Random House New Releases - Technology

Adventures in Yarn Farming by Barbara Parry

2013-11-12T00:30:00-05:00

Adventures in Yarn Farming Four Seasons on a New England Fiber Farm
Written by Barbara Parry

Hardcover, 320 pages | Roost Books | Crafts & Hobbies - Knitting; Crafts & Hobbies - Weaving; Technology - Agriculture & Animal Husbandry | $27.95 | 978-1-59030-823-3 (1-59030-823-9)

A knitting book focusing on the sheep-to-shawl process by a well-known knitter, shepherd, and artisanal yarn producer.

Gain an insider's view on fiber farming and yarn craft, from sheep to skein, all told through the eyes of shepherd and textile artisan Barbara Parry. Follow her flock over the course of a year and discover all the facets of life with sheep: from shearing day and lambing season, to preparing fiber for yarn. Along the way you'll find projects for the fiber obsessed by top knitwear designers; essays on country life, including planting an heirloom kitchen garden, harvesting winter greens for a holiday wreath, and making bluebird nest boxes; and over 100 stunning photographs. With the growing locavore movement, the rising trend in sustainable farming, and the ever-increasing interest in crafting, this book is perfect for those who yearn for a closer connection to a rural lifestyle and who enjoy making things by hand.

City and suburb dwellers sometimes dream about what it would be like to live on a country farm and raise animals. Adventures in Yarn Farming invites readers to participate vicariously in the daily life of a working sheep farm without ever having to muck out a barn, be chased by a recalcitrant ram, or lift a hay bale. Told through the eyes of veteran shepherd and textile artisan, Barbara Parry's stories follow her flock over the course of a year, showing all the facets of life connected to sheep and making yarn. Readers get a front-row seat to the sheep show--tending sheep on winter mornings, shearing day, the round-the-clock chaos of lambing season, preparing fiber for yarn--and a visit to Barbara's dye studio, where she colorfully transforms skeins for hand-knit creations.

With the growing locavore movement, the rising eco-friendly trend in sustainable farming, and the ever-increasing interest in crafting, this book is relevant on many fronts. It will draw readers who yearn for a closer connection with a rural lifestyle and who enjoy making things by hand. Through 13 projects, as well as sidebars and side excursions, readers get a slice of life on a New England farm.

Ingenious by Jason Fagone

2013-11-05T00:30:00-05:00

Ingenious A True Story of Invention, Automotive Daring, and the Race to Revive America
Written by Jason Fagone

Hardcover, 320 pages | Crown | Social Science - Anth/Cultural; Technology - Inventions; Technology - Engineering - Automotive | $26.00 | 978-0-307-59148-7 (0-307-59148-4)

Ingenious by Jason Fagone

2013-11-05T00:30:00-05:00

Ingenious A True Story of Invention, Automotive Daring, and the Race to Revive America
Written by Jason Fagone

eBook, 320 pages | Crown | Social Science - Anth/Cultural; Technology - Inventions; Technology - Engineering - Automotive | $12.99 | 978-0-307-59150-0 (0-307-59150-6)

Secret Weapons by Brian Ford

2013-09-17T00:30:00-05:00

Secret Weapons Technology, Science and the Race to Win World War II
Written by Brian Ford

Trade Paperback, 256 pages | Osprey Publishing | History - Military - Weapons; History - Military - World War II; Technology - Military Science | $15.95 | 978-1-78096-721-9 (1-78096-721-7)

Secret Weapons charts the race in technology between the Allied and Axis powers, with examples of their use in battle, along with those that remained experimental or remained the stuff of science fiction. Importantly it also shows how wartime research set in train the high-tech era in which we now live. The account charts secret weapons development from the Japanese ray gun of the 1930s to the powerful V2 rocket, and compares World War II secret weapons research with the realities of present-day science. It's a riveting story of innovation under pressure, from a world of machine guns and biplanes to electronics, rockets, and nuclear bombs with the power to wipe out humanity.

