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In the Beginning...Was the Command Line In the Beginning...Was the Command Line
by Neal Stephenson

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About twenty years ago Jobs and Wozniak, the founders of Apple, came up with the very strange idea of selling information-processing machines for use in the home. The business took off, and its founders made a lot of money and received the credit they... (read more)

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Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity
by Lawrence Lessig

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Lawrence Lessig, "the most important thinker on intellectual property in the Internet era" (The New Yorker), masterfully argues that never before in human history has the power to control creative progress been so concentrated in the hands of the... (read more)

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The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture
by John Battelle

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How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture a The Wall Street Journal and BusinessWeek Bestseller a Finalist for the Goldman Sachs/FT Business Book of the Year Award What does the world want? According to John... (read more)

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Microsoft Encarta Dictionary: The First Dictionary for the Internet Age Microsoft Encarta Dictionary: The First Dictionary for the Internet Age
by Encarta

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Microsoft(R) Encarta(R) DictionaryA Traditional Dictionary with an Untraditional UpgradeThe Microsoft(R) Encarta(R) Dictionary uniquely combines authority and innovation with a distinct advantage. This revised edition takes reference to a new level with... (read more)

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PCs Just the Steps for Dummies(r) (For Dummies) PCs Just the Steps for Dummies(r) (For Dummies)
by Nancy Muir

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Your first PC can be intimidating. You're probably panicky that you'll hit a wrong key and send your information to some high-tech black hole or cause your PC to self-destruct. Not to worry. PCs Just the Steps For Dummies gives you simple directions for... (read more)

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The Hacker Ethic and the Spirit of the New Economy The Hacker Ethic and the Spirit of the New Economy
by Pekka Himanen

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On the heels of the Protestant work ethic comes a new, opposing cultural logic, born of the Information Age and rapidly gaining force--the Hacker Ethic as outlined by Pekka Himanen. "Hackers are the warriors, explorers, guerrillas, and joyous adventurers... (read more)

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Windows XP Para Dummies / Windows XP for Dummies (Para Dummies) Windows XP Para Dummies / Windows XP for Dummies (Para Dummies)
by Andy Rathbone

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The Windows operating system controls software and user tasks on a PC. This reliable, good-humored guide shows ordinary people how to get a handle on Windows' idiosyncrasies and get more done with their PCs.... (read more)

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Spam Kings Spam Kings
by Brian McWilliams

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M o r e t h a n s i x t y p e r c e n t o f t o d a y' s e m a i l t r a f f i c i s s p a m, a c c o r d i n g t o e m a i l f i l t e r i n g f i r m B r i g h t m a i l . T h i s y e a r a l o n e, f i v e t r i l l i o n s p a m m e s s a g e s w i l... (read more)

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Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 03 (Make: Technology on Your Time) Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 03 (Make: Technology on Your Time)
by Mark Frauenfelder

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If you like to tweak, disassemble, re-create, and invent cool new uses for technology, you'll love MAKE our new quarterly publication for the inquisitive do-it-yourselfer. Our third issue looks at how you can turn your car into a Wi-Fi blasting... (read more)

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The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier
by Bruce Sterling

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A searing probe into computer hacking--a cutting-edge nonfiction book by the bestselling co-author of The Difference Engine. Sterling looks at the issue of computer freedom vs. computer security from all sides: the telephone companies, who are the... (read more)

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The Soul of a New Machine The Soul of a New Machine
by Tracy Kidder

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Computers have changed since 1981, when Tracy Kidder indelibly recorded the drama, comedy, and excitement of one company's efforts to bring a new microcomputer to market. What has changed little, however, is computer culture: the feverish pace of the... (read more)

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Evil Geniuses in a Nutshell: A User Friendly Guide to World Domination Evil Geniuses in a Nutshell: A User Friendly Guide to World Domination
by Illiad

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The follow-up to the highly successful first collection of User Friendly comic strips from O'Reilly & Associates, Evil Geniuses in a Nutshell tells the continuing tale of Columbia Internet, the friendliest, hardest-working and most neurotic little... (read more)

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Sams Teach Yourself Networking in 24 Hours (Sams Teach Yourself ... in 24 Hours) Sams Teach Yourself Networking in 24 Hours (Sams Teach Yourself ... in 24 Hours)
by Joseph W Habraken

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Build a network from the ground up in just 24 hours! Sams Teach Yourself Networking in 24 Hours is written in a unique task-oriented, step-by-step guide that allows you to learn the essentials of networking from beginning to end. Chapters are broken out... (read more)

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Global Networks, Linked Cities Global Networks, Linked Cities
by Saskia Sassen

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In her pioneering book "The Global City," Saskia Sassen argued that certain cities in the postindustrial world have become central nodes in the new service economy, strategic sites for the acceleration of capital and information flows as well as spaces... (read more)

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Data Smog: Surviving the Information Glut Revised and Updated Edition Data Smog: Surviving the Information Glut Revised and Updated Edition
by David Shenk

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Media scholar David Shenk examines the effects of data overload on our lives, our relationships, and our culture, and offers strikingly down-to-earth insights for coping with our information infatuation. Hailed by the New York Times as "An Indispensable... (read more)

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Hacking Matter: Levitating Chairs, Quantum Mirages, and the Infinite Weirdness of Programmable Atoms Hacking Matter: Levitating Chairs, Quantum Mirages, and the Infinite Weirdness of Programmable Atoms
by Wil Mccarthy

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Programmable matter is probably not the next technological revolution, nor even perhaps the one after that. But it's coming, and when it does, it will change our lives as much as any invention ever has. Imagine being able to program matter itself-to... (read more)

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Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age
by Paul Graham

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"The computer world is like an intellectual Wild West, in which you can shoot anyone you wish with your ideas, if you're willing to risk the consequences. " --from Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age, by Paul Graham We... (read more)

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User Friendly: The Comic Strip User Friendly: The Comic Strip
by J D Frazer

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User Friendly tells the story of Columbia Internet, "the friendliest, hardest-working, and most neurotic little Internet Service Provider in the world." Take three techs, two salespeople, a designer, two executives, a couple of administrative staff, mix... (read more)

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Concise Encyclopedia of Computer Science Concise Encyclopedia of Computer Science
by Edwin D Reilly

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The Encyclopedia of Computer Science has evolved through four editions. Now published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., this revised, concise edition is 60% shorter than the full Fourth Edition, with the principal omissions being highly mathematical... (read more)

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Visual Basic 6.0 Visual Basic 6.0
by Barcharts

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Visual Basic is a greatly enhanced and extended implementation of standard BASIC. The Visual Basic (VB) package is distributed as an Integrated Development Environment (IDE). This 4-page laminated guide includes detailed information on: the Visual Basic... (read more)

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