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More definition needed
Well, I opened up the pages and I found something awesome... it was entirely in german! The description didn't mention it was in german, but I plan on using this version alongside an american version I own for learning by transliteration :D

Earliest Sharpest Vision of Cyber-Chaos
WARNING:This is the GERMAN language edition.For English see Snow Crash (Bantam Spectra Book).

I received this book as a gift at one of the Silicon Valley Hackers/THINK Conference where I was elected to membership in 1992 or so, and it remains for me the first window into the cyber-chaos that results when CIA and the Library of Congressmerge and everyone is a collector, producer, and consumer of digital information.

This book is ESSENTIAL reading, and foretold by decades the ineptitude of the US Government and the deliberate refusal of corporations to get a responsible grip on cyber-reality.

See also by Winn Schwartau:

Winn Schwartau - Terminal Compromise
Information Warfare: Second Edition
Cybershock: Surviving Hackers, Phreakers, Identity Thieves, Internet Terrorists and Weapons of Mass Disruption

And by Howard Rheingold:

Tools for Thought: The History and Future of Mind-Expanding Technology
The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier
Virtual Reality: The Revolutionary Technology of Computer-Generated Artificial Worlds - and How It Promises to Transform Society

Finally, to get deep into doing it right (I published these books, they are also free online):
Collective Intelligence: Creating a Prosperous World at Peace
INTELLIGENCE for EARTH: Clarity, Diversity, Integrity, & Sustainaabilty

Too many to list here, see the various review categories at Phi Beta Iota, the Public Intelligence Blog, for my structured reviews of non-fiction books related to this topic.

The Tower of Babel
Only Neal Stephenson can bring out a relationship between Ancient Sumerian and binary, and that connection causes knowing either one well to make a person susceptible to control by others. Only he could get away with giving the main character a name like Hero Protagonist. This Book is full of absurdities, yet Neal Stephenson manages to pull them off with grace and beauty. In a future vaguely similar William Gibson's, Hero try's to find out why an old colleague has gone catatonic and who caused it, and also hopes to renew a romantic relationship in the process, not to mention make a few bucks on the way.

Great Book.
If you want to know the future of MMO games, then this is a must read. ... Read more

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"A gripping guide to the modern taming of the infinite."—The New York Times. With a new introduction by Neal Stephenson.Is infinity a valid mathematical property or a meaningless abstraction? David Foster Wallace brings his intellectual ambition and characteristic bravura style to the story of how mathematicians have struggled to understand the infinite, from the ancient Greeks to the nineteenth-century mathematical genius Georg Cantor's counterintuitive discovery that there was more than one kind of infinity. Smart, challenging, and thoroughly rewarding, Wallace's tour de force brings immediate and high-profile recognition to the bizarre and fascinating world of higher mathematics.Amazon.com Review
Before discussing the merits of David Foster Wallace's Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity, it is essential to define what the book is not. This volume in the "Great Discoveries" series is not a history of the personalities and social conditions that led to the "discovery" of infinity. Nor is it a narrative fixated on the cultish fear of--and obsession with--the infinite that has seemingly driven mathematicians insane over the centuries. Rather, Everything and More is a surprisingly rigorous march through the 2000 plus years of mathematical research that began with Aristotle; continued through Galileo, Isaac Newton, G.W. Leibniz, Karl Weierstrass, and J.W.R. Dedekind; and culminated in Georg Cantor and his Set Theory. The task Wallace (author of the bestseller Infinite Jest and other fiction) has set himself is enormously challenging: without radically compromising the complexity of the philosophy, metaphysics, or mathematics that underlies the evolving concept of infinity, present the material to a lay audience in a manner that is entertaining. To propel his narrative, Wallace even develops a style that mirrors the mathematical language he probes. One difficulty in his focus on concepts and not a strict human chronology, though, is that his structure is dependent on frequent digressions (especially early on). Patience is required. Wallace demands that his reader walk through the equations, study the graphs and charts, and relearn college-level concepts to follow along on the exploration. Indeed, after one wrenching dip into Zeno’s paradoxes, Wallace spouts at his imagined complaining audience: "Deal." But the book should be deemed a success. If one grants him the attention he requires, Wallace has made the trip richly rewarding. --Patrick O’Kelley ... Read more

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Unreadable
Wallace's obsessively detailed and digressive style makes this book unreadable. His work in general to me has the tone of an obsessive-compulsive Richard Linklater.I suspect he did not choose his style (which is common to the few things of his I've read) as much as it chose him. Looking back on Wallace's work after his suicide, it is tempting to see his style as a symptom of a troubled mind, though that is pure speculation. In any event, this book obscures its topic rather than revealing it. RIP.

