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Microsoft Windows Networking Essentials

by Darril Gibson ...

The core concepts and technologies of Windows networkingNetworking can be a complex topic, especially for those new to the field of IT. This focused, full-color book takes a unique approach to teaching Windows networking to beginners by stripping down a network to its bare basics, thereby making each topic clear and easy to understand. Focusing on the new Microsoft Technology Associate (MTA) ... Read more

$24.00 USD

The core concepts and technologies of Windows networkingNetworking can be a complex topic, especially for those new to the field of IT. This focused, full-color book takes a unique approach to teaching Windows networking to beginners by stripping down a network to its bare basics, thereby making each topic clear and easy to understand. Focusing on the new Microsoft Technology Associate (MTA)
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Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Bible

by Paul Nielsen, Uttam Parui ...

Series Book 607 - Bible
Harness the power of SQL Server, Microsoft’s high-performance database and data analysis software package, by accesing everything you need to know in Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Bible. Learn the best practices, tips, and tricks from this comprehensive tutorial and reference, which includes specific examples and sample code, with nearly every task demonstrated in both a graphical and SQL code method. ... Read more

$38.99 USD

Harness the power of SQL Server, Microsoft’s high-performance database and data analysis software package, by accesing everything you need to know in Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Bible. Learn the best practices, tips, and tricks from this comprehensive tutorial and reference, which includes specific examples and sample code, with nearly every task demonstrated in both a graphical and SQL code method.
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Amazon Web Services For Dummies

by Bernard Golden ...

Create dynamic cloud-based websites with Amazon Web Services and this friendly guide!As the largest cloud computing platform in the world, Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides one of the most popular web services options available. This easy-to-understand guide is the perfect introduction to the Amazon Web Services platform and all it can do for you. You'll learn about the Amazon Web Services tool ... Read more

$19.99 USD

Create dynamic cloud-based websites with Amazon Web Services and this friendly guide!As the largest cloud computing platform in the world, Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides one of the most popular web services options available. This easy-to-understand guide is the perfect introduction to the Amazon Web Services platform and all it can do for you. You'll learn about the Amazon Web Services tool
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ISC2 CISSP Certified Information Systems Security Professional Official Practice Tests

by Mike Chapple, David Seidl ...

Full-length practice tests covering all CISSP domains for the ultimate CISSP prepThe ISC2 CISSP Official Practice Tests is a major resource for ISC2 Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) candidates, providing 1300 unique practice questions. The first part of the book provides 100 questions per domain. You also have access to four unique 125-question practice exams to help you ... Read more

$35.00 USD

Full-length practice tests covering all CISSP domains for the ultimate CISSP prepThe ISC2 CISSP Official Practice Tests is a major resource for ISC2 Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) candidates, providing 1300 unique practice questions. The first part of the book provides 100 questions per domain. You also have access to four unique 125-question practice exams to help you
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Technology for English Language Learners

by John F. O'Sullivan ...

Learn how to translate documents, eBooks, and videos for English language learners. Both Chromebooks and Windows platforms are explored in this book. The Google Translate extension can translate eBooks on Overdrive Sora. Closed captioning on YouTube can be used to translate to various languages. Google Translate can translate documents into different languages. Google Documents and MS Office have ... Read more

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Learn how to translate documents, eBooks, and videos for English language learners. Both Chromebooks and Windows platforms are explored in this book. The Google Translate extension can translate eBooks on Overdrive Sora. Closed captioning on YouTube can be used to translate to various languages. Google Translate can translate documents into different languages. Google Documents and MS Office have
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Learning the Korn Shell

Unix Programming

by Arnold Robbins, Bill Rosenblatt ...

The Korn shell is an interactive command and scripting language for accessing Unix® and other computer systems. As a complete and high-level programming language in itself, it's been a favorite since it was developed in the mid 1980s by David G. Korn at AT&T Bell Laboratories. Knowing how to use it is an essential skill for serious Unix users. Learning the Korn Shell shows you how to use the Korn ... Read more

$24.99 USD

The Korn shell is an interactive command and scripting language for accessing Unix® and other computer systems. As a complete and high-level programming language in itself, it's been a favorite since it was developed in the mid 1980s by David G. Korn at AT&T Bell Laboratories. Knowing how to use it is an essential skill for serious Unix users. Learning the Korn Shell shows you how to use the Korn
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CompTIA Linux+ Study Guide

Exam XK0-006

by Richard Blum ...

