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  • Pogue's Basics

    Essential Tips and Shortcuts (That No One Bothers to Tell You)

    by David Pogue ...
    Learn to master the tech gadgets in your life with this New York Times –bestselling collection of easy-to-follow tips and shortcuts.Did you know that you can scroll a web page just by tapping the space bar?How do you recover photos you've deleted by accident?What can you do if your cell phone's battery is dead by dinnertime each day?When it comes to technology, there's no... ... Read more

    Was $12.99 USD Now $1.99 USD

  • Steve Jobs

    Walter Isaacson’s “enthralling” (The New Yorker) worldwide bestselling biography of Apple cofounder Steve Jobs.Based on more than forty interviews with Steve Jobs conducted over two years—as well as interviews with more than 100 family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues—Walter Isaacson has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The Soul of A New Machine

    by Tracy Kidder ...
    Tracy Kidder's "riveting" (Washington Post) story of one company's efforts to bring a new microcomputer to market won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award and has become essential reading for understanding the history of the American tech industry.Computers have changed since 1981, when The Soul of a New Machine first examined the culture of the computer revolution. What has not ... Read more

    Was $9.99 USD Now $1.99 USD

  • Hacking Exposed Malware & Rootkits: Security Secrets and Solutions, Second Edition

    Series series Hacking Exposed
    Arm yourself for the escalating war against malware and rootkits Thwart debilitating cyber-attacks and dramatically improve your organization’s security posture using the proven defense strategies in this thoroughly updated guide. Hacking Exposed™ Malware and Rootkits: Security Secrets & Solutions, Second Edition fully explains the hacker’s latest methods alongside ready-to-deploy countermeasures ... Read more

    $49.69 USD

  • Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, Yosemite Edition

    by David Pogue ...
    What makes Windows refugees decide to get a Mac? Enthusiastic friends? The Apple Stores? Great-looking laptops? A "halo effect" from the popularity of iPhones and iPads? The absence of viruses and spyware? The freedom to run Windows on a Mac? In any case, there’s never been a better time to switch to OS X—and there’s never been a better, more authoritative book to help you do it.The important ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Divination Engines

    Natural Language Processing, Artificial Intelligence, and the Making of Algorithmic Culture

    by Xiaochang Li ...
    A revealing and surprising origin story, showing how attempts to render human speech and language computable led from the era of big data to today’s AI.Since the advent of computers, society has fantasized about conversing with machines. In this eye-opening book, technology expert Xiaochang Li shows readers how that dream both fueled the demand for data and set the stage for today’s generative AI. ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • Electronic Value Exchange

    Origins of the VISA Electronic Payment System

    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    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

    $170.09 USD

  • Programmed Inequality

    How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing

    by Mar Hicks ...
    Series series History of Computing
    This “sobering tale of the real consequences of gender bias” explores how Britain lost its early dominance in computing by systematically discriminating against its most qualified workers: women (Harvard Magazine)In 1944, Britain led the world in electronic computing. By 1974, the British computer industry was all but extinct. What happened in the intervening thirty years holds lessons for all ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Geek Sublime

    The Beauty of Code, the Code of Beauty

    The nonfiction debut from the author of the international bestseller Sacred Games about the surprising overlap between writing and computer codingVikram Chandra has been a computer programmer for almost as long as he has been a novelist. In this extraordinary new book, his first work of nonfiction, he searches for the connections between the worlds of art and technology. Coders are obsessed with ... Read more

    $9.99 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

  • 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

  • C# Programming Illustrated Guide For Beginners & Intermediates: The Future Is Here! Learning By Doing Approach

    C# Programming Illustrated Guide For Beginners & IntermediatesLearn Coding Fast! With Practical Easy To Follow Examples And Step By Step Instructions!Why should you choose to learn C# programming?C sharp programing was developed by Microsoft and is USED in all their products!C# is definitely a great way to get started in the world of programming, and since one of the biggest software giants ... Read more

    $4.97 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dealers of Lightning

    Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age

    The Pulitzer Prize-winner's classic account of the legendary research lab that gave rise to the Digital Age.In the 1970s and '80s, Xerox Corporation brought together a brain-trust of engineering geniuses dubbed PARC (Palo Alto Research Center). This brilliant group created several monumental innovations that triggered a technological revolution, including the first personal computer, the laser ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The History of Video Games

    by Charlie Fish ...
    A concise history of the video gaming industry from its niche beginnings to its emergence as a global phenomenon and cultural force.The History of Video Games chronicles the dramatic rise of an entertainment industry that has become twice as big—and influential—as the film and music industries combined. Packed with pictures and stats, each chapter explores the history of video games through a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Elon Musk

    **The #1 New York Times and global bestseller from Walter Isaacson—the acclaimed author of Steve Jobs, Einstein: His Life and World, Benjamin Franklin, and Leonardo da Vinci—is the astonishingly intimate story of the most fascinating, controversial innovator of modern times. For two years, Isaacson shadowed Elon Musk as he executed his vision for electric vehicles at Tesla, space exploration with ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Intellectual Property and Open Source

    A Practical Guide to Protecting Code

    by Van Lindberg ...
    "Clear, correct, and deep, this is a welcome addition to discussions of law and computing for anyone -- even lawyers!"-- Lawrence Lessig, Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and founder of the Stanford Center for Internet and SocietyIf you work in information technology, intellectual property is central to your job -- but dealing with the complexities of the legal system can be mind-boggling. ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Getting Started with Apple Watch SE

    A Beginners Guide to Apple Watch SE and WatchOS 7

    ★★★ Get started with the latest Apple Watch ★★★Apple threw a curveball when it announced the latest watches. For the first time ever, it included an "SE" model that was more affordably priced.You'd expect the Apple Watch SE to be a cheaper device that lacks all the key features of an Apple Watch, but that's surprisingly not true. The SE is actually nearly identical to the Apple Watch Series 6. It ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hacker Cracker

    A Journey from the Mean Streets of Brooklyn to the Frontiers of Cyberspace

    Like other kids in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, Ejovi Nuwere grew up among thugs and drug dealers. When he was eleven, he helped form a gang; at twelve, he attempted suicide. In his large, extended family, one uncle was a career criminal, one a graduate student with his own computer. By the time Ejovi was fourteen, he was spending as much time on the computer as his uncle was. ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Innovators

    How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution

    Following his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson’s New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed The Innovators is a “riveting, propulsive, and at times deeply moving” (The Atlantic) story of the people who created the computer and the internet.What were the talents that allowed certain inventors and entrepreneurs to turn their visionary ideas into disruptive realities? ... Read more

    $16.99 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

    $14.39 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

  • The Technological Republic

    Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West

    INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • “A cri de coeur that takes aim at the tech industry for abandoning its history of helping America and its allies.”—The Wall Street JournalFrom the Palantir co-founder, one of Time’s 100 Most Influential People of 2025, and his deputy, a critically-acclaimed and sweeping indictment of the West’s culture of complacency, arguing ... Read more

    Was $14.99 USD Now $12.99 USD

  • Turing's Cathedral

    The Origins of the Digital Universe

    by George Dyson ...
    “It is possible to invent a single machine which can be used to compute any computable sequence,” twenty-four-year-old Alan Turing announced in 1936. In Turing’s Cathedral, George Dyson focuses on a small group of men and women, led by John von Neumann at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, who built one of the first computers to realize Alan Turing’s vision of a Universal ... Read more

    $13.99 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