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123 Pic Microcontroller Experiments For The Evil Geniusby Myke PredkoISBN 0071451420 (0-07-145142-0)
Softcover, Tab Books
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123 Robotics Experiments for the Evil Geniusby Myke PredkoISBN 0071413588 (0-07-141358-8)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill
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› Find signed collectible books: '123 Robotics Experiments for the Evil Genius'Book summary:The purpose of "Evil Genius" is to create an entertaining book made up of a series of projects that will explain electronics from static electricity (rubbing a balloon) to developing robots. The book will include the tools necessary for the reader to create the projects in the book at very little cost or inconvenience. The book will be divided into 19 sections, each one with two or more projects.The introduction to each section will take up two pages, as well as the "For Consideration" at the end. The section introduction and "For Consideration" will explain the history, theory, and parts in the section. Each project will use material readily available at "Radio Shack", "Wal-Mart", "Home Depot" and "Toys 'R Us". In some cases, the reader will have to go to Digi-Key or Jameco. It will also focus on using prebuilt components where ever possible along with using common chips instead of building circuits out of discrete components. The major sections are: start here; basic electronics; semiconductors; applied electronics; digital electronics; the PICmicro microcontroller and "C" programming language; games and applications; robot muscles; robot sensors; robot structures; and, sample robot applications. [via]
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Animatronics: A Guide to Animates Displaysby Edwin WiseISBN 0790612194 (0-7906-1219-4)
Softcover, Prompt Pubns
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Argonautby Stanley SchmidtISBN 0312877277 (0-312-87727-7)
Softcover, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom
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Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approachby Stuart J. Russell, Peter NorvigISBN 0137903952 (0-13-790395-2)
Hardcover, Prentice Hall
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach'Book summary:Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach introduces basic ideas in artificial intelligence from the perspective of building intelligent agents, which the authors define as "anything that can be viewed as perceiving its environment through sensors and acting upon the environment through effectors." This textbook is up-to-date and is organized using the latest principles of good textbook design. It includes historical notes at the end of every chapter, exercises, margin notes, a bibliography, and a competent index. Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach covers a wide array of material, including first-order logic, game playing, knowledge representation, planning, and reinforcement learning. [via]
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Battlebots: The Official Guideby Mark ClarksonISBN 0072224258 (0-07-222425-8)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
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Bug Parkby James HoganISBN 0671877739 (0-671-87773-9)
Hardcover, Pocket Books
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Bug Parkby James Patrick HoganISBN 0671878743 (0-671-87874-3)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Build a Remote-Controlled Robotby David R. ShircliffISBN 0071385436 (0-07-138543-6)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill
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Build Your Own All-Terrain Robotby Brad Graham, Kathy McGowanISBN 007143741X (0-07-143741-X)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill
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Build Your Own Combat Robotby Tom Carroll, Pete MilesISBN 0072194642 (0-07-219464-2)
Softcover, Computing McGraw-Hill
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Cambrian Intelligence: The Early History of the New Aiby Rodney Allen BrooksISBN 0262522632 (0-262-52263-2)
Softcover, Mit Pr
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Cnc Robotics: Build Your Own Workshop Botby Geoff WilliamsISBN 0071418288 (0-07-141828-8)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cnc Robotics: Build Your Own Workshop Bot'Book summary:Here's the FIRST book to offer step-by-step guidelines that walk the reader through the entire process a building a CNC (Computer Numerical Control) machine from start to finish. Using inexpensive, off-the-shelf parts, readers can build CNC machines with true industrial shop applications such as machining, routing, and cutting--at a fraction of what it would cost to purchase one.
