Katie Hafner

Twenty five years ago, it didn't 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 1960's, 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.

Using the exploits of three international hackers, Cyberpunk provides a fascinating tour of a bizarre subculture populated by outlaws who penetrate even the most sensitive computer networks and wreak havoc on the information they find -- everything from bank accounts to military secrets. In a book filled with as much adventure as any Ludlum novel, the authors show what motivates these young hackers to access systems, how they learn to break in, and how little can be done to stop them.

Using the exploits of three international hackers, Cyberpunk provides a fascinating tour of a bizarre subculture populated by outlaws who penetrate even the most sensitive computer networks and wreak havoc on the information they find - everything from bank accounts to military secrets. In a book filled with as much adventure as any Ludlum novel, the author shows what motivates these young hackers to access systems, how they learn to break in, and how little can be done to stop them.

A tour-de-force novel about love, the yearning for connection, and the ways in which childhood trauma plays out in adult life.When introverted Ethan Fawcett marries Barb, he has every reason to believe he will be delivered from a lifetime of solitude. One day Barb brings home two young brothers, Tommy and Sam, for them to foster, and when the pandemic hits, Ethan becomes obsessed with providing a perfect life for the boys. Instead of bringing Barb and Ethan closer together, though, the boys become a wedge in their relationship, as Ethan is unable to share with Barb a secret that has been haunting him since childhood. Then Ethan takes Tommy and Sam on a biking trip in Italy, and it becomes clear just how unusual Ethan and his children are—and what it will take for Ethan to repair his marriage. This hauntingly beautiful debut novel—a bold and original high-wire feat—is filled with humor and surprise.

The complex, deeply binding relationship between mothers and daughters is brought vividly to life in Katie Hafner’s 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 Zoë, Katie’s teenage daughter. Katie and Zoë 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 mother’s drinking, of dislocating moves back and forth across the country, and of Katie’s 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 funny—and always insightful—Katie Hafner’s brave and loving book answers questions about the universal truths of family that are central to the lives of so many.

Glenn Gould was famous for his obsessions: the scarves, sweaters and fingerless gloves that he wore even on the hottest summer days; his deep fear of germs and illness; the odd wooden "pygmy" chair that he carried with him wherever he performed; and his sudden withdrawal from the public stage at the peak of his career. But perhaps Gould's greatest obsession of all was for a particular piano, a Steinway concert grand known as CD318 (C, meaning for the use of Steinway Concert Artists only, and D, denoting it as the largest that Steinway built). A Romance on Three Legs is the story of Gould's love for this piano, from the first moment of discovery, in a Toronto dept. store, to the tragic moment when the piano was dropped and seriously damaged while being transported from a concert overseas. Hafner also introduces us to the world and art of piano tuning, including a central character in Gould's life, the blind tuner Verne Edquist, who lovingly attended to CD318 for more than two decades. We learn how a concert grand is built, and the fascinating story of how Steinway & Sons weathered the war years by supplying materials for the military effort. Indeed, CD318 came very close to ending up as a series of glider parts or, worse, a casket. The book has already been lauded by Kevin Bazzana, author of the definitive Gould biography, who notes that Hafner "has clarified some old mysteries and turned up many fresh details."

Presents the dramatic story of the pioneering virtual community that changed the way the world communicates, conceived in 1984, and implemented during the end of the 1980s, and available to "Well-beings" who participated in on-line discussions on a myriad of topics.

The house at the bridge in Potsdam watched as its residents fled the Nazis, as its rooms were converted into a boarding school and child care center by the East Germans, as the Berlin Wall was constructed, and as the wall was torn down. A memorable story of 20th-century Germany through the lens of one house and one family.

Esta es una formidable biografía de uno de los pianistas más emblemáticos de la 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 dedicó una milimétrica y obsesiva búsqueda, no sin discutir con Edquist, por el sonido perfecto. Gould, un artista que renunció al formato de concierto y se dedicó a realizar grabaciones que se volvieron fundamentales, tuvo una relación fascinante con su piano. Detrás de un gran pianista hay un gran afinador, reza la frase. En el contexto histórico del siglo XX, aquí se recorre la historia de la Steinway & Sons, que tuvo que fabricar féretros durante la Depresión. Este libro también es la biografía de un piano. Este libro, polifónico en muchos sentidos, congrega disciplinas, anécdotas y recorre la historia a través de ellas al tiempo que reflexiona sobre la tensión entre el artista y el medio y abraza al fantasma del clavecín. La investigación de Katie Hafner es fantástica."Este libro cuenta la historia de Gould a través de sus obsesiones", The New York Times"Una biografía bien temperada", Galileu"Hafner esculpió montañas de investigación", Toronto Star

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The complex, deeply binding relationship between mothers and daughters is brought vividly to life in Katie Hafner's remarkable memoir, an exploration of the year she and her mother, Helen, spent working through, and triumphing over, a lifetime of unresolved emotions.

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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 a primeira transmissão de uma mensagem digital entre computadores à longa distância. O evento coroou o trabalho árduo 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 prá trocar arquivos científicos e colaborar sem a necessidade de proximidade física. Hoje, a internet é utilizada por bilhões ao redor do mundo e transformou radicalmente a maneira como nos relacionamos, divertimos e consumimos. O mundo digital foi criado pelos gênios que desfilam pelas páginas de Onde Os Magos Dormem Tarde – que celebra os 50 anos da primeira transmissão pela internet.O livro leva o leitor aos bastidores da criação da internet, um projeto que uniu o governo norte-americano e a academia – uma relação que está em xeque hoje em dia, em meio à discussão ideologizada que domina o mundo e o Brasil. Onde Os Magos Nunca Dormem coloca você dentro das reuniões onde as decisões mais importantes e mais curiosas foram tomadas, desde questões técnicas explicadas de forma direta até o uso do @ nos eMails.