In today’s world where technology impacts every aspect of life, you need to know how to evaluate devices, choose apps, maintain a professional online reputation, and ensure digital security. NEW PERSPECTIVES ON COMPUTER CONCEPTS 2018, INTRODUCTORY offers the insights to help. This book goes beyond the intuitive how-to of apps and social media to delve into broad concepts that are guiding current technologies such as self-driving cars, virtual reality, file sharing torrents, encrypted communications, photo forensics, and the Internet of Things. Numerous illustrations and interactive features make mastering technical topics a breeze, while the book’s proven learning path is structured with today's busy reader in mind. This edition offers an insightful overview of what today’s readers must know about using technology to complete an education, secure a successful career, and engage in issues that shape today's world. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.

In the early 1990s, people predicted the death of privacy, an end to the current concept of 'property,' a paperless society, 500 channels of high-definition interactive television, world peace, and the extinction of the human race after a takeover engineered by intelligent machines. Imagining the Internet zeroes in on predictions about the Internet's future and revisits past predictions—and how they turned out. It gives the history of communications in a nutshell, illustrating the serious impact of pervasive networks and how they will change our lives over the next century.

Students learn how to validate a single document, combined from the contents of several XML files. XML documents are validated using the validation commands in XML Spy. This book provides extensive coverage of DTDs, namespaces, schemas, CSS and XSLT. Students gains hands-on experience in creating and applying a XSLT style sheet to a XML document. This book looks provides coverage of XPath to develop node-sets. Students are introduced to the W3C Document Object Model, and learn how to use JavaScript to modify the contents of an XML document and an XSLT style sheet. Students also learn how to use variables and parameters in XSLT templates and how to perform calculations using recursive templates.

Part of our New Perspectives Series, this updated text offers a case-oriented, problem-solving approach for learning the basic to more advanced features of the Internet-from browsing, navigating, and searching on the Internet, to using e-mail, advanced communication tools and other Web topics.

The definitive book on contemporary photography, featuring 121 international artists.

Develop the Microsoft® Office 365 and Word 2019 skills students need to be successful in college and beyond with the emphasis on critical-thinking, problem-solving, and in-depth coverage found in NEW PERSPECTIVES MICROSOFT OFFICE 365 & WORD 2019 COMPREHENSIVE. Updated with all-new case scenarios, this edition clearly applies the skills students are learning to real-world situations to make concepts even more relevant across the applications and reinforces critical skills to make them successful in their educational and professional careers. NEW PERSPECTIVES MICROSOFT OFFICE 365 & WORD 2019 COMPREHENSIVE demonstrates the importance of what students are learning while strengthening your skills and helping students transfer those skills to other applications and disciplines for further success. In addition, MindTap and updated SAM (Skills Assessment Manager) online resources are available to guide additional study and ensure successful results.

Develop the Microsoft Office 365 and Office 2019 skills students need to be successful in college and beyond with the emphasis on critical-thinking, problem-solving, and in-depth coverage found in NEW PERSPECTIVES MICROSOFT OFFICE 365 & OFFICE 2019 INTERMEDIATE. Updated with all-new case scenarios, this edition clearly applies the skills students are learning to real-world situations to make concepts even more relevant across the applications and reinforces critical skills to make them successful in their educational and professional careers. NEW PERSPECTIVES MICROSOFT OFFICE 365 & OFFICE 2019 INTERMEDIATE demonstrates the importance of what students are learning while strengthening your skills and helping students transfer those skills to other applications and disciplines for further success. In addition, MindTap and updated SAM (Skills Assessment Manager) online resources are available to guide additional study and ensure successful results.