* Great for anyone who wants to automate a task in their home shop or small business
* Easy-to-use Windows-based software controls the robotic automation
* Builders can scale and customize the machine to suit their own industrial needs
* Numerous tips, tricks, and pictorials walk the reader through every step--design, construction, and completion [via]More editions of Cnc Robotics: Build Your Own Workshop Bot:
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The Complete Robotby Isaac AsimovISBN 0246119233 (0-246-11923-3)
Hardcover, Granada
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Robot'Book summary:A series of graded readers covering a wide range of styles and kinds of English, both fiction and non-fiction, with comprehension exercises, questions and crosswords. Level 2 has a vocabulary of 600 words. [via]
The Complexity of Robot Motion Planningby John F. CannyISBN 0262031361 (0-262-03136-1)
Hardcover, Mit Pr
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Computational Principles of Mobile Roboticsby Michael Jenkin, Gregory DudekISBN 0521568765 (0-521-56876-5)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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The Computer and the Brainby John Von Neumann, Paul M. Churchland, Patricia Smith ChurchlandISBN 0300084730 (0-300-08473-0)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Computer and the Brain'Book summary:Whether they think it's impossible or inevitable, most people have highly polarised views on artificial intelligence. John von Neumann, genius, mathematician and inventor of the nearly ubiquitous computer architecture bearing his name, blazed trails for both camps in The Computer and the Brain.
This short book, originally written for Yale's Silliman lectures but published posthumously, summarises his views on machine and biological intelligence with unprecedented clarity and precision. His understanding of neuroscience was that of a brilliant and strongly motivated amateur at the end of the 1950s, good enough to take on the problem but by no means matching his comprehension of the machines to which he had devoted much of his professional life. Still, his take on intracranial computation is stunningly prescient--he looks beyond the then-fashionable digital metaphors to suggest a semi-analogue strategy that uses parallel processing to make up for its deficiency in speed.
Prominent neuroscientific thinkers Paul M. Churchland and Patricia S. Churchland provide a brief, enlightening foreword to the second edition, placing the author's thinking in context and grounding the reader in the scientific milieu that gave rise to The Computer and the Brain. Though his computer architecture is slowly growing obsolete, von Neumann has given us a more lasting legacy in his thinking about thinking. --Rob Lightner [via]
Creation: Life and How to Make Itby Steve GrandISBN 0674011139 (0-674-01113-9)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Creation: Life and How to Make It'Book summary:Though its title brings to mind the hubris of Frankenstein, Steve Grand's Creation: Life and How to Make It is just humble enough to keep its readers hooked. Best known as the developer of the Creatures series of artificial-life software, Grand has quite a following among devotees of playful complexity.
The book ranges from deep ruminations on the nature of life and mind (artificial and biological) to fairly concrete advice for future creators, and his writing is just as elegant and compelling as his software. Sometimes his cleverness gets the best of him, but for the most part, his wordplay is used to serve his ideas, which are thought-provoking even for readers who have no intention of creating life.
Many will be surprised at the strength of Grand's antireductionism, but he makes his case vigorously and may win a few converts to the emergent-phenomena camp. Creation is essential reading for those of us who want to think through the consequences of our actions before we imitate Frankenstein's mistake. --Rob Lightner [via]
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Cyberiadby Stanislaw LemISBN 0156027593 (0-15-602759-3)
Softcover, Harcourt
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Cybernetics or Control and Communication in the Animalby Norbert WienerISBN 026273009X (0-262-73009-X)
Softcover, Mit Pr
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Digital People: From Bionic Humans to Androidsby Sidney PerkowitzISBN 0309096197 (0-309-09619-7)
Softcover, Natl Academy Pr
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Edison's Eve : A Magical History of the Quest for Mechanical Lifeby Gaby WoodISBN 0679451129 (0-679-45112-9)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Geometrical Methods in Roboticsby J. M. SeligISBN 0387947280 (0-387-94728-0)
Hardcover, Springer
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Gordon McComb's Gadgeteer's Goldmine!: 55 Space-Age Projectsby Gordon McCombISBN 0071559833 (0-07-155983-3)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill
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Growing up with Lucyby Steven GrandISBN 0297607332 (0-297-60733-2)
Hardcover, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
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Growing Up With Lucy: How To Build And Android In Twenty Easy Stepsby Steve GrandISBN 0753818051 (0-7538-1805-1)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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I, Cyborgby K. WarwickISBN 0252072154 (0-252-07215-4)
