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“chris burton”

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  • Courageous Leadership From The Heart

    by Chris Burton ...

    $1.00 USD

  • Alan Turing and his Contemporaries

    Building the world's first computers

    by Simon Lavington, Chris Burton, Martin Campbell-Kelly, Roger Johnson ...
    Secret wartime projects in code-breaking, radar and ballistics produced a wealth of ideas and technologies that kick-started the development of digital computers. This is the story of the people and projects that flourished in the post-war period. By 1955 computers had begun to appear in the market-place. The Information Age was dawning and Alan Turing and his contemporaries held centre stage. ... Read more

    $28.29 USD

  • Alpha One: The Kronan

    by Chris Burton ...
    The Kryl are back... but this time they intend to feed! Jake Carter and Jonathan Hoskins return in the sequel to Alpha One--The Jump Pilot. The wormhole has reopened and the Kryl have returned bringing with them a vast armada under the command of the new Kronan-Morvalt. The Kryl Queen and Morvalts sole intent is to defeat Alpha and take Planet Earth and its people as their new food source. Jake ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

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  • The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer (Great Discoveries)

    Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer

    by David Leavitt ...
    Series series Great Discoveries
    A "skillful and literate" (New York Times Book Review) biography of the persecuted genius who helped create the modern computer.To solve one of the great mathematical problems of his day, Alan Turing proposed an imaginary computer. Then, attempting to break a Nazi code during World War II, he successfully designed and built one, thus ensuring the Allied victory. Turing became a champion of ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

  • Alan M. Turing

    Centenary Edition

    by Sara Turing, John Turing ...
    'In a short life he accomplished much, and to the roll of great names in the history of his particular studies added his own.' So is described one of the greatest figures of the twentieth century, yet Alan Turing's name was not widely recognised until his contribution to the breaking of the German Enigma code became public in the 1970s. The story of Turing's life fascinates and in the years since ... Read more

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  • Colossus:The secrets of Bletchley Park's code-breaking computers

    The secrets of Bletchley Park's code-breaking computers

    by B. Jack Copeland ...
    At last - the secrets of Bletchley Park's powerful codebreaking computers.This is a history of Colossus, the world's first fully-functioning electronic digital computer. Colossus was used during the Second World War at the Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park, where it played an invaluable role cracking enemy codes. Until very recently, much about the Colossus machine was shrouded ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • Turing's Cathedral

    The Origins of the Digital Universe

    by George Dyson ...
    “It is possible to invent a single machine which can be used to compute any computable sequence,” twenty-four-year-old Alan Turing announced in 1936. In Turing’s Cathedral, George Dyson focuses on a small group of men and women, led by John von Neumann at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, who built one of the first computers to realize Alan Turing’s vision of a Universal ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Alan Turing

    The Enigma Man

    by Nigel Cawthorne ...
    Spring 1940: The Battle of the Atlantic rages. Vulnerable merchant convoys are at the mercy of German U-boats controlled by a cunning system of coded messages created by a machine called Enigma. Only one man believes that these codes can be broken - mathematician and Bletchley Park cryptanalyst Alan Turing.Winston Churchill later described Turing's success in breaking the Enigma codes as the ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Earth Strike

    Star Carrier: Book One

    by Ian Douglas ...
    Series Book 1 - Star Carrier Series
    In the vein of the hit television show Battlestar Galactica comes Earth Strike—the first book in the action-packed Star Carrier science fiction series by Ian Douglas, author of the popular Inheritance, Heritage, and Legacy Trilogies and one of the most adept writers of military sf working today. Earth Strike rockets readers into a vast and deadly intergalactic battle, as humankind attempts to ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

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  • Man and His Symbols

    by Carl G. Jung ...
    The landmark text about the inner workings of the unconscious mind—from the symbolism that unlocks the meaning of our dreams to their effect on our waking lives and artistic impulses—featuring more than a hundred updated images that break down Carl G. Jung’s revolutionary ideas“What emerges with great clarity from the book is that Jung has done immense service both to psychology as a science and ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • The Greatest Show on Earth

    The Evidence for Evolution

    by Richard Dawkins ...
    Series series A Brief History of the Natural World
    Richard Dawkins transformed our view of God in his blockbuster, The God Delusion, which sold millions of copies in English alone. He revolutionized the way we see natural selection in the seminal bestseller The Selfish Gene. Now, he launches a fierce counterattack against proponents of "Intelligent Design" in his New York Times bestseller, The Greatest Show on Earth."Intelligent Design" is being ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Secret Life of Bletchley Park

    The WWII Codebreaking Centre and the Men and Women Who Worked There

    by Sinclair McKay ...
    Bletchley Park has played a vital role in British history. This Victorian country house in the Buckinghamshire countryside was was where one of the war’s most famous – and crucial – achievements was made: the cracking of Germany’ s 'Enigma' code in which its most important military communications were couched.It was home to some of Britain’s most brilliant mathematical brains, such as Alan Turing, ... Read more

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