Birdseye
The Adventures of a Curious Man
Written by Mark Kurlansky
Read by Jon Van Ness
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: May 8, 2012
Price: $15.00
Break out the TV dinners! From the author who gave us Cod, Salt, and other informative bestsellers, the first biography of Clarence Birdseye, the eccentric genius inventor whose fast-freezing process revolutionized the food industry and American agriculture.
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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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Remaking the World
Adventures in Engineering
Written by Henry Petroski
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: January 5, 2011
Price: $12.99
This collection of informative and pleasurable essays by Henry Petroski elucidates the role of engineers in shaping our environment in countless ways, big and small.
In Remaking the World Petroski gravitates this time, perhaps, toward the big: the English Channel tunnel, the Panama Canal, Hoover Dam, the QE2, and the Petronas Twin...
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Visions of a Flying Machine
The Wright Brothers and the Process of Invention
Written by Peter Jakab
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: April 17, 1997
Price: $18.95
This acclaimed book on the Wright Brothers takes the reader straight to the heart of their remarkable achievement, focusing on the technology and offering a clear, concise chronicle of precisely what they accomplished and how they did it. This book deals with the process of the invention of the airplane and...
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Rethinking Cold War Culture
Written by Peter J. Kuznick and James Gilbert
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: April 9, 2013
Price: $29.95
This anthology of essays questions many widespread assumptions about the culture of postwar America. Illuminating the origins and development of the many threads that constituted American culture during the Cold War, the contributors challenge the existence of a monolithic culture during the 1950s and thereafter. They demonstrate instead that there was...
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The Chip
How Two Americans Invented the Microchip and Launched a Revolution
Written by T.R. Reid
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: October 9, 2001
Price: $16.00
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 Penguin and the Leviathan
How Cooperation Triumphs over Self-Interest
Written by Yochai Benkler
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: August 9, 2011
Price: $14.99
What do Wikipedia, Zip Car’s business model, Barack Obama's presidential campaign, and a small group of lobster fishermen have in common? They all show the power and promise of human cooperation in transforming our businesses, our government, and our society at large. Because today, when the costs of collaborating are lower...
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