Category - Computers
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The Computer: A Very Short Introduction
PaperbackOriginal price $11.95 - Original price $11.95Original price $11.95$13.99$13.99 - $13.99Current price $13.99| /What is the basic nature of the modern computer? How does it work? How has it been possible to squeeze so much power into increasingly smaller ma...
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The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /The secret history of the invention that changed everything-and became the most profitable product in the world. "The One Device is a tour de for...
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The Psychology of Evolving Technology: How Social Media, Influencer Culture and New Technologies are Altering Society
PaperbackOriginal price $49.99Original price $49.99 - Original price $49.99Original price $49.99Current price $43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Technological innovations have advanced at an incredible speed since the introduction of the computer that it has altered the fabric of our socie...
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Fire in the Valley: The Birth and Death of the Personal Computer
PaperbackOriginal price $34.00Original price $34.00 - Original price $34.00Original price $34.00Current price $28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /In the 1970s, while their contemporaries were protesting the computer as a tool of dehumanization and oppression, a motley collection of college ...
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Home Computers: 100 Icons that Defined a Digital Generation
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /A celebration of the early years of the digital revolution, when computing power was deployed in a beige box on your desk.Today, people carry pow...
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Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /In the bestselling tradition of The Soul of a New Machine, Dealers of Lightning is a fascinating journey of intellectual creation. In the 1970s a...
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Computing: A Concise History
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /A compact and accessible history of computing—from punch cards and calculators to UNIVAC and ENIAC, the personal computer, Silicon Valley, and th...
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Artificial Intelligence: A Very Short Introduction
PaperbackOriginal price $11.95 - Original price $11.95Original price $11.95$13.99$13.99 - $13.99Current price $13.99| /The applications of Artificial Intelligence lie all around us; in our homes, schools and offices, in our cinemas, in art galleries and — not leas...
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Machine Learning, revised and updated edition
PaperbackOriginal price $15.95 - Original price $15.95Original price $15.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /A concise overview of machine learning—computer programs that learn from data—the basis of such applications as voice recognition and driverless ...
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Bootstrapping: Douglas Engelbart, Coevolution, and the Origins of Personal Computing
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /Bootstrapping analyzes the genesis of personal computing from both technological and social perspectives, through a close study of the pathbreaki...
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The Soul of A New Machine
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Tracy Kidder's "riveting" (Washington Post) story of one company's efforts to bring a new microcomputer to market won both the Pulitzer Prize and...
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Inventing the Internet / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Janet Abbate recounts the key players and technologies that allowed the Internet to develop; but her main focus is always on the social and cultu...
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The Cybernetic Brain: Sketches of Another Future
PaperbackOriginal price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /Cybernetics is often thought of as a grim military or industrial science of control. But as Andrew Pickering reveals in this beguiling book, a mu...
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Circuits, Packets, and Protocols: Entrepreneurs and Computer Communications, 1968-1988
HardcoverOriginal price $79.95 - Original price $79.95Original price $79.95$91.99$91.99 - $91.99Current price $91.99| /As recently as 1968, computer scientists were uncertain how best to interconnect even two computers. The notion that within a few decades the cha...
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The Modem World: A Prehistory of Social Media
HardcoverOriginal price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00$29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /The untold story about how the internet became social, and why this matters for its future "A great book for anyone who wants to understand the ear...
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The Myth of Artificial Intelligence: Why Computers Can't Think the Way We Do
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /"Exposes the vast gap between the actual science underlying AI and the dramatic claims being made for it."--John Horgan "If you want to know about ...
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Awkward Intelligence: Where AI Goes Wrong, Why It Matters, and What We Can Do about It
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /An expert offers a guide to where we should use artificial intelligence--and where we should not. Before we know it, artificial intelligence (AI) w...
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Code: From Information Theory to French Theory
HardcoverOriginal price $99.95 - Original price $99.95Original price $99.95$118.99$118.99 - $118.99Current price $118.99| /In Code Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan reconstructs how Progressive Era technocracy as well as crises of industrial democracy and colonialism shaped e...
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Silicon Planet: My Life in Computer Chips
PaperbackOriginal price $15.99 - Original price $15.99Original price $15.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /A developer's account of the breakthroughs and battles that made computer chips the foundation of our world.Computer chips, like sand and water, n...
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The Hidden History of Code-Breaking: The Secret World of Cyphers, Uncrackable Codes, and Elusive Encryptions
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /A fascinating exploration of the uncrackable codes and secret cyphers that helped win wars, spark revolutions and change the faces of nations. Ther...
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Distrust: Big Data, Data-Torturing, and the Assault on Science
HardcoverOriginal price $32.95 - Original price $32.95Original price $32.95$35.99$35.99 - $35.99Current price $35.99| /There is no doubt science is currently suffering from a credibility crisis. This thought-provoking book argues that, ironically, science's credibil...
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The Apple II Age: How the Computer Became Personal
HardcoverOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /An engrossing origin story for the personal computer--showing how the Apple II's software helped a machine transcend from hobbyists' plaything to e...
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Empire of the Sum: The Rise and Reign of the Pocket Calculator
HardcoverOriginal price $32.50Original price $32.50 - Original price $32.50Original price $32.50Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /Starting with hands, abacus, and slide rule, humans have always reached for tools to simplify math. Pocket-sized calculators ushered in modern math...
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Steve Jobs
HardcoverOriginal price $36.00Original price $36.00 - Original price $36.00Original price $36.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /Walter Isaacson's "enthralling" (The New Yorker) worldwide bestselling biography of Apple cofounder Steve Jobs. Based on more than forty interviews...
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