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1001 Computer Words: You Need to Knowby Jerry PournelleISBN 0195167759 (0-19-516775-9)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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68030 Assembly Language Reference: Includes the 68020by Steve WilliamsISBN 0201088762 (0-201-08876-2)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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Acm Turning Award Lectures: The First Twenty Years 1966 to 1985by R. AshenhurstISBN 0201077949 (0-201-07794-9)
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The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computer Exceed Human Intelligenceby Ray KurzweilISBN 0140282025 (0-14-028202-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computer Exceed Human Intelligence'Book summary:How much do we humans enjoy our current status as the most intelligent beings on earth? Enough to try to stop our own inventions from surpassing us in smarts? If so, we'd better pull the plug right now, because if Ray Kurzweil is right we've only got until about 2020 before computers outpace the human brain in computational power. Kurzweil, artificial intelligence expert and author of The Age of Intelligent Machines, shows that technological evolution moves at an exponential pace. Further, he asserts, in a sort of swirling postulate, time speeds up as order increases, and vice versa. He calls this the "Law of Time and Chaos," and it means that although entropy is slowing the stream of time down for the universe overall, and thus vastly increasing the amount of time between major events, in the eddy of technological evolution the exact opposite is happening, and events will soon be coming faster and more furiously. This means that we'd better figure out how to deal with conscious machines as soon as possible--they'll soon not only be able to beat us at chess, but also likely demand civil rights, and might at last realize the very human dream of immortality.
The Age of Spiritual Machines is compelling and accessible, and not necessarily best read from front to back--it's less heavily historical if you jump around (Kurzweil encourages this). Much of the content of the book lays the groundwork to justify Kurzweil's timeline, providing an engaging primer on the philosophical and technological ideas behind the study of consciousness. Instead of being a gee-whiz futurist manifesto, Spiritual Machines reads like a history of the future, without too much science fiction dystopianism. Instead, Kurzweil shows us the logical outgrowths of current trends, with all their attendant possibilities. This is the book we'll turn to when our computers first say "hello." --Therese Littleton [via]
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The Architecture of Digital Computersby R.G. GarsideISBN 0198596383 (0-19-859638-3)
Softcover, Clarendon Press
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Artificial Intelligenceby Patrick Henry WinstonISBN 0201082594 (0-201-08259-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Artificial Intelligence'Book summary:This book is one of the oldest and most popular introductions to artificial intelligence. An accomplished artificial intelligence (AI) scientist, Winston heads MIT's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, and his hands-on AI research experience lends authority to what he writes. Winston provides detailed pseudo-code for most of the algorithms discussed, so you will be able to implement and test the algorithms immediately. The book contains exercises to test your knowledge of the subject and helpful introductions and summaries to guide you through the material. [via]
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Assembler Language Programming: The IBM System/370 Familyby George StrubleISBN 0201073226 (0-201-07322-6)
Hardcover, Addison-Wesley Pub Co
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Assembly Language Fundamentals, 360/370, Os/Vs, Dos/Vsby Rina YarmishISBN 0201087987 (0-201-08798-7)
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Bamboozled at the Revolution: How Big Media Lost Billions in the Battle for the Internetby John MotavalliISBN 0142002895 (0-14-200289-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Basic Microcomputer Models in Biologyby James D. SpainISBN 0201106787 (0-201-10678-7)
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The Beginner's Guide to Computersby Robin Bradbeer, Peter Debono, Peter LaurieISBN 0201112094 (0-201-11209-4)
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The C ++ Answer Bookby Tony L. HansenISBN 0201114976 (0-201-11497-6)
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The Computer Nutby Betsy ByarsISBN 0140320865 (0-14-032086-5)
Softcover, Puffin
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Computers and Human Languageby George W. SmithISBN 0195062825 (0-19-506282-5)
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Computers Ltd: What They Really Can't Doby David HarelISBN 0198604424 (0-19-860442-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Computers, Ethics, and Societyby M. David Ermann, Michele S. ShaufISBN 0195143027 (0-19-514302-7)
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Cyberiadby Stanislaw LemISBN 0156027593 (0-15-602759-3)
Softcover, Harcourt
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Decoding the Universe: How the New Science of Information Is Explaining Everything in the Cosmos, from Our Brains to Black Holesby Charles SeifeISBN 0143038397 (0-14-303839-7)
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A Dictionary of Computersby John Graham, Robin Williamson, Anthony ChandorISBN 0140510397 (0-14-051039-7)
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Dictionary Of Computingby Valerie IllingworthISBN 0192800469 (0-19-280046-9)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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A Dictionary of Electronic and Computer Music Technology: Instruments, Terms, Techniquesby Richard DobsonISBN 0193113449 (0-19-311344-9)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Digital Image Processingby Rafael C. Gonzalez, Paul A. WintzISBN 0201110261 (0-201-11026-1)
