The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession ...
 Amazon.com Review: Orchidelirium is the name the Victorians gave to the flower madness that is for botanical collectors the equivalent of gold fever. Wealthy orchid fanatics of that era sent explorers (heavily armed, more to protect themselves against [... more]
$14.00
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Alan Turing: The Enigma
Amazon.com Review: Alan Turing died in 1954, but the themes of his life epitomize the turn of the millennium. A pure mathematician from a tradition that prided itself on its impracticality, Turing laid the foundations for modern computer science, writes [... more]
$23.95
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Out of their Minds: The Lives and Discoveries of 15 ...
Amazon.com Review: Over the past fifty years, most of computer science's important inventions have come from innovators who aren't exactly household names. Out of Their Minds describes the lives and discoveries of fifteen unsung computer scientists whose [... more]
$16.00
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The Difference Engine: Charles Babbage and the Quest to ...
Amazon.com Review: What a difference a century makes. Doron Swade, technology historian and assistant director of London's Science Museum, investigates the troubles that plagued 19th-century knowledge engineers in The Difference Engine: Charles Babbage [... more]
$24.95
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The Watchman: The Twisted Life and Crimes of Serial ...
Amazon.com Review: This is a first-rate detective story--and all true. It's the story of a seemingly invincible electronic thief, con man, and stalker--and the people who tracked him down. Jonathan Littman brings his readers straight into the world of [... more]
$30.00
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The Computer-My Life
Amazon.com Review: Personal computers didn't appear until the 1970s, but as early as 1941, the first automated, program-controlled, and freely programmable computer was up and running. The Computer-- My Life is the story of Konrad Zuse and his [... more]
$79.95
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Alan Turing : The Enigma
Amazon.com Review: Alan Turing died in 1954, but the themes of his life epitomize the turn of the millennium. A pure mathematician from a tradition that prided itself on its impracticality, Turing laid the foundations for modern computer science, writes [... more]
$24.95
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Alan Turing: The Enigma
Amazon.com Review: Alan Turing died in 1954, but the themes of his life epitomize the turn of the millennium. A pure mathematician from a tradition that prided itself on its impracticality, Turing laid the foundations for modern computer science, writes [... more]
$10.95
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Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary
Amazon.com Review: Most 31-year olds can't boast of being the instigator of a revolution. But then again, the world's leading promoter of open source software and creator of the operating system Linux does humbly call himself an accidental revolutionary-- [... more]
$29.95
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Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary
Amazon.com Review: Most 31-year olds can't boast of being the instigator of a revolution. But then again, the world's leading promoter of open source software and creator of the operating system Linux does humbly call himself an accidental revolutionary-- [... more]
$14.95
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In Code: A Mathematical Journey
Ridiculously Pleasing...A Definite Read!: In Code is written by Sarah Flannery (who won Ireland's Young Scientist of the Year Award at the age of 16). Part biography, it discusses this young woman's remarkable journey to mathematical celebrity, beginning [... more]
$13.95
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The Difference Engine: Charles Babbage and the Quest to ...
Amazon.com Review: What a difference a century makes. Doron Swade, technology historian and assistant director of London's Science Museum, investigates the troubles that plagued 19th-century knowledge engineers in The Difference Engine: Charles Babbage [... more]
$15.00
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