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The Algorithmic Beauty of Plantsby P. PrusinkiewiczISBN 0387946764 (0-387-94676-4)
Softcover, Springer
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants'Book summary:This book is the first comprehensive volume on the computer simulation of plant development. It contains a full account of the algorithms used to model plant shapes and developmental processes, Lindenmayer systems in particular. With nearly 50 color plates, the spectacular results of the modelling are vividly illustrated. "This marvelous book will occupy an important place in the scientific literature." #Professor Heinz-Otto Peitgen# "The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants will perform a valuable service by popularizing this enlightening and bewitching form of mathematics." #Steven Levy# " ... the garden here is full of delights and an excellent introduction to L-systems, ..." #Alvy Ray Smith, IEEE Computer Graphics and its Applications# [via]
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American Replacement of Natureby William I. ThompsonISBN 0385420250 (0-385-42025-0)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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Angle of Attackby Mike GrayISBN 039301892X (0-393-01892-X)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Art Restoration: The Culture, the Business, and the Scandalby James Beck, Michael DaleyISBN 0393312976 (0-393-31297-6)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Before the Industrial Revolution: European Society and Economy 1000-1700by Carlo M. CipollaISBN 0393311988 (0-393-31198-8)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Before the Industrial Revolution: European Society and Economy 1000-1700'Book summary:The Third Edition includes substantial revisions and new material throughout the book that will secure its standing as the most useful history available of preindustrial Europe.
During the seven hundred years before the Industrial Revolution, the stage was set for Europe's transformation from a backward agrarian society to a powerful industrialized society. An economic historian of international reputation, Carlo M. Cipolla explores the process that made this transformation possible. In so doing, he sheds light not only on the economic factors but on the culture surrounding them. [via]More editions of Before the Industrial Revolution: European Society and Economy 1000-1700:
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Better Than Well: American Medicine Meets the American Dreamby Carl Elliott, Peter D. KramerISBN 039305201X (0-393-05201-X)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Better Than Well : American Medicine Meets the American Dreamby Elliott, Carl, Sr.ISBN 0393325652 (0-393-32565-2)
Softcover, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Better Than Well : American Medicine Meets the American Dream'Book summary:"Elliott's absorbing account will make readers think again about the ways that science shapes our personal identities."American Scientist
Americans have always been the world's most anxiously enthusiastic consumers of "enhancement technologies." Prozac, Viagra, and Botox injections are only the latest manifestations of a familiar pattern: enthusiastic adoption, public hand-wringing, an occasional congressional hearing, and calls for self-reliance.
In a brilliant diagnosis of our reactions to self-improvement technologies, Carl Elliott asks questions that illuminate deep currents in the American character: Why do we feel uneasy about these drugs, procedures, and therapies even while we embrace them? Where do we draw the line between self and society? Why do we seek self-realization in ways so heavily influenced by cultural conformity? [via]More editions of Better Than Well : American Medicine Meets the American Dream:
Beyond Calculation: The Next Fifty Years of Computingby Peter J. DenningISBN 0387985883 (0-387-98588-3)
Softcover, Springer Verlag
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Beyond Einstein: The Cosmic Quest for the Theory of the Universeby Michio Kaku, Jennifer Trainer ThompsonISBN 0385477813 (0-385-47781-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beyond Einstein: The Cosmic Quest for the Theory of the Universe'Book summary:Beyond Einstein takes readers on an exciting excursion into the discoveries that have led scientists to the brightest new prospect in theoretical physics today -- superstring theory. What is superstring theory and why is it important? This revolutionary breakthrough may well be the
fulfillment of Albert Einstein's lifelong dream of a Theory of Everything, uniting the laws of physics into a single description explaining all the known forces in the universe. Co-authored by one of the leading pioneers in superstrings, Michio Kaku, and completely revised and updated with the newest groundbreaking research, the book approaches scientific questions with the excitement of a detective story, offering a fascinating look at the new science that may make the impossible possible. [via]More editions of Beyond Einstein: The Cosmic Quest for the Theory of the Universe:
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Brains, Machines and Mathematicsby Michael A. ArbibISBN 0387965394 (0-387-96539-4)
Hardcover, Springer
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Brains, Machines and Mathematics'Book summary:Traces the relationship between the development of computing machines and our knowledge of brain functioning, and introduces corresponding mathematical models designed to describe this relationship. Begins with a historical overview tracing the rise of cybernetics to the current interchange of ideas between AI and brain theory. Subsequent chapters introduce neural sets and finite automata, the crucial cybernetic concepts of feedback and realization, pattern recognition networks, "semi-neural" learning networks, capabilities of Turing machines and automata which construct as well as compute. The final chapter presents two accessible proofs of Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem. [via]