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Discrete Modelsby Donald GreenspanISBN 0201026139 (0-201-02613-9)
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Electric Circuitsby James William NilssonISBN 0201062380 (0-201-06238-0)
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Elements of Algebra and Algebraic Computingby John D. LipsonISBN 0201044803 (0-201-04480-3)
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The Fabric of Reality: The Science of Parallel Universes-And Its Implicationsby David DeutschISBN 014027541X (0-14-027541-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Fifth Generation Fallacy: Why Japan Is Betting Its Future on Artificial Intelligenceby J. Marshall UngerISBN 019504939X (0-19-504939-X)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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In this fascinating new book, J. Marshall Unger reveals that the West has completely misunderstood Japan's interest in Artificial Intelligence. Contrary to the common view of Japan's unassailable superiority in technology and business, perpetuated recently by popular books like Japan as Number One, Unger shows that Japanese researchers are less concerned with economic coups than with solving a fundamental problem concerning their notoriously difficult written language and the challenges it poses for computer technology. The complex mixture of Chinese and phonetic characters that make up the script can only laboriously be typewritten and so are resistant to one of the most basic of computer functions -- entering data into the machine's memory banks.
Outlining the bewildering complexity of the Japanese script, which tested the limits of human intelligence even in bygone eras, Unger describes how in the modern age it has been the cause of disturbingly low levels of white-collar productivity and a surprisingly high degree of incomplete literacy in Japan. He goes on to demonstrate convincingly not only the ultimate incompatability of the script with existing computer technology but also the futility of the hope that AI, the goal of the hugely expensive Fifth Generation Project, will rescue the Japanese from this problem. He also explores the emotionally laden cultural mythology underlying Japanese resistance to script reform, which he points out is the obvious engineering solution to the drive to integrate computers into Japanese society. He concludes that the Japanese push towards AI and their refusal to acknowledge these fundamental facts about their writing system are intimately related and largely explain why Japan has been the first nation to spend vast amounts of money on AI research. [via]More editions of The Fifth Generation Fallacy: Why Japan Is Betting Its Future on Artificial Intelligence:
Fundamental Structures of Computer Scienceby WulfISBN 0201087251 (0-201-08725-1)
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Fundamentals of Electrical Engineeringby Leonard S. BobrowISBN 0195105095 (0-19-510509-5)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering'Book summary:The second edition of the highly successful Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering is thoroughly expanded and updated. The text is divided into four parts: circuits, electronics, digital systems, and electromagnetics. Although it delves in depth into each of these topics, the text represents more than your basic survey of the basics of electrical engineering. A solid understanding of the fundamental principles on which modern electrical engineering is based is also provided. This edition includes a chapter on circuit analysis software SPICE, with a detailed discussion of the PC version known as PSPICE (from MicroSim Corp.). Numerous drill exercises have been added to this new edition, reinforcing ideas presented in the examples. There are over 1,000 end-of-chapter problems. This text is suitable for a variety of electrical engineering courses. It can be used as a text for an introduction to electrical engineering for both majors and non-majors or both, or can be split and the various chapters utilized for an introduction to circuits course, a first electronics course, or for a course on digital electronics and logic design. [via]
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A Guide to the SQL Standard: A User's Guide to the Standard Relational Language SQLby C.J. DateISBN 0201057778 (0-201-05777-8)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley Pub Co
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Harbrace Guide to Teaching & Writing With Computersby Donna CampbellISBN 0155081535 (0-15-508153-5)
Softcover, Harcourt College Pub
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Henceby Brad LeithauserISBN 0140128549 (0-14-012854-9)
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History of Personal Workstationsby Adele GoldbergISBN 0201112590 (0-201-11259-0)
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How the Web Was Born: The Story of the World Wide Webby James Gillies, Robert CailliauISBN 0192862073 (0-19-286207-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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In Our Own Image: Building an Artificial Personby Maureen CaudillISBN 019507338X (0-19-507338-X)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In Our Own Image: Building an Artificial Person'Book summary:From Arnold Schwarzenegger's Terminator, to C-3PO of the Star Wars trilogy, to the comic robot-butler in Woody Allen's Sleeper, the "android" has long been a familiar figure on the American imaginative landscape. But how far removed from reality are such fictitious creations? Will there ever be an intelligent robot in our future? Neural networks expert Maureen Caudill says yes. In fact, she argues that the development of intelligent androids is a mere twenty years away.