Softcover, Univ of Illinois Pr
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In the Age of the Smart Machine: The Future of Work and Powerby Shoshana ZuboffISBN 0465032117 (0-465-03211-7)
Softcover, Perseus Books
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In the Mind of the Machine: The Breakthrough in Artificial Intelligenceby K. WarwickISBN 0099703017 (0-09-970301-7)
Hardcover, Arrow
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Intelligence As Adaptive Behavior: An Experiment in Computational Neuroethologyby Randall D. BeerISBN 0120847302 (0-12-084730-2)
Hardcover, Academic Pr
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Introduction to Autonomous Mobile Robotsby Roland Siegwart, Illah Reza NourbakhshISBN 026219502X (0-262-19502-X)
Hardcover, Mit Pr
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Isaac Asimov's Utopiaby Roger MacBride AllenISBN 0441002455 (0-441-00245-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Isaac Asimov's Utopia'Book summary:The exciting sequel to Caliban and Inferno explores the last of Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics. [via]
Lasers, Ray Guns, and Light Cannon: Projects from the Wizrd's Workbenchby Gordon McCombISBN 0070450358 (0-07-045035-8)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill
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The Last Mortal Manby Syne MitchellISBN 0451460944 (0-451-46094-4)
Softcover, Roc
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Living Dolls: A Magical History of the Quest for Mechanical Lifeby Gaby WoodISBN 0571178790 (0-571-17879-0)
Hardcover, Faber and Faber
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Living Dolls: A Magical History of the Quest for Mechanical Life'Book summary:Gaby Woods' Living Dolls is a playful exploration of the history of artificial creatures and their inventors, which starts in 17th-century France and ends in the robotics laboratories of Tokyo and Massachusetts. Ultimately the book is concerned to provide a Freudian account of "what troubles us when we are faced with certain versions of ourselves--bionic men, speaking robots, intelligent machines or even just a doll that moves". The dolls, robots and androids that Woods explores all create anxieties that offer "a fundamental challenge to our perception of what makes us human".
Woods' fascination with artificial intelligence begins in the 17th century, with Descartes' formulation of man as a machine, and Jacques de Vaucanson's flute-playing android, accompanied by an artificial duck that digested its own food, first exhibited to popular amazement in Paris in 1738. The book then tells the bizarre stories of other examples of artificial bodies, including Wolfgang von Kempelen's Automaton Chess Player, attired in the manner of a Turk, Edison's Talking Doll and John Nevill Maskelyne's 19th-century automaton, Psycho. Living Dolls is an amusing and well written story of the "uncanny" nature of artificial life, although some readers might feel that it is higher on entertainment than serious philosophical reflection, in dealing with a subject that many postmodern scholars have explored in greater depth. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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The Machine Plays Chessby A. G. BellISBN 0080212220 (0-08-021222-0)
Softcover, Elsevier Science Ltd
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Machine Takeover: The Growing Threat to Human Freedom in a Computer-Controlled Societyby Frank Honywill GeorgeISBN 008021228X (0-08-021228-X)
Softcover, Pergamon Press
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Machines Who Think: A Personal Inquiry into the History and Prospects of Artificial Intelligenceby Pamela McCorduckISBN 0716711354 (0-7167-1135-4)
Softcover, W H Freeman & Co
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The Mechanical Turk: The True Story of the Chess-Playing Machine That Fooled the Worldby Tom StandageISBN 014029919X (0-14-029919-X)
Softcover, Penguin Books, Limited
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The Naked Sunby Isaac AsimovISBN 0553293397 (0-553-29339-7)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Naked Sun'Book summary:A millennium into the future, two advancements have altered the course of human history: the colonization of the Galaxy and the creation of the positronic brain. On the beautiful Outer World planet of Solaria, a handful of human colonists lead a hermit-like existence, their every need attended to by their faithful robot servants. To this strange and provocative planet comes Detective Elijah Baley, sent from the streets of New York with his positronic partner, the robot R. Daneel Olivaw, to solve an incredible murder that has rocked Solaria to its foundations. The victim had been so reclusive that he appeared to his associates only through holographic projection. Yet someone had gotten close enough to bludgeon him to death while robots looked on. Now Baley and Olivaw are faced with two clear impossibilities: Either the Solarian was killed by one of his robots--unthinkable under the laws of Robotics--or he was killed by the woman who loved him so much that she never came into his presence! [via]
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Nanotechby Jack Dann, Gardner DozoisISBN 0441005853 (0-441-00585-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Nanotech'Book summary:Imagine a technology that can change the structure and function of your own body...or that can devour an entire country.
