Author: Angela Y. Davis
Publisher: Open Media
Keywords: obsolete, prisons
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2003-04
List price: $11.95
ISBN-10: 1583225811
ISBN-13: 9781583225813

Amid rising public concern about the proliferation and privitization of prisons, and their promise of enormous profits, world-renowned author and activist Angela Y. Davis argues for the abolition of the prison system as the dominant way of responding to America’s social ills. “In thinking about the possible obsolescence of the prison,” Davis writes, “we should ask how it is that so many people could end up in prison without major debates regarding the efficacy of incarceration.” Whereas Reagan-era politicians with “tough on crime” stances argued that imprisonment and longer se

Author: Q. David Bowers
Publisher: Whitman Pub Llc
Keywords: study, appreciation, numismatist, historian, states, united, paper, money, issued, banks, obsolete
Number of Pages: 598
Published: 2006-11-30
List price: $69.95
ISBN-10: 0794822037
ISBN-13: 9780794822033

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