Fang-Yu Lin
FANG-YU LIN is a New York-based user-experience designer and information architect. As a new media artist, his artworks have been exhibited internationally. F.I.T. meets M.I.T. in Switch Craft, a book of 20 ultra-modern projects that are equal ... [... more]
Random House |
Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. ...
 The One Book that Vegas DOES Want You to Read: Bringing Down the House, if you don't already know, is a non-fiction (or so they say) card-counting story about some MIT kids who make millions with a team-based blackjack scheme. I have been fascinated by [... more]
CDN$38.00
Amazon CA |
Frank J. Sulloway
Frank J. Sulloway has a Ph.D. from Harvard. He is a M.I.T. Research Scholar and also a recipient of a MacArthur 'Genius' grant. He is the author of Why do people raised in the same families often differ more dramatically in personality than those ... [... more]
Random House |
Karl Iagnemma
Karl Iagnemma's work has won the Paris Review Plimpton Prize and been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories. He is a research scientist in the mechanical engineering department at M.I.T. His collection, Winner of the Paris Review ... [... more]
Random House |
M.G. Vassanji
M.G. Vassanji was born in Kenya, and raised in Tanzania. He took a doctorate in physics at M.I.T. and came to Canada in 1978. While working as a research associate and lecturer at the University of Toronto in the 1980s he began to dedicate ... [... more]
Random House |
Babylon 5: The Complete First Five Seasons
The BEST S/F Series Ever Aired!: J. Michael Straczynski (jms) created the space station Babylon 5 and spent years getting it produced and on the air. It premiered about the same time ST: Deep Space Nine did, and for a while, fans compared the two. It was [... more]
CDN$313.58
Amazon CA |
The Laws of Simplicity
Too much I.D. of M.I.T.: Worse than I expected, did not really get much from it after reading, except being reminded time and time again the author was from M.I.T. Not worth the money buying it. Getting to "the other side of complexity": [... more]
CDN$21.88
Amazon CA |
9-11
From Amazon.co.uk: It is always instructive to read American's premier dissident thinker if only simply to get an alternative take on what constitutes our present day "common sense"--an urgent project he undertakes in 9-11. Chomsky, whose [... more]
CDN$13.50
Amazon CA |
The Stars: A New Way to See Them
A "New" Old Book: Here is a book review of an old book, written by H. A. Rey, the author of the "Curious George" books (no relation to me!). _The Stars: A New Way to See Them_ was first written in 1952. Houghton-Mifflin's 3rd edition, [... more]
CDN$29.95
Amazon CA |
The Stars: A New Way to See Them
A "New" Old Book: Here is a book review of an old book, written by H. A. Rey, the author of the "Curious George" books (no relation to me!). _The Stars: A New Way to See Them_ was first written in 1952. Houghton-Mifflin's 3rd edition, [... more]
CDN$13.95
Amazon CA |
Devices and Desires
Okay. . .: The first volume of The Engineer Trilogy was the first K. J. Parker novel I ever read. I'm aware that the author is quite popular in the UK, and Orbit are undoubtedly hoping that the same phenomenon will occur on this side of the Atlantic. The [... more]
CDN$14.99
Amazon CA |
Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. ...
The One Book that Vegas DOES Want You to Read: Bringing Down the House, if you don't already know, is a non-fiction (or so they say) card-counting story about some MIT kids who make millions with a team-based blackjack scheme. I have been fascinated by [... more]
CDN$16.50
Amazon CA |
