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Truth, Lies and O-Rings: Inside the Space Shuttle 'Challenger' Disaster...
Allan J. McDonald, James R. Hansen
Mathematics & Sciences; History of engineering & technology; Safety in the home
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Originally published in hardcover in 2009. [more]
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Brilliant Blunders: From Darwin to Einstein - Colossal Mistakes by Great...
Mario Livio
Autobiography: science, technology & engineering; Mathematics & Sciences; History of science; Popular science; History of engineering & technology
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Mario Livio shows how even geniuses made major mistakes and how their errors were an essential aspect to achieving scientific... [more]
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Birdseye: The Adventures of a Curious Man
Mark Kurlansky
Biography; Biography: general; Biography: business & industry; Autobiography: historical, political & military; Autobiography: science, technology & engineering; Food manufacturing & related industries; History of engineering & technology; Inventions & inventors; Preserving & freezing
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From the author of Cod, Salt, and other informative bestsellers, comes the first biography of Clarence Birdseye, the eccentric... [more]
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A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global...
Paul N. Edwards
Mathematics & Sciences; Earth sciences; Meteorology & climatology; Global warming; History of engineering & technology; Computer science
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The science behind global warming, and its history: how scientists learned to understand the atmosphere, to measure it, to... [more]
$35.95 $32.35
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Moving Innovation: A History of Computer Animation
Tom Sito
Electronic, holographic & video art; Film, TV & Radio; History of engineering & technology; Computing: general; Graphical & digital media applications; Graphics programming
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Computer graphics (or CG) has changed the way we experience the art of moving images. Computer graphics is the difference... [more]
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Red Rover: Inside the Story of Robotic Space Exploration, from Genesis to...
Roger Wiens
Mathematics & Sciences; Scientific equipment, experiments & techniques; History of science; Astronomy, space & time; History of engineering & technology; Robotics; Aerospace & aviation technology; Space science
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In its eerie likeness to Earth, Mars has long captured our imaginations--both as a destination for humankind and as a possible... [more]
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Lynn Margulis: The Life and Legacy of a Scientific Rebel
Dorian Sagan
Autobiography: science, technology & engineering; Mathematics & Sciences; Science: general issues; Ecological science, the Biosphere; Evolution; Environmentalist thought & ideology; History of engineering & technology
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Tireless, controversial, and hugely inspirational to those who knew her or encountered her work, Lynn Margulis was a scientist... [more]
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Constant Touch: A Global History of the Mobile Phone
Jon Agar
Society & Social Sciences; Impact of science & technology on society; History of engineering & technology
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A brilliant global history of the device that is now utterly ubiquitous and yet represents an unprecedented revolution in... [more]
$29.99 $27.00
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Spacewalker: My Journey in Space and Faith as NASA's Record-setting Frequent...
Jerry L. Ross, John Norberg
Autobiography: general; Autobiography: science, technology & engineering; Mathematics & Sciences; Geographical discovery & exploration; History of engineering & technology; Aerospace & aviation technology; Astronautics
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<p>From the age of ten, looking up at the stars, Jerry Ross knew that he wanted to journey into space. This autobiography... [more]
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The Inventor and the Tycoon: A Gilded Age Murder and the Birth of Moving...
Edward Ball
Individual artists, art monographs; Individual actors & performers; Autobiography: arts & entertainment; Autobiography: science, technology & engineering; History; History of engineering & technology
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The story of Eadweard Muybridge, inventor of stop-motion photography and moving pictures--who was also a murderer--and his... [more]
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Airship: Design, Development and Disaster
John Swinfield
History; History of engineering & technology; Aircraft: general interest
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Airship charts the history of lighter-than-air craft from the continental pioneers of the late 19th century through to European... [more]
$49.99 $45.00
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The Rarest Blue: The Remarkable Story of an Ancient Color Lost to History...
Baruch Sterman
Ancient history: to c 500 CE; History of religion; Judaism; Judaism: worship, rites & ceremonies; Mathematics & Sciences; History of science; Marine biology; History of engineering & technology; Industrial chemistry
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For centuries, blue and purple dyed fabrics ranked among the ancient world's most desirable objects, commanding many times... [more]
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Hedy's Folly: the Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most...
