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Author
Publisher
Microsoft Press
Pub. Date
©2006
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xxii, 216 pages) : illustrations, map
Language
English
Description
Learn 14 ways in which you can help make the Internet a safer place for you and your family. This guide, written by a leading child safety expert, offers families practical advice for avoiding risks on the Internet. Learn the 14 ways in which you can help make the Internet a safer place for you and your family. You teach your children to look both ways before crossing the street. You tell them not to talk to strangers. But do you really know how to...
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Tech Generation: Raising Balanced Kids in a Hyper-Connected World guides parents in teaching their children how to reap the benefits of living in a digital world while also preventing its negative effects. Mike Brooks and Jon Lasser--psychologists with extensive experience working with kids, parents, and teachers--combine cutting-edge research and expertise to create an engaging and helpful guide that emphasizes the importance of the parent-child...
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
374 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Steiner-Adair offers insights and advice that can help parents achieve greater understanding, authority, and confidence as they come up against the tech revolution and how families can combat the disconnection we are experiencing from our extreme device dependence.
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Series
Language
English
Description
"Before Owen Michaels disappears, he manages to smuggle a note to his beloved wife of one year: Protect her. Despite her confusion and fear, Hannah Hall knows exactly to whom the note refers-Owen's sixteen-year-old daughter, Bailey. Bailey, who lost her mother tragically as a child. Bailey, who wants absolutely nothing to do with her new stepmother. As Hannah's increasingly desperate calls to Owen go unanswered, as the FBI arrests Owen's boss, as...
Author
Series
The Brown sisters volume 1
Language
English
Description
"Chloe Brown is a chronically ill computer geek with a goal, a plan, and a list. After almost--but not quite--dying, she's come up with seven directives to help her "Get a Life", and she's already completed the first: finally moving out of her glamorous family's mansion. The next items? Enjoy a drunken night out. Ride a motorcycle. Go camping. Have meaningless but thoroughly enjoyable sex. Travel the world with nothing but hand luggage. And... do...
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Series
Language
English
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"When the police found the first body, left on a bonfire in the fields, they worried it had the hallmarks of a serial killer. Now, as they find the second, they know for sure. Panic about the "bonfire killer" quickly spreads through the sedate, suburban area of Southampton. Women are urged not to travel alone at night, and constant vigilance is encouraged among the local residents. But single mom Aisling Cooley has a lot to distract her: two beloved...
11) Deep dive
Author
Publisher
Angry Robot, an imprint of Watkins Media Ltd
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
275 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Coming off a failed project, a video game developer needs a win to save his struggling company and accidentally gets trapped in an eerily familiar world where his children no longer exist while testing a new VR headset.
Author
Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
1st edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (304 pages)
Language
English
Description
There are many lessons to be learned about work-family interaction. It is clear that some people have learned how to combine work and family in ways that are mutually supporting--at least much of the time--and some employers have created work environments and policies that make positive interdependence of these two spheres more likely to occur. This book discusses measures of work-family, conflict, policies designed to reduce conflict, comparisons...
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A 2020 American documentary film that follows an average American family that became entangled in a bizarre web of espionage and corporate secrets when the U.S. government targets the family's hacker son.
Author
Publisher
Pyr
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
259 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Lucy Stone invents a video game that provides cover for rebels in the former Soviet Union to meet and plot online, but as she researches the history of the region in which they live Lucy discovers secrets about her own family's troubled past.
16) Willful machines
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a near-future America, a sentient computer program named Charlotte has turned terrorist, but Lee Fisher, the closeted son of an ultraconservative President, is more concerned with keeping his Secret Service detail from finding out about his developing romance with Nico, the new guy at school, but when the spider-like robots that roam the school halls begin acting even stranger than usual, Lee realizes he is Charlotte's next target.
17) Zap!
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
290 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-olds Luis and Maura investigate the cause of a long-term, city-wide power outage in Hampton, New Jersey. Includes facts about electric power and instructions for assembling an emergency kit.
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
262 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old injured soccer player Luz has a hard enough time reframing her identity as a computer programmer, but when her Guatemalan half-sister moves in, she learns what it truly means to start over. Includes author's note.
Author
Language
Deutsch
Description
"Das Basiswerk für die Entwicklung von Software als Medizinprodukt - Kompakter, umfassender Überblick über die relevanten Gebiete der normenkonformen Entwicklung von medizinischer Software - Zur Vorbereitung auf die Prüfung zum "Certified Professional for Medical Software" Dieses Buch beschreibt den gesamten Lebenszyklus von Software als Medizinprodukt. Es deckt den kompletten CPMS-Lehrplan (Foundation Level) ab und ergänzt ihn durch...
Author
Series
9 to 5 volume 56
Publisher
Mills & Boon
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
288 pages (large print) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Shy computer expert Lauren Taylor can handle any tech issue that comes her way - it's the clients she finds more challenging! Especially when she realizes her new boss, brooding tycoon Matt Dalton, is the first man she ever kissed ... Haunted by his parents' infidelities, Matt's mission was to save his ailing father's company, then leave. Except Lauren's compassion and sparkle has begun to melt his defences. He never planned on sticking around, but...
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