MY IPAD FOR SENIORS

Gary Rosenzweig and Gary Eugene Jones focus on iOS 7 for iPad Air, 3rd/4th generation, iPad 2, and iPad mini. The book is easy, clear, readable, and focused on what users want to do. My iPad for Seniors offers step-by-step instructions with callouts to iPad photos that show users exactly what to do.

COMPUTER ORGANIZATION AND DESIGN – THE HARDWARE/SOFTWARE INTERFACE

David Patterson and John Hennessy move forward into the post-PC era with new examples, exercises and material highlighting the emergence of mobile computing and the cloud. This book adds a new concrete example, “going faster”, used throughout the text to demonstrate extremely effective optimisation techniques. Also new to this book is a discussion of the “eight great ideas” of computer architecture.

SMARTER THAN YOU THINK – HOW TECHNOLOGY IS CHANGING OUR MINDS FOR THE BETTER

Clive Thompson delivers a resounding “yes” that technology is changing the way people think. The Internet age has produced a radical new style of human intelligence, worthy of both celebration and analysis, he says. Thompson shows that every technological innovation – from the written word to the printing press to the telegraph – has provoked the very same anxieties that plague humans today.

SOCIAL NETWORKING FOR LANGUAGE EDUCATION

Marie-Noelle Lamy and Katerina Zourou study the impact of networking with the social media on language learning. They offer theoretical perspectives and empirical studies of learner experiences in a wide range of networking settings, illustrated through a variety of teachings as well as research methodologies.