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  • 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

    $9.99 USD

  • In Pursuit of the Unknown

    17 Equations That Changed the World

    by Ian Stewart ...
    The seventeen equations that form the basis for life as we know it.Most people are familiar with history's great equations: Newton's Law of Gravity, for instance, or Einstein's theory of relativity. But the way these mathematical breakthroughs have contributed to human progress is seldom appreciated. In In Pursuit of the Unknown, celebrated mathematician Ian Stewart untangles the roots of our most ... Read more

    $13.99 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

    $13.69 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

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • This Machine Kills Secrets

    Julian Assange, the Cypherpunks, and Their Fight to Empower Whistleblowers

    At last, the first full account of the cypherpunks who aim to free the world’s institutional secrets, by Forbes journalist Andy Greenberg who has traced their shadowy history from the cryptography revolution of the 1970s to Wikileaks founding hacker Julian Assange, Anonymous, and beyond.WikiLeaks brought to light a new form of whistleblowing, using powerful cryptographic code to hide leakers’ ... Read more

    Was $8.99 USD Now $4.99 USD

  • 1st Grade Computer Basics : The Computer and Its Parts

    Computers for Kids First Grade

    Series series Children's Computer Hardware Books
    There's no escaping the fact that we are heading towards a tech-dominated future. It is, therefore, of great importance that your child is able to follow the times. This educational book features the basics of computers. Here, your child will learn about the computer parts and what their uses are. Grab a copy today! ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • 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

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fire in the Valley

    The Birth and Death of the Personal Computer

    In the 1970s, while their contemporaries were protesting the computer as a tool of dehumanization and oppression, a motley collection of college dropouts, hippies, and electronics fanatics were engaged in something much more subversive. Obsessed with the idea of getting computer power into their own hands, they launched from their garages a hobbyist movement that grew into an industry, and ... Read more

    $20.89 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

  • Little Blue Dot

    How GPS Shaped the Modern World

    The unexplored history of GPS, a military technology turned daily necessity that impacts all aspects of our lives.Gone are the days when we pulled off to the side of the road, twisted a map this way and that, and squinted in exasperation before saying, “We're lost.” Now, a network of satellites that circles the earth points us in the right direction. The Global Positioning System is embedded not ... Read more

    $17.29 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

    $18.79 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

    Was $16.99 USD Now $10.99 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

  • macOS Sequoia For Dummies

    Learn the ins and outs of macOS with the top-selling Dummies guidemacOS 2025 For Dummies is here to help you get acquainted with the operating system that makes your Mac computer go. Get easy-to-follow instructions for doing everything you need and taking advantage of the hottest features. If you've just jumped on the Mac bandwagon, veteran macOS writer Guy Hart-Davis shows you how to get started ... Read more

    $21.00 USD

  • Star Schema The Complete Reference

    Series series The Complete Reference
    The definitive guide to dimensional design for your data warehouseLearn the best practices of dimensional design. Star Schema: The Complete Reference offers in-depth coverage of design principles and their underlying rationales. Organized around design concepts and illustrated with detailed examples, this is a step-by-step guidebook for beginners and a comprehensive resource for experts.This all ... Read more

    $33.19 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

    $14.29 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

  • The Legend of Zelda Breath of The Wild DLC 1 Game Guide Unofficial

    *UNOFFICIAL GUIDE* Are you looking to download and install the game? Do you often find it difficult to beat certain parts? Would you like to play like a PRO? Would you like to get tons of resources? With our unofficial game guide we can teach you how to master the game! Do you want to install and play the game on any Phone, PC, or Tablet? This guide will also help you install on the Kindle, Kindle ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $20.19 USD

  • Face with Tears of Joy

    A Natural History of Emoji

    by Keith Houston ...
    A vibrant exploration of the world’s newest language—where it came from, how it works, and where it’s going.We are surrounded by emoji. They appear in politics, movies, drug deals, our sex lives, and more. But emoji’s impact has never been explored in full. In this rollicking tech and pop culture history, Keith Houston follows emoji from its birth in 1990s Japan, traces its Western explosion in ... Read more

    $13.69 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