Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Gardner's Guide to Internships at Multimedia and Animation Studios (Gardner's Guide series)

Gardners Guide
Gardner's Guide to Internships at Multimedia and Animation Studios (Gardner's Guide series)
by Garth Gardner PhD
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This is the ultimate guide for students who are ready to connect with the major studios to secure an internship. The most comprehensive guide of its kind, this book profiles hundreds of studios in North America, Internship @ CG and Animation Studio provides information on the studios' areas of specialization, size of studio, description, contact information, preparing resumes, portfolios and demo reels.

  • Rank: #227362 in Books
  • Published on: 2001-01-19
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 256 pages

The IT Career Builder's Toolkit

The IT
The IT Career Builder's Toolkit
by Matthew Moran
4.2 out of 5 stars(16)

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Your complete guide to building your information technology career in any economy

 

The IT Career Builder’s Toolkit  features market-focused skills and proven methods you can use to jump-start and advance your career. While other books cover just the mechanics of preparing your résumé, writing a cover letter, and interviewing, this book provides all that plus additional insight from IT career development expert, Matt Moran, to help you plan and create a rewarding IT career over the long term.

 

The toolkit approach allows you to use this book to suit your unique needs:

  • Are you new to the IT field? Benefit by reading the book cover to cover.
  • Just need to fine-tune your IT career? Choose a topic and dive in.
Understand and prepare for the various and changing factors that affect your career in both positive and negative ways. Learn how to

  • Present the value of your technical skills in the job market
  • Position yourself as the primary commodity of your career
  • Remove the guesswork out of job searches
  • Highlight on-the-job skills and gain meaningful professional exposure 
The companion CD-ROM includes career management tools such as résumé and cover letter templates, forms to track important contacts, and self-assessment tools. Start or further your consulting career with sample proposals, opportunity tracking forms, and a time-tracking and billing database. Financial tools, including budget and cash-flow summary worksheets, help you gain financial well-being. Use the Value-Added Technologist presentation to gain a clear understanding of the career-building process and how to use the toolkit to build a dynamic career.

 

Most of all, have fun! Every year, people advance along the path to career stardom. Let Matt help you to be one of them through his career philosophy “Do not accept mediocrity as a career objective–demand more of yourself.”

 

“I want you to see the [toolkit] techniques as one more set of skills to adopt in your overall career development program. They are skills, just like your technical skills, that you will use daily during your career. Just as you adopt new technical skills, use the toolkit to define those soft skills that you must learn and put to use. The result will be a more well-rounded and complete professional skill-set.”

~ Matthew Moran, from the Introduction

 

Companion CD-ROM

The CD-ROM contains valuable tools, forms, spreadsheets, and documents that work with the Toolkit to help you master key areas of your career development.

 

 

  • Rank: #187817 in Books
  • Published on: 2005-01-10
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Dimensions: 9.09" h x .63" w x 7.28" l, 1.23 pounds
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 312 pages

Tuesday, November 27, 2012

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Sunday, November 25, 2012

Strategy Is Destiny: How Strategy-Making Shapes a Company's Future

Strategy Is Destiny
Strategy Is Destiny: How Strategy-Making Shapes a Company's Future
by Robert Burgelman, Andrew S. Grove
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How did a pioneering company in the semiconductor industry not only survive but thrive in the face of the explosive change and upheavals that forced it to transform itself twice in the course of its thirty-year history? The answer lies in the quality of its strategy-making process, contends leading strategic management scholar Robert A. Burgelman in this extraordinary book based on an exhaustive twelve-year study he conducted inside Intel Corporation. Granted the opportunity to track Intel's strategy-making through his close teaching collaboration with its chairman, Andy Grove, at Stanford Business School since 1988, Burgelman has written a definitive and far-reaching account of how highly educated top managers groped their way through strategic conundrums. His account of the evolution of key events in Intel's history is illustrated with extensive quotes from its cofounder Gordon Moore, Andy Grove, current CEO Craig Barrett, and dozens of other Intel executives. His study allows these leaders to speak for themselves in scores of highly rendered executive portraits. Using thoroughly tested conceptual tools, Burgelman first documents the key role played by mid-level managers in transforming Intel from a memory company into a microprocessor company during the late 1970s and early 1980s, which led to the heartbreaking decision to abandon the business on which the company had been founded in 1968. He then makes readers eyewitnesses to the complex set of complementary strategic thrusts orchestrated by Andy Grove to make Intel capi- talize on the extraordinary opportunities associated with the phenomenal growth of the PC industry during the late 1980s and the 1990s. He reconstructs Grove's resolution of the struggle between two competing micro- processor architectures within Intel that caused civil war to erupt, and he shows how Intel's superbly run strategy-making process in the core business, paradoxically, made it difficult for internal entrepreneurs to extend the company's strategic reach. This allows him to link the strategic leadership challenges, faced today by Craig Barrett, to Intel's illustrious past and to provide suggestions for how these challenges can be met. At once a history of strategy-making at Intel as well as a strategy-making field manual that any high-technology manager will need to consult frequently, Strategy Is Destiny truly describes strategy-in-action as the way of life of senior executives in the corporation of the future.

