Rescuing Prometheus
Four Monumental Projects that Changed Our World
Written by Thomas P. Hughes
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: March 14, 2000
Price: $19.95
"A rare insight into industrial planning on a huge scale...Excellent." --
The EconomistRescuing Prometheus is an eye-opening and marvelously informative look at some of the technological projects that helped shape the modern world. Thomas P. Hughes focuses on four postwar projects whose vastness and complexity inspired new technology, new organizations, and new management...
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Firecrackers
The Art and History
Written by Warren Dotz, Jack Mingo and George Moyer
Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
On Sale: July 1, 2000
Price: $19.95
Universally popular, uncommonly loud, a pyrotechnic spectacle that inspires laughter, delight and a healthy dose of frayed nerves—what else but the firecracker! These little sticks of paper and powder have captured the imagination of cultures the world over since the Chinese invented them centuries ago. As practical, chemical developments in firecracker...
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Secret Weapons
Technology, Science and the Race to Win World War II
Written by Brian J. Ford
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: September 20, 2011
Price: $25.95
Powerful illustrations and a unique new narrative make this an incomparable illustrated history of the secret weapons that changed the course of World War II. The book's basic structure is chronological, charting the race in technology between the Allied and Axis powers, with examples of their use in battle, along with...
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The Big Idea
How Breakthroughs of the Past Shape the Future
Written by National Geographic
Foreword by Timothy Ferris
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: September 6, 2011
Price: $35.00
From the Pythagorean theorem to DNA's double helix, from the discovery of microscopic life-forms to the theory of relativity—the big ideas of science and technology shape an era's worldview. Open this book, grasp the newest ideas from thought leaders of today, then spring off from them to move back through the...
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The Golden Age of the Great Passenger Airships
Graf Zeppelin and Hindenburg
Written by Harold Dick and Douglas Robinson
Format: Trade Paperback, 226 pages
On Sale: December 17, 1992
Price: $39.95
Drawing on the extensive photographs, notes, diaries, reports, recorded data, and manuals he collected during his five years at the Zeppelin Company in Germany, from 1934 through 1938, Harold G. Dick tells the story of the two great passenger Zeppelins. Against the background of German secretiveness, especially during the Nazi period...
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Genetically Modified Foods
Debating Biotechnology
Edited by Michael Ruse
Format: Trade Paperback, 350 pages
On Sale: November 1, 2002
Price: $22.99
Finally, the real story about corporate America with its increased reliance on consultants. Since the 1990s, consulting solutions have become the de facto standard for solving business problems and providing cover for corporate decision makers. This is not the typical CEO whitewash, or business management primer. Steve Romaine offers a view...
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The Google Story
For Google's 10th Birthday
Written by David A. Vise
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: September 23, 2008
Price: $15.00
Moscow-born Sergey Brin and Midwest-born Larry Page dropped out of graduate school at Stanford University to, in their own words, "change the world" through a powerful search engine that would organize every bit of information on the Web for free.
The Google Story takes you deep inside the company's wild ride...
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Medical Marvels
The 100 Greatest Advances in Medicine
Written by Eugene W. Straus, M.D.
Format: Hardcover, 425 pages
On Sale: January 2, 2006
Price: $28.99
Medical Marvels is an introduction to some of the ideas, people, and accomplishments that have influenced the development of healing. While it examines and celebrates human ingenuity's most hallowed ground, it is not a history per se of medicine - it is equally concerned with our current climate, and it is...
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