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"The Night Bookmobile is a love letter, both elegaic and heartbreaking, to the things we have read, and to the readers that we are. It says that what we read makes us who we are. It’s...beautifully drawn and perfectly told, a cautionary fantasia for anyone who has ever loved books." —Neil Gaiman (The Sandman and The Graveyard Book) more...
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Like all great social and technological developments, the "computer revolution" of the twentieth century didn\'t just happen. In The Computer Boys Take Over, Nathan Ensmenger describes the emergence of the technical specialists—computer programmers, systems analysts, and data processing managers—who helped transform the electronic digital computer from a scientific curiosity into the most powerful and ubiquitous technology of the modern era. more...
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"Abramson bestows upon readers the benefit of his decades of teaching political philosophy. Useful as an accompaniment to, or a replacement for, an introductory course in political theory, this book consists of straightforward and lucid explorations of the canonical thinkers and their works.... Abramson is right to turn our attention to these eternal questions, and his goal of luring students to the Socratic questioning of the good and the just is a noble one." —Library Journal more...
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