The Soul of a New Machine
$28.97
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
1 June 2000
Summary
Tracy Kidder’s “riveting” story of one company’s efforts to bring a new microcomputer to market won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award and has become essential reading for understanding the history of the American tech industry.
Computers have changed since 1981, when The Soul of a New Machine first examined the culture of the computer revolution. What has not changed is the feverish pace of the high-tech industry, the go-for-broke approach to business that h…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780316491976 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0316491977 |
| Author: | Tracy Kidder |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown & Company |
| Imprint: | Little, Brown & Company |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 1 June 2000 |
| Weight: | 299g |
| Dimensions: | 211mm x 141mm x 21mm |
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Critics Review
“It has the ring of truth….For readers who would like to know what it takes to make a computer, how computers are organized, and who the people are who put them together, I strongly recommend The Soul of a New Machine. I do not know anything quite like it”.
– Jeremy Bernstein, New York Review of Books
About The Author
Tracy Kidder
Tracy Kidder, whose most recent book is Home Town, is also the author of Among Schoolchildren and Old Friends. He has won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. He lives in Massachusetts and Maine.
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