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New How Things Work
From Lawn Mowers to Surgical Robots and Everthing in Between
Written by John Langone
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: September 14, 2004
Price: $35.00
Covering all areas of technology, The New How Things Work contains the most up-to-date, elaborately illustrated, fascinating, and fun entries that explain how our technology-driven world functions.
Learn about the objects and ideas we encounter every day, and that are changing our lives, from DVDs and MP3s to plasma screen TVs and... Read more >
From Lawn Mowers to Surgical Robots and Everthing in Between
Written by John Langone
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: September 14, 2004
Price: $35.00
Covering all areas of technology, The New How Things Work contains the most up-to-date, elaborately illustrated, fascinating, and fun entries that explain how our technology-driven world functions.
Learn about the objects and ideas we encounter every day, and that are changing our lives, from DVDs and MP3s to plasma screen TVs and... Read more >
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... Read more >
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... Read more >
Also available as a
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Remaking the World
Adventures in Engineering
Written by Henry Petroski
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: December 29, 1998
Price: $16.95
Science/Engineering
"Petroski has an inquisitive mind, and he is a fine writer. . . . [He] takes us on a lively tour of engineers, their creations and their necessary turns of mind." --Los Angeles Times
From the Ferris wheel to the integrated circuit, feats of engineering have changed our environment in countless ways... Read more >
Adventures in Engineering
Written by Henry Petroski
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: December 29, 1998
Price: $16.95
Science/Engineering
"Petroski has an inquisitive mind, and he is a fine writer. . . . [He] takes us on a lively tour of engineers, their creations and their necessary turns of mind." --Los Angeles Times
From the Ferris wheel to the integrated circuit, feats of engineering have changed our environment in countless ways... Read more >
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eBook.
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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... Read more >
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... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Amusement Park Rides
Written by Martin Easdown
Format: Trade Paperback, 64 pages
On Sale: July 24, 2012
Price: $12.95
A ride on a thrill rollercoaster is the highlight of any visit to an amusement or theme park. Today's rides are at the cutting edge of technology and engineering, but they are but the latest of a long line of rides with humble roots in Russian ice slides and wooden sleigh... Read more >
Written by Martin Easdown
Format: Trade Paperback, 64 pages
On Sale: July 24, 2012
Price: $12.95
A ride on a thrill rollercoaster is the highlight of any visit to an amusement or theme park. Today's rides are at the cutting edge of technology and engineering, but they are but the latest of a long line of rides with humble roots in Russian ice slides and wooden sleigh... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Executioner's Current
Thomas Edison, George Westinghouse, and the Invention of the Electric Chair
Written by Richard Moran
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $11.99
In this amazing story of high stakes competition between two titans, Richard Moran shows how the electric chair developed not out of the desire to be more humane but through an effort by one nineteenth-century electric company to discredit the other.
In 1882, Thomas Edison ushered in the “age of electricity”... Read more >
Thomas Edison, George Westinghouse, and the Invention of the Electric Chair
Written by Richard Moran
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $11.99
In this amazing story of high stakes competition between two titans, Richard Moran shows how the electric chair developed not out of the desire to be more humane but through an effort by one nineteenth-century electric company to discredit the other.
In 1882, Thomas Edison ushered in the “age of electricity”... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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The Toothpick
Technology and Culture
Written by Henry Petroski
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: November 4, 2008
Price: $15.95
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... Read more >
Technology and Culture
Written by Henry Petroski
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: November 4, 2008
Price: $15.95
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... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Tex Johnston
Jet-Age Test Pilot
Written by A.M. Johnston
Format: Trade Paperback, 274 pages
On Sale: December 17, 2000
Price: $17.95
One of America's most daring and accomplished test pilots, Tex Johnston flew the first US jet airplanes and, in a career spanning the 1930s through the 1970s, helped create the jet age at such pioneering aersospace companies as Bell Aircraft and Boeing. Read more >
Jet-Age Test Pilot
Written by A.M. Johnston
Format: Trade Paperback, 274 pages
On Sale: December 17, 2000
Price: $17.95
One of America's most daring and accomplished test pilots, Tex Johnston flew the first US jet airplanes and, in a career spanning the 1930s through the 1970s, helped create the jet age at such pioneering aersospace companies as Bell Aircraft and Boeing. Read more >
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Our Own Devices
How Technology Remakes Humanity
Written by Edward Tenner
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: June 8, 2004
Price: $18.00
This delightful and instructive history of invention shows why National Public Radio dubbed Tenner “the philosopher of everyday technology.” Looking at how our inventions have impacted our world in ways we never intended or imagined, he shows that the things we create have a tendency to bounce back and change us.
The... Read more >
How Technology Remakes Humanity
Written by Edward Tenner
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: June 8, 2004
Price: $18.00
This delightful and instructive history of invention shows why National Public Radio dubbed Tenner “the philosopher of everyday technology.” Looking at how our inventions have impacted our world in ways we never intended or imagined, he shows that the things we create have a tendency to bounce back and change us.
The... Read more >
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eBook.
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The God Machine
From Boomerangs to Black Hawks: The Story of the Helicopter
Written by James R. Chiles
Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: November 26, 2008
Price: $9.99
From transforming the ways of war to offering godlike views of inaccessible spots, revolutionizing rescues worldwide, and providing some of our most-watched TV moments—including the cloud of newscopters that trailed O. J. Simpson’s Bronco—the helicopter is far more capable than early inventors expected. Now James Chiles profiles the many helicoptrians who... Read more >
From Boomerangs to Black Hawks: The Story of the Helicopter
Written by James R. Chiles
Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: November 26, 2008
Price: $9.99
From transforming the ways of war to offering godlike views of inaccessible spots, revolutionizing rescues worldwide, and providing some of our most-watched TV moments—including the cloud of newscopters that trailed O. J. Simpson’s Bronco—the helicopter is far more capable than early inventors expected. Now James Chiles profiles the many helicoptrians who... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
