What Just Happened
A Chronicle from the Information Frontier
Written by James Gleick
Read by Dan Cashman
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: March 28, 2002
Price: $17.50
Here’s some of what just happened: Millions of ordinary, sensible people came into possession of computers. These machines had wondrous powers, yet made unexpected demands on their owners. Telephones broke free of the chains that had shackled them to bedside tables and office desks. No one was out of touch, or...
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Creeping Failure
How We Broke the Internet and What We Can Do to Fix It
Written by Jeffrey Hunker
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: September 27, 2011
Price: $19.95
The Internet is often called a superhighway, but it may be more analogous to a city: an immense tangle of streets, highways, and interchanges, lined with homes and businesses, playgrounds and theatres. We may not physically live in this city, but most of us spend a lot of time there, and...
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CodeNotes for J2EE
EJB, JDBC, JSP, and Servlets
Written by Gregory Brill
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: January 2, 2002
Price: $19.95
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...
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CodeNotes for Web Services in Java and .NET
Edited by Gregory Brill
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: December 10, 2002
Price: $11.99
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...
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Rapture for the Geeks
When AI Outsmarts IQ
Written by Richard Dooling
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: November 24, 2009
Price: $14.00
“Nimble and entertaining . . . A fascinating historical review of our longtime obsession with machines.”
–David Takami,
Seattle TimesIn
Rapture for the Geeks, Richard Dooling looks at what some of the greatest minds have to say about our roles in a future in which technology rapidly leaves us in the...
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Stealing MySpace
The Battle to Control the Most Popular Website in America
Written by Julia Angwin
Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: March 17, 2009
Price: $14.99
A few years ago, MySpace.com was just an idea kicking around a Southern California spam mill. Scroll down to the present day and MySpace is one of the most visited Internet destinations in America, displaying more than 40 billion webpage views per month and generating nearly $1 billion annually for Rupert...
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Say Everything
How Blogging Began, What It's Becoming, and Why It Matters
Written by Scott Rosenberg
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 16, 2009
Price: $11.99
Blogs are everywhere. They have exposed truths and spread rumors. Made and lost fortunes. Brought couples together and torn them apart. Toppled cabinet members and sparked grassroots movements. Immediate, intimate, and influential, they have put the power of personal publishing into everyone’s hands. Regularly dismissed as trivial and ephemeral, they have...
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Bears' Guide to the Best Computer Degrees by Distance Learning
Written by John Bear and Mariah Bear
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: February 27, 2001
Price: $14.95
Although it'¬?s a challenging job market for the high-tech elite-software designers, database programmers, website builders, network administrators, and IT professionals-this new Bears'¬? Guide maps the most direct route to those top-dollar salaries, showing you how to earn a fully accredited undergraduate or graduate high-tech degree without setting foot on a college...
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