books by Katie Hafner     books:       Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins Of The Internet57 reviews Katie Hafner Simon & Schuster, 1998 Great Overview of the True History of the Internet This is quite possibly one of the most engaging computer books I've ever read, which says quite a bit when I've read computer books for years. The narrative style gives you a beautiful glimpse into some of the trials and tribulations that those involved in the original ARPAnet project went through, and how that project exploded into a vast global phenomenon - a prediction that nobody could have ...             A Romance on Three Legs: Glenn Gould's Obsessive Quest for the Perfect Piano16 reviews Katie Hafner Bloomsbury USA, 2008 A Three Part Invention You might think of esteemed pianist Glenn Gould as brilliant but eccentric, but wait until you read about his piano. _A Romance on Three Legs: Glenn Gould's Obsessive Quest for the Perfect Piano_ (Bloomsbury) by Katie Hafner is about the three-legged instrument of Gould's passion, but it also is about a working triad: Gould, his piano, and the tuner who enabled the other two to get along. If ...             The Well: A Story of Love, Death & Real Life in the Seminal Online Community9 reviews Katie Hafner Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2001 A remarkable book This is a terrific book. I appreciate that Katie Hafner understands her strength to be narrative. Limiting the focus of her narrative to the lives of a few of the core founders and early pioneers of the Well allows her to reach the sort of depth I recall experiencing there when I was a "Well being" for a time in the late eighties. I mostly hung out in the Parenting conference, because I was the ...             CYBERPUNK: Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontier, Revised36 reviews Katie Hafner Simon & Schuster, 1995 Outlaws and Hackers of the Dark-side Katie Hafner and John Markoff write an excellent book about three groups of individuals that got caught hacking and compromising computers in the 1980s. The stories themselves are able to stand alone. This book can be read and re-read, and enjoyed each time. The story of Kevin Mitnick is the story of an aloof, over-wieght, junk-food junkie that has been portrayed as the stereotypical ...             The House at the Bridge: A Story of Modern Germany3 reviews Katie Hafner Scribner, 1995 Subtle But Worth it Having lived in Germany before, during and after the wall went down, The House At The Bridge encapsulizes succinctly the emotions of change that I, and others, saw and felt during Germany's paradigm shift of politics and society. This story isn't just about a house, but of families and a country in transition. Ms. Hafner cleverly uses the house as a common thread to tell the history behind the ...              cyberpunk Snow Crash. Black Glass: The Lost Cyberpunk Novel Prototype Cyberpunks Cyberfreedom: Change Reality Screens (Reboot Your Brain) After Life - Novella obsessive Buried in Treasures: Help for Compulsive Acquiring, Saving, and ... Talking Back to OCD: The Program That Helps Kids and Teens Say "No ... A Romance on Three Legs: Glenn Gould's Obsessive Quest for the ... The OCD Workbook: Your Guide to Breaking Free from ... A Woman's Way Through the Twelve Steps Workbook community Setting the Table: The Transforming Power of Hospitality in Business The Little House Salsa, Soul, and Spirit: Leadership for a Multicultural Age The Israelis : Ordinary People in an Extraordinary Land More-With-Less Cookbook (World Community Cookbook) search for books bridge, community, computer, cyberpunk, death, frontier, germany, glenn, gould, hackers, house, internet, late, modern, obsessive, online, origins, outlaws, perfect, piano, quest, real, revised, romance, seminal, stay, story, three, where, wizards books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen music: Romantic Vienna leave a comment home  impressum - about us