Richard Rhodes
Film, TV & Radio; Individual actors & performers; Films, movies & cinema; Biography: general; Autobiography: general; Biography: arts & entertainment; Autobiography: science, technology & engineering; Gender studies: women; History of engineering & technology
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What other book brings together 1920's Paris, player pianos, Nazi weaponry, and digital wireless into one satisfying whole?... [more]
$23.95 $21.55
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A Single Sky: How an International Community Forged the Science of Radio...
David P. D. Munns
Mathematics & Sciences; Astronomy, space & time; Astronomical observation: observatories, equipment & methods; Astronomical charts & atlases; History of engineering & technology
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For more than three thousand years, the science of astronomy depended on visible light. In just the last sixty years, radio... [more]
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Flying the Southern Cross: Aviators Charles Ulm and Charles Kingsford Smith...
Michael Molkentin
History; Aviation manufacturing industry; Aerospace & air transport industries; History of engineering & technology; Aerospace & aviation technology; Aircraft: general interest
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Australian aviators Charles Kingsford Smith and Charles Ulm made the first trans-Pacific flight in 1928 in an aircraft constructed... [more]
$34.95 $31.45
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Fifty Machines That Changed the Course of History
Eric Chaline
General & world history; Mathematics & Sciences; History of engineering & technology; Inventions & inventors
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A celebration of fifty iconic machines and of mechanical technology in general. [more]
$35.00 $31.50
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The Fractalist: Memoir of a Scientific Maverick
Benoit Mandelbrot (Yale University Connecticut)
Biography: science, technology & engineering; Autobiography: science, technology & engineering; Mathematics & Sciences; Non-Euclidean geometry; History of mathematics; History of engineering & technology
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<p>A fascinating memoir from the man who revitalized visual geometry, and whose ideas about fractals have changed how we look... [more]
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Alan Turing and His Contemporaries: Building the World's First Computers...
Chris Burton, Martin Campbell-Kelly, Roger Johnson, Simon Lavington
Mathematics & Sciences; History of science; Popular science; History of engineering & technology; Computing: general
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Secret wartime projects in areas such as code-breaking, radar and ballistics produced a wealth of ideas and technologies that... [more]
$27.95 $25.15
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Powering the Dream
Alexis Madrigal
Central government policies; Political economy; Mathematics & Sciences; Science: general issues; History of engineering & technology
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Eye-opening micro-histories about America's energy past, with an eye to the future....A well-told cautionary tale about the... [more]
$24.99 $22.50
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Power Over Peoples: Technology, Environments, and Western Imperialism, 1400...
Daniel R. Headrick
History; General & world history; Colonialism & imperialism; Economic history; Impact of science & technology on society; History of science; History of engineering & technology
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For six hundred years, the nations of Europe and North America have periodically attempted to coerce, invade, or conquer other... [more]
$37.95 $34.15
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Turing: Pioneer of the Information Age
B. Jack Copeland
Biography: science, technology & engineering; Mathematics & Sciences; Mathematics; Popular science; History of engineering & technology
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In the centenary of Alan Turing's birth, we celebrate the life and work of one of the greatest scientists of the 20th century.... [more]
$28.95 $26.05
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My Inventions and Other Writings
Nikola Tesla
Autobiography: science, technology & engineering; Memoirs; Mathematics & Sciences; History of science; History of engineering & technology
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Includes three additional articles by the author which were published in The Electrical Experimenter magazine and represent... [more]
$9.95 $8.95
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Before This Decade Is Out
Glen Swanson
Biography: science, technology & engineering; Autobiography: science, technology & engineering; History of the Americas; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000; Mathematics & Sciences; Astronomy, space & time; Astrophysics; History of engineering & technology
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Oral histories by 14 participants in the Apollo program include comments by James Webb, Thomas O. Paine, Wernher von Braun,... [more]
$31.95 $28.75
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A Brief History of Computing
Gerard O'Regan (SQC Consulting Cork UK)
Mathematics & Sciences; History of science; Popular science; History of engineering & technology; Computing & IT; Computing: general; Computer science
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This concise, easy-to-follow book introduces key topics in the history of computing from 3000 B.C. to the present. Profiles... [more]
$47.95 $43.15
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Breverton's Encyclopedia of Inventions: A Compendium of Technological Leaps,...
Terry Breverton
Encyclopaedias & reference works; Reference works; Mathematics & Sciences; History of engineering & technology; Inventions & inventors
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An extraordinary collection of the key innovations that have shaped our world. [more]
$19.99 $18.00
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