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Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Written by Richard Tames
Format: Trade Paperback, 48 pages
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $12.95
The famous son of a famous father, Isambard Kingdom Brunel was acknowledged in his own lifetime as the greatest engineer in an era of engineering titans. He helped drive the first tunnel under a navigable river, built the first all iron ship, bridged the Tamar and Avon, constructed the first railway... Read more >
Written by Richard Tames
Format: Trade Paperback, 48 pages
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $12.95
The famous son of a famous father, Isambard Kingdom Brunel was acknowledged in his own lifetime as the greatest engineer in an era of engineering titans. He helped drive the first tunnel under a navigable river, built the first all iron ship, bridged the Tamar and Avon, constructed the first railway... Read more >
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Jacques Cousteau
The Sea King
Written by Brad Matsen
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $27.95
Jacques Cousteau opened up the undersea world as no one has done before or since. But not generally know is the fascinating and compelling individual behind the acclaimed television personality.
With the cooperation of many of Jacques Cousteau’s collaborators, friends, and family, Brad Matsen gives us the first full picture of this... Read more >
The Sea King
Written by Brad Matsen
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $27.95
Jacques Cousteau opened up the undersea world as no one has done before or since. But not generally know is the fascinating and compelling individual behind the acclaimed television personality.
With the cooperation of many of Jacques Cousteau’s collaborators, friends, and family, Brad Matsen gives us the first full picture of this... Read more >
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Jacques Cousteau
The Sea King
Written by Brad Matsen
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $27.95
Jacques Cousteau opened up the undersea world as no one has done before or since. But not generally know is the fascinating and compelling individual behind the acclaimed television personality.
With the cooperation of many of Jacques Cousteau’s collaborators, friends, and family, Brad Matsen gives us the first full picture of this... Read more >
The Sea King
Written by Brad Matsen
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $27.95
Jacques Cousteau opened up the undersea world as no one has done before or since. But not generally know is the fascinating and compelling individual behind the acclaimed television personality.
With the cooperation of many of Jacques Cousteau’s collaborators, friends, and family, Brad Matsen gives us the first full picture of this... Read more >
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The Age of Wonder
How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
Written by Richard Holmes
Format: Hardcover, 576 pages
On Sale: July 14, 2009
Price: $40.00
A riveting history of the men and women whose discoveries and inventions at the end of the eighteenth century gave birth to the Romantic Age of Science.
When young Joseph Banks stepped onto a Tahitian beach in 1769, he hoped to discover Paradise. Inspired by the scientific ferment sweeping through Britain... Read more >
How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
Written by Richard Holmes
Format: Hardcover, 576 pages
On Sale: July 14, 2009
Price: $40.00
A riveting history of the men and women whose discoveries and inventions at the end of the eighteenth century gave birth to the Romantic Age of Science.
When young Joseph Banks stepped onto a Tahitian beach in 1769, he hoped to discover Paradise. Inspired by the scientific ferment sweeping through Britain... Read more >
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The Age of Wonder
How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
Written by Richard Holmes
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 14, 2009
Price: $40.00
A riveting history of the men and women whose discoveries and inventions at the end of the eighteenth century gave birth to the Romantic Age of Science.
When young Joseph Banks stepped onto a Tahitian beach in 1769, he hoped to discover Paradise. Inspired by the scientific ferment sweeping through Britain... Read more >
How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
Written by Richard Holmes
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 14, 2009
Price: $40.00
A riveting history of the men and women whose discoveries and inventions at the end of the eighteenth century gave birth to the Romantic Age of Science.
When young Joseph Banks stepped onto a Tahitian beach in 1769, he hoped to discover Paradise. Inspired by the scientific ferment sweeping through Britain... Read more >
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Confessions of an Alien Hunter
A Scientist's Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
Written by Seth Shostak
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: March 17, 2009
Price: $27.00
Aliens are big in America. Whether they’ve arrived via rocket, flying saucer, or plain old teleportation, they’ve been invading, infiltrating, or inspiring us for decades, and they’ve fascinated moviegoers and television watchers for more than fifty years. About half of us believe that aliens really exist, and millions are convinced they’ve... Read more >
A Scientist's Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
Written by Seth Shostak
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: March 17, 2009
Price: $27.00
Aliens are big in America. Whether they’ve arrived via rocket, flying saucer, or plain old teleportation, they’ve been invading, infiltrating, or inspiring us for decades, and they’ve fascinated moviegoers and television watchers for more than fifty years. About half of us believe that aliens really exist, and millions are convinced they’ve... Read more >
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Confessions of an Alien Hunter
A Scientist's Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
Written by Seth Shostak
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: March 17, 2009
Price: $19.95
Aliens are big in America. Whether they’ve arrived via rocket, flying saucer, or plain old teleportation, they’ve been invading, infiltrating, or inspiring us for decades, and they’ve fascinated moviegoers and television watchers for more than fifty years. About half of us believe that aliens really exist, and millions are convinced they’ve... Read more >
A Scientist's Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
Written by Seth Shostak
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: March 17, 2009
Price: $19.95
Aliens are big in America. Whether they’ve arrived via rocket, flying saucer, or plain old teleportation, they’ve been invading, infiltrating, or inspiring us for decades, and they’ve fascinated moviegoers and television watchers for more than fifty years. About half of us believe that aliens really exist, and millions are convinced they’ve... Read more >
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Descartes's Secret Notebook
A True Tale of Mathematics, Mysticism, and the Quest to Understand the Universe
Written by Amir D. Aczel
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: February 19, 2009
Price: $14.95
René Descartes (1596—1650) is one of the towering and central figures in Western philosophy and mathematics. His apothegm “Cogito, ergo sum” marked the birth of the mind-body problem, while his creation of so-called Cartesian coordinates has made our intellectual conquest of physical space possible.
But Descartes had a mysterious and mystical side... Read more >
A True Tale of Mathematics, Mysticism, and the Quest to Understand the Universe
Written by Amir D. Aczel
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: February 19, 2009
Price: $14.95
René Descartes (1596—1650) is one of the towering and central figures in Western philosophy and mathematics. His apothegm “Cogito, ergo sum” marked the birth of the mind-body problem, while his creation of so-called Cartesian coordinates has made our intellectual conquest of physical space possible.
But Descartes had a mysterious and mystical side... Read more >
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Listening to Whales
What the Orcas Have Taught Us
Written by Alexandra Morton
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: December 30, 2008
Price: $14.95
In Listening to Whales, Alexandra Morton shares spellbinding stories about her career in whale and dolphin research and what she has learned from and about these magnificent mammals. In the late 1970s, while working at Marineland in California, Alexandra pioneered the recording of orca sounds by dropping a hydrophone into the... Read more >
What the Orcas Have Taught Us
Written by Alexandra Morton
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: December 30, 2008
Price: $14.95
In Listening to Whales, Alexandra Morton shares spellbinding stories about her career in whale and dolphin research and what she has learned from and about these magnificent mammals. In the late 1970s, while working at Marineland in California, Alexandra pioneered the recording of orca sounds by dropping a hydrophone into the... Read more >
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Scott of the Antarctic
A Biography
Written by David Crane
Format: eBook, 608 pages
On Sale: December 10, 2008
Price: $16.95
Historian David Crane, with full access to the explorer’s papers, diaries, and expedition records, gives us an illuminating portrait of Robert Falcon Scott that is more nuanced and balanced than any we have had before.
In reassessing Scott’s life, Crane is able to provide a fresh perspective on not only the... Read more >
A Biography
Written by David Crane
Format: eBook, 608 pages
On Sale: December 10, 2008
Price: $16.95
Historian David Crane, with full access to the explorer’s papers, diaries, and expedition records, gives us an illuminating portrait of Robert Falcon Scott that is more nuanced and balanced than any we have had before.
In reassessing Scott’s life, Crane is able to provide a fresh perspective on not only the... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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The Science of Leonardo
Inside the Mind of the Great Genius of the Renaissance
Written by Fritjof Capra
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: December 2, 2008
Price: $16.95
Leonardo da Vinci's scientific explorations were virtually unknown during his lifetime, despite their extraordinarily wide range. He studied the flight patterns of birds to create some of the first human flying machines; designed military weapons and defenses; studied optics, hydraulics, and the workings of the human circulatory system; and created designs... Read more >
Inside the Mind of the Great Genius of the Renaissance
Written by Fritjof Capra
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: December 2, 2008
Price: $16.95
Leonardo da Vinci's scientific explorations were virtually unknown during his lifetime, despite their extraordinarily wide range. He studied the flight patterns of birds to create some of the first human flying machines; designed military weapons and defenses; studied optics, hydraulics, and the workings of the human circulatory system; and created designs... Read more >
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eBook.
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Von Braun
Dreamer of Space, Engineer of War
Written by Michael Neufeld
Format: Trade Paperback, 624 pages
On Sale: November 11, 2008
Price: $19.95
Michael J. Neufeld, curator and space historian at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum, delivers a brilliantly nuanced biography of Wernher von Braun.
Chief rocket engineer of the Third Reich and one of the fathers of the U.S. space program, Wernher von Braun is a source of consistent fascination. Glorified... Read more >
Dreamer of Space, Engineer of War
Written by Michael Neufeld
Format: Trade Paperback, 624 pages
On Sale: November 11, 2008
Price: $19.95
Michael J. Neufeld, curator and space historian at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum, delivers a brilliantly nuanced biography of Wernher von Braun.
