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The Soul of a New Machine
by Kidder, Tracy
- Used
- Very Good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0380599317
- ISBN 13
- 9780380599318
- Seller
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Gastonia, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
New York: Avon Books, 1982. Reprint . Mass Market Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 293 pp. Seventh printing. Light pencil underlining on one page. There is a small stain on the front cover at the tip of the upper fore-corner. The binding is tight and square. The true story of the design of a new computer and the people who sacrifice themselves to the task. Winner of the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction.
Synopsis
Tracy Kidder's non-fiction book, The Soul of a New Machine, chronicles the experiences of an engineering team racing to design a next generation computer under a blistering schedule and tremendous pressure. Published in 1981, it won a Pulitzer Prize and an American Book Award.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Persephone's Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 061062
- Title
- The Soul of a New Machine
- Author
- Kidder, Tracy
- Format/Binding
- Mass Market Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0380599317
- ISBN 13
- 9780380599318
- Publisher
- Avon Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1982
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Keywords
- Computers; Comupter Architecture
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Mass Market
- Mass market paperback books, or MMPBs, are printed for large audiences cheaply. This means that they are smaller, usually 4...