Super Crunchers
Why Thinking-by-Numbers Is the New Way to Be Smart
Written by Ian Ayres
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: August 28, 2007
Price: $25.00
Why would a casino try and stop you from losing? How can a mathematical formula find your future spouse? Would you know if a statistical analysis blackballed you from a job you wanted?
Today, number crunching affects your life in ways you might never imagine. In this lively and groundbreaking...
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Computadoras para todos
Written by Jaime Restrepo
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: March 14, 2006
Price: $16.95
¡Conozca a fondo su computadora y todo lo que puede hacer con ella!
¿Necesita saber usar las computadoras para mejorar su empleo y nivel de vida, pero no sabe por dónde empezar?
¿No entiende la terminología de lengua inglesa que se usa en la computación?
¿Quiere comunicarse con sus amigos y su pa’s de...
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The Chip
How Two Americans Invented the Microchip and Launched a Revolution
Written by T.R. Reid
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: October 9, 2001
Price: $14.95
Barely fifty years ago a computer was a gargantuan, vastly expensive thing that only a handful of scientists had ever seen. The world’s brightest engineers were stymied in their quest to make these machines small and affordable until the solution finally came from two ingenious young Americans. Jack Kilby and Robert...
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Dreaming in Code
Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software
Written by Scott Rosenberg
Format: Hardcover, 416 pages
On Sale: January 16, 2007
Price: $25.95
Their story takes us through a maze of dead ends and exhilarating breakthroughs as they and their colleagues wrestle not only with the abstraction of code but with the unpredictability of human behavior,
especially their own. Along the way, we encounter black holes, turtles, snakes, dragons, axe-sharpening, and yak-shaving—and take a...
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Super Crunchers
Why Thinking-by-Numbers Is the New Way to Be Smart
Written by Ian Ayres
Read by James Lurie
Format: Abridged Compact Disc
On Sale: August 28, 2007
Price: $29.95
Why would a casino try and stop you from losing? How can a mathematical formula find your future spouse? Would you know if a statistical analysis blackballed you from a job you wanted?
Today, number crunching affects your life in ways you might never imagine. In this lively and groundbreaking...
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Internet para todos
Written by Jaime Restrepo
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: August 8, 2006
Price: $16.95
¡Aprenda todo lo que usted necesita saber acerca del Internet!
Cómo utilizar los navegadores más populares: Internet Explorer, Safari, Netscape
Cómo funciona el correo electrónico, incluyendo los programas MS Outlook® y Hotmail
Cómo usar el mensajero instantáneo, inclusive para hacer llamadas por el Internet
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