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On the inside of the back cover page, extending from the facing page before it, is the endpaper. Its design matches the front endpaper and, in accordance with it, contains either plain paper or pattern, image etc. The back cover often contains biographical matter about the author or editor, and quotes from other sources praising the book.
The Pattern on the Stone: The Simple Ideas that Make Computers Work is a book by W. Daniel Hillis, published in 1998 by Basic Books (ISBN 0-465-02595-1). The book attempts to explain concepts from computer science in layman's terms by metaphor and analogy. It aims to demystify computer science by demonstrating that complex processes can be ...
The book, whose author was described by the New York Times as having "elevated it to a high level of narrative art" [2] is "about real people working on a real computer for a real company," [3] and it won the 1982 National Book Award for Nonfiction [4] and a Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction.
Book covers need to effectively communicate their content to the intended market, which can encourage reliance on stereotypical representations, such as using the color pink for books by or about women, or showing a multiracial group on the cover of a book about racial diversity. [1]
Recto page from a rare Blackletter Bible (1497). The canons of page construction are historical reconstructions, based on careful measurement of extant books and what is known of the mathematics and engineering methods of the time, of manuscript-framework methods that may have been used in Medieval- or Renaissance-era book design to divide a page into pleasing proportions.
The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence is a non-fiction book by inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil about artificial intelligence and the future course of humanity. First published in hardcover on January 1, 1999, by Viking , it has received attention from The New York Times , The New York Review of Books and The ...
A Computer Perspective: Background to the Computer Age, New Edition. Harvard. Essinger, James (2004). Jacquard's Web: How a Hand-Loom Led to the Birth of the Information Age. Oxford. ISBN 0-19-280577-0. Evans, Christopher (1981). The Making of the Micro: A History of the Computer. Van Nostrand Reinhold. ISBN 0-442-22240-8.
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