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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: $21.00 Used - Hardcover 
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The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation by Jon Gertner Publisher Comments The definitive history of America’s greatest incubator of innovation, the birthplace of some of the 20th century’s most influential technologies, including the integrated circuit, the communications satellite and the cell phone.From its... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $21.00 Used - Hardcover
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The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood (Vintage) by James Gleick Publisher Comments A New York Times Notable Book A Los Angeles Times and Cleveland Plain Dealer Best Book of the Year From the bestselling author of the acclaimed Chaos and Genius comes a thoughtful and provocative exploration of the big ideas of the modern era... (read more) Your price: $15.95 New - Trade Paper
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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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Tesla: The Lost Inventions by George Trinkaus Publisher Comments Here are the suppressed inventions of Nikola Tesla, all in one place, rendered in clear English and with 42 illustrations. Tesla was famous at the turn of the century for inventing the alternating-current system still in use today. But his later... (read more) Your price: $7.75 New - Pamphlet
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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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Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other by Sherry Turkle Publisher Comments Consider Facebook — it's human contact, only easier to engage with and easier to avoid. Developing technology promises closeness. Sometimes it delivers, but much of our modern life leaves us less connected with people and more connected to... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price: $15.00 Used - Hardcover
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Hedy's Folly: The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World by Richard Rhodes Publisher Comments What do Hedy Lamarr, avant-garde composer George Antheil, and your cell phone have in common? The answer is spread-spectrum radio: a revolutionary invention based on the rapid switching of communications signals among a spread of different... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $18.50 Used - Hardcover
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Backyard Ballistics by William Gurstelle Staff Pick As tempting as it sounds to spend the afternoon with the two digital puppies wrestling under Lara Croft's wife-beater, nothing is really more entertaining than plain ol' throwing rocks at stuff. Or, better still, shooting said rocks out of a homemade... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - 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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Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation by Steven Johnson Publisher Comments A "dynamic" (Los Angeles Times) new understanding of one of life's key questions-from the New York Times bestselling author. This sweeping study of the history of innovation breaks out the seven patterns of innovation like "the slow hunch&... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Bottled Lightning: Superbatteries, Electric Cars, and the New Lithium Economy by Seth Fletcher Publisher Comments Lithium batteries may hold the key to an environmentally sustainable, oil-independent future. From electric cars to a “smart” power grid that can actually store electricity, letting us harness the powers of the sun and the wind and use them... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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Engineers by Dk Publishing Publisher Comments From the earliest engineers such as Archimedes and Hero of Alexandria, heroes of the Industrial Revolution like Eli Whitney and Alessandro Volta, and pioneers of the Modern Age with Henry Ford and Wernher von Braun, Engineers looks at more than eighty of... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $27.50 Used - 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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Vacuum Bazookas, Electric Rainbow Jelly: And 27 Other Saturday Science Projects by Neil A Downie Publisher Comments How do you crack nuts with a piece of string? Reverse gravity? Cobble together a clock out of a coffee cup, a soda bottle, and some water? Use a vacuum cleaner and nineteenth-century railroad technology to fashion a makeshift bazooka that can launch... (read more) List Price $33.75 Your price: $5.25 Used - Trade Paper
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The Most Powerful Idea in the World: A Story of Steam, Industry, and Invention by William Rosen Publisher Comments If all measures of human advancement in the last hundred centuries were plotted on a graph, they would show an almost perfectly flat line—until the eighteenth century, when the Industrial Revolution would cause the line to shoot straight up... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price: $12.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology by Ray Kurzweil Staff Pick The future of humanity in Kurzweil's eyes is a startling vision of humans moving beyond our biological bodies to join with computers — the human machine. Controversial and insightful, Singularity illuminates the technologies that are pushing the... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Darwin's Devices: What Evolving Robots Can Teach Us about the History of Life and the Future of Technology by John Long Publisher Comments What happens when we let robots play the game of life? The challenge of studying evolution is that the history of life is buried in the past—we can’t witness the dramatic events that shaped the adaptations we see today. But biorobotics... (read more) List Price $26.99 Your price: $18.50 Used - Hardcover
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Tools for Thought: The History and Future of Mind-Expanding Technology by Howard Rheingold Publisher Comments The digital revolution did not begin with the teenage millionaires of Silicon Valley, claims Howard Rheingold, but with such early intellectual giants as Charles Babbage, George Boole, and John von Neumann. In a highly engaging style, Rheingold tells the... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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