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Open Government
By Daniel Lathrop, Laurel Ruma
February 2010 (est.)
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In a world where web services can make real-time data accessible to anyone, how can the government leverage this openness to improve its operations and increase citizen participation and awareness?… Read more.

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Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 21
By Mark Frauenfelder
January 2010 
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Enter the world of desktop manufacturing with MAKE! Issue 21 offers the know-how you need to make three-dimensional parts with inexpensive computer-controlled manufacturing equipment. Perfect for individuals and small groups,… Read more.

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The New How
By Nilofer Merchant
December 2009 
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Once in a generation, a book comes along that transforms the business landscape. Company strategy typically has been planned by corporate chiefs in annual meetings, and then dictated to managers… Read more.

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Friends with Benefits
By Darren Barefoot, Julie Szabo
November 2009 
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The rules of marketing have changed. Friends with Benefits: A Social Media Marketing Handbook is a tactical guide, filled with tricks, tips, and real-world case studies that show you how… Read more.

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Confessions of a Public Speaker
By Scott Berkun
November 2009 
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In this hilarious and highly practical book, author and professional speaker Scott Berkun reveals the techniques behind what great communicators do, and shows how anyone can learn to use them… Read more.

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Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 20
By Mark Frauenfelder
October 2009 
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Get ready for the coolest issue of MAKE. Our special kids issue is filled with exciting and fun projects to make your weekend or science fair a blast. Hydrogen rockets,… Read more.

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Premiere Elements 8: The Missing Manual
By Chris Grover
October 2009 
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Whether you're aiming for YouTube videos or Hollywood-style epics, you need what Premiere Elements can't provide: crystal-clear guidance and real world know-how. This Missing Manual delivers. Packed with great ideas… Read more.

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The Sustainable Network
By Sarah Sorensen
October 2009 
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The Sustainable Network demonstrates how we can tackle challenges, ranging from energy conservation to economic and social innovation, using the global network -- of which the public Internet is just… Read more.

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Just a Geek
By Wil Wheaton
August 2009 
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Wil Wheaton has never been one to take the conventional path to success. Despite early stardom through his childhood role in the motion picture "Stand By Me", and growing up… Read more.

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The Art of Community
By Jono Bacon
August 2009 
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Online communities offer a wide range of opportunities today, whether you're supporting a cause, marketing a product or service, or developing open source software. In The Art of Community, you'll… Read more.

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Programming Cocoa with Ruby
By Brian Marick
July 2009 
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Programming Cocoa with Ruby brings together two enthusiastic development communities. Ruby programmers will tell you how productive they are with just the right amount of code. Cocoa developers know the… Read more.

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Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 19
By Mark Frauenfelder
July 2009 
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This issue of MAKE Magazine will reveal hands-on methods for building simple robots. Inside this intriguing issue, you'll find complete instructions for creating robots that are not only lifelike, but… Read more.

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Programming Interactivity
By Joshua Noble
July 2009 
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Make cool stuff. If you're a designer or artist without a lot of programming experience, this book will teach you to work with 2D and 3D graphics, sound, physical interaction,… Read more.

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The Geek Atlas
By John Graham-Cumming
May 2009 
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With this unique traveler's guide, you'll learn about 128 destinations around the world where discoveries in science, mathematics, or technology occurred or is happening now. Travel to Munich to see… Read more.

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The Twitter Book
By Tim O'Reilly, Sarah Milstein
May 2009 
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This practical guide will teach you everything you need to know to quickly become a Twitter power user, including strategies and tactics for using Twitter's 140-character messages as a serious--and… Read more.

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Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 18
By Mark Frauenfelder
May 2009 
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Volume 18 of MAKE Magazine features projects on how to make food and energy, using the untapped resources around the house, yard, and community. This DIY Energy issue shows readers… Read more.

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The DAM Book, Second Edition
By Peter Krogh
April 2009 
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This bestselling guide presents a solid plan for managing your digital images efficiently and effectively. Anyone who shoots, scans, or stores digital photographs is practicing some form of digital asset… Read more.

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iPhone Hacks
By David Jurick, Adam Stolarz, Damien Stolarz
April 2009 
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With iPhone Hacks, you can make your iPhone do all you'd expect of a mobile smartphone -- and more. Learn tips and techniques to unleash little-known features, find and create… Read more.

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The Nikon D90 Companion
By Ben Long
March 2009 
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Through a series of easy-to-follow lessons, The Nikon D90 Companion gives you a complete class on digital photography, tailored specifically for people who use this camera. This is not a… Read more.

