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Smarter Than Us: The Rise of Machine Intelligence

Stuart Armstrong,

Tomorrow's World...

To a Cro-Magnon, today's world would seem shockingly weird. This fascinating and important book argues that progress in AI might make tomorrow's world seem equally weird to us.

In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives

Steven Levy,

An Insider's Tour...

Enter Google’s headquarters for an insider’s tour & learn about everything from the history & founders, to the policies & work ethos, that has shaped its innovative output for decades.

Coding Freedom: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking

E. Gabriella Coleman,

Hacking, Illuminated...

Coleman sheds light on the obfuscated perception of hacking, arguing for the benefits of transparency & open source software & showing that hackers are truly progressive pioneers.

Steve Jobs

Walter Isaacson,

Imaginative & Impactful...

Isaacson’s exclusive biography brings this generation’s leading innovator to life again, illustrating the impact of imagination through interviews & anecdotes.

The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World

David Kirkpatrick,

An Unprecedented Look...

Kirkpatrick’s unprecedented access into the largest social company reveals a fascinating future shaped by a history of trial & error by the luminary of digital connectivity.

iOS 6 Application Development For Dummies

Dave Wilson Neal Goldstein,

A Clear Guide...

The app gold rush isn’t just for experienced engineers: with this clearly defined guide to coding, you too can partake in the iOS craze.

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PHP 5 Social Networking

Michael Peacock,

PrestaShop 1.3 Beginner's Guide

John Horton,

Ext GWT 2.0 Beginners Guide

Daniel Vaughan,

CodeIgniter 1.7 Professional Development

Adam Griffiths,

Blender 2.5 Lighting and Rendering

Aaron W. Powell,

Building Telephony Systems with OpenSIPS 1.6

Flavio E. Goncalves,

Mastering Joomla! 1.5 Extension and Framework Development: The Professional Guide to Programming Joomla!

James Kennard,

Java EE 6 with GlassFish 3 Application Server

David R. Heffelfinger,

Mahara 1.2 ePortfolios Beginner's Guide

Derrin Michael Kent,

Oracle 11g Streams Implementer's Guide

Ann L. R. McKinnell Eric Yen,

NHibernate 2: Beginner's Guide

Aaron Cure,

Python Testing Beginner's Guide

Daniel Arbuckle,

iReport 3.7

Shamsuddin Ahammad,

Oracle Fusion Middleware Patterns

Harish Gaur,

Expert PHP 5 Tools

Dirk Merkel,

Getting started with Audacity 1.3

Bethany Hiitola,

Oracle Application Express 3.2: The Essentials and More

Aric Pedersen,

Django 1.1 Testing and Debugging

Karen Marie Tracey,

Object-Oriented Programming in ColdFusion

Matt Gifford,

WiX 3.6: A Developer's Guide to Windows Installer XML

Nick Ramirez,

Learning Modernizr

Adam Watson,

Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS3

Ben Frain,

Migrating to Drupal 7

Trevor James,

Getting Started with Meteor.js JavaScript Framework

Isaac Strack,

Learning RStudio for R Statistical Computing

Mark Van Der Loo,

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Excel VBA Programming For Dummies

John Walkenbach,

App Empire: Make Money, Have a Life, and Let Technology Work for You

Chad Mureta,

Beginning Programming For Dummies

Wallace Wang,

The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World

David Kirkpatrick,

Linked: The New Science Of Networks Science Of Networks

Albert-Laszlo Barabasi Jennifer Frangos,

Hacking For Dummies

Kevin Beaver,

In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives

Steven Levy,

Beginning Programming All-In-One Desk Reference For Dummies

Wallace Wang,

Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software

Steven Johnson,

C All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies

Dan Gookin,

Networking All-in-One For Dummies

Doug Lowe,

Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think

Peter H. Diamandis Steven Kotler,

The Huffington Post Complete Guide to Blogging

Huffington Post Editors,

Database Development For Dummies

Allen G. Taylor,

Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins Of The Internet

Katie Hafner Matthew Lyon,

Python For Dummies

Stef Maruch Aahz Maruch,

Android Application Development For Dummies

Donn Felker Michael J. Burton,

Probably Approximately Correct: Nature's Algorithms for Learning and Prospering in a Complex World

