands-on guide, you'll tackle dynamic web programming with the help of today's core technologies: PHP,...
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The Sentient Machine: The Coming Age of Artificial Intelligence

Amir Husain - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

The future is now. Acclaimed technologist and inventor Amir Husain explains how we can live amidst the coming age of sentient machines and artificial intelligence - and not only survive, but thrive.. Artificial "machine" intelligence is playing an ever-greater role in our society....
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On the Future: Prospects for Humanity

MARTIN REES - Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover

A provocative and inspiring look at the future of humanity and science from world-renowned scientist and bestselling author Martin ReesHumanity has reached a critical moment. Our world is unsettled and rapidly changing, and we face existential risks over the next century. Various prospects...
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Microsoft Office Word 2010 QuickSteps

Marty Matthews - McGraw-Hill Osborne Media; 2 edition
Format: Paperback

Step-by-Step, Full-Color Graphics! Start using Word 2010 right away--the QuickSteps way. Color screenshots and clear instructions make it easy to ramp up on the latest release of Microsoft's powerful word processing application. Follow along and quickly learn how to create and format...
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My iPhone for Seniors

BRAD MISER - Que Publishing
Format: Paperback

Updated for iOS 11! Easy, clear, readable, and focused on what you want to do. Step-by-step instructions for the tasks you care about most. Large, full-color, close-up photos with callouts to iPhone photos that show you exactly what to do. Common-sense help when you run into iPhone...
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The Mastermind: Drugs. Empire. Murder. Betrayal.

Evan Ratliff - Random House
Format: Hardcover

The incredible true story of the decade-long quest to bring down Paul Le Roux - the creator of a frighteningly powerful Internet-enabled cartel who merged the ruthlessness of a drug lord with the technological savvy of a Silicon Valley entrepreneur It all started as an online prescription...
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Excel 2013 For Dummies, Book + DVD Bundle

Greg Harvey - For Dummies; 1 edition
Format: Book

A value-priced book-and-DVD bundle on the latest release of Microsoft Excel The release of the newest version of Excel brings major changes to the world's leading spreadsheet application and this book-and-DVD package covers them all! Featuring the enormously popular Excel For Dummies...
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AIQ: How People and Machines Are Smarter Together

Nicholas G Polson - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

"There comes a time in the life of a subject when someone steps up and writes the book about it. AIQ explores the fascinating history of the ideas that drive this technology of the future and demystifies the core concepts behind it; the result is a positive and entertaining look at the great...
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iPad For Dummies

EDWARD C BAIG - For Dummies
Format: Paperback

Take your world with you - with an iPad! When you're a person who can't be chained to a desk, an iPad is your ideal tool for working or enjoying entertainment wherever you want, whenever you want. An iPad is an ideal tool for connecting to websites and networks, staying in touch...
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Office 2016 in Easy Steps

Michael Price - In Easy Steps
Format: Print book

Office 2016 in Easy Steps guides you through Microsoft's latest version of Office, so you can soon master its new features.It concentrates on the most useful and productive elements of Office 2016, covering the basics of Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint.Aimed at both new and experienced...
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How Computers Work: The Evolution of Technology, 10th Edition

Ron White - Que Publishing
Format: Paperback

The Evolution of Technology Having sold more than 2 million copies over its lifetime, How Computers Work is the definitive illustrated guide to the world of PCs and technology. In this new edition, you'll find detailed information not just about PCs, but about how changes in technology...
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Alexa For Dummies

Paul McFedries - For Dummies
Format: Paperback

Upgrade your Echo expertise with this Dummies guide to all things AlexaAmazon's hugely popular family of Echo devices has made Alexa a household name. She can answer your questions, entertain you, and even help around the house. Alexa for Dummies is the perfect guide for Alexa...
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QuickBooks 2016: The Best Guide for Small Business

Bobbi Sandberg - McGraw-Hill Education
Format: Print book

Set up a complete small business financial management system quickly and easily. Written by Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisors, QuickBooks 2016: The Best Guide for Small Business shows you how to maximize all of the desktop software's powerful capabilities, including the new and improved...
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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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Powering Content: Building a Nonstop Content Marketing Machine

Laura Busche - O'Reilly Media
Format: Paperback

Digital content marketing affects the way consumers behave: better content marketing not only means better sales, but also a connection to the customer that's different and more personal than ever before. Don't just make great product, reach your customers, and sell it.Powering...
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QuickBooks 2016 For Dummies

Stephen L. Nelson - For Dummies
Format: Paperback

The perennial bestseller on QuickBooks - now covering QuickBooks 2016 If you're like most people involved with a small business, accounting is the last thing you want to spend a lot of time on. Luckily, QuickBooks 2016 For Dummies makes it easy to keep your finances under control...
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WordPress All-in-One For Dummies

Lisa Sabin-Wilson - For Dummies
Format: Paperback

Everything you need to know about WordPress If you strive to have a blog that suits your needs, delights your readers, and keeps visitors coming back for more, this book is your ace in the hole! Offering you cream-of-the-crop guidance from eight bestselling books, WordPress All-in-One...
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Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy

