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PC Mods for the Evil Genius by Jim Aspinwall Publisher Comments UNIQUE YOUR PC WITH SUPER TWEAKS! If you yearn for the coolest, most crazed 'puter around, PC Mods for the Evil Genius is the key to the kingdom! This book shows you how to supercharge your PC-and create a jaw-dropping system that cannot be purchased off... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $4.98 Sale - Trade Paper 
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I Know Who You Are and I Saw What You Did: Social Networks and the Death of Privacy by Lori Andrews Publisher Comments Social networks are the defining cultural movement of our time, empowering us in constantly evolving ways. We can all now be reporters, alerting the world to breaking news of a natural disaster; we can participate in crowd-sourced scientific research... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Filter Bubble: What the Internet Is Hiding from You by Eli Pariser Publisher Comments An eye-opening account of how the hidden rise of personalization on the Internet is controlling-and limiting-the information we consume. In December 2009, Google began customizing its search results for each user. Instead of giving you the most broadly... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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NetBooks for Dummies by Joel Mcnamara Publisher Comments Want to streamline your life with a netbook? Here's what you need to know! What's smaller than a laptop, bigger than a cell phone, and keeps you connected? It's the netbook, and this "real" book tells you how to pick the right one; use it for work... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price: $14.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Breakup 2.0: Disconnecting Over New Media by Ilana Gershon PW Review "In her surprisingly gripping first book, Gershon argues that Facebook and other forms of new media social networking have radically changed the playing field of accepted interactions. Generations navigate these new forms differently and a whole new set... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $15.95 Sale - Hardcover
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Geeks on Call PCs 5-Minute Fixes by James T Geier Publisher Comments Showing your PC who's boss PCs have evolved dramatically, and as they've grown more powerful and versatile, they've also become more complex. No doubt there have been times when you were sure the PC was running the show, not you. Geeks On Call can put... (read more) List Price $9.99 Your price: $1.75 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Privacy Advocates: Resisting the Spread of Surveillance by Colin Bennett Publisher Comments Today, personal information is captured, processed, and disseminated in a bewildering variety of ways, and through increasingly sophisticated, miniaturized, and distributed technologies: identity cards, biometrics, video surveillance, the use of cookies... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price: $9.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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Adventures from the Technology Underground: Catapults, Pulsejets, Rail Guns, Flamethrowers, Tesla Coils, Air Cannons and the Garage Warriors Who Love Them by William Gurstelle Publisher Comments The technology underground is a thriving, humming, and often literally scintillating subculture of amateur inventors and scientific envelope-pushers who dream up, design, and build machines that whoosh, rumble, fly—and occasionally hurl pumpkins... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $8.24 Sale - Hardcover
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The Digital Divide: Arguments for and Against Facebook, Google, Texting, and the Age of Social Networking by Mark Bauerlein Publisher Comments This definitive work on the perils and promise of the social- media revolution collects writings by today's best thinkers and cultural commentators, with an all-new introduction by Bauerlein. Twitter, Facebook, e-publishing, blogs, distance-learning and... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Nightwork: A History of Hacks and Pranks at MIT by T F Peterson Publisher Comments An MIT hack is an ingenious, benign, andanonymous prank or practicaljoke, often requiring engineering or scientificexpertise and often pulled off undercover of darkness -- instances of campus mischief sometimes coinciding withAprilFool's Day, final exams,... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $15.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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An Introduction to Cybercultures by David Bell Publisher Comments "An Introduction to Cybercultures" provides an accessible guide to the major forms, practices and meanings of this rapidly growing field. From the evolution of hardware and software to the emergence of cyberpunk, film and fiction, David Bell introduces... (read more) List Price $35.95 Your price: $9.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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Outlook 2003 by Barcharts Publisher Comments Part of the Microsoft Office 2003 series. Outlook provides a single location for organizing and managing all day-to-day information from E-mail and calendars to contacts and task lists. This 6-page laminated guide includes: NEW FEATURES, navigation... (read more) List Price $5.95 Your price: $0.50 Sale - Miscellaneous
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The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder Publisher Comments 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) List Price $15.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Internet and American Business (History of Computing) by William Aspray Publisher Comments When we think of the Internet, we generally think of Amazon, Google, Hotmail, Napster, MySpace, and other sites for buying products, searching for information, downloading entertainment, chatting with friends, or posting photographs. In the academic... (read more) List Price $29.75 Your price: $18.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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TiVo Hacks (Hacks) by Raffi Krikorian Publisher Comments "TiVo Hacks helps you get the most out of your TiVo personal video recorder. Armed with just a screwdriver and basic understanding of PC hardware (or willingness to learn), preeminent hackability awaits. This book includes hacks for changing the order of... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $4.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Great Digitization and the Quest to Know Everything by Lucien X Polastron Publisher Comments Examines the pitfalls, perils, and promises offered by the digitization of books - Reveals the danger digitized books pose to the very idea of free reading - Poses the questions society should be asking itself before heedlessly embracing this brave new... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $7.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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In Search of Jefferson's Moose: Notes on the State of Cyberspace by David G Post Publisher Comments In 1787, Thomas Jefferson, then the American Minister to France, had the "complete skeleton, skin and horns" of an American moose shipped to him in Paris and mounted in the lobby of his residence as a symbol of the vast possibilities contained in the... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $13.95 Sale - Hardcover
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PC Hardware Annoyances by Stephen Bigelow Publisher Comments Operating a personal computer requires more than just dealing with the PC itself. As anyone with even a modicum of computer experience can attest, there are all types of hardware devices which you must become familiar with disk drives, printers, monitors,... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Word 2003 by Barcharts Publisher Comments Microsoft's word processing program; part of the Office 2003 series. Shares a user interface with other Office 2003 applications, allowing for seamless integration with Excel 2003, PowerPoint 2003, Outlook 2003 and Access 2003. 6-page laminated guide... (read more) List Price $5.95 Your price: $0.50 Sale - Miscellaneous
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Second Lives by Tim Guest Publisher Comments Every day, millions of people abandon reality for virtual worlds building houses, making and selling works of art, getting married. On ebay, people sell virtual clothes and rent virtual cars. Tim Guest takes us into the bizarre culture of virtual lives.... (read more) Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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