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Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural Historyby Stephen Jay GouldISBN 039330857X (0-393-30857-X)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History'Book summary:Stephen Jay Gould has a wide range of interests, and for many years he has shared his enthusiasms in the pages of Natural History and the New York Review of Books, among other journals. His passions include baseball, the puzzles of evolutionary theory, and the game of scholarly detection as it applies to questions such as, "What became of dinosaurs, anyway?". He answers entertainingly, but never talks down to his readers. Gould is one of modern natural science's great popularizers, but he shuns the temptation to make the giant reptiles of prehistory the Smurfs of the 1990s, in the manner of a certain purple dinosaur. The 35 pieces gathered here make for fine browsing, full of sideways glances and digressions that eventually make sense. [via]
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Car: A Drama of the American Workplaceby Mary WaltonISBN 0393318613 (0-393-31861-3)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Car: A Drama of the American Workplace'Book summary:A whole book dedicated to the manufacture of a single model of car--and not even a sexy model, such as a Lamborghini or a Rolls Royce, but a Ford Taurus! How interesting could that be? In the hands of talented Mary Walton, it is very interesting indeed. Walton spent more than two years inside the belly of the giant Ford Motor Company researching the manufacture of the 1996 Taurus, and her account makes for surprisingly entertaining reading. Walton, who has written extensively about management theory, brings a perceptive eye and a breezy style to her critique of the automobile industry. In addition to the redesign of Ford's popular model, Walton also examines the sometimes volatile relations between the company's engineering staff and its designers, criticizes Ford's hierarchical management structure, and questions the astounding number of upper-level executives recruited from the military and their resulting martial management style.
The private lives of Ford employees likewise do not escape Walton's critical eye. Twelve-hour days are common among Ford engineers, but the toll on their personal lives is high. So critical is Mary Walton of Ford's management practices that, upon seeing an early draft of Car, Ford revoked Walton's access to its top executives. For a book that provides both solid entertainment and an in-depth analysis of the auto industry, Car is the top of the line. [via]
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Coming of Age in the Milky Wayby Timothy FerrisISBN 0385263260 (0-385-26326-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Compass: A Story Of Exploration And Innovationby Alan GurneyISBN 0393327132 (0-393-32713-2)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Compass chronicles the misadventures of those who attempted to perfect the magnetic compassso precious to sixteenth-century seamen that, by law, any man found tampering with it had his hand pinned to the mast with a dagger. From the time man first took to the seas until only one thousand years ago, sight and winds were the sailor's only navigational aids. It was not until the development of the compass that maps and charts could be used with any accuracyeven so, it would be hundreds of years and thousands of shipwrecks before the marvelous instrument was perfected. And its history up to modern times is filled with the stories of disasters that befell sailors who misused it. In this page-turning history of man's search for reliable navigation of treacherous sea routes around the globe, Alan Gurney brings to life the instrument Victor Hugo called "the soul of the ship." 20 illustrations. [via]More editions of Compass: A Story Of Exploration And Innovation:
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Computational Geometry: An Introductionby Franco P. Preparata, Michael Ian ShamosISBN 0387961313 (0-387-96131-3)
Hardcover, Springer Verlag
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Computational Geometry: An Introduction'Book summary:From the reviews: "This book offers a coherent treatment, at the graduate textbook level, of the field that has come to be known in the last decade or so as computational geometry. ... ... The book is well organized and lucidly written; a timely contribution by two founders of the field. It clearly demonstrates that computational geometry in the plane is now a fairly well-understood branch of computer science and mathematics. It also points the way to the solution of the more challenging problems in dimensions higher than two." #Mathematical Reviews#1 "... This remarkable book is a comprehensive and systematic study on research results obtained especially in the last ten years. The very clear presentation concentrates on basic ideas, fundamental combinatorial structures, and crucial algorithmic techniques. The plenty of results is clever organized following these guidelines and within the framework of some detailed case studies. A large number of figures and examples also aid the understanding of the material. Therefore, it can be highly recommended as an early graduate text but it should prove also to be essential to researchers and professionals in applied fields of computer-aided design, computer graphics, and robotics." #Biometrical Journal#2 [via]
