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2005., Everyman's Library Call No: Fic Dic Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Everyman's library (Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.) Volume: 296.
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2024., Simon & Schuster Call No: NEW Bio S976b Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. Availability:0 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Part memoir, part history, Burn Book is a necessary chronicle of tech's most powerful players. This is the inside story we've all been waiting for about modern Silicon Valley and the biggest boom in wealth creation in the history of the world.
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2013., Adult, McGill-Queen's University Press Call No: 809.911 S678e Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Can a case be made for reading literature in the digital age? Does literature still matter in this era of instant information? Is it even possible to advocate for serious, sustained reading with all manner of social media distracting us, fragmenting our concentration, and demanding short, rapid communication? In The Edge of the Precipice, Paul Socken brings together a thoughtful group of writers, editors, philosophers, librarians, archivists, and literary critics from Canada, the US, France, England, South Africa, and Australia to contemplate the state of literature in the twenty-first century."--Back cover.
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[2015], Yale University Press Call No: 600 W419e Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: While the discoveries of scientists have provided vital knowledge which has made innovation possible, it is more often than not the amateur who enjoys the "eureka moment" when an invention works for the first time. Weightman tells fascinating stories of struggle, rivalry, and the ingenuity of both famous inventors and hundreds of forgotten people, and offers a fresh take on the making of our modern world.
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1989, c1986., Simon and Schuster Call No: 509.51 T286g Edition: 1st Touchstone ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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General Call No: DVD 338.064 How Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Steven Johnson examines six ideas that made modern life possible.
![How we got to now with Steven Johnson [DVD] (2014)](/Library/images/cover/noimage.png "How we got to now with Steven Johnson [DVD] (2014)")
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c2011., General, Pantheon Books Call No: 020.9 G556i Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: James Gleick, the author of the best sellers Chaos and Genius, now brings us a work just as astonishing and masterly: a revelatory chronicle and meditation that shows how information has become the modern era§s defining quality the blood, the fuel, the vital principle of our world. The story of information begins in a time profoundly unlike our own, when every thought and utterance vanishes as soon as it is born. From the invention of scripts and alphabets to the long-misunderstood talking drums of Africa, Gleick tells the story of information technologies that changed the very nature of human consciousness. He provides portraits of the key figures contributing to the inexorable development of our modern understanding of information: Charles Babbage, the idiosyncratic inventor of the first great mechanical computer; Ada Byron, the brilliant and doomed daughter of the poet, who became the first true programmer; pivotal figures like Samuel Morse and Alan Turing; and Claude Shannon, the creator of information theory itself. And then the information age arrives. Citizens of this world become experts willy-nilly: aficionados of bits and bytes. And we sometimes feel we are drowning, swept by a deluge of signs and signals, news and images, blogs and tweets. The Information is the story of how we got here and where we are heading.
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-- Sapiens :2020., Adult, Signal, an imprint of McClelland & Stewart Call No: NEW 909 H254s Availability:0 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In this first volume of the full-color illustrated adaptation of his groundbreaking book, renowned historian Yuval Harari tells the story of humankind's creation and evolution, exploring the ways in which biology and history have defined us and enhanced our understanding of what it means to be "human." From examining the role evolving humans have played in the global ecosystem to charting the rise of empires, Sapiens challenges us to reconsider accepted beliefs, connect past developments with contemporary concerns, and view specific events within the context of larger ideas.