Chief rocket engineer of the Third Reich and one of the fathers of the U.S. space program, Wernher von Braun is a source of consistent fascination. Glorified... Read more >
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The Wizard of Menlo Park
How Thomas Alva Edison Invented the Modern World
Written by Randall E. Stross
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: March 25, 2008
Price: $14.95
Thomas Edison’s greatest invention?
His own fame.
Starting with the first public demonstrations of the phonograph in 1878 and extending through the development of incandescent light and the first motion-picture cameras, Thomas Edison’s name became emblematic of all the wonder and promise of the emerging age of technological marvels. But this critical... Read more >
How Thomas Alva Edison Invented the Modern World
Written by Randall E. Stross
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: March 25, 2008
Price: $14.95
Thomas Edison’s greatest invention?
His own fame.
Starting with the first public demonstrations of the phonograph in 1878 and extending through the development of incandescent light and the first motion-picture cameras, Thomas Edison’s name became emblematic of all the wonder and promise of the emerging age of technological marvels. But this critical... Read more >
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Lord Nuffield
An Illustrated Life of William Richard Morris, Viscount Nuffield, 1877-1963
Written by Peter Hull
Format: Trade Paperback, 48 pages
On Sale: March 4, 2008
Price: $12.95
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An Illustrated Life of William Richard Morris, Viscount Nuffield, 1877-1963
Written by Peter Hull
Format: Trade Paperback, 48 pages
On Sale: March 4, 2008
Price: $12.95
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Richard Trevithick
Written by James Hodge
Format: Trade Paperback, 48 pages
On Sale: March 4, 2008
Price: $12.95
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Written by James Hodge
Format: Trade Paperback, 48 pages
On Sale: March 4, 2008
Price: $12.95
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American Prometheus
The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
Written by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin
Format: eBook, 784 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $18.95
American Prometheus is the first full-scale biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, “father of the atomic bomb,” the brilliant, charismatic physicist who led the effort to capture the awesome fire of the sun for his country in time of war. Immediately after Hiroshima, he became the most famous scientist of his generation–one... Read more >
The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
Written by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin
Format: eBook, 784 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $18.95
American Prometheus is the first full-scale biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, “father of the atomic bomb,” the brilliant, charismatic physicist who led the effort to capture the awesome fire of the sun for his country in time of war. Immediately after Hiroshima, he became the most famous scientist of his generation–one... Read more >
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Isaac Newton
Written by James Gleick
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $15.00
Isaac Newton was born in a stone farmhouse in 1642, fatherless and unwanted by his mother. When he died in London in 1727 he was so renowned he was given a state funeral—an unheard-of honor for a subject whose achievements were in the realm of the intellect. During the years he... Read more >
Written by James Gleick
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $15.00
Isaac Newton was born in a stone farmhouse in 1642, fatherless and unwanted by his mother. When he died in London in 1727 he was so renowned he was given a state funeral—an unheard-of honor for a subject whose achievements were in the realm of the intellect. During the years he... Read more >
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Light This Candle
The Life and Times of Alan Shepard
Written by Neal Thompson
Format: eBook, 560 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $14.95
lan Shepard was the brashest, cockiest, and most flamboyant of America’s original Mercury Seven, but he was also regarded as the best. Intense, colorful, and dramatic—the man who hit a golf ball on the moon—he was among the most private of America’s public figures and, until his death in 1998, he... Read more >
The Life and Times of Alan Shepard
Written by Neal Thompson
Format: eBook, 560 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $14.95
lan Shepard was the brashest, cockiest, and most flamboyant of America’s original Mercury Seven, but he was also regarded as the best. Intense, colorful, and dramatic—the man who hit a golf ball on the moon—he was among the most private of America’s public figures and, until his death in 1998, he... Read more >
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The Northern Lights
Written by Lucy Jago
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $14.00
Throughout the ages, the lights of the aurora borealis were believed to be messengers of gods, signs of apocalypse, or souls of the dead; even the most sophisticated scientists misapprehended their cause. Now Lucy Jago tells the story of the science--and the romance--behind the Northern Lights as she traces the grand... Read more >
Written by Lucy Jago
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $14.00
Throughout the ages, the lights of the aurora borealis were believed to be messengers of gods, signs of apocalypse, or souls of the dead; even the most sophisticated scientists misapprehended their cause. Now Lucy Jago tells the story of the science--and the romance--behind the Northern Lights as she traces the grand... Read more >
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Paperboy
Confessions of a Future Engineer
Written by Henry Petroski
Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $14.00
Henry petroski has been called “the poet laureate of technology.” He is one of the most eloquent and inquisitive science and engineering writers of our time, illuminating with new clarity such familiar objects as pencils, books, and bridges. In Paperboy, he turns his intellectual curiosity inward, on his own past.
