Reviews

The Reviews department features book reviews of Mike Hally\´s Electronic Brains: Stories from the Dawn of the Computer Age; David Leavitt\´s The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer; and Jim Holt\´s New Yorker article "Code Breaker: The Life and Death of Alan Turing"; Darren Wershler-Henry\´s The Iron Whim: A Fragmented History of Typewriting; JoAnne Yates\´ Structuring the Information Age: Life Insurance and Technology in the Twentieth Century; T.F. Peterson\´s Nightwork: A History of Hacks and Pranks at MIT; and Irene K. Fischer\´s Geodesy? What\´s That?.