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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 >
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Amusement Park Rides
Written by Martin Easdown
Format: eBook, 56 pages
On Sale: July 24, 2012
Price: $9.95
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: eBook, 56 pages
On Sale: July 24, 2012
Price: $9.95
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 >
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Falling to Earth
An Apollo 15 Astronaut's Journey to the Moon
Written by Al Worden and Francis French
Foreword by Dick Gordon
Format: Trade Paperback, 312 pages
On Sale: July 24, 2012
Price: $17.95
As command module pilot for the Apollo 15 mission to the moon in 1971, Al Worden flew on what is widely regarded as the greatest exploration mission that humans have ever attempted. He spent six days orbiting the moon, including three days completely alone, the most isolated human in existence. During... Read more >
An Apollo 15 Astronaut's Journey to the Moon
Written by Al Worden and Francis French
Foreword by Dick Gordon
Format: Trade Paperback, 312 pages
On Sale: July 24, 2012
Price: $17.95
As command module pilot for the Apollo 15 mission to the moon in 1971, Al Worden flew on what is widely regarded as the greatest exploration mission that humans have ever attempted. He spent six days orbiting the moon, including three days completely alone, the most isolated human in existence. During... Read more >
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Birdseye
The Adventures of a Curious Man
Written by Mark Kurlansky
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: May 8, 2012
Price: $25.95
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. Read more >
The Adventures of a Curious Man
Written by Mark Kurlansky
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: May 8, 2012
Price: $25.95
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. Read more >
Birdseye
The Adventures of a Curious Man
Written by Mark Kurlansky
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: May 8, 2012
Price: $11.99
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. Read more >
The Adventures of a Curious Man
Written by Mark Kurlansky
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: May 8, 2012
Price: $11.99
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. Read more >
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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. Read more >
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. Read more >
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The Complete Modern Blacksmith
Written by Alexander Weygers
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: March 7, 2012
Price: $14.99
A truly unusual and unique resource, this extremely hands-on book brings together three popular but long-out-of-print classics (THE MODERN BLACKSMITH; THE RECYCLING, USE, AND REPAIR OF TOOLS; and THE MAKING OF TOOLS) essential for anyone interested in the making, repair, maintenance, or arcana of tools. An essential volume in any serious... Read more >
Written by Alexander Weygers
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: March 7, 2012
Price: $14.99
A truly unusual and unique resource, this extremely hands-on book brings together three popular but long-out-of-print classics (THE MODERN BLACKSMITH; THE RECYCLING, USE, AND REPAIR OF TOOLS; and THE MAKING OF TOOLS) essential for anyone interested in the making, repair, maintenance, or arcana of tools. An essential volume in any serious... Read more >
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The Information
A History, A Theory, A Flood
Written by James Gleick
Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
On Sale: March 6, 2012
Price: $16.95
A History, A Theory, A Flood
Written by James Gleick
Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
On Sale: March 6, 2012
Price: $16.95
A New York Times Notable Book
A Los Angeles Times and Cleveland Plain Dealer Best Book of the Year
Winner of the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award
From the bestselling author of the acclaimed Chaos and Genius comes a thoughtful and provocative exploration of the big ideas of the modern era: Information, communication, and...
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The New Cool
A Visionary Teacher, His FIRST Robotics Team, and the Ultimate Battle of Smarts
Written by Neal Bascomb
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: March 6, 2012
Price: $15.00
A Visionary Teacher, His FIRST Robotics Team, and the Ultimate Battle of Smarts
Written by Neal Bascomb
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: March 6, 2012
Price: $15.00
That Monday afternoon, in high-school gyms across America, kids were battling for the only glory American culture seems to want to dispense to the young these days: sports glory. But at Dos Pueblos High School in Goleta, California, in a gear-cluttered classroom, a different type of “cool” was brewing. A physics...
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Kingpin
How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground
Written by Kevin Poulsen
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: February 7, 2012
Price: $15.00
Former hacker Kevin Poulsen has, over the past decade, built a reputation as one of the top investigative reporters on the cybercrime beat. In Kingpin, he pours his unmatched access and expertise into book form for the first time, delivering a gripping cat-and-mouse narrative—and an unprecedented view into the twenty-first century’s... Read more >
How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground
Written by Kevin Poulsen
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: February 7, 2012
Price: $15.00
Former hacker Kevin Poulsen has, over the past decade, built a reputation as one of the top investigative reporters on the cybercrime beat. In Kingpin, he pours his unmatched access and expertise into book form for the first time, delivering a gripping cat-and-mouse narrative—and an unprecedented view into the twenty-first century’s... Read more >
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Design in Nature
How the Constructal Law Governs Evolution in Biology, Physics, Technology, and Social Organization
Written by Adrian Bejan and J. Peder Zane
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: January 24, 2012
Price: $27.95
In this groundbreaking book, Adrian Bejan takes the recurring patterns in nature—trees, tributaries, air passages, neural networks, and lightning bolts—and reveals how a single principle of physics, the Constructal Law, accounts for the evolution of these and all other designs in our world.
