Tomorrow Now
Envisioning the Next 50 Years
Written by Bruce Sterling
Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: December 10, 2008
Price: $13.99
“Nobody knows better than Bruce Sterling how thin the membrane between science fiction and real life has become, a state he correctly depicts as both thrilling and terrifying in this frisky, literate, clear-eyed sketch of the next half-century. Like all of the most interesting futurists, Sterling isn’t just talking about machines...
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The Google Story
For Google's 10th Birthday
Written by David A. Vise and Mark Malseed
Format: eBook
On Sale: November 15, 2005
Price: $13.99
"Here is the story behind one of the most remarkable Internet successes of our time. Based on scrupulous research and extraordinary access to Google, the book takes you inside the creation and growth of a company whose name is a favorite brand and a standard verb recognized around the world. Its...
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Flesh and Machines
How Robots Will Change Us
Written by Rodney Brooks
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: February 4, 2003
Price: $16.00
Are we really on the brink of having robots to mop our floors, do our dishes, mow our lawns, and clean our windows? And are researchers that close to creating robots that can think, feel, repair themselves, and even reproduce?
Rodney A. Brooks, director of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory believes...
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The Mystery of Flight 427
Inside a Crash Investigation
Written by Bill Adair
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: July 9, 2013
Price: $16.95
The immediate human toll of the 1994 Flight 427 disaster was staggering: all 132 people aboard died on a Pennsylvania hillside. The subsequent investigation was a maze of politics, bizarre theories, and shrouded answers. Bill Adair, an award-winning journalist, was granted special access to the five-year inquiry by the National Transportation...
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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 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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