Petroski grew... Read more >
Confessions of a Future Engineer
Written by Henry Petroski
Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $14.00
Henry petroski has been called “the poet laureate of technology.” He is one of the most eloquent and inquisitive science and engineering writers of our time, illuminating with new clarity such familiar objects as pencils, books, and bridges. In Paperboy, he turns his intellectual curiosity inward, on his own past.
Petroski grew... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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Scott of the Antarctic
A Biography
Written by David Crane
Format: Trade Paperback, 608 pages
On Sale: November 6, 2007
Price: $16.95
Historian David Crane, with full access to the explorer’s papers, diaries, and expedition records, gives us an illuminating portrait of Robert Falcon Scott that is more nuanced and balanced than any we have had before.
In reassessing Scott’s life, Crane is able to provide a fresh perspective on not only the... Read more >
A Biography
Written by David Crane
Format: Trade Paperback, 608 pages
On Sale: November 6, 2007
Price: $16.95
Historian David Crane, with full access to the explorer’s papers, diaries, and expedition records, gives us an illuminating portrait of Robert Falcon Scott that is more nuanced and balanced than any we have had before.
In reassessing Scott’s life, Crane is able to provide a fresh perspective on not only the... Read more >
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eBook.
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The Science of Leonardo
Inside the Mind of the Great Genius of the Renaissance
Written by Fritjof Capra
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: October 30, 2007
Price: $26.00
Leonardo da Vinci’s pioneering scientific work was virtually unknown during his lifetime. Now acclaimed scientist and bestselling author Fritjof Capra reveals that Leonardo was in many ways the unacknowledged “father of modern science.” Drawing on an examination of over 6,000 pages of Leonardo’s surviving notebooks, Capra explains that Leonardo approached scientific... Read more >
Inside the Mind of the Great Genius of the Renaissance
Written by Fritjof Capra
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: October 30, 2007
Price: $26.00
Leonardo da Vinci’s pioneering scientific work was virtually unknown during his lifetime. Now acclaimed scientist and bestselling author Fritjof Capra reveals that Leonardo was in many ways the unacknowledged “father of modern science.” Drawing on an examination of over 6,000 pages of Leonardo’s surviving notebooks, Capra explains that Leonardo approached scientific... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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Von Braun
Dreamer of Space, Engineer of War
Written by Michael J. Neufeld
Format: Hardcover, 608 pages
On Sale: September 25, 2007
Price: $35.00
The first authoritative biography of Wernher von Braun, chief rocket engineer of the Third Reich—creator of the infamous V-2 rocket—who became one of the fathers of the U.S. space program. In this meticulously researched and vividly written life, Michael J. Neufeld gives us a man of profound moral complexities, glorified as... Read more >
Dreamer of Space, Engineer of War
Written by Michael J. Neufeld
Format: Hardcover, 608 pages
On Sale: September 25, 2007
Price: $35.00
The first authoritative biography of Wernher von Braun, chief rocket engineer of the Third Reich—creator of the infamous V-2 rocket—who became one of the fathers of the U.S. space program. In this meticulously researched and vividly written life, Michael J. Neufeld gives us a man of profound moral complexities, glorified as... Read more >
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The Wizard of Menlo Park
How Thomas Alva Edison Invented the Modern World
Written by Randall E. Stross
Format: eBook
On Sale: March 13, 2007
Price: $14.95
At the height of his fame Thomas Alva Edison was hailed as “the Napoleon of invention” and blazed in the public imagination as a virtual demigod. Newspapers proclaimed his genius in glowing personal profiles and quipped that “the doctor has been called” because the great man “has not invented anything since... Read more >
How Thomas Alva Edison Invented the Modern World
Written by Randall E. Stross
Format: eBook
On Sale: March 13, 2007
Price: $14.95
At the height of his fame Thomas Alva Edison was hailed as “the Napoleon of invention” and blazed in the public imagination as a virtual demigod. Newspapers proclaimed his genius in glowing personal profiles and quipped that “the doctor has been called” because the great man “has not invented anything since... Read more >
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hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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The Wizard of Menlo Park
How Thomas Alva Edison Invented the Modern World
Written by Randall E. Stross
Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
On Sale: March 13, 2007
Price: $24.95
At the height of his fame Thomas Alva Edison was hailed as “the Napoleon of invention” and blazed in the public imagination as a virtual demigod. Newspapers proclaimed his genius in glowing personal profiles and quipped that “the doctor has been called” because the great man “has not invented anything since... Read more >
How Thomas Alva Edison Invented the Modern World
Written by Randall E. Stross
Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
On Sale: March 13, 2007
Price: $24.95
At the height of his fame Thomas Alva Edison was hailed as “the Napoleon of invention” and blazed in the public imagination as a virtual demigod. Newspapers proclaimed his genius in glowing personal profiles and quipped that “the doctor has been called” because the great man “has not invented anything since... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