I slobber some when I talk
this book makes crazy on my face.very nice and getting good product of clean with no faults.No, really, I'm quite happy with the purchase , the author, the seller, your site, my life, my head space and most of all: you, reading this.

Infinite Wallace
David Foster Wallace's "Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity" is a rare achievement. He has written a compelling and entertaining popular math book that illuminates a difficult subject. The important concepts, no matter how difficult, are explained in a fashion that is understandable by even those without advanced degrees in mathematics.

For thoughtful, engaged readers Wallace elevates and enlightens. I thoroughly recommend this book to all.

So long and thanks for all the footnotes...
Since DFW has committed suicide, we will not see an edition revised by him. In re-reading the reviews, it appears that style means a lot. I personally found the book witty. It was a little slow sometimes because of the convolutions he introduced in style, but mostly I kept plowing (and chuckling) through. The librarian who sent back the book did a disservice to some readers. Not everyone likes to learn in the same way. With that kind of attitude, many years ago I would have had Rudin's books removed as too concise to be useful. Of course, there are many mathematicians who love those books for just that reason, and I would have done them a disservice.

I am a physicist with a math minor. To me, the best part of this book was his explanation of why mathematicians insist on the epsilon-deltas of mathematical rigor. No one ever did that before. If I could have read this in high school, I probably would have finished my math major as well as my physics major. Instead, the whole epsilon-delta thing seemed ad-hoc and inexplicable in purpose. I could never accept the need for rigor demanded in advanced analysis.(a drunken prof and Rudin's book didn't help either) DFW showed how a crisis in dealing with the infinite and with infinitesmals led to the development of the what we call the foundations of analysis. Just excellent.

I envied him his high school math teacher, who seems responsible for much of the really good parts of this book. No, DFW wasn't a mathematician and he (in spite of what some reviewers seem to think) knew it. He made clear that he wouldn't be able to do justice to Godel. But incompleteness is moderate difficult. DFW didn't know much about Fourier series, but did know they were important enough to mention.
For some students, that's the way to get them interested, just mention something and let them go dig (so much easier now with the internet).

Remember the subtitle -- a compact history of infinity. So it is more history oriented than a mathematical tome. I had recently read Lillian R. Lieber's Infinity (which I see has been reprinted) and it has her sparse, but excellent development of the concepts. It doesn't have much historical detail though. So everything and more was a pleasure.

Worst-written book I have ever read.
I was expecting an exciting book.
I was disappointed.
This book has no chapters, lots of text message abbreviations, and many phrases ending in a period.

Three-quarters of this book is background information.

When the payoff comes, actually talking about infinities,
the reationship among alelf null, cardinality c, and alef 1
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Chapters: Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon, Quicksilver, the Baroque Cycle, Enoch Root, Kinakuta, the Confusion, Minor Characters in the Baroque Cycle, the System of the World, Qwghlm, Eliza. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 72. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Quicksilver is a historical novel by Neal Stephenson, published in 2003. It is the first volume of The Baroque Cycle, his late Baroque historical fiction series, succeeded by The Confusion and The System of the World (both published in 2004). Quicksilver won the Arthur C. Clarke Award and was nominated for the Locus Award in 2004. The books are mostly set in late 17th century England, France, and the United Provinces, though the first book includes a frame story set in early 18th century Massachusetts. Quicksilver is written in various narrative styles, such as theatrical staging and epistolary, and follows a large group of characters. Stephenson researched the period, placing events and historical themes important to the scholarship throughout the novels. However, details such as the members of the Cabal ministry, the historical cabinet of Charles II of England, have been changed to facilitate the incorporation of his fictional characters. Within this context, Stephenson deals with many themes which pervade his other works, including the exploration of knowledge, communication and cryptography. The plot of the first and third books focus on Daniel Waterhouse's exploits as a natural philosopher and young friend to Isaac Newton and his later observations of English politics and religion, respectively. The second book introduces the vagabond Jack Shaftoe ("King of the Vagabonds") and Eliza (a former member of a Turkish harem) as they cross Europe, eventually landing in the Netherlands, where Eliza becomes entangled in commerce a...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=327121 ... Read more

