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Adobe Illustrator CC Classroom in a Book
Brian Wood - Adobe Press; 1 edition
Format: Print book
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The fastest, easiest, most comprehensive way to learn Adobe Illustrator (2014 release) Classroom in a Book, the best-selling series of hands-on software training workbooks, offers what no other book or training program does - an official training series from Adobe Systems Incorporated,... |
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Knockout.js: Building Dynamic Client-Side Web Applications
Jamie Munro - O'Reilly Media; 1 edition
Format: eBook
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Design, architect, and build a dynamic web application using Knockout.js, the open source JavaScript library that helps you to create rich, responsive display and editor user interfaces with a clean underlying data model. By introducing you to Model-View-View Model (MVVM) pattern used in Knockout.js,... |
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Dataclysm: Who We Are
Christian Rudder - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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A New York Times BestsellerAn audacious, irreverent investigation of human behaviorand a first look at a revolution in the making Our personal data has been used to spy on us, hire and fire us, and sell us stuff we dont need. In Dataclysm, Christian Rudder uses it to show us who we truly... |
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Dawn of the New Everything: Encounters with Reality and Virtual Reality
Jaron Lanier - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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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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Crash Override: How Gamergate
Zoë Quinn - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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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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Windows 10 All-in-One For Dummies
Woody Leonhard - For Dummies
Format: Paperback
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The most comprehensive guide to Windows 10! If you're a first-time Windows 10 user looking for an authoritative, accessible guide to the basics of this new operating system, look no further than Windows 10 All-in-One For Dummies. Written by trusted Windows expert Woody Leonhard, this... |
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Rise of the Machines: A Cybernetic History
Thomas Rid - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Print book
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A sweeping history of our deep entanglement with technology.As lives offline and online merge even more, it's easy to forget how we got here. Rise of the Machines reclaims the spectacular story of cybernetics, a control theory of man and machine. In a history that unpacks one of the twentieth... |
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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
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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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Introducing Python: Modern Computing in Simple Packages
Bill Lubanovic - O'Reilly Media; 1 edition
Format: Print book
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Easy to understand and fun to read, Introducing Python is ideal for beginning programmers as well as those new to the language. Author Bill Lubanovic takes you from the basics to more involved and varied topics, mixing tutorials with cookbook-style code recipes to explain concepts in Python... |
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Learning PHP, MySQL & JavaScript: With jQuery, CSS & HTML5
Robin Nixon - O'Reilly Media; 4 edition
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The fully revised, updated and extended 4th edition of the hugely popular web development book - includes CSS, HTML5, jQuery and the mysqli extension.Build interactive, data-driven websites with the potent combination of open-source technologies and web standards, even if you only have... |
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A World Without "Whom": The Essential Guide to Language in the BuzzFeed Age
EMMY J FAVILLA - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover
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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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Possible Minds: Twenty-Five Ways of Looking at AI
John Brockman - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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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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Becoming a Better Programmer: A Handbook for People Who Care About Code
Pete Goodliffe - O'Reilly Media
Format: Paperback
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If you're passionate about programming and want to get better at it, you've come to the right source. Code Craft author Pete Goodliffe presents a collection of useful techniques and approaches to the art and craft of programming that will help boost your career and your well-being.Goodliffe... |
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Keep It Simple: The Early Design Years of Apple
Hartmut Esslinger - Arnoldsche Verlagsanstalt
Format: Print book
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•The true design story behind the evolution of Apple computers •An inspiring collaboration of Steve Jobs and author Hartmut Esslinger •380 illustrations that takes a step by step view of the most famous brand that’s still a dominating force today Keep it Simple is the authentic... |
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On the Future: Prospects for Humanity
MARTIN REES - Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover
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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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The Sentient Machine: The Coming Age of Artificial Intelligence
Amir Husain - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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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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The Idealist
Justin Peters - Slate Magazine
Format: Hardcover
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In Januay, Aaron Swartz, the 26-year-old co-founder of Reddit and Internet entrepreneur, committed suicide. Hed been pursued by the Department of Justice for two years, and had been charged in 2011 for downloading millions of documents from the online database JSTOR, using MITs computer... |
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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
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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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The State of Play: Creators and Critics on Video Game Culture
Dan Goldberg - Seven Stories Press
Format: Print book
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FEATURING: IAN BOGOST - LEIGH ALEXANDER - ZOE QUINN - ANITA SARKEESIAN & KATHERINE CROSS - IAN SHANAHAN - ANNA ANTHROPY - EVAN NARCISSE - HUSSEIN IBRAHIM - CARA ELLISON & BRENDAN KEOGH - DAN GOLDING - DAVID JOHNSTON - WILLIAM KNOBLAUCH - MERRITT KOPAS - OLA WIKANDERThe State of Play... |
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The Secret Life: Three True Stories of the Digital Age
Andrew O'Hagan - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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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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Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
Brian Christian - Henry Holt and Company
Format: Print book
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A fascinating exploration of how computer algorithms can be applied to our everyday lives, helping to solve common decision-making problems and illuminate the workings of the human mindAll our lives are constrained by limited space and time, limits that give rise to a particular set of problems.... |
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Dot Complicated: Untangling Our Wired Lives
Randi Zuckerberg - HarperOne
Format: Hardcover
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With Dot Complicated Untangling Our Wired Lives, new media pioneer Randi Zuckerberg offers an entertaining and essential guide to understanding how technology and social media influence and inform our lives online and off.Zuckerberg has been on the frontline of the social media movement... |
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Left to Their Own Devices: How Digital Natives Are Reshaping the American Dream
Julie M. Albright - Prometheus Books
Format: Hardcover
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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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A Deadly Wandering: A Tale of Tragedy and Redemption in the Age of Attention
Matt Richtel - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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From Pulitzer Prizewinning journalist Matt Richtel, a brilliant, narrative-driven exploration of technologys vast influence on the human mind and society, dramatically-told through the lens of a tragic texting-while-driving car crash that claimed the lives of two rocket scientists in 2006.In... |
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The Big Book of Building: Everything Minecraft Imagine it Create it Build it
Triumph Books - Triumph Books
Format: Hardcover
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Brought to you by the authors and editors that created the Minecrafter and Minecrafter 2.0 Advanced guide books, The Big Book of Building features more of everything - more mods, more mining, more mobs, and more Minecraft! Up to date for the 2014 holiday season, The Big Book of Building... |
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In Real Life: Love, Lies & Identity in the Digital Age
Nev Schulman - Grand Central Pub
Format: Paperback
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From the host of MTV's #1 show Catfish comes the definitive guide about how to connect with people authentically in today's increasingly digital world.IN REAL LIFE: Love, Lies & Identity in the Digital Age As the host of the wildly popular TV series Catfish which investigates online... |
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Dot Complicated: Untangling Our Wired Lives
Randi Zuckerberg - HarperOne; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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With Dot Complicated: Untangling Our Wired Lives, new media pioneer Randi Zuckerberg offers an entertaining and essential guide to understanding how technology and social media influence and inform our lives online and off.Zuckerberg has been on the frontline of the social media movement... |
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Solomon's Code: Humanity in a World of Thinking Machines
Olaf Groth - Pegasus
Format: Hardcover
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A thought-provoking examination of artificial intelligence and how it reshapes human values, trust, and power around the world.Whether in medicine, money, or love, technologies powered by forms of artificial intelligence are playing an increasingly prominent role in our lives. As we cede... |
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