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Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 17
By Mark Frauenfelder
February 2009 
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In Vol. 17, MAKE goes really old school with a special section on steampunk, featuring projects that blend Victorian era technology with the cutting edge. Build your own marble adding… Read more.

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Craft: Volume 10
Edited by Tina Barseghian
January 2009 
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Celebration will be the theme for Craft Vol. 10. We'll feature how-tos and articles about planning and executing all types of parties and events, from weddings and baby showers to… Read more.

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David Pogue's Digital Photography: The Missing Manual
By David Pogue
January 2009 
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Ready to jump into digital photography? Bestselling author David Pogue provides a no-nonsense guide to the entire process. With David Pogue's Digital Photography: The Missing Manual, you'll learn how to:… Read more.

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YouTube: An Insider's Guide to Climbing the Charts
By Alan Lastufka, Michael W. Dean
November 2008 
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If you want to make a splash on YouTube with your videos, this book shows you what it takes. It's written by two YouTube veterans who know how to make… Read more.

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Craft: The 2nd Year
November 2008 
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In this special limited re-release, all 4 volumes of CRAFT's 2nd year are combined in a Special Edition Boxed Collector's Set. Box slip case is included in this set. Included… Read more.

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Facebook Cookbook
By Jay Goldman
October 2008 
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This Cookbook gives you a unique collection of recipes for building Facebook applications using the new profile design. This easy-to-follow book not only gives you practical ways to design and… Read more.

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How Wikipedia Works
By Phoebe Ayers, Charles Matthews, Ben Yates
September 2008 
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Wikipedia is made up of people just like you: students, professors, and everyday experts and fans. With about 10,000 articles added to Wikipedia each week, there are plenty of opportunities… Read more.

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FBML Essentials
By Jesse Stay
July 2008 
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Do you have an idea for a Facebook application? With FBML Essentials, you'll learn how to build it quickly using the Facebook Markup Language (FBML) and other easy-to-use tools in… Read more.

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Fashioning Technology
By Syuzi Pakhchyan
June 2008 
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Ready to take your craft projects to the next level? This introductory DIY book demonstrates how to blend traditional sewing and assembly techniques with new materials and electronics to create… Read more.

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Web 2.0: A Strategy Guide
By Amy Shuen
April 2008 
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Web 2.0 makes headlines, but how does it make money? This concise guide explains what's different about Web 2.0 and how those differences can improve the bottom line. Whether you're… Read more.

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Subject To Change: Creating Great Products & Services for an Uncertain World
By Peter Merholz, Todd Wilkens, Brandon Schauer, David Verba
April 2008 
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To achieve success in today's ever-changing and unpredictable markets, competitive businesses need to rethink and reframe their strategies across the board. In Subject to Change: Creating Great Products and Services… Read more.

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Hackerteen
By Marcelo Marques
April 2008 
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This engaging graphic novel probes the modern online world where an increasing number of middle school- and high school-aged kids spend their time. Hackerteen teaches young readers about basic computing… Read more.

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Wikipedia: The Missing Manual
By John Broughton
January 2008 
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Learn how to contribute to Wikipedia, the popular user-generated online reference that serves 6 million entries and 2.5 billion requests per day. Wikipedia: The Missing Manual gives you practical advice… Read more.

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Facebook: The Missing Manual
By E. A. Vander Veer
January 2008 
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Facebook is the wildly popular, free social networking site that combines the best of blogs, online forums and groups, photosharing, clever applications, and interaction among friends. The one thing it… Read more.

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iPhoto '08: The Missing Manual
By David Pogue, Derrick Story
January 2008 
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Apple has taken iPhoto 08 to a whole new level, with powerful and beguiling new features that let you easily navigate through thousands of digital photos and a whole lot… Read more.

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iMovie '08 & iDVD: The Missing Manual
By David Pogue
October 2007 
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Apple's iMovie 08 and iDVD 08 are amazing right out of the box. But the box doesn't include much of a user's guide, so learning about these applications is another… Read more.

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Beautiful Code
By Andy Oram, Greg Wilson
Edited by Andy Oram, Greg Wilson
June 2007 
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How do the experts solve difficult problems in software development? In this unique and insightful book, leading computer scientists offer case studies that reveal how they found unusual, carefully designed… Read more.

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The Myths of Innovation
By Scott Berkun
May 2007 
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In The Myths of Innovation, bestselling author Scott Berkun takes a careful look at innovation history, including the software and Internet Age, to reveal how ideas truly become successful innovations-truths… Read more.