This is nanotechnology--the creation of self-replicating machines with the capability to build or alter almost any structure, including the human form, by manipulating atoms or molecules--and it has captured the imaginations of science fiction writers and readers everywhere. Now these eleven short tales will capture you... [via]
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The Phoenix Codeby Catherine AsaroISBN 0553762710 (0-553-76271-0)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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When robotics expert Megan O'Flannery is offered the chance to direct MindSim's cutting-edge program to develop a self-aware android, it's the opportunity of a lifetime. But the project is trouble plagued--the third prototype "killed" itself, and the RS-4 is unstable. Megan will descend into MindSim's underground research lab in the Nevada desert, where she will be the sole human in contact with the RS-4, dubbed Aris. Programmed as part of a top-secret defense project, the awakening Aris quickly proves to be deviously resourceful and basically uncontrollable. When Megan enlists the help of Raj Sundaram, the quirky, internationally renowned robotics genius, the android develops a jealous hostility toward Raj--and a fixation on Megan. But soon she comes to realize that Raj may be an even greater danger--and that her life may depend on the choice she makes between the man she wants to trust and the android she created. [via]
Pic Robotics: A Beginner's Guide to Robotics Projects Using the Picmicroby John IovineISBN 0071373241 (0-07-137324-1)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill
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R. U. R.by Karel CapekISBN 0671466054 (0-671-46605-4)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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R. U. R. and the Insect Playby Josef CapekISBN 0192810103 (0-19-281010-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'R. U. R. and the Insect Play'Book summary:Josef and Karel Capek were the best known literary figures of liberated Czechoslovakia after 1918. Josef won a considerable reputation as a painter of the Cubist school, later developing his own playful primitive style. He collaborated with his brother in composing sketches, stories, and plays, as well as writing two short novels of his own and critical essays in which he defended the art of the unconscious, of children, and of savages. Following Hitler's invasion of 1939, Josef Capek was sent to a German concentration camp. He died at Belsen in April 1945.
Karel Capek became a journalist and for a time stage manager of the theatre in Vinohrady. Though a writer of novels, visionary romances, travel books, stories , and essays, Karel is best known for his plays. His last plays, written just before the entry of Hitler into Czechoslovakia, deal with the rise of dictatorship and the terrible consequences of war. Karel Capek died on Christmas day, 1938.
