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  • The Smartphone

    Anatomy of an Industry

    A technology reporter’s behind-the-scenes history of the device that has taken over our lives.How have smartphones shaped the way we socialize and interact? Who tracks our actions, our preferences, our movements as recorded by our smartphones? These are just some of the questions that Elizabeth Woyke, a journalist who has covered the industry for Bloomberg Businessweek, Forbes, and MIT Technology ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Electronic Value Exchange

    Origins of the VISA Electronic Payment System

    Series series History of Computing
    Electronic Value Exchange examines in detail the transformation of the VISA electronic payment system from a collection of non-integrated, localized, paper-based bank credit card programs into the cooperative, global, electronic value exchange network it is today. Topics and features: provides a history of the VISA system from the mid-1960s to the early 1980s; presents a historical narrative based ... Read more

    $152.99 USD

  • Track Changes

    A Literary History of Word Processing

    The story of writing in the digital age is every bit as messy as the ink-stained rags that littered the floor of Gutenberg’s print shop or the hot molten lead of the Linotype machine. During the period of the pivotal growth and widespread adoption of word processing as a writing technology, some authors embraced it as a marvel while others decried it as the death of literature. The product of ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • CRACK99: The Takedown of a $100 Million Chinese Software Pirate

    The utterly gripping story of the most outrageous case of cyber piracy prosecuted by the U.S. Department of Justice.A former U.S. Navy intelligence officer, David Locke Hall was a federal prosecutor when a bizarre-sounding website, CRACK99, came to his attention. It looked like Craigslist on acid, but what it sold was anything but amateurish: thousands of high-tech software products used largely ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Code Beneath the Surface: Mastering Assembly Programming

    Code Beneath the Surface: Mastering Assembly Programming is a comprehensive and in-depth exploration of the intricate world of assembly language programming. Designed to empower both beginners and experienced programmers, this book provides a deep dive into the art and science of low-level coding.Unveiling the secrets behind the code that operates at the heart of computers, this book takes you on ... Read more

    $15.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • C Programming Pocket Primer

    Series series Pocket Primer
    As part of the Pocket Primer series, this book provides an overview of the major concepts to program in the language of C. Companion files with source code from the book and figures are included.FEATURES:Provides an overview of the most important C programming techniquesCovers up-to-date information regarding the C11 standardIncludes two chapters on pointersContains companion files ... ... Read more

    $35.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mac OS X Snow Leopard: The Missing Manual

    The Missing Manual

    by David Pogue ...
    For a company that promised to "put a pause on new features," Apple sure has been busy-there's barely a feature left untouched in Mac OS X 10.6 "Snow Leopard." There's more speed, more polish, more refinement-but still no manual. Fortunately, David Pogue is back, with the humor and expertise that have made this the #1 bestselling Mac book for eight years straight. You get all the answers with ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • The Myth of Artificial Intelligence

    Why Computers Can’t Think the Way We Do

    “Exposes the vast gap between the actual science underlying AI and the dramatic claims being made for it.”—John Horgan“If you want to know about AI, read this book…It shows how a supposedly futuristic reverence for Artificial Intelligence retards progress when it denigrates our most irreplaceable resource for any future progress: our own human intelligence.”—Peter ThielEver since Alan Turing, AI ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Modem World

    A Prehistory of Social Media

    The untold story about how the internet became social, and why this matters for its future“Whether you’re reading this for a nostalgic romp or to understand the dawn of the internet, The Modem World will delight you with tales of BBS culture and shed light on how the decisions of the past shape our current networked world.”—danah boyd, author of It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Microsoft Office Word 2010 QuickSteps

    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 documents, add tables, charts, and graphics, use mail merge, collaborate with others, save Word documents as web ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • How to Do Everything: iPad, 3rd Edition

    covers 3rd Gen iPad

    by Joli Ballew ...
    Series series How to Do Everything
    Tap into the power of the third-generation iPad!Get the most out of the faster, more streamlined iPad with help from this practical guide. How to Do Everything: iPad, Third Edition gets you started using all the revolutionary new features right away, such as the stunning Retina display, the 5-megapixel iSight camera, and the ultrafast 4G LTE wireless technology. Learn how to customize your iPad, ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • DEC Is Dead, Long Live DEC

    The Lasting Legacy of Digital Equipment Corporation

    From an insider, the forty-year saga of the rise and fall of Digital Equipment Corporation, one of the pioneering companies of the computer age.Digital Equipment Corporation created the minicomputer, networking, the concept of distributed computing, speech recognition, and other major innovations. It was the number-two computer maker behind IBM. Yet it ultimately failed as a business and was sold ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Microsoft Office Access 2010 QuickSteps

    by John Cronan ...
    Step-by-Step, Full-Color Graphics!Start using Access 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 database application. Follow along and quickly learn how to build databases and tables, enter and edit data, retrieve information, create forms, generate reports, secure your data, extend databases ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Profit over Privacy

