Technology:

The Google Story
Inside the Hottest Business, Media, and Technology Success of Our Time
Written by David Vise and Mark Malseed

Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: August 29, 2006
Price: $14.00

"Here is the story behind one of the most remarkable Internet successes of our time. Based on scrupulous research and extraordinary access to Google, the book takes you inside the creation and growth of a company whose name is a favorite brand and a standard verb recognized around the world. Its... Read more >

The Pixar Touch
The Making of a Company
Written by David A. Price

Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: May 13, 2008
Price: $27.95

The roller-coaster rags-to-riches story behind the phenomenal success of Pixar Animation Studios: the first in-depth look at the company that forever changed the film industry and the “fraternity of geeks” who shaped it.

The Pixar Touch is a story of technical innovation that revolutionized animation, transforming hand-drawn cel animation to computer-generated...

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The Hunt for Zero Point
Inside the Classified World of Antigravity Technology
Written by Nick Cook

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: August 12, 2003
Price: $14.95

This riveting work of investigative reporting and history exposes classified government projects to build gravity-defying aircraft--which have an uncanny resemblance to flying saucers.

The atomic bomb was not the only project to occupy government scientists in the 1940s. Antigravity technology, originally spearheaded by scientists in Nazi Germany, was another high priority, one... Read more >

Technopoly
The Surrender of Culture to Technology
Written by Neil Postman

Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: March 31, 1993
Price: $13.00

In this witty, often terrifying work of cultural criticism, the author of Amusing Ourselves to Death chronicles our transformation into a Technopoly: a society that no longer merely uses technology as a support system but instead is shaped by it--with radical consequences for the meanings of politics, art, education, intelligence, and... Read more >

To Engineer Is Human
The Role of Failure in Successful Design
Written by Henry Petroski

Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: March 31, 1992
Price: $13.95

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Everything Conceivable
How the Science of Assisted Reproduction Is Changing Our World
Written by Liza Mundy

Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: May 6, 2008
Price: $15.95

Award-winning journalist Liza Mundy captures the human narratives, as well as the science, behind the controversial, multibillion-dollar fertility industry, and examines how this huge social experiment is transforming our most basic relationships and even our destiny as a species.

Skyrocketing infertility rates and dizzying technological advances are revolutionizing American families and changing... Read more >

The Animation Book
A Complete Guide to Animated Filmmaking--From Flip-Books to Sound Cartoons to 3- D Animation
Written by Kit Laybourne
Introduction by John Canemaker

Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: December 22, 1998
Price: $25.95

The first edition of The Animation Book, published in 1979, became the authoritative guide to making animated movies. Now, as we enter the twenty-first century, the explosion in computer technology has created a corresponding boom in animation. Using desktop hardware and software, animators can easily produce high-quality, high-artistry animation and mix... Read more >

The Future of Ideas
The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World
Written by Lawrence Lessig

Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: October 22, 2002
Price: $15.00

The Internet revolution has come. Some say it has gone. In The Future of Ideas, Lawrence Lessig explains how the revolution has produced a counterrevolution of potentially devastating power and effect. Creativity once flourished because the Net protected a commons on which widest range of innovators could experiment. But now, manipulating... Read more >

The Mapmakers
Revised Edition
Written by John Noble Wilford

Format: Trade Paperback, 528 pages
On Sale: December 4, 2001
Price: $16.95

In his classic text, two-time Pulitzer Prize—winner John Noble Wilford recounts the history of cartography from antiquity to the space age. With this revised edition, Wilford brings the story up to the present day, as he shows the impact of new technologies that make it possible for cartographers to go where... Read more >

The Toothpick
Technology and Culture
Written by Henry Petroski

Format: Hardcover, 464 pages
On Sale: October 16, 2007
Price: $27.95

Like The Pencil, Henry Petroski’s The Toothpick is a celebration of a humble yet elegant device. As old as mankind and as universal as eating, this useful and ubiquitous tool finally gets its due in this wide-ranging and compulsively readable book. Here is the unexpected story of the simplest of implements—whether...

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