  • Rank: #147072 in Books
  • Published on: 2001-12-15
  • Released on: 2002-01-08
  • Original language: English
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  • Dimensions: 9.53" h x 1.61" w x 6.42" l, .1 pounds
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • 464 pages

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Saturday, November 24, 2012

Getting a Job in CG: Real Advice from Reel People

Getting a Job in CG
Getting a Job in CG: Real Advice from Reel People
by Sean Wagstaff, Dariush Derakhshani
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Get the Inside Track to Landing an Enviable Job in Computer Graphics

Breaking into the wildly creative and fiery 3D/Effects industry is a tough proposition. With so many talented people competing for each alluring job, it's imperative that candidates grasp what employers look for and make every attempt to stand out. Maya Press, a joint publishing effort between Sybex and industry leader Alias, brings you this definitive and practical guide to help you land that first job or advance your current job in the computer graphics industry.

Getting a Job in CG: Real Advice from Reel People is rich with candid strategies and priceless insights straight from industry and academic leaders, job recruiters, and employers. Through interviews, case studies, and sample demo reels on the CD, this book teaches you how to:

  • Discover the myriad job possibilities from the obvious to the obscure
  • Identify precisely what tools, skills, and knowledge employers seek
  • Determine your best training options: college, art school, or do-it-yourself
  • Recognize what staffing agencies and in-house recruiters are looking for
  • Build an extraordinary resume that gets noticed
  • Find out where to go to meet the right people and tap into networking opportunities
  • Acquire the know-how to ace the job interview
  • Produce an exceptional and applicable demo reel that will help you land the job
  • Emulate the career paths of successful artists

This book's companion website, www.3djobs.com , serves as a research hub packed with supplementary information and links to vital sources.

Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.

  • Rank: #198663 in Books
  • Published on: 2004-02-25
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 304 pages

Friday, November 23, 2012

Land the Tech Job You Love (Pragmatic Life)

Land the
Land the Tech Job You Love (Pragmatic Life)
by Andy Lester
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You've got the technical chops -- the skills to get a great job doing what you love. Now it's time to get down to the business of planning your job search, focusing your time and attention on the job leads that matter, and interviewing to wow your boss-to-be. You can't just wing it.

As a techie, you're a special breed, with special challenges facing you in the job search. Your competition is smart, tech-savvy, and highly resourceful. Expectations among employers are higher. Your competition will run you over if you're not up to the challenge. Land the Tech Job You Love gives you the background, the skills, and the hard-won wisdom to bypass the mistakes of those who don't prepare.

You might not think you need this book. Conventional Wisdom has it that finding a job is simple: send some resumes, go on some interviews, and take the offer that sounds best. But that's only the start. You've got the background and skills to work the Web and other resources that the general job seeker doesn't. This book shows you how to take advantage of those skills or be left behind by competing techies who do.

It all starts with an examination of you, your strengths, and where you want your career to take you. Without a roadmap, you'll wind up in any old job. Life's too short to spend in a job that you don't love. From there, you'll see how to find the job you want that fits you and the employer, using your technical and web savvy to find the hidden jobs that never make it into the classifieds or Monster.

"Marketing" is not a dirty word, and you'll learn how to present yourself, your skills, and your background in the way that shows the hiring company that you're the right person for the job. Create a resume that tosses out conventional wisdom, write cover letters that sell your background, and assemble a portfolio of work that will wow the interviewer.

Social networking has been the darling of the Web in the past few years, but it's no substitute for the sort of personal interaction that makes relationships that help in future careers. As one manager said, "One recommendation is worth a million resumes." This book shows you how to make and maintain the connections that will drive your future career moves.

Land the Tech Job You Love pulls no punches and lays out the details for what gets you an interview, and gets you hired in a job in the technical world that makes you happy.

