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Overview Details Customer Reviews Covering all areas of technology, The New How Things Work contains the most up-to-date, elaborately illustrated, fascinating, and fun entries that explain how our technology-driven world functions. Learn about the objects and ideas we encounter every day, and that are changing our lives, from DVDs and MP3s to plasma screen TVs and wireless Internet technology. While most people are curious about the inner workings of gadgets and machines, they often feel intimidated...

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How many of us can explain how our televisions, telephones, or computers work? Well, from cars to computers, electric lights to e-mail, here's the book that explains it all. Starting with simple, basic machines, Caldecott Medalist Macaulay shows how one machine became the basis for more advanced machines, which led to even more advanced inventions. First introduced in 1988, Macaulay has updated his best-selling, extensively illustrated guide to the things we use with a new section devoted to digital...

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<P>From biology to culture to the new new economy, the buzzword on everyone's lips is "meme." How do animals learn things? How does human culture evolve? How does viral marketing work? The answer to these disparate questions and even to what is the nature of thought itself is, simply, the meme. For decades researchers have been convinced that memes were The Next Big Thing for the understanding of society and ourselves. But no one has so far been able to define what they are. Until now.<P>Here, for...