Also included is how Nazi Germany's military might was founded upon the development of futuristic weapons. It follows the repercussions of the Treaty of Versailles, and the rise of militarism as a catalyst of technological advancement. Secret weapons are shown to have arisen out of Germany's admiration of military engineers, technologists, chemists, and experimenters. Many of the weapon developments were kept secret - even from the authorities in the Nazi machine - as adventurous contingencies for use in later stages of the campaign. In Japan, weapons development was overseen by the Imperial General Headquarters which had been established by Imperial Decree as long ago as 1893. Brian Ford explores the growing momentum that marked the 1930s, and the sense of increasing urgency that underpinned the most frenetic phase of technological development ever seen in warfare.

The book mirrors the Axis research with the science developed by the British and Americans, who had pioneered the harnessing of science and technology for military means. The first planes, submarines, aircraft carriers, and automatic weapons were products of these Western designers. And the influence of competitive sporting events (races like the Schneider trophy) continued to act as a spur to progress that would bring out the best in inventiveness - and which would increase the momentum of new thinking that would prove to be crucial in the theatre of war. And it was British ingenuity, as much as engineering, that kept the Allies in a continued race with the Axis powers in secret military development.

The book tells the parallel stories of developments in weaponry as the war goes on, showing how each side responded to the threat of the other.

The Imperfect Environmentalist by Sara Gilbert

2013-08-13T00:30:00-05:00

The Imperfect Environmentalist A Practical Guide to Clearing Your Body, Detoxing Your Home, and Saving the Earth (Without Losing Your Mind)
Written by Sara Gilbert

eBook, 336 pages | Ballantine Books | Nature - Environmental Conservation & Protection; Nature - Ecology; Technology - Environmental | $14.99 | 978-0-345-53759-1 (0-345-53759-9)

Actress, producer, mother, and imperfect environmentalist, Sara Gilbert understands how helping the environment can seem overwhelming. Between keeping up with work, friends, and kids, who has the time or money to maintain a compost pile, become an activist, or knit a sweater out of recycled grocery bags? Fortunately, we now know that small changes here and there in our everyday lives can make a big impact on the environment. We just need to know where to begin. That’s where Gilbert comes in, with this tongue-in-cheek reference guide packed full of helpful information, available at your fingertips. Read it cover to cover or just open it up to a random page; you can take what you want from it when you want. Whether you’ve got money to burn or have to crash on a friend’s couch, here are all of the eco-essentials to get the planet back on track, and you won’t have to hug a single tree—unless tree-hugging is your thing.

Sharing the basics on health and beauty, work and money, home and gardening, family and fitness, and more, The Imperfect Environmentalist cuts through the clutter—both in our homes and in our heads—and offers simple approaches to help us clear out the pollutants, put down the poisons, and begin to breathe easy again—one 100% recycled page at a time.

Advance praise for The Imperfect Environmentalist

“This book really opened my eyes. Then my eyes started stinging and tearing from all the toxins in the environment I’m now aware of. Thanks, Sara, I have a lot to do now.”—Lisa Kudrow

“Sara’s passion and commitment to the environment have given me an awareness that I never had before about our planet. I learn from Sara every day and she makes me want to be a better person. See, you can teach an old dog new tricks.”—Sharon Osbourne

From the Trade Paperback edition.

The Imperfect Environmentalist by Sara Gilbert

2013-08-13T00:30:00-05:00

The Imperfect Environmentalist A Practical Guide to Clearing Your Body, Detoxing Your Home, and Saving the Earth (Without Losing Your Mind)
Written by Sara Gilbert

Trade Paperback, 224 pages | Ballantine Books | Nature - Environmental Conservation & Protection; Nature - Ecology; Technology - Environmental | $16.00 | 978-0-345-53758-4 (0-345-53758-0)

Knights of Sidonia, volume 4 by Tsutomu Nihei

2013-08-06T00:30:00-05:00

Knights of Sidonia, volume 4
Written by Tsutomu Nihei

Trade Paperback, 186 pages | Vertical | Comics & Graphic Novels - Manga -Science Fiction; Comics & Graphic Novels - Graphic Novels - Science Fiction; Technology - Aeronautics & Astronautics | $12.95 | 978-1-935654-89-6 (1-935654-89-6)

Knights of Sidonia, volume 3 by Tsutomu Nihei

2013-06-04T00:30:00-05:00

Knights of Sidonia, volume 3
Written by Tsutomu Nihei

Amoskeag by Tamara K. Hareven

2013-05-15T00:30:00-05:00

Amoskeag
Written by Tamara K. Hareven

eBook, 416 pages | Pantheon | Technology - Textiles & Polymers; History - United States - State & Local - New England (Ct, Ma, Me, Nh, Ri, Vt); Business & Economics - Industries - Textile Industry | $12.99 | 978-0-307-83159-0 (0-307-83159-0)

Through the prism of one turn-of-the-century factory-city, Tamara Hareven and Randolph Langenbach have captured the historic experience of millions of Americans. We hear for the first time the eloquent voices—sometimes elegiac, sometimes bitter, yet always powerful—of immigrant being turned into Americans as they worked the machines which were themselves transforming this country.

The book focuses on the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company, once the largest textile factory in the world. The shells of its awesome mills still extend for two miles along the Merrimack Rover in Manchester, New Hampshire. Never before have we known so vividly what it was like to live a life in the closed world of a single gigantic industrial entity, from the first moment a child set foot in a mill carrying his father’s or mother’s lunchpail to the moment he retired or was laid off sixty years later.

Amoskeag moves through layer after layer of mill life, from the elegant world of Boston-based executives to the cramped quarters of the families of messenger boys, Boston Brahmins and Scottish weaving girls, French-Canadian dirt farmers and Irish immigrants, bosses and workers, create and unforgettable vision of shared experiences and ethnic rivalries, of company loyalty and butter strikes, of back-breaking work and momentary delights in industrializing America.

Over seventy photographs, ranging from classic shots by Lewis Hine to modern portraits of the interviewees, help reconstruct the reality that was Amoskeag.

Analyzing Art and Aesthetics by Margaret A. Weitekamp

2013-04-16T00:30:00-05:00

Analyzing Art and Aesthetics
Edited by Anne Collins Goodyear and Margaret A. Weitekamp

Hardcover, 312 pages | Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press | Art - Museum Studies; Science - Scientific Instrumen; Technology - Inventions | $49.95 | 978-1-935623-13-7 (1-935623-13-3)

This ninth volume of the Artefacts series explores how artists have responded to developments in science and technology, past and present. Rather than limiting the discussion to art alone, editors Anne Collins Goodyear and Margaret Weitekamp also asked contributors to consider aesthetics: the scholarly consideration of sensory responses to cultural objects. When considered as aesthetic objects, how do scientific instruments or technological innovations reflect and embody culturally grounded assessments about appearance, feel, and use? And when these objects become museum artifacts, what aesthetic factors affect their exhibition? Contributors found answers in the material objects themselves. This volume reconsiders how science, technology, art, and aesthetics impact one another.

The Food Police by Jayson Lusk

2013-04-16T00:30:00-05:00

The Food Police A Well-Fed Manifesto About the Politics of Your Plate
Written by Jayson Lusk

Hardcover, 240 pages | Crown Forum | Social Science - Agriculture & Food; Technology - Food Industry & Science | $24.00 | 978-0-307-98703-7 (0-307-98703-5)

A rollicking indictment of the liberal elite's hypocrisy when it comes to food.