    How Surveillance Advertising Conquered the Internet

    by Matthew Crain ...
    A deep dive into the political roots of advertising on the internetThe contemporary internet’s de facto business model is one of surveillance. Browser cookies follow us around the web, Amazon targets us with eerily prescient ads, Facebook and Google read our messages and analyze our patterns, and apps record our every move. In Profit over Privacy, Matthew Crain gives internet surveillance a much ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Alan Turing: The Enigma

    The Book That Inspired the Film The Imitation Game - Updated Edition

    A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe official book behind the Academy Award-winning film The Imitation Game, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira KnightleyIt is only a slight exaggeration to say that the British mathematician Alan Turing (1912–1954) saved the Allies from the Nazis, invented the computer and artificial intelligence, and anticipated gay liberation by decades—all before his suicide at ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Steve Jobs: The Apple of Our i

    by Daniel Alef ...
    Biographical profile of Steve Jobs the founder of Apple Computers and the man who led an evolution in American technology and culture. He ushered in the world of personal computing with the Apple and Mac line of computers changed the way we buy and listen to music with the iPod iTunes and the iTunes Store introduced us to a new wave of animated films and technology through Pixar with such hits as ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Hackers

    Heroes of the Computer Revolution - 25th Anniversary Edition

    by Steven Levy ...
    This 25th anniversary edition of Steven Levy's classic book traces the exploits of the computer revolution's original hackers -- those brilliant and eccentric nerds from the late 1950s through the early '80s who took risks, bent the rules, and pushed the world in a radical new direction. With updated material from noteworthy hackers such as Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Richard Stallman, and Steve ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Mark Zuckerberg: The Face Behind Facebook And Social Networking

    by Daniel Alef ...
    Mark Zuckerberg, the 26-year-old founder of Facebook, is the youngest self-made billionaire in history. He is also considered by many to be one of the most influential persons in the information age. His impact on American culture is virtually unprecedented. The recent film, "Social Network" does not portray him in the kindest light, but is it a work of fact or fiction? Separating fiction from ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • How To Create A Website Using Wordpress

    The Beginner's Blueprint for Building a Professional Website in 3 Easy Steps (Plus 40+ Premium Wordpress Video Tutorials)

    by Brian Patrick ...
    Building A Website With Wordpress Has Never Been This EasyLearn how to set up a website that meets your exact needs in 3 EASY STEPS....one that the "professionals" would have charged you thousands of dollars for! (FREE ACCESS to 40+ Premium Wordpress Tutorial Videos)Just a few years ago, I could barely update my Facebook page; today I can build anything from an e-commerce website that sells ... Read more

    Free

  • A Concise History of Computers, Smartphones and the Internet

    by Ernie Dainow ...
    The very first electronic computers were invented at the end of World War II. They were very large machines that could only be used in special air conditioned rooms. Today, almost everybody carries a computer in their pocket, in their mobile phone. How did all this come about in only 70 years?This book is for people who would like to know the answer to this question. It tells this exciting story, ... Read more

    Free

  • So you want to build a computer...

    Apple makes great mobile products as we all know: iPod, iPad, and iPhone, but their PCs are very expensive. So why throw down for a Mac when YOU can build your very own PC for a fraction of the cost, yet will be just as fast, if not faster? This guide gives the would-be PC builder a top-ten list of essential rules to follow in order to successfully build a solid system that will do it all! Enjoy. ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • ColdFusion Presents: New Thinking

    From Einstein to Artificial Intelligence, the Science and Technology That Transformed Our World

    The creator of YouTube’s ColdFusion explores the development of technology from Industrial Revolution to Artificial Intelligence to figure out what’s next.As each new stage of technology builds on the last, advancements start to progress at an exponential rate. In order to know where we’re headed, it’s essential to know how we got here. What hidden stories lie behind the technology we use today? ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Apple II Age

    How the Computer Became Personal

    by Laine Nooney ...
    An engrossing origin story for the personal computer—showing how the Apple II’s software helped a machine transcend from hobbyists’ plaything to essential home appliance.Skip the iPhone, the iPod, and the Macintosh. If you want to understand how Apple Inc. became an industry behemoth, look no further than the 1977 Apple II. Designed by the brilliant engineer Steve Wozniak and hustled into the ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • The Hacker Crackdown

    Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier

    The bestselling cyberpunk author “has produced by far the most stylish report from the computer outlaw culture since Steven Levy’s Hackers” (Publishers Weekly).Bruce Sterling delves into the world of high-tech crime and punishment in one of the first books to explore the cyberspace breaches that threaten national security. From the crash of AT&T’s long-distance switching system to corporate ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus