Edition: 1 Amer ed
Publication date: 2002-01-08
Dewey code: 004
Price: $3.99
Review Text Me / Bantam Books for Young Readers:This dictionary of text messages contains the newest text jargon that young mobile phone owners and instant messagers have created. With lots of ideas for fun things to message, this book is the perfect pocket reference guide for adults and kids alike.
Edition: 1 Reprint
Publication date: 2008-05-16
Dewey code: 005.8
List Price: $28.99
Price: $28.99
Review Own Your Space: Keep Yourself and Your Stuff Safe Online:The book for teens that every parent should read! You have been immersed in the technology since preschool. You download music, Google your homework, and constantly IM your friends. You check your email before dinner, tweak your MySpace page, and bypass that hardcopy diary for your own 31337 space in the blogosphere. While you’re doing that, you also need to protect yourself. This book is about keeping safe—protecting your data, your identity, and yourself without giving up all the great stuff the Net puts at your fingertips. Learn how to Kill viruses, worms, Trojans, and spyware Give Spam the curb and smash web bugs Understand just how public your “private” blogs are Keep wireless freeloaders off your network Safeguard your parents’ credit card and financial data Understand what tools you need and how to tweak them Linda McCarthy is a Security Architect in the office of the CTO at Symantec. Linda has been in the security field for over a decade, and has broken into systems around the world to show executives how easy it is to break into their networks. Linda has published seven books on computer security, and is the author of IT Security: Risking the Corporation. Linda also received the Woman of Influence Award in 2004 for computer security, a prestigious award given annually to only four women in the world. A portion of the proceeds from this book have been designated by the author for nonprofit work to educate teens about Internet security. [+] Acknowledgments About the Author Preface Chapter 1: Know Your Villains Chapter 2: Drive-By Malicious Code Chapter 3: Data Grabbers and Dumpers Chapter 4: Spy vs. Spy Chapter 5: Giving Spam the Curb Chapter 6: Pretenders and Pirates Chapter 7: Phishing for Dollars Chapter 8: Taming the Cookie Monster Chapter 9: Safe Cyber-Shopping Chapter 10: Private Blogs and Public Places Chapter 11: Any Port in a Storm Chapter 12: Look Pa, No Strings! Chapter 13: Protective Tools Chapter 14: Tweaks Appendix A: A Check List for Mom and Dad Index .
Publication date: 2007-09-30
Dewey code: 794.8023
List Price: $29.25
Price: $28.99
Review Career Building Through Interactive Online Games (Digital Career Building) / Rosen Publishing Group:
Publication date: 2001-12
Dewey code: 025.04083
List Price: $28.00
Price: $28.00
Review Online Activities For Kids: Projects For School, Extra Credit, Or Just Plain Fun / Topeka Bindery:Surf your way to fun-filled adventure and school success in cyberspace! Want to join in the search for real-life aliens, take a virtual trip into the eye of a hurricane, and learn magic as you master mathematics? With Online Activities for Kids, the fun never stops and the learning just comes naturally. Where else can you build research skills while creating a family Web page, or learn about world geography while going on an Internet treasure hunt? Take a journey on the Underground Railroad. Turn your room into a world-class art museum. Build a dinosaur from fossils. This easy-to-use, step-by-step guide is bursting with imaginative projects like these and many more, including: * Design your own roller coaster * Relive a day in the life of a Civil War soldier * Write a letter in a language you don't even speak * Find out how much you'd weigh on Jupiter * Write haiku poetry * And much, much more. With Online Activities for Kids, you'll have a great time exploring the Internet, and you'll amaze everyone with your fabulous projects and super cybersurfing skills.
Creator: Marilyn Clay
Publication date: 1993-01
Dewey code: 004
List Price: $24.26
Price: $82.95
Review Exploring Information Technology (Exploring Science) / Heinemann Library:Describes the various electronic means of organizing, storing, retrieving, and communicating information. Includes activities and review questions.
Publication date: 2008-01-30
Dewey code: 793.93
List Price: $29.25
Price: $29.25
Review Career Building Through Alternate Reality Gaming (Digital Career Building) / Rosen Publishing Group:
Authors
- Brighter Child
- Brighter Child Interactive
Publication date: 1999-09-30
Price: $29.95
Review Invention Highway : The Academically Proven Road to Increasing Creative & Critical Thinking Skills / Inner Traditions International:INVENTION HIGHWAY CD-ROM is a software program, which includes the following: CD-ROM Training System Twelve (12) learning games In-depth Manual Exclusive Membership to our Internet Site Requirements: WINDOWS - Pentium 100 compatible or higher, 16MB RAM minimum; Windows 95/98/NT 4. 0 or higher, 256 color VGA display, Sound Card, 8X CD-ROM drive, 10MB of available hard disk space. POWER MACINTOSH - G3, Syustem 7. 6. 1 or higher, 16MB RAM minimum, 10 MB of available hard disk space, 256 Color VGA display, 8X CD-ROM drive, Apple Quicktime 3. 0 or higher.