  • Rank: #214855 in Books
  • Published on: 2009-07-05
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Dimensions: .52" h x 6.02" w x 8.92" l, .75 pounds
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 225 pages
  • ISBN13: 9781934356265
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Construction Management JumpStart

Construction Management
Construction Management JumpStart
by Barbara J. Jackson
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Launch Your Construction Management Career—Quickly and Effectively

Written by an experienced construction management specialist, Construction Management JumpStart provides all the core information you need, whether you're considering a new career or expanding your responsibilities:

  • Understanding the functions of construction management
  • Understanding the design and construction process
  • Working with contracts documents
  • Estimating project costs
  • Administering contracts
  • Managing the job site
  • Creating and maintaining a project schedule
  • Measuring project performance
  • Controlling quality
  • Ensuring project safety

  • Rank: #564146 in Books
  • Published on: 2004-10-25
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Dimensions: 8.98" h x .67" w x 7.48" l, 1.15 pounds
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 329 pages

Thursday, November 22, 2012

Digital Capital: Harnessing the Power of Business Webs

Digital Capital
Digital Capital: Harnessing the Power of Business Webs
by Don Tapscott, Alex Lowy, David Ticoll
4.6 out of 5 stars(41)

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The industrial-age corporation is crumbling. The new form of wealth creation is the business web,and the new basis of wealth is digital capital. Schwab, eBay, Cisco, MP3, Linux, and dozens of other companies have transformed the rules of competition in their industries, seemingly overnight. They hijacked long-entrenched industry leaders with revolutionary offerings that surprised and delighted customers. These transformers could not and did not act alone: partners enabled them to move with stealth, speed, agility, and force. Such teams of innovators pioneered the business web, or "b-web" - the new platform for competition in the twenty-first century. B-webs - partner networks of producers, service providers, suppliers, infrastructure companies, and customers linked via digital channels - are destroying the firm as we have known it and generating wealth in entirely new ways. In "Digital Capital", information-age visionaries Don Tapscott, David Ticoll, and Alex Lowy describe and explain the b-web phenomenon and the forces behind its emergence. Drawing on three years of multimillion-dollar research into hundreds of b-webs as diverse as the Microsoft alliance and the automotive industry, the authors illuminate the five distinct types of b-web now in play: Agoras, Aggregations, Value Chains, Alliances, and Distributive Networks. Punctuating their analysis with a rich set of case studies, they provide the definitive guide to business model innovation in the digital economy.The book includes: the untold real story behind the story on successes like eBay, Cisco, Linux, Schwab, and Priceline; positioning and analysis of emergent e-businesses like Webvan, OptiMark, AT&T Solutions, and Enron; a step-by-step process for b-web strategy design; a new approach to maximizing organizational effectiveness in a multi-enterprise environment; the "ABCDEs" of marketing - heir to the "four P's" of the industrial age; guidelines for deciding whether to hire, buy, or partner a needed capability; a new set of lenses for viewing the stock market. The authors warn that participation in b-webs is not optional. To encounter and satisfy the digital customer, firms must lead or partner in one or more of these new business networks. While no single path leads to b-web success, businesses will adopt effective b-web strategies-or they will simply fade away. Sustaining advantage in the digital economy demands more than superficial actions like attracting "eyeballs," launching a hot IPO, following "new rules", building a cool Web site, or even just focusing on customers. In "Digital Capital" we finally have a book that gets beyond whiz-bang cliches to today's central issues of competitive strategy.

  • Rank: #480275 in Books
  • Published on: 2000-05
  • Original language: English
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  • Binding: Hardcover
  • 320 pages

Get in the Game: Careers in the Game Industry

Get in the Game
Get in the Game: Careers in the Game Industry
by Marc Mencher
3.8 out of 5 stars(16)

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Have you dreamed of obtaining a game industry job? Get in the Game will help you achieve this! This friendly guide shows you step-by-step how to prepare yourself for a game industry career. With insights from over a dozen industry experts, it¿s the only guide you will need for training yourself then finding a game industry job. Discover how to research, meet the right industry people, access the unadvertised job market, sell yourself, create the perfect demo, beat the competition, handle interviews, and negotiate a salary package. This book will show you how to tailor your job search, answer tough interview questions, transition into the game industry from other careers, hone essential resume writing skills and networking skills.