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The Computer Artist's Handbook: Concepts, Techniques, and Applicationsby Lillian F. Schwartz, Laurens R. SchwartzISBN 0393027953 (0-393-02795-3)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Dead Men Do Tell Tales: The Strange and Fascinating Cases of a Forensic Anthropologistby William R. Maples, Michael BrowningISBN 0385479689 (0-385-47968-9)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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A Dream of Wings: Americans and the Airplane, 1875-1905by Tom D. CrouchISBN 0393322270 (0-393-32227-0)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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When Orville and Wilbur Wright soared over Kill Devil Hills in North Carolina's outer banks and solved the problem of aerial navigation, they wrote the last chapter in a long story. For decades prior, a small community of engineers, scientists, and dreamersmen named Chanute and Langley and Herringhad tried to make the ascent in every conceivable craft, from kites and gliders to an assortment of powered flying models. This fascinating assortment of characters and contraptions comes to life in Tom Crouch's classic A Dream of Wings. In the quest for flight, aeronautical societies were formed and broke apart, successes were celebrated, hopes rose and fell, and lessons were learned and built upon. The dreamers who blazed the path to a flying machine are bravely realized in these delightful pages. 55 b/w illustrations. [via]More editions of A Dream of Wings: Americans and the Airplane, 1875-1905:
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Dye Lasersby F.P. SchaferISBN 0387515585 (0-387-51558-5)
Softcover, Springer Verlag
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Eight Little Piggies: Reflections in Natural Historyby Stephen Jay GouldISBN 0393311392 (0-393-31139-2)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eight Little Piggies: Reflections in Natural History'Book summary:What story lies behind the bent tail of an ichthyosaur? How did hearing bones evolve? Is it possible that our five fingers and toes just happened to be and were not ordained? Here are Gould's thoughts on extinction and on the ecological crisis, as he proposes a Golden Rule of our Earth: we should treat all species as we would ourselves. Drawings. [via]
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Eighteenth-Century Europe, Tradition and Progress, 1715-1789by Isser WolochISBN 0393015068 (0-393-01506-8)
Hardcover, Norton
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The End as I Know Itby Kevin ShayISBN 0385518218 (0-385-51821-8)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Fast Forward: Hollywood, the Japanese, and the Onslaught of the Vcrby James LardnerISBN 0393023893 (0-393-02389-3)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural Historyby Stephen Jay GouldISBN 0393303756 (0-393-30375-6)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Frankenstein : Or, the Modern Prometheusby Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyISBN 0385487320 (0-385-48732-0)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frankenstein : Or, the Modern Prometheus'Book summary:Frankenstein, loved by many decades of readers and praised by such eminent literary critics as Harold Bloom, seems hardly to need a recommendation. If you haven't read it recently, though, you may not remember the sweeping force of the prose, the grotesque, surreal imagery, and the multilayered doppelgänger themes of Mary Shelley's masterpiece. As fantasy writer Jane Yolen writes of this (the reviewer's favorite) edition, "The strong black and whites of the main text [illustrations] are dark and brooding, with unremitting shadows and stark contrasts. But the central conversation with the monster--who owes nothing to the overused movie image & but is rather the novel's charnel-house composite--is where [Barry] Moser's illustrations show their greatest power ... The viewer can all but smell the powerful stench of the monster's breath as its words spill out across the page. Strong book-making for one of the world's strongest and most remarkable books." Includes an illuminating afterword by Joyce Carol Oates. [via]
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Freedom of Expression®: Overzealous Copyright Bozos and Other Enemies of Creativityby Kembrew McLeodISBN 0385513259 (0-385-51325-9)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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The Future of Warfareby Bevin AlexanderISBN 0393037800 (0-393-03780-0)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toesby Stephen Jay GouldISBN 0393311031 (0-393-31103-1)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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High Wizardryby Diane DuaneISBN 0385299834 (0-385-29983-4)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'High Wizardry'Book summary:Don't take brilliant, shrewd Dairine Callahan for just any bratty younger sibling. Impatient for adventure, knowledge, and recognition, she finds her sister Nita's wizardry manual and reads the Oath aloud. Disappointingly, nothing happens. But when her family's new computer arrives, Dairene discovers more than the standard issue system software on it and launches herself on a reckless, universe-wide, high-voltage magical conflict with the Lone Power. Diane Duane's storytelling is skillfully mythic and wittily referential; Dairine's discovery and shaping of a new form of life is wondrous. For maximum enjoyment, read So You Want To Be A Wizard and Deep Wizardry first. [via]
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Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the Tenth Dimensionby Michio KakuISBN 0385477058 (0-385-47705-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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In Pursuit of Truth: Essays on the Philosophy of Karl Popper on the Occasion of His 80th Birthdayby Paul LevinsonISBN 0391026097 (0-391-02609-7)
Hardcover, Brill Academic Pub
