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  • Crypto

    How the Code Rebels Beat the Government--Saving Privacy in the Digital Age

    by Steven Levy ...
    If you've ever made a secure purchase with your credit card over the Internet, then you have seen cryptography, or "crypto", in action. From Stephen Levy-the author who made "hackers" a household word-comes this account of a revolution that is already affecting every citizen in the twenty-first century. Crypto tells the inside story of how a group of "crypto rebels"—nerds and visionaries turned ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • CodeNotes for .NET

    by Gregory Brill ...
    Series series CodeNotes
    CodeNotes provides the most succinct, accurate, and speedy way for a developer to ramp up on a new technology or language. Unlike other programming books, CodeNotes drills down to the core aspects of a technology, focusing on the key elements needed in order to understand it quickly and implement it immediately. It is a unique resource for developers, filling the gap between comprehensive manuals ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • CodeNotes for Web-Based UI

    Edited by Gregory Brill ...
    CodeNotes provides the most succinct, accurate, and speedy way for a developer to ramp up on a new technology or language. Unlike other programming books, CodeNotes drills down to the core aspects of a technology, focusing on the key elements needed in order to understand it quickly and implement it immediately. It is a unique resource for developers, filling the gap between comprehensive manuals ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • CodeNotes for J2EE

    EJB, JDBC, JSP and Servlets

    by Gregory Brill ...
    Series series CodeNotes
    CodeNotes provides the most succinct, accurate, and speedy way for a developer to ramp up on a new technology or language. Unlike other programming books, CodeNotes drills down to the core aspects of a technology, focusing on the key elements needed in order to understand it quickly and implement it immediately. It is a unique resource for developers, filling the gap between comprehensive manuals ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • CodeNotes for XML

    by Gregory Brill ...
    Series series CodeNotes
    CodeNotes provides the most succinct, accurate, and speedy way for a developer to ramp up on a new technology or language. Unlike other programming books, CodeNotes drills down to the core aspects of a technology, focusing on the key elements needed in order to understand it quickly and implement it immediately. It is a unique resource for developers, filling the gap between comprehensive manuals ... Read more

    $11.99 USD $9.99 USD

  • CodeNotes for Java

    Intermediate and Advanced Language Features

    by Gregory Brill ...
    Series series CodeNotes
    CodeNotes provides the most succinct, accurate, and speedy way for a developer to ramp up on a new technology or language. Unlike other programming books, CodeNotes drills down to the core aspects of a technology, focusing on the key elements needed in order to understand it quickly and implement it immediately. It is a unique resource for developers, filling the gap between comprehensive manuals ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • CodeNotes for VB.NET

    by Gregory Brill ...
    Series series CodeNotes
    CodeNotes provides the most succinct, accurate, and speedy way for a developer to ramp up on a new technology or language. Unlike other programming books, CodeNotes drills down to the core aspects of a technology, focusing on the key elements needed in order to understand it quickly and implement it immediately. It is a unique resource for developers, filling the gap between comprehensive manuals ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Naked in Cyberspace

    How to Find Personal Information Online

    by Carole A Lane ...
    Surveying the types of personal records that are available on the Internet and through online services, this encyclopedic book explains how researchers find and use personal data, identifies the most useful sources of information about people, and offers advice for those with privacy concerns. Researchers will learn how to use online tools and databases to gain competitive intelligence, locate and ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • CodeNotes for Oracle 9i

    Edited by Gregory Brill ...
    CodeNotes provides the most succinct, accurate, and speedy way fora developer to ramp up on a new technology or language.Unlike other programming books, CodeNotes drills down tothe core aspects of a technology, focusing on the key elements needed in order to implement it immediately. It is a unique resource fordevelopers, filling the gap between comprehensive manuals andpocket references.Through ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • CodeNotes for ASP.NET

    Edited by Gregory Brill ...
    CodeNotes provides the most succinct, accurate, and speedy way fora developer to ramp up on a new technology or language.Unlike other programming books, CodeNotes drills down tothe core aspects of a technology, focusing on the key elements needed in order to implement it immediately. It is a unique resource fordevelopers, filling the gap between comprehensive manuals andpocket references.CodeNotes ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Future of Ideas

    The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World

    The Internet revolution has come. Some say it has gone. In The Future of Ideas, Lawrence Lessig explains how the revolution has produced a counterrevolution of potentially devastating power and effect. Creativity once flourished because the Net protected a commons on which widest range of innovators could experiment. But now, manipulating the law for their own purposes, corporations have ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • CodeNotes for Web Services in Java and .NET

