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  • iWar
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    iWar

    Higgins, Tim

    iWar is a story of corporate intrigue and rivalry, as the tech industry's most powerful minds, from Elon Musk to the owners of Spotify and Epic Games, try to knock the world's biggest company off its...
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  • Against Nature
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    Against Nature

    David Kreps

    This book questions the nature of the business and social information systems so ubiquitous in contemporary life. Linking positivism, individualism, and market-fundamentalist economics at the root of...
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  • Against Nature
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    Against Nature

    David Kreps

    This book questions the nature of the business and social information systems so ubiquitous in contemporary life. Linking positivism, individualism, and market-fundamentalist economics at the root of...
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  • Honoring the Code
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    Honoring the Code

    Matt Barton

    If you want to be successful in any area of game development game design, programming, graphics, sound, or publishing you should know how standouts in the industry approach their work and address...
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  • Game Design Deep Dive
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    Game Design Deep Dive

    Joshua Bycer

    The Game Design Deep Dive series examines specific game systems or mechanics over the course of the history of the industry. This book examines the history of jumping – one of the oldest mechanics in...
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  • Computer
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    Computer

    Jens Müller

    The story of the evolution of machines in computer history is full of the disruptive innovations that have led to today's world. From the early beginnings of computing to the bulky mainframe to the...
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  • Algorithms
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    Algorithms

    Louridas, Panos

    In the tradition of Real World Algorithms: A Beginner's Guide, Panos Louridas is back to introduce algorithms in an accessible manner, utilizing various examples to explain not just what algorithms...
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  • Data Empire
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    Data Empire

    Risam, Roopika

    This groundbreaking 11,000 year history argues that empire was never just about weapons or ships - it was built on collecting information on us, to rule us. Perfect for readers of Nexus and The Age...
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  • From Models to Simulations
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    From Models to Simulations

    Franck Varenne

    This book analyses the impact computerization has had on contemporary science and explains the origins, technical nature and epistemological consequences of the current decisive interplay between...
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  • Computer
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    Computer

    Martin Campbell-Kelly

    Computer: A History of the Information Machine traces the history of the computer and its unlimited, information-processing potential.Comprehensive and accessibly written, this fully updated fourth...
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  • Computer
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    Computer

    Martin Campbell-Kelly

    Computer: A History of the Information Machine traces the history of the computer and its unlimited, information-processing potential.Comprehensive and accessibly written, this fully updated fourth...
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  • Robot Era
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    Robot Era

    P. E. Cleator

    First published in 1955, The Robot Era presents a pioneering examination of the emerging field of robotics and automated systems during the post-World War II industrial expansion. This seminal work...
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  • AGI Chronicles
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    AGI Chronicles

    Kevin Roose

    ‘Exciting and brilliantly reported’ Walter Isaacson This is the story of the twenty-first century’s Manhattan Project: the trillion-dollar sprint to create artificial general intelligence. For the...
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  • Apple
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    Apple

    David Pogue

    This book lavishly illustrates the first 50 years of Apple’s history through stunning, full-color photographs. Instant New York Times Bestseller In time for Apple’s 50th anniversary, CBS Sunday...
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  • Chip War
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    Chip War

    Chris Miller

    ***Winner of the Financial Times Business Book of the Year award***UPDATED EDITION WITH A NEW AFTERWORD 'Pulse quickening. A nonfiction thriller - equal parts The China Syndrome and Mission...
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  • Cultural History of Computer Graphics
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    Cultural History of Computer Graphics

    Carolin Scheler

    A Cultural History of Computer Graphics presents a fundamentally new approach to analyzing digital images aesthetically through the example of 3D computer graphics (CG). While numerous methods for...
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  • Game Design Deep Dive: Horror
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    Game Design Deep Dive: Horror

    Joshua Bycer

    The Game Design Deep Dive series examines a specific game system or mechanic over the course of the history of the industry. This entry will examine the history and design of the horror genre and...
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  • Game Design Deep Dive: Horror
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    Game Design Deep Dive: Horror

    Joshua Bycer

    The Game Design Deep Dive series examines a specific game system or mechanic over the course of the history of the industry. This entry will examine the history and design of the horror genre and...
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  • Prophets of Computing Prophets of Computing
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    Prophets of Computing