Everything—from biological life to inanimate systems—generates shape... Read more >
How the Constructal Law Governs Evolution in Biology, Physics, Technology, and Social Organization
Written by Adrian Bejan and J. Peder Zane
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: January 24, 2012
Price: $27.95
In this groundbreaking book, Adrian Bejan takes the recurring patterns in nature—trees, tributaries, air passages, neural networks, and lightning bolts—and reveals how a single principle of physics, the Constructal Law, accounts for the evolution of these and all other designs in our world.
Everything—from biological life to inanimate systems—generates shape... Read more >
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Design in Nature
How the Constructal Law Governs Evolution in Biology, Physics, Technology, and Social Organization
Written by Adrian Bejan and J. Peder Zane
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: January 24, 2012
Price: $11.99
In this groundbreaking book, Adrian Bejan takes the recurring patterns in nature—trees, tributaries, air passages, neural networks, and lightning bolts—and reveals how a single principle of physics, the Constructal Law, accounts for the evolution of these and all other designs in our world.
Everything—from biological life to inanimate systems—generates shape... Read more >
How the Constructal Law Governs Evolution in Biology, Physics, Technology, and Social Organization
Written by Adrian Bejan and J. Peder Zane
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: January 24, 2012
Price: $11.99
In this groundbreaking book, Adrian Bejan takes the recurring patterns in nature—trees, tributaries, air passages, neural networks, and lightning bolts—and reveals how a single principle of physics, the Constructal Law, accounts for the evolution of these and all other designs in our world.
Everything—from biological life to inanimate systems—generates shape... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
Kelly
More Than My Share of It All
Written by Clarence L. Johnson
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: January 11, 2012
Price: $21.95
Clarence L. “Kelly” Johnson led the design of such crucial aircraft as the P-38 and Constellation, but he will be more remembered for the U-2 and SR-71 spy planes. His extraordinary leadership of the Lockheed “Skunk Works” cemented his reputation as a legendary figure in American aerospace management.
From the Trade Paperback... Read more >
More Than My Share of It All
Written by Clarence L. Johnson
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: January 11, 2012
Price: $21.95
Clarence L. “Kelly” Johnson led the design of such crucial aircraft as the P-38 and Constellation, but he will be more remembered for the U-2 and SR-71 spy planes. His extraordinary leadership of the Lockheed “Skunk Works” cemented his reputation as a legendary figure in American aerospace management.
From the Trade Paperback... Read more >
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trade paperback.
Moon Lander
How We Developed the Apollo Lunar Module
Written by Thomas J. Kelly
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: January 11, 2012
Price: $19.99
Chief engineer Thomas J. Kelly gives a firsthand account of designing, building, testing, and flying the Apollo lunar module. It was, he writes, “an aerospace engineer’s dream job of the century.” Kelly’s account begins with the imaginative process of sketching solutions to a host of technical challenges with an emphasis on... Read more >
How We Developed the Apollo Lunar Module
Written by Thomas J. Kelly
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: January 11, 2012
Price: $19.99
Chief engineer Thomas J. Kelly gives a firsthand account of designing, building, testing, and flying the Apollo lunar module. It was, he writes, “an aerospace engineer’s dream job of the century.” Kelly’s account begins with the imaginative process of sketching solutions to a host of technical challenges with an emphasis on... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Concrete Planet
The Strange and Fascinating Story of the World's Most Common Man-Made Material
Written by Robert Courland
Format: eBook
On Sale: December 6, 2011
Price: $12.99
Concrete: We use it for our buildings, bridges, dams, and roads. We walk on it, drive on it, and many of us live and work within its walls. But very few of us know what it is. We take for granted this ubiquitous substance, which both literally and figuratively comprises much... Read more >
The Strange and Fascinating Story of the World's Most Common Man-Made Material
Written by Robert Courland
Format: eBook
On Sale: December 6, 2011
Price: $12.99
Concrete: We use it for our buildings, bridges, dams, and roads. We walk on it, drive on it, and many of us live and work within its walls. But very few of us know what it is. We take for granted this ubiquitous substance, which both literally and figuratively comprises much... Read more >
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hardcover.