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Devices of the Soul
By Steve Talbott
April 2007 
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In Devices of the Soul, Steve Talbott challenges readers to critically examine society's ever-increasing detachment from its physical surroundings and reflect on its growing dependence on techno-wizardry. Why? In an… Read more.

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Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 08
Edited by Mark Frauenfelder
November 2006 
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Get ready to play when MAKE Volume 08, our "Toys and Games" issue, hits the stands. You'll learn how to build a wind-up bird that really flies, how to restore… Read more.

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Stephen Johnson on Digital Photography
By Stephen Johnson
August 2006 
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A master photographer and teacher since 1977, Stephen Johnson is widely recognized as a pioneer of digital photography. His new book chronicles his ride on the bleeding edge of this… Read more.

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Photoshop CS2 RAW
By Mikkel Aaland
March 2006 
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The RAW file format is the uncompressed data file captured by a digital camera's electronic sensor. Because RAW files remain virtually untouched by in-camera processing, working with them brings greater… Read more.

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Don't Get Burned on eBay
By Shauna Wright
March 2006 
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Don't Get Burned on eBay offers relevant lessons based on real-life stories posted on eBay's Answer Center. With sharp, witty rhetoric, veteran eBay user Shauna Wright (co-founder of the popular… Read more.

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Flickr Hacks
By Paul Bausch, Jim Bumgardner
February 2006 
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Flickr Hacks expands the fun and the utility of Flickr, Yahoo!'s popular digital photo-sharing service, by customizing this cutting-edge technology to store, sort, and share photos. The book adopts the… Read more.

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Mind Performance Hacks
By Ron Hale-Evans
February 2006 
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Mind Performance Hacks provides real-life tips and tools for overclocking your brain and becoming a better thinker. In the increasingly frenetic pace of today's information economy, managing your life requires… Read more.

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Degunking Your Home
By Joli Ballew
January 2006 
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Do you find yourself in one or more of these situations--you're constantly losing your car keys, the "junk" room has threatened to take over your house, or you can't remember… Read more.

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MAKE Magazine: The First Year
Edited by Mark Frauenfelder
December 2005 
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From out of nowhere, MAKE has rapidly become one of the hottest new magazines to hit the newsstands. Through the brilliantly written and beautifully illustrated magazine, podcasts and makezine.com website,… Read more.

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Open Sources 2.0
By Chris DiBona, Mark Stone, Danese Cooper
October 2005 
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Open Sources 2.0 is a collection of insightful and thought-provoking essays from today's technology leaders that continues painting the evolutionary picture that developed in the 1999 book Open Sources: Voices… Read more.

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Assembling Panoramic Photos: A Designer's Notebook
By William Rodarmor
Translated by William Rodarmor
June 2005 
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Eight expert French photographers reveal their secrets using Photoshop and other applications to create extraordinary panoramic photos. Part art book, part how-to guide, this Designer's Notebook sits you down next… Read more.

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Mind Hacks
By Tom Stafford, Matt Webb
November 2004 
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This exploration into the moment-by-moment works of the brain uses cognitive neuroscience to present experiments, tricks, and tips related to vision, motor skills, attention, cognition, and subliminal perception. Each hack… Read more.

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Cult of Mac
By Leander Kahney
November 2004 
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Written by Wired news journalist Leander Kahney, The Cult of Mac is an in-depth look at Mac users and their unique, creative, and often very funny culture. Like fans of… Read more.

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Smart Home Hacks
By Gordon Meyer
October 2004 
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Smart Home Hacks covers a litany of stand-alone and integrated smart home solutions designed to enhance safety, comfort, and convenience in new and existing homes. Learn how to equip your… Read more.

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Spam Kings
By Brian McWilliams
October 2004 
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The mounting onslaught of email pitches for porn, pills, and penis enlargement has some techno-pundits declaring that spam is on the verge of destroying the Internet. In Spam Kings, author… Read more.

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Understanding Open Source and Free Software Licensing
By Andrew M. St. Laurent
August 2004 
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Licensing is a major part of what open source and free software are all about, but it's still one of the most complicated areas of law. Understanding Open Source and… Read more.

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Camera Phone Obsession
By Peter Aitken
August 2004 
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Camera Phone Obsession is a unique guide that marries the technology of camera phones with the emerging culture. Author Peter Aitken shows you how to purchase the best camera phones,… Read more.

