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The Most Powerful Idea in the World
A Story of Steam, Industry, and Invention
Written by William Rosen
Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
On Sale: June 1, 2010
Price: $28.00
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: Hardcover, 400 pages
On Sale: June 1, 2010
Price: $28.00
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 Mapmakers
Revised Edition
Written by John Noble Wilford
Format: Trade Paperback, 528 pages
On Sale: December 4, 2001
Price: $18.00
In his classic text, two-time Pulitzer Prize—winner John Noble Wilford recounts the history of cartography from antiquity to the space age. With this revised edition, Wilford brings the story up to the present day, as he shows the impact of new technologies that make it possible for cartographers to go where... Read more >
Revised Edition
Written by John Noble Wilford
Format: Trade Paperback, 528 pages
On Sale: December 4, 2001
Price: $18.00
In his classic text, two-time Pulitzer Prize—winner John Noble Wilford recounts the history of cartography from antiquity to the space age. With this revised edition, Wilford brings the story up to the present day, as he shows the impact of new technologies that make it possible for cartographers to go where... Read more >
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Physics of the Future
How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100
Written by Michio Kaku
Read by Feodor Chin
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: March 15, 2011
Price: $45.00
How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100
Written by Michio Kaku
Read by Feodor Chin
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: March 15, 2011
Price: $45.00
Imagine, if you can, the world in the year 2100.
In Physics of the Future, Michio Kaku—the New York Times bestselling author of Physics of the Impossible—gives us a stunning, provocative, and exhilarating vision of the coming century based on interviews with over three hundred of the world’s top scientists who are...
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The Evolution of Useful Things
How Everyday Artifacts-From Forks and Pins to Paper Clips and Zippers-Came to be as They are.
Written by Henry Petroski
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: February 1, 1994
Price: $15.95
How Everyday Artifacts-From Forks and Pins to Paper Clips and Zippers-Came to be as They are.
Written by Henry Petroski
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: February 1, 1994
Price: $15.95
How did the table fork acquire a fourth tine? What advantage does the Phillips-head screw have over its single-grooved predecessor? Why does the paper clip look the way it does? What makes Scotch tape Scotch?
In this delightful book Henry, Petroski takes a microscopic look at artifacts that most of us count...
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The Complete Modern Blacksmith
Written by Alexander Weygers
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: March 7, 2012
Price: $14.99
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... Read more >
Written by Alexander Weygers
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: March 7, 2012
Price: $14.99
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... Read more >
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The Colouring, Bronzing and Patination of Metals
Written by Richard Hughes and Michael Rowe
Format: Hardcover, 372 pages
On Sale: February 1, 1991
Price: $85.00
The techniques of metal colouring, bronzing and patination are assuming a new importance in contemporary fine metalwork and design. Richard Hughes and Michael Rowe have assembled and tested the recipes included in this book, which is the most comprehensive work on the subject currently available, an essential reference and sourcebook for... Read more >
Written by Richard Hughes and Michael Rowe
Format: Hardcover, 372 pages
On Sale: February 1, 1991
Price: $85.00
The techniques of metal colouring, bronzing and patination are assuming a new importance in contemporary fine metalwork and design. Richard Hughes and Michael Rowe have assembled and tested the recipes included in this book, which is the most comprehensive work on the subject currently available, an essential reference and sourcebook for... Read more >
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The Two-Second Advantage
How We Succeed by Anticipating the Future--Just Enough
Written by Vivek Ranadive and Kevin Maney
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: September 6, 2011
Price: $14.99
What made Wayne Gretzky the greatest hockey player of all time wasn’t his speed on the ice or the uncanny accuracy of his shots, but rather his ability to predict where the puck was going to be an instant before it arrived. In other words, it was Gretzky’s brain that made... Read more >
How We Succeed by Anticipating the Future--Just Enough
Written by Vivek Ranadive and Kevin Maney
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: September 6, 2011
Price: $14.99
What made Wayne Gretzky the greatest hockey player of all time wasn’t his speed on the ice or the uncanny accuracy of his shots, but rather his ability to predict where the puck was going to be an instant before it arrived. In other words, it was Gretzky’s brain that made... Read more >
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Why Things Bite Back
Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences
Written by Edward Tenner
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: September 2, 1997
Price: $18.95
In this perceptive and provocative look at everything from computer software that requires faster processors and more support staff to antibiotics that breed resistant strains of bacteria, Edward Tenner offers a virtual encyclopedia of what he calls "revenge effects"--the unintended consequences of the mechanical, chemical, biological, and medical forms of ingenuity... Read more >
Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences
Written by Edward Tenner
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: September 2, 1997
Price: $18.95
In this perceptive and provocative look at everything from computer software that requires faster processors and more support staff to antibiotics that breed resistant strains of bacteria, Edward Tenner offers a virtual encyclopedia of what he calls "revenge effects"--the unintended consequences of the mechanical, chemical, biological, and medical forms of ingenuity... Read more >
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The Future of Ideas
The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World
Written by Lawrence Lessig
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: October 22, 2002
Price: $16.00
The Internet revolution has come. Some say it has gone. In The Future of Ideas, Lawrence Lessig explains how the revolution has produced a counterrevolution of potentially devastating power and effect. Creativity once flourished because the Net protected a commons on which widest range of innovators could experiment. But now, manipulating... Read more >
The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World
Written by Lawrence Lessig
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: October 22, 2002
Price: $16.00
The Internet revolution has come. Some say it has gone. In The Future of Ideas, Lawrence Lessig explains how the revolution has produced a counterrevolution of potentially devastating power and effect. Creativity once flourished because the Net protected a commons on which widest range of innovators could experiment. But now, manipulating... Read more >
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The Chip
How Two Americans Invented the Microchip and Launched a Revolution
Written by T.R. Reid
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $13.99
Barely fifty years ago a computer was a gargantuan, vastly expensive thing that only a handful of scientists had ever seen. The world’s brightest engineers were stymied in their quest to make these machines small and affordable until the solution finally came from two ingenious young Americans. Jack Kilby and Robert... Read more >
How Two Americans Invented the Microchip and Launched a Revolution
Written by T.R. Reid
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $13.99
Barely fifty years ago a computer was a gargantuan, vastly expensive thing that only a handful of scientists had ever seen. The world’s brightest engineers were stymied in their quest to make these machines small and affordable until the solution finally came from two ingenious young Americans. Jack Kilby and Robert... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
