Technology & Engineering
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Rings of Fire: How an Unlikely Team of Scientists, Ex-Cons, Women, and Native Americans Helped Win World War II
$34.95 Read more“An epic story, filled with an unfolding array of evocatively described landscapes and sharply drawn, unforgettable people.”
–Dayton Duncan, writer and producer for Ken Burns documentary films and aut
- Author: Hughes, Larry J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 600
- Publish Date: June 18 2024
- ISBN10: 0811773892
- Language: English
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Reentry: Spacex, Elon Musk, and the Reusable Rockets That Launched a Second Space Age
$31.95 Add to cartHow did a shaky startup defy expectations and become the world’s leading spaceflight company? Get the untold story of the team of game-changers, led by a well-known billionaire, who are sending NASA a… [more below]
- Author: Berger, Eric
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 1637745273
- Language: English
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Against the Grain: How Farmers Around the Globe Are Transforming Agriculture to Nourish the World and Heal the Planet
$20.00 Add to cartWhen famine, drought, and malnutrition plagued their communities, these farmers tried something revolutionary–and managed to nourish their families and their land in the process.
Farmers in some of th
- Author: Thurow, Roger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: August 13 2024
- ISBN10: 1572843403
- Language: English
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The Mind’s Mirror: Risk and Reward in the Age of AI
$29.99 Add to cartImagine a technology capable of discovering new drugs in days instead of years, helping scientists map distant galaxies and decode the language of whales, and aiding the rest of us in mundane daily ta
- Author: Rus, Daniela
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1324079320
- Language: English
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Size: How It Explains the World
$19.99 Add to cart- Author: Smil, Vaclav
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 0063324105
- Language: English
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Hammer’s Blueprint Reading Basics
$81.18 Read moreOverview
Warren Hammer’s Blueprint Reading Basics has been a bestselling classic for nearly two decades, revered for its ease of understanding and for giving readers opportunities to practice what the
- Author: Gillis, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: December 22 2017
- ISBN10: 0831136146
- Language: English
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The Early Days of ESPN: 300 Daydreams and Nightmares
$29.95 Add to cartThe tales of early ESPN people who gambled their careers while critics carped that “all-sports television will never work” are full of guile, luck, fear, fun, and unbridled optimism. As ESPN’s foundin
- Author: Fox, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 1493079573
- Language: English
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The Long History of the Future: Why Tomorrow’s Technology Still Isn’t Here
$28.00 Read moreWe love to imagine the future. But why are groundbreaking future technologies always just around the corner, and never a reality?
For decades we’ve delighted in dreaming about a sci-fi utopia, from fl- Author: Kobie, Nicole
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 1399403109
- Language: English
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Climate Dragon: Treachery, Pestilence & Weirding Weather
$21.95 Add to cartClimate fiction without apocalypse, set in and around Washington, D.C. Newly minted engineering professor Jake Harper, dealing with issues of mild dyslexia and awkwardness with public speaking, wants
- Author: Lawrence, S. W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 298
- Publish Date: February 27 2024
- ISBN10: 1958808172
- Language: English
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How to Kill an Asteroid: The Real Science of Planetary Defense
$29.99 Add to cartThere are approximately 25,000 “city killer” asteroids in near-Earth orbit–and most are yet to be found. Small enough to evade detection, they are capable of large-scale destruction, and represent ou
- Author: Andrews, Robin George
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1324050195
- Language: English
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A Call to Farms: Reconnecting to Nature, Food, and Community in a Modern World
$28.00 Add to cartWithin a decade, nearly half of all American farmland will change hands as an older generation of farmers steps aside. In their place, a groundswell of new growers will face numerous challenges, inclu
- Author: Grayson, Jennifer
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1682688461
- Language: English
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Gaia’s Web: How Digital Environmentalism Can Combat Climate Change, Restore Biodiversity, Cultivate Empathy, and Regenerate the Ea
$29.95 Add to cartA riveting exploration of one of the most important dilemmas of our time: will digital technology accelerate environmental degradation, or could it play a role in ecological regeneration?
At the uncan- Author: Bakker, Karen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 0262048752
- Language: English
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When the Heavens Went on Sale: The Misfits and Geniuses Racing to Put Space Within Reach
$22.00 Add to cartAn Instant New York Times Bestseller
The inspiration for the HBO Original documentary Wild Wild Space, now streaming on Max
A momentous look at the private companies building a revolutionary new econom
- Author: Vance, Ashlee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: July 16 2024
- ISBN10: 0062998889
- Language: English
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The Lancaster Story: True Tales of Britain’s Legendary Bomber
$26.99 Read more- Author: Miller, Sarah-Louise
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1789296390
- Language: English
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The Boiling Moat: Urgent Steps to Defend Taiwan
$25.95 Read moreChinese leader Xi Jinping has openly expressed his intention to annex Taiwan to mainland China, even threatening the use of force. An invasion or blockade of Taiwan by Chinese forces would be catastro
- Author: Pottinger, Matt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 01 2024
- ISBN10: 0817926453
- Language: English
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Porsche 911 60 Years
$60.00 Add to cartCelebrate six decades of rear-engine excellence with this beautifully illustrated exploration of 60 milestone Porsche 911s.
Porsche’s 911 is the quintessential sports car–focused, purposeful, race-p- Author: Leffingwell, Randy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 0760382654
- Language: English
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Artificial Intelligence: An Illustrated History: From Medieval Robots to Neural Networks
$19.99 Read moreA History of the Future that’s Happening Right Now
Artificial Intelligence: An Illustrated History explores the historic origins and current applications of AI in such diverse fields as computing, med- Series: Union Square & Co. Illustrated Histories
- Author: Pickover, Clifford a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 27 2024
- ISBN10: 1454955783
- Language: English
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Next War: Reimagining How We Fight
$24.95 Add to cart“…a useful addition to the literature of the changing character of war. Its scoping and focus, and its application of the identified disruptors to current challenges offer immediate insights for tod… [more below]
- Author: Antal, John F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1636243355
- Language: English
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Seek Higher Ground: The Natural Solution to Our Urgent Flooding Crisis
$27.95 Add to cartPairing in-depth journalism with historical perspectives, this book makes a compelling case for a natural solution to the growing problem of flooding.
With Seek Higher Ground, environmental writer an- Author: Palmer, Tim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 0520382730
- Language: English
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Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement
$12.00 Read moreWhen bioethicist and professor Ashley Shew became a self-described “hard-of-hearing chemobrained amputee with Crohn’s disease and tinnitus,” there was no returning to “normal.” Suddenly well-meaning p
- Author: Shew, Ashley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1324076259
- Language: English
