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“w patrick mccray”

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  • README

    A Bookish History of Computing from Electronic Brains to Everything Machines

    by W. Patrick Mccray ...
    The essential role that the oldest literary technology—books—played in making computers popular and pervasive.In README, historian Patrick McCray argues that in order for computers to become ubiquitous, people first had to become interested in them, learn about them, and take the machines seriously. A powerful catalyst for this transformation was, ironically, one of the oldest information ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Groovy Science

    Knowledge, Innovation, and American Counterculture

    Edited by David Kaiser, W. Patrick McCray ...
    Did the Woodstock generation reject science—or re-create it? An "enthralling" study of a unique period in scientific history ( New Scientist).Our general image of the youth of the late 1960s and early 1970s is one of hostility to things like missiles and mainframes and plastics—and an enthusiasm for alternative spirituality and getting "back to nature." But this enlightening collection reveals ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Greedy Science

    Creating Knowledge, Making Money, and Being Famous in the 1980s

    Edited by Michael D. Gordin, W. Patrick McCray ...
    On the transformative role of greed in global science and technology during the 1980s.In the 1980s, a transformative era emerged where profit-driven motives and an entrepreneurial spirit dominated scientific research and technological innovation. This collection of essays, edited by Michael D. Gordin and W. Patrick McCray, examines how greed reshaped the global scientific community through the ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Making Art Work

    How Cold War Engineers and Artists Forged a New Creative Culture

    by W. Patrick Mccray ...
    The creative collaborations of engineers, artists, scientists, and curators over the past fifty years.Artwork as opposed to experiment? Engineer versus artist? We often see two different cultural realms separated by impervious walls. But some fifty years ago, the borders between technology and art began to be breached. In this book, W. Patrick McCray shows how in this era, artists eagerly ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Keep Watching the Skies!

    The Story of Operation Moonwatch and the Dawn of the Space Age

    by W. Patrick McCray ...
    When the Soviets launched Sputnik in 1957, thousands of ordinary people across the globe seized the opportunity to participate in the start of the Space Age. Known as the "Moonwatchers," these largely forgotten citizen-scientists helped professional astronomers by providing critical and otherwise unavailable information about the first satellites. In Keep Watching the Skies!, Patrick McCray tells ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Glassmaking in Renaissance Venice

    The Fragile Craft

    by W. Patrick McCray ...
    The transformation of the Venetian glass industry during the Renaissance was not only a technical phenomenon, but also a social one. In this volume, Patrick McCray examines the demand, production and distribution of glass and glassmaking technology during this period and evaluates several key topics, including the nature of Renaissance demand for certain luxury goods, the interaction between ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • The Visioneers

    How a Group of Elite Scientists Pursued Space Colonies, Nanotechnologies, and a Limitless Future

    by W. Patrick McCray ...
    The story of the visionary scientists who invented the futureIn 1969, Princeton physicist Gerard O'Neill began looking outward to space colonies as the new frontier for humanity's expansion. A decade later, Eric Drexler, an MIT-trained engineer, turned his attention to the molecular world as the place where society's future needs could be met using self-replicating nanoscale machines. These modern ... Read more

    $22.39 USD

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  • What the Future Looks Like

    Scientists Predict the Next Great Discoveries and Reveal How Today's Breakthroughs Are Already Shaping Our World

    by Jim Al-Khalili ...
    Get the science facts, not science fiction, on the cutting-edge developments that are already changing the course of our future.Every day, scientists conduct pioneering experiments with the potential to transform how we live. Yet it isn't every day you hear from the scientists themselves! Now, award–winning author Jim Al–Khalili and his team of top-notch experts explain how today's earthshaking ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Shape of a Life

    One Mathematician's Search for the Universe's Hidden Geometry

    by Shing-Tung Yau, Steve Nadis ...
    A Fields medalist recounts his lifelong effort to uncover the geometric shape—the Calabi-Yau manifold—that may store the hidden dimensions of our universe.Harvard geometer Shing-Tung Yau has provided a mathematical foundation for string theory, offered new insights into black holes, and mathematically demonstrated the stability of our universe. In this autobiography, Yau reflects on his improbable ... Read more

    $20.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Prime Number Conspiracy

    The Biggest Ideas in Math from Quanta

    Edited by Thomas Lin ...
    **Explore the mysteries and latest breakthroughs of the mathematical universe with the Pulitzer Prize-winning magazine Quanta—beloved by Bill Gates!Featuring a foreword by James Gleick, New York Times-bestselling author of Chaos: Making a New Science**These stories from Quanta Magazine map the routes of mathematical exploration, showing readers how cutting-edge research is done, while illuminating ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • Void

    The Strange Physics of Nothing

    by James Owen Weatherall ...
    Series series Foundational Questions in Science
    The New York Times bestselling author of The Physics of Wall Street " deftly explains all you wanted to know about nothingness—a.k.a. the quantum vacuum" (Priyamvada Natarajan, author of Mapping the Heavens ).James Owen Weatherall's bestselling book, The Physics of Wall Street, was named one of Physics Today's five most intriguing books of 2013. In this work, he takes on... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Social Life of Books

    Reading Together in the Eighteenth-Century Home

    by Abigail Williams ...
    Series series The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History
    "A lively survey…her research and insights make us conscious of how we, today, use books."—John Sutherland, The New York Times Book ReviewTwo centuries before the advent of radio, television, and motion pictures, books were a cherished form of popular entertainment and an integral component of domestic social life. In this fascinating and vivid history, Abigail Williams explores the ways in which ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus