Regional Advantage: Culture and Competition in Silicon ...
 Excellent Structural Analysis: Contrary to one of the other reviewer's comments, the importance of this book is in showing precicely that it is not the "endemic" culture of Silicon Valley, but rather the innovative institutions and networked [... more]
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The Control Revolution: Technological and Economic ...
Ground breaking, empirical work, cuts thru Info Society hype: If you have, like Beniger, asked the question "Why is information so critical for our current mode of production? Why Information? Why Now?" You need to read this book. His basic [... more]
$35.00
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Avatars of the Word: From Papyrus to Cyberspace
Amazon.com Review: Avatars of the Word comments on the intersection of the history of written word and the explosion of cyberspace. Crafted with a meandering, laconic style, James O'Donnell wittily juxtaposes the modern and ancient. Take, for example, [... more]
$20.95
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Oversold and Underused: Computers in the Classroom
Food for Thought: In his book "Oversold and Underused Computers in the Classroom", Larry Cuban gives us much to consider with regard to the placement of computer technology in our nation's schools. Computer technology was touted by reformers, [... more]
$27.95
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The Plants that Shaped Our Gardens
Author: David Stuart Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 635.9 EAN: 9780674007901 ISBN: 0674007905 Number Of Pages: 208 Publication Date: 2002-05-12 [... more]
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Reading the Mountains of Home
Amazon.com Review: Late in life, the American novelist and conservationist Wallace Stegner left California, where he had lived for half a century, to move to Vermont. The reason, he said, was simple: there is more wilderness to be found in the pine [... more]
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The Culture of Time and Space, 1880-1918
the book is a superb general cultural history of the period.: The book is a superb general cultural history of the turn of the century period that relates developments in culture and society to new technologies of transportation and communication. He [... more]
$19.95
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Village in the Vaucluse, Third Edition
Truely refreshing: Laurence Wiley,a former professor of sociology at Harvard,wrote this wonderful little book in the 1950's. This charming examination of life in the town of Rousillon(which he calls Peyrane to protect it's privacy)captures the the [... more]
$23.50
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Empire
Amazon.com Review: Empire is a sweeping book with a big-picture vision. Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri argue that while classical imperialism has largely disappeared, a new empire is emerging in a diffuse blend of technology, economics, and [... more]
$22.50
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Mind in Society: Development of Higher Psychological ...
Socio-historical psychology: This is one of the earliest and still one of the best introductions to socio-historical psychology, the study of how individual human intelligence develops in interaction with people and the environment. In concert with many [... more]
$21.00
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Thoreau's Country: Journey through a Transformed Landscape
Terrific book, very well written: A must read for people interested in the environment and how to interpret their surroundings. Beautifully written, thoughtful and intelligent. One of the best books I've read. Natural New England: then, now, & all [... more]
$16.00
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Authors and Owners: The Invention of Copyright
Copyright is recent: In current high technology, there has arisen the open source movement. One of its motivating chants is that "information wants to be free". But what about copyright, not just of source code, but of writings in general? The [... more]
$18.95
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