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  The Cyberiad

  Fables for the Cybernetic Age

  by Stanisław Lem

  Trurl and Klaupacius are constructor robots who try to out-invent each other. They travel to the far corners of the cosmos to take on freelance problem-solving jobs, with dire consequences for their employers. “The most completely successful of his books... here Lem comes closest to inventing a real universe” (Boston Globe). Illustrations by Daniel Mr—z. Translated by Michael Kandel.
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  Steps to an Ecology of Mind

  Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemology

  by Gregory Bateson

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  The Ghost in the Shell: Book 1

  Ghost In The Shell

  by Masamune Shirow

  Deep into the 21st century, the line between man and machine has been inexorably blurred as humans rely on the enhancement of mechanical implants and robots are upgraded with human tissue. In this rapidly converging landscape, cyborg super-agent Major Motoko Kusanagi is charged to track down the craftiest and most dangerous terrorists and cybercriminals, including "ghost hackers," capable of exploiting the... (more)
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  More Than Human: Embracing the Promise of Biological Enhancement

  by Ramez Naam

  What if you could be smarter, stronger, and have a better memory just by taking a pill? What if we could alter our genes to cure Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s? What if we could halt or even reverse the human aging process? What if we could communicate with each other simply by thinking about it ? These questions were once the stuff of science fiction. Today, advances in biotechnology have shown that they’re... (more)
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  Psycho-Cybernetics

  A New Way to Get More Living Out of Life

  by Maxwell Maltz

  Positive wisdom and helpful insights on how to be a successful person Happiness and success are habits. So are failure and misery. But negative habits can be changed--and Psycho-Cybernetics shows you how! This is your personal audio guide to the amazing power of Psycho-Cybernetics-- a program based on one of the world s classic self-help books, a multimillion-copy bestseller proven effective by readers... (more)
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  Poisoned Star

  by Josh Tremino

  Treya Third has as simple life. She pilots a Poisoned Star, one of the Foundation’s most powerful warships. She lives in space alone where her only companion is her ship’s mind. When the Foundation orders her to kill, she does. When they order her to murder whole colonies, she obeys. Anything else would mean torture and death for her kind. When the human race sends in a fleet to retake one of their star systems,... (more)
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  Falco Invictus: On The Forge Of War (The Falcanian Legacy Series)

  by Rodney C. Johnson

  From out of the fires of World War III they came, like a Phoenix. They are the unconquered falcon; forged from nano-technology, genetic engineering, and guided by a divine spark. They are Falcanians and shall rise up to become masters of the universe.
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  H.K. Khalil's Nonlinear Systems(Nonlinear Systems (3rd Edition) [Hardcover])(2001)

  by H.K. Khalil

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  Riemann Zeta: Zero Sum

  by Nicholas B. Beeson

  "You don't know what it is to be me-the drug that I am, the drug I will be, the pure ecstasy. Here, let me cook up some of me!"The world is not as it seems. But forget the world for now... The City stands alone as the only haven from government oppression, intentionally left so to serve mankind through its technological advances. The price this paradise pays for its creative freedom is deeper in cost... (more)
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  Out of Control

  The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World

  by Kevin Kelly

  In a book about the marriage of the born and the made--the biologicalization of everything from computers to government--the executive editor of Wired chronicles the dawn of a new era in which the machines and systems that dri ve our economy are so complex and autonomous as to be indistinguishable from living things.
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  Sprawl Trilogy: Book 1

  Neuromancer

  by William Gibson

  Case was the best interface cowboy who ever ran in earth's computer matrix. Then he doublecrossed the wrong people...Winner of the Hugo, Nebula and Philip K. Dick Awards.
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  Digital Signal Processing Using MATLAB (Bookware Companion)

  by John G. Proakis, Vinay K. Ingle

  This supplement to any standard DSP text is one of the first books to successfully integrate the use of MATLAB® in the study of DSP concepts. In this book, MATLAB® is used as a computing tool to explore traditional DSP topics, and solve problems to gain insight. This greatly expands the range and complexity of problems that students can effectively study in the course. Since DSP applications are primarily... (more)
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  From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism

  by Fred Turner

  In the early 1960s, computers haunted the American popular imagination. Bleak tools of the cold war, they embodied the rigid organization and mechanical conformity that made the military-industrial complex possible. But by the 1990s—and the dawn of the Internet—computers started to represent a very different kind of world: a collaborative and digital utopia modeled on the communal ideals of the hippies who so... (more)
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  Probability and Statistics for Engineers and Scientists

  by Sharon L. Myers, Raymond H. Myers, Ronald E. Walpole

  With its unique balance of theory and methodology, this classic text provides a rigorous introduction to basic probability theory and statistical inference, motivated by interesting, relevant applications. Offers extensively updated coverage, new problem sets, and chapter-ending material to enhance the book’s relevance to today’s engineers and scientists. Includes new problem sets demonstrating updated... (more)
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  Dark Hero of the Information Age

  In Search of Norbert Wiener, the Father of Cybernetics

  by Flo Conway

  Child prodigy and brilliant MIT mathematician, Norbert Wiener founded the revolutionary science of cybernetics and ignited the information-age explosion of computers, automation, and global telecommunications. His best-selling book, Cybernetics , catapulted him into the public spotlight, as did his chilling visions of the future and his ardent social activism. Based on a wealth of primary sources and exclusive... (more)
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  Chance and Necessity

  An Essay on the Natural Philosophy of Modern Biology

  by Jacques Monod

  Text: English, French (translation)
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  Invention

  The Care and Feeding of Ideas

  by Norbert Wiener

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  John von Neumann and the Origins of Modern Computing (History of Computing)

  by William Aspray

  John von Neumann (1903-1957) was unquestionably one of the most brilliant scientists of the twentieth century. He made major contributions to quantum mechanics and mathematical physics and in 1943 began a new and all-too-short career in computer science. William Aspray provides the first broad and detailed account of von Neumann's many different contributions to computing. These, Aspray reveals, extended far... (more)
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  John von Neumann: Selected Letters (History of Mathematics)

  by John Von Neumann

  John von Neumann was perhaps the most influential mathematician of the twentieth century. Not only did he contribute to almost all branches of mathematics, he created new fields and was a pioneering influence in the development of computer science. During and after World War II, he was a much sought-after technical advisor. He served as a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee at the Ballistic Research... (more)
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  Angels Fear

  Towards an Epistemology of the Sacred

  by Gregory Bateson, Mary Catherine Bateson

  Published posthumously.