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For Canadians 45 and up. Each issue brings you tips on living healthy, staying fit, and making your money last.…
Enjoy travel advice, arts and food reviews, stylish shopping, health breakthroughs and secrets to successful intimacy. Plus, meet fascinating celebrities, spiritual leaders, authors and more!
Canadian digital-marketing expert offers advice for integrating social media and personal branding into a new business model with the potential…
of reaching a larger consumer base. Offers examples of people who used Facebook, blogs, smartphones, and netbooks to successfully expand their businesses. 2009
The shallows: what the Internet is doing to our brains
By Nicholas Carr, Nicholas G Carr. 2010
Journalist Carr expands upon his 2008 article in The Atlantic Monthly entitled "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" Citing neurology research,…
he argues that humans are losing our capacity for concentration, contemplation, and reflection as advancing technology changes our neural pathways. Pulitzer Prize finalist. 2010
Idea man: a memoir by the co-founder of Microsoft
By Paul Allen. 2011
Allen, who cofounded Microsoft in 1975, traces the early years of the computer company and his relationship with his business…
partner and high school friend Bill Gates. Discusses his career blunders, ownership of the Seattle Seahawks and Portland Trail Blazers, recovery from Hodgkin's lymphoma, and philanthropic pursuits. 2011
The information: a history, a theory, a flood
By James Gleick. 2011
Author of Genius (DB 36181) and Chaos (RC 27005) chronicles the history of humanity's efforts to store, access, and communicate…
information--from Paleolithic cave paintings to early-twenty-first-century search engines. Discusses prominent inventors Charles Babbage, Ada Byron, Samuel Morse, Alan Turing, and Claude Shannon. 2011
Steve Jobs
By Walter Isaacson. 2011
Biography of entrepreneur Steve Jobs (1955-2011) chronicles his childhood, education, entry-level jobs in California's Silicon Valley, 1976 cofounding of Apple…
computer in his parents' garage, and leadership in spearheading the iPod, iPhone, and iPad. Discusses Jobs's personal and professional relationships and his 2003 cancer diagnosis. Some strong language. Bestseller. 2011
The master switch: the rise and fall of information empires
By Tim Wu. 2010
Historical analysis of mass-communication media--radio, telephone, television, and film--introduced during the twentieth century. Examines each technology's trajectory from being free…
and open for public access to becoming closed and controlled by a single corporation or cartel led by Adolph Zukor, David Sarnoff, and others. 2010Dans Avantages il n’y a que…des avantages ! Chic et pratique, Avantages s’adresse à toutes les femmes modernes et propose…
plein d’idées astucieuses pour profiter de la vie et faire partager son optimisme. Au programme : cuisine, santé-forme, mode-beauté, développement durable et art de vivre.Sexe, mode, beauté, psycho... Cosmopolitan s'adresse à toutes celles dont la priorité est de se faire plaisir de façon inventive…
et impertinente. Cosmopolitan, c'est l'esprit sexy d'aujourd'hui, de l'audace et de l'humour... pour dévorer la vie!Depuis plus de soixante ans, chaque semaine, dans ELLE, les femmes s’informent sur l’actualité, les tendances, la mode, la beauté.…
ELLE est un magazine hebdomadaire qui a le souci de soi et des autres. C’est un magazine féminin où toutes les générations de femmes se retrouvent.Le Monde, la Mode, la Vie… Vous souhaitez…décoder toutes les facettes du monde sans tabou ni prisme déformant, découvrir les…
tendances mode et beauté les plus signifiantes, anticiper l’évolution de la vie des femmes. Alors chaque mois, profitez de Marie Claire!
Computing: a concise history (MIT Press essential knowledge series)
By Paul E. Ceruzzi. 2012
Smithsonian Institution curator details the invention and development of computing, from punch cards to smartphones. Focuses on four themes: the…
coding of information in binary form, the convergence of different technologies, advances in solid-state electronics, and the interaction between people and machines. 2012
The mobile wave: how mobile intelligence will change everything
By Michael Saylor. 2012
Software-company CEO posits society is at the tipping point of the Information Revolution, which he compares to the Agricultural and…
Industrial revolutions. Explores the history of computing and the rise of mobile technologies and social networks and analyzes their impact on entertainment, commerce, and health care. 2012
Turing's cathedral: the origins of the digital universe
By George Dyson. 2012
Technology historian examines the creation of one of the first computers: the Universal Machine proposed by Alan Turing in 1936.…
Chronicles the 1945 gathering of scientists, led by mathematician John von Neumann, who constructed the theoretical machine that would later assist early weather modeling and nuclear weapons development. 2012Depuis plus de soixante ans, chaque semaine, dans ELLE, les femmes s’informent sur l’actualité, les tendances, la mode, la beauté.…
ELLE est un magazine hebdomadaire qui a le souci de soi et des autres. C’est un magazine féminin où toutes les générations de femmes se retrouvent.
Steve Jobs: the man who thought different : a biography
By Karen Blumenthal. 2012
Recounts the life and career of the late founder of Apple, Steve Jobs (1955-2011). Covers his adoption and childhood, his…
friendship with Steve Wozniak, and his dynamic relationship with Apple--as chairman, head of the Mac department, advisor, and CEO--until his death. For junior and senior high and older readers. 2012
The man with the bionic brain: and other victories over paralysis
By Jon Mukand. 2012
Rehabilitation physician discusses BrainGate, the microelectrode system that operates by recognizing thought patterns that can manipulate a computer screen. Recounts…
implanting the device in the brain of Matthew Nagle, a twenty-one-year-old who suffered a stab wound in his neck that severed his spinal cord and made him a quadriplegic. 2012
Is this thing on?: a computer handbook for late bloomers, technophobes, and the kicking & screaming
By Abby Stokes, Abigail Stokes. 2011
Computer instructor presents concepts and techniques for computer novices. Covers subjects such as purchasing a computer, establishing Internet access, and…
working with iPads and mobile devices. Also offers tips on online banking, shopping, and using social media. 2011