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: $16.00
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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What Color Is Your Parachute? Guide to Job-Hunting Online, Sixth Edition
Blogging, Career Sites, Gateways, Getting Interviews, Job Boards, Job Search Engines, Personal Websites, Posting Resumes, Research Sites, Social Networking
Written by Mark Emery Bolles and Richard N. Bolles
Format: eBook, 192 pages
On Sale: May 17, 2011
Price: $9.99
Before you start your Internet job-hunt, there are some things that you must know, like:
• Why are job sites like Monster and CareerBuilder so stunningly ineffective?
• What can you do to make sure your resumes survive the elimination process?
• How do you find the information that search engines like Google...
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Say Everything
How Blogging Began, What It's Becoming, and Why It Matters
Written by Scott Rosenberg
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: June 1, 2010
Price: $15.00
Blogs are everywhere. They have exposed truths and spread rumors. Made and lost fortunes. Brought couples together and torn them apart. Toppled cabinet members and sparked grassroots movements. Immediate, intimate, and influential, they have put the power of personal publishing into everyone’s hands. Regularly dismissed as trivial and ephemeral, they have...
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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 Audiobook Download
On Sale: August 28, 2007
Price: $14.98
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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The Blind Giant
Being Human in a Digital World
Written by Nick Harkaway
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: May 15, 2012
Price: $11.99
Nick Harkaway, author of Angelmaker, presents a rousing and energizing look at how we can meaningfully and constructively engage with technology—creating an essential handbook for anyone trying to be human in a digital age. Some say our devices will lead us to ruin: isolating us from our neighbors, warping communication, delivering an unregulated...
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World War 3.0
Microsoft, the US Government, and the Battle for the New Economy
Written by Ken Auletta
Format: eBook, 464 pages
On Sale: February 15, 2001
Price: $14.99
The Internet Revolution, like all great industrial changes, has made the world's elephantine media companies tremble that their competitors-whether small and nimble mice or fellow elephants-will get to new terrain first and seize its commanding heights. In a climate in which fear and insecurity are considered healthy emotions, corporate violence becomes...
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Say Everything
How Blogging Began, What It's Becoming, and Why It Matters
Written by Scott Rosenberg
Read by Lincoln Hoppe
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: July 7, 2009
Price: $25.95
Blogs are everywhere. They have exposed truths and spread rumors. Made and lost fortunes. Brought couples together and torn them apart. Toppled cabinet members and sparked grassroots movements. Immediate, intimate, and influential, they have put the power of personal publishing into everyone’s hands. Regularly dismissed as trivial and ephemeral, they have...
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CodeNotes for Java
Intermediate and Advanced Language Features
Written by Gregory Brill
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: January 23, 2002
Price: $11.99
CodeNotes provides the most succinct, accurate, and speedy way for a developer to ramp up on a new technology or language. Unlike other programming books,
CodeNotes drills down to the core aspects of a technology, focusing on the key elements needed in order to understand it quickly and implement it immediately...
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Fatal Defect
Chasing Killer Computer Bugs
Written by Ivars Peterson
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: April 30, 1996
Price: $17.00
An airplane crashes, killing eighty-seven passengers. A cancer patient receives a fatal dose of radiation from a machine designed to be foolproof. The ATMs at a New York bank debit customers twice their actual withdrawals, resulting in a loss of millions of dollars. In every case, the culprit was a computer...
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Turing's Cathedral
The Origins of the Digital Universe
Written by George Dyson
Read by Arthur Morey
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: March 6, 2012
Price: $45.00
“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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