Product Description: John Naughton is The Observer's "Networker" columnist, a prominent blogger, and vice president of Wolfson College, Cambridge. The Times has said of his writing, "[it] draws on more than two decades of study to explain how the internet works and the challenges and opportunities it will offer to future generations," and Cory Doctorow raved that "this is the kind of primer you want to slide under your boss's door...read more

Product Description: Comment participer à ce que la vie a de divin - si on ne croit plus en Dieu ? Comment lui donner une signification, si on la sent privée du fondement ontologique qui autrefois lui garantissait sa cohérence? Que deviennent enfin l'espérance, et surtout la charité, dans un monde où la foi ne semble plus praticable ? Voici les questions que ce livre propose d'aborder, en étudiant cinq réponses apportées par la poésie moderne à la crise métaphysique qu'elle se voit contrainte d'affronter...read more

Product Description: Our society has gone through a weird, unremarked transition: we've gone from regarding the Net as something exotic to something that we take for granted as a utilitarian necessity, like mains electricity or running water. In the process we've been remarkably incurious about its meaning, significance or cultural implications...read more

A look at the communications revolution examines the history of the Internet and what it means for society and the future, celebrating the the engineers and scientists who contributed to its development and the ideas that were behind some of its top innovations. Reprint. (view table of contents)

Product Description: John Naughton has written a book whose heroes are the visionaries who laid the foundations of the postmodern world. A Brief History of the Future celebrates the engineers and scientists who implemented their dreams in hardware and software and explains the values and ideas that drove them...read more

Product Description: With facts, gossip, pithy text, and a glossary of silver screen jargon, this compact course can turn readers into scintillating cinematic experts in no time. Everything readers need to know to hold forth knowledgeably on movies is here. 400 color illustrations. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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