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This is nonfiction commentary. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Novels by Neal Stephenson, Short Stories by Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon, the Diamond Age, Snow Crash, the Big U, Anathem, the Baroque Cycle, the Confusion, Interface, the System of the World, Jipi and the Paranoid Chip, Zodiac, the Great Simoleon Caper, the Cobweb. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Snow Crash is Neal Stephenson's third novel, published in 1992. Like many of Stephenson's other novels it covers history, linguistics, anthropology, archaeology, religion, computer science, politics, cryptography, and philosophy. Stephenson explained the title of the novel in his 1999 essay In the Beginning... was the Command Line as his term for a particular software failure mode on the early Apple Macintosh computer. Stephenson wrote about the Macintosh that "When the computer crashed and wrote gibberish into the bitmap, the result was something that looked vaguely like static on a broken television set a 'Snow crash'". Snow Crash was nominated for both the British Science Fiction Award in 1993, and the Arthur C. Clarke Award in 1994. The story begins and ends in Los Angeles, which is no longer part of what is left of the United States, during the early 21st century. In this hypothetical future reality the federal government of the United States has ceded most of its power to private organizations and entrepreneurs. Franchising, individual sovereignty and private vehicles reign (along with drug trafficking, violent crime, and traffic congestion). Mercenary armies compete for national defense contracts while private security guards preserve the peace in gated, sovereign housing developments. Highway companies compete to attract drivers to their roads rather than the competitors', and all mail delivery is by hired courier...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=75290 ... Read more

