KATIE HAFNER

Esta es una formidable biografía de uno de los pianistas más emblemáticos de la historia: Glenn Gould, y del "dúo dinámico" que lo acompañó: su afinador, el casi ciego y sinestésico Vern Edquist, y su piano, el CD 318, al cual el canadiense dedico una milimetrica y obsesiva busqueda, no sin discutir con Edquist, por el sonido perfecto. Gould, un artista que renuncio al formato de concierto y se dedico a realizar grabaciones que se volvieron fundamentales, tuvo una relacion fascinante con su piano. Detras de un gran pianista hay un gran afinador, reza la frase. En el contexto historico del siglo XX, aqui se recorre la historia de la Steinway & Sons, que tuvo que fabricar feretros durante la Depresion. Este libro tambien es la biografia de un piano. Este libro, polifonico en muchos sentidos, congrega disciplinas, anecdotas y recorre la historia a traves de ellas al tiempo que reflexiona sobre la tension entre el artista y el medio y abraza al fantasma del clavecin. La investigacion de Katie Hafner es fantastica."Este libro cuenta la historia de Gould a traves de sus obsesiones", The New York Times"Una biografia bien temperada", Galileu"Hafner esculpio montañas de investigacion", Toronto Star

Onde os Magos Nunca Dormem é a narrativa definitiva sobre a origem da internet.O ano de 1969 chegava ao seu fim, quando, no universo fechado dos centros de pesquisa norte-americanos, ocorreu algo que mudaria o mundo para sempre: a primeira transmisso de uma mensagem digital entre computadores a longa distancia. O evento coroou o trabalho arduo e criativo de um grupo de cientistas do governo e da academia, que assim criou o que entendemos hoje como a internet. O objetivo deste grupo era resolver um problema pratico: trocar arquivos cientificos e colaborar sem a necessidade de proximidade fisica. Hoje, a internet e utilizada por bilhes ao redor do mundo e transformou radicalmente a maneira como nos relacionamos, divertimos e consumimos. O mundo digital foi criado pelos genios que desfilam pelas paginas de Onde Os Magos Dormem Tarde que celebra os 50 anos da primeira transmisso pela internet.O livro leva o leitor aos bastidores da criaço da internet, um projeto que uniu o governo norte-americano e a academia uma relaço que esta em xeque hoje em dia, em meio a discusso ideologizada que domina o mundo e o Brasil. Onde Os Magos Nunca Dormem coloca voce dentro das reunies onde as decises mais importantes e mais curiosas foram tomadas, desde questes tecnicas explicadas de forma direta ate o uso do @ nos eMails.

Twenty five years ago, it didnt exist. Today, twenty million people worldwide are surfing the Net. Where Wizards Stay Up Late is the exciting story of the pioneers responsible for creating the most talked about, most influential, and most far-reaching communications breakthrough since the invention of the telephone. In the 1960s, when computers where regarded as mere giant calculators, J.C.R. Licklider at MIT saw them as the ultimate communications devices. With Defense Department funds, he and a band of visionary computer whizzes began work on a nationwide, interlocking network of computers. Taking readers behind the scenes, Where Wizards Stay Up Late captures the hard work, genius, and happy accidents of their daring, stunningly successful venture.

The complex, deeply binding relationship between mothers and daughters is brought vividly to life in Katie Hafners remarkable memoir, an exploration of the year she and her mother, Helen, spent working through, and triumphing over, a lifetime of unresolved emotions. Dreaming of a year in Provence with her mother, Katie urges Helen to move to San Francisco to live with her and Zoe, Katies teenage daughter. Katie and Zoe had become a mother-daughter team, strong enough, Katie thought, to absorb the arrival of a seventy-seven-year-old woman set in her ways. Filled with fairy-tale hope that she and her mother would become friends, and that Helen would grow close to her exceptional granddaughter, Katie embarked on an experiment in intergenerational living that she would soon discover was filled with land mines: memories of her parents painful divorce, of her mothers drinking, of dislocating moves back and forth across the country, and of Katies own widowhood and bumpy recovery. Helen, for her part, was also holding difficult issues at bay. How these three women from such different generations learn to navigate their challenging, turbulent, and ultimately healing journey together makes for riveting reading. By turns heartbreaking and funnyand always insightfulKatie Hafners brave and loving book answers questions about the universal truths of family that are central to the lives of so many.Praise for Mother Daughter Me The most raw, honest and engaging memoir Ive read in a long time.KJ DellAntonia, The New York Times A brilliant, funny, poignant, and wrenching story of three generations under one roof, unlike anything I have ever read.Abraham Verghese, author of Cutting for Stone Weaving past with present, anecdote with analysis, [Katie] Hafners riveting account of multigenerational living and mother-daughter frictions, of love and forgiveness, is devoid of self-pity and unafraid of self-blame. . . . [Hafner is] a brightand appealingheroine.Cathi Hanauer, Elle [A] frank and searching account . . . Currents of grief, guilt, longing and forgiveness flow through the compelling narrative.Steven Winn, San Francisco Chronicle A touching saga that shines . . . We see how years-old unresolved emotions manifest.Lindsay Deutsch, USA Today [Hafners] memoir shines a light on nurturing deficits repeated through generations and will lead many readers to relive their own struggles with forgiveness.Erica Jong, PeopleAn unusually graceful story, one that balances honesty and tact . . . Hafner narrates the events so adeptly that they feel enlightening.Harpers Heartbreakingly honest, yet not without hope and flashes of wry humor.Kirkus Reviews [An] emotionally raw memoir examining the delicate, inevitable shift from dependence to independence and back again.O: The Oprah Magazine (Ten Titles to Pick Up Now) Scrap any romantic ideas about what goes on when a 40-something woman invites her mother to live with her and her teenage daughter for a year. As Hafner hilariously and tou...

From the popular Lost Women of Science podcast, comes an empowering collection that recognizes ten trailblazing female scientists whose lives and works have been lost to history...until now. Uncover the truth behind some of the worlds greatest accomplishmentsand the women who made it happen.For far too long, women in science have been overlooked. But despite the missing pages from the history books, these remarkable ladies conducted groundbreaking experiments, discovered diseases that changed lives, deciphered codes that altered the course of world wars, and so much more. And now, we know their stories. From the creators of award-nominated Lost Women of Science podcast comes an illuminating and moving portrayal of ten revolutionary women in STEM who dared to break barriers even when no one was watching. Through riveting sketches, rarely-before-seen photos, and insightful stories, unearth the lives and triumphs of these science pioneers whose influence cannot be forgotten.