Ban trans-fats? Outlaw Happy Meals? Tax Twinkies? What's next? Affirmative action for cows?
     A catastrophe is looming. Farmers are raping the land and torturing animals. Food is riddled with deadly pesticides, hormones and foreign DNA. Corporate farms are wallowing in government subsidies. Meat packers and fast food restaurants are exploiting workers and tainting the food supply. And Paula Deen has diabetes!
     Something must be done. So says an emerging elite in this country who think they know exactly what we should grow, cook and eat. They are the food police.
     Taking on the commandments and condescension the likes of Michael Pollan, Alice Waters, and Mark Bittman, The Food Police casts long overdue skepticism on fascist food snobbery, debunking the myths propagated by the food elite. You'll learn:
-   Organic food is not necessarily healthier or tastier (and is certainly more expensive).
-   Genetically modified foods haven't sickened a single person but they have made farmers more profitable and they do hold the promise of feeding impoverished Africans.
-   Farm policies aren't making us fat.
-   Voguish locavorism is not greener or better for the economy.
-   Fat taxes won't slim our waists and "fixing" school lunch programs won't make our kids any smarter.
-   Why the food police hypocritically believe an iPad is a technological marvel but food technology is an industrial evil
So before Big Brother and Animal Farm merge into a socialist nightmare, read The Food Police and let us as Americans celebrate what is good about our food system and take back our forks and foie gras before it's too late!

The Food Police by Jayson Lusk

2013-04-16T00:30:00-05:00

The Food Police A Well-Fed Manifesto About the Politics of Your Plate
Written by Jayson Lusk

eBook, 240 pages | Crown Forum | Social Science - Agriculture & Food; Technology - Food Industry & Science | $12.99 | 978-0-307-98704-4 (0-307-98704-3)

Knights of Sidonia, volume 2 by Tsutomu Nihei

2013-04-16T00:30:00-05:00

Knights of Sidonia, volume 2
Written by Tsutomu Nihei

In volume two, the Sidonia has engaged a new type of Guana. This armored-type is strangely aggressive, and most of the young pilots who have confronted the monster are not prepared for this change in stragedy.

Rookie pilot Nagate Tanikaze has even fewer completed flight-hours, but that does not prevent him from devising his own plan of attack when his squadron is in danger. Feeling the stirrings of a bond that is precarious at best given that humanity itself is in peril, he ignores orders to save a colleague left behind.

And then upon returning to the Sidonia, the history of the Guana is revealed to Tanikaze, not long before battle and a rival's jealousy leaves him alone in space again.

Rethinking Cold War Culture by James Gilbert

2013-04-09T00:30:00-05:00

Rethinking Cold War Culture
Written by Peter J. Kuznick and James Gilbert

eBook, 240 pages | Smithsonian Books | History - United States - 20th Century; History - Social History; Technology - History | $29.95 | 978-1-58834-415-1 (1-58834-415-0)

This anthology of essays questions many widespread assumptions about the culture of postwar America. Illuminating the origins and development of the many threads that constituted American culture during the Cold War, the contributors challenge the existence of a monolithic culture during the 1950s and thereafter. They demonstrate instead that there was more to American society than conformity, political conservatism, consumerism, and middle-class values.

By examining popular culture, politics, economics, gender relations, and civil rights, the contributors contend that, while there was little fundamentally new about American culture in the Cold War era, the Cold War shaped and distorted virtually every aspect of American life. Interacting with long-term historical trends related to demographics, technological change, and economic cycles, four new elements dramatically influenced American politics and culture: the threat of nuclear annihilation, the use of surrogate and covert warfare, the intensification of anticommunist ideology, and the rise of a powerful military-industrial complex.

This provocative dialogue by leading historians promises to reshape readers' understanding of America during the Cold War, revealing a complex interplay of historical norms and political influences.