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Infinite Loop : How Apple, the World's Most Insanely Great Computer Company, Went Insaneby Michael S. MaloneISBN 0385486847 (0-385-48684-7)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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Journey into Space: The First Three Decades of Space Explorationby Bruce MurrayISBN 0393026752 (0-393-02675-2)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Mechanization Takes Commandby S. GiedionISBN 0393004899 (0-393-00489-9)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The Mismeasure of Manby Stephen Jay GouldISBN 0393314251 (0-393-31425-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mismeasure of Man'Book summary:How smart are you? If that question doesn't spark a dozen more questions in your mind (like "What do you mean by 'smart,'" "How do I measure it," and "Who's asking?"), then The Mismeasure of Man, Stephen Jay Gould's masterful demolition of the IQ industry, should be required reading. Gould's brilliant, funny, engaging prose dissects the motivations behind those who would judge intelligence, and hence worth, by cranial size, convolutions, or score on extremely narrow tests. How did scientists decide that intelligence was unipolar and quantifiable, and why did the standard keep changing over time? Gould's answer is clear and simple: power maintains itself. European men of the 19th century, even before Darwin, saw themselves as the pinnacle of creation and sought to prove this assertion through hard measurement. When one measure was found to place members of some "inferior" group such as women or Southeast Asians over the supposedly rightful champions, it would be discarded and replaced with a new, more comfortable measure. The 20th-century obsession with numbers led to the institutionalization of IQ testing and subsequent assignment to work (and rewards) commensurate with the score, shown by Gould to be not simply misguided--for surely intelligence is multifactorial--but also regressive, creating a feedback loop rewarding the rich and powerful. The revised edition includes a scathing critique of Herrnstein and Murray's The Bell Curve, taking them to task for rehashing old arguments to exploit a new political wave of uncaring and belt tightening. It might not make you any smarter, but The Mismeasure of Man will certainly make you think. --Rob Lightner [via]
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Mistakes That Workedby Charlotte Foltz Jones, John O'BrienISBN 0385320434 (0-385-32043-4)
Softcover, Doubleday
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Nostradamus Astrologyby John HogueISBN 0385262981 (0-385-26298-1)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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Nuclear Power, Both Sides: The Best Arguments for and against the Most Controversial Technologyby Michio Kaku, Jennifer Trainer ThompsonISBN 0393016315 (0-393-01631-5)
Hardcover, Norton
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With over half the American public living near a reactor, nuclear power is one of the most urgent issues of contemporary life. If you read one book about nuclear energy, this should be the one. In twenty-one provocative essays, those who have shaped the course of nuclear power substantiate their views and set forth refutations of their opponents' views. [via]More editions of Nuclear Power, Both Sides: The Best Arguments for and against the Most Controversial Technology:
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On Photographyby Susan SontagISBN 0385267061 (0-385-26706-1)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Our Precarious Habitatby Melvin A. BenardeISBN 0393063607 (0-393-06360-7)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural Historyby Stephen Jay GouldISBN 0393308197 (0-393-30819-7)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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With sales of well over one million copies in North America alone, the commercial success of Gould's books now matches their critical acclaim. Reissued in a larger format, with a handsome new cover, The Panda's Thumb will introduce a new generation of readers to this unique writer, who has taken the art of the scientific essay to new heights. [via]More editions of The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History:
Pearly Gates of Cyberspace: A History of Space from Dante to the Internetby Margaret WertheimISBN 0393320537 (0-393-32053-7)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pearly Gates of Cyberspace: A History of Space from Dante to the Internet'Book summary:In Pythagoras' Trousers, science writer and feminist Margaret Wertheim took an astute look at the social and cultural history of physics. She explored how the development of physics became intertwined with the rising power of institutionalized religion, and how both of these predominantly masculine pursuits have influenced women's ability to join the physics community. Now she has turned her attention to virtual reality, looking at similarities between how we view it today and how art and religion was viewed in medieval times. Her assertion is that rather than carrying us forward into new and fabulous other worlds, virtual reality is actually carrying us backwards--to essentially medieval dreams. Beginning with the medieval view, with its definition of the world as spiritual space, Wertheim traces the emergence of modern physics' emphasis on physical space. She then presents her thesis: that cyberspace, which is an outgrowth of modern science, posits the existence of a genuine yet immaterial world in which people are invited to commune in a nonbodily fashion, just as medieval theology brought intangible souls together in heaven. The perfect realm awaits, we are told, not behind the pearly gates but the electronic gateways labeled .com and .net. How did we get from seeing ourselves in soul space (the world of Dante and the late medievals) to seeing ourselves as purely in body space (the world of Newton and Einstein)? This crucial transition and the new shift propelled by the Internet are convincingly described in this challenging book. [via]
