Makers
The New Industrial Revolution
Written by Chris Anderson
Read by Rene Ruiz
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: October 2, 2012
Price: $35.00
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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The Penguin and the Leviathan
How Cooperation Triumphs over Self-Interest
Written by Yochai Benkler
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: August 9, 2011
Price: $13.99
What do Wikipedia, Zip Car’s business model, Barack Obama's presidential campaign, and a small group of lobster fishermen have in common? They all show the power and promise of human cooperation in transforming our businesses, our government, and our society at large. Because today, when the costs of collaborating are lower...
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The Island of Lost Maps
A True Story of Cartographic Crime
Written by Miles Harvey
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: September 4, 2001
Price: $14.95
The Island of Lost Maps tells the story of a curious crime spree: the theft of scores of valuable centuries-old maps from some of the most prominent research libraries in the United States and Canada. The perpetrator was Gilbert Joseph Bland, Jr., an enigmatic antiques dealer from South Florida, whose cross-country...
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Faster
The Acceleration of Just About Everything
Written by James Gleick
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: September 5, 2000
Price: $16.95
From the bestselling, National Book Award-nominated auhtor of
Genius and
Chaos, a bracing new work about the accelerating pace of change in today's world.
Most of us suffer some degree of "hurry sickness." a malady that has launched us into the "epoch of the nanosecond," a need-everything-yesterday sphere dominated by cell phones...
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The Radioactive Boy Scout
The True Story of a Boy and His Backyard Nuclear Reactor
Written by Ken Silverstein
Format: eBook
On Sale: March 2, 2004
Price: $11.99
Growing up in suburban Detroit, David Hahn was fascinated by science, and his basement experiments—building homemade fireworks, brewing moonshine, and concocting his own self-tanning lotion—were more ambitious than those of other boys. While working on his Atomic Energy badge for the Boy Scouts, David’s obsessive attention turned to nuclear energy. Throwing...
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Kelly
More Than My Share of It All
Written by Clarence L. Johnson
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: December 17, 1989
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.
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Thunderstruck
Written by Erik Larson
Format: Hardcover, 480 pages
On Sale: October 24, 2006
Price: $27.00
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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The Hunt for Zero Point
Inside the Classified World of Antigravity Technology
Written by Nick Cook
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $15.99
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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