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Broken Genius: The Rise And Fall of William Shockley, Creator of the Electronic Age

A portrait of the controversial Nobel Prize-winning scientist documents his invention of the transistor and role in the founding of Silicon Valley before his beliefs about remedial education, race, and the sterilization of low-intelligence individuals destroyed his reputation. Reprint.

By Joel N. Shurkin

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9781403988157 | Palgrave Macmillan, June 13, 2006, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Documents William Shockley's invention of the transistor and role in the founding of Silicon Valley before his beliefs about remedial education, race, and the sterilization of low-intelligence individuals destroyed his reputation.

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9780230551923 | Reprint edition (Palgrave Macmillan, January 8, 2008), cover price $19.00 | About this edition: A portrait of the controversial Nobel Prize-winning scientist documents his invention of the transistor and role in the founding of Silicon Valley before his beliefs about remedial education, race, and the sterilization of low-intelligence individuals destroyed his reputation.

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9780230552296 | Palgrave Macmillan, June 13, 2006, cover price $9.99

The Invisible Fire: The Story of Mankind's Victory over the Ancient Scourge of Smallpox

Product Description: The story of mankind's victory over the ancient scourge of smallpox. Smallpox, one of the deadliest of all diseases, was eradicated in 1979, the only disease to have been wiped from the earth. The deadly virus exists now only in a few labs in the world--we hope...read more

By Joel N. Shurkin

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9780595168675 | Backinprint.Com, March 1, 2001, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: The story of mankind's victory over the ancient scourge of smallpox.

A Consumers Guide to Psychotherapy

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By Larry E. Beutler, Bruce Bongar and Joel N. Shurkin

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9780195139204 | Oxford Univ Pr, January 1, 2001, cover price $12.95

Am I Crazy, or Is It My Shrink: How to Get the Help You Need

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By Larry E. Beutler, Bruce Michael Bongar and Joel N. Shurkin

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9780756751197 | Diane Pub Co, August 1, 1998, cover price $24.00

Am I Crazy, or Is It My Shrink?

Featuring an overview of the main branches of psychotherapy, an expert, up-to-date guide offers readers advice on finding or getting the most out of their psychotherapy, including ways to evaluate their therapist's techniques and their own progress. UP. (view table of contents)

By Larry E. Beutler, Bruce Michael Bongar and Joel N. Shurkin

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9780195107807 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, April 23, 1998, cover price $44.95 | About this edition: Offers an overview of the main branches of psychotherapy and provides advice on finding a therapist, getting the most out of therapy, and evaluating the therapist's techinques and one's own progress

Engines of the Mind: The Evolution of the Computer from Mainframes to Microprocessors

Traces the history of the computer from its beginnings in the nineteenth century to the present and describes the development of the computer industry (view table of contents)

By Joel N. Shurkin

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9780393314717 | Upd sub edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, January 1, 1996), cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Traces the history of the computer from its beginnings in the nineteenth century to the present and describes the development of the computer industry

Terman's Kids: The Groundbreaking Study of How the Gifted Grow Up

Exposes previously classified files and interviews with surviving subjects to follow up on the studies of psychologist Lewis Terman, who believed intelligence was inherited and tried to prove it by working with gifted children in 1921.

By Joel N. Shurkin

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9780316788908 | Little Brown & Co, May 1, 1992, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Exposes previously classified files and interviews with surviving subjects to follow up on the studies of psychologist Lewis Terman, who believed intelligence was inherited and tried to prove it by working with gifted children in 1921

Engines of the Mind

Product Description: Now available with a new chapter, for the fiftieth anniversary of the computer. When John Mauchly and Presper Eckert developed the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC) at the University of Pennsylvania during World War II, their intention was to aid artillerymen in aiming their guns...read more

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9780671600365 | Reprint edition (Pocket Books, August 1, 1985), cover price $4.95 | About this edition: Now available with a new chapter, for the fiftieth anniversary of the computer.

Engines of the Mind: A History of the Computer

Traces the history of the computer from its beginnings in the nineteenth century to the present and describes the development of the computer industry

By Joel N. Shurkin

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9780393018042 | W W Norton & Co Inc, February 1, 1984, cover price $17.50 | About this edition: Traces the history of the computer from its beginnings in the nineteenth century to the present and describes the development of the computer industry

Jupiter-The Star That Failed

From prehistoric man's observations, through Galileo's use of the first telescope, to electronic data radioed back from Pioneer X, Shurkin reviews the discoveries that man has made about the striped planet

By Joel N. Shurkin

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9780664326425 | Westminster John Knox Pr, July 1, 1979, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Discusses our solar system's largest planet including Galileo's observations of it with the first telescope and revealing data supplied by the recent Pioneer X space probe.

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