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The Physics of Immortality: Modern Cosmology, God and the Resurrectionby Frank J. TiplerISBN 0385467990 (0-385-46799-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Player Pianoby Kurt VonnegutISBN 0385333781 (0-385-33378-1)
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Programming in Prologby W. F. Clocksin, C.S. MellishISBN 0387110461 (0-387-11046-1)
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The Race: The Complete True Story of How America Beat Russia to the Moonby James SchefterISBN 0385492545 (0-385-49254-5)
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The Revolt of the Massesby Josey Ortega Y GassetISBN 0393310957 (0-393-31095-7)
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The Roaring Nineties: A New History Of The World's Most Prosperous Decadeby Joseph E. StiglitzISBN 0393326187 (0-393-32618-7)
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Rockdale: The Growth Of An American Village In The Early Industrial Revolutionby Anthony F. C. WallaceISBN 0393009912 (0-393-00991-2)
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Scientists and the Development of Nuclear Weapons: From Fission to the Limited Test Ban Treaty, 1939-1963by Lawrence BadashISBN 0391038745 (0-391-03874-5)
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The Silicon Eyeby George GilderISBN 0393057631 (0-393-05763-1)
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Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Ageby Duncan J. WattsISBN 0393325423 (0-393-32542-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age'Book summary:You may be only six degrees away from Kevin Bacon, but would he let you borrow his car? It depends on the structures within the network that links you. When the power goes out, when we find that a stranger knows someone we know, when dot-com stocks soar in price, networks are evident. In Six Degrees, sociologist Duncan Watts examines networks like these: what they are, how they're being studied, and what we can use them for. To illustrate the often complicated mathematics that describe such structures, Watts uses plenty of examples from life, without which this book would quickly move beyond a general science readership. Small chapters make each thought-provoking conclusion easy to swallow, though some are hard to digest. For instance, in a short bit on "coercive externalities," Watts sums up sociological research showing that:
"Conversations concerning politics displayed a consistent pattern .... On election day, the strongest predictor of electoral success was not which party an individual privately supported but which party he or she expected would win."
Six Degrees attempts to help readers understand the new and exciting field of networks and complexity. While considerably more demanding than a general book like The Tipping Point, it offers readers a snapshot of a riveting moment in science, when understanding things like disease epidemics and the stock market seems almost within our reach. --Therese Littleton [via]More editions of Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age:
Space Systems Failures : Disasters and Rescues of Satellites, Rocket and Space Probesby David Harland, David Shayler, Ralph D. LorenzISBN 0387215190 (0-387-21519-0)
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State of the World 1993: A Worldwatch Institute Report on Progress Toward a Sustainable Societyby Linda StarkeISBN 0393309630 (0-393-30963-0)
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State of the World 2001: A Worldwatch Institute Report on Progress Toward a Sustainable Societyby Lester R. BrownISBN 0393320820 (0-393-32082-0)
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Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Characterby Ralph Leighton, Richard P Feynman, Edward HutchingsISBN 0393316041 (0-393-31604-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character'Book summary:A series of anecdotes shouldn't by rights add up to an autobiography, but that's just one of the many pieces of received wisdom that Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman (1918-88) cheerfully ignores in his engagingly eccentric book, a bestseller ever since its initial publication in 1985. Fiercely independent (read the chapter entitled "Judging Books by Their Covers"), intolerant of stupidity even when it comes packaged as high intellectualism (check out "Is Electricity Fire?"), unafraid to offend (see "You Just Ask Them?"), Feynman informs by entertaining. It's possible to enjoy Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman simply as a bunch of hilarious yarns with the smart-alecky author as know-it-all hero. At some point, however, attentive readers realize that underneath all the merriment simmers a running commentary on what constitutes authentic knowledge: learning by understanding, not by rote; refusal to give up on seemingly insoluble problems; and total disrespect for fancy ideas that have no grounding in the real world. Feynman himself had all these qualities in spades, and they come through with vigor and verve in his no-bull prose. No wonder his students--and readers around the world--adored him. --Wendy Smith [via]
