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Burn Rate
Simon & Schuster 2013; US$ 18.95Michael Wolff's wickedly funny chronicle of his rags-to-riches-to-rags adventure as a fledgling Internet entrepreneur exposes an industry powered by hype, celebrity, and billions of investment dollars -- and notably devoid of profit-making enterprises. As he describes his efforts to control his company's burn rate -- the amount of money the company... more...
F'D Companies
Simon & Schuster 2002; US$ 15.95Not long ago, the world was awash with venture capital in search of the next Yahoo! or Amazon.com. No product, no experience, no technology, no business plan -- no problem. You could still get $40 million from investors to start up your dot-com. And you could get people to work around the clock for stock options and the promise of millions. Then,... more...
Digital McLuhan
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 35.95Marshall McLuhan died on the last day of 1980, on the doorstep of the personal computer revolution. Yet McLuhan's ideas anticipated a world of media in motion, and its impact on our lives on the dawn of the new millennium. Paul Levinson examines why McLuhan's theories about media are more important to us today than when they were first written, and... more...
World War 3.0
Random House Publishing Group 2001; US$ 16.95The Internet Revolution, like all great industrial changes, has made the world's elephantine media companies tremble that their competitors-whether small and nimble mice or fellow elephants-will get to new terrain first and seize its commanding heights. In a climate in which fear and insecurity are considered healthy emotions, corporate violence becomes... more...
In the Beginning...Was the Command Line
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 8.99This is "the Word" -- one man's word, certainly -- about the art (and artifice) of the state of our computer-centric existence. And considering that the "one man" is Neal Stephenson, "the hacker Hemingway" ( Newsweek ) -- acclaimed novelist, pragmatist, seer, nerd-friendly philosopher, and nationally bestselling author of groundbreaking literary works... more...
A Shortcut Through Time
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2007; US$ 14.00In this remarkably illustrative and thoroughly accessible look at one of the most intriguing frontiers in science and computers, award-winning New York Times writer George Johnson reveals the fascinating world of quantum computing?the holy grail of super computers where the computing power of single atoms is harnassed to create machines capable of... more...
On the Way to the Web
Springer 2008; US$ 22.99This work presents the story of the opening of the Internet, and parallel developments in the alternate world of computer bulletin board systems. it chronicles the inventive, individualistic, and often cantankerous individuals who have created this new culture. more...
Der Computer - Mein Lebenswerk (German Edition)
Springer 2010; US$ 39.99Der erste funktionsfähige Computer wurde von Konrad Zuse gebaut. Diese vollautomatische, programmgesteuerte, frei programmierbare, in binärer Gleitpunktzahlrechnung arbeitende Rechenanlage war 1941 betriebsbereit. Anlässlich des 100. Geburtstages von Konrad Zuse (22. Juni 2010), der mit einem Zuse-Jahr begangen wird, erscheint die Autobiografie des... more...
The Past and Future of Information Systems
Springer 2006; US$ 169.00This volume presents proceedings from the 19th IFIP World Computer Congress in Santiago, Chile. The proceedings of the World Computer Congress are a product of the gathering of 2,000 delegates from more than 70 countries to discuss a myriad of topics in the ICT domain. Of particular note, this marks the first time that a World Computer Congress has... more...
Electronic Value Exchange
Springer 2011; US$ 79.99Electronic Value Exchange examines in detail the transformation of the VISA electronic payment system from a collection of non-integrated, localized, paper-based bank credit card programs into the cooperative, global, electronic value exchange network it is today. Topics and features: provides a history of the VISA system from the mid-1960s to the... more...









