Geoffrey Fox: 4 books

Includes a new (2012) foreword and two additional stories in a collection described thus by The New York Times Book Review, Sunday, November 20, 1988: “This frequently powerful collection of short stories enters Latin America as if through the rickety back door of a burlesque house: "Goo'mornin',...

The 1402 Ottoman siege of Constantinople stands as one of the great conflicts of history, a prelude to the Muslim conquest of that famous Christian city and Europe’s turn westward to the New World. It is this historic event and the cast of characters who changed the course of modern history that...

Distributed and Cloud Computing: From Parallel Processing to the Internet of Things offers complete coverage of modern distributed computing technology including clusters, the grid, service-oriented architecture, massively parallel processors, peer-to-peer networking, and cloud computing. It is the...

The fourth edition of an authoritative overview, with all new chapters that capture the state of the art in a rapidly growing field. Science and Technology Studies (STS) is a flourishing interdisciplinary field that examines the transformative power of science and technology to arrange and...