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“steve lohr”

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  • Go To

    The Story of the Math Majors, Bridge Players, Engineers, Chess Wizards, Maverick Scientists, and Ico

    by Steve Lohr ...
    In Go To, Steve Lohr chronicles the history of software from the early days of complex mathematical codes mastered by a few thousand to today's era of user-friendly software and over six million professional programmers worldwide. Lohr maps out the unique seductions of programming, and gives us an intimate portrait of the peculiar kind of genius that is drawn to this blend of art, science, and ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Digital Revolutionaries

    The Men and Women Who Brought Computing to Life

    by Steve Lohr ...
    In the beginning, there was the computer. And it was big. As big as a room. Sometimes as big as a house. Early computers required teams of white-coated scientists to keep them running, yet one of those giant behemoths could not match the computing power of a single microchip today. From the first massive computers to today's nanotechnology, DIGITAL REVOLUTIONARIES offers a guided tour of the ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Data-ism

    The Revolution Transforming Decision Making, Consumer Behavior, and Almost Everything Else

    by Steve Lohr ...
    "Lohr uses his Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting skills to dig into and explain the power, pervasiveness, and potential downside of big data." — Library JournalIn Data-ism, New York Times reporter Steve Lohr explains how big-data technology is ushering in a revolution in proportions that promise to be the basis of the next wave of efficiency and innovation across the economy. But more is at work ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Audiobook

    Data-ism

    The Revolution Transforming Decision Making, Consumer Behavior, and Almost Everything Else

    by Steve Lohr ...
    Narrated by Walter Dixon ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 33 min

    Steve Lohr, a technology reporter for the New York Times, chronicles the rise of Big Data, addressing cutting-edge business strategies and examining the dark side of a data-driven world.Coal, iron ore, and oil were the key productive assets that fueled the Industrial Revolution. Today, Data is the vital raw material of the information economy. The explosive abundance of this digital asset, more ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Queen of the Dark Things

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    by C. Robert Cargill ...
    Narrated by Vikas Adam ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 54 min

    Screenwriter and noted film critic C. Robert Cargill continues the story begun in his acclaimed debut Dreams and Shadows in this bold and brilliantly crafted tale involving fairies and humans, magic and monsters—a vivid phantasmagoria that combines the imaginative wonders of Neil Gaiman, the visual inventiveness of Guillermo Del Toro, and the shocking miasma of William S. Burroughs.Six months have ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

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    I, Iago

    A Novel

    by Nicole Galland ...
    Narrated by Liam Gerrard ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 42 min

    The critically acclaimed author of The Fool's Tale, Nicole Galland now approaches William Shakespeare's classic drama of jealousy, betrayal, and murder from the opposite side. I, Iago is an ingenious, brilliantly crafted novel that allows one of literature's greatest villains—the deceitful schemer Iago, from the Bard's immortal tragedy, Othello—to take center stage in order to reveal his "true" ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Also available as: eBook

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    My Heart Laid Bare

    by Joyce Carol Oates ...
    Narrated by Danny Campbell ...

    Unabridged

    24 hours 5 min

    New York Times Bestselling AuthorFinally returned to print, a haunting gothic tale that illuminates the fortunes and misfortunes of a 19th-century immigrant family of confidence artists—a story of morality, duplicity, and retribution that explores the depths of human manipulation and vulnerability“Oates . . . rarely falters throughout this epic. . . . An American tragedy.”—People“My Heart Laid ... Read more

    $66.99 CAD

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    The Art of Choosing

    by Sheena Iyengar ...
    Narrated by Orlagh Cassidy ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 32 min

    The nationally recognized, leading authority on choice exposes the surprising truths behind the decisions we make everyday.Every day we make choices. Coke or Pepsi? Save or spend? Stay or go?Whether mundane or life-altering, the choices we make define us and shape our lives. Sheena Iyengar asks the difficult questions about how and why we choose: Is the desire for choice innate or bound by culture ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

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    Blue Angel

    A Novel

    by Francine Prose ...
    Narrated by Zach Villa ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 47 min

    **The National Book Award Finalist from acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Francine Prose—now the major motion picture Submission“Screamingly funny … Blue Angel culminates in a sexual harassment hearing that rivals the Salem witch trials.” —USA Today**It's been years since Swenson, a professor in a New England creative writing program, has published a novel. It's been even longer since ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

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    Trinity

    A Novel

    by Louisa Hall ...
    Narrated by Cassandra Campbell, David Colacci, Saskia Maarleveld, John Lee, Brittany Pressley, Yetta Gottesman, Charlie Thurston, Amy Landon ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 9 min

    From the acclaimed author of Speak comes a kaleidoscopic novel about Robert Oppenheimer—father of the atomic bomb—as told by seven fictional characters.J. Robert Oppenheimer was a brilliant scientist, a champion of liberal causes, and a complex and often contradictory character. He loyally protected his Communist friends, only to later betray them under questioning. He repeatedly lied about love ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

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    Machines of Loving Grace

    The Quest for Common Ground Between Humans and Robots

    by John Markoff ...
    Narrated by George Newbern ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 53 min

    Read by George Newbern"George Newbern provides a convincing, conversational narration of this audiobook about robot intelligence. There's a lot to digest. Much of it deals with speculation as to who will be right: those who believe in AI (artificial intelligence machines that may eventually supplant human workers) or those who believe in IA (intelligence augmentation machines that will work with ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

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  • I Contain Multitudes

    The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life

    by Ed Yong ...
    New York Times BestsellerNew York Times Notable Book of 2016 • NPR Great Read of 2016 • Named a Best Book of 2016 by The Economist, Smithsonian, NPR's Science Friday, MPR, Minnesota Star Tribune, Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly, The Guardian, Times (London)From Pulitzer Prize winner Ed Yong, a groundbreaking,... ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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