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The Complete Modern Blacksmith
Written by Alexander Weygers
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: February 1, 1997
Price: $19.99
A truly unusual and unique resource, this extremely hands-on book brings together three popular but long-out-of-print classics (THE MODERN BLACKSMITH; THE RECYCLING, USE, AND REPAIR OF TOOLS; and THE MAKING OF TOOLS) essential for anyone interested in the making, repair, maintenance, or arcana of tools. An essential volume in any serious...
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Birdseye
The Adventures of a Curious Man
Written by Mark Kurlansky
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: February 12, 2013
Price: $15.95
While working as a fur trapper in Labrador, Canada, Clarence Birdseye encountered an age-old problem: bad food and an unappealing, unhealthy diet. However, he observed that fresh vegetables wetted and left outside in the Arctic winds froze in a way that maintained their integrity after thawing. As a result, he developed...
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China Airborne
The Test of China's Future
Written by James Fallows
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: February 26, 2013
Price: $15.95
From one of our most influential journalists, here is a timely, vital, and illuminating account of the next stage of China’s modernization—its plan to rival America as the world’s leading aerospace power and to bring itself from its low-wage past to a high-tech future.
In 2011, China announced its twelfth Five-Year Plan...
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Steve Jobs
Edicion en Espanol
Written by Walter Isaacson
Format: eBook, 752 pages
On Sale: November 7, 2012
Price: $11.99
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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Technopoly
The Surrender of Culture to Technology
Written by Neil Postman
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: June 1, 2011
Price: $11.99
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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Thunderstruck
Written by Erik Larson
Read by Tony Goldwyn
Format: Abridged Compact Disc
On Sale: January 25, 2011
Price: $14.99
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 of all time.
Set in Edwardian London and on the stormy coasts of Cornwall...
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Masters of Doom
How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture
Written by David Kushner
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: May 11, 2004
Price: $15.95
Masters of Doom is the amazing true story of the Lennon and McCartney of video games: John Carmack and John Romero. Together, they ruled big business. They transformed popular culture. And they provoked a national controversy. More than anything, they lived a unique and rollicking American Dream, escaping the broken homes...
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Birdseye
The Adventures of a Curious Man
Written by Mark Kurlansky
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: May 8, 2012
Price: $11.99
Break out the TV dinners! From the author who gave us Cod, Salt, and other informative bestsellers, the first biography of Clarence Birdseye, the eccentric genius inventor whose fast-freezing process revolutionized the food industry and American agriculture.
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