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Concrete Planet
The Strange and Fascinating Story of the World's Most Common Man-Made Material
Written by Robert Courland
Format: Hardcover, 396 pages
On Sale: November 22, 2011
Price: $26.00
Concrete: We use it for our buildings, bridges, dams, and roads. We walk on it, drive on it, and many of us live and work within its walls. But very few of us know what it is. We take for granted this ubiquitous substance, which both literally and figuratively comprises much... Read more >
The Strange and Fascinating Story of the World's Most Common Man-Made Material
Written by Robert Courland
Format: Hardcover, 396 pages
On Sale: November 22, 2011
Price: $26.00
Concrete: We use it for our buildings, bridges, dams, and roads. We walk on it, drive on it, and many of us live and work within its walls. But very few of us know what it is. We take for granted this ubiquitous substance, which both literally and figuratively comprises much... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Stationary Steam Engines
Written by G. Hayes
Format: Trade Paperback, 32 pages
On Sale: November 22, 2011
Price: $11.95
In Victorian times the steam engine was almost the only source of mechanical power. Thousands of these engines were at work driving machinery in factories and pumping stations throughout Britain, but following the development of the electric motor steam power has become virtually extinct in British industry. Ironically, with their disappearance... Read more >
Written by G. Hayes
Format: Trade Paperback, 32 pages
On Sale: November 22, 2011
Price: $11.95
In Victorian times the steam engine was almost the only source of mechanical power. Thousands of these engines were at work driving machinery in factories and pumping stations throughout Britain, but following the development of the electric motor steam power has become virtually extinct in British industry. Ironically, with their disappearance... Read more >
Tractors
1880s to 1980s
Written by Nick Baldwin
Format: eBook, 64 pages
On Sale: November 22, 2011
Price: $9.95
Of all motor vehicles the farm tractor has proved to be among the most beneficial. It has freed hundreds of thousands of laborers and horses from backbreaking toil on the land in all weathers and it has stabilized the cost of food.
Starting with steam power in the middle of the nineteenth... Read more >
1880s to 1980s
Written by Nick Baldwin
Format: eBook, 64 pages
On Sale: November 22, 2011
Price: $9.95
Of all motor vehicles the farm tractor has proved to be among the most beneficial. It has freed hundreds of thousands of laborers and horses from backbreaking toil on the land in all weathers and it has stabilized the cost of food.
Starting with steam power in the middle of the nineteenth... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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Steve Jobs
Edicion en Espanol
Written by Walter Isaacson
Format: Trade Paperback, 752 pages
On Sale: November 1, 2011
Price: $17.95
Edicion en Espanol
Written by Walter Isaacson
Format: Trade Paperback, 752 pages
On Sale: November 1, 2011
Price: $17.95
La biografía definitiva de Steve Jobs
La muerte de Steve Jobs ha conmocionado al mundo. Tras entrevistarlo en más de cuarenta ocasiones en los últimos dos años, además de a un centenar de personas de su entorno, familiares, amigos, adversarios y colegas, Walter Isaacson nos presenta la única biografía escrita con la...
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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... Read more >
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... Read more >
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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... Read more >
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... Read more >
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The Two-Second Advantage
How We Succeed by Anticipating the Future--Just Enough
Written by Vivek Ranadive and Kevin Maney
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: September 6, 2011
Price: $25.00
What made Wayne Gretzky the greatest hockey player of all time wasn’t his speed on the ice or the uncanny accuracy of his shots, but rather his ability to predict where the puck was going to be an instant before it arrived. In other words, it was Gretzky’s brain that made... Read more >
How We Succeed by Anticipating the Future--Just Enough
Written by Vivek Ranadive and Kevin Maney
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: September 6, 2011
Price: $25.00
What made Wayne Gretzky the greatest hockey player of all time wasn’t his speed on the ice or the uncanny accuracy of his shots, but rather his ability to predict where the puck was going to be an instant before it arrived. In other words, it was Gretzky’s brain that made... Read more >
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The Two-Second Advantage
How We Succeed by Anticipating the Future--Just Enough
Written by Vivek Ranadive and Kevin Maney
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: September 6, 2011
Price: $14.99
What made Wayne Gretzky the greatest hockey player of all time wasn’t his speed on the ice or the uncanny accuracy of his shots, but rather his ability to predict where the puck was going to be an instant before it arrived. In other words, it was Gretzky’s brain that made... Read more >
How We Succeed by Anticipating the Future--Just Enough
Written by Vivek Ranadive and Kevin Maney
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: September 6, 2011
Price: $14.99
What made Wayne Gretzky the greatest hockey player of all time wasn’t his speed on the ice or the uncanny accuracy of his shots, but rather his ability to predict where the puck was going to be an instant before it arrived. In other words, it was Gretzky’s brain that made... Read more >
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hardcover.
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Old Working Dogs
Written by David Hancock
Format: Trade Paperback, 32 pages
On Sale: August 23, 2011
Price: $11.95
British gundogs, terriers, hounds and especially sheepdogs are used and held in high regard throughout the world, wherever working dogs are employed. Wherever sheep are worked by 'strong-eyed' dogs Border Collie blood from Britain is behind it. Inevitably, some old breeds have disappeared and others may follow them. In this book... Read more >
Written by David Hancock
Format: Trade Paperback, 32 pages
On Sale: August 23, 2011
Price: $11.95
British gundogs, terriers, hounds and especially sheepdogs are used and held in high regard throughout the world, wherever working dogs are employed. Wherever sheep are worked by 'strong-eyed' dogs Border Collie blood from Britain is behind it. Inevitably, some old breeds have disappeared and others may follow them. In this book... Read more >
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The Penguin and the Leviathan
How Cooperation Triumphs over Self-Interest
Written by Yochai Benkler
Read by Marc Cashman
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: August 9, 2011
Price: $17.50
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... Read more >
How Cooperation Triumphs over Self-Interest
Written by Yochai Benkler
Read by Marc Cashman
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: August 9, 2011
Price: $17.50
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... Read more >