The Ice Palace That Melted Away by Bill Stumpf

2013-04-03T00:30:00-05:00

The Ice Palace That Melted Away Restoring Civility and Other Lost Virtues to Everyday Life
Written by Bill Stumpf

eBook, 192 pages | Pantheon | Design - Industrial; Technology - Social Aspects; Design - History & Criticism | $15.99 | 978-0-307-82288-8 (0-307-82288-5)

With The Ice Palace That Melted Away, Bill Stumpf, the designer of the first ergonomic chair, addresses the symbiotic relationship between design and the way we live, the often deadening effect of technology, and his hopes for a more humane future. As a designer associated with Herman Miller, Inc., for more than twenty years, Stumpf has been thinking about the profoundly positive or negative effect design can have on our culture. He is both an idealist and a pragmatist, and his wry, anecdotal style gently reveals his shrewd observations about American customs and values. Stumpf is convinced that good design can create the right atmosphere to inspire learning, rehabilitate criminals, and generally lift our spirits. Since technology has succeeded in distancing us from the real experiences of life and such former pleasures as travel, in this facinating book he proposes a playful redesign of the Boeing 747 and a jaunty carriage-like taxicab to put us back in touch with travel as it once was. But it is an event such as the construction of the ephemeral ice palace in St. Paul, Minnesota, during the winter carnival—a source of joy and pride to adults and children alike—that encapsulates the idea of play, which Stumpf feels is essential to all our lives.

This provocative book asks whether we might want to do something about our ever-declining levels of "comfort, hidden goodness, play, personal worth, and helping others" to make our future society a truly civilized one.

(Black-and-white illustrations throughout.)

From the Hardcover edition.

China Airborne by James Fallows

2013-02-26T00:30:00-05:00

China Airborne The Test of China's Future
Written by James Fallows

Trade Paperback, 288 pages | Vintage | Business & Economics - International; History - China; Technology - Aeronautics & Astronautics | $15.95 | 978-1-4000-3127-6 (1-4000-3127-3)

From one of our most influential journalists, here is a timely, vital, and illuminating account of the next stage of China’s modernization—its plan to rival America as the world’s leading aerospace power and to bring itself from its low-wage past to a high-tech future.

In 2011, China announced its twelfth Five-Year Plan, which included the commitment to spend a quarter of a trillion dollars to jump-start its aerospace industry. In China Airborne, James Fallows documents, for the first time, the extraordinary scale of China’s project, making clear how it stands to catalyze the nation’s hyper-growth and hyper-urbanization, revolutionizing China in ways analogous to the building of America’s transcontinental railroad in the nineteenth century.

Completing this remarkable picture, Fallows chronicles life in the city of Xi’an, home to 250,000 aerospace engineers and assembly-line workers, and introduces us to some of the hucksters, visionaries, entrepreneurs, and dreamers who seek to benefit from China’s pursuit of aeronautical supremacy. He concludes by explaining what this latest demonstration of Chinese ambition means for the United States and for the rest of the world—and the right ways for us to respond.

Blackett's War by Stephen Budiansky

2013-02-19T00:30:00-05:00

Blackett's War The Men Who Defeated the Nazi U-Boats and Brought Science to the Art of Warfare
Written by Stephen Budiansky

Hardcover, 336 pages | Knopf | History - Military - World War II; History - Military - Strategy; Technology - Operations Research | $27.95 | 978-0-307-59596-6 (0-307-59596-X)

The exciting history of a small group of British and American scientists who, during World War II, developed the new field of operational research to turn back the tide of German submarines—revolutionizing the way wars are waged and won.

In March 1941, after a year of unbroken and devastating U-boat onslaughts, the British War Cabinet decided to try a new strategy in the foundering naval campaign. To do so, they hired an intensely private, bohemian physicist who was also an ardent socialist. Patrick Blackett was a former navy officer and future winner of the Nobel Prize; he is little remembered today, but he and his fellow scientists did as much to win the war against Nazi Germany as almost anyone else. As director of the World War II antisubmarine effort, Blackett used little more than simple mathematics and probability theory—and a steadfast belief in the utility of science—to save the campaign against the U-boat. Employing these insights in unconventional ways, from the washing of mess hall dishes to the color of bomber wings, the Allies went on to win essential victories against Hitler’s Germany.

