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How to Wreck a Nice Beach - Dave Tompkins
The history of the vocoder: how popular music hijacked the Pentagon's speech scrambling weaponThe vocoder, invented by Bell Labs in 1928, once guarded phones from eavesdroppers dur... -
How the Soldier Repairs the Gra - Sasa Stanisic; Anthea Bell
EDITORIAL REVIEW: The hardcover publication of *How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone* launched Stanisic as an exciting and important new voice in literary fiction and earned exub... -
Dinner With Persephone - Patricia Storace
"I lived in Athens, at the intersection of a prostitute and a saint." So begins this astonishing memoir of fantastical peregrinations throughout Greece. Dinner with Persephone is a... -
Designing Embedded Hardware - John Catsoulis
Synopsis:Embedded computer systems literally surround us: they're in our cell phones, PDAs, cars, TVs, refrigerators, heating systems, and more. In fact, embedded systems ar...