![]() ![]() It feel like it's randomly put together at times, but it really not. It's very diverse and has a lot to offer. She doesn't write these in a scholarly manner, but in a away you end up liking these woman even more and for you to research more about them yourself. They are all drawn, colored, and written by Bagieu herself. However, most of these woman I'm learning about for the first time, this is what makes this book amazing.Įach bio is about 5 pages more or less in comic strip format, although I wouldn't call this a comic strip. The others I thought I didn't know, but reading these bios I actually do semi-know about them or seen them elsewhere. Before hand, just looking at the names I only really knew of Josephine Baker and Margret Hamilton, maybe a few others, but that's all. This book, first of all, features woman that aren't really well know. Do we really need ten similar books with the same woman? ![]() They have nice art, but they usually have a one page short bio of a woman you most likely heard about making their life seem like nothing bad ever happened. I've seen so many of these types of books published now and they usually are the same thing. ![]()
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![]() ![]() etc., from batch processing to timesharing, Project MAC, Multics, Unix, Ken Thompson and Dennis Richie at Bell Labs, PARC and the Alto, the ARPANET, the birth of personal computing, up to the end of the 1990s and the Internet boom. Despite the book’s title suggesting it is a biography of ‘Lick’, as his friends and co-workers called him, it goes much further and tells the history of electronic computing from the early beginnings in the 1950s starting with Norbert Wiener, John von Neumann, Claude Shannon, etc. And then, this book, published in 2001 and almost 10 years in the making, is a monumental piece of work that takes quite some time to read and enjoy all by itself.Ī voluminous book with over 500 pages in rather small print is not something for a weekend. The 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing kept me from making quick progress as I literally spent 6 weeks on that in summer. ![]() Mitchell Waldrop, a computing history book focusing on the life of J. Back in June I started reading ‘The Dream Machine’ by M. It’s been six months since my last book review on computing history and there are a number of reasons for it. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It is through the popularization of East of Eden that the Salinas Valley was truly transformed into “the valley of the world” a place where everyone is able to find a piece of themselves in the golden, rolling hills. Tinged with biblical echoes of the fall of Adam and Eve and the rivalry of Cain and Abel, this sprawling saga has captivated audiences everywhere for generations. Part allegory, part autobiography, and part epic, East of Eden was an ambitious project from the start – a gift to Steinbeck’s sons that was meant to teach them about identity, grief, and what it means to be human. ![]() From this plot emerged some of Steinbeck’s most fascinating characters – many of whom are modeled after people in his own life. Editions for East of Eden: 0142000655 (Paperback published in 2002), (Kindle Edition published in 2002), 0142004235 (Paperback published in 2002), 014018. In his journal, Journal of a Novel (often read as a companion to the novel) he notes that “this is the book I have always wanted and have worked and prayed to be able to write Set primarily in the Salinas Valley in the early twentieth century, the novel traces three generations of two families – the Trasks and the Hamiltons – as they grapple with the ever-present forces of good and evil. Steinbeck considered East of Eden to be his masterpiece. ![]() |