After the success of R.U.R. (Rossums' Universal Robots, 1920) seen in London in 1923, the brothers collaborated in their best-known work, The Insect Play (1921). Both plays are satires depicting the horrors of a regimented technical world and the terrible end of the populace if they fail to rise against their oppressors. They reflect the world in which the Capeks lived and give a commentary on its grosser follies. [via]More editions of R. U. R. and the Insect Play:
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R.U.R. Rossum's Universal Robotsby Karel Capek, Claudia Novack, Ivan KlimaISBN 0141182083 (0-14-118208-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)'Book summary:[via]R.U.R.written in 1920, premiered in Prague in 1921, and first performed in New York in 1922garnered worldwide acclaim for its author and popularized the word robot. Mass-produced as efficient laborers to serve man, Capeks Robots are an android productthey remember everything but think of nothing new. But the Utopian life they provide ultimately lacks meaning, and the humans they serve stop reproducing. When the Robots revolt, killing all but one of their masters, they must strain to learn the secret of self-duplication. It is not until two Robots fall in love and are christened Adam and Eve by the last surviving human that Nature emerges triumphant.
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The Rest of the Robots.by Isaac AsimovISBN 0385090412 (0-385-09041-2)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Robot Manipulators: Mathematics, Programming and Controlby Richard P. PaulISBN 026216082X (0-262-16082-X)
Hardcover, Mit Pr
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Robot Modelling and Controlby M. Vidyasagar, Mark W. Spong, Seth HutchinsonISBN 0471649902 (0-471-64990-2)
Hardcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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Robot Programming: A Practical Guide to Behavior-Based Roboticsby Daniel Roth, Joe JonesISBN 0071427783 (0-07-142778-3)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill
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Robot Sumo: The Official Guideby Pete MilesISBN 007222617X (0-07-222617-X)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
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Robot Visionby Berthold K. HornISBN 0262081598 (0-262-08159-8)
Hardcover, Mit Pr
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Robot Visionsby Isaac AsimovISBN 0451450647 (0-451-45064-7)
Softcover, Roc
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Robotic Explorations: A Hands-On Introduction to Engineeringby Fred G. MartinISBN 0130895687 (0-13-089568-7)
Hardcover, Prentice Hall
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Roboticsby Marvin MinskyISBN 0385194145 (0-385-19414-5)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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Roboticsby Tony Potter, Ivor GuildISBN 074601466X (0-7460-1466-X)
Softcover, Edc Pub
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Robotics Demystifiedby Edwin WiseISBN 0071436782 (0-07-143678-2)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill
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The Robotics Primer: The What, Why, and How of Robots in the Workplaceby Robert A. UllrichISBN 0137821360 (0-13-782136-0)
Softcover, Prentice-Hall
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Robotsby Isaac Asimov, Karen FrenkelISBN 0517551101 (0-517-55110-1)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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Robots: Bringing Intelligent Machines to Lifeby Ruth AylettISBN 0764155415 (0-7641-5541-5)
Hardcover, Barrons Educational Series Inc
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The Robots of Dawnby Isaac AsimovISBN 0553299492 (0-553-29949-2)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Detective Elijah Baiey is called to the Spacer world Aurora to solve a bizarre case of roboticide. The prime suspect is a gifted roboticist who had the means, the motive, and the opportunity to commit the crime. There's only one catch: Baley and his positronic partner, R. Daneel Olivaw, must prove the man innocent. For in a case of political intrigue and love between woman and robot gone tragically wrong, there's more at stake than simple justice. This time Baley's career, his life, and Earth's right to pioneer the Galaxy lie in the delicate balance. [via]More editions of The Robots of Dawn:
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Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War IIby Robert KursonISBN 0345482476 (0-345-48247-6)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II'Book summary:In the tradition of Jon Krakauers Into Thin Air and Sebastian Jungers The Perfect Storm comes a true tale of riveting adventure in which two weekend scuba divers risk everything to solve a great historical mysteryand make history themselves.
For John Chatterton and Richie Kohler, deep wreck diving was more than a sport. Testing themselves against treacherous currents, braving depths that induced hallucinatory effects, navigating through wreckage as perilous as a minefield, they pushed themselves to their limits and beyond, brushing against death more than once in the rusting hulks of sunken ships.
But in the fall of 1991, not even these courageous divers were prepared for what they found 230 feet below the surface, in the frigid Atlantic waters sixty miles off the coast of New Jersey: a World War II German U-boat, its ruined interior a macabre wasteland of twisted metal, tangled wires, and human bonesall buried under decades of accumulated sediment.
