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The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation by Jon Gertner Publisher Comments The definitive history of America's greatest incubator of technological innovationand#160;In this first full portrait of the legendary Bell Labs, journalist Jon Gertner takes readers behind one of the greatest collaborations between business and science... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Hardcover
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A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos by Dava Sobel Publisher Comments By 1514, the reclusive cleric Nicolaus Copernicus had developed an initial outline of his heliocentric theory-in which he defied common sense and received wisdom to place the sun, and not the earth, at the center of our universe, and set the earth... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Absinthe and Flamethrowers: Projects and Ruminations on the Art of Living Dangerously by William Gurstelle Publisher Comments A Selection of the Scientific American Book Club Want to add more excitement to your life? This daring combination of science, history, and DIY projects will show you how. Written for smart risk takers, it explores why danger is good for you... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives by Steven Levy Publisher Comments Few companies in history have ever been as successful and as admired as Google, the company that has transformed the Internet and become an indispensable part of our lives. How has Google done it? Veteran technology reporter Steven Levy was granted... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Victorian Scientist (British Library) by Jack Meadows Publisher Comments At the start of the nineteenth century, science was a minority cultural interest. By the end it had become one of the central components of contemporary thought. The growth of science as a profession began taking shape in the Victorian period and was... (read more) List Price $40.25 Your price: $12.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Day We Found the Universe by Marcia Bartusiak Publisher Comments On January 1, 1925, thirty-five-year-old Edwin Hubble announced the observation that ultimately established that our universe was a thousand trillion times larger than previously believed, filled with myriad galaxies like our own. This discovery... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Darwin's Devices: What Evolving Robots Can Teach Us about the History of Life and the Future of Technology by John Long Publisher Comments What happens when we let robots play the game of life? The challenge of studying evolution is that the history of life is buried in the past—we can’t witness the dramatic events that shaped the adaptations we see today. But biorobotics... (read more) List Price $26.99 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Tinkerers: The Amateurs, Diyers, and Inventors Who Make America Great by Alec Foege Publisher Comments From its earliest years, the United States was a nation of tinkerers: men and women who looked at the world around them and were able to create something genuinely new from what they saw. Guided by their innate curiosity, a desire to know how things work,... (read more) List Price $26.99 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Day the World Discovered the Sun: An Extraordinary Story of Scientific Adventure and the Race to Track the Transit of Venus by Mark Anderson Publisher Comments On June 3, 1769, the planet Venus briefly passed across the face of the sun in a cosmic alignment that occurs twice per century. Anticipation of the rare celestial event sparked a worldwide competition among aspiring global superpowers, each sending... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Working at Inventing: Thomas A. Edison and the Menlo Park Experience by William S Pretzer Publisher Comments Working at Inventing offers a fascinating study of research and development at Thomas Edison's Menlo Park (New Jersey) laboratory during the six years between 1876 and 1882 that transformed American life. Edison and his associates developed ideas that... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Invention of Air: A Story of Science, Faith, Revolution, and the Birth of America by Steven Johnson Publisher Comments From the bestselling author of Where Good Ideas Come From, The Ghost Map and Everything Bad Is Good for You, a new national bestseller: the exhilarating”( Los Angeles Times) story of Joseph Priestley, a founding father long forgotten... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation by Steven Johnson Publisher Comments Essential reading-and progressive thinking-on the subject of innovation, from the national bestselling author. Steven Johnson, an acknowledged bestselling leader on the subject of innovation, gathers-for a foundational text on the subject of innovation... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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America, 1908: The Dawn of Flight, the Race to the Pole, the Invention of the Model T, and the Making of a Modern Nation by Jim Rasenberger Publisher Comments A captivating look at a bygone era through the lens of a single, surprisingly momentous American year one century ago. 1908 was the year Henry Ford launched the Model T, the Wright Brothers proved to the world that they had mastered the art of flight... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Brilliant: The Evolution of Artificial Light by Jane Brox Publisher Comments The Fascinating Story of Our Emergence from Dark and How We Came to Inhabit Our World Built of Light “It takes a special turn of mind to even think of writing a history of artificial light. But Jane Brox takes this curious, thin slice of history... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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New Tech, New Ties: How Mobile Communication Is Reshaping Social Cohesion by Rich Ling Publisher Comments andlt;Pandgt;The message of this book is simple: the mobile phone strengthens social bonds among family and friends. With a traditional land-line telephone, we place calls to a location and ask hopefully if someone is andquot;thereandquot;; with a mobile... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $4.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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Sundials: History, Art, People, Science by Mark Lennox Boyd Publisher Comments A beautifully illustrated book that charts the evolution of sundials around the world as shown through photographs of important historical examples from the earliest Neolithic designs stone circles, such as Stonehenge, to the present day.... (read more) List Price $50.00 Your price: $17.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Inventing the 21st Century by Stephen Van Dulken Publisher Comments From the iPod to the Nintendo Wii, the first decade of the twenty-first century has already brought us incredible inventions we could not have imagined before, yet that have already changed how we live our lives and spend our free time. Although the... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $6.50 Sale - Trade Paper
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Adventures from the Technology Underground: Catapults, Pulsejets, Rail Guns, Flamethrowers, Tesla Coils, Air Cannons and the Garage Warriors Who Love Them by William Gurstelle Publisher Comments The technology underground is a thriving, humming, and often literally scintillating subculture of amateur inventors and scientific envelope-pushers who dream up, design, and build machines that whoosh, rumble, fly—and occasionally hurl pumpkins... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Inventing the American Dream a History of Curious Extraordinary & Just Plain Useful Patents by Stephen Van Dulken Publisher Comments The American Dream has come to be widely conceived of as one nation's ambitious search for the perfect lifestyle: a search that embraces car, house and family. Anything but 'dreamlike', it is made up of real and substantial inventions that have had an... (read more) Your price: $1.00 Sale - Hardcover
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Creations of Fire: Chemistry's Lively History from Alchemy to the Atomic Age by Cathy Cobb Publisher Comments In this fascinating history, Cathy Cobb and Harold Goldwhite celebrate not only chemistry's theories and breakthroughs but also the provocative times and personalities that shaped this amazing science and brought it to life. Throughout the book, the... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $12.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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