Series series Sybex Study Guide
The latest edition of the gold standard in Linux+ certification exam prep and skills reinforcementIn the newly revised sixth edition of the CompTIA Linux+ Study Guide: Exam XK0-006, veteran system and network administrator Richard Blum delivers a fully up-to-date guide to the challenging CompTIA Linux+ certification exam, as well as a concise discussion of the skills and knowledge you'll need to ... Read more

$54.00 USD

The latest edition of the gold standard in Linux+ certification exam prep and skills reinforcementIn the newly revised sixth edition of the CompTIA Linux+ Study Guide: Exam XK0-006, veteran system and network administrator Richard Blum delivers a fully up-to-date guide to the challenging CompTIA Linux+ certification exam, as well as a concise discussion of the skills and knowledge you'll need to
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Linux for Beginners: Linux Command Line, Linux Programming and Linux Operating System

by Steve Will ...

A 100% practical approach to quickly acquire the basics of Linux administration,ideal for beginners wishing to be quickly operational in Linux administration, this survival guide is the essential companion to never feel lost in a Linux world. This book is intended for students, academics and engineers and more generally to anyone wishing to acquire a good knowledge of Linux system. The main ... Read more

$4.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

A 100% practical approach to quickly acquire the basics of Linux administration,ideal for beginners wishing to be quickly operational in Linux administration, this survival guide is the essential companion to never feel lost in a Linux world. This book is intended for students, academics and engineers and more generally to anyone wishing to acquire a good knowledge of Linux system. The main
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After Effects for Designers

Graphic and Interactive Design in Motion

by Chris Jackson ...

After Effects for Designers teaches design students, artists, and web, graphic, and interactive designers how to design, develop, and deploy motion design projects using Adobe After Effects. Author Chris Jackson balances fundamental aspects of time-based design with related techniques, and explores the principles of animation; composition and layout; visual hierarchy; typography; cinematic ... Read more

$64.99 USD

After Effects for Designers teaches design students, artists, and web, graphic, and interactive designers how to design, develop, and deploy motion design projects using Adobe After Effects. Author Chris Jackson balances fundamental aspects of time-based design with related techniques, and explores the principles of animation; composition and layout; visual hierarchy; typography; cinematic
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Word 2016 For Dummies

by Dan Gookin ...

The bestselling beginner's guide to Microsoft WordWritten by the author of the first-ever For Dummies book, Dan Gookin, this new edition of Word For Dummies quickly and painlessly gets you up to speed on mastering the world's number-one word processing software. In a friendly, human, and often irreverent manner, it focuses on the needs of the beginning Word user, offering clear and simple guidance ... Read more

$16.00 USD

The bestselling beginner's guide to Microsoft WordWritten by the author of the first-ever For Dummies book, Dan Gookin, this new edition of Word For Dummies quickly and painlessly gets you up to speed on mastering the world's number-one word processing software. In a friendly, human, and often irreverent manner, it focuses on the needs of the beginning Word user, offering clear and simple guidance
... Read more
Professional SharePoint 2013 Development

by Reza Alirezaei, Brendon Schwartz, Matt Ranlett, Scot Hillier, Brian Wilson, Jeff Fried, Paul Swider ...

Thorough coverage of development in SharePoint 2013A team of well-known Microsoft MVPs joins forces in this fully updated resource, providing you with in-depth coverage of development tools in the latest iteration of the immensely popular SharePoint. From building solutions to building custom workflow and content management applications, this book shares field-tested best practices on all aspect ... Read more

$32.99 USD

Thorough coverage of development in SharePoint 2013A team of well-known Microsoft MVPs joins forces in this fully updated resource, providing you with in-depth coverage of development tools in the latest iteration of the immensely popular SharePoint. From building solutions to building custom workflow and content management applications, this book shares field-tested best practices on all aspect
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Big Data For Dummies

by Alan Nugent, Fern Halper, Marcia Kaufman, Judith S. Hurwitz ...

Find the right big data solution for your business or organizationBig data management is one of the major challenges facing business, industry, and not-for-profit organizations. Data sets such as customer transactions for a mega-retailer, weather patterns monitored by meteorologists, or social network activity can quickly outpace the capacity of traditional data management tools. If you need to ... Read more

$21.00 USD

Find the right big data solution for your business or organizationBig data management is one of the major challenges facing business, industry, and not-for-profit organizations. Data sets such as customer transactions for a mega-retailer, weather patterns monitored by meteorologists, or social network activity can quickly outpace the capacity of traditional data management tools. If you need to
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Beginning SharePoint 2013 Development

by Steve Fox, Chris Johnson, Donovan Follette ...