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Chapters: Neal Stephenson, Dave Winer, Lawrence Lessig, William Gibson, Bill Joy, Bruce Sterling, John Perry Barlow, Douglas Coupland, Stewart Brand, Jaron Lanier, Cory Doctorow, George Gilder, Paul Levinson, J. Bradford Delong, Simson Garfinkel, Esther Dyson, Joshua Davis, Nicholas Negroponte, Kevin Kelly, Rudy Rucker, Charles Platt, Howard Rheingold, Chris Anderson, Charlie Jackson, Louis Rossetto, Wil Mccarthy, Peter Schwartz, Declan Mccullagh, Po Bronson, Mark Frauenfelder, Steven Berlin Johnson, Steven Levy, Quinn Norton, Richard Kadrey, Paul Saffo, James Daly, Regina Lynn, Paul Boutin, John Battelle, Gareth Branwyn, Jane Metcalfe, Gary Wolf, Patrick Di Justo, Spencer Reiss, Jules Marshall. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 238. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: William Ford Gibson (born March 17, 1948) is an American-Canadian writer who has been called the "noir prophet" of the cyberpunk subgenre of science fiction. Gibson coined the term "cyberspace" in his short story "Burning Chrome" and later popularized the concept in his debut novel, Neuromancer (1984). In envisaging cyberspace, Gibson created an iconography for the information age before the ubiquity of the Internet in the 1990s. He is also credited with predicting the rise of reality television and with establishing the conceptual foundations for the rapid growth of virtual environments such as video games and the Web. Having changed residence frequently with his family as a child, Gibson became a shy, ungainly teenager who often read science fiction. After spending his adolescence at a private boarding school in Arizona, Gibson dodged the draft during the Vietnam War by emigrating to Canada in 1968, where he became immersed in the counterculture and after settling in Vancouver eventually became a full-time writer. He re...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=33119 ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Neal Stephenson, Luc Chatel, John Wilkes Booth, Sargent Shriver, Spike Jonze, Lloyd Banks, Andrew Hankinson, Michael S. Steele, Aaron Laffey, Daniel Kirkwood, Richard Schiff, Franklin Adreon, Robert Hays, Duane Gill, Alexis Denisof, Estelle Taylor, James M. Cain, Eddie Deezen, Joel Madden, Doug Flutie, Travis Pastrana, Lester Bowie, Ninian Edwards, Tracey Adams, Billy Martin, Ed Brubaker, Charles Carroll D'annapolis, Michele Carey, Alfred Brazier Howell, Mo'nique, Johns Hopkins, Jimmie Foxx, Delonte Holland, Shadrach Bond, Donald Dell, Preston Burpo, Tom Amrhein, David Herold, Kenneth S. Reightler, Jr., Lisa Ann Walter, J. Charles Haydon, Kyle Beckerman, William Bowie, Henry Gassaway Davis, Linda Harrison, Barbara Kingsolver, Bruce Price, Jérôme Napoléon Bonaparte Ii, Chris Monroe, Stephen Decatur. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : John Wilkes Booth (10 mai 1838 - 26 avril 1865) était un acteur de théâtre américain et sympathisant des Confédérés qui a assassiné Abraham Lincoln, seizième président des États-Unis, au théâtre Ford de Washington le 14 avril 1865. Lincoln, qui avait reçu de Booth une balle dans la nuque, mourut le lendemain, devenant le premier président de l'histoire des États-Unis à être assassiné. Booth avait rencontré le succès dans le Maryland où il était acteur de théâtre et membre d'une famille d'acteurs. Il éprouvait un profond mécontentement à la suite de la défaite des Sudistes, à l'issue de la guerre de Sécession (1861-1865) ; il était notamment fermement opposé à la décision de Lincoln d'étendre le droit de vote aux esclaves récemment émancipés. Booth constitua un groupe de conspirateurs dont le but était de tuer Abraham Lincoln et d'autres personnalités, comme le vice-pré...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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Chapters: Wired Essays, Wired Magazine People, Neal Stephenson, Dave Winer, Lawrence Lessig, William Gibson, Bill Joy, Bruce Sterling, John Perry Barlow, Douglas Coupland, Stewart Brand, Disneyland With the Death Penalty, Jaron Lanier, Cory Doctorow, George Gilder, Paul Levinson, J. Bradford Delong, Simson Garfinkel, Esther Dyson, Joshua Davis, Nicholas Negroponte, Kevin Kelly, Rudy Rucker, Charles Platt, Howard Rheingold, Chris Anderson, Charlie Jackson, Louis Rossetto, Wil Mccarthy, Peter Schwartz, Declan Mccullagh, Po Bronson, Mark Frauenfelder, Steven Berlin Johnson, Steven Levy, Quinn Norton, Richard Kadrey, Paul Saffo, James Daly, Regina Lynn, Paul Boutin, John Battelle, Gareth Branwyn, Smiley's People, Jane Metcalfe, Gary Wolf, Patrick Di Justo, Global Neighborhood Watch, Wired Smart List, Spencer Reiss, Jules Marshall. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 255. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: William Ford Gibson (born March 17, 1948) is an American-Canadian writer who has been called the "noir prophet" of the cyberpunk subgenre of science fiction. Gibson coined the term "cyberspace" in his short story "Burning Chrome" and later popularized the concept in his debut novel, Neuromancer (1984). In envisaging cyberspace, Gibson created an iconography for the information age before the ubiquity of the Internet in the 1990s. He is also credited with predicting the rise of reality television and with establishing the conceptual foundations for the rapid growth of virtual environments such as video games and the Web. Having changed residence frequently with his family as a child, Gibson became a shy, ungainly teenager who often read science fiction. After spending his adolescence at a private boarding school in Arizona, Gibson dodged the draft during the Vietnam War by emigrating to Cana...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=33119 ... Read more

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This is nonfiction commentary. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Cryptonomicon, the Diamond Age, Snow Crash, the Big U, Anathem, the Baroque Cycle, the Confusion, Interface, the System of the World, Zodiac, the Cobweb. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Snow Crash is Neal Stephenson's third novel, published in 1992. Like many of Stephenson's other novels it references history, linguistics, anthropology, archaeology, religion, computer science, politics, cryptography, and philosophy. Stephenson explained the title of the novel in his 1999 essay In the Beginning... was the Command Line as his term for a particular software failure mode on the early Apple Macintosh computer. Stephenson wrote about the Macintosh that "When the computer crashed and wrote gibberish into the bitmap, the result was something that looked vaguely like static on a broken television set a 'Snow crash'". Snow Crash was nominated for both the British Science Fiction Award in 1993, and the Arthur C. Clarke Award in 1994. The story begins and ends in Los Angeles, which is no longer part of what is left of the United States, during the early 21st century. In this hypothetical future reality the federal government of the United States has ceded most of its power to private organizations and entrepreneurs. Franchising, individual sovereignty and private vehicles reign (along with drug trafficking, violent crime, and traffic congestion). Mercenary armies compete for national defense contracts while private security guards preserve the peace in gated, sovereign housing developments. Highway companies compete to attract drivers to their roads rather than the competitors', and all mail delivery is by hired courier. The remnants of government maintain authority only in isolated compounds where they transact tedious make-wor...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=75290 ... Read more