It¿s a crash course on everything you need to know about the game industry! You will learn about the following careers;
  • Game Designer
  • Game Programming
  • Game Artist
  • Game Production

  • Rank: #189460 in Books
  • Published on: 2002-10-07
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Dimensions: 9.02" h x .63" w x 7.05" l, .95 pounds
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 320 pages

Wednesday, November 21, 2012

ZAG: The #1 Strategy of High-Performance Brands, Mobipocket

ZAG
ZAG: The #1 Strategy of High-Performance Brands, Mobipocket
Marty Neumeier (Author)
4.6 out of 5 stars(40)

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"When everybody zigs, zag," says Marty Neumeier in this fresh view of brand strategy. ZAG follows the ultra-clear "whiteboard overview" style of the author’s first book, THE BRAND GAP, but drills deeper into the question of how brands can harness the power of differentiation. The author argues that in an extremely cluttered marketplace, traditional differentiation is no longer enough—today companies need “radical differentiation” to create lasting value for their shareholders and customers. In an entertaining 3-hour read you’ll learn:

- why me-too brands are doomed to fail
- how to "read" customer feedback on new products and messages
- the 17 steps for designing “difference” into your brand
- how to turn your brand’s “onliness” into a “trueline” to drive synergy
- the secrets of naming products, services, and companies
- the four deadly dangers faced by brand portfolios
- how to “stretch” your brand without breaking it
- how to succeed at all three stages of the competition cycle

From the back cover:
In an age of me-too products and instant communications, keeping up with the competition is no longer a winning strategy. Today you have to out-position, out-maneuver, and out-design the competition. The new rule? When everybody zigs, zag. In his first book, THE BRAND GAP, Neumeier showed companies how to bridge the distance between business strategy and design. In ZAG, he illustrates the number-one strategy of high-performance brands—radical differentiation.

ZAG is an AIGA Design Press book, published under Peachpit's New Riders imprint in partnership with AIGA. For a quick peek inside ZAG, go to www.zagbook.com.

  • Rank: #71562 in eBooks
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  • Format: Kindle eBook
  • Number of items: 1

Programmers at Work: Interviews With 19 Programmers Who Shaped the Computer Industry (Tempus)

Programmers at Work
Programmers at Work: Interviews With 19 Programmers Who Shaped the Computer Industry (Tempus)
by Susan Lammers
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A collection of interviews that probe the minds of 20 of the most notable programmers. They highlight the forces, events and the personality traits that influenced today's software movers and shakers - how they approach design, is it a talent?, and how they see the future. Among the interviewees are Andy Hertzfield (Macintosh Operating System), John Warnock (Postscript) and C. Wayne Ratcliff (dBASE).

  • Rank: #597686 in Books
  • Published on: 1989-07
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 400 pages

Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Building Your Career: A Guide to Your Future (4th Edition)

Building Your Career
Building Your Career: A Guide to Your Future (4th Edition)
by Susan J. Sears, Virginia N. Gordon
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This text is for undergraduate courses in Career Development or Career Planning.

 

The fourth edition of Building Your Career actively engages students in a new career decision-making model that involves reflecting, exploring, deciding and preparing for their immediate and long-term futures.Students progress through a process that uses the Internet and other hands-on activities to discover how their interests and strengths are compatible with the possible occupational and educational alternatives that they identify. Students also learn how to mount a job search and determine their readiness for the changing work world and the skills needed to succeed in the jobs of tomorrow. Instructors will find the process outlined in this book easily facilitates how they organize and develop their course. Supplemental materials and local information can be added to enhance the learning experience.

  • Rank: #847354 in Books
  • Published on: 2010-11-05
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Dimensions: 10.87" h x .51" w x 8.50" l, .65 pounds
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 144 pages

Monday, November 19, 2012

Apprenticeship Patterns: Guidance for the Aspiring Software Craftsman

Apprenticeship Patterns
Apprenticeship Patterns: Guidance for the Aspiring Software Craftsman
by Dave Hoover, Adewale Oshineye
4.3 out of 5 stars(14)

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Are you doing all you can to further your career as a software developer? With today's rapidly changing and ever-expanding technologies, being successful requires more than technical expertise. To grow professionally, you also need soft skills and effective learning techniques. Honing those skills is what this book is all about. Authors Dave Hoover and Adewale Oshineye have cataloged dozens of behavior patterns to help you perfect essential aspects of your craft.

Compiled from years of research, many interviews, and feedback from O'Reilly's online forum, these patterns address difficult situations that programmers, administrators, and DBAs face every day. And it's not just about financial success. Apprenticeship Patterns also approaches software development as a means to personal fulfillment. Discover how this book can help you make the best of both your life and your career.

Solutions to some common obstacles that this book explores in-depth include:

  • Burned out at work? "Nurture Your Passion" by finding a pet project to rediscover the joy of problem solving.
  • Feeling overwhelmed by new information? Re-explore familiar territory by building something you've built before, then use "Retreat into Competence" to move forward again.
  • Stuck in your learning? Seek a team of experienced and talented developers with whom you can "Be the Worst" for a while.