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Hackers & Painters
By Paul Graham
May 2004 
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Written in clear, narrative style, Hackers & Painters examines issues such as the rightness of web-based applications, the programming language renaissance, spam filtering, the Open Source Movement, internet startups and… Read more.

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Dancing Barefoot
By Wil Wheaton
February 2004 
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Wil Wheaton--blogger, geek, and Star Trek: The Next Generation's Wesley Crusher--gives us five true tales of life, love, and the absurdities of Hollywood in Dancing Barefoot. Far from the usual… Read more.

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Apple Confidential 2.0, Second Edition
By Owen Linzmayer
January 2004 
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Apple Confidential examines the tumultuous history of America's best-known Silicon Valley start-up--from its legendary founding almost 30 years ago, through a series of disastrous executive decisions, to its return to… Read more.

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The Best of The Joy of Tech
By Nitrozac and Snaggy
November 2003 
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This book is a collection of the very best from The Joy of Tech online series, and features several new, never-before-seen comics, exclusive notes from the artists about their work,… Read more.

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Even Grues Get Full
By J.D. "Illiad" Frazer
August 2003 
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Called "Dilbert for Geeks" by Wired magazine and considered to be one of the few consistently intelligent and socially aware cartoons on the 'Net, User Friendly remains one of the… Read more.

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Essential Blogging
By Cory Doctorow, Rael Dornfest, J. Scott Johnson, Shelley Powers, Benjamin Trott, Mena G. Trott
August 2002 
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With weblogs or "blogs" exploding all over the Web, the only thing lacking for power users and developers is detailed advice on how choose, install, and run blogging software. Written… Read more.

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Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman and the Free
By Sam Williams
March 2002 
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Free as in Freedom interweaves biographical snapshots of GNU project founder Richard Stallman with the political, social and economic history of the free software movement. It examines Stallman's unique personality… Read more.

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The Root of All Evil
By J.D. "Illiad" Frazer
August 2001 
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It's back to Columbia Internet, "the friendliest, hardest-working, and most neurotic little Internet Service Provider in the world," for our third installment from the hit online comic, User Friendly. The… Read more.

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Beyond Contact
By Brian McConnell
March 2001 
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In Beyond Contact: A Guide to SETI and Communicating with Alien Civilizations, author Brian McConnell examines the science and technology behind the search for intelligent life in space, from the… Read more.

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Peer-to-Peer
By Nelson Minar, Marc Hedlund, Clay Shirky, Tim O'Reilly, Dan Bricklin, David Anderson, Jeremie Miller, Adam Langley, Gene Kan, Alan Brown, Marc Waldman, Lorrie Faith Cranor, Aviel Rubin, Roger Dingledine, Michael Freedman, David Molnar, Rael Dornfest, Dan Brickley, Theodore Hong, Richard Lethin, Jon Udell, Nimisha Asthagiri, Walter Tuvell, Brandon Wiley
Edited by Andy Oram
February 2001 
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This book presents the goals that drive the developers of the best-known peer-to-peer systems, the problems they've faced, and the technical solutions they've found. The contributors are leading developers of… Read more.

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The Cathedral & the Bazaar
By Eric S. Raymond
February 2001 
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The Cathedral & the Bazaar is a must for anyone who cares about the future of the computer industry or the dynamics of the information economy. This revised and expanded… Read more.

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Database Nation
By Simson Garfinkel
December 2000 
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As the 21st century begins, advances in technology endanger our privacy in ways never before imagined. This newly revised update of the popular hardcover edition, Database Nation: The Death of… Read more.

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User Friendly
By J.D. "Illiad" Frazer
September 1999 
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One of the funniest, most off-beat, and original comic strips to come along in years, User Friendly tells the story of Columbia Internet, "the friendliest, hardest-working, and most neurotic little… Read more.

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Uncle Eli's Passover Haggadah
By Eliezer Segal
With Bonnie Gordon-Lucas
February 1999 
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Everyone will love this delightful children's Haggadah. Its beautiful illustrations and enchanting rhymes will transform your traditional Seder into a magical experience, while capturing the hearts and imagination of your… Read more.

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Open Sources
By Chris DiBona, Sam Ockman
Edited by Chris DiBona, Sam Ockman, Mark Stone
January 1999 
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In Open Sources, leaders of Open Source come together in print for the first time to discuss the new vision of the software industry they have created, through essays that… Read more.

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Smileys
By David W. Sanderson
March 1997 
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From the people who put an armadillo on the cover of a system administrator book comes this collection of the computer underground hieroglyphs called "smileys." Originally inserted into email messages… Read more.

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