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How much should you pay for a return trip to the moon? How are Winnie the Pooh and the artificial heart related? Did teenagers exist before 1950? If not, who invented them? James May's 20th Century answers all these questions and more.

The workshop revolutionaries who made our world have never had the attention afforded the political revolutionaries who founded this nation. But it has been these innovators, in small-town attics and on the Mississippi, in Silicon Valley and the wheat fields of Kansas, in a Black woman's beauty parlor and a Dayton bicycle shop, who set America on a course to attain a standard of living unprecedented in the history of the world.

In November 2002, U.S. astronauts Donald Pettit and Kenneth Bowersox, and Russian flight engineer Nikolai Budarin, left on what was to be a routine 14-week mission to maintain the International Space Station. But then, on February 1, 2003, the Columbia exploded beneath them. With the launch program suspended indefinitely, these astronauts had suddenly lost their ride home.

The riveting story of the legendary Xerox PARC, a collection of eccentric young inventors brought together by Xerox Corporation at a facility in Palo Alto, California, during the mind-blowing intellectual ferment of the '70s and '80s.

In 1979, Elizabeth Eisenstein provided the first full-scale treatment of the 15th-century printing revolution in the West in her monumental two-volume work, The Printing Press as an Agent of Change. This abridged edition, after summarizing the initial changes introduced by the establishment of printing shops, goes on to discuss how printing challenged traditional institutions and affected three major cultural movements: the Renaissance, the Reformation, and the rise of modern science.

What is the Da Vinci code and what is all the fuss about? Despite being a work of fiction, the bestselling novel The Da Vinci Code has a plot based on a number of concepts and ideas that the author claims to be true. This book explores the locations, historical facts and theories, and the sources of inspiration behind the novel in order to reveal the true key to the Da Vinci code.

This Mastering the CompTIA A+ audiobook is the first A+ training product of its kind. It combines the comprehensive training of a traditional textbook with the portability, convenience and speed of audio. With a clear and smooth vocal delivery, Mastering the CompTIA A+ audiobook is a fast and enjoyable new way to train for your A+ exams.

Following his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs, The Innovators is Walter Isaacson's revealing story of the people who created the computer and the Internet. It is destined to be the standard history of the digital revolution and an indispensable guide to how innovation really happens. What were the talents that allowed certain inventors and entrepreneurs to turn their visionary ideas into disruptive realities? What led to their creative leaps? Why did some succeed and others fail?

In lively, mordantly witty prose, Negroponte decodes the mysteries--and debunks the hype--surrounding bandwidth, multimedia, virtual reality, and the Internet, and explains why such touted innovations as the fax and the CD-ROM are likely to go the way of the BetaMax.

Bill McKibben, examines the dangers inherent in an array of technologies that threaten not just our survival, but our identity. Imagine a future where lab workers can reprogram human embryos to make our children "smarter" or "more sociable" or "happier." Enough examines such possibilities, and explains how we can avoid their worst consequences while still enjoying the fruits of our new scientific understandings.

Em um mundo em constante transformação, Inteligência artifici-o-quê? explora os vastos horizontes das aplicações de IA, desde os possíveis avanços até os dilemas éticos. O livro explora as fronteiras da tecnologia, questionando não apenas o que podemos realizar, mas também se devemos.

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Ein neuer Wissenschaftskrimi von Simon Singh: der immerwährende Kampf um die sicherste Methode, geheime Botschaften zu verschlüsseln - oder zu knacken.

You know them. You hate them. Make pop-up ads a thing of the past. Listen to this great advice for blasting away those nasty pop-up ads.

In this new book, author and Internet expert Adam Engst shows you, in 10 quick steps, the most effective way to stop spam, how to protect your email address from a deluge of spam, how to avoid areas of the Internet that spammers use to find you, what to do for filtering, how to use yourISP's available spam tools, and more.

Everyone's got a blog: your kid, your neighbor, Presidential candidates, and superstar actors. If you've wanted to find out what all the hoopla is about, and jump feet first into the world of blogging, look no further: everything you need is right here.

The third part in Pope's Financial Alert series, this hot topic is sure to provoke debate. The theft of identity through credit card scams, "phishing", unscrupulous charitable agencies, and dishonest employees is epidemic, and only growing worse. Pope gives the alarming statistics and then outlines the real, practical steps an individual or family can take to avoid becoming a victim.

El impacto social y profesional del cambio laboral. Ya nada será como antes. Esta frase podría resumir algunas de las ideas de este libro de ágil lectura y profundo como pocos. En Automatizados se combinan una vocación académica, que permite navegar las aguas turbulentas del futuro del trabajo, y una formación económica, que facilita plasmar concretamente el impacto social y profesional del cambio laboral. Existen otros libros sobre el futuro del trabajo, pero a mi entender son exploraciones superficiales y metafísicas de lo que vendrá.