Authors: Arthur P. Bochner.
Paperback, 416 pages
Publisher: AltaMira Press
Publication Date: 2002-01-15


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    This volume presents explorations in the literary turn in ethnographic work. Centring on autoethnography, personal narrative, ethnographic performance and the blending of social science and the arts, the articles collected here emphasize embodiment, experimental understanding, participatory ways of knowing, sensuous engagement and intimate encounter. Drawing from a range of disciplines, such as sociology, philosophy, psychology and English, the author demonstrates the ways in which ethnography can be effectively expressed....

Authors: Dr K..
Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Carlton Books
Publication Date: 2002-10-28
Edition: Revised and Updated ed.

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    Dr. K takes hacking from its beginning in the computer networks of the early 80's to the increasingly complex hacking of the 21st century....

Authors: Peter Grabosky.
Paperback, 96 pages
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Publication Date: 2006-10-07


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Prentice Hall’s Masters Series in Criminology brings the work of true masters to life for a new audience of readers, presenting brief and accessible introductions to crime and criminology topics from some of the leading scholars in criminology today. All authors in the series are true academic pioneers, and each book in the series pulls from the authors’ decades of research and writing in their fields. The first and only series of its kind, Prentice Hall’s Masters Series in Criminology introduces readers to the scholars and issues that are at the core of modern criminology.

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Authors: Slava Gerovitch.
Paperback, 383 pages
Publisher: The MIT Press
Publication Date: 2004-10-01


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    In this book, Slava Gerovitch argues that Soviet cybernetics was not just an intellectual trend but a social movement for radical reform in science and society as a whole. Followers of cybernetics viewed computer simulation as a universal method of problem solving and the language of cybernetics as a language of objectivity and truth. With this new objectivity, they challenged the existing order of things in economics and politics as well as in science.

The history of Soviet cybernetics followed a curious arc. In the 1950s it was labeled a reactionary pseudoscience and a weapon of imperialist ideology. With the arrival of Khrushchev's political "thaw," however, it was seen as an innocent victim of political oppression, and it evolved into a movement for radical reform of the Stalinist system of science. In the early 1960s it was hailed as "science in the service of communism," but by the end of the decade it had turned into a shallow fashionable trend. Using extensive new archival materials, Gerovitch argues that these fluctuating attitudes reflected profound changes in scientific language and research methodology across disciplines, in power relations within the scientific community, and in the political role of scientists and engineers in Soviet society. His detailed analysis of scientific discourse shows how the Newspeak of the late Stalinist period and the Cyberspeak that challenged it eventually blended into "CyberNewspeak."...

Authors: Duncan Long.
Paperback, 144 pages
Publisher: Paladin Press
Publication Date: 1989-05


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    This book shows you how to customize this reliable firearm into a super system suited to your needs. Whether you want to modify your AR-15 or just want an inside look at experimental weapons that may be on tomorrow's rifle range and battlefield, this is a book for you...

Authors: M. Mitchell Waldrop.
Paperback, 512 pages
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Publication Date: 2002-08
Edition: 1st

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    While most people may not be familiar with the name J. C. R. Licklider, he was the guiding spirit behind the greatest revolution of the modern era. At a time when most computers were big, ponderous mainframes, he envisioned them as desktop tools that could empower individuals, foster creativity, and allow the sharing of information all over the world. Working from an obscure office in the depths of the Pentagon, he set in motion the forces that could make his vision real. Writing with the same novelistic flair that made his Complexity "the most exciting intellectual adventure story of the year" (The Washington Post), Waldrop presents the history of this great enterprise and the first full-scale portrait of the man whose dream of a "human-computer symbiosis" changed the course of science and culture, gave us the modern world of computing, and laid the foundation for the Internet age.

"Waldrop's account of [Licklider's] and many others' world-transforming contributions is compelling." (John Allen Paulos, The New York Times Book Review)

"A masterpiece! A mesmerizing but balanced and comprehensive look at the making of the information revolution." (John Seely Brown, former director of Xerox PARC, and coauthor of The Social Life of Information)...

    While it's true that no one person's vision encompassed all of what we now consider personal computing, we can't help but focus on individual effort as we try to understand how we got here. Science writer M. Mitchell Waldrop carefully balances this hero culture with a historian's mania for completeness in The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal.

"Lick," as his students and colleagues called him, was deeply involved in guiding the evolution of personal and networked computing from the 1950s through the 1980s, after leaving a career in cognitive psychology. Waldrop captures his spirit vividly--contrary to our stereotypical view of computer scientists, Licklider was profoundly interested in his fellow humans, and this interest helped him lead the design of technology adapted to human needs.

Waldrop interviewed dozens of contemporaries and examined reams of notes and primary sources to compose this massive biography of influence that stretches from MIT to the Pentagon to Xerox PARC and far beyond. If it sometimes seems that Licklider was a little too well beloved, especially in comparison to some of the more colorful figures in computing's recent history, it is worth remembering that his patience and humility were the very qualities that helped deliver the home-computing revolution we take for granted today. If we had to choose just one 20th-century computer pioneer that we couldn't do without, it would have to be the man behind the Dream Machine. --Rob Lightner...

Authors: KIDWELL PA.
Paperback, 152 pages
Publisher: Smithsonian
Publication Date: 1994-04-17


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    Choice Outstanding Academic Book. Offering a fascinating visual record of the milestones in digital computing, this illustrated volume discusses the social and economic impact of each of the forty-plus significant benchmarks highlighted, from the ancient abacus to the SUN workstation....

Authors: Jim Hamm.
Paperback, 160 pages
Publisher: The Lyons Press
Publication Date: 1992-01-01
Edition: 1st

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Authors: Stan Augarten.
Paperback, 324 pages
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin (P)
Publication Date: 1984-11

Authors: Anthony J.g. Hey.
Hardcover, 464 pages
Publisher: Westview Press
Publication Date: 1998-12-24


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