No identifying marks were visible on the submarine or the few artifacts brought to the surface. No historian, expert, or government had a clue as to which U-boat the men had found. In fact, the official records all agreed that there simply could not be a sunken U-boat and crew at that location.
Over the next six years, an elite team of divers embarked on a quest to solve the mystery. Some of them would not live to see its end. Chatterton and Kohler, at first bitter rivals, would be drawn into a friendship that deepened to an almost mystical sense of brotherhood with each other and with the drowned U-boat sailorsformer enemies of their country. As the mens marriages frayed under the pressure of a shared obsession, their dives grew more daring, and each realized that he was hunting more than the identities of a lost U-boat and its nameless crew.
Author Robert Kursons account of this quest is at once thrilling and emotionally complex, and it is written with a vivid sense of what divers actually experience when they meet the dangers of the oceans underworld. The story of Shadow Divers often seems too amazing to be true, but it all happened, two hundred thirty feet down, in the deep blue sea. [via]More editions of Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II:
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Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Seaby Gary KinderISBN 0375703373 (0-375-70337-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea'Book summary:The facts speak for themselves. In 1857, the Central America, a sidewheel steamer ferrying passengers fresh from the gold rush of California to New York and laden with 21 tons of California gold, encountered a severe storm off the Carolina coast and sank, carrying more than 400 passengers and all her cargo down with her. She then sat for 132 years, 200 miles offshore and almost two miles below the ocean's surface--a depth at which she was assumed to be unrecoverable--until 1989, when a deep-water research vessel sailed into the harbor at Norfolk, Virginia, fat with salvaged gold coins and bullion estimated to be worth one billion dollars.
Author Gary Kinder wisely lets the story of the Columbus-America Discovery Group, led by maverick scientist and entrepreneur Tommy Thompson, unfold without hyperbole. Kinder interweaves the tale of the Central America and her passengers and crew with Thompson's own story of growing up landlocked in Ohio, an irrepressible tinkerer and explorer even in his childhood days, and his progress to adulthood as a young man who always had "7 to 14" projects on the table or spinning in his head at any given moment. One of those projects would become the preposterous recovery of the stricken steamer, and the resourcefulness and later urgency with which the project would proceed is contrasted poignantly with the Central America's doomed battle in 1857 to stay afloat.
Thompson, who spent nearly a decade planning and organizing his recovery effort, emerges as one of the great unsung adventurers of these times (the technical innovations alone required for such a task produced a windfall for the scientific community and defined a new state of the art for deep-sea explorers and treasure hunters), and the story of the steamer's sinking is compelling enough to make any reader wonder why the Central America sinking isn't synonymous with shipwreck in this Titanic-happy age. --Tjames Madison [via]
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Sojourner: An Insider's View of the Mars Pathfinder Missionby Andrew MishkinISBN 0425198391 (0-425-19839-1)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sojourner: An Insider's View of the Mars Pathfinder Mission'Book summary:Andrew Mishkin, a senior systems engineer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and a leader of NASA's robotic program, delivers an insider's look at the Mars Pathfinder probe that electrified the world's imagination.
122 million miles away from her controllers, a sophisticated robot smaller than a microwave oven did what had never been done before-explore the rocky, red terrain of Mars. Then, six-wheeled Sojourner beamed spectacular pictures of her one-of-a-kind mission back to Earth. And millions of people were captivated.
