Makers
The New Industrial Revolution
Written by Chris Anderson
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: October 2, 2012
Price: $12.99
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 2
Written by Tsutomu Nihei
Format: Trade Paperback, 186 pages
On Sale: April 16, 2013
Price: $12.95
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...
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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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Design in Nature
How the Constructal Law Governs Evolution in Biology, Physics, Technology, and Social Organizations
Written by Adrian Bejan and J. Peder Zane
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: January 8, 2013
Price: $16.00
In this groundbreaking book, Adrian Bejan takes the recurring patterns in nature—trees, tributaries, air passages, neural networks, and lightning bolts—and reveals how a single principle of physics, the constructal law, accounts for the evolution of these and many other designs in our world.
Everything—from biological life to inanimate systems—generates shape and structure...
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The Food Police
A Well-Fed Manifesto About the Politics of Your Plate
Written by Jayson Lusk
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: April 16, 2013
Price: $12.99
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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Knights of Sidonia, volume 1
Written by Tsutomu Nihei
Format: Trade Paperback, 186 pages
On Sale: February 5, 2013
Price: $12.95
"CORE EXPOSED"
Outer space, the far future.
A lone seed ship, the
Sidonia, plies the void, ten centuries since the obliteration of the solar system. The massive, nearly indestructible, yet barely sentient alien life forms
that destroyed humanity’s home world continue to pose an existential threat.
Nagate Tanikaze has only known life in the...
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Kingpin
How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground
Written by Kevin Poulsen
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: February 22, 2011
Price: $11.99
Former hacker Kevin Poulsen has, over the past decade, built a reputation as one of the top investigative reporters on the cybercrime beat. In Kingpin, he pours his unmatched access and expertise into book form for the first time, delivering a gripping cat-and-mouse narrative—and an unprecedented view into the twenty-first century’s...
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Technopoly
The Surrender of Culture to Technology
Written by Neil Postman
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: March 31, 1993
Price: $15.00
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...
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Also available as an
eBook.
Kingpin
How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground
Written by Kevin Poulsen
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: February 7, 2012
Price: $15.00
Former hacker Kevin Poulsen has, over the past decade, built a reputation as one of the top investigative reporters on the cybercrime beat. In Kingpin, he pours his unmatched access and expertise into book form for the first time, delivering a gripping cat-and-mouse narrative—and an unprecedented view into the twenty-first century’s...
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eBook.