Turing's Cathedral
The Origins of the Digital Universe
Written by George Dyson

Format: eBook, 432 pages
On Sale: March 6, 2012
Price: $12.99

“It is possible to invent a single machine which can be used to compute any computable sequence,” twenty-four-year-old Alan Turing announced in 1936. In Turing’s Cathedral, George Dyson focuses on a small group of men and women, led by John von Neumann at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New...

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Turing's Cathedral
The Origins of the Digital Universe
Written by George Dyson
Read by Arthur Morey

Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: March 6, 2012
Price: $45.00

“It is possible to invent a single machine which can be used to compute any computable sequence,” twenty-four-year-old Alan Turing announced in 1936. In Turing’s Cathedral, George Dyson focuses on a small group of men and women, led by John von Neumann at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New...

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Turing's Cathedral
The Origins of the Digital Universe
Written by George Dyson
Read by Arthur Morey

Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: March 6, 2012
Price: $24.00

“It is possible to invent a single machine which can be used to compute any computable sequence,” twenty-four-year-old Alan Turing announced in 1936. In Turing’s Cathedral, George Dyson focuses on a small group of men and women, led by John von Neumann at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New...

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The Philosophical Breakfast Club
Four Remarkable Friends Who Transformed Science and Changed the World
Written by Laura J. Snyder

Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: January 17, 2012
Price: $16.00

The Philosophical Breakfast Club recounts the life and work of four men who met as students at Cambridge University: Charles Babbage, John Herschel, William Whewell, and Richard Jones.  Recognizing that they shared a love of science (as well as good food and drink) they began to meet on Sunday mornings to... Read more >

Hedy's Folly
The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World
Written by Richard Rhodes

Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: November 29, 2011
Price: $26.95

What do Hedy Lamarr, avant-garde composer George Antheil, and your cell phone have in common? The answer is spread-spectrum radio: a revolutionary inven­tion based on the rapid switching of communications sig­nals among a spread of different frequencies. Without this technology, we would not have the digital comforts that we take for... Read more >

Hedy's Folly
The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World
Written by Richard Rhodes

Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: November 29, 2011
Price: $11.99

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Rhodes delivers a remarkable story of science history: how a ravishing film star and an avant-garde composer invented spread-spectrum radio, the technology that made wireless phones, GPS systems, and many other devices possible.
 
Beginning at a Hollywood dinner table, Hedy's Folly tells a wild story of innovation that...

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Hedy's Folly
The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World
Written by Richard Rhodes
Read by Bernadette Dunne

Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: November 29, 2011
Price: $15.00

What do Hedy Lamarr, avant-garde composer George Antheil, and your cell phone have in common? The answer is spread-spectrum radio: a revolutionary inven­tion based on the rapid switching of communications sig­nals among a spread of different frequencies. Without this technology, we would not have the digital comforts that we take for... Read more >

Steve Jobs
Edicion en Espanol
Written by Walter Isaacson

Format: Trade Paperback, 752 pages
On Sale: November 1, 2011
Price: $17.95

La biografía definitiva de Steve Jobs
 
La muerte de Steve Jobs ha conmocionado al mundo. Tras entrevistarlo en más de cuarenta ocasiones en los últimos dos años, además de a un centenar de personas de su entorno, familiares, amigos, adversarios y colegas, Walter Isaacson nos presenta la única biografía escrita con la...

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Einstein on the Road

Written by Josef Eisinger

Format: eBook
On Sale: September 27, 2011
Price: $12.99

At the height of his fame, Albert Einstein traveled throughout the world, from Japan to South America and many places in between. During these voyages, between 1922 and 1933, he was in the habit of keeping
travel diaries in which he recorded his impressions of people and events, as well as... Read more >

Einstein on the Road

Written by Josef Eisinger

Format: Hardcover, 219 pages
On Sale: September 20, 2011
Price: $25.00

At the height of his fame, Albert Einstein traveled throughout the world, from Japan to South America and many places in between. During these voyages, between 1922 and 1933, he was in the habit of keeping
travel diaries in which he recorded his impressions of people and events, as well as... Read more >

Time Lord
Sir Sandford Fleming and the Creation of Standard Time
Written by Clark Blaise

Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: July 27, 2011
Price: $9.99

It is difficult today to imagine life before standard time was established in 1884. In the middle of the nineteenth century, for example, there were 144 official time zones in North America alone. The confusion that ensued, especially among the burgeoning railroad companies, was an hourly comedy of errors that ultimately... Read more >

Falling to Earth
An Apollo 15 Astronaut's Journey to the Moon
Written by Al Worden and Francis French
Epilogue by Tom Stafford
Foreword by Dick Gordon

Format: Hardcover, 312 pages
On Sale: July 26, 2011
Price: $29.95

As command module pilot for the Apollo 15 mission to the moon in 1971, Al Worden flew on what is widely regarded as the greatest exploration mission that humans have ever attempted. He spent six days orbiting the moon, including three days completely alone, the most isolated human in existence. During... Read more >

Falling to Earth
An Apollo 15 Astronaut's Journey to the Moon
Written by Al Worden and Francis French
Epilogue by Tom Stafford
Foreword by Dick Gordon

Format: eBook, 312 pages
On Sale: July 26, 2011
Price: $17.95

As command module pilot for the Apollo 15 mission to the moon in 1971, Al Worden flew on what is widely regarded as the greatest exploration mission that humans have ever attempted. He spent six days orbiting the moon, including three days completely alone, the most isolated human in existence. During... Read more >