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Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Characterby Richard P FeynmanISBN 0393019217 (0-393-01921-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character'Book summary:A series of anecdotes, such as are included in Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynman, shouldn't by rights add up to an autobiography, but that's just one of the many pieces of received wisdom that Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman (1918-88) cheerfully ignores in this engagingly eccentric book. Fiercely independent (read the chapter entitled "Judging Books by Their Covers"), intolerant of stupidity even when it comes packaged as high intellectualism (check out "Is Electricity Fire?"), unafraid to offend (see "You Just Ask Them?"), Feynman informs by entertaining. It's possible to enjoy Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynman, a bestseller ever since its initial publication in 1985, simply as a bunch of hilarious yarns with the author as know-it-all hero. At some point, however, attentive readers realise that underneath all the merriment simmers a running commentary on what constitutes authentic knowledge: learning by understanding, not by rote; refusal to give up on seemingly insoluble problems, and total disrespect for fancy ideas that have no grounding in the real world. Feynman himself had all these qualities in spades, and they come through with vigour and verve in his no-bull prose. No wonder his students--and readers around the world--adored him. --Wendy Smith [via]
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Technological Riskby H.W. LewisISBN 0393308294 (0-393-30829-4)
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Titanic: Destination Disasterby John EatonISBN 0393304922 (0-393-30492-2)
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Titanic: Destination Disaster The Legends and the Realityby John P. Eaton, Charles A. HaasISBN 0393315134 (0-393-31513-4)
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The Travelerby John Twelve HawksISBN 038551428X (0-385-51428-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Traveler'Book summary:A world that exists in the shadows of our own.A conflict we will never see.One woman stands between those determined to control history and those who will risk their lives for freedom.Maya is hiding in plain sight in London. The twenty-six-year-old has abandoned the dangerous obligations pressed upon her by her father, and chosen instead to live a normal life. But Maya comes from a long line of people who call themselves Harlequins-a fierce group of warriors willing to sacrifice their lives to protect a select few known as Travelers.Gabriel and Michael Corrigan are brothers living in Los Angeles. Since childhood, the young men have been shaped by stories that their late father was a Traveler, one of a small band of prophets who have vastly influenced the course of history. Travelers are able to attain pure enlightenment, and have for centuries ushered change into the world. Gabriel and Michael, who may have inherited their father's gifts, have always protected themselves by living "off the Grid"-that is, invisible to the real-life surveillance networks that monitor people in our modern society.Summoned by her ailing father, Maya is told of the existence of the brothers. The Corrigans are in severe danger, stalked by powerful men known as the Tabula-ruthless mercenaries who have hunted Travelers for generations. This group is determined to inflict order on the world by controlling it, and they view Travelers as an intolerable threat. As Maya races to California to protect the brothers, she is reluctantly pulled back into the cold and solitary Harlequin existence. A colossal battle looms-one that will reveal not only the identities of Gabriel and Michael Corrigan but also a secret history of our time.Moving from the back alleys of Prague to the heart of Los Angeles, from the high deserts of Arizona to a guarded research facility in New York, The Traveler explores a parallel world that exists alongside our own. [via]
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Unguided Missiles: How America Buys Its Weaponsby Fen Olser HampsonISBN 0393306410 (0-393-30641-0)
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Urchin in the Storm: Essays About Books and Ideasby Stephen Jay GouldISBN 0393305376 (0-393-30537-6)
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Ranging as far as the fox and as deep as the hedgehog (the urchin of his title), Stephen Jay Gould expands on geology, biological determinism, "cardboard Darwinism," and evolutionary theory in this sparkling collection. [via]More editions of Urchin in the Storm: Essays About Books and Ideas:
The Warningby Mike GrayISBN 039301522X (0-393-01522-X)
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The Warning: Accident at Three Mile Island A Nuclear Omen for the Age of Terrorby Mike Gray, Ira RosenISBN 0393324699 (0-393-32469-9)
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Wedding of the Waters: The Erie Canal And the Making of a Great Nationby Peter L. BernsteinISBN 0393327957 (0-393-32795-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wedding of the Waters: The Erie Canal And the Making of a Great Nation'Book summary:Begun in 1817 and completed in 1825, the Erie Canal stretches 363 miles across upstate New York from Buffalo on Lake Erie to Albany on the Hudson River. A stunning achievement, the canal was hacked through a densely forested pass in the Appalachian Mountains using only axes, shovels, low-grade explosive power, beasts of burden, and some ingenious devices. The engineers and workers created locks, bypassed rapids and waterfalls, and adjusted to countless changes in elevation. When the canal was completed it became one of the wonders of the world. But the canal was much more than a spectacular construction project; it also served to bind a young United States to itself and the rest of the world in one bold stroke. In this thoroughly absorbing book, Peter Bernstein describes in vivid detail how the Erie Canal helped to shape the United States into a great nation by connecting the eastern seaboard and western expanses of America, as well as propel the Industrial Revolution and stimulate global trade, economics, and immigration. It was so important to the development of the U.S., argues Bernstein, that without the canal the detached western territories "would in all likelihood have broken away" and created another, if not several, separate countries. Manifest Destiny would have been denied.
