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GoldenEye (Blu-ray disc)
Izabella Scorupco, Judi Dench, Gottfried John, Minnie Driver, Pavel Douglas, …
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Pierce Brosnan makes his 007 debut, replacing Timothy Dalton as
Britain's most celebrated secret agent. On his first post-Cold War
mission, Bond is sent to blow up a Soviet chemical weapons factory
with agent 006 (Sean Bean). Nine years later, Bond becomes involved
in the break-up of the Soviet Union, and soon finds himself
involved with a blitzkrieg of stolen helicopters, beautiful female
assassins, Russian Mafiosi and the race for a vital piece of
weaponry - the credit-card sized 'GoldenEye'.
Computer: A History of the Information Machine traces the history
of the computer and its unlimited, information-processing
potential. Comprehensive and accessibly written, this fully updated
fourth edition adds new chapters on the globalization of
information technology, the rise of social media, fake news, and
the gig economy, and the regulatory frameworks being put in place
to tame the ubiquitous computer. Computer is an insightful look at
the pace of technological advancement and the seamless way
computers are integrated into the modern world. The authors examine
the history of the computer including the first steps taken by
Charles Babbage in the nineteenth century, and how wartime needs
and the development of electronics led to the giant ENIAC, the
first electronic computer. For a generation IBM dominated the
computer industry. In the 1980s, the desktop PC liberated people
from room-sized, mainframe computers. Next, laptops and smartphones
made computers available to half of the world's population, leading
to the rise of Google and Facebook, and powerful apps that changed
the way we work, consume, learn, and socialize. The volume is an
essential resource for scholars and those studying computer
history, technology history, and information and society, as well
as a range of courses in the fields of computer science,
communications, sociology, and management.
Computer: A History of the Information Machine traces the history
of the computer and its unlimited, information-processing
potential. Comprehensive and accessibly written, this fully updated
fourth edition adds new chapters on the globalization of
information technology, the rise of social media, fake news, and
the gig economy, and the regulatory frameworks being put in place
to tame the ubiquitous computer. Computer is an insightful look at
the pace of technological advancement and the seamless way
computers are integrated into the modern world. The authors examine
the history of the computer including the first steps taken by
Charles Babbage in the nineteenth century, and how wartime needs
and the development of electronics led to the giant ENIAC, the
first electronic computer. For a generation IBM dominated the
computer industry. In the 1980s, the desktop PC liberated people
from room-sized, mainframe computers. Next, laptops and smartphones
made computers available to half of the world's population, leading
to the rise of Google and Facebook, and powerful apps that changed
the way we work, consume, learn, and socialize. The volume is an
essential resource for scholars and those studying computer
history, technology history, and information and society, as well
as a range of courses in the fields of computer science,
communications, sociology, and management.
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Casino Royale (DVD)
Daniel Craig, Eva Green, Mads Mikkelsen, Judi Dench, Jeffrey Wright, …
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21st film in the 007 Franchise introduces a new 007 and goes back
to its roots. Daniel Craig stars as the latest incarnation of James
Bond, special agent and international man of mystery and intrigue.
The first Bond film in many years to be based on one of the
original Ian Fleming books, Casino Royale is a quieter, subtler,
more brooding breed of action film, which is not to say there's any
less blowings up, dirty tricks, sexy women or chase sequences. Bond
is in Montenegro at a highly exclusive casino where Le Chiffre
(Mads Mikkelsen) a moneyman for an international terrorist group,
is raising funds for their misdeeds through high-stakes gambling.
007 must infiltrate the group and ultimately defeat the rogue
player, both on and off the tables.
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The Professionals: Season 2 (DVD)
Lewis Collins, Martin Shaw, Gordon Jackson, Bryan Marshall, Cheryl Kennedy, …
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The complete second seaason of the classic 1970s crime series.
Bodie (Lewis Collins) and Doyle (Martin Shaw) are two elite
officers in the secretive CI5 service, a unit staffed by expert
policemen, soldiers and special forces to combat anarchy, terrorism
and high-profile crime. In this series, Doyle is assigned to test a
new laser-beam rifle, Bodie's girlfriend is critically injured in a
terrorist bombing, and the team go up against a rogue agent.
