An A-Z of computing terms and concepts, The New Penguin Dictionary of Computing is the definitive book of its kind. Covering everything from A20 gate to zero-wait-state memory, and from floppy disk to Word for Windows, it will be an essential tool not only to programmers and engineers, but to anyone who owns or has access to a computer and wishes to improve her skills.

The New Penguin Dictionary of Computing: An A-Z of Computing Jargon and Concepts

Pountain, Dick

Computers & Technology

Penguin??Books

Cool Rules introduces the reader to a new cultural category. While the authors do not claim to have discovered Cool, they believe they are the first to attempt a serious, systematic analysis of Cool's history, psychology, and importance. The contemporary Cool attitude is barely 50 years old, but its roots are older than that. Cool Rules traces Cool's ancient origins in European, Asian, and African cultures, its prominence in the African-American jazz scene of the 1940s, and its pivotal position within the radical subcultures of the 1950s and '60s. Pountain and Robins examine various art movements, music, cinema, and literature, moving from the dandies and flâneurs of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries through to the expropriation of a whole cultural and psychological tradition by the media in the 1980s and '90s. What began as a rebellious posture adopted by minorities mutated to become mainstream itself. Cool is now primarily about consumption, as cynical advertisers have seized on it to create a constantly updated bricolage of styles and entertainments designed to affect the way people think about themselves and their society.

Cool Rules: Anatomy of an Attitude (FOCI)

Humor & Entertainment

Robins, David

Movies

Reaktion Books

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