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ENIAC:The Triumphs and Tragedies of the World's First Computer(Audio+PDF)
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ENIAC:The Triumphs and Tragedies of the World's First Computer(Audio+PDF)ENIAC:The Triumphs and Tragedies of the World's First Computer(Audio+PDF)

The true father of the modern computer was not John von Neumann, as he is generally credited. That honor belongs to the two men, John Mauchly and Presper Eckert, who built the world's first programmable computer: the legendary ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer).
Mauchly and Eckert developed a revolutionary vision: to make electricity ''think.'' Funded by the US Army, the team they led constructed a behemoth weighing thirty tons with eighteen thousand vacuum tubes and miles of wiring that blazed a trail to the next generation of computers that quickly followed. .
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Philip K. Dick - Martian Time Slip (Audiobook+Text)
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Philip K. Dick - Martian Time Slip (Audiobook+Text)One of the stand-out novels in Philip K. Dick's career of wildly reality-bending SF, Martian Time- Slip (1964) convinces by placing its insanities in a quiet, even domestic context. Here colonised Mars has a flavour of grubby, struggling 1950s suburbia, where money (not to mention water) is in short supply, jobs are insecure, the humour's mostly black, and small tragedies like one minor character's suicide cause far-ranging ripples. The good old human comedy of lies, power-play, real-estate deals and extramarital naughtiness continues as ever....
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The Horror Plays of the English Restoration (Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama)
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The Horror Plays of the English Restoration (Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama)

A decade after the Restoration of Charles II, a disturbing group of tragedies, dubbed by modern critics the horror or the blood-and-torture villain tragedies, burst onto the London stage. Ten years later they were gone-absorbed into the partisan frenzy which enveloped the theatre at the height of the Exclusion Crisis. Despite burgeoning interest, until now there has been no full investigation into why these deeply unsettling plays were written when they were and why they so fascinated audiences for the period that they held the stage. The author's contention is that the genre of horror gains its popularity at times of social dislocation.
 
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Shakespeare: Ten Great Comedies, 14 Lectures on 7 Cds [Complete & Unabridged Audio Work]
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Shakespeare: Ten Great Comedies, 14 Lectures on 7 Cds [Complete & Unabridged Audio Work]

Professor Raphael Shargel channels his passion for teaching and expertise as a Shakespearean scholar into this illuminative study of the Immortal Bard’s ten great comedies. Shakespeare’s genius is as readily apparent in these comedies as in his timeless tragedies. 

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The Tragedies of William Shakespeare
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The Tragedies of William ShakespeareShakespeare's gift for writing tragedies was powerful indeed. His ability to create epic tragic characters-think Hamlet, Lear, and the star-crossed Romeo and Juliet-and scenarios is virtually unrivalled. Readers examine the Bard's major tragedies and their significance, and touch upon the state of theatre and dramatic performance in Shakespeare's England for good measure.
 
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