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...
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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...
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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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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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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 Pencil
A History of Design and Circumstance
Written by Henry Petroski
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: November 10, 1992
Price: $23.00
Henry Petroski traces the origins of the pencil back to ancient Greece and Rome, writes factually and charmingly about its development over the centuries and around the world, and shows what the pencil can teach us about engineering and technology today.
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The Toothpick
Technology and Culture
Written by Henry Petroski
Format: eBook, 464 pages
On Sale: November 26, 2008
Price: $13.99
A celebration culture and technology, as seen through the history of the humble yet ubiquitous toothpick, from the best-selling author of
The Pencil.
From ancient Rome, where emperor Nero made his entrance into a banquet hall with a silver toothpick in his mouth, to nineteenth-century Boston, where Charles Forster, the father of...
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Faster
The Acceleration of Just About Everything
Written by James Gleick
Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: February 1, 2011
Price: $15.00
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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