Now, with the touch of an expert thriller writer, Sojourner operations team leader Andrew Mishkin tells the inside, human story of the Mars Pathfinder mission's feverish efforts to build a self-guided, offroading robot to explore the surface of the Red Planet. With witty, compelling anecdotes, he describes the clash of temperamental geniuses, the invention of a new work ethic, the turf wars, the chewing-gum solutions to high-tech problems, the controlled chaos behind the strangely beautiful creation of an artificial intelligence-and the exhilaration of inaugurating the next great age of space exploration. [via]More editions of Sojourner: An Insider's View of the Mars Pathfinder Mission:
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Stelarc : The Monographby Marquard Smith, William Gibson, Julie ClarkeISBN 0262195186 (0-262-19518-6)
Hardcover, MIT Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Stelarc : The Monograph'Book summary:Stelarc is the most celebrated artist in the world working within technology and the visual arts. He is both an artist and a phenomenon, using his body as medium and exhibition space. Working in the interface between the body and the machine, employing virtual reality, robotics, medical instruments, prosthetics, and the Internet, Stelarc's art includes physical acts that don't always look survivableor, as science fiction novelist William Gibson puts it in his foreword, "sometimes seem to include the possibility of terminality."
Stelarc's projects include Third Hand, a grasping and wrist rotating mechanism with a rudimentary sense of touch that is attached to the artist and activated by EMG from other body areas; Amplified Body, in which the artist performs acoustically with his brainwaves, muscles, pulse, and blood flow signals; and the Stomach Sculpture, a deviceor "aesthetic adornment"placed in the artist's stomach and presented through video. Works in progress include the Extra Ear Project, a soft prosthesis of skin and cartilage to be constructed on the artist's arm. Stelarc's work both reflects and determines new directions in performance art and body art. Although there have been hundreds of articles written about Stelarc since he began performing in the late 1960s, Stelarc: The Monograph is the first comprehensive study of Stelarc's work practice in over thirty years. Gathering a range of writers who approach the work from a variety of perspectives, it includes William Gibson's account of his meetings with Stelarc, Arthur and Marilouise Kroker's emphatic "WE ARE ALL STELARCS NOW," and Stelarc himself in conversation with Marquard Smith. Taken together, these writers give us a multiplicity of ways to think about Stelarc. [via]More editions of Stelarc : The Monograph:
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The Turk: The Life and Times of the Famous Eighteenth-Century Chess-Playing Machineby Tom StandageISBN 0425190390 (0-425-19039-0)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Turk: The Life and Times of the Famous Eighteenth-Century Chess-Playing Machine'Book summary:This is the true account of the 18th-century mechanical man, powered by clockwork, dressed in a Turkish costume, and capable of playing chess. Created by a Hungarian nobleman, the machine-man known as The Turk traveled Europe and America, made the acquaintance of Benjamin Franklin, Catherine the Great, Napoleon Bonaparte, and Edgar Allan Poe. [via]
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The Veiled Webby Catherine AsaroISBN 0553762702 (0-553-76270-2)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Veiled Web'Book summary:Catherine Asaro, author of the popular Skolian Empire series that combines hard science with romance in the far future, explores new territory with The Veiled Web. Set in 2010, this story combines romance, suspense, and cutting-edge computer technology in a Moroccan setting.
Lucia del Mar, the heroine, is an internationally renowned dancer who is also familiar with the latest in Internet technology. At a White House dinner she meets Rashid al-Jazari, a Moroccan businessman who has created a hot new virtual-reality suit and software that could revolutionize Web browsing. A second encounter ends up in an attempt to kidnap Rashid and Lucia, forcing them into hiding at his family's Moroccan home. Here Lucia becomes steadily more attracted to him, even as she chafes at the limitations placed on her as a woman in a traditional Muslim household. She also begins to realize the implications of his work, and how dangerous it could be in the wrong hands.
In this near-future thriller, Asaro considers what makes humans human and the similarities between art and science, balancing ethical and religious beliefs with scientific discoveries that open new possibilities. If you're intrigued by artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, and VR, you'll enjoy this one. --Nona Vero [via]
Weapons Grade: How Modern Warfare Gave Birth To Our High-Tech Worldby David HamblingISBN 0786717696 (0-7867-1769-6)
Softcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
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