"Brilliant stuff! Reading this book was like being in a time machine that pulled me back to those key learning moments in my career as a professional software developer and, instead of having to learn best practices the hard way, I had a guru sitting on my shoulder guiding me every step towards master craftsmanship. I'll certainly be recommending this book to clients. I wish I had this book 14 years ago!" -Russ Miles, CEO, OpenCredo
  • Rank: #581829 in Books
  • Published on: 2009-10-22
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Dimensions: 9.13" h x .51" w x 7.01" l, .75 pounds
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 176 pages
  • ISBN13: 9780596518387
  • Condition: New
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Running Lean: Iterate from Plan A to a Plan That Works (Lean (O'Reilly))

Running Lean
Running Lean: Iterate from Plan A to a Plan That Works (Lean (O'Reilly))
by Ash Maurya
4.8 out of 5 stars(166)

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We live in an age of unparalleled opportunity for innovation. We're building more products than ever before, but most of them fail--not because we can't complete what we set out to build, but because we waste time, money, and effort building the wrong product.
What we need is a systematic process for quickly vetting product ideas and raising our odds of success. That's the promise of Running Lean.

In this inspiring book, Ash Maurya takes you through an exacting strategy for achieving a "product/market fit" for your fledgling venture, based on his own experience in building a wide array of products from high-tech to no-tech. Throughout, he builds on the ideas and concepts of several innovative methodologies, including the Lean Startup, Customer Development, and bootstrapping.

Running Lean is an ideal tool for business managers, CEOs, small business owners, developers and programmers, and anyone who's interested in starting a business project.

  • Find a problem worth solving, then define a solution
  • Engage your customers throughout the development cycle
  • Continually test your product with smaller, faster iterations
  • Build a feature, measure customer response, and verify/refute the idea
  • Know when to "pivot" by changing your plan's course
  • Maximize your efforts for speed, learning, and focus
  • Learn the ideal time to raise your "big round" of funding
"If you are starting a company, or want to adopt the Lean Startup approach, Running Lean is a must read."
  • Rank: #8005 in Books
  • Published on: 2012-03-06
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Dimensions: 8.50" h x .79" w x 5.51" l, 1.01 pounds
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • 240 pages

Construction Management JumpStart: The Best First Step Toward a Career in Construction Management

Construction Management JumpStart
Construction Management JumpStart: The Best First Step Toward a Career in Construction Management
by Barbara J. Jackson
4.5 out of 5 stars(17)

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Launch your career in construction management with this one-of-a-kind book

The construction management industry is expected to increase employment by 16 percent over the next decade. This second edition of a bestselling introduction to construction management walks you through each stage of the construction management process.

Written from the constructor's perspective, this book will familiarize you with all the construction management fundamentals and how Building Information Modeling (BIM) is impacting the construction management profession.

  • Covers interoperability of technology advances in the construction industry
  • Explains how BIM is challenging the traditional approach to project delivery and how this affects the constructor's role
  • Elaborates each stage of the design and construction process and the tasks associated with each of them
  • Shows step-by-step how to estimate project costs, administer contracts, manage job site and construction operations, plan and schedule a project, monitor project performance, manage project quality and safety, and assess project risks
  • Provides review questions at the end of each chapter to help enforce understanding

The tried-and-true project management principles presented in this book will help ensure you a successful start to your career.

  • Rank: #163213 in Books
  • Published on: 2010-05-17
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Dimensions: 9.17" h x .87" w x 7.44" l, 1.37 pounds
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 408 pages

Sunday, November 18, 2012

Introduction to Business Architecture

Introduction to
Introduction to Business Architecture
by Chris Reynolds
4.0 out of 5 stars(3)

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Business Architecture is a disciplined approach to creating and maintaining business models that enhance enterprise accountabilities and improve decision-making. Business Architecture's value proposition, unlike other disciplines, is to increase organizational effectiveness by mapping and modeling the business to the organization's business vision and strategic goals. The book is an introduction to this burgeoning new field. It explains what Business Architecture is, what a good, sustainable one should include, and explains how to implement a business architecture practically within the reader's environment. Extensive examples and case studies are included to clarify points and demonstrate clearly to the reader how they too can begin to build business architecture within their organization.

  • Rank: #550472 in Books
  • Published on: 2009-07-22
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Dimensions: 9.06" h x .63" w x 7.32" l, 1.19 pounds
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 272 pages

Close to the Machine: Technophilia and Its Discontents

Close to the Machine
Close to the Machine: Technophilia and Its Discontents
by Ellen Ullman
3.7 out of 5 stars(29)

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With a New Introduction by Jaron Lanier

  • Rank: #496012 in Books
  • Published on: 2012-02-28
  • Released on: 2012-02-28
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
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  • 208 pages