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London: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, 1923. Hardback very small, no jacket, good condition, orange cloth cover (little mottled), figures, tables, publisher catalogue at rear, spine little faded & mottled, edgewear, owner's written name & date. 108 pp. J. Henderson and C. W. Marshall provide a practical little guide to the methods and equipment used to protect high-tension alternating-current (AC) systems. Includes notes on various faults such as short circuits. One of Pitman's Technical Primers series. Plus 12 pages catalogue at rear. First edition (1923). Written dane dated 1928.

Chicago: Smallwaters Corporation / SPSS Inc., 1998. Reprint ed.. Paperback wide octavo, very good condition, figures. Heavy (1.0 Kg), and extra postage may be requested to destinations outside Australia. 600 pp. This statistical computer package performs structural equation modelling and path analysis.

Sydney, Bondi Junction: Derwent Howard Pty Ltd, 2006. 1st ed.. Paperback small quarto, very good condition, colour photos, slight crease front cover & fore-edge, minor edgewear. 130 pp. This book has nine chapters of expert tips and advice about Photoshop, the industry leader for editing graphic art and photography. Discover essential Photoshop skills and techniques to save time. Manage your workflow more efficiently by learning to use all the Photoshop tools. Learn smarter ways to edit images with brushes, gradients and the Clone tool. There are 132 pages of easy-to-follow tutorials and advice to help develop your Adobe Photoshop skills.

London: Serpent's Tail / Profile Books, 2008. Paperback, very good condition, rear cover corner creased. 182 pp. A ruthless challenge to the conventional wisdom about the Internet. Argues that our ever-deepening immersion in life online doesn't just reshape the ordinary rhythms of our days; it also reshapes our minds and culture, in ways that we haven't yet reckoned. The web and its cultural correlatives and byproducts - such as the dominance of reality television and the rise of the bourgeois bohemian - have turned privacy into performance, play into commerce, and confused self-expression with art. And even as technology gurus ply their trade using the language of freedom and democracy, we cede more and more control of our freedom and individuality to the needs of the machine. This book will force you to see our culture - for better and worse - in an entirely new way. (Later subtitle: How the Web Is Reshaping Culture and Commerce -- And Why It Matters.).

London: Robinson, 2019. 1st ed.. Paperback octavo, very good condition, few black & white illustrations, cover corner tips little bent, top corner tip front cover little scuffed, crease in rear cover, minor edgewear. 280 pp. A psychologist puts together personal and moving true stories and scientific research about death, and how we will be remembered by our actions in this digital age.

London: Atlantic Books, 2017. 1st U.K. p/b ed.. Paperback thick octavo, very good condition, minor edgewear. 403 pp. Tim Wu defines an attention merchant as a firm whose business model is the mass capture of attention for resale to advertisers. In the modern digital world, we face an overwhelming barrage of advertising enticements, branding efforts, sponsored social media, commercials and other efforts to harvest our attention. This contributes to the distracted, unfocused tenor of our times. Professor Tim Wu (Columbia University), who coined the term 'net neutrality', argues that this is not simply the byproduct of recent inventions. From the pre-Madison Avenue birth of advertising to TV's golden age, to our present age of radical individualised choices, the business model of attention merchants has always been the same. (First U.K. paperback edition.).

London: Percival Marshall & Co., Ltd, 1930. 3rd, revised ed.. Hardback small, papered boards, condition, black & white drawings (including frontispiece), stains bottom edge few rear pages, edges lightly toned & foxed, pages lightly toned, spine creased & lightly worn (texta mark, little loss base spine), light scuff & sticker marks front cover, owner's rubber stamp. 116 pp. Third revised edition. (Estimated date, 1930s, Trove catalogue.) This little book is packed with information to help the ordinary person by giving instructions to use the microscope to discover the hidden wonders that are all around us.

Melbourne: Melbourne University Press (MUP), 2008. 1st ed.. Paperback octavo, very good condition, minor edgewear corner tips. 294 pp. Antony Loewenstein provides an account of bloggers around the world. The author visited Iran and Egypt, internet cafes in Saudi Arabia and Damascus, the homes of Cuban dissidents, and newspaper offices in Beijing. The book examines the nature of repression in the 21st century, and the power of brave individuals who try to overcome this tyranny.

London: HarperCollins, 2009. 1st UK ed.. Paperback octavo, very good condition, black & white drawings & text-photos, corners front cover minimally creased, spine little faded, minor edgewear. 273 pp. William Kamkwamba was born in Malawi, an African country where magic ruled, modern science was a mystery, finding food is an ongoing battle, and opportunity and hope were difficult to come by. With only a few old text books and his determination, he constructed a crude windmill. This windmill would prove to be a small miracle that would eventually bring electricity and water to William's little village, changing the community and the lives of the people in the village. This is an inspiring story about one person who was faced with adversity and how he made a difference by using his passion for science and technology.

London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1999. 1st ed.. Hardback octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), minor edgewear jacket, edges & pages lightly toned. 320 pp. This book is an intensely personal celebration of vision and altruism, ingenuity and determination that lead to the development of the Internet. Above all, the power of ideas to change the world.

Pompton Plains, NJ: Career Press, 2014. Paperback small octavo, as new condition. 250 pp. Your online identity is quickly becoming more crucial to your personal and professional success than face-to-face communications. But most of us don't understand this digital Wild West and the dangers that lurk around every corner. Most of us are unaware of how easy it is for a person with malicious intent to harm us. Shows users of social media how to safely and successfully navigate the online world. Protect yourself and your children from online predators, cyber stalkers, and chat-room bullies. Detect if someone is not who he or she claims to be. Learn what digital bread crumbs you leave behind and how to clean them up. How to use social media to find the right relationship and employee. By senior cyber crime expert for the American government.

