Silicon!
Silicon has a plethora of uses in the known Universe including everything from being used in flexible, heat-resistant adhesives and sealants to forming the substrate for todays "high-speed" computer processors. Certain plant species such as [... more]
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Tom Perkins
Tom Perkins is one of Silicon Valley's pioneers. His venture capital firm has financed many famous companies, including Genentech, Compaq, Amazon, AOL, and Google. Perkins lives in the San Francisco Bay Area and has a medieval manor house, ... [... more]
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Clifford Stoll
Clifford Stoll, an MSNBC commentator, a lecturer, and a Berkeley astronomer, is the author of the The cry for and against computers in the classroom is a topic of concern to parents, educators, and communities everywhere. Now, from a Silicon ... [... more]
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Emanuel Rosen
Emanuel Rosen was Vice President of Marketing for Niles Software, the makers of EndNote, for nine years before-like scores of other Silicon Valley success stories-selling his share in the company and retiring on the proceeds. He has spent the ... [... more]
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Andrew Keen
ANDREW KEEN is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur whose writings on culture, media, and technology have appeared in The Weekly Standard, Fast Company, The San Francisco Chronicle, Listener, and Jazziz. As the Founder, President and CEO of ... [... more]
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Silicon Sky: How One Small Start-Up Went Over the Top to ...
 From Amazon.com: Gary Dorsey's Silicon Sky tells the engrossing tale of a private company's quest to develop the world's first low-earth-orbit commercial satellite--a momentous accomplishment that paved the way for everything from reasonably priced GPS [... more]
CDN$38.00
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Startup: A Silicon Valley Adventure
From Amazon.com: The founder of the visionary, yet doomed, GO Corporation kept notes throughout his years at the helm, thinking that one day he would produce a book. It shows. This is a vivid and lively rise-and-fall account of a company born to create a [... more]
CDN$28.65
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Silicon Messiah
NOT JUST THE BEST METAL RELEASE OF 2000, BUT A MASTER PIECE: Any fan of metal can not fail to like this album a lot. The Iron Maiden influence is plain to hear, but Blaze Bailey has really kicked on after his departure from the metal legends and produced [... more]
CDN$19.99
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Silicon Secrets
a new author is born: I just finished reading Silicon Secrets by Catherine Burr, and I'd place it right up there with the style of Carol Higgens Clark, another best selling author. What secret do these authors have, that hold our attention from the [... more]
CDN$14.55
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The Toonies Invade Silicon Valley
Are The Pirates of Silicon Valley To Blame For an Invasion of Vulture-Apes from Rejected PC Cartoons?: Read THE TOONIES INVADE SILICON VALLEY, by Betty Dravis, and that question will be answered, along with a few others! Betty provided readers with an [... more]
CDN$50.02
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Pirates of Silicon Valley
From Amazon.com: This dramatization of the tangled history of Apple Computer and Microsoft, based on a book by Paul Frieberger, hits enough of the right notes to make its failures all the more frustrating. The script follows the entwined paths of Apple's [... more]
CDN$20.82
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Silicon Processing for the VLSI Era
THE best set of technical references in this area: In my 25 years of semiconductor process development I have never come across such a complete and in-depth collection of device and process knowledge in a single place. Years ago we needed to spend many [... more]
CDN$208.32
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