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Extra Lives
Why Video Games Matter
Written by Tom Bissell
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: June 14, 2011
Price: $15.95
Why Video Games Matter
Written by Tom Bissell
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: June 14, 2011
Price: $15.95
In Extra Lives, acclaimed writer and life-long video game enthusiast Tom Bissell takes the reader on an insightful and entertaining tour of the art and meaning of video games.
In just a few decades, video games have grown increasingly complex and sophisticated, and the companies that produce them are now among the...
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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: $15.95
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The Role of Failure in Successful Design
Written by Henry Petroski
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: March 31, 1992
Price: $15.95
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Kelly
More Than My Share of It All
Written by Clarence L. Johnson
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: January 11, 2012
Price: $21.95
Clarence L. “Kelly” Johnson led the design of such crucial aircraft as the P-38 and Constellation, but he will be more remembered for the U-2 and SR-71 spy planes. His extraordinary leadership of the Lockheed “Skunk Works” cemented his reputation as a legendary figure in American aerospace management.
From the Trade Paperback... Read more >
More Than My Share of It All
Written by Clarence L. Johnson
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: January 11, 2012
Price: $21.95
Clarence L. “Kelly” Johnson led the design of such crucial aircraft as the P-38 and Constellation, but he will be more remembered for the U-2 and SR-71 spy planes. His extraordinary leadership of the Lockheed “Skunk Works” cemented his reputation as a legendary figure in American aerospace management.
From the Trade Paperback... Read more >
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Moon Lander
How We Developed the Apollo Lunar Module
Written by Thomas J. Kelly
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: September 11, 2009
Price: $19.99
Chief engineer Thomas J. Kelly gives a firsthand account of designing, building, testing, and flying the Apollo lunar module. It was, he writes, “an aerospace engineer’s dream job of the century.” Kelly’s account begins with the imaginative process of sketching solutions to a host of technical challenges with an emphasis on... Read more >
How We Developed the Apollo Lunar Module
Written by Thomas J. Kelly
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: September 11, 2009
Price: $19.99
Chief engineer Thomas J. Kelly gives a firsthand account of designing, building, testing, and flying the Apollo lunar module. It was, he writes, “an aerospace engineer’s dream job of the century.” Kelly’s account begins with the imaginative process of sketching solutions to a host of technical challenges with an emphasis on... Read more >
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The Pixar Touch
Written by David A. Price
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: May 5, 2009
Price: $16.00
The Pixar Touch is a lively chronicle of Pixar Animation Studios' history and evolution, and the “fraternity of geeks” who shaped it. With the help of animating genius John Lasseter and visionary businessman Steve Jobs, Pixar has become the gold standard of animated filmmaking, beginning with a short special effects shot... Read more >
Written by David A. Price
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: May 5, 2009
Price: $16.00
The Pixar Touch is a lively chronicle of Pixar Animation Studios' history and evolution, and the “fraternity of geeks” who shaped it. With the help of animating genius John Lasseter and visionary businessman Steve Jobs, Pixar has become the gold standard of animated filmmaking, beginning with a short special effects shot... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
Masters of Doom
How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture
Written by David Kushner
Format: eBook
On Sale: April 24, 2003
Price: $9.99
“To my taste, the greatest American myth of cosmogenesis features the maladjusted, antisocial, genius teenage boy who, in the insular laboratory of his own bedroom, invents the universe from scratch. Masters of Doom is a particularly inspired rendition. Dave Kushner chronicles the saga of video game virtuosi Carmack and Romero with... Read more >
How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture
Written by David Kushner
Format: eBook
On Sale: April 24, 2003
Price: $9.99
“To my taste, the greatest American myth of cosmogenesis features the maladjusted, antisocial, genius teenage boy who, in the insular laboratory of his own bedroom, invents the universe from scratch. Masters of Doom is a particularly inspired rendition. Dave Kushner chronicles the saga of video game virtuosi Carmack and Romero with... Read more >
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The Most Powerful Idea in the World
A Story of Steam, Industry, and Invention
Written by William Rosen
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 1, 2010
Price: $15.99
If all measures of human advancement in the last hundred centuries were plotted on a graph, they would show an almost perfectly flat line—until the eighteenth century, when the Industrial Revolution would cause the line to shoot straight up, beginning an almost uninterrupted march of progress.
In The Most Powerful Idea... Read more >
A Story of Steam, Industry, and Invention
Written by William Rosen
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 1, 2010
Price: $15.99
If all measures of human advancement in the last hundred centuries were plotted on a graph, they would show an almost perfectly flat line—until the eighteenth century, when the Industrial Revolution would cause the line to shoot straight up, beginning an almost uninterrupted march of progress.
In The Most Powerful Idea... Read more >
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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: $26.99
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 >
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: $26.99
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 >
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Design in Nature
How the Constructal Law Governs Evolution in Biology, Physics, Technology, and Social Organization
Written by Adrian Bejan and J. Peder Zane
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: January 24, 2012
Price: $11.99
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 all other designs in our world.
Everything—from biological life to inanimate systems—generates shape... Read more >
How the Constructal Law Governs Evolution in Biology, Physics, Technology, and Social Organization
Written by Adrian Bejan and J. Peder Zane
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: January 24, 2012
Price: $11.99
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 all other designs in our world.
Everything—from biological life to inanimate systems—generates shape... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
Extra Lives
Why Video Games Matter
Written by Tom Bissell
Format: eBook, 208 pages
On Sale: June 8, 2010
Price: $9.99
Tom Bissell is a prizewinning writer who published three widely acclaimed books before the age of thirty-four. He is also an obsessive gamer who has spent untold hours in front of his various video game consoles, playing titles such as Far Cry 2, Left 4 Dead, BioShock, and Oblivion for, literally... Read more >
Why Video Games Matter
Written by Tom Bissell
Format: eBook, 208 pages
On Sale: June 8, 2010
Price: $9.99
Tom Bissell is a prizewinning writer who published three widely acclaimed books before the age of thirty-four. He is also an obsessive gamer who has spent untold hours in front of his various video game consoles, playing titles such as Far Cry 2, Left 4 Dead, BioShock, and Oblivion for, literally... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download and a
trade paperback.