Leslie Valiant,

Excel 2007 For Dummies

Greg Harvey,

Access 2010 All-in-One For Dummies

Alison Barrows Margaret Levine Young,

Content Rules: How to Create Killer Blogs, Podcasts, Videos, Ebooks, Webinars (and More) That Engage Customers and Ignite Your Business

Ann Handley C.C. Chapman,

Design for Hackers: Reverse Engineering Beauty

David Kadavy,

Composing Digital Music For Dummies

Russell Dean Vines,

Laptops For Dummies

Dan Gookin,

Web Marketing All-in-One For Dummies

John Arnold Michael Becker,

The Social Media Bible: Tactics, Tools, and Strategies for Business Success

Lon Safko,

Fab: The Coming Revolution on Your Desktop--from Personal Computers to Personal Fabrication

Neil Gershenfeld,

The Nature of Technology: What It Is and How It Evolves

W. Brian Arthur,

Drinking and Dating: P.S. Social Media Is Ruining Romance

Brandi Glanville,

R For Dummies

Joris Meys Andrie de Vries,

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Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software

Steven Johnson,

Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins Of The Internet

Katie Hafner Matthew Lyon,

Out Of Control: The New Biology Of Machines, Social Systems, And The Economic World

Kevin Kelly,

Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other

Sherry Turkle,

Life on the Screen

Sherry Turkle,

Small Pieces Loosely Joined: A Unified Theory Of The Web

David Weinberger,

The Human Use Of Human Beings: Cybernetics And Society

Norbert Wiener,

In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives

Steven Levy,

Diffusion of Innovations, 5th Edition

Everett M. Rogers,

The Anarchist in the Library: How the Clash Between Freedom and Control Is Hacking the Real World and Crashing the System

Siva Vaidhyanathan,

Rebel Code: Linux And The Open Source Revolution

Glyn Moody,

Creating Web Pages For Dummies

Bud E. Smith,

PHP and MySQL For Dummies

Janet Valade,

Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren't the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest Person in the Room Is the Room

David Weinberger,

The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom

Evgeny Morozov,

In the Beginning...Was the Command Line

Neal Stephenson,

21 Dog Years: Doing Time @ Amazon.com

Mike Daisey,

Circles: Fifty Round Trips Through History Technology Scien

James Burke,

UNIX For Dummies

John R. Levine Margaret Levine Young,

Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think

Peter H. Diamandis Steven Kotler,

Socialnomics: How Social Media Transforms the Way We Live and Do Business

Erik Qualman,

Burn Rate: How I Survived the Gold Rush Years on the Internet

Michael Wolff,

Fab: The Coming Revolution on Your Desktop--from Personal Computers to Personal Fabrication

Neil Gershenfeld,

iPod and iTunes For Dummies

The Weblog Handbook: Practical Advice On Creating And Maintaining Your Blog

Mallory F., Scribd Editor

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Walter Isaacson,

Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins Of The Internet

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The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World

David Kirkpatrick,

In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives

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The Flight of the Creative Class: The New Global Competition for Talent

Richard Florida,

Burn Rate: How I Survived the Gold Rush Years on the Internet

Michael Wolff,

Dealers of Lightning

Michael A. Hiltzik,

Showstopper!: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft

G. Pascal Zachary,

In the Beginning...Was the Command Line

Neal Stephenson,

The Pirate's Dilemma: How Youth Culture Is Reinventing Capitalism

Matt Mason,

What Would Google Do?: Reverse-Engineering the Fastest Growing Company in the History of the World

Jeff Jarvis,

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Crossing the Chasm, 3rd Edition

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Web Copy That Sells: The Revolutionary Formula for Creating Killer Copy That Grabs Their Attention and Compels Them to Buy

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AJAX and PHP: Building Responsive Web Applications

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I'm Feeling Lucky: The Confessions of Google Employee Number 59

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The Late Age of Print: Everyday Book Culture from Consumerism to Control

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Core Memory: A Visual Survey of Vintage Computers

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Who Owns the Future?

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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 Is the Room

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Nine Algorithms That Changed the Future: The Ingenious Ideas That Drive Today's Computers

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Normal Accidents: Living with High Risk Technologies

Charles Perrow,

Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age

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The Complexity of Cooperation: Agent-Based Models of Competition and Collaboration: Agent-Based Models of Competition and Collaboration

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The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom

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To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism

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Fatal System Error: The Hunt for the New Crime Lords Who Are Bringing Down the Internet

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