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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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Empires of Light : Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race To Electrify the World (05 Edition) by Jill Jonnes Publisher Comments At the close of the nineteenth century, three visionaries strove to establish mastery over the electrification of America. Within this endeavor lay the promise of vast fortunes, but what was really at stake was the chance for one of these men to make his... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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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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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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And Then There's This: How Stories Live and Die in Viral Culture by Bill Wasik Publisher Comments "An odd but happy marriage of sociological observation and Gonzo- style adventure." -Wired Journalist and new media provocateur Bill Wasik journeys to the edge of our churning and rambunctious viral culture to illuminate how anyone with a computer can... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.50 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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Cultures@silicon Valley by J A English Lueck Publisher Comments “English-Luecks fascinating new book, Cultures@Silicon Valley, casts a laserlike anthropological eye on the mores and mannerisms of her homies. . . . English-Lueck and colleagues left the groves of academe and spent years—real quality time—... (read more) Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Control Revolution How the Internet Is Putting Individuals in Charge and Changing the World We Know by Andrew L Shapiro Publisher Comments With his straight talk and lucid arguments, Andrew Shapiro cuts through the hype to explain just how the Internet revolution has really affected our lives. He tackles the murkiest questions: What is the Internet doing to our sense of self and society... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Twitter Revolution by Deborah Micek Synopsis NO RULESThe revolution is underway. The power of social media lies with the people who use tools like Twitter.com. You decide how to use your power.Our goal is not to create rules to follow on Twitter. We simply want to give you the best tips, resources... (read more) List Price $18.97 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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FAB: The Coming Revolution on Your Desktop--From Personal Computers to Personal Fabrication by Neil Gershenfeld Publisher Comments What if you could someday put the manufacturing power of an automobile plant on your desktop? It may sound far-fetched-but then, thirty years ago, the notion of “personal computers” in every home sounded like science fiction. According to Neil... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Hardcover
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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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Nudist on the Late Shift by Po Bronson Publisher Comments As a novelist and writer for Wired and other publications, Po Bronson has earned a reputation as the most exciting and authentic literary voice to emerge from Silicon Valley. In his national bestseller The Nudist on the Late Shift he tells the true story... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $1.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Bit and the Pendulum: From Quantum Computing to M Theory— The New Physics of Information by Tom Siegfried Publisher Comments "Today, the realization that information is physical is at the heart of a new fashion in science. It's a fashion that may help forge a new understanding of the complexity of the universe, the secrets of time, space, life, and the brain . and our role in... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Official Book of Electronic Etiquette by Charles Winters Publisher Comments Whether you are sending an email, twittering, or just wondering if it’s appropriate to answer your phone, here are the answers to all your communication questions. Covering phones, the Internet, television, and much, much more, this accessible and... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Hardcover
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Digitally Daunted: The Consumer's Guide to Taking Control of the Technology in Your Life by Sean Westcott Publisher Comments Wi-fi or wired? Cable or fiber optic? HDMI or RCA? MP3 or AAC? Do you feel overwhelmed when you hear these terms? You're not alone-smart people everywhere feel intimidated by the technology in their life. Standing in an electronics store trying to decode... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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We-think: Mass Innovation, Not Mass Production (09 Edition) by Charles Leadbeater Publisher Comments You are what you share. That is the ethic of the world being created by YouTube and MySpace, Wikipedia and Facebook. We-Think is a rallying call for the shared power of the web to make society more open and egalitarian. We-Think reports on an... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Prefiguring Cyberculture: An Intellectual History by Darren Tofts and Annemarie Jonson and Alessio Cavallaro Publisher Comments The vast social apparatus of the computer network has aligned people with technology in unprecedented ways. The intimacy of the human-computer interface has made it impossible to distinguish technology from the social and cultural business of being human.... (read more) List Price $38.25 Your price: $11.50 Used - Hardcover
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Infinite Reality: Avatars, Eternal Life, New Worlds, and the Dawn of the Virtual Revolution by Jim Blascovich Publisher Comments How do The Matrix, Avatar, and Tron reveal the future of existence? can our brains recognize where "reality" ends and "virtual" begins? What would it mean to live eternally in a digital universe? Where will technology lead us in five, fifty, and five... (read more) List Price $27.99 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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