In Our Own Image reveals just how far we've come in developing an intelligent robot, describes what technical obstacles must still be cleared, and--perhaps most interesting of all--outlines the potentially massive social disruptions and tangled moral and legal dilemmas these "human machines" will cause. In a sweeping look at state-of-the-art breakthroughs in artificial intelligence, robotics, computer science, psychology, and neural networks, Caudill shows how these fields have advanced machine vision, language recognition, problem solving, memory, and other requisites of intelligent robots. She describes foot-long mechanical ants that can follow you around a room, robots that can crack eggs, shear sheep, play ping-pong, tighten wing-nuts, and other feats of dexterity. (One robot, WABOT-2, developed in Japan, can read simple sheet music and played the electric organ with the NHK Symphony Orchestra of Japan.) electric organ.) And she concludes that as our ability to make faster, smaller, cheaper computers blends with our ability to mimic the behavior of the human mind, the first truly intelligent machines come closer to fruition. But once an android has been perfected, Caudill warns, there will likely be some unexpected--and perhaps unpleasant--social changes. Androids may compete with human workers for jobs--and robots won't take vacations, won't have family problems, and might never leave the firm. Androids may also entangle our legal system in complex, difficult questions: Can an individual own an intelligent android? What rights should it have in society? Does ownership of an android imply the right to turn it off--the right to "kill" it? And does such ownership brand us as slaveholders?
The existence of intelligent androids will provoke these and other questions. Caudill concludes that we will soon be forced to come up with answers if we are to learn to share the world with another intelligent species--one of our own creation.
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Inside Macintoshby Apple Computer IncISBN 0201054094 (0-201-05409-4)
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The Intel Microprocessors: 8086/8088, 80186/80188, 80286, 80386, 80486, Pentium, Pentium Pro, Pentium II Processors Architecture, Programming, and Interfacingby Barry B. Brey, Brey. Barry B.ISBN 0139954082 (0-13-995408-2)
Hardcover, Prentice Hall
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Introduction to Automata, Theory, Languages and Computationby John E. HopcroftISBN 020102988X (0-201-02988-X)
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Japan's Software Factories: A Challenge to U.S. Managementby Michael A. CusumanoISBN 0195062167 (0-19-506216-7)
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The Labyrinths of Information: Challenging the Wisdom of Systemsby Claudio CiborraISBN 019924152X (0-19-924152-X)
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Language As a Cognitive Process: Syntaxby Terry WinogradISBN 0201085712 (0-201-08571-2)
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Limits to Parallel Computation: P-Completeness Theoryby Raymond Greenlaw, H. James Hoover, Walter L. RuzzoISBN 0195085914 (0-19-508591-4)
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Managing Geographic Information System Projectsby William E. Huxhold, Allan G. LevinsohnISBN 0195078691 (0-19-507869-1)
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The Metaphysics of Virtual Realityby Michael HeimISBN 0195092589 (0-19-509258-9)
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In The Metaphysics of Virtual Reality, Heim considers this and other philosophical issues of the Information Age. With an eye for the dark as well as the bright side of computer technology, he explores the logical and historical origins of our computer-generated world and speculates about the future direction of our computerized lives. He discusses such topics as the effect of word-processing on the English language (while word-processors have led to increased productivity, they have also led to physical hazards such as repetitive motion syndrome, which causes inflamed hand and arm tendons). Heim looks into the new kind of literacy promised by Hypertext (technology which allows the user to link audio and video elements, the disadvantages including disorientation and cognitive overload). And he also probes the notion of virtual reality, "cyberspace"--the computer-simulated environments that have captured the popular imagination and may ultimately change the way we define reality itself. Just as the definition of interface itself has evolved from the actual adaptor plug used to connect electronic circuits into human entry into a self-contained cyberspace, so too will the notion of reality change with the current technological drive. Like the introduction of the automobile, the advent of virtual reality will change the whole context in which our knowledge and awareness of life are rooted. And along the way, Heim covers such intriguing topics as how computers have altered our thought habits, how we will be able to distinguish virtual from real reality, and the appearance of virtual reality in popular culture (as in Star Trek's holodeck, William Gibson's Neuromancer, and Stephen King's Lawnmower Man).
