Rapture for the Geeks
When AI Outsmarts IQ
Written by Richard Dooling
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: November 24, 2009
Price: $14.00
“Nimble and entertaining . . . A fascinating historical review of our longtime obsession with machines.”
–David Takami,
Seattle TimesIn
Rapture for the Geeks, Richard Dooling looks at what some of the greatest minds have to say about our roles in a future in which technology rapidly leaves us in the...
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Computadoras para todos
Written by Jaime Restrepo
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: July 8, 2009
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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Say Everything
How Blogging Began, What It's Becoming, and Why It Matters
Written by Scott Rosenberg
Format: Hardcover, 416 pages
On Sale: July 7, 2009
Price: $26.00
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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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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Say Everything
How Blogging Began, What It's Becoming, and Why It Matters
Written by Scott Rosenberg
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 16, 2009
Price: $26.00
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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Stealing MySpace
The Battle to Control the Most Popular Website in America
Written by Julia Angwin
Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
On Sale: March 17, 2009
Price: $27.00
A few years ago, MySpace.com was just an idea kicking around a Southern California spam mill. Scroll down to the present day and MySpace is one of the most visited Internet destinations in America, displaying more than 40 billion webpage views per month and generating nearly $1 billion annually for Rupert...
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Also available as an
eBook.
Also available as an
eBook.
Internet para todos
Written by Jaime Restrepo
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2008
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
From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Windows 98/Me Para Todos
Written by Jaime Restrepo
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2008
Price: $15.95
¿Sabe cómo más o menos usar las computadoras, pero no sabe cómo sacarle provecho a todo lo que ofrece el sistema operativo Windows® 98/Me?
¿No sabe cómo usar el teclado para poder escribir en español más fácilmente?
¿No entiende la terminología de lengua inglesa que se usa en la computación?
¿Quiere usar el programa...
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Rapture for the Geeks
When AI Outsmarts IQ
Written by Richard Dooling
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 7, 2008
Price: $14.00
Will the Geeks inherit the earth?
If computers become twice as fast and twice as capable every two years, how long is it before they’re as intelligent as humans? More intelligent? And then in two more years, twice as intelligent? How long before you won’t be able to tell if you are...
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Rapture for the Geeks
When AI Outsmarts IQ
Written by Richard Dooling
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: September 30, 2008
Price: $22.00
Will the Geeks inherit the earth?
If computers become twice as fast and twice as capable every two years, how long is it before they’re as intelligent as humans? More intelligent? And then in two more years, twice as intelligent? How long before you won’t be able to tell if you are...
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Super Crunchers
Why Thinking-By-Numbers is the New Way To Be Smart
Written by Ian Ayres
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: August 26, 2008
Price: $14.00
An international sensation—and still the talk of the relevant blogosphere—this
Wall Street Journal and
New York Times business bestseller examines the “power” in numbers. Today more than ever, number crunching affects your life in ways you might not even imagine. Intuition and experience are no longer enough to make the grade...
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Job-Hunting Online
A Guide to Job Listings, Message Boards, Research Sites, the UnderWeb, Counseling, Networking, Self-Assessment Tools, Niche Sites
Written by Mark Emery Bolles and Richard N. Bolles
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: May 1, 2008
Price: $12.95
The Internet can be an invaluable tool in any job hunt-but only when you know how to use it. Cowritten by career guru Richard Nelson Bolles and his son, nontraditional career expert Mark Emery Bolles, JOB-HUNTING ONLINE helps job seekers navigate the overwhelming amount of information available on the Internet to...
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The Ultimate Guide to Video Game Writing and Design
Written by Flint Dille and John Zuur Platten
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: January 8, 2008
Price: $19.95
• Authors are top game designers
• Aspiring game writers and designers must have this complete bible
There are other books about creating video games out there.
Sure, they cover the basics. But
The Ultimate Guide to Video Game Writing and Design goes way beyond the basics. The authors, top game designers, focus...
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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: $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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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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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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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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