A complete revision to a popular SharePoint developer's resourceFully updated for SharePoint 2013, this book is an ideal starting place for SharePoint development. Covering all the major topics that a new developer needs to know in order to get started, this resource contains 100 percent new content and addresses the major overhaul to the SharePoint 2013 platform. The team of authors, led by ... Read more

$29.99 USD

A complete revision to a popular SharePoint developer's resourceFully updated for SharePoint 2013, this book is an ideal starting place for SharePoint development. Covering all the major topics that a new developer needs to know in order to get started, this resource contains 100 percent new content and addresses the major overhaul to the SharePoint 2013 platform. The team of authors, led by
... Read more
Practical Natural Language Processing

A Comprehensive Guide to Building Real-World NLP Systems

by Sowmya Vajjala, Bodhisattwa Majumder, Anuj Gupta, Harshit Surana ...

Many books and courses tackle natural language processing (NLP) problems with toy use cases and well-defined datasets. But if you want to build, iterate, and scale NLP systems in a business setting and tailor them for particular industry verticals, this is your guide. Software engineers and data scientists will learn how to navigate the maze of options available at each step of the journey.Through ... Read more

$48.99 USD

Many books and courses tackle natural language processing (NLP) problems with toy use cases and well-defined datasets. But if you want to build, iterate, and scale NLP systems in a business setting and tailor them for particular industry verticals, this is your guide. Software engineers and data scientists will learn how to navigate the maze of options available at each step of the journey.Through
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Game Design Workshop

A Playcentric Approach to Creating Innovative Games

by Tracy Fullerton ...

“Create the digital games you love to play.”Discover an exercise-driven, non-technical approach to game design without the need for programming or artistic experience with Game Design Workshop, Fifth Edition.Tracy Fullerton demystifies the creative process with clear and accessible guidance on the formal, dramatic, and dynamic systems of game design. Using examples of classic and popular games, ... Read more

$76.99 USD

“Create the digital games you love to play.”Discover an exercise-driven, non-technical approach to game design without the need for programming or artistic experience with Game Design Workshop, Fifth Edition.Tracy Fullerton demystifies the creative process with clear and accessible guidance on the formal, dramatic, and dynamic systems of game design. Using examples of classic and popular games,
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The Chinese Computer

A Global History of the Information Age

by Thomas S. Mullaney ...

The fascinating, untold story of how the Chinese language overcame unparalleled challenges and revolutionized the world of computing.A standard QWERTY keyboard has a few dozen keys. How can Chinese—a language with tens of thousands of characters and no alphabet—be input on such a device? In The Chinese Computer, Thomas S. Mullaney sets out to resolve this paradox, and in doing so, discovers that ... Read more

$20.99 USD

The fascinating, untold story of how the Chinese language overcame unparalleled challenges and revolutionized the world of computing.A standard QWERTY keyboard has a few dozen keys. How can Chinese—a language with tens of thousands of characters and no alphabet—be input on such a device? In The Chinese Computer, Thomas S. Mullaney sets out to resolve this paradox, and in doing so, discovers that
... Read more
The Future of the Professions

How Technology Will Transform the Work of Human Experts, Updated Edition

by Richard Susskind, Daniel Susskind ...

This book predicts the decline of today's professions and introduces the people and systems that will replace them. In an internet-enhanced society, according to Richard Susskind and Daniel Susskind, we will neither need nor want doctors, teachers, accountants, architects, the clergy, consultants, lawyers, and many others, to work as they did in the 20th century. The Future of the Professions ... Read more

$9.99 USD

This book predicts the decline of today's professions and introduces the people and systems that will replace them. In an internet-enhanced society, according to Richard Susskind and Daniel Susskind, we will neither need nor want doctors, teachers, accountants, architects, the clergy, consultants, lawyers, and many others, to work as they did in the 20th century. The Future of the Professions
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The Pentester BluePrint

Starting a Career as an Ethical Hacker

by Phillip L. Wylie, Kim Crawley ...

JUMPSTART YOUR NEW AND EXCITING CAREER AS A PENETRATION TESTERThe Pentester BluePrint: Your Guide to Being a Pentester offers readers a chance to delve deeply into the world of the ethical, or "white-hat" hacker. Accomplished pentester and author Phillip L. Wylie and cybersecurity researcher Kim Crawley walk you through the basic and advanced topics necessary to understand how to make a career out ... Read more

$19.00 USD

JUMPSTART YOUR NEW AND EXCITING CAREER AS A PENETRATION TESTERThe Pentester BluePrint: Your Guide to Being a Pentester offers readers a chance to delve deeply into the world of the ethical, or "white-hat" hacker. Accomplished pentester and author Phillip L. Wylie and cybersecurity researcher Kim Crawley walk you through the basic and advanced topics necessary to understand how to make a career out
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CompTIA Security+ Review Guide

Exam SY0-601

by James Michael Stewart ...