Vividly and entertainingly written, The Metaphysics of Virtual Reality opens a window on a fascinating world that promises--or threatens--to become an integral part of everyday life in the 21st century. As Heim writes, not only do we face a breakthrough in the technology of computer interface, but we face the challenge of knowing ourselves and determining how the technology should develop and ultimately affect the society in which it grows. [via]More editions of The Metaphysics of Virtual Reality:
Microcomputer Graphicsby Roy E. MyersISBN 0201050927 (0-201-05092-7)
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Microcomputers and Physiological Simulationby James Edwin RandallISBN 0201061287 (0-201-06128-7)
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Models of Computation and Formal Languagesby R. Gregory TaylorISBN 019510983X (0-19-510983-X)
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Modern Information Systems: Designed for Decision Supportby John Evans GessfordISBN 0201030993 (0-201-03099-3)
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The New Renaissance: Computers and the Next Level of Civilizationby Douglas S. RobertsonISBN 0195121899 (0-19-512189-9)
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Operating Systems: A Systematic Viewby William S. DavisISBN 0201011182 (0-201-01118-2)
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The Origin of Species: Library Editionby Charles Robert DarwinISBN 0140432051 (0-14-043205-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Origin of Species: Library Editionby Gillian Beer, Charles Robert DarwinISBN 0192817833 (0-19-281783-3)
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The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggled for Lifeby Charles Robert DarwinISBN 014040001X (0-14-040001-X)
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Parallel Program Design: A Foundationby K. Mani Chandy, Jayadev MisraISBN 0201058669 (0-201-05866-9)
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The Penguin Concise Dictionary of Computingby Dick PountainISBN 0140514368 (0-14-051436-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Penguin Dictionary of Computersby Anthony ChandorISBN 014051127X (0-14-051127-X)
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The Plug-in Drugby Marie WinnISBN 0142001082 (0-14-200108-2)
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The Plug-In Drug/Television, Children, and the Familyby Marie WinnISBN 0140076980 (0-14-007698-0)
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Postscript Language Reference Manualby Adobe Systems, IncISBN 0201101742 (0-201-10174-2)
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Problem Solving and Computer Programmingby Peter GrogonoISBN 0201024608 (0-201-02460-8)
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Problem Solving and Structured Programming in PASCALby Elliot B. KoffmanISBN 0201038935 (0-201-03893-5)
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Problem Solving and the Computer: A Structured Concept With Pl/Iby Joseph ShorttISBN 0201069164 (0-201-06916-4)
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A Prolog Primerby Jean B. RogersISBN 0201064677 (0-201-06467-7)
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The Puzzle Palace: A Report on America's Most Secret Agencyby James BamfordISBN 0140067485 (0-14-006748-5)
Softcover, Viking Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Puzzle Palace: A Report on America's Most Secret Agency'Book summary:In 1947, the governments of the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand signed a secret treaty in which they agreed to cooperate in matters of signals intelligence. In effect, the governments agreed to pool their geographic and technological assets in order to listen in on the electronic communications of China, the Soviet Union, and other Cold War bad guys--all in the interest of truth, justice, and the American Way, naturally. The thing is, the system apparently catches everything. Government security services, led by the U.S. National Security Agency, screen a large part (and perhaps all) of the voice and data traffic that flows over the global communications network. Fifty years later, the European Union is investigating possible violations of its citizens' privacy rights by the NSA, and the Electronic Privacy Information Center, a public advocacy group, has filed suit against the NSA, alleging that the organization has illegally spied on U.S. citizens.
