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Electric Dreams turns to the past to trace the cultural history of computers. Ted Friedman charts the struggles to define the meanings of these powerful machines over more than a century, from the failure of Charles Babbage's -difference engine- in the nineteenth century to contemporary struggles over file swapping, open source software, and the future of online journalism. To reveal the hopes and fears inspired by computers, Electric Dreams examines a wide range of texts, including films, advertisements, novels, magazines, computer games, blogs, and even...

Winner of the 2014 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature

A thousand years ago, the most perfect copy of the Hebrew Bible was written. It was kept safe through one upheaval after another in the Middle East, and by the 1940s it was housed in a dark grotto in Aleppo, Syria, and had become known around the world as the Aleppo Codex.

Journalist Matti Friedman's true-life detective story traces how this precious manuscript was smuggled from its hiding place in Syria into the newly founded state of Israel and how and why many of its most sacred and valuable pages went...

There is a lot of excitement in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe--a special visitor is arriving You'll get to meet everyone in the Neighborhood while Daniel Tiger arranges a "Welcome Party." Daniel and Prince Wednesday go to the music shop and the bakery and ride the trolley all over town to announce the special visitor. There is a welcome sign, balloons, music, and a big cake Who is the special visitor? Why it's YOU, of course Welcome to the Neighborhood ...

Chip Ackerman, eighteen years old, ultra sexy, a former heartbreaker, must leave the girl he loves.
The only girl he's ever loved.

Forced back to the sad, crowded squalor of the Lower East Side, Chip meets up with his old crowd, tries hard to resist temptation, aches for the love he left behind, and grows ever more prone to violence, finally doing something he'll regret forever.

This evocative sequel to "The Fence," set in 1930s New York City, explores the heartbreak and hardship of a young man conflicted between loyalty and love.

The period leading up to the Great Depression witnessed the rise of the economic forecasters, pioneers who sought to use the tools of science to predict the future, with the aim of profiting from their forecasts. This book chronicles the lives and careers of the men who defined this first wave of economic fortune tellers, men such as Roger Babson, Irving Fisher, John Moody, C. J. Bullock, and Warren Persons. They competed to sell their distinctive methods of prediction to investors and businesses, and thrived in the boom years that followed World War I. Yet, almost to a man, they failed to...