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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. Read more >
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. Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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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 >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Analyzing Art and Aesthetics
Edited by Anne Collins Goodyear and Margaret A. Weitekamp
Format: Hardcover, 312 pages
On Sale: April 16, 2013
Price: $49.95
This ninth volume of the Artefacts series explores how artists have responded to developments in science and technology, past and present. Rather than limiting the discussion to art alone, editors Anne Collins Goodyear and Margaret Weitekamp also asked contributors to consider aesthetics: the scholarly consideration of sensory responses to cultural objects... Read more >
Edited by Anne Collins Goodyear and Margaret A. Weitekamp
Format: Hardcover, 312 pages
On Sale: April 16, 2013
Price: $49.95
This ninth volume of the Artefacts series explores how artists have responded to developments in science and technology, past and present. Rather than limiting the discussion to art alone, editors Anne Collins Goodyear and Margaret Weitekamp also asked contributors to consider aesthetics: the scholarly consideration of sensory responses to cultural objects... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Falling to Earth
An Apollo 15 Astronaut's Journey to the Moon
Written by Al Worden and Francis French
Foreword by Dick Gordon
Format: Trade Paperback, 312 pages
On Sale: July 24, 2012
Price: $17.95
As command module pilot for the Apollo 15 mission to the moon in 1971, Al Worden flew on what is widely regarded as the greatest exploration mission that humans have ever attempted. He spent six days orbiting the moon, including three days completely alone, the most isolated human in existence. During... Read more >
An Apollo 15 Astronaut's Journey to the Moon
Written by Al Worden and Francis French
Foreword by Dick Gordon
Format: Trade Paperback, 312 pages
On Sale: July 24, 2012
Price: $17.95
As command module pilot for the Apollo 15 mission to the moon in 1971, Al Worden flew on what is widely regarded as the greatest exploration mission that humans have ever attempted. He spent six days orbiting the moon, including three days completely alone, the most isolated human in existence. During... 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.
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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... Read more >
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... Read more >
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abridged audiobook download.
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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 >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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Everything Conceivable
How the Science of Assisted Reproduction Is Changing Our World
Written by Liza Mundy
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: May 6, 2008
Price: $17.95
Award-winning journalist Liza Mundy captures the human narratives, as well as the science, behind the controversial, multibillion-dollar fertility industry, and examines how this huge social experiment is transforming our most basic relationships and even our destiny as a species.
Skyrocketing infertility rates and dizzying technological advances are revolutionizing American families and changing... Read more >
How the Science of Assisted Reproduction Is Changing Our World
Written by Liza Mundy
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: May 6, 2008
Price: $17.95
Award-winning journalist Liza Mundy captures the human narratives, as well as the science, behind the controversial, multibillion-dollar fertility industry, and examines how this huge social experiment is transforming our most basic relationships and even our destiny as a species.
Skyrocketing infertility rates and dizzying technological advances are revolutionizing American families and changing... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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The Pursuit of Loneliness
America's Discontent and the Search for a New Democratic Ideal
Written by Philip Slater
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: July 1, 1990
Price: $19.00
In a classic indictment of American individualism and isolationism, Philip Slater analyzes the great ills of modern society-violence, competitiveness, inequality, and the national 'addiction' to technology. Read more >
America's Discontent and the Search for a New Democratic Ideal
Written by Philip Slater
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: July 1, 1990
Price: $19.00
In a classic indictment of American individualism and isolationism, Philip Slater analyzes the great ills of modern society-violence, competitiveness, inequality, and the national 'addiction' to technology. Read more >
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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: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: December 1, 2010
Price: $11.99
How Everyday Artifacts-From Forks and Pins to Paper Clips and Zippers-Came to be as They are.
Written by Henry Petroski
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: December 1, 2010
Price: $11.99
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...
Also available as a
trade paperback.