Being a super-secret spy agency and all, it's tough to get a handle on what's really going on at the NSA. However, James Bamford has done great work in documenting the agency's origins and Cold War exploits in The Puzzle Palace. Beginning with the earliest days of cryptography (code-making and code-breaking are large parts of the NSA's mission), Bamford explains how the agency's predecessors helped win World War II by breaking the German Enigma machine and defeating the Japanese Purple cipher. He also documents signals intelligence technology, ranging from the usual collection of spy satellites to a great big antenna in the West Virginia woods that listened to radio signals as they bounced back from the surface of the moon.
Bamford backs his serious historical and technical material (this is a carefully researched work of nonfiction) with warnings about how easily the NSA's technology could work against the democracies of the world. Bamford quotes U.S. Senator Frank Church: "If this government ever became a tyranny ... the technological capacity that the intelligence community has given the government could enable it to impose total tyranny, and there would be no way to fight back, because the most careful effort to combine together in resistance to the government ... is within the reach of the government to know." This is scary stuff. --David Wall [via]
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The Quantum Dot: A Journey into the Future of Microelectronicsby Richard TurtonISBN 0195109597 (0-19-510959-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
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Reporting Technical Informationby Elizabeth Tebeaux, Thomas E. Pearsall, Kenneth W. Houp, Sam DraggaISBN 0195178793 (0-19-517879-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Reporting Technical Information'Book summary:BETTER WRITING AND SUCCESS AT WORK BEGIN IN YOUR CLASSROOM WITH REPORTING TECHNICAL INFORMATION, ELEVENTH EDITION, A CLASSIC TEXT WITH THOROUGHLY CONTEMPORARY CONTENT. One of the leading texts in technical writing, Reporting Technical Information introduces students to all aspects of effective professional communication, including letters, proposals, progress reports, recommendation reports, research reports, instructions, and oral reports. FEATURES OF THE ELEVENTH EDITION: * A fully integrated companion website--www.oup.com/us/houp--that offers: Additional practical resources for students: chapter overviews, sample writings, self-tests, "current topic" annotated links and additional resources, interactive tutorials, key terms and concepts, downloadable versions of important question checklists from the book, and a collaborative network Resources for instructors: an Instructor's Manual and downloadable PowerPoint files for use as lecture aids (also available on CD), links to online resources, and writing assignments instructors have shared for "Better Writing--Success at Work" Three different types of icons throughout the book that direct students to the website for additional resources: sample documents, exercises, and further reading * New, broader approach that prepares students in a variety of science, health, business, engineering, and technical majors to develop the types of documents they will need to write in their prospective work environments * Strong focus on the rhetorical nature of writing, helping writers to understand their readers and the contexts in which their documents will be read and used, define their purpose in writing, and design documents using these issues as critical guidelines * Updated and additional coverage of current technology, including thoroughly revised chapters on document design and usability that take into account web-based documents and platforms * New opening scenarios for each chapter that demonstrate the impact of tech [via]
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Rule Based Expert Systems: The Mycin Experiments of the Stanford Heuristic Programming Projectby Bruce G. Buchanan, Edward H. ShortliffeISBN 0201101726 (0-201-10172-6)
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The S6800 Family: Hardware Fundamentalsby Mitchell GoozeISBN 0201033992 (0-201-03399-2)
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Seville Communionby Arturo Perez-Reverte, Sonia SotoISBN 0156029812 (0-15-602981-2)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Seville Communion'Book summary:Spain's Arturo Perez-Reverte continues his string of comfortably old-fashioned, modestly intellectual thrillers with a touching and suspenseful story of faith and duty, set in the timeless and enchanting city of Seville. "In Seville different histories were superimposed and interdependent," he writes, aided by Sonia Soto's seamless translation. "A rosary stringing together time, blood and prayers in different languages beneath a blue sky and wise sun that leveled everything over the centuries. Stone survivors that could still be heard. You just had to forget for a moment the camcorders, postcards, coaches full of tourists and cheeky young girls, and put your ear to the stones and listen." As in his previous surprise bestsellers--The Club Dumas and