JONATHAN TAPLIN - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice An Amazon Best Business & Leadership Book of 2017 Longlisted for Financial Times/McKinsey Business Book of the Year 2017 A strategy+business Best Business Book of 2017A stinging polemic that traces the destructive monopolization...
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Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 QuickSteps

Carole Boggs Matthews - McGraw-Hill Education
Format: Paperback

Step-by-Step, Full-Color Graphics! Create great-looking presentation slides right away using Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007. Color screenshots and clear instructions show you how to use the new and improved capabilities featured in this powerful presentation program. Follow along and learn...
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Fire Tablets For Dummies

Nancy C. Muir - For Dummies; 1 edition
Format: Print book

Enjoy endless entertainment with your Kindle Fire, Fire HD, or Fire HDX Tablet!Amazon's growing suite of tablets gives you the power to watch, work, and play wherever you roam. With access to a large music and video collection, a growing app store, a massive library of e-books, and fast,...
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Crash Override: How Gamergate

Zoë 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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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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We Were Yahoo!: From Internet Pioneer to the Trillion Dollar Loss of Google and Facebook

Jeremy Ring - Post Hill Press
Format: Paperback

Only someone from the corporate inside could explain how Yahoo! - one of the greatest brands in corporate history - could rise to the greatest height ever seen in American business ... and then crash into oblivion. For anyone paying attention, the beginning of the end for Yahoo! began with...
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My iPad

GARY ROSENZWEIG - Que Publishing
Format: Paperback

My iPad offers a full-color, fully illustrated, step-by-step resource to using your iPad. Each task has corresponding visuals that are numbered to match the step they are referring to. Sidebars give additional insight into using the iPad without requiring you to sort through paragraphs...
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Windows 10: The Missing Manual: The book that should have been in the box

David Pogue - O'Reilly Media
Format: Paperback

Windows 10 hit the scene in 2015 with an all-new web browser (Edge) , the Cortana voice assistant, and universal apps that run equally well on tablets, phones, and computers. Now, the Creators Update brings refinement and polish to Windows 10 - and this jargon-free guide helps you get the most...
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Web Coding & Development All-in-One For Dummies

PAUL MCFEDRIES - For Dummies
Format: Paperback

Speak the languages that power the web With more high-paying web development jobs opening every day, people with coding and web/app building skills are having no problems finding employment. If you're a would-be developer looking to gain the know-how to build the interfaces, databases,...
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Photoshop Tips, Tricks & Shortcuts in easy steps: Covers all versions of Photoshop CC (for Windows and Mac)

Robert Shufflebotham - In Easy Steps
Format: Mac Win Edition

If youve been using Photoshop for a while, but youve only been using a few basic features to get by and want to know all those clever tricks of the trade, then Photoshop Tips, Tricks & Shortcuts in easy steps is for you!. Learn about all the exciting features to achieve expertly produced...
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Windows 10 For Dummies

ANDY RATHBONE - For Dummies
Format: Paperback

The #1 source for Windows 10 help Millions of Windows users have turned to Windows For Dummies for quick, friendly, and easy-to-understand help with their computers. Windows 10 For Dummies, 3rd Edition continues this tradition as it helps you navigate the twists and turns of Windows. Start...
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iOS 9 Swift Programming Cookbook: Solutions and Examples for iOS Apps

Vandad Nahavandipoor - O'Reilly
Format: Print book

Ready to build stunning apps for iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch? This cookbook - completely rewritten with all-new material - provides 90 proven solutions for tackling the latest features in iOS 9 and watchOS 2.0. Written exclusively in Apple's Swift language, these code-rich recipes...
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Coding All-in-One For Dummies

WILEY. - For Dummies
Format: Paperback

See all the things coding can accomplishThe demand for people with coding know-how exceeds the number of people who understand the languages that power technology. Coding All-in-One For Dummies gives you an ideal place to start when you're ready to add this valuable asset to your...
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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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Excel 2019 For Dummies

Greg Harvey - For Dummies
Format: Paperback

The bestselling Excel book on the market - now in a new edition covering the latest version of Excel!Excel is the spreadsheet and data analysis tool of choice for people across the globe who utilize the Microsoft Office suite to make their work and personal lives easier. It is estimated...
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A World Without "Whom": The Essential Guide to Language in the BuzzFeed Age

EMMY J FAVILLA - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover

A World Without "Whom" is Eats, Shoots & Leaves for the internet age, and BuzzFeed global copy chief Emmy Favilla is the witty go-to style guru of webspeak. As language evolves faster than ever before, what is the future of "correct" writing? When Favilla was tasked...
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The Hello Girls: America's First Women Soldiers

Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman - Harvard University Press
Format: Hardcover

This is the story of how America's first women soldiers helped win World War I, earned the vote, and fought the U.S. Army. In 1918, the U.S. Army Signal Corps sent 223 women to France. They were masters of the latest technology: the telephone switchboard. General John Pershing, commander...
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