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  • Blown to Bits

    Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion

    What you must know to protect yourself todayThe digital technology explosion has blown everything to bits—and the blast has provided new challenges and opportunities. This second edition of Blown to Bits delivers the knowledge you need to take greater control of your information environment and thrive in a world that's coming whether you like it or not.Straight from internationally respected ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • App Inventor 2

    Create Your Own Android Apps

    Yes, you can create your own apps for Android devices—and it’s easy to do. This extraordinary book introduces you to App Inventor 2, a powerful visual tool that lets anyone build apps. Learn App Inventor basics hands-on with step-by-step instructions for building more than a dozen fun projects, including a text answering machine app, a quiz app, and an app for finding your parked car!The second ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Blown to Bits

    Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion

    Every day, billions of photographs, news stories, songs, X-rays, TV shows, phone calls, and emails are being scattered around the world as sequences of zeroes and ones: bits. We can’t escape this explosion of digital information and few of us want to—the benefits are too seductive. The technology has enabled unprecedented innovation, collaboration, entertainment, and democratic participation.But ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

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  • The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google

    Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google

    by Nicholas Carr ...
    “Magisterial. . . . Draws an elegant and illuminating parallel between the late-19th-century electrification of America and today’s computing world.”—SalonHailed as “the most influential book so far on the cloud computing movement” (Christian Science Monitor), The Big Switch makes a simple and profound statement: Computing is turning into a utility, and the effects of this transition will ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Complete Idiot's Guide to Android App Development

    Learn the Secrets and Skills to Create Best-Selling Android Apps

    An operating manual for the hottest mobile operating system.The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Android App Development gets novice developers up and running quickly on creating their very own mobile applications, with step-by-step instruction on everything they need to design, develop, test, and publish their fully-featured apps. The Android operating system is now the largest mobile platform in the U ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • WTF?

    What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us

    by Tim O'Reilly ...
    Can we master the technologies we create before they master us? A "punchy and provocative" assessment by one of Silicon Valley's sharpest observers ( Financial Times).WTF? can be an expression of amazement or of dismay—and today's technology elicits both reactions. In this book, Tim O'Reilly, dubbed "the Oracle of Silicon Valley" by Inc. magazine, explores the upsides—and potential downsides—of ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fancy Bear Goes Phishing

    The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks

    “Unsettling, absolutely riveting, and—for better or worse—necessary reading.” —Brian Christian, author of Algorithms to Live By and The Alignment ProblemAn entertaining account of the philosophy and technology of hacking—and why we all need to understand it.It’s a signal paradox of our times that we live in an information society but do not know how it works. And without understanding how our ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • App Inventor 2: Introduction

    Step-by-step guide to easy Android app programming

    Series Book 1 - Pevest Guides to App Inventor
    MIT App Inventor 2 is the fast and easy way to create custom Android apps for smart phones or tablets. This guide introduces the basic App Inventor features - you can likely create your first simple app in about an hour, and understand the basic components of App Inventor in a full day. App Inventor 2 is free to use and you can use it for commercial applications too.App Inventor 2: Tutorial is ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • App Inventor 2: Advanced Concepts

    Advanced Concepts including TinyDB

    Series Book 2 - Pevest Guides to App Inventor
    MIT App Inventor 2 is a fast and simple way to create custom Android apps for smart phones or tablets. Volume 2 in the series introduces debugging methods, explains additional controls not covered in Volume 1, introduces “agile” methods for developing a real world app, and provides sample code for using the TinyDB database.This App Inventor 2 series is targeted at adult learners (high school and ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • From Gutenberg to Zuckerberg

    What You Really Need to Know About the Internet

    by John Naughton ...
    We've gone from regarding the Net as something exotic to something that we take for granted, like mains electricity or running water. Yet most people have no idea how the network functions, nor any conception of its architecture; and few can explain why it has been - and continues to be - so uniquely disruptive in social, economic and cultural contexts. John Naughton has been thinking, arguing, ... Read more

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  • Learn Microsoft PowerApps

    Build customized business applications without writing any code

    A step-by-step guide that will help you create, share, and deploy applications across your organization using MS PowerAppsKey FeaturesCreate apps with rich user experiences without paying for costly developersImprove productivity with business process automation using Microsoft Power AutomateBuild enterprise-grade apps with MS PowerApps’ built-in storage space, Common Data ServiceBook ... Read more

    $44.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $7.99 USD