Synopsis
Kidder reminds managers that more inspiring than a big paycheck is meeting a big, meaningful, and clearly-defined challenge. THE SOUL OF A NEW MACHINE follows a team through the course of solving a critical issue, complementing the story with insights any manager interested in motivating the troops would do well to follow.
| Details | | Publication Date: | 1997-07-01 | | Series: | Modern Library Series | | Edition Description: | Reprint |
| Size | | Length: | 384 pages | | Height: | 7.8 in | | Width: | 5.3 in | | Thickness: | 1.0 in | | Weight: | 13.6 oz |
Publisher's Note
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award, The Soul of a New Machine was a bestseller on its first publication in 1981. With the touch of an expert thriller writer, Tracy Kidder recounts the feverish efforts of a team of Data General researchers to create a new 32-bit superminicomputer. A compelling account of individual sacrifice and human ingenuity, The Soul of a New Machine endures as the classic chronicle of the computer age and the masterminds behind its technological advances. "A superb book," said Robert Pirsig, author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. "All the incredible complexity and chaos and exploitation and loneliness and strange, half-mad beauty of this field are honestly and correctly drawn." The Washington Post Book World said, "Kidder has created compelling entertainment. He offers a fast, painless, enjoyable means to an initial understanding of computers, allowing us to understand the complexity of machines we could only marvel at before, and to appreciate the skills of the people who create them." The Modern Library has played a significant role in American cultural life for the better part of a century. The series was founded in 1917 by the publishers Boni and Liveright and eight years later acquired by Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer. It provided the foundation for their next publishing venture, Random House. The Modern Library has been a staple of the American book trade, providing readers with afford-able hardbound editions of impor-tant works of literature and thought. For the Modern Librarys seventy-fifth anniversary, Random House redesigned the series, restoringas its emblem the running torch-bearer created by Lucian Bernhard in 1925 and refurbishing jackets, bindings, and type, as well as inau-gurating a new program of selecting titles. The Modern Library continues to provide the world's best books, at the best prices. Tracy Kidder has written a new Introduction to this Modern Library edition.
Industry Reviews
"A superb book...All the incredible complexity and chaos and exploitation and loveliness and strange, half-mad beauty of this field are honestly and correctly drawn here."
Robert M. Pirsig
"Tracy Kidder can turn the most unlikely story into riveting drama."
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"Kidder has endowed the tale with such pace, texture, and poetic implication that he has elevated it to a high level of narrative art....Splendid."
Alexander-Moegerle
"A true-life adventure."
Alexander-Moegerle
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