Technology & Engineering
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These Strange New Minds: How AI Learned to Talk and What It Means
$32.00 Add to cartAn insider look at the Large Language Models (LLMs) that are revolutionizing our relationship to technology, exploring their surprising history, what they can and should do for us today, and where the… [more below]
- Author: Summerfield, Christopher
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 593831713
- Language: English
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Star Bound: A Beginner’s Guide to the American Space Program, from Goddard’s Rockets to Goldilocks Planets and Everything in Betwe
$34.95 Add to cartStar Bound is a book for anyone who wants to learn about the American space program but isn’t sure where to start. First and foremost, it’s a history–short, sweet, and straightforward. From rocketry … [more below]
- Series: Outward Odyssey: A People’s History of Spaceflight
- Author: Carney, Emily
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: January 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1496241398
- Language: English
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A History of the Railroad in 100 Maps
$40.00 Add to cartThe first international history of railroads and railroad infrastructure told through stunningly reproduced maps.
Since their origins in eighteenth-century England, railroads have spread across the gl
- Author: Black, Jeremy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 0226837882
- Language: English
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Hijacking Bitcoin: The Hidden History of BTC
$19.99 Add to cartBitcoin was promised to be a liberating technology, a free market alternative to state-controlled money. But that promise was broken after a small group of insiders took over the project and fundament
- Author: Ver, Roger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 05 2024
- ISBN10: 9798989492435
- Language: English
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Forging Ahead: How Five Generations of Small-Town Values Collided with Big Ambitions to Spark One of America’s Fastest-Growing Compan
$21.95 Add to cartMatthew Nix, age twenty, yearns to grow Nix Welding, even though his grandfather, father, and aunt are content with the way things are. Small. Status quo. Good enough.
In 1902 in tiny Poseyville, Indi
- Author: Klink, Angie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 286
- Publish Date: December 03 2024
- ISBN10: 9798888246733
- Language: English
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Waste Wars: The Wild Afterlife of Your Trash
$32.00 Add to cartA globe-trotting work of relentless investigative reporting, this is the first major book to expose the catastrophic reality of the multi-billion-dollar global garbage trade.
Dumps and landfills arou- Author: Clapp, Alexander
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 25 2025
- ISBN10: 031645902X
- Language: English
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Everyone’s Trash: One Man Against 1.6 Billion Pounds
$25.00 Add to cart“This book usefully illustrates both the history and the current state of waste disposal in the U.S…” – Library Journal
Each day, every single person in the United States, all 324 million, discards a… [more below]
- Author: Watson, Duncan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1942155778
- Language: English
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How to Win a Grand Prix
$28.00 Add to cartLifts the lid on how an F1 team really works.
Formula 1 drivers are the public face of Grand Prix racing but behind every driver is a team of several hundred people sharing the same passionate desire- Author: Collins, Bernie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1529437598
- Language: English
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Charging Forward: Lithium Valley, Electric Vehicles, and a Just Future
$27.99 Add to cartA clarion call for justice in the quest for clean energy
California’s Salton Sea region is home to some of the worst environmental health conditions in the country. It is also ground zero for a new “l
- Author: Benner, Chris
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 1620978741
- Language: English
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Spacecraft and Rockets: Photographs from the Archives of NASA
$35.00 Add to cartDiscover the remarkable NASA spacecraft that have captured our imaginations for decades.
The rockets, rovers, satellites, and space stations that have charted courses into space are depicted in beauti- Series: NASA
- Author: Nasa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 179722509X
- Language: English
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Nuts and Bolts: Seven Small Inventions That Changed the World in a Big Way
$18.99 Add to cartSome of humanity’s mightiest engineering achievements are small in scale–and, without them, the complex machinery on which our modern world runs would not exist. In Nuts and Bolts, structural enginee
- Author: Agrawal, Roma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1324086386
- Language: English
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The Power of Where: A Geographic Approach to the World’s Greatest Challenges
$59.99 Add to cartThe Power of Where presents the visionary concepts of Jack Dangermond, cofounder of Esri(R), the world’s leading mapping software company. With a foreword by bestselling author and writer for The Atla
- Author: Dangermond, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1589486064
- Language: English
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Defense Against Drones: Defending Against Threats From The Air – Combatting Scout and Attack Drones
$19.90 Add to cartPROTECTION AGAINST THREATS FROM THE AIR
Drones have become a very particular challenge on the modern battlefield. Particularly small commercially available drones pose a massive threat against militar
- Series: Spartanat Black Book #5
- Author: Nagy, Krist?f
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 134
- Publish Date: October 03 2024
- ISBN10: 3903526177
- Language: English
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Complete Book of Home Inspection 4/E
$24.00 Add to cartPublisher’s Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product.
INSPECT ANY … [more below]
- Series: Complete Book
- Author: Becker, Norman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 08 2010
- ISBN10: 0071702776
- Language: English
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The Path to Singularity: How Technology Will Challenge the Future of Humanity
$32.95 Read moreIn a rapidly changing world, are we on the brink of creating technology that outpaces our ability to control it?
Astrophysicist J. Craig Wheeler, former president of the American Astronomical Society,
- Author: Wheeler, J. Craig
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1493085433
- Language: English
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Artificial General Intelligence
$17.95 Add to cartHow to make AI capable of general intelligence, and what such technology would mean for society.
Artificial intelligence surrounds us. More and more of the systems and services you interact with every
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Togelius, Julian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 0262549344
- Language: English
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I Like Space … What Jobs Are There?
$15.99 Add to cartExplore a day in the life of 25 people whose jobs involve working with space. While it takes all kinds of jobs to put an astronaut in space, there are also space lawyers and space weather forecasters!… [more below]
- Series: That’s a Job?
- Author: Martin, Steve
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: January 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1684641675
- Language: English
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Make materials that change the world! Materials science!
$19.00 Add to cartThis book offers students a concise overview of materials science, covering key topics such as: (1) the significance of materials science, (2) the cosmic origins of materials, (3) the internal structu
- Author: Lee, Seok-Woo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 158
- Publish Date: August 26 2024
- ISBN10: 9798991438308
- Language: English
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Ike’s Road Trip: How Eisenhower’s 1919 Convoy Paved the Way for the Roads We Travel
$28.95 Add to cartAll roads begin somewhere and today’s U. S. highway system began with an exploratory, cross-country ride, led by 28-year-old Army lieutenant colonel, Dwight Eisenhower. This is the story of that coast
- Author: Black, Brian C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 1567927157
- Language: English
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Isuzu Rodeo & Amigo 1989-02
$43.95 Add to cartEach Haynes manual is written for the do-it-yourselfer and provides step-by-step instructions based on a complete disassembly of the vehicle. This hands-on experience provides the reader with specific… [more below]
- Series: Haynes Manuals
- Author: Haynes, J. H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 26 2016
- ISBN10: 1563924811
- Language: English