Episodes are: 'Hunter/Hunted', 'The Rack', 'First Night', 'Man
Without a Past', 'In the Public Interest', 'Rogue', 'Not a Very
Civil Civil Servant', 'A Stirring of Dust', 'Blind Run' and 'Fall
Girl'.
This book covers the way computing was handled before the arrival
of electronic computers. It discusses manual information processing
and early technologies. The book describes the development of
software technology, the professionalization of programming, and
the emergence of a software industry.
A set of 11 volumes which contains all the known works of Charles
Babbage, who has been described as the "pioneer of the computer".
His mathematical, scientific and engineering work is highly
significant for its original approach to problem-solving and is
reset for today's reader.
A set of 11 volumes which contains all the known works of Charles
Babbage, who has been described as the "pioneer of the computer".
His mathematical, scientific and engineering work is highly
significant for its original approach to problem-solving and is
reset for today's reader.
A set of 11 volumes which contains all the known works of Charles
Babbage, who has been described as the "pioneer of the computer".
His mathematical, scientific and engineering work is highly
significant for its original approach to problem-solving and is
reset for today's reader.
A set of 11 volumes which contains all the known works of Charles
Babbage, who has been described as the "pioneer of the computer".
His mathematical, scientific and engineering work is highly
significant for its original approach to problem-solving and is
reset for today's reader.
A set of 11 volumes which contains all the known works of Charles
Babbage, who has been described as the "pioneer of the computer".
His mathematical, scientific and engineering work is highly
significant for its original approach to problem-solving and is
reset for today's reader.
A set of 11 volumes which contains all the known works of Charles
Babbage, who has been described as the "pioneer of the computer".
His mathematical, scientific and engineering work is highly
significant for its original approach to problem-solving and is
reset for today's reader.
A set of 11 volumes which contains all the known works of Charles
Babbage, who has been described as the "pioneer of the computer".
His mathematical, scientific and engineering work is highly
significant for its original approach to problem-solving and is
reset for today's reader.
A set of 11 volumes which contains all the known works of Charles
Babbage, who has been described as the "pioneer of the computer".
His mathematical, scientific and engineering work is highly
significant for its original approach to problem-solving and is
reset for today's reader.
A set of 11 volumes which contains all the known works of Charles
Babbage, who has been described as the "pioneer of the computer".
His mathematical, scientific and engineering work is highly
significant for its original approach to problem-solving and is
reset for today's reader.
A set of 11 volumes which contains all the known works of Charles
Babbage, who has been described as the "pioneer of the computer".
His mathematical, scientific and engineering work is highly
significant for its original approach to problem-solving and is
reset for today's reader.
A set of 11 volumes which contains all the known works of Charles
Babbage, who has been described as the "pioneer of the computer".
His mathematical, scientific and engineering work is highly
significant for its original approach to problem-solving and is
reset for today's reader.
The Pickering Masters Works of Charles Babbage is the first and
only collected edition of all the known works of this major
thinker. Texts have been edited by an expert to reflect the
development of the many facets of Babbage's work. For easy
reference, volumes are arranged by genre, so that Babbage's work on
mathematics, table-making and calculating engines, science,
technology, inventions and his writing on economics and statistics,
theology and politics, is grouped together, in chronological order
within each volume where appropriate.
Untold histories are often the most interesting... Can a King be a
Queen? Can an Emperor love a King and a Queen? Are you ready to
accept that Rome's greatest ruler was Bisexual? In an ancient Greek
province, there lived a King and his sister-wife. You are unlikely
to have heard of them, yet they changed history in ways that have
been blushed about, scorned, edited, redacted and buried for nearly
2,000 years. For, you see, those minor royals encountered the young
Gaius Julius Caesar, long before he became the ruler of Rome. They
both fell under his spell and set out to seduce him. He didn't
resist. Their remarkable interplay set in motion the emergence of
the Caesar that we find described in our history books today.
Watched over by the Goddess Minerva, the young Caesar escapes Rome
just in time to avoid annihilation. Leaving his wife behind he
journeys across the Mediterranean, Aegean and Black seas
encountering pirates and scoundrels.