Publication date: 2007-09-30
Dewey code: 070.57973
List Price: $29.25
Price: $29.25
Review Career Building Through Podcasting (Digital Career Building) / Rosen Publishing Group:
Publication date: 2007-06-30
Dewey code: 646.7702854678
List Price: $29.25
Price: $29.25
Review Frequently Asked Questions About Online Romance (Faq: Teen Life: Set 2) / Rosen Publishing Group:
Publication date: 2000-01
Dewey code: 809
List Price: $34.04
Price: $34.04
Review Romeo and Juliet / Houghton Mifflin College Div:
Publication date: 1996-05-01
Dewey code: 794.8
Price: $14.99
Review Silent Hunter Official Secrets & Solutions (Game Buster Get a Clue) / Prima Games:Silent Hunter is a World War II submarine simulation that incorporates state-of-the-art graphics and new, easier gameplay. This book informs gamers as to how they should prowl the shipping lanes and the secret, underwater routes into the enemy harbors of the South Pacific. It covers individual missions that can be played as well as entire campaign scenarios.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2007-09-06
Dewey code: 794.81526
List Price: $49.99
Price: $31.20
Review XNA Game Studio Express: Developing Games for Windows and the Xbox 360 / Course Technology PTR:XNA Game Studio Express: Developing Games for Windows and the Xbox 360 is the ultimate resource for hobbyists and students who want to write games for Windows and the Xbox 360 game console. Learn how you can create your own games using the amazing tools of XNA and Game Studio Express, the free game development tools and APIs from Microsoft, based on the incredibly popular Visual Studio IDE. You'll begin with an introduction to the XNA platform and the Game Studio Express development environment. From there, you'll examine many different game genres and will develop your own working games. You'll also cover writing components and libraries and will develop reusable code that can be plugged into your game projects. Wrap things up with a collection of more advanced topics. To get the most out of this unique guide you will need a working knowledge of programming, but readers with a variety of backgrounds will still benefit from the comprehensive coverage found inside. XNA will turn players into developers, doing for game creation what YouTube and myspace have done for music and video.
Creator: Roman Espejo
Publication date: 2008-06-13
Dewey code: 302.231
List Price: $29.95
Price: $27.85
Review Should Social Networking Web Sites Be Banned? (At Issue Series) / Greenhaven Press:
Publication date: 2007-09-30
Dewey code: 775.023
List Price: $29.25
Price: $29.25
Review Career Building Through Digital Photography (Digital Career Building) / Rosen Publishing Group:
Authors
- Sam Taplin
- Jane Bingham
- Fiona Chandler
Dewey code: 903
Price: $47.95
Review The Usborne Internet-Linked Encyclopedia of World History / E.D.C. Publishing:Combining text with photographs and illustrations, this book provides children with a global view of history, from the creation of the Earth to the beginning of the 21st century. It also includes hundreds of web site addresses for further research. It features easy access to Web sites and free downloadable pictures and maps with test covering events from the Big Bang to the dawn of the 21st century.
Authors
- Greg Bowden
- Kerryn Maguire
Publication date: 2004-08-30
Dewey code: 004
List Price: $28.95
Price: $28.95
Review Practice IT Book 2 Second Edition (Cambridge Secondary IT) / Cambridge University Press:Practice IT Book 2: For Middle Secondary is an exciting resource for stand alone IT courses or for use by individual subject teachers across the curriculum. This updated second edition contains: • new technologies and software (including Photoshop) with theory explanations, instructions and activities. • Additional advanced exercises to cater for the growing number of students who are already equipped with a range of computing skills • Structured projects that bring together the skills developed in each module • A vast array of diagrams and screen shots to assist explanations.
Edition: CD-Rom
Publication date: 2000-03-15
Dewey code: 567
Price: $19.95
Review Dinosaur Hunter Deluxe Hybrid Mm1 / DK MULTIMEDIA:
Publication date: 2001-10
List Price: $29.95
Price: $29.95
Review El Pato Paco: A First Look at Spanish / ShowForth video:
Publication date: 1998-06-01
Review My Playtime Friends / Standard Publishing Company:
Publication date: 2007-09-30
Dewey code: 338.76004092
List Price: $31.95
Price: $29.81
Review Bill Gates: Profile of a Digital Entrepreneur (Career Profiles) / Rosen Publishing Group:The computing and Internet age represents the new frontier in creative and technological breakthroughs that affect the masses. Emerging in the 1970s, personal computing - leading to the development of the Internet, the World Wide Web, individual Web pages, and finally, blogs' is in part reliant on one man who harnessed technology to forever change the world. Bill Gates is among the most important visionaries of the twentieth century, as well as the richest man in the world due to the appeal of his software creations.
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Text Me, Own Your Space: Keep Yourself and Your Stuff Safe Online, Career Building Through Interactive Online Games (Digital Career Building), Online Activities For Kids: Projects For School, Extra Credit, Or Just Plain Fun, Exploring Information Technology (Exploring Science), Career Building Through Alternate Reality Gaming (Digital Career Building), Invention Highway : The Academically Proven Road to Increasing Creative & Critical Thinking Skills, Career Building Through Podcasting (Digital Career Building), Frequently Asked Questions About Online Romance (Faq: Teen Life: Set 2), Romeo and Juliet, Silent Hunter Official Secrets & Solutions (Game Buster Get a Clue), XNA Game Studio Express: Developing Games for Windows and the Xbox 360, Should Social Networking Web Sites Be Banned? (At Issue Series), Career Building Through Digital Photography (Digital Career Building), The Usborne Internet-Linked Encyclopedia of World History, Practice IT Book 2 Second Edition (Cambridge Secondary IT), Dinosaur Hunter Deluxe Hybrid Mm1, El Pato Paco: A First Look at Spanish, My Playtime Friends, Bill Gates: Profile of a Digital Entrepreneur (Career Profiles)Top headlines: Jets rookie QB suspended for policy violation: New York Jets rookie quarterback Erik Ainge was suspended for four games by the NFL on Friday for an undisclosed violation of the league's policy on steroids and related substances.Ainge, already on injured reserve and out for the season with a foot injury, is not allowed to be with the team or at its facility during the suspension. 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