Are you the innovative type, the cook who marches to a different drummer -- used to expressing your creativity instead of just following recipes? Are you interested in the science behind what happens to food while it's cooking? Do you want to learn what makes a recipe work so you can improvise and create your own unique dish?
More than just a cookbook, Cooking for Geeks applies your curiosity to discovery, inspiration, and invention in the kitchen. Why is medium-rare steak so popular? Why do we bake some things at 350 F/175 C and others at 375 F/190 C? And how quickly does a pizza cook if we overclock an oven to 1,000 F/540 C? Author and cooking geek Jeff Potter provides the answers and offers a unique take on recipes -- from the sweet (a "mean" chocolate chip cookie) to the savory (duck confit sugo).
This book is an excellent and intriguing resource for anyone who wants to experiment with cooking, even if you don't consider yourself a geek.
Initialize your kitchen and calibrate your tools
Learn about the important reactions in cooking, such as protein denaturation, Maillard reactions, and caramelization, and how they impact the foods we cook
Play with your food using hydrocolloids and sous vide cooking
Gain firsthand insights from interviews with researchers, food scientists, knife experts, chefs, writers, and more, including author Harold McGee, TV personality Adam Savage, chemist Hervé This, and xkcd

In a riveting look at today's computer technology, Robins and Webster ask the disturbing question: Is it cyber-revolution-or information capitalism? They trace the information age from the Industrial Revolution to the silicon chip and the Internet. Examining the politics of cyberspace, they show how the military has controlled the development of new technologies and why education plays a central role in government attempts to create a "knowledge society." With broad coverage of current issues, including information policy, technological innovation, education, the military, surveillance, and propaganda, Times of the Technoculture is a thought-provoking revisionist account of Luddite resistance to new technologies.

本书概述了云计算的起源、发展以及商业模式，介绍了云计算的关键技术、典型应用以及开源软件和社区。
云计算既是机遇也是挑战，中国科技何去何从？需要从国家层面重视云计算，在教育、普及、重点研发、示范工程等诸多领域对其进行统筹规划，从而推动云计算在中国的发展,并最终使云计算造福百姓,惠及国民经济,推动科技创新与进步。
本书语言生动，案例丰富，适合所有想了解云计算的读者。

关于Linux内核的书已经不计其数，但这本书却是独树一帜的，它的内容代表着Linux内核研究成果的世界顶尖级水平，它在世界范围内首次提出并阐述了操作系统设计的核心指导思想——主奴机制，这是所有操作系统研究者的一笔宝贵财富。本书可能也代表着同类图书的顶尖水平，是一本真正能引导我们较为容易地、极为透彻地理解Linux内核的经典之作，也可能是当前唯一能从本质上指引我们去设计和开发拥有自主知识产权的操作系统的著作。它的出版也许会成为Linux内核研究领域的一个里程碑事件。
本书的最大特点是它的写作方式和内容组织方式，与同类书完全不同。它在深刻地分析了传统讲解方法的利弊之后，破旧立新，从认知学的角度开创了一种全新的方式。以操作系统的真实运行过程为主线，结合真实的内核源代码、349幅精确的内核运行时序图和具有点睛之妙的文字说明，对操作系统从开机加电到系统完全准备就绪的整个过程进行了系统而完整地分析，深刻地揭示了其间每一个动作的设计意图和实现原理，完美地再现了操作系统设计者的设计思路。阅读本书就如同跟随着操作系统设计者一起去思考，我们会在阅读的过程中发现Linux内核设计的精妙，会发现原来处处都“暗藏玄机”，哪怕是一行很短的代码。
本书在所有细节上都力求完美。为了保证知识的准确性，操作系统运行过程中的每个动作都经过了严格的考证；为了让我们真正理解Linux内核的原理，它突破传统，以Linux的真实运行过程为主线进行讲解；为了做到真正易于理解，创新性地使用了图解的方式，精心绘制了349幅分辨率600dpi的时序图，图中表现的运行时结构和状态与操作系统实际运行时的真实状态完全吻合；为了提高阅读体验，本书采用了双色印刷，以便于我们更清楚地观察每一幅图中的细节。