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  • Alan Turing: The Enigma

    The Book That Inspired the Film The Imitation Game - Updated Edition

    by Andrew Hodges, Andrew Hodges ...
    A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe official book behind the Academy Award-winning film The Imitation Game, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira KnightleyIt is only a slight exaggeration to say that the British mathematician Alan Turing (1912–1954) saved the Allies from the Nazis, invented the computer and artificial intelligence, and anticipated gay liberation by decades—all before his suicide at ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • The Great Philosophers: Turing

    by Andrew Hodges ...
    Series series GREAT PHILOSOPHERS
    Alan Turing's 1936 paper On Computable Numbers, introducing the Turing machine, was a landmark of twentieth-century thought. It settled a deep problem in the foundations of mathematics, and provided the principle of the post-war electronic computer. It also supplied a new approach to the philosophy of the mind.Influenced by his crucial codebreaking work in the Second World War, and by practical ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Once and Future Turing

    Computing the World

    Edited by S. Barry Cooper, Andrew Hodges ...
    Alan Turing (1912–1954) made seminal contributions to mathematical logic, computation, computer science, artificial intelligence, cryptography and theoretical biology. In this volume, outstanding scientific thinkers take a fresh look at the great range of Turing's contributions, on how the subjects have developed since his time, and how they might develop still further. The contributors include ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • One to Nine

    The Inner Life of Numbers

    by Andrew Hodges ...
    What Lynne Truss did for grammar in Eats, Shoots & Leaves, Andrew Hodges now does for mathematics.Andrew Hodges, one of Britain’s leading biographers and mathematical writers, brings numbers to three-dimensional life in this delightful and illuminating volume, filled with illustrations, which makes even the most challenging math problems accessible to the layperson. Inspired by millennia of human ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • A-Z of Plastic Surgery

    Edited by Matthew Fell, Andrew Hodges, Susan Hendrickson ...
    The A-Z of Plastic Surgery is a comprehensive and easily digestible manual to plastic surgery. Written in an encyclopaedic format, the concise style aims to provide a rapid and structured summary of each topic and allows for each to be grasped quickly and succinctly in either a clinical or exam revision setting. The new edition has been fully revised and updated by a team of experienced plastic ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • In the Storms of Transformation

    Two Shipyards between Socialism and the EU

    by Ulf Brunnbauer, Philipp Ther, Piotr Filipkowski, Andrew Hodges, Stefano Petrungaro, Peter Wegenschimmel ...
    Series Book 56 - German and European Studies
    In the 1990s, states in what would become the eastern edge of the European Union transformed their political systems and economies, leaving state socialism behind for liberal democracies and free markets. In the ensuing decades, two shipyards that were once the pride of their cities – in Gdynia, Poland, and Pula, Croatia – went bankrupt, unable to withstand global competition.Through an ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Fan Activism, Protest and Politics

    Ultras in Post-Socialist Croatia

    by Andrew Hodges ...
    Series series Critical Research in Football
    In what sense can organized football fans be understood as political actors or participants in social movements? How do fan struggles link to wider social and political transformations? And what methodological dilemmas arise when researching fan activism? Fan Activism, Protest and Politics seeks ethnographic answers to these questions in a context – Zagreb, Croatia – shaped by the recent Yugoslav ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Second-Generation Fiscal Rules

    Balancing Simplicity, Flexibility, and Enforceability

    by Luc Eyraud, Xavier Debrun, Andrew Hodge, Victor Duarte Lledo, Catherine A Pattillo ...
    Fiscal rule frameworks have evolved significantly in response to the global financial crisis. Many countries have reformed their fiscal rules or introduced new ones with a view to enhancing the credibility of fiscal policy and providing a medium-term anchor. Enforcement and monitoring mechanisms have also been upgraded. However, these innovations have made the systems of rules more complicated to ... Read more

    $4.49 USD