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The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology
by Ray Kurzweil  
Powells.com 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...
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Send: The Essential Guide to Email for Office and Home
by David Shipley and Will Schwalbe Publisher Comments When should you email, and when should you call, fax, or just show up? What is the crucial, and most often overlooked, line in an email? What is the best strategy when you send (in anger or error) a potentially career-ending electronic bombshell?...
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The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour Through Alan Turing's Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine
by Charles Petzold Publisher Comments Programming Legend Charles Petzold unlocks the secrets of the extraordinary and prescient 1936 paper by Alan M. Turing Mathematician Alan Turing invented an imaginary computer known as the Turing Machine; in an age before computers, he explored the...
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The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage
by Clifford Stoll Publisher Comments Cliff Stoll was an astronomer turned systems manager at Lawrence Berkeley Lab when a 75-cent accounting error alerted him to the presence of an unauthorized users on his system. The hacker's code name was "Hunter"-- a mystery invader hiding inside a...
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The Soul of a New Machine
by Tracy Kidder Publisher Comments Computers have changed since 1981, when Tracy Kidder indelibly recorded the drama, comedy, and excitement of one company's efforts to bring a new microcomputer to market. What has changed little, however, is computer culture: the feverish pace of the...
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Second Lives: A Journey through Virtual Worlds
by Tim Guest
Publisher Comments We’ve always dreamed of perfect places: Eden, heaven, Utopia. Imagine gambling without loss, love without heartbreak, sex without exposure, experience without risk. Welcome to the fascinating world of online virtual reality, the land of invented...
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Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks about
by Donald E. Knuth Publisher Comments How does a computer scientist understand infinity? What can probability theory teach us about free will? Can mathematical notions be used to enhance one's personal understanding of the Bible? Perhaps no one is more qualified to address these questions...
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In the Beginning...Was the Command Line
by Neal Stephenson Publisher Comments About twenty years ago Jobs and Wozniak, the founders of Apple, came up with the very strange idea of selling information-processing machines for use in the home. The business took off, and its founders made a lot of money and received the credit they...
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Adventures from the Technology Underground: Catapults, Pulsejets, Rail Guns, Flamethrowers, Tesla Coils, Air Cannons and the Garage Warriors Who Love Them
by William Gurstelle Publisher Comments The technology underground is a thriving, humming, and often literally scintillating subculture of amateur inventors and scientific envelope-pushers who dream up, design, and build machines that whoosh, rumble, fly—and occasionally hurl pumpkins...
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From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism
by Fred Turner Publisher Comments In From Counterculture to Cyberculture Fred Turner details the previously untold story of a highly influential group of San Francisco Bay Area entrepreneurs: Stewart Brand and the Whole Earth network...
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The Age of Spiritual Machines
by Ray Kurzweil
Publisher Comments The "ultimate thinking machine" ("Forbes")--whose predictions for the future are startling, provocative, and closer to fruition than one might think--takes a serious and surprising look at the future that reads like great science fiction and offers a...
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Powering Up: Are Computer Games Changing Our Lives?
by Rebecca Mileham Publisher Comments When it comes to computer games, the numbers are astounding: the world's top professional gamer has won over half a million dollars shooting virtual monsters on-screen; online games claim literally millions of subscribers; while worldwide spending on...
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Crypto Anarchy, Cyberstates, and Pirate Utopias (Digital Communication)
by Peter Ludlow Publisher Comments In Crypto Anarchy, Cyberstates, and Pirate Utopias, Peter Ludlow extends the approach he used so successfully in High Noon on the Electronic Frontier, offering a collection of writings that reflects the eclectic nature of the online world, as well as its...
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Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity
by Lawrence Lessig
Publisher Comments Lawrence Lessig, "the most important thinker on intellectual property in the Internet era" (The New Yorker), masterfully argues that never before in human history has the power to control creative progress been so concentrated in the hands of the...
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The Universal History of Computing: From the Abacus to the Quantum Computer
by Georges Ifrah Publisher Comments " A fascinating compendium of information about writing systems– both for words and numbers." <BR> – Publishers Weekly <P>" A truly enlightening and fascinating study for the mathematically...
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Best Software Writing 1 (05 Edition)
by Spolsky Publisher Comments It's nice having a collection of high-quality writing related to software and the business in one place instead of trawling the Web for it. -- Meryl K. Evans, meryl.net & Slashdot Contributor ...an entertaining read with a number of enlightening insights...
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Webster's New World Hacker Dictionary
by Bernadette Schell Publisher Comments The comprehensive hacker dictionary for security professionals, businesses, governments, legal professionals, and others dealing with cyberspace Hackers. Crackers. Phreakers. Black hats. White hats. Cybercrime. Logfiles. Anonymous Digital Cash. ARP...
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Networks and Netwars : the Future of Terror, Crime, and Militancy (01 Edition)
by John Arquilla Publisher Comments Netwar--like cyberwar--describes a new spectrum of conflict that is emerging in the wake of the information revolution. What distinguished netwar is the networked organizational structure of its practitioners and their quickness in coming together in...
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Game Boys: Professional Videogaming's Rise from the Basement to the Big Time
by Michael Kane Publisher Comments An inside look at the rivalries, big money, and dirty business of competitive videogaming Yankees vs. Red Sox. Lakers vs. Celtics. And now . . . Team 3D vs. CompLexity. That would be America's next celebrated rivalry if the men in Game Boys had their way....
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The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage
by Cliff Stoll Publisher Comments Before the Internet became widely known as a global tool for terrorists, one perceptive U.S. citizen recognized its ominous potential. Armed with clear evidence of computer espionage, he began a highly personal quest to expose a hidden network of spies...
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