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: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: January 24, 2012
Price: $27.95
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...
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The Google Story
For Google's 10th Birthday
Written by David A. Vise and Mark Malseed
Format: eBook
On Sale: November 15, 2005
Price: $13.99
"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...
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The Information
A History, a Theory, a Flood
Written by James Gleick
Format: Hardcover, 544 pages
On Sale: March 1, 2011
Price: $35.00
James Gleick, the author of the best sellers Chaos and Genius, now brings us a work just as astonishing and masterly: a revelatory chronicle and meditation that shows how information has become the modern era’s defining quality—the blood, the fuel, the vital principle of our world.
The story of information begins...
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The Hunt for Zero Point
Inside the Classified World of Antigravity Technology
Written by Nick Cook
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: August 12, 2003
Price: $16.00
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...
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Moon Lander
How We Developed the Apollo Lunar Module
Written by Thomas J. Kelly
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: January 11, 2012
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...
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Being Digital
Written by Nicholas Negroponte
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: January 3, 1996
Price: $16.00
In lively, mordantly witty prose, Negroponte decodes the mysteries--and debunks the hype--surrounding bandwidth, multimedia, virtual reality, and the Internet, and explains why such touted innovations as the fax and the CD-ROM are likely to go the way of the BetaMax. "Succinct and readable. . . . If you suffer from digital...
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