Thunderstruck
Written by Erik Larson
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: September 25, 2007
Price: $16.00
A true story of love, murder, and the end of the world’s “great hush”
In
Thunderstruck, Erik Larson tells the interwoven stories of two men—Hawley Crippen, a very unlikely murderer, and Guglielmo Marconi, the obsessive creator of a seemingly supernatural means of communication—whose lives intersect during one of the greatest criminal chases...
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Thunderstruck
Written by Erik Larson
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: October 24, 2006
Price: $11.99
A true story of love, murder, and the end of the world’s “great hush”
In
Thunderstruck, Erik Larson tells the interwoven stories of two men—Hawley Crippen, a very unlikely murderer, and Guglielmo Marconi, the obsessive creator of a seemingly supernatural means of communication—whose lives intersect during one of the greatest criminal chases...
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The Information
A History, A Theory, A Flood
Written by James Gleick
Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
On Sale: March 6, 2012
Price: $16.95
A New York Times Notable Book
A Los Angeles Times and Cleveland Plain Dealer Best Book of the Year
Winner of the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award
From the bestselling author of the acclaimed Chaos and Genius comes a thoughtful and provocative exploration of the big ideas of the modern era: Information, communication, and...
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Makers
The New Industrial Revolution
Written by Chris Anderson
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: October 2, 2012
Price: $13.99
Wired magazine editor and bestselling author Chris Anderson takes you to the front lines of a new industrial revolution as today’s entrepreneurs, using open source design and 3-D printing, bring manufacturing to the desktop. In an age of custom-fabricated, do-it-yourself product design and creation, the collective potential of a million garage...
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Knights of Sidonia, volume 3
Written by Tsutomu Nihei
Format: Trade Paperback, 186 pages
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $12.95
Heretofore unwilling to communicate in all but the most zero-sum fashion, humanity's implacable nemesis attempts to interface in what can only be considered a gruesomely familiar shape and form.
Meanwhile, some of the deepest secrets of the Sidonia also come to the fore as revealed by the resident talking bear, err...the...
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The Food Police
A Well-Fed Manifesto About the Politics of Your Plate
Written by Jayson Lusk
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: April 16, 2013
Price: $24.00
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...
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