    Edited by Gregory Brill ...
    CodeNotes provides the most succinct, accurate, and speedy way for a developer to ramp up on a new technology or language. Unlike other programming books, CodeNotes drills down to the core aspects of a technology, focusing on the key elements needed in order to understand it quickly and implement it immediately. It is a unique resource for developers, filling the gap between comprehensive manuals ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • CodeNotes for C#

    Edited by Gregory Brill ...
    Series series CodeNotes
    CodeNotes provides the most succinct, accurate, and speedy way for a developer to ramp up on a new technology or language. Unlike other programming books, CodeNotes drills down to the core aspects of a technology, focusing on the key elements needed in order to understand it quickly and implement it immediately. It is a unique resource for developers, filling the gap between comprehensive manuals ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • CodeNotes for J#

    Edited by Gregory Brill ...
    Series series CodeNotes
    CodeNotes provides the most succinct, accurate, and speedy way for a developer to ramp up on a new technology or language. Unlike other programming books, CodeNotes drills down to the core aspects of a technology, focusing on the key elements needed in order to understand it quickly and implement it immediately. It is a unique resource for developers, filling the gap between comprehensive manuals ... Read more

    $9.99 USD $7.99 USD

  • The Real Business of Web Design

    by John Waters ...
    Written by a veteran Web designer, The Real Business of Web Design goes beyond the usual philosophy of simply creating a better customer experience online. Instead, it provides an array of visual design practices and tested business principles for clarifying and simplifying the Web development process and making a Website more customer friendly. Filled with anecdotes from the author’s own ... Read more

    $13.99 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

  • Computer Resources for People with Disabilities

    A Guide to Assistive Technologies, Tools and Resources for People of All Ages

    Today's technology is redefining human potential. Current computer hardware and software can create new ways for people with any kind of a disability to interact with the world. In this book the Alliance for Technology Access, a coalition of the foremost experts in the country, many of whom experience the disabilities they address, brings together the latest information and straightforward ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • What the Dormouse Said

    How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry

    by John Markoff ...
    “This makes entertaining reading. Many accounts of the birth of personal computing have been written, but this is the first close look at the drug habits of the earliest pioneers.” —New York TimesMost histories of the personal computer industry focus on technology or business. John Markoff’s landmark book is about the culture and consciousness behind the first PCs—the culture being counter– and ... Read more

    $14.99 USD $9.99 USD

  • Open Source for the Enterprise

    Managing Risks, Reaping Rewards

    This book provides something far more valuable than either the cheerleading or the fear-mongering one hears about open source. The authors are Dan Woods, former CTO of TheStreet.com and a consultant and author of several books about IT, and Gautam Guliani, Director of Software Architecture at Kaplan Test Prep & Admissions. Each has used open source software for some 15 years at IT departments ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Open Sources 2.0

    The Continuing Evolution

    Open Sources 2.0 is a collection of insightful and thought-provoking essays from today's technology leaders that continues painting the evolutionary picture that developed in the 1999 book Open Sources: Voices from the Revolution .These essays explore open source's impact on the software industry and reveal how open source concepts are infiltrating other areas of commerce and society. The essays ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • The Digital Hand

    Volume II: How Computers Changed the Work of American Financial, Telecommunications, Media, and Entertainment Industries

    The Digital Hand, Volume 2, is a historical survey of how computers and telecommunications have been deployed in over a dozen industries in the financial, telecommunications, media and entertainment sectors over the past half century. It is past of a sweeping three-volume description of how management in some forty industries embraced the computer and changed the American economy. Computers have ... Read more

    $121.99 USD

  • Understanding Linux Network Internals

    Guided Tour to Networking on Linux

    If you've ever wondered how Linux carries out the complicated tasks assigned to it by the IP protocols -- or if you just want to learn about modern networking through real-life examples -- Understanding Linux Network Internals is for you.Like the popular O'Reilly book, Understanding the Linux Kernel, this book clearly explains the underlying concepts and teaches you how to follow the actual C code ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Colossus:The secrets of Bletchley Park's code-breaking computers

    The secrets of Bletchley Park's code-breaking computers

    At last - the secrets of Bletchley Park's powerful codebreaking computers.This is a history of Colossus, the world's first fully-functioning electronic digital computer. Colossus was used during the Second World War at the Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park, where it played an invaluable role cracking enemy codes. Until very recently, much about the Colossus machine was shrouded ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer (Great Discoveries)

    by David Leavitt ...
    Series Book 0 - Great Discoveries
    A "skillful and literate" (New York Times Book Review) biography of the persecuted genius who helped create the modern computer.To solve one of the great mathematical problems of his day, Alan Turing proposed an imaginary computer. Then, attempting to break a Nazi code during World War II, he successfully designed and built one, thus ensuring the Allied victory. Turing became a champion of ... Read more

    $15.99 USD