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"Book" represents the abstract notion of a particular book, rather than a particular edition.  It is on this level that articles or discussion about a book should generally occur (e.g., the article about Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" is on the... more

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The Catcher in the Rye Rye catcher Topic The Catcher in the Rye Fiction
The Catcher in the Rye is a novel by J. D. Salinger. First published in the United States in 1951, the novel has been a frequently challenged book in its home country for its liberal use of profanity and portrayal of sexuality and teenage angst. Originally published for adults, the novel has become a common part of high school and college curricula throughout the English-speaking world; it has also been translated into almost all of the world's major languages.Around 250,000 copies are sold...
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Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World Out of Control - Cover Image Topic    
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World (ISBN 978-0201483406) is a 1994 book by Kevin Kelly. Major themes in Out of Control are cybernetics, emergence, self-organization, complex systems and chaos theory and it can be seen as a work of Techno-utopianism. The central theme of the book is that several fields of contemporary science and philosophy point in the same direction: intelligence is not organized in a centralized structure but much more like a...
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Asia Grace   Book      
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Cool Tools   Book      
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Bicycle Haiku   Book      
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New Rules for the New Economy   Book      
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Simulacra and Simulation Simulacra and Simulation Topic   Philosophy
Simulacra and Simulation (Simulacres et Simulation in French) is a philosophical treatise by Jean Baudrillard that discusses the interaction between reality, symbols and society. Simulacra and Simulation is most known for its discussion of images, signs, and how they relate to the present day. Baudrillard claims that modern society has replaced all reality and meaning with symbol and sign, and that the human experience is of a simulation of reality rather than reality itself. The simulacra...
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The Gulf War Did Not Take Place   Topic    
The Gulf War Did Not Take Place, a book by Jean Baudrillard, is a translation of three essays published in Libération between January and March 1991. Contrary to the provocative title, the author does believe that the events and violence of the Gulf War actually took place. The title is a reference to the play The Trojan war will not take place by Jean Giraudoux (in which characters attempt to prevent what the audience knows is inevitable). Baudrillard argues that the style of warfare used in...
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The Mirror of Production   Topic    
The Mirror of Production is a 1973 book by Jean Baudrillard. It is a systematic critique of Marxism. Baudrillard's thesis is that Marx’s theory of historical materialism is too rooted in assumptions of political economy to provide a framework for radical action. The fault of Marxism is not its revolutionary goals but the failure of historical materialism to attain its ends. Baudrillard states that Marx’s critique of political economy was based on forms of production and labour. Marx did not...
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The Pattern on the Stone: The Simple Ideas That Make Computers Work   Topic The Pattern on the Stone: The Simple Ideas That Make Computers Work  
The Pattern on the Stone: The Simple Ideas that Make Computers Work is a book by W. Daniel Hillis, published in 1998 by Basic Books (ISBN 0-465-02595-1). The book attempts to explain concepts from computer science in layman's terms by metaphor and analogy. The book moves from Boolean algebra through topics such as information theory, parallel computing, cryptography, algorithm, heuristic, universal computing, Turing machine, and promising technologies such as quantum computing and emergent...
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The Clock of the Long Now: Time and Responsibility: The Ideas Behind the World's Slowest Computer The Clock of the Long Now (Cover).jpg Book Clock of the Long Now: Time and Responsibility: the ideas behind the world's slowest computer    
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How Buildings Learn   Topic    
How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They’re Built is an illustrated book on the evolution of buildings and how buildings adapt to changing requirements over long periods. It was written by Stewart Brand and published by Viking Press in 1994. Among other things, the book details the notion of Shearing layers. Criticism of the architect Richard Rogers was removed from the UK edition but remains in the US edition. The book inspired a 6-part TV series by the BBC, produced by James Runcie, ...
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The Big U Topic The Big U Science fiction
The Big U (1984) is Neal Stephenson's first published novel, a satire of campus life. The story follows the misadventures of a socially inept physics student, a pair of gun-wielding lesbians, a hardcore LARP/war gaming club, and other misfits through a series of escalating events that culminates with a full scale civil war raging on the campus of American Megaversity. Told in first person from the perspective of Bud, a lecturer in Remote Sensing new to the university, the book attacks and...
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Snow Crash Topic Snow Crash Science fiction
Snow Crash is Neal Stephenson's third novel, published in 1992. It follows in the footsteps of cyberpunk novels by such authors as William Gibson and Rudy Rucker but differs from its predecessors in that it includes much satire and black humor. Like many of Stephenson's other novels it contains references to history, linguistics, anthropology, archaeology, religion, computer science, politics, cryptography, and philosophy. Stephenson explained the title of the novel in his 1999 essay In the...
