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Life in a big organization - growing, enjoying, fighting and dying. An employee fighting for his company while cutting the branch he sits on. Sprinkled with jokes, a quiz, sharp organizational caricatures. The road from heaven to hell couldn"t be any clearer.

An account of an artificial intelligence experiment in humans. Computer chips will be inserted into the nervous systems of both the author, a professor of Cybernetics, and his wife. The experiment is to determine if emotions such as intoxication,anger, lust, can be read by the computer in terms of...

John von Neumann (1903-1957) was unquestionably one of the most brilliant scientists of the twentieth century. He made major contributions to quantum mechanics and mathematical physics and in 1943 began a new and all-too-short career in computer science.William Aspray provides the first broad and...

Here is the fascinating story of the making of the high-tech business revolution and the birth of the Digital Age. Packed with all the excitement of scientific discovery and nail-biting suspense of entrepreneurial brinksmanship, journalist Jeffrey Young recounts the exploits of a captivating array...

"A fascinating compendium of information about writing systems–both for words and numbers." –Publishers Weekly "A truly enlightening and fascinating study for the mathematically oriented reader." –Booklist "Well researched. . . . This book is a...

Music has not been a priority in our American educational system. Budgets or academic priorities have successfully helped us to fail to learn music in any standardized fashion. So how do we learn it? Where do we go? Thanks to Axford"s pioneering book there is no need to spend countless hours...

Finding the best sites on the Civil War can be a daunting task when you consider that a simple search on the web for "Civil War" can yield over a million hits. The Civil War on the Web, SR Books" highly acclaimed guide to Internet resources, eliminates this problem. The authors...

Fueled by recent films and TV series such as Saving Private Ryan and Band of Brothers and popular books by Stephen Ambrose and Tom Brokaw, interest in World War II has soared. As a result of this surge of attention, the number of websites on World War IIhas exploded. Many are excellent sources of...

For more than a quarter of a century, Hubert L. Dreyfus has been the leading voice in American philosophy for the continuing relevance of phenomenology, particularly as developed by Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Dreyfus hasinfluenced a generation of students and a...

As the global information infrastructure evolves, the field of communication has the opportunity to renew itself while addressing the urgent policy need for new ways of thinking and new data to think about. Communication Researchers and Policy-making examines diverse relationships between the...