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: $13.99
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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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...
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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: 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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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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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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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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The Resume Catalog
200 Damn Good Examples
Written by Yana Parker
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: October 1, 1996
Price: $19.99
With over 180,000 copies in print, this is the resume resource for job seekers by Yana Parker, widely known and loved author of the best selling DAMN GOOD RESUME GUIDE (over 500,000 copies in print). Sample resumes-ready to be adapted and/or used for inspiration-cover all levels of experience and an extraordinarily...
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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: $13.99
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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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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