Here is the story of these civilian intellectuals who helped to change the nature of twentieth-century warfare. Throughout, Stephen Budiansky describes how scientists became intimately involved with what had once been the distinct province of military commanders—convincing disbelieving military brass to trust the solutions suggested by their analysis. Budiansky shows that these men above all retained the belief that operational research, and a scientific mentality, could change the world. It’s a belief that has come to fruition with the spread of their tenets to the business and military worlds, and it started in the Battle of the Atlantic, in an attempt to outfight the Germans, but most of all to outwit them.

Blackett's War by Stephen Budiansky

2013-02-19T00:30:00-05:00

Blackett's War The Men Who Defeated the Nazi U-Boats and Brought Science to the Art of Warfare
Written by Stephen Budiansky

eBook, 336 pages | Knopf | History - Military - World War II; History - Military - Strategy; Technology - Operations Research | $13.99 | 978-0-307-96263-8 (0-307-96263-6)

Early Home Computers by Kevin Murrell

2013-02-19T00:30:00-05:00

Early Home Computers
Written by Kevin Murrell

Trade Paperback, 48 pages | Shire | Technology - History; History; History - Modern - 20th Century | $12.95 | 978-0-7478-1216-6 (0-7478-1216-0)

This is the story of the people and machines that revolutionized our lives and made personal computers an integral part of our homes. For the typical family in the 1960s and 1970s, computers were both fascinating and frightening, but largely a mystery. Developments in microelectronics in the early 1970s meant that computers at home seemed about to become commonplace: the kitchen computer would hold all of the family's recipes and keep a record of food in the larder, the study computer would manage the family finances, and the kids' computers would educate and entertain them. Engineers, enthusiasts and budding entrepreneurs set about making home computers a reality, and although the first machines were extremely limited, later machines would indeed begin to revolutionize our lives at home, at school, and at work.

Birdseye by Mark Kurlansky

2013-02-12T00:30:00-05:00

Birdseye The Adventures of a Curious Man
Written by Mark Kurlansky

Trade Paperback, 288 pages | Anchor | Biography & Autobiography - Science & Technology; Biography & Autobiography - Historical; Technology - Inventions | $15.95 | 978-0-7679-3030-7 (0-7679-3030-4)

While working as a fur trapper in Labrador, Canada, Clarence Birdseye encountered an age-old problem: bad food and an unappealing, unhealthy diet. However, he observed that fresh vegetables wetted and left outside in the Arctic winds froze in a way that maintained their integrity after thawing. As a result, he developed his patented Birdseye freezing process and started the company that still bears his name. Birdseye forever changed the way we preserve, store, and distribute food, and the way we eat.

Mark Kurlansky’s vibrant and affectionate narrative reveals Clarence Birdseye as a quintessential “can-do” American inventor—his other patents include an electric sunlamp, a harpoon gun to tag finback whales, and an improved incandescent lightbulb—and shows how the greatest of changes can come from the simplest of ideas and the unlikeliest of places.

Random House New Releases - Technology

Adventures in Yarn Farming by Barbara Parry

Adventures in Yarn Farming Four Seasons on a New England Fiber FarmWritten by Barbara Parry

Ingenious by Jason Fagone

Ingenious A True Story of Invention, Automotive Daring, and the Race to Revive AmericaWritten by Jason Fagone

Ingenious by Jason Fagone

Ingenious A True Story of Invention, Automotive Daring, and the Race to Revive AmericaWritten by Jason Fagone

Secret Weapons by Brian Ford

Secret Weapons Technology, Science and the Race to Win World War IIWritten by Brian Ford

The Imperfect Environmentalist by Sara Gilbert

The Imperfect Environmentalist A Practical Guide to Clearing Your Body, Detoxing Your Home, and Saving the Earth (Without Losing Your Mind)Written by Sara Gilbert

The Imperfect Environmentalist by Sara Gilbert

The Imperfect Environmentalist A Practical Guide to Clearing Your Body, Detoxing Your Home, and Saving the Earth (Without Losing Your Mind)Written by Sara Gilbert

