Michelangelo's statue of David is renowned all over the world. Thousands flock to Florence to admire the artistry behind this Renaissance masterpiece, and to admire the beauty of the human form captured in the marble. But the identity of the model for this statue that has been so revered for over fi[...]

From software design and specification to the social impact of technology, few software engineers have had the insight -- or the impact -- of David L. Parnas. Now, two leaders of the software engineering community have selected, annotated, and brought together 30 of Parnas' best papers: a lifetime o[...]

From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning history "The Dead Hand" comes the riveting story of a spy who cracked open the Soviet military research establishment and apenetrating portrait of the CIA s Moscow station, an outpost of daring espionage in the last years of the Cold War
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Details for system administrators the tools, technologies, and techniques by which they can configure, maintain, and tune computers running Hewlett-Packard's high-performance OpenVMS operating system. This book helps system administrators to perform more efficiently and effectively those everyday ta[...]

This book is the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction 2010. The first full account of how the Cold War arms race finally came to a close, this riveting narrative history sheds new light on the people who struggled to end this era of massive overkill, and examines the legacy of the nu[...]