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Jacquard's Web
How a hand-loom led to the birth of the information age
E-bok, 2004
191 kr
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Jacquard''s Web is the story of some of the most ingenious inventors the world has ever known, a fascinating account of how a hand-loom invented in Napoleonic France led to the development of the modern information age. James Essinger, a master story-teller, shows through a series of remarkable and …
Jacquard's Web
How a hand-loom led to the birth of the information age
E-bok, 2004
191 kr
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Jacquard''s Web is the story of some of the most ingenious inventors the world has ever known, a fascinating account of how a hand-loom invented in Napoleonic France led to the development of the modern information age. James Essinger, a master story-teller, shows through a series of remarkable and …
Jacquard's Web
How a hand-loom led to the birth of the information age
Häftad, 2007
310 kr
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Jacquard's Web is the story of some of the most ingenious inventors the world has ever known, a fascinating account of how a hand-loom invented in Napoleonic France led to the development of the modern information age. James Essinger, a master story-teller, shows through a series of remarkable and …
Spellbound: The Surprising Origins and Astonishing Secrets of English Spelling
Häftad, 2007
305 kr
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Spellbound
The Surprising Origins and Astonishing Secrets of English Spelling
E-bok, 2007
82 kr
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Welcome to the illogical, idiosyncratic, outrageous linguistic phenomenon known as the English language. The story of how this ragtag collection of words evolved is a winding tale replete with intriguing accidents and bizarre twists of fate. In this eye-opening, fabulously entertaining book, James …
Frankie: The Woman Who Saved Millions from Thalidomide
Av James Essinger, Sandra Koutzenko
Häftad, 2019
239 kr
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Thalidomide: patented in Germany as a non-toxic cure-all for sleeplessness and morning sickness. A wonder drug with no side effects. We know differently now. Today, thalidomide is a byword for tragedy and drug reform – a sign of what happens when things aren’t done ‘the right way’. But when it was …
Ada's Algorithm
How Lord Byron's Daughter Launched the Digital Age Through the Poetry of Numbers
Häftad, 2016
146 kr
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Through the infamous divorce of her parents, Ada Lovelace became the most talked-about child in Georgian Britain. This riveting biography tells the extraordinary yet little known story of her life and times-when mathematics was as fashionable as knitting among women and Ada became the world's first …
Charles and Ada
The Computer's Most Passionate Partnership
Häftad, 2019
193 kr
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The partnership of Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace was one that would change science forever. They were an unlikely pair – one the professor son of a banker, the other the only child of an acclaimed poet and a social-reforming mathematician – but perhaps that is why their work was so …
The Mating Game
A New Romance Novel from the British Women's Chess Champion
Av James Essinger, Jovanka Houska
Häftad, 2016
212 kr
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Meet Ivana ('call me Vanny') Jones, a sexy, beautiful, warm-hearted professional chess-player. She has a problem: she's only attracted to guys who can beat her...so what's she to do when a chess amateur, the Russian billionaire Boris Bogolyubov, proposes marriage?Not only that, but as Vanny tries …
Ada's Algorithm: the Ada Lovelace Musical
a new two-act musical
Av James Essinger, Mo Pietroni-Spenst
Häftad, 2020
129 kr
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Based on detailed historical research, this lively, witty, dramatic and highly entertaining libretto, with accompanying lyrics, tells the story of Lord Byron's daughter Ada Byron - subsequently Ada, Countess of Lovelace. Ada was born into privilege and wealth, but her only dream was to become an …
