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Gradually the tenants – some of whom have barely spoken to each other before now – become real neighbours.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith each character secretly written by a different, major literary voice - from Margaret Atwood to John Grisham and Celeste Ng, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eFourteen Days\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a heart-warming ode to the power of storytelling and human connection.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e‘Immensely enjoyable…\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eFourteen Days\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis lively, freewheeling… An impressive achievement’\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eObserver\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e‘\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eFourteen Days\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eserves as a valuable reminder that stories can teach, console, provide a place of acceptance and perhaps even change their readers (or listeners)’\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eIncludes writing from\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e: Margaret Atwood, Sylvia Day, Emma Donoghue, Dave Eggers, Diana Gabaldon, Tess Gerritsen, John Grisham, Erica Jong, Celeste Ng, Tommy Orange, Doug Preston, R.L. 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Silicon Valley?replete with sprawling office parks, sky-high rents, and countless self-made millionaires?is home to many of its key players. But the origins of Silicon Valley and the tech sector are much humbler. At a time when tech companies’ influence continues to grow, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Big Score\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e chronicles how they began.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne of the first reporters on the tech industry beat at the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eSan Jose Mercury-News\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Michael S. Malone recounts the feverish efforts of young technologists and entrepreneurs to build something that would change the world?and score them a big payday. Starting with the birth of Hewlett-Packard in the 1930s, Malone illustrates how decades of technological innovation laid the foundation for the meteoric rise of the Valley in the 1970s. 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Can we train ourselves to think in a way that will enable world-changing understandings and insights to emerge?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRichard Hamming said we can. He first inspired a generation of engineers, scientists, and researchers in 1986 with “You and Your Research,” an electrifying sermon on why some scientists do great work, why most don’t, why he did, and why you can—and should—too. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Art of Doing Science and Engineering\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is the full expression of what “You and Your Research” outlined. It's a book about thinking; more specifically, a style of thinking by which great ideas are conceived.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe book is filled with stories of great people performing mighty deeds—but they are not meant simply to be admired. Instead, they are to be aspired to, learned from, and surpassed. Hamming consistently returns to Shannon’s information theory, Einstein’s theory of relativity, Grace Hopper’s work on high-level programming, Kaiser’s work on digital fillers, and his own work on error-correcting codes. He also recounts a number of his spectacular failures as clear examples of what to avoid.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOriginally published in 1996 and adapted from a course that Hamming taught at the US Naval Postgraduate School, this edition includes an all-new foreword by designer, engineer, and founder of Dynamicland Bret Victor, plus more than 70 redrawn graphs and charts.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Art of Doing Science and Engineering\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a reminder that a capacity for learning and creativity are accessible to everyone. 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