Weeds of the Northeast (Comstock Books)
 useful field guide for weeds: Because this book is selective and regional rather than comprehensive, it has been extremely useful in identifying and providing info on the "weeds" I am likely to see. The descriptive information on all stages of [... more]
$29.95
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One Good Turn: A Natural History of the Screwdriver and ...
Amazon.com Review: In 1999, an editor of the New York Times Magazine approached Witold Rybczynski, the well-known student of architecture and urban design, and asked him to write a short essay on the best and most useful common tool of the past [... more]
$22.00
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The Advent of the Algorithm: The Idea that Rules the World
Amazon.com Review: Francis Sullivan of the Institute for Defense Analysis said "Great algorithms are the poetry of computation"; David Berlinski calls the algorithm "the idea that rules the world." The Advent of the Algorithm is not [... more]
$28.00
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The Code Book: The Evolution of Secrecy from Mary, Queen ...
Amazon.com Review: People love secrets, and ever since the first word was written, humans have written coded messages to each other. In The Code Book, Simon Singh, author of the bestselling Fermat's Enigma, offers a peek into the world of cryptography [... more]
$24.95
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ENIAC: The Triumphs and Tragedies of the World's First ...
Amazon.com Review: Today's computers are fantastically complex machines, shaped by innovations dreamt up by hundreds of engineers and theorists over the last several decades. Does it even make sense, then, to ask who invented the computer? McCartney [... more]
$23.00
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How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, ...
Amazon.com Review: The title of this scholarly yet remarkably accessible slice of contemporary cultural history has a whiff of paradox about it: what can it mean, exactly, to say that we humans have become something other than human? The answer, [... more]
$22.50
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A History of Modern Computing (History of Computing)
Amazon.com Review: This book delivers exactly what its title promises: a straightforward and comprehensive account of the electronic digital computer's first five decades. Starting with the historic ENIAC of 1945, Ceruzzi moves nimbly through one epochal [... more]
$55.00
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A History of Modern Computing (History of Computing)
Amazon.com Review: This book delivers exactly what its title promises: a straightforward and comprehensive account of the electronic digital computer's first five decades. Starting with the historic ENIAC of 1945, Ceruzzi moves nimbly through one epochal [... more]
$21.95
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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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Probable Tomorrows: How Science and Technology Will ...
Its The Technology, Stupid!: This book is about science and technology, with an emphasis and interest from my perspective on the technology. Here are seven things I was drawn to that this book points out. First, new technologies arrive first in war. [... more]
$24.95
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Disenchanted Night: The Industrialization of Light in ...
Amazon.com Review: The story of the development of artificial light in the 19th century is not only a history of its technology but a revelation of how that technology helped forge modern consciousness. The range of subjects includes the political [... more]
$19.95
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White Heat: People and Technology
Author: Carroll Pursell Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 900 EAN: 9780520089051 ISBN: 0520089057 Number Of Pages: 224 Publication Date: 1994-10-03 [... more]
$24.95
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