When we think of the Internet, we generally think of Amazon,
Google, Hotmail, Napster, MySpace, and other sites for buying
products, searching for information, downloading entertainment,
chatting with friends, or posting photographs. In the academic
literature about the Internet, however, these uses are rarely
covered. The Internet and American Business fills this gap, picking
up where most scholarly histories of the Internet leave off--with
the commercialization of the Internet established and its effect on
traditional business a fact of life. These essays, describing
challenges successfully met by some companies and failures to adapt
by others, are a first attempt to understand a dynamic and exciting
period of American business history. Tracing the impact of the
commercialized Internet since 1995 on American business and
society, the book describes new business models, new companies and
adjustments by established companies, the rise of e-commerce, and
community building; it considers dot-com busts and difficulties
encountered by traditional industries; and it discusses such newly
created problems as copyright violations associated with music
file-sharing and the proliferation of Internet pornography.
ContributorsAtsushi Akera, William Aspray, Randal A. Beam, Martin
Campbell-Kelly, Paul E. Ceruzzi, James W. Cortada, Wolfgang Coy,
Blaise Cronin, Nathan Ensmenger, Daniel D. Garcia-Swartz, Brent
Goldfarb, Shane Greenstein, Thomas Haigh, Ward Hanson, David
Kirsch, Christine Ogan, Jeffrey R. Yost William Aspray is Rudy
Professor of Informatics at Indiana University in Bloomington. He
is the editor (with J. McGrath Cohoon) of Women and Information
Technology: Research on Underrepresentation (MIT Press, 2006 Paul
E. Ceruzzi is Curator of the National Air and Space Museum,
Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC. He is the author of A
History of Modern Computing (second edition, MIT Press, 2003) and
Internet Alley: High Technology in Tysons Corner, 1945-2005 (MIT
Press, 2008)
This compact history traces the computer industry from its origins
in 1950s mainframes, through the establishment of standards
beginning in 1965 and the introduction of personal computing in the
1980s. It concludes with the Internet's explosive growth since
1995. Across these four periods, Martin Campbell-Kelly and Daniel
Garcia-Swartz describe the steady trend toward miniaturization and
explain its consequences for the bundles of interacting components
that make up a computer system. With miniaturization, the price of
computation fell and entry into the industry became less costly.
Companies supplying different components learned to cooperate even
as they competed with other businesses for market share.
Simultaneously with miniaturization-and equally consequential-the
core of the computer industry shifted from hardware to software and
services. Companies that failed to adapt to this trend were left
behind. Governments did not turn a blind eye to the activities of
entrepreneurs. The U.S. government was the major customer for
computers in the early years. Several European governments
subsidized private corporations, and Japan fostered R&D in
private firms while protecting its domestic market from foreign
competition. From Mainframes to Smartphones is international in
scope and broad in its purview of this revolutionary industry.
In words that are as clean and precise as his haunting, starkly
beautiful photographs, the author vividly recreates the life and
times of the Western Homestead Era, that period beginning around
1885 when the prairie lands lying westward from the longitude of
the western Dakotas became available to pioneering farmers. Some 70
black-and-white duotone photographs, with detailed captions, record
the bleak landscapes and the abandoned farms, outbuildings, farm
implements, and hand tools that are mute testimonies to the failed
hopes of several million families who settled on these arid and
semi-arid lands.
The author explains how their failure resulted from a deadly
combination of natural and economic causes. Neither the federal
government nor the homesteaders themselves were aware that some of
the western homestead land was so dry that artificial irrigation
often was required. But irrigation was unavailable to most of these
farms, and many thousands of them failed within a few years. On
most of the homestead lands, however, dry farming--by which crops
are watered by falling rain and snow--permitted the newcomers to
plant and reap a variety of crops. For several decades, these
regions produced flourishing farms, towns, railroad lines, and dirt
and gravel roads.
Meanwhile, and again unanticipated by both government and the
prospering farmers, the climate of these productive regions was
becoming increasingly dry. This was the natural phenomenon that
culminated in the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, which was coincidentally
accompanied by the Great Depression. Crops went begging for lack of
water, banks closed, railroads were abandoned, and the formerly
prosperous homesteaders went broke by the several millions.
Historians of the Western United States have largely ignored the
homesteaders. There is little romance in farming, especially when
compared with that attached to cowboys, Indians, explorers, and fur
traders. Still, the homesteaders were heroes in their own right.
Theirs was the last great endeavor in the opening of the West, and
this book, with its moving text, historical introduction, and
stunning photographs, tells their story.
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