    Dick van Lente

    When electronic digital computers first appeared after World War II, they appeared as a revolutionary force. Business management, the world of work, administrative life, the nation state, and soon...
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  • Beyond Deep Blue Beyond Deep Blue
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    Beyond Deep Blue

    Monty Newborn

    More than a decade has passed since IBM's Deep Blue computer stunned the world by defeating Garry Kasparov, the world chess champion at that time. Beyond Deep Blue tells the continuing story of the...
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  • Giants of Computing Giants of Computing
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    Giants of Computing

    Gerard O'Regan

    It has been upon the shoulders of giants that the modern world has been forged. This accessible compendium presents an insight into the great minds responsible for the technology which has...
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  • Network Geeks Network Geeks
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    Network Geeks

    Brian E Carpenter

    The impact on modern society made by the Internet is immeasurable. Yet some questioned "why anyone would want such a thing" when the idea was first introduced.Part history, part memoir and part...
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  • Dot-Dash to Dot.Com Dot-Dash to Dot.Com
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    Dot-Dash to Dot.Com

    Andrew Wheen

    Telecommunications is a major global industry, and this unique book chronicles the development of this complex technology from the electric telegraph to the Internet in a simple, accessible, and...
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  • The Apollo Guidance Computer The Apollo Guidance Computer
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    The Apollo Guidance Computer

    Frank O'Brien

    The technological marvel that facilitated the Apollo missions to the Moon was the on-board computer. In the 1960s most computers filled an entire room, but the spacecraft's computer was required to...
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  • The Past and Future of Information Systems The Past and Future of Information Systems
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    The Past and Future of Information Systems

    David Avison

    IFIP TC8 Information Systems.- Information Systems as an Academic Discipline.- Methodologies for Developing Information Systems: A Historical Perspective.- Stakeholders Selection for...
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  • Symbolic Interactionism (RLE Social Theory) Symbolic Interactionism (RLE Social Theory)
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    Symbolic Interactionism (RLE Social Theory)

    Bernard Meltzer

    Symbolic interactionsim is of major importance in contemporary sociology. In this study, three authorities in the field collaborate to define symbolic interactionism and to describe, and present...
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  • The 100 Greatest MSDOS Games The 100 Greatest MSDOS Games
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    The 100 Greatest MSDOS Games

    Tom Crossland

    MS-DOS games encompassed the 1980s and 1990s and are regarded to be a golden era for home gaming. How could it not be a golden era with games like Doom, Quake, The Secret of Monkey Island, Star Wars:...
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  • Babylon With Ghost Babylon With Ghost
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    Babylon With Ghost

    Wayne Slingluff

    Boston, 1978. Wayne and Joan are poor but happy in a fifth floor walk-up on the backside of Beacon Hill. Daycare teaching doesn't pay well, but all the immense riches of urban life are available as...
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  • Communities of Computing Communities of Computing
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    Communities of Computing

    Thomas J. Misa

    Communities of Computing is the first book-length history of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), founded in 1947 and with a membership today of 100,000 worldwide. It profiles ACM's notable...
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  • Serious Machines Serious Machines
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    Serious Machines

    Amir Husain

    "Few books have captured the complexity and excitement of the last forty-some-odd years of advances in IT technology as effectively as Serious Machines." -Bob Stearns, Cofounder and Managing...
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  • 50 Years of Text Games 50 Years of Text Games
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    50 Years of Text Games

    Aaron A Reed

    Since a winter morning in 1971 when a teacher wheeled a teletype into his classroom to debut a game about the Oregon Trail, people have been telling interactive stories on digital platforms. From...
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  • History of Nordic Computing 3 History of Nordic Computing 3
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    History of Nordic Computing 3

    John Impagliazzo

    This book constitutes the refereed post-proceedings of the Third IFIP WG 9.7 Conference on the History of Nordic Computing, HiNC3, held in Stockholm, Sweden, in October 2010. The 50 revised full...
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  • History of Nordic Computing 2 History of Nordic Computing 2
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    History of Nordic Computing 2

    John Impagliazzo

    The First Conference on the History of Nordic Computing (HiNC1) was organized in Trondheim, in June 2003. The HiNC1 event focused on the early years of computing, that is the years from the 1940s...
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  • Mathematical Lives Mathematical Lives
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    Mathematical Lives

    CLAUDIO BARTOCCI

    Steps forward in mathematics often reverberate in other scientific disciplines, and give rise to innovative conceptual developments or find surprising technological applications. This volume brings...
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