The Flanders Panel, both available in paperback--Perez-Reverte takes a supposedly cool observer and turns the person into a hot-blooded participant in the action. In The Seville Communion it's Father Lorenzo Quart, who works for an investigative branch of the Vatican that is referred to by an angry, upstaged Archbishop of Seville as "you and your mafiosi in Rome, playing God's police." Father Quart, a very attractive man with prematurely gray hair cropped short, wears expensive suits and has to fight off the women who test his vows of celibacy. His toughest challenge is a breathtaking, titled beauty named Macarena, whose banker husband is at the center of a plot to tear down a historic church. Two people have already been killed because of the intrigue, and more violence threatens as Father Quart is pursued by a trio of ineptly dangerous villains, straight out of Bogart's Beat the Devil, through the gorgeous streets of a city to die for. [via]
Software for the Self: Technology and Cultureby Anthony SmithISBN 0195039009 (0-19-503900-9)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Startup: A Silicon Valley Adventureby Jerry KaplanISBN 0140257314 (0-14-025731-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Startup: A Silicon Valley Adventure'Book summary:The founder of the visionary, yet doomed, GO Corporation kept notes throughout his years at the helm, thinking that one day he would produce a book. It shows. This is a vivid and lively rise-and-fall account of a company born to create a pen-based computer. It begins on a corporate jet with the author and fellow industry visionary Mitchell Kapor, founder of Lotus, sharing a vision of pen computing. From there, Startup quickly leaps to the day-to-day challenges of hiring staff, constantly reassessing and readjusting goals, and coping with the stress of endless rounds of venture capital funding. That Kaplan, in his first attempt at running a company, battles with the top forces at Microsoft, IBM, and other industry giants to bring the idea to market, only makes the story more compelling. His company's ultimate failure says more about a cutthroat industry than about the quality of Kaplan's product. This is a real David and Goliath tale. If you've ever wondered why things go right or wrong, how competition can kill you, or how financing really works within a small startup, read this book! [via]
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The Supercomputer Eraby Sidney Karin, Norris Parker SmithISBN 0151867879 (0-15-186787-9)
Hardcover, Harcourt
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Supercomputers and Parallel Computationby D.J. PaddonISBN 0198536011 (0-19-853601-1)
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System 360/370: Job Control Language and the Access Methodsby Reino HannulaISBN 0201027550 (0-201-02755-0)
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Virtual Worlds: A Journey in Hype and Hyperrealityby Benjamin WoolleyISBN 0140154396 (0-14-015439-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Walkthroughs and Flybys Cd: Over 450 Megabytes of the Best Animated Presentationsby Phil ShatzISBN 0187839263 (0-18-783926-3)
Hardcover, Macmillan Computer Pub
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West of Eden: The End of Innocence at Apple Computerby Frank RoseISBN 0140093729 (0-14-009372-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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Working the Web: A Student's Guideby Clark, Carol Clark PowellISBN 015504060X (0-15-504060-X)
Softcover, Harcourt College Pub
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Working the Web: A Student's Research Guideby Carol L. Clark, Carol Clark PowellISBN 015507475X (0-15-507475-X)
Softcover, Cengage Learning
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The X Toolkit Cookbook: Part A and Bby Paul E. KimballISBN 0139731326 (0-13-973132-6)
Softcover, Digital Equipment Corp
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The X Toolkit Cookbook: Part A and B'Book summary:This tutorial and reference provides application programmers working in X environments recipes that enables them to become quickly productive using any of the major X Toolkits, including OSF/Motif. The X Toolkit, a part of the X Window system from MIT, is a standard programming interface for building and manipulating user interface tools. It has a very steep learning curve and available material is geared toward those who aready understand it. Covers the latest release of the X Window System (X11R6). The author is a leading authority on the X Window system. Provides a set of tutorial examples which demonstrate the major features of X Toolkits in the order in which they would be encountered in writing a real application. For software developers, application programmers, and interested users of commercial windows systems who want to know more about X Toolkits and how to use them in building applications.
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You Send Me: Getting It Right When You Write Onlineby Patricia T. O'Conner, Stewart KellermanISBN 015602733X (0-15-602733-X)
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