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• Author(s): Seymour A. Papert • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Teaching - Subjects - Science & TechnologyIn this revolutionary book, a renowned computer scientist explains the importance of teaching children...

• Author(s): David Gelernter • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Machine TheoryWhen something works well, you can feel it; there is a sense of rightness to it. We call that rightness beauty, and it ought to be the s...

• Author(s): Lois H. Gresh • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Television - History & CriticismThe depiction of computers on the various "Star Trek" series has ranged from lame to breathtakingly imaginative. Thi...

• Author(s): W. Daniel Hillis • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Computer ScienceMost people are baffled by how computers work and assume that they will never understand them. What they don't realize -- and what Da...

• Author(s): Leslie Valiant • Publisher: MixBZ • Publisher Imprint: MixBZ • Subject: Computer Science and Information Technology • BISAC: Computer ScienceFrom a leading computer scientist, a unifying theory that will revolutionize our understandi...

• Author(s): James Bailey • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Philosophy & Social AspectsThrough the first fifty years of the computer revolution, scientists have been trying to program electronic circuits to pr...

• Author(s): Seymour Papert • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: ElementaryIn his classsic book, Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and powerful Ideas , Seymour Papert set out a vision of how computers could change sch...