In telling this gripping tale, the author offers a brief history of canals through the ages, explains the foresight exhibited by George Washington and Thomas Jefferson regarding the need for a waterway to the west, and outlines the political wars, financing challenges, and seemingly endless delays and false starts to the project. He also reveals much about the political landscape of early America through his profiles of the personalities and visionaries who devoted their lives to the project, along with the engineers and surveyors, most of whom had little experience designing or constructing a canal of any kind, much less such a massive undertaking. Wedding of the Waters succeeds brilliantly in bringing this rich story to life. --Shawn Carkonen [via]
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Wheels, Clocks, and Rockets: A History of Technologyby Donald CardwellISBN 0393321754 (0-393-32175-4)
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Why Buildings Fall Down: How Structures Failby Mario Salvadori, Matthys Levy, Kevin WoestISBN 039331152X (0-393-31152-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Why Buildings Fall Down: How Structures Fail'Book summary:"Whatever goes up must come down" does not, fortunately, apply to most of the structures in today's world. In fact, whenever a building, a bridge, a tunnel, or a dam collapses nowadays, it is front page news and often the beginning of a hunt for clues and culprits as fascinating as any detective story. In this book, two of the world's premier structural engineers take us on a journey through the history of architectural and structural catastrophes, from the Parthenon and Rome's Coliseum to more recent disasters such as the Ronan Point Tower in London, the Hyatt Regency in Kansas City and the Malpasset Dam in France. This is a book that delights as it instructs, an easily digested feast of architectural flops and flummoxes, whether caused by natural disaster or human error, or both. [via]
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Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of Historyby Stephen Jay GouldISBN 039330700X (0-393-30700-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History'Book summary:The Burgess Shale of British Columbia "is the most precious and important of all fossil localities," writes Stephen Jay Gould. These 600-million-year-old rocks preserve the soft parts of a collection of animals unlike any other. Just how unlike is the subject of Gould's book.
Gould describes how the Burgess Shale fauna was discovered, reassembled, and analyzed in detail so clear that the reader actually gets some feeling for what paleobiologists do, in the field and in the lab. The many line drawings are unusually beautiful, and now can be compared to a wonderful collection of photographs in Fossils of the Burgess Shale by Derek Briggs, one of Gould's students.
Burgess Shale animals have been called a "paleontological Rorschach test," and not every geologist by any means agrees with Gould's thesis that they represent a "road not taken" in the history of life. Simon Conway Morris, one of the subjects of Wonderful Life, has expressed his disagreement in Crucible of Creation. Wonderful Life was published in 1989, and there has been an explosion of scientific interest in the pre-Cambrian and Cambrian periods, with radical new ideas fighting for dominance. But even though many scientists disagree with Gould about the radical oddity of the Burgess Shale animals, his argument that the history of life is profoundly contingent--as in the movie It's a Wonderful Life, from which this book takes its title--has become more accepted, in theories such as Ward and Brownlee's Rare Earth hypothesis. And Gould's loving, detailed exposition of the labor it took to understand the Burgess Shale remains one of the best explanations of scientific work around. --Mary Ellen Curtin [via]
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