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  • The Future Was Here

    The Commodore Amiga

    by Jimmy Maher ...
    Series series Platform Studies
    Exploring the often-overlooked history and technological innovations of the world's first true multimedia computer.Long ago, in 1985, personal computers came in two general categories: the friendly, childish game machine used for fun (exemplified by Atari and Commodore products); and the boring, beige adult box used for business (exemplified by products from IBM). The game machines became ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Pyramids of Giza (A Wonders of the World Book)

    by Jimmy Maher ...
    Series Book 1 - Wonders of the World
    The Pyramids of Giza have been fascinating humanity for more than 4500 years. Who built them? How? And why? And why have so many people been prompted to believe so many weird things about them? Join in one of the greatest intellectual adventures in history alongside the people who rediscovered the pyramids in the Middle Ages, then plumbed their depths and learned at least some of their secrets ... Read more

    $6.49 USD

  • The Sistine Chapel (A Wonders of the World Book)

    by Jimmy Maher ...
    Series Book 7 - Wonders of the World
    This is a book about the Sistine Chapel, but also a book about so much more. Although it includes the story of how the great artist Michelangelo came to paint the chapel's ceiling and altar wall, that is only a part of its agenda. And although there are pictures here, this is not a coffee-table book either. This book is rather predicated on the principle that all human-made wonders, no matter how ... Read more

    $6.49 USD

  • The Odyssey of Magellan (A Wonders of the World Book)

    by Jimmy Maher ...
    Series Book 7 - Wonders of the World
    On September 20, 1519, five proud ships crewed by 239 sailors set off to sea from the little Spanish town of Sanlúcar de Barrameda. On September 6, 1522, a single ship returned, battered and scarcely seaworthy, crewed by just eighteen exhausted, emaciated men. Between these two events there occurred the most epic voyage of exploration in human history, an adventure which changed our view of ... Read more

    $6.49 USD

  • The Oracle of Delphi (A Wonders of the World Book)

    by Jimmy Maher ...
    Series Book 2 - Wonders of the World
    For hundreds of years, a woman dictated the fates of men, cities, and empires from the Greek town known as Delphi. This oracle of Delphi listened quietly to the suppliants who came to her from all over the ancient world with their queries, then retired to her inner sanctum to commune with the god Apollo, whose sacred vapors filled that space. And then she emerged again to shape the course of ... Read more

    $6.49 USD

  • The Great Wall of China (A Wonders of the World Book)

    by Jimmy Maher ...
    Series Book 6 - Wonders of the World
    China is much in the news these days, but it remains oddly opaque to most foreigners, at least partly by design. This book, the longest and most ambitious yet in the Wonders of the World series, is an attempt to remedy that. Taking as its central metaphor the legendary Great Wall of China, it explores the country's almost incomprehensibly long history, from Peking Man to COVID-19, in the exciting, ... Read more

    $6.49 USD

  • The Hanging Gardens of Babylon (A Wonders of the World Book)

    by Jimmy Maher ...
    Series Book 3 - Wonders of the World
    The Hanging Gardens of Babylon are the most alluring of all the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. They are also the most mysterious of them all, in every sense of the word. The questions of when they were built, who built them, where they stood, what form they took, and even whether they ever really existed at all have been vexing historians and archaeologists for centuries. This book, a shorter ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Library and Lighthouse of Alexandria (A Wonders of the World Book)

    by Jimmy Maher ...
    Series Book 4 - Wonders of the World
    Whether you go to work every day in a laboratory or go to church every day to pray -- or do both -- you are in some sense an heir to the legacy of ancient Alexandria. Alexander the Great founded his namesake city in Egypt in 331 BC, intending for it to be the crown jewel of his burgeoning empire. Alas, only his mummified corpse returned to Alexandria after that date, but it nevertheless fulfilled ... Read more

    $6.49 USD

  • The Colossus of Rhodes (A Wonders of the World Book)

    by Jimmy Maher ...
    Series Book 5 - Wonders of the World
    The Colossus of Rhodes toppled to the ground more than 2300 years ago, after standing upright and intact for just 56 years. And yet it has been inspiring our idle summer dreams ever since. This book, a shorter entry in the Wonders of the World series, separates the mythical from the likely historical reality of this monumental statue of the sun god Helios which once watched over the main harbor on ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

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  • Racing the Beam

    The Atari Video Computer System

    by Nick Montfort, Ian Bogost ...
    Series series Platform Studies
    Exploring the cultural and technical influence of the Atari VCS video game console, with examples from 6 famous game cartridges like Pac-Man, Combat, and Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back!The Atari Video Computer System dominated the home video game market so completely that “Atari” became the generic term for a video game console. The Atari VCS was affordable and offered the flexibility of ... Read more

    $19.99 USD