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Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe by George Dyson Publisher Comments “It is possible to invent a single machine which can be used to compute any computable sequence,” twenty-four-year-old Alan Turing announced in 1936. In Turing’s Cathedral, George Dyson focuses on a small group of men and women, led by... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $22.00 Used - Hardcover 
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Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think by Peter Diamandis Publisher Comments Providing abundance is humanitys grandest challenge—this is a book about how we rise to meet it. We will soon be able to meet and exceed the basic needs of every man, woman and child on the planet. Abundance for all is within our grasp... (read more) List Price $26.99 Your price: $18.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr Staff Pick Nominated as a finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction, The Shallows is a fascinating look at the cultural implications and neuroscientific consequences of the Internet Age. The Internet is an unprecedented educational tool and time... (read more) Your price: $15.95 New - Trade Paper
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I Know Who You Are and I Saw What You Did: Social Networks and the Death of Privacy by Lori Andrews Publisher Comments Social networks are the defining cultural movement of our time, empowering us in constantly evolving ways. We can all now be reporters, alerting the world to breaking news of a natural disaster; we can participate in crowd-sourced scientific research... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto (Vintage) by Jaron Lanier Staff Pick Proceed carefully. Reading this book is like biting into a jalapeño jelly bean that you thought was pear flavored. Startling, eye-opening, and a bit unnerving, Lanier's manifesto could be the key to preserving autonomy as increased technological... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker by Kevin Mitnick Publisher Comments Kevin Mitnick was the most elusive computer break-in artist in history. He accessed computers and networks at the world's biggest companies--and however fast the authorities were, Mitnick was faster, sprinting through phone switches, computer systems... (read more) Your price: $15.99 New - Trade Paper
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Nine Algorithms That Changed the Future: The Ingenious Ideas That Drive Today's Computers by John Maccormick Publisher Comments "It's been a long time since any book has given me the excitement I remember from reading Hawking and Feynman in my teens. This book does exactly that. It reminds me why I love computer science. MacCormick's explanations are easy to understand yet they... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $19.50 Used - Hardcover
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Computers in Swedish Society: Documenting Early Use and Trends (History of Computing) by Per Lundin Publisher Comments In order to understand the role of computers in society, it is important to consider the complex relationship between the design and use of computers from the perspective of the user. Computers in Swedish Society reviews this shift in the historiography... (read more) Your price: $109.00 New - Hardcover
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The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer (Great Discoveries) by David Leavitt Publisher Comments Outlines the Bletchley Park mathematician's efforts to launch artificial intelligence innovations, describing his thwarted attempts to gain support for a programmable calculating machine, his contributions to cracking the Nazi Enigma code during World... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Code (DV-Undefined) by Charles Petzold Publisher Comments What do flashlights, the British invasion, black cats, and seesaws have to do with computers? In CODE, they show us the ingenious ways we manipulate language and invent new means of communicating with each other. And through CODE, we see how this... (read more) List Price $17.99 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Dealers of Lightning: Xerox Parc and the Dawn of the Computer Age by Michael Hiltzik Publisher Comments Chapter OneThe Impresario The photograph shows a handsome man in a checked sport shirt, his boyish face half-obscured by a cloud of pipe smoke. Robert W. Taylor looks amused and slightly out of date, his sandy hair longer than one might wear it today but... (read more) List Price $17.99 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Most Human Human: What Artificial Intelligence Teaches Us about Being Alive by Brian Christian Publisher Comments Each year, the AI community convenes to administer the famous (and famously controversial) Turing test, pitting sophisticated software programs against humans to determine if a computer can “think.” The machine that most often fools the... (read more) Your price: $15.00 New - Trade Paper
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Worm: The First Digital World War by Mark Bowden Synopsis From the author of Black Hawk Down comes the story of the battle between those determined to exploit the internet and those committed to protect it—the ongoing war taking place literally beneath our fingertips. The Conficker worm infected its first... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $17.50 Used - Hardcover
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Affect and Artificial Intelligence (In Vivo) by Elizabeth A. Wilson Publisher Comments Affect and Artificial Intelligence is the first indepth analysis of affect and intersubjectivity in the computational sciences. Elizabeth Wilson makes use of archival and unpublished material from the early years of AI (1945-70) until the present to show... (read more) Your price: $26.25 New - Trade Paper
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The Googlization of Everything: (And Why We Should Worry) by Siva Vaidhyanathan Publisher Comments In the beginning, the World Wide Web was exciting and open to the point of anarchy, a vast and intimidating repository of unindexed confusion. Into this creative chaos came Google with its dazzling mission--"To organize the world's information and make... (read more) Your price: $21.95 New - Trade Paper
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Darkmarket: Cyberthieves, Cybercops and You by Misha Glenny Publisher Comments "This extraordinarily powerful book demonstrates how utterly we lack the shared supranational tools needed to fight cybercrime. Essential reading." --Roberto Saviano, author of Gommorah The benefits of living in a digital, globalized society are enormous;... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $18.50 Used - Hardcover
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I Love Geeks: The Official Handbook by Carrie Tucker Synopsis There's no doubt about it. While they may be stuck inside all day playing video games, or spending their extra money on rare editions of comic books (er, graphic novels) - geeks are chic. And why shouldn't they be? Geeks (along with their close friends... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground by Kevin Poulsen Publisher Comments Former hacker Kevin Poulsen has, over the past decade, built a reputation as one of the top investigative reporters on the cybercrime beat. In Kingpin, he pours his unmatched access and expertise into book form for the first time, delivering a gripping... (read more) Your price: $15.00 New - Trade Paper
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Apple Confidential: The Real Story of Apple Computer, Inc. by Owen W Linzmayer Publisher Comments Journalist Owen Linzmayer explores Apple's tumultuous history, from its legendary founding, through a series of disastrous executive decisions, to its recent return to profitability. Backed by exhaustive research, the book debunks many of the myths and... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide (Rev 09 Edition) by Henry Jenkins Publisher Comments “What the future fortunes of [Gramscis] writings will be, we cannot know. However, his permanence is already sufficiently sure, and justifies the historical study of his international reception. The present collection of studies is an indispensable... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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