Facsimille of first 24 pages of a would-be book about Moscow churches planned to be published in 1991 and never finished.

CLOWN is an open-source simulator of an Intel-type computer that includes a CPU, RAM, hard drive, DMA controller, timer,... More > monitor, and keyboard. The package contains the simulator itself, assembler, linker, and various disk utilities.

CLOWN can be used to teach or study operating systems, computer organization, computer architectures, assembly programming, and probably other subjects.

The book describes the organization of the package: the architecture of the CLOWN CPU and the periphery devices, thje instruction set, the syntax of the assembly language, command line options, and basic programming techniques. There are also ten programming assignments that can be used in an operating system class. < Less

The purpose of this book is to provide an overview of Computer Programming for an inexperienced audience, using Python - an... More > easy, popular, and powerful programming language. The emphasis of the book is not on the language itself, but on the way computer programmers think when they are dealing with their (and our) problems. < Less

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A dictionary of Russian railway slang -- almost 700 entries. In Russian.

This book is an introduction to social informatics. "Can they steal my identity?" - "What does it mean encryption?" - "How... More > do Web chats work?" - "What is a virus?" - "Who's spying on my computer?" - These and many other questions are becoming important and sometimes vitally important for people who thought they had nothing to do with the computing profession. As computers and other computing devices penetrate deeper and deeper into our everyday life, we become more and more dependent on them. The purpose of this book is to show what's "running under the hood" of a computer and a computer network, where are the threats coming from, how to avoid them, and how the advent of computers and networks is changing our society. < Less

The purpose of this book is to provide a simple yet profound introduction to the art of computer programming for an... More > inexperienced audience, using Python -- an easy, popular, and powerful scripting
programming language. It is an attempt to close the gap between two relatively disjoint communities and two respective classes of books:
the community of novice programmers desperately struggling with their first C, C++ or
Java programs, and the community of computer
professionals and hackers using Python for their "bread and butter." Because of this deep division, most of the books for novices do not cover Python, while most (if not all) Python books for professionals are not introductory and cannot be recommended to non-programmers. < Less

The purpose of this book is to provide an overview of Computer Programming for an inexperienced audience, using Python - an... More > easy, popular, and powerful programming language. The emphasis of the book is not on the language itself, but on the way computer programmers think when they are dealing with their (and our) problems. < Less

The book you are about to enjoy is a reprint collection of maps of the railways and riverways of the USSR. The atlas was... More > originally published in 1943, in the middle of WWII. The maps in the atlas are mostly actual as of year 1941, although some later constructed lines are also shown. The original book was designated as "Dlya Sluzhebnogo Pol'zovaniya," which means "For official use only." The maps show all hub and major non-hub stations, number of tracks, track gauges, lines under construction, and administrative boundaries. < Less

Facsimille of first 24 pages of a would-be book about Moscow churches planned to be published in 1991 and never finished.