Learn the ins and outs of the IT security field and efficiently prepare for the CompTIA Security+ Exam SY0-601 with one easy-to-follow resourceCompTIA Security+ Review Guide: Exam SY0-601, Fifth Edition helps you to efficiently review for the leading IT security certification—CompTIA Security+ SY0-601. Accomplished author and security expert James Michael Stewart covers each domain in a ... Read more

$19.00 USD

Learn the ins and outs of the IT security field and efficiently prepare for the CompTIA Security+ Exam SY0-601 with one easy-to-follow resourceCompTIA Security+ Review Guide: Exam SY0-601, Fifth Edition helps you to efficiently review for the leading IT security certification—CompTIA Security+ SY0-601. Accomplished author and security expert James Michael Stewart covers each domain in a
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iBrain

Surviving the Technological Alteration of the Modern Mind

by Gigi Vorgan, Gary Small ...

Their insights are extraordinary, their behaviors unusual. Their brains—shaped by the era of microprocessors, access to limitless information, and 24-hour news and communication—are remapping, retooling, and evolving. They're not superhuman. They're your twenty-something coworkers, your children, and your competition. Are you keeping up?In iBrain, Dr. Gary Small, one of America's leading ... Read more

$7.99 USD

Their insights are extraordinary, their behaviors unusual. Their brains—shaped by the era of microprocessors, access to limitless information, and 24-hour news and communication—are remapping, retooling, and evolving. They're not superhuman. They're your twenty-something coworkers, your children, and your competition. Are you keeping up?In iBrain, Dr. Gary Small, one of America's leading
... Read more
22 Creative Uses for iPad 2

by Matjaž Štrancar ...

iPad owners must sometimes be able to think outside the box. This short e-booklet, full of useful and amusing tips, serves that purpose. ... Read more

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iPad owners must sometimes be able to think outside the box. This short e-booklet, full of useful and amusing tips, serves that purpose.
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PMP Certification, A Beginner's Guide

by George Angel ...

Essential Project Management Skills--Made Easy! This accessible guide bridges the gap between being a project manager and becoming a globally recognized Project Management Professional (PMP). Covering the latest PMP exam content from the Project Management Institute (PMI), the book explains PMI's worldwide standard methods, nine knowledge areas, and 42 processes. You'll learn proven strategies ... Read more

$35.99 USD

Essential Project Management Skills--Made Easy! This accessible guide bridges the gap between being a project manager and becoming a globally recognized Project Management Professional (PMP). Covering the latest PMP exam content from the Project Management Institute (PMI), the book explains PMI's worldwide standard methods, nine knowledge areas, and 42 processes. You'll learn proven strategies
... Read more
Word 2007 Macros & VBA Made Easy

by Guy Hart-Davis ...

Get beyond the basics with Word 2007Now you can take your Microsoft Word skills to the next level with help from this hands-on guide. Word 2007 Macros & VBA Made Easy shows you how to automate tasks using the tools available in Word's built-in VBA programming language. You'll learn how to record, create, customize, debug, and share macros. Discover how easy it is to develop your own macros, save ... Read more

$25.99 USD

Get beyond the basics with Word 2007Now you can take your Microsoft Word skills to the next level with help from this hands-on guide. Word 2007 Macros & VBA Made Easy shows you how to automate tasks using the tools available in Word's built-in VBA programming language. You'll learn how to record, create, customize, debug, and share macros. Discover how easy it is to develop your own macros, save
... Read more
Face with Tears of Joy

A Natural History of Emoji

by Keith Houston ...

A vibrant exploration of the world’s newest language—where it came from, how it works, and where it’s going.We are surrounded by emoji. They appear in politics, movies, drug deals, our sex lives, and more. But emoji’s impact has never been explored in full. In this rollicking tech and pop culture history, Keith Houston follows emoji from its birth in 1990s Japan, traces its Western explosion in ... Read more

$13.99 USD

A vibrant exploration of the world’s newest language—where it came from, how it works, and where it’s going.We are surrounded by emoji. They appear in politics, movies, drug deals, our sex lives, and more. But emoji’s impact has never been explored in full. In this rollicking tech and pop culture history, Keith Houston follows emoji from its birth in 1990s Japan, traces its Western explosion in
... Read more

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