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Word 2013 Absolute Beginner's Guide

Sherry Kinkoph Gunter - Que Publishing; 1 edition
Format: Paperback

Make the most of Word 2013–without becoming a technical expert! This book is the fastest way to learn Word and use it quickly to prepare powerfully effective documents! Even if you’ve never used Word before, you’ll learn how to do what you want, one clear and easy step...
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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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The Glass Cage: Automation and Us

Nicholas Carr - W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

In The Glass Cage, best-selling author Nicholas Carr digs behind the headlines about factory robots and self-driving cars, wearable computers and digitized medicine, as he explores the hidden costs of granting software dominion over our work and our leisure and reveals something we already...
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So You Want to Start a Podcast: Finding Your Voice, Telling Your Story, and Building a Community That Will Listen

Kristen Meinzer - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

An inspiring, comprehensive, step-by-step guide to creating a hit show, So You Want to Start a Podcast covers everything from hosting and guest booking to editing and marketing - while offering plenty of encouragement and insider stories along the way.Though they are the fastest-growing...
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Protecting Your Children Online: What You Need to Know About Online Threats to Your Children

KIMBERLY ANN MCCABE - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover

As parents, our main job is to protect our children. These days, protection from includes not only the individuals we can see but, also, the individuals that we cannot see - yet who wish to harm our children. And with the growth of social networking and social media parents are often unaware...
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Scam Me If You Can: Simple Strategies to Outsmart Today's Ripoff Artists

Frank Abagnale - Portfolio
Format: Paperback

Frank Abagnale (whose life as a con man was depicted in the movie Catch Me If You Can) reveals the methods used by the world's most skillful con artists to steal billions of dollars each year from unsuspecting Americans--and...
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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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Robot Builder's Bonanza, 5th Edition

Gordon McComb - McGraw-Hill Education TAB
Format: Paperback

Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product.The bestselling guide to hobby robotics -- fully updated for the latest technologies!Learn to build...
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Generation Robot: A Century of Science Fiction, Fact, and Speculation

Terri Favro - Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Hardcover

Generation Robot covers a century of science fiction, fact and, speculation -- from the 1950 publication of Isaac Asimov's seminal robot masterpiece, I, Robot, to the 2050 Singularity when artificial and human intelligence are predicted to merge. Beginning with a childhood informed by pop-culture...
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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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