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The Diamond Age Topic The Diamond Age Science fiction
The Diamond Age or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer is a postcyberpunk novel by Neal Stephenson. It is a bildungsroman focused on a young girl named Nell, and set in a world in which nanotechnology affects all aspects of life. Some main themes include: education, social class, ethnicity, and the nature of artificial intelligence. The Diamond Age was first published in 1995 by Bantam Books, as a Bantam Spectra hardcover edition. In 1996, it won the Hugo Award for Best Novel and was shortlisted...
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The Cobweb   Topic    
The Cobweb is a 1996 novel written by Neal Stephenson with Frederick George. In early editions it is credited to the pseudonym Stephen Bury. When Clyde Banks, an Iowa Deputy with a newborn baby and a wife in the first Gulf War, starts looking into odd events in his town, he discovers a plot involving a new Triangle Trade of terrorists, chemical warfare, and training. Mixing the events staged in Washington, D.C. and those happening in the Gulf, a strange thread of deceit appears to be winding...
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Cryptonomicon Topic Cryptonomicon Novel
Cryptonomicon is a 1999 novel by Neal Stephenson. It concurrently follows the exploits of World War II-era cryptographer affiliated with Bletchley Park in their attempts to crack Axis codes and fight the Nazi submarine fleet, alongside the story of their descendants, who are attempting to use modern cryptography to build a data haven in the fictitious state of Kinakuta, a small nation with geographical and political parallels to Brunei. Cryptonomicon was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best...
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The Confusion   Topic The Confusion  
The Confusion is a novel by Neal Stephenson. It is the second volume in The Baroque Cycle. The Confusion consists of two books, Bonanza and The Juncto which are "con-fused" together, so that one jumps back and forth between them as one reads through The Confusion. This is the only volume of the Baroque Cycle that is so ''confused''; the novels contained in the other two volumes are read in order (comment taken from the book). The title has several other meanings: In 2005, The Confusion won...
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The System of the World   Topic   Science fiction
The System of the World, a novel by Neal Stephenson, forms the third volume in The Baroque Cycle. The title alludes to the third volume of Isaac Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, which bears the same name. In 2005, it won the Prometheus Award and, together with The Confusion, the Locus Award.
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In the Beginning...was the Command Line Topic    
In the Beginning...was the Command Line is a lengthy essay by Neal Stephenson which was originally published online in 1999 and later made available in book form (November 1999, ISBN 0380815931). The essay is a commentary on why the proprietary operating system business is unlikely to remain profitable in the future because of competition from free software. It also analyzes the corporate/collective culture of the Microsoft, Macintosh, and free software communities. Stephenson explores the GUI...
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Dubliners The title page of the first edition in 1914 of Dubliners Topic Dubliners Short story
Dubliners is a collection of 15 short stories by James Joyce, first published in 1914. The fifteen stories were meant to be a naturalistic depiction of the Irish middle class life living in and around Dublin in the early years of the 20th century. The stories were written at the time when Irish nationalism was at its peak, and a search for a national identity and purpose was raging; at a crossroads of history and culture, Ireland was jolted by various converging ideas and influences. They...
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Topic A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Künstlerroman
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a semi-autobiographical novel by James Joyce, first serialized in The Egoist from 1914 to 1915 and published in book form in 1916. It depicts the formative years in the life of Stephen Dedalus, a fictional alter ego of Joyce and a pointed allusion to the consummate craftsman of Greek mythology, Daedalus. A Portrait is a key example of the Künstlerroman (an artist's bildungsroman) in English literature. Joyce's novel traces the intellectual and religio...
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Finnegans Wake Topic Finnegans Wake Novel
Finnegans Wake is a fictional work by James Joyce, published in 1939. Joyce began working on the book shortly after the 1922 publication of Ulysses, and by 1924 installments of the work began to appear in serialized form. The first published parts were announced as A New Unnamed Work; later instalments were published as fragments from Work in Progress. The actual title of the work remained a secret between Joyce and his wife Nora Barnacle until shortly before the book was published in its...
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Ulysses Joyce's Ulysses Topic Ulysses Fiction
Ulysses is a novel by James Joyce, first serialized in parts in the American journal The Little Review from March 1918 to December 1920, then published in its entirety by Sylvia Beach on February 2, 1922, in Paris. It is considered one of the most important works of Modernist literature. Ulysses chronicles the passage through Dublin by its main character, Leopold Bloom, during an ordinary day, June 16, 1904. The title alludes to the hero of Homer's Odyssey (Latinised into Ulysses), and there...
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The Cartoon History of the Universe Topic   Non-fiction
The Cartoon History of the Universe is an ongoing book series about the history of the world. It is written and illustrated by American cartoonist, professor, and mathematician Larry Gonick. The most recent volume, published in 2007, now names the series The Cartoon History of the Modern World. Each book in the series explains a period of world history in a loosely chronological order. Though originally published in limited runs as comic book, the series is now published in trade paperback...
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The Cartoon History of the United States   Book      
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Mammal Tracks & Sign   Book      
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