Yves Bonnefoy is the most important and influential French poet to have emerged since the Second World War. Poet, art critic, historian, translator (particularly of Shakespeare), specialist in the problem of the relation of poetry to the visual arts and to the history of religions, Bonnefoy is now considered one of the most distinguished men of letters of his generation. Though Bonnefoy's work is familiar to American scholars, the complexity of his thought and style has created a need for a critical introduction to his work. This first major study of Bonnefoy written in English provides an overview of his entire literary career. Naughton situates Bonnefoy in the context of the existential philosophical tradition that nurtured him and in the poetic and artistic tradition that includes Dante and Shakespeare, Piero and Poussin, Baudelaire and Rimbaud. Bonnefoy's poems appear in both French and English, and all quotations from his prose have been translated. This book will appeal not only to the growing number of students and scholars of French literature interested in Bonnefoy's work, but also to those who study comparative poetry and the relation of poetry to art and to contemporary religious thought.

The Poetics of Yves Bonnefoy

Literature & Fiction

Naughton, John

History & Criticism

University of Chicago Press

The Internet is the most remarkable thing human beings have built since the Pyramids. John Naughton's book intersperses wonderful personal stories with an authoritative account of where the Net actually came from, who invented it and why, and where it might be taking us. Most of us have no idea of how the Internet works or who created it. Even fewer have any idea of what it means for society and the future. In a cynical age, John Naughton has not lost his capacity for wonder. He examines the nature of his own enthusiasm for technology and traces its roots in his lonely childhood and in his relationship with his father. A Brief History of the Future is an intensely personal celebration of vision and altruism, ingenuity and determination and above all, of the power of ideas, passionately felt, to change the world.

A Brief History of the Future: The Origins of the Internet

Weidenfeld&Nicolson

, 5 uniform volumes, each with 144 pages, illustrated in colour

Movies: A Crash Course (Crash Course (Watson-Guptill))

Humor & Entertainment

Movies

Watson-Guptill Publications, Incorporated

Computers & Technology

Web Development & Design

Diane Pub Co.

From Gutenberg to Zuckerberg: What You Really Need to Know about the Internet. John Naughton

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Quercus

Exercise Testing: Physiological, Biomechanical, and Clinical Principles

Medical Books

Futura Pub. Co

Movies: A Crash Course.

Raincoast Books

A Brief History of the Future: From Radio Days to Internet Years in a Lifetime

The Internet is the most remarkable thing human beings have built since the pyramids. A millennium from now, historians will look back at it and marvel that a people equipped with such clumsy tools succeeded in creating such a leviathan.
Yet even as the Net pervades our lives, we begin to take it for granted. We have lost our capacity for wonder. Most of us have no idea where the Internet came from, how it works, or who created it and why. And even fewer have any idea of what it means for society and the future.
John Naughton has written a warm and passionate book that seeks to rescue the Internet from the condescension of posterity, to celebrate the engineers and scientists who implemented their dreams in hardware and software, and to explain the values and ideas that drove them. Although its subject seems technical, the book in fact is personal. John Naughton writes about the Net like Nick Hornby writes about soccer. A Brief History of the Future is an intimate celebration of vision and altruism, ingenuity and determination, and above all the power of ideas to change the world.

History

Overlook Books

A look at the communications revolution examines the history of the Internet and what it means for society and the future, celebrating the the engineers and scientists who contributed to its development and the ideas that were behind some of its top innovations. Reprint.

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

John Naughton is the Observer's 'Networker' columnist, a prominent blogger, and Vice-President of Wolfson College, Cambridge. The Times has said that his writings, “[it] draws on more than two decades of study to explain how the internet works and the challenges and opportunities it will offer to future generations,” and Cory Doctrow raved that "this is the kind of primer you want to slide under your boss’s door." In From Gutenberg to Zuckerberg, Naughton explores the living history of one of the most radically transformational technologies of all time. From Gutenberg to Zuckerberg is a clear-eyed history of one of the most central, and yet most taken-for-granted, features of modern life: the internet. Once a technological novelty and now the very plumbing of the Information Age, the internet is something we have learned to take largely for granted. So, how exactly has our society become so dependent upon a utility it barely understands? And what does it say about us that this is so? While explaining in highly engaging language the way the internet works and how it got to be the way it is, technologist John Naughton has distilled the noisy chatter surrounding the technology’s relentless evolution into nine essential areas of understanding. In doing so, he affords readers deeper insight into the information economy and supplies the requisite knowledge to make better use of the technologies and networks around us, highlighting some of their fascinating and far-reaching implications along the way.

From Gutenberg to Zuckerberg: Disruptive Innovation in the Age of the Internet

Networking & Cloud Computing

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