Author: George Gilder
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: revised, television, life
Number of Pages: 220
Published: 1985-09-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0393311589
ISBN-13: 9780393311587

/GILDER TV is dead, asserts bestselling author George Gilder, in this work hailed by Publishers Weekly as "an exciting, visionary glimpse into the future." Gilder explains why the TV set will soon be replaced by a telecomputer, connected to a nationwide fiberoptic network, that will completely revolutionize the way we do business.

Author: George Gilder
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: silicon, cell, phones, obsolete, enterprise, cameras, current, eye, valley, company, aims, computers
Number of Pages: 318
Published: 2005-04-25
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 0393057631
ISBN-13: 9780393057638

A best-selling author goes behind the scenes at a cutting-edge technology company poised to change the way computers see. Thanks to the digital technology revolution, cameras are everywhere—PDAs, phones, anywhere you can put an imaging chip and a lens. Battling to usurp this two-billion-dollar market is a Silicon Valley company, Foveon, whose technology not only produces a superior image but also may become the eye in artificially intelligent machines. Behind Foveon are two legendary figures who made the personal computer possible: Carver Mead of Caltech, one of the founding fathers of in

Author: George Gilder
Publisher: Pelican Publishing
Keywords: marriage, men
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 1992-07-31
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0882899465
ISBN-13: 9780882899466

Author: George Gilder
Publisher: ICS Press
Keywords: enterprise, spirit, recapturing
Number of Pages: 275
Published: 1992-10
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1558152016
ISBN-13: 9781558152014

Author: George Gilder
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
Keywords: poverty, wealth
Published: 1997-08
List price: $62.95
ISBN-10: 0786100109
ISBN-13: 9780786100101

In this acclaimed work, Gilder offers an illuminating discussion of how to increase wealth and curtail poverty, arguing that most welfare programs only serve to keep the poor in poverty as victims of welfare dependency. 9 cassettes.

Authors:Joshua Gilder, Anne-Lee Gilder,
Publisher: Anchor
Keywords: history, one, greatest, scientific, discoveries, murder, brahe, intrigue, johannes, kepler, tycho, heavenly
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2005-06-14
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 1400031761
ISBN-13: 9781400031764

Heavenly Intrigue is the fascinating, true account of the seventeenth-century collaboration between Johannes Kepler and Tycho Brahe that revolutionized our understanding of the universe–and ended in murder.One of history’s greatest geniuses, Kepler laid the foundations of modern physics with his revolutionary laws of planetary motion. But his beautiful mind was beset by demons. Born into poverty and abuse, half-blinded by smallpox, he festered with rage, resentment, and a longing for worldly fame. Brahe, his mentor, was a flamboyant aristocrat who had spent forty years mapping the heavens

Author: Louisa Gilder
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: vintage, reborn, physics, quantum, entanglement
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 2009-11-10
List price: $17.00
ISBN-10: 1400095263
ISBN-13: 9781400095261

In The Age of Entanglement, Louisa Gilder brings to life one of the pivotal debates in twentieth century physics. In 1935, Albert Einstein famously showed that, according to the quantum theory, separated particles could act as if intimately connected–a phenomenon which he derisively described as “spooky action at a distance.” In that same year, Erwin Schrödinger christened this correlation “entanglement.” Yet its existence was mostly ignored until 1964, when the Irish physicist John Bell demonstrated just how strange this entanglement really was. Drawing on the papers, letters, and