The Chip
How Two Americans Invented the Microchip and Launched a Revolution
Written by T.R. Reid
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $13.99
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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Turing's Cathedral
The Origins of the Digital Universe
Written by George Dyson
Format: Hardcover, 432 pages
On Sale: March 6, 2012
Price: $29.95
“It is possible to invent a single machine which can be used to compute any computable sequence,” twenty-four-year-old Alan Turing announced in 1936. In Turing’s Cathedral, George Dyson focuses on a small group of men and women, led by John von Neumann at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New...
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Digital Art Revolution
Creating Fine Art with Photoshop
Written by Scott Ligon
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: March 9, 2010
Price: $29.99
There’s no question that applications like Photoshop have changed the art world forever. Master digital artists already use these tools to create masterpieces that stretch the limits of the imagination—but you don’t have to be a master to create your own digital art.
Whether you’re a beginner who’s never picked up...
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Digital Art Revolution
Written by Scott Ligon
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 6, 2011
Price: $19.99
There’s no question that applications like Photoshop have changed the art world forever. Master digital artists already use these tools to create masterpieces that stretch the limits of the imagination—but you don’t have to be a master to create your own digital art.
Whether you’re a beginner who’s never picked up...
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The Soul of a New Machine
Written by Tracy Kidder
Format: Hardcover, 416 pages
On Sale: June 24, 1997
Price: $25.00
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award, The Soul of a New Machine was a bestseller on its first publication in 1981. With the touch of an expert thriller writer, Tracy Kidder recounts the feverish efforts of a team of Data General researchers to create a new 32-bit...
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