Charles Darwin
The Power of Place
Written by Janet Browne

Format: eBook, 608 pages
On Sale: May 18, 2011
Price: $14.99

In 1858 Charles Darwin was forty-nine years old, a gentleman scientist living quietly at Down House in the Kent countryside, respected by fellow biologists and well liked among his wide and distinguished circle of acquaintances. He was not yet a focus of debate; his “big book on species” still lay on... Read more >

Amelia Earhart
Challenging the Skies Great Lives Series
Written by Susan Sloate

Format: eBook
On Sale: February 23, 2011
Price: $6.99

The Great Lives Series

Witness history in the making as you turn the pages of time and discover the fascinating lives of famous explorers, leaders of 20th century politics and government, and great Americans.

Amelia Earhart

Challenging the Skies

When Amelia Earhart vanished over the Pacific Ocean in 1937 during her attempt to make the... Read more >

The Philosophical Breakfast Club
Four Remarkable Friends Who Transformed Science and Changed the World
Written by Laura J. Snyder

Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: February 22, 2011
Price: $11.99

The Philosophical Breakfast Club recounts the life and work of four men who met as students at Cambridge University: Charles Babbage, John Herschel, William Whewell, and Richard Jones.  Recognizing that they shared a love of science (as well as good food and drink) they began to meet on Sunday mornings to... Read more >

Sally Ride
Shooting for the Stars Great Lives Series
Written by Sue Hurwitz

Format: eBook
On Sale: December 22, 2010
Price: $7.99

Sally Ride

Shooting for the Stars

Astronaut Dr. Sally Ride took a deep breath and nervously waited as the powerful engines of the Space Shuttle Challenger roared to life. This was the most frightening, yet exciting moment of Sally's life! She was determined to prove that an American woman could perform in space... Read more >

Dancing Naked in the Mind Field

Written by Kary Mullis

Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: November 17, 2010
Price: $9.99

Here is a multidimensional playland of ideas from the world's most eccentric Nobel-Prize winning scientist. Kary Mullis is legendary for his invention of PCR, which redefined the world of DNA, genetics, and forensic science. He is also a surfer, a veteran of Berkeley in the sixties, and perhaps the only Nobel... Read more >

The Man Who Invented the Computer

Written by Jane Smiley

Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: October 19, 2010
Price: $15.99

From one of our most acclaimed novelists, a  David-and-Goliath biography for the digital age.

One night in the late 1930s, in a bar on the Illinois–Iowa border, John Vincent Atanasoff, a professor of physics at Iowa State University, after a frustrating day performing tedious mathematical calculations in his lab, hit on the... Read more >

They All Laughed at Christopher Columbus
An Incurable Dreamer Builds the First Civilian Spaceship
Written by Elizabeth Weil

Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: October 6, 2010
Price: $9.99

This is a classic American tale of dreams and obsession--the suspenseful, brilliantly written account of one eccentric man’s hunger to open space travel to us all: to let us rocket into orbit, return to earth, and soar yet again--thus transforming space travel forever.

They All Laughed at Christopher Columbus

Gary Hudson was seven... Read more >

Jacques Cousteau
The Sea King
Written by Brad Matsen

Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: October 5, 2010
Price: $16.95

An unprecedented and masterfully told biography of Jacques Cousteau that reveals for the first time the fascinating and compelling individual behind this famous television personality.
 
Inventor of the aqualung and fearless scuba diver, Jacques Cousteau opened up the ocean to a mass audience for the first time. Here, with the cooperation of... Read more >

Judging Edward Teller

Written by Istvan Hargittai

Format: Hardcover, 575 pages
On Sale: October 1, 2010
Price: $32.00

Many people know Edward Teller as the "Father of the H-Bomb." To his supporters he was a hero of the Cold War. To his detractors he was evil personified. Between these extremes was the life of the real man. In this definitive and comprehensive biography, a personal acquaintance of Teller’s presents... Read more >

Marie Curie
A Biography
Written by Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie

Format: Trade Paperback, 189 pages
On Sale: October 1, 2010
Price: $17.00

There is probably no woman scientist more famous than Marie Curie (1867-1934). She made one of the most important theoretical breakthroughs of the twentieth century when she postulated that radiation was an atomic rather than a chemical property, an important milestone in understanding the structure of matter. Not only did she... Read more >

Strange Beauty
Murray Gell-Mann and the Revolution in Twentieth-Century Physics
Written by George Johnson

Format: eBook, 448 pages
On Sale: September 29, 2010
Price: $15.99

With a New Afterword

"Our knowledge of fundamental physics contains not one fruitful idea that does not carry the name of Murray Gell-Mann."--Richard Feynman

Acclaimed science writer George Johnson brings his formidable reporting skills to the first biography of Nobel Prize-winner Murray Gell-Mann, the brilliant, irascible man who revolutionized modern particle physics with... Read more >

Rachel Carson
A Biography
Written by Arlene Rodda Quaratiello

Format: Trade Paperback, 163 pages
On Sale: July 27, 2010
Price: $18.00

This balanced portrait of a pioneering environmentalist will be of great interest to anyone with an interest in ecology or nature writing. Few people have had as great an impact on the modern environmental movement as has the great writer and scientist Rachel Carson. This readable and up-to-date biography traces the... Read more >