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1) Call me Ted
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English
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The great American maverick of our time releases his long-awaited memoir, revealing his lonely childhood, the devastating loss of his father, intimate details of his marriage to Jane Fonda, and his unparalleled success as a businessman and philanthropist.
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English
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"From New York Times bestselling authors Catherine Coulter and J.T. Ellison comes a riveting thriller pitting special agents Nicholas Drummond and Michaela Caine against the head of a private space agency who has the power to end the world as we know it. It's Bastille Day in France, and the private French space agency Galactus--France's answer to Space X, owned by the eccentric treasure hunter Jean-Pierre Broussard--has just sent a satellite payload...
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English
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This playbook described the research- and evidence-based strategies teachers can employ to deliver high quality learning in an online, virtual, and distributed environment. It provided examples and templates that teachers can use in their own lesson planning. The companion web site includes reproducible forms and videos mentioned in the book.
Effective teaching is effective teaching, no matter where it occurs The pandemic teaching of mid-2020 was...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"This is a call to arms about how to bring the big online platforms to their knees. It concerns the question of interoperability: the way that Facebook, Twitter etc make it very difficult for you to move and own your data. Doctorow shows that this is not a problem of technology but of law, business and apathy in face of growing monopolies. He covers ground such as anti-trust, and how the platforms deal with take down orders. Through this he shows...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"The next 'masterful' (Publishers Weekly) novel from 'the gifted Jessica Strawser' (Adriana Trigiani), hailed as 'immensely satisfying' (Kathleen Barber) and 'that book you can't put down' (Sally Hepworth). A video call between friends captures a shocking incident no one was supposed to see. The secrets it exposes threaten to change their lives forever. Molly and Liza have always been enviably close. Even after Molly married Daniel, the couple considered...
9) Crusader
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A journalist at a small television station in Spain, using less than ethical methods, manages to get an informant to divulge information that could potentially alter the world of telecommunications and the Internet. In the mix are an array of colorful characters who are connected by one common denominator: they all have something to hide.
Author
Publisher
Ecco
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
When your Internet cable leaves your living room, where does it go? Almost everything about our day-to-day lives--and the broader scheme of human culture--can be found on the Internet. But what is it physically? And where is it really? Our mental map of the network is as blank as the map of the ocean that Columbus carried on his first Atlantic voyage. The Internet, its material nuts and bolts, is an unexplored territory. Until now. In Tubes, journalist...
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Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
Description
"How the largest man-made constellation in the heavens was built by dreamers in the Arizona Desert, targeted for destruction by panicked executives, and saved by a single Palm Beach retiree who battled Motorola, cajoled the Pentagon, wrestled with thirty banks, survived an attack by Congress, infiltrated the White House, found allies through the Black Entertainment Network, and wooed a mysterious Arab prince to rescue the only phone that links every...
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Series
Publisher
Capstone
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Do you know that 200 years ago, the only way that one person could send a message to another person was by letter or messenger? It s hard to imagine now, with our smartphones and computers at our fingertips. From the invention of the telegraph in the 1830s all the way through to the wearable technology of the present day, this book charts the incredible history of telecommunications." --
13) Private sector
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Warner Books
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Wherever Sean Drummond goes, it seems that the JAG officer leaves a trail of political fallout in his wake. So when his superiors get an opportunity to loan him to a prestigious law firm, they jump on it, hoping he'll soak up the nuances of civilian-lawyering. But almost immediately, dark clouds appear when Sean's predecessor in the loan-out program is murdered. Then Sean begins to sense something amiss with the firm's biggest client, a telecom behemoth...
17) Newton's telecom dictionary: the official dictionary of telecommunications networking and internet
Publisher
Miller-Freeman
Pub. Date
19uu
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"One of the nation's leading venture capitalists offers surprising revelations on who is going to be leading innovation in the years to come Scott Hartley first heard the terms fuzzy and techie while studying political science at Stanford University. If you majored in the humanities or social sciences, you were a fuzzy. If you majored in the computer sciences, you were a techie. This informal division has quietly found its way into a default assumption...
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