New York / London: John Wiley & Sons / Chapman & Hall, 1942. Hardback small, very good condition, thick flexible burgundy cloth cover (gilt title & spine lettering), figures, tables, light foxing endpapers, slight crease front cover & last few pages, light toning pages, owner's written name on front free flyleaf (old written name roughly crossed out), owner's initials top & bottom edges. 221 pp. The purpose of this manual by D. B. Keyes and A. G. Deem (professors of chemical engineering) is to present to the chemical engineering student and practicing engineer with the equations and tables that are used by the profession. The material has been taken largely from well-known textbooks and handbooks, and a serious attempt has been made to standardize the symbols throughout the entire book. This would be a great little addition to a collection of old engineering books.

Melbourne / New York: Dorling Kindersley / Alpha Penguin Group, 2017. 3rd ed.. Paperback octavo, very good plus condition, black & white figures & photos, minor edgewear corner tips. 288 pp. An excellent simple guide to getting connected with the No. 1 social network on the planet. Third and Australian edition.

Sydney: Metropolitan Water Sewerage & Drainage Board, 1983. 4th ed.. Hardback small octavo, no jacket, very good condition, pictorial cover, black boards (white title & vignette cover & spine, figures, tables, black & white text-photos, spine ends little rubbed, rear cover little marked, light foxing edges, faint sticker mark front cover. 178 pp. Fourth edition. From preface: This book is intended as a guide and directive on general concreting procedures. It is not a text book on concrete technology. The most suitable practices have been looked at both here and overseas. This manual covers the following: To specify the concrete mixes used by the board and list what mixes are required for each structure. To describe field procedures and practice in sufficient detail to allow engineers, inspectors, oversees and foremen to carry out there work as far as possible without the need for further reference material. To describe the Board's concrete inspection, testing procedures and… Read More

Auckland: Penguin Books, 2005. 1st ed.. Paperback octavo, very good plus condition. 274 pp. Is email taking up too much of your valuable time? Tired of spending hours sorting through unwanted emails? Ever lost one of those really important emails? Australasian IT expert and expert on Microsoft Outlook show how to conquer your email fears.

Cambridge: Icon Books, 2003. 1st ed.. Hardback small, dustjacket, very good plus condition (in very good plus dustjacket), black & white text-photos, minimal edgewear jacket. 172 pp. This book takes the mobile phone to pieces, tracing what makes it work, and puts it together again, showing how it was built in different ways in different national contexts in the United states, Europe and the Far East. Jon Agar tells a truly global history of the mobile phone.

Sydney: NewSouth / University of New South Wales Press, 2015. Paperback trade, as new condition. 294 pp. We expect to log on and read, watch or listen, to anything, anywhere anytime. Then copy it, share it, quote it, sample it. This leave writers, designers, filmmakers, musicians, photographers, artists, and software and game developers with no rights at all. We have forgotten how to pay for content. Are big corporations and copyright lawyers the only ones making money? Illegal downloading has become the biggest industry of all, and copyright violation a way of life. In this provocative book John Birmingham, Linda Jaivin, Marc Fennell, Clem Bastow, Lindy Morrison, Imogen Banks, Dan Hunter, Angela Bowne and others fire up the copyright debate like never before.

Berkeley, CA: Peachpit Press, 2006. 1st ed.. Paperback large wide octavo, very good condition, colour drawings, tiny pinhead mark fore-edge last few pages, minor edgewear. 144 pp. This Visual QuickProject Guide uses big colour illustrations coupled with clear, concise step-by-step instructions to show you how to complete one specific project for FileMaker Pro 8 in a matter of hours. The project is to create a FileMaker Pro 8 relational database for recording and tracking four types of personal investments: savings and money market accounts, stocks and mutual funds, certificates of deposit (CDs), and savings bonds. The database will contain four related data tables, ten layouts, and five reports. The book also teaches you about FileMaker Pro 8 in general.

Basingstoke, Hamps: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. Paperback trade, very good condition, figures, inside covers lightly toned, minor edgewear corners. 228 pp. This clear and concise book is a one-stop guide through the complex cultural and sociological debates that surround modern technology. The authors give special attention to new cultural forms of expression, both in new media and digital art, that respond to a more technology-engaged world. Topics covered include: digital art and imagery, the body, technology and the cyborg, cognition, consciousness and artificial intelligence, science fiction, virtual communities and politics. The book will be invaluable for students of sociology, media studies, cultural studies, and art and design, and anyone who wants to learn about this fascinating subject.

New Haven: Yale University Press (YUP), 2015. 1st ed.. Hardback octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), minor edgewear jacket, tiny dent bottom edge front cover. 354 pp. Rebecca Lemov reports on Harvard psychologist Bert Kaplan who set out to build the largest database of sociological information ever assembled. It was the mid-1950s, just before the dawn of the digital age (and the later big data projects). Kaplan, along with anthropologist A. I. Hallowell and a team of researchers, gathered research from a varied range of non-European subjects among remote and largely non-literate peoples around the world. Kaplan saw future researchers using the data through the cutting-edge Readex machine. However, technological developments and the obsolescence of the theoretical framework rendered the project irrelevant, and soon it was forgotten. The database was intended as a repository of humankind’s most elusive ways of being human, that is, an anthropological… Read More