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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: $9.95 Used - Hardcover 
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Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren't the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest Person in the Room by David Weinberger Publisher Comments We used to know how to know. We got our answers from books or experts. Wed nail down the facts and move on. But in the Internet age, knowledge has moved onto networks. Theres more knowledge than ever, of course, but its different. Topics have no... (read more) List Price $25.99 Your price: $18.50 Used - Hardcover
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You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto (Vintage) by Jaron Lanier Staff Pick Proceed carefully. Reading this book is like biting into a jalapeño jelly bean that you thought was pear flavored. Startling, eye-opening, and a bit unnerving, Lanier's manifesto could be the key to preserving autonomy as increased technological... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All (P.S.) by Marilyn Johnson Publisher Comments Buried in info? Cross-eyed over technology? From the bottom of a pile of paper, disks, books, e-books, and scattered thumb drives comes a cry of hope: Make way for the librarians—they can help! Those who predicted the death of libraries forgot to... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Filter Bubble: How the New Personalized Web Is Changing What We Read and How We Think by Eli Pariser Publisher Comments In December 2009, Google began customizing its search results for all users, and we entered a new era of personalization. With little notice or fanfare, our online experience is changing, as the websites we visit are increasingly tailoring themselves to... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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Protecting Your Internet Identity: Are You Naked Online? by Theodore Claypoole Publisher Comments Today people have an offline reputation and image, but are increasingly creating one or more online personas. Their online image is having an impact on them in many ways. Employers are hiring and firing based on people s online activities. Criminals are... (read more) Your price: $19.95 New - Trade Paper
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Networked: The New Social Operating System by Lee Rainie Publisher Comments Daily life is connected life, its rhythms driven by endless email pings and responses, the chimes and beeps of continually arriving text messages, tweets and retweets, Facebook updates, pictures and videos to post and discuss. Our perpetual connectedness... (read more) Your price: $29.95 New - Hardcover
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Rise of the Videogame Zinesters: How Freaks, Normals, Amateurs, Artists, Dreamers, Dropouts, Queers, Housewives, and People Like You Are Taking Back a by Anna Anthropy Publisher Comments Part critical essay, part manifesto, part DIY guide, and altogether unprecedented, Rise of the Videogame Zinesters shows why the multi-billion dollar videogame industry needs to change—and how a new generation of artists can change it. Indie game... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Googlization of Everything: (And Why We Should Worry) by Siva Vaidhyanathan Publisher Comments In the beginning, the World Wide Web was exciting and open to the point of anarchy, a vast and intimidating repository of unindexed confusion. Into this creative chaos came Google with its dazzling mission--"To organize the world's information and make... (read more) Your price: $21.95 New - Trade Paper
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Hackers and Painters (04 Edition) by Paul Graham Publisher Comments This 25th anniversary edition of Steven Levy's classic book traces the exploits of the computer revolution's original hackers -- those brilliant and eccentric nerds from the late 1950s through the early '80s who took risks, bent the rules, and pushed... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $12.00 Used - Hardcover
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Hamlet's Blackberry: Building a Good Life in the Digital Age by William Jr Powers Publisher Comments Our computers and mobile devices do wonderful things for us. But they also impose a burden, making it harder for us to focus, do our best work, build strong relationships, and find the depth and fulfillment we crave. How to solve this problem? Hamlet... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground by Kevin Poulsen Publisher Comments Former hacker Kevin Poulsen has, over the past decade, built a reputation as one of the top investigative reporters on the cybercrime beat. In Kingpin, he pours his unmatched access and expertise into book form for the first time, delivering a gripping... (read more) Your price: $15.00 New - Trade Paper
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Net Smart: How to Thrive Online by Howard Rheingold Publisher Comments Like it or not, knowing how to make use of online tools without being overloaded with too much information is an essential ingredient to personal success in the twenty-first century. But how can we use digital media so that they make us empowered... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - 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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Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter (Vintage) by Tom Bissell Staff Pick If you've ever said to yourself (or your significant other), "as soon as I finish this level, I'll go to bed," you have to read Extra Lives. It's not so much a defense of video games as a willingness to explore the impact they have, for good and ill, in... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Always on: How the iPhone Unlocked the Anything-Anytime-Anywhere Future--And Locked Us in by Brian X. Chen Publisher Comments Even Steve Jobs didn't know what he had on his hands when he announced the original iPhone as a combination of a mere "three revolutionary products"--an iPod, a cell phone, and a keyboard-less handheld computer. Once Apple introduced the App Store and... (read more) Your price: $25.00 New - Hardcover
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Geektionary: From Anime to Zettabyte, an A to Z Guide to All Things Geek: More Than 1,000 Words to Understand Goobs, Gamers, Orkdor by Gregory Bergman Synopsis ""The last WoW module was clunky and a bit slow on my rig but it had a great toolset for building adventures for my avatar. Now I'm at sixtieth level! Awesome!"" Whether it's about science fiction, Star Trek, sports, comics, or computers, geekspeak is... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Bricklin on Technology by Daniel Bricklin Publisher Comments "As co-creator of VisiCalc, the first computerized spreadsheet, Dan Bricklin literally created the PC industry. To a student of software, VisiCalc is the embodiment of so many novel and important ideas in software, lessons which are still relevant today."... (read more) List Price $29.99 Your price: $14.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Uncanny Networks: Dialogues with the Virtual Intelligentsia (Leonardo) by Geert Lovink Publisher Comments For Geert Lovink, interviews are imaginative texts that can help to create global, networked discourses not only among different professions but also among different cultures and social groups. Conducting interviews online, over a period of weeks or... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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Out of Their Minds: The Lives and Discoveries of 15 Great Computer Scientists by Dennis Shasha Publisher Comments Imagine living during the Renaissance and being able to interview that era's greatest scientists about their inspirations, discoveries, and personal interests. The latter half of our century has seen its own Renaissance--informations technology has... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Hardcover
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