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  • Alan Turing: The Enigma

    by Andrew Hodges ...
    A new edition to celebrate Alan Turing's centenary, includes a new foreword by the author and a preface by Douglas Hofstadter.Alan Turing was the extraordinary Cambridge mathematician who masterminded the cracking of the German Enigma ciphers and transformed the Second World War. But his vision went far beyond this crucial achievement. Before the war he had formulated the concept of the universal ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Great Philosophers: Turing

    by Andrew Hodges ...
    Series series GREAT PHILOSOPHERS
    Alan Turing's 1936 paper On Computable Numbers, introducing the Turing machine, was a landmark of twentieth-century thought. It settled a deep problem in the foundations of mathematics, and provided the principle of the post-war electronic computer. It also supplied a new approach to the philosophy of the mind.Influenced by his crucial codebreaking work in the Second World War, and by practical ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • One to Nine

    The Inner Life of Numbers

    by Andrew Hodges ...
    Have you ever thought about the uniqueness and simplicity of One, or what it means to be Two? Is Four really so square and why are there Seven days of the week, Seven deadly sins, or even Seven wonders of the world? In One to Nine, Andrew Hodges brings numbers to life. Inspired by the popularity of Sudoku – and millennia of human attempts to figure things out – this pithy, kaleidoscopic book takes ... Read more

    Was $13.99 CAD Now $9.99 CAD

  • The Once and Future Turing

    Computing the World

    Edited by S. Barry Cooper, Andrew Hodges ...
    Alan Turing (1912–1954) made seminal contributions to mathematical logic, computation, computer science, artificial intelligence, cryptography and theoretical biology. In this volume, outstanding scientific thinkers take a fresh look at the great range of Turing's contributions, on how the subjects have developed since his time, and how they might develop still further. The contributors include ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • A-Z of Plastic Surgery

    Edited by Matthew Fell, Andrew Hodges, Susan Hendrickson ...
    The A-Z of Plastic Surgery is a comprehensive and easily digestible manual to plastic surgery. Written in an encyclopaedic format, the concise style aims to provide a rapid and structured summary of each topic and allows for each to be grasped quickly and succinctly in either a clinical or exam revision setting. The new edition has been fully revised and updated by a team of experienced plastic ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • In the Storms of Transformation

    Two Shipyards between Socialism and the EU

    by Ulf Brunnbauer, Philipp Ther, Piotr Filipkowski, Andrew Hodges, Stefano Petrungaro, Peter Wegenschimmel ...
    Series Book 56 - German and European Studies
    In the 1990s, states in what would become the eastern edge of the European Union transformed their political systems and economies, leaving state socialism behind for liberal democracies and free markets. In the ensuing decades, two shipyards that were once the pride of their cities – in Gdynia, Poland, and Pula, Croatia – went bankrupt, unable to withstand global competition.Through an ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Fan Activism, Protest and Politics

    Ultras in Post-Socialist Croatia

    by Andrew Hodges ...
    Series series Critical Research in Football
    In what sense can organized football fans be understood as political actors or participants in social movements? How do fan struggles link to wider social and political transformations? And what methodological dilemmas arise when researching fan activism? Fan Activism, Protest and Politics seeks ethnographic answers to these questions in a context – Zagreb, Croatia – shaped by the recent Yugoslav ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

  • Second-Generation Fiscal Rules

    Balancing Simplicity, Flexibility, and Enforceability

    by Luc Eyraud, Xavier Debrun, Andrew Hodge, Victor Duarte Lledo, Catherine A Pattillo ...
    Fiscal rule frameworks have evolved significantly in response to the global financial crisis. Many countries have reformed their fiscal rules or introduced new ones with a view to enhancing the credibility of fiscal policy and providing a medium-term anchor. Enforcement and monitoring mechanisms have also been upgraded. However, these innovations have made the systems of rules more complicated to ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

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  • Alan Turing

    The Enigma Man

    by Nigel Cawthorne ...
    Spring 1940: The Battle of the Atlantic rages. Vulnerable merchant convoys are at the mercy of German U-boats controlled by a cunning system of coded messages created by a machine called Enigma. Only one man believes that these codes can be broken - mathematician and Bletchley Park cryptanalyst Alan Turing.Winston Churchill later described Turing's success in breaking the Enigma codes as the ... Read more

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  • Colossus:The secrets of Bletchley Park's code-breaking computers

    The secrets of Bletchley Park's code-breaking computers

    by B. Jack Copeland ...
    At last - the secrets of Bletchley Park's powerful codebreaking computers.This is a history of Colossus, the world's first fully-functioning electronic digital computer. Colossus was used during the Second World War at the Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park, where it played an invaluable role cracking enemy codes. Until very recently, much about the Colossus machine was shrouded ... Read more

    $16.39 CAD

  • The Great Philosophers: Popper

    by Frederic Raphael ...
    Series series GREAT PHILOSOPHERS
    Karl Popper 1902-1994The political history of the twentieth century has been full of savage 'certainties'. A similar idea of history warranted the callous savageries of both Marxism and Fascism. They shared a faith in what Karl Popper called 'Historicism': the belief that the future could be predicted and that man had to align himself with its bloody progress.Totalitarianism, Popper maintained, ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • The Secret Life of Bletchley Park

    The WWII Codebreaking Centre and the Men and Women Who Worked There

    by Sinclair McKay ...
    Bletchley Park has played a vital role in British history. This Victorian country house in the Buckinghamshire countryside was was where one of the war’s most famous – and crucial – achievements was made: the cracking of Germany’ s 'Enigma' code in which its most important military communications were couched.It was home to some of Britain’s most brilliant mathematical brains, such as Alan Turing, ... Read more

    $13.59 CAD