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Chapters: Neal Stephenson, William Gibson, Bruce Sterling, Pat Cadigan, Cory Doctorow, John Shirley, Rudy Rucker, Charles Stross, Lewis Shiner, Fran Ilich, Richard Kadrey, Earl S. Wynn, Bruce Bethke, Tom Maddox, Lisa Mason. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 99. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: William Ford Gibson (born March 17, 1948) is an American-Canadian writer who has been called the "noir prophet" of the cyberpunk subgenre of science fiction. Gibson coined the term "cyberspace" in his short story "Burning Chrome" and later popularized the concept in his debut novel, Neuromancer (1984). In envisaging cyberspace, Gibson created an iconography for the information age before the ubiquity of the Internet in the 1990s. He is also credited with predicting the rise of reality television and with establishing the conceptual foundations for the rapid growth of virtual environments such as video games and the Web. Having changed residence frequently with his family as a child, Gibson became a shy, ungainly teenager who often read science fiction. After spending his adolescence at a private boarding school in Arizona, Gibson dodged the draft during the Vietnam War by emigrating to Canada in 1968, where he became immersed in the counterculture and after settling in Vancouver eventually became a full-time writer. He retains dual citizenship. Gibson's early works are bleak, noir near-future stories about the effect of cybernetics and computer networks on humans a "combination of lowlife and high tech". The short stories were published in popular science fiction magazines. The themes, settings and characters developed in these stories culminated in his first novel, Neuromancer, which garnered critical and commercial success, virtually initiating the cyberpunk literary genre. Although much of G...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=33119 ... Read more

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Chapters: Neal Stephenson, Bill Bryson, Mildred Benson, R. A. Lafferty, Max Allan Collins, Osha Gray Davidson, David Drake, Wallace Stegner, Susan Glaspell, Robert Dana, Carl Van Vechten, John R. Pierce, Marquis Childs, Dean Schwarz, Marilynne Robinson, Peg Mullen, Robert Coover, James Norman Hall, Kate Harrington, Otha Wearin, Merle Miller, Ted Kooser, Dennis Schmitz, David Rabe, Chris Offutt, Robert Jones Burdette, Dennis Mahony, Johannes B. Wist, Betsy Warland, Verlyn Klinkenborg, Dow Mossman, Bess Streeter Aldrich, Peter Hedges, Michael Gartner, Aagot Raaen, Hugh Sidey, Robert James Waller, Ann Darr, Joanna Klink, Carl Randau, James Stevens, Benjamin F. Gue, Richard Pike Bissell, Rob Borsellino, Eugene Burdick, David Allan Evans, Paul Cain, Bruce B. Brugmann, Mark Salter, Ned Shank, Hartzell Spence, Bob King, Bart Yates. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 211. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Raphael Aloysius Lafferty (November 7, 1914 - March 18, 2002) was an American science fiction and fantasy writer known for his original use of language, metaphor, and narrative structure, as well as for his etymological wit. He also wrote a set of four autobiographical novels, In a Green Tree; a history book, The Fall of Rome; and a number of novels that could be more or less loosely called historical fiction. Lafferty was born on 7 November 1914 in Neola, Iowa to Hugh David Lafferty (a broker dealing in oil leases and royalties) and Julia Mary Burke, a teacher, the youngest of five siblings. His first name, Raphael, derived from the day he was expected to be born on (the Feast of St. Raphael). At the age of 4, his family moved to Perry, Oklahoma. He graduated from Cascia Hall and later attended night school at the University of Tulsa for two years from 1933, mostly studying math and German, ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=48245 ... Read more