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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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iPad for Seniors QuickSteps

Marty Matthews - McGraw Hill
Format: Paperback

Step-by-Step, Full-Color Graphics!. Written by a senior for seniors, this practical, fast-paced guide helps you get up and running on your iPad right away. Color photos and screenshots with clear instructions make it easy to accomplish everything you want to do.. Follow along and quickly...
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Android Smartphones For Dummies

Jerome DiMarzio - For Dummies
Format: Paperback

Become smartphone savvy with DummiesAndroid Smartphones For Dummies is the all-new guide to Android phones with the familiar Dummies charm everyone loves. This book will give Android rookies a crash-course in how to use these popular phones. You'll go beyond the basics of texting and taking...
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The Ransomware Hunting Team: A Band of Misfits' Improbable Crusade to Save the World from Cybercrime

RENEE DUDLEY - ?Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

"What Michael Lewis did for baseball in Moneyball, Dudley and Golden do brilliantly for the world of ransomware and hackers. Cinematic, big in scope, and meticulously reported, this book is impossible to put down." -- Doug Stanton, New York Times bestselling author of In Harm's...
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The Art of Statistics: How to Learn from Data

David Spiegelhalter - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover

The definitive guide to statistical thinkingStatistics are everywhere, as integral to science as they are to business, and in the popular media hundreds of times a day. In this age of big data, a basic grasp of statistical literacy is more important than ever if we want to separate the fact...
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How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy

Jenny Odell - Melville House
Format: Hardcover

A galvanizing critique of the forces vying for our attention - and our personal information - that redefines what we think of as productivity, reconnects us with the environment, and reveals all that we've been too distracted to see about ourselves and our worldNothing is harder to do these...
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My iPhone for Seniors

Brad Miser - Que Publishing; 1 edition
Format: Print book

Covers iOS 8 on iPhone 66Plus, 5S5C, 5, and 4S Based on the best-selling My iPhone book, My iPhone for Seniors helps you quickly get started with your new smartphone and use its features to look up information and perform day-to-day activities from anywhere, any time. Step-by-step...
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Swiped: How to Protect Yourself in a World Full of Scammers, Phishers, and Identity Thieves

Adam Levin - Public Affairs
Format: Print book

Identity fraud happens to everyone. So what do you do when it's your turn?Increasingly, identity theft is a fact of life. We might once have hoped to protect ourselves from hackers with airtight passwords and aggressive spam filters, and those are good ideas as far as they go. But with...
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Laptops For Dummies

Dan Gookin - For Dummies
Format: Paperback

Not that long ago, laptops were seen as luxuries. Now they're practically an essential for many people, and -- as faster computing power and super-sharp displays make many of them the equal of a desktop -- the new wave of lightweight laptops is increasingly replacing the home PC with...
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Information Doesnt Want to Be Free: Laws for the Internet Age

Cory Doctorow - McSweeneys
Format: Audiobook

"Filled with wisdom and thought experiments and things that will mess with your mind." - Neil Gaiman, author of The Graveyard Book and American GodsIn sharply argued, fast-moving chapters, Cory Doctorows Information Doesnt Want to Be Free takes on the state of copyright and creative...
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