Authors: Michael Smith.
Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Cassell
Publication Date: 2007-02-28


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Hardcover, 344 pages
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication Date: 2006-10-02


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    Despite its pervasive presence in the South Asian past, slavery is largely overlooked in the region's historiography, in part because the forms of bondage in question did not always fit models based on plantation slavery in the Atlantic world. This important volume will contribute to a rethinking of slavery in world history, and even the category of slavery itself. Most slaves in South Asia were not agricultural labourers, but military or domestic workers, and the latter were overwhelmingly women and children. Individuals might become slaves at birth or through capture, sale by relatives, indenture, or as a result of accusations of criminality or inappropriate sexual behaviour. For centuries, trade in slaves linked South Asia with Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia. The contributors to this collection of original essays describe a wide range of sites and contexts covering more than a thousand years, foregrounding the life stories of individual slaves wherever possible. Indrani Chatterjee is Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University. Her book "Gender, Slavery, and Law in Colonial India" is considered a groundbreaking work on the subject. Richard M. Eaton is Professor of History at the University of Arizona and one of the foremost historians of Islam in premodern India....

Authors: Thomas A. Standish.
Hardcover, 447 pages
Publisher: Addison-Wesley
Publication Date: 1980-06

Authors: M. Dean Koontz.
Paperback, 278 pages
Publisher: iUniverse, Inc.
Publication Date: 2007-11-27
Edition: 0

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If you have found the Psalms a source of comfort and strength, you will love this treatment of the first thirty psalms. Each psalm contains a commentary on the entire psalm, not just a verse or two. You will find the psalms like a mirror reflecting back to you experiences and emotions you yourself have had at one time or another. That’s why the message they carry is as up to date as the morning newspaper. The psalmist has found his solutions in God, and we may find ours there as well. There is an old song which goes, “Where could I go but to the Lord?” The psalmist sounds that note again and again. The old gospel song puts it well,

On Christ the solid Rock I stand,
All other ground is sinking sand
All other ground is sinking sand....

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Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Publication Date: 2007-08-01
Edition: 1

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Authors: Anthony Hyman.
Paperback, 287 pages
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication Date: 1985-01-01


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This book discusses the career of Charles Babbage (1791-1871), British advocate of the systematic use of science in industry and creator of machines that were precursors of the modern computer. Babbage used his immense personal charm and vitality in an attempt to change the thinking of contemporary industrialists who had little use for the higher reaches of science. Shifting his own energies from pure mathematics, he planned engines that would "calculate by steam": the Difference Engines, designed to compute tables according to the method of finite differences, and the more complex Analytical Engines, forerunners of the modern computer.

Almost forgotten and then rediscovered in the middle of the twentieth century, the Analytical Engines are among the great intellectual achievements of humankind. This biography of their polymathic inventor gives a convincing account of his tragic personal life and his important place in the history of science.

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Authors: Alice Rowe Burks.
Hardcover, 415 pages
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Publication Date: 2003-01


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    In 1973, Federal District Judge Earl R Larson issued a ruling in a patent case that was to have profound and long-lasting implications for the dawning computer revolution. With meticulous research, Alice Rowe Burks examines both the trial and its aftermath, presenting telling evidence in convincing and absorbing fashion, and leaving no doubt about the actual originator of what has been called the greatest invention of the 20th century....

Authors: W. Paul Reeve.
Hardcover, 248 pages
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Publication Date: 2007-03-09
Edition: 1

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Authors: James Gillies. Robert Cailliau.
Paperback, 372 pages
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Publication Date: 2000-01-15
Edition: 1st

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    In 1994, a computer program called the Mosaic browser transformed the Internet from an academic tool into a telecommunications revolution. Now a household name, the World Wide Web is a prominent fixture in the modern communications landscape, with tens of thousands of servers providing information to millions of users. Few people, however, realize that the Web was born at CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics in Geneva, and that it was invented by an Englishman, Tim Berners-Lee.
Offering its readers an unprecedented "insider's" perspective, this new book was co-written by two CERN employees--one of whom, Robert Cailliau, was among the Web's pioneers. It tells how the idea for the Web came about at CERN, how it was developed, and how it was eventually handed over at no charge for the rest of the world to use. The first book-length account of the Web's development, How the Web was Born draws upon several interviews with the key players in this amazing story. This compelling and highly topical book is certain to interest all general readers with a taste for the Web or the Internet, as well as students and teachers of computing, technology, and applied science....

    It's hard to believe that there was a time--not long ago--when the digital fairyland of commerce, soapboxing, and pornography called the World Wide Web was just a file-sharing tool for nerds, but there's a first time for everything. How the Web Was Born, by CERN's James Gillies and Robert Cailliau, follows the trail from the dawn of ARPANet through the mid-90s, just as the Web boom was beginning to take off in earnest. That may seem like an odd ending point, but the post-1995 story has already been told ad nauseam, and the writers know how to quit while they're ahead. The story is told from widely varying viewpoints and across shifting timelines as the various players are introduced and observed; this adds some complexity to the narrative, but yields a truer picture of the team efforts required to devise and launch the Web. Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Marc Andreesen, Tim Berners-Lee (of course), and many more, figure prominently in the interwoven tales, and are briefly summarized in an abridged cast list at the end of the book, along with a paper and electronic bibliography. The book assumes some knowledge and interest on the part of the reader and saves its big-picture context for the end, but provides reader motivation both by its subject's inherent interest and the recurrent personalization of the story. Neither textbook nor CERN propaganda, How the Web Was Born offers an engagingly networked collection of characters that, like their invention, creates something larger than the sum of its parts. --Rob Lightner ...

Authors: Paul Virilio.
Paperback, 168 pages
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Publication Date: 1995-10