Knights of Sidonia, volume 4 by Tsutomu Nihei

Knights of Sidonia, volume 4 Written by Tsutomu Nihei

Knights of Sidonia, volume 3 by Tsutomu Nihei

Knights of Sidonia, volume 3 Written by Tsutomu Nihei

Amoskeag by Tamara K. Hareven

Amoskeag Written by Tamara K. Hareven

Analyzing Art and Aesthetics by Margaret A. Weitekamp

Analyzing Art and Aesthetics Edited by Anne Collins Goodyear and Margaret A. Weitekamp

The Food Police by Jayson Lusk

The Food Police A Well-Fed Manifesto About the Politics of Your PlateWritten by Jayson Lusk

The Food Police by Jayson Lusk

The Food Police A Well-Fed Manifesto About the Politics of Your PlateWritten by Jayson Lusk

Knights of Sidonia, volume 2 by Tsutomu Nihei

Knights of Sidonia, volume 2 Written by Tsutomu Nihei

Rethinking Cold War Culture by James Gilbert

Rethinking Cold War Culture Written by Peter J. Kuznick and James Gilbert

The Ice Palace That Melted Away by Bill Stumpf

The Ice Palace That Melted Away Restoring Civility and Other Lost Virtues to Everyday LifeWritten by Bill Stumpf

China Airborne by James Fallows

China Airborne The Test of China's FutureWritten by James Fallows

Blackett's War by Stephen Budiansky

Blackett's War The Men Who Defeated the Nazi U-Boats and Brought Science to the Art of WarfareWritten by Stephen Budiansky

Blackett's War by Stephen Budiansky

Blackett's War The Men Who Defeated the Nazi U-Boats and Brought Science to the Art of WarfareWritten by Stephen Budiansky

Early Home Computers by Kevin Murrell

Early Home Computers Written by Kevin Murrell

Birdseye by Mark Kurlansky

Birdseye The Adventures of a Curious ManWritten by Mark Kurlansky

Adventures in Yarn Farming Four Seasons on a New England Fiber Farm
Written by Barbara Parry

Ingenious A True Story of Invention, Automotive Daring, and the Race to Revive America
Written by Jason Fagone

Ingenious A True Story of Invention, Automotive Daring, and the Race to Revive America
Written by Jason Fagone

Secret Weapons Technology, Science and the Race to Win World War II
Written by Brian Ford

The Imperfect Environmentalist A Practical Guide to Clearing Your Body, Detoxing Your Home, and Saving the Earth (Without Losing Your Mind)
Written by Sara Gilbert

The Imperfect Environmentalist A Practical Guide to Clearing Your Body, Detoxing Your Home, and Saving the Earth (Without Losing Your Mind)
Written by Sara Gilbert

Knights of Sidonia, volume 4
Written by Tsutomu Nihei

Knights of Sidonia, volume 3
Written by Tsutomu Nihei

Amoskeag
Written by Tamara K. Hareven

Analyzing Art and Aesthetics
Edited by Anne Collins Goodyear and Margaret A. Weitekamp

The Food Police A Well-Fed Manifesto About the Politics of Your Plate
Written by Jayson Lusk

The Food Police A Well-Fed Manifesto About the Politics of Your Plate
Written by Jayson Lusk

Knights of Sidonia, volume 2
Written by Tsutomu Nihei

Rethinking Cold War Culture
Written by Peter J. Kuznick and James Gilbert

The Ice Palace That Melted Away Restoring Civility and Other Lost Virtues to Everyday Life
Written by Bill Stumpf

China Airborne The Test of China's Future
Written by James Fallows

Blackett's War The Men Who Defeated the Nazi U-Boats and Brought Science to the Art of Warfare
Written by Stephen Budiansky

Blackett's War The Men Who Defeated the Nazi U-Boats and Brought Science to the Art of Warfare
Written by Stephen Budiansky

Early Home Computers
Written by Kevin Murrell

Birdseye The Adventures of a Curious Man
Written by Mark Kurlansky