The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments
by George Johnson


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From the acclaimed New York Times science writer George Johnson, an irresistible book on the ten most fascinating experiments in the history of science — moments when a curious soul posed a particularly eloquent question to nature and received a... (read more)

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Uncertainty: Einstein, Heisenberg, Bohr, and the Struggle for the Soul of Science
by David Lindley


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Werner Heisenberg's "uncertainty principle" challenged centuries of scientific understanding, placed him in direct opposition to Albert Einstein, and put Niels Bohr in the middle of one of the most heated debates in scientific history. Heisenberg's... (read more)

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Dark Hero of the Information Age: In Search of Norbert Weiner
by Flo Conway


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Child prodigy and brilliant MIT mathematician, Norbert Wiener founded the revolutionary science of cybernetics and ignited the information-age explosion of computers, automation, and global telecommunications. His best-selling book, Cybernetics... (read more)

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They Made America: From the Steam Engine to the Search Engine: Two Centuries of Innovators
by Harold Evans


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A history of the United States's major inventors and innovators includes coverage of such figures as Henry and Edsel Ford, cosmetics entrepreneur C. J. Walker, and Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page, in a tie-in to a PBS four-part series that... (read more)

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Lightning Man: The Accursed Life of Samuel F. B. Morse
by Kenne Silverman


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This brilliantly conceived biography is the very American tale of a quiet man, raised by religious zealots, who became a gifted and prolific painter (more than three hundred portraits and historical canvases), became the first Professor of Fine Arts at... (read more)

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Almost Heaven: The Story of Women in Space
by Bettyann Holtzmann Kevles


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Almost Heaven tells the stories of the remarkable women who have bravely met two challenges: the risk of space travel and the struggle to succeed in a man's world. From Valentina Tereshkova in 1963 and Sally Ride in 1983 to Kalpana Chawla and Lauren... (read more)

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In the Beginning...Was the Command Line
by Neal Stephenson


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About twenty years ago Jobs and Wozniak, the founders of Apple, came up with the very strange idea of selling information-processing machines for use in the home. The business took off, and its founders made a lot of money and received the credit they... (read more)

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Wittgenstein Flies a Kite: A Story of Models of Wings and Models of the World
by Susan G Sterrett


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This richly textured historical story takes readers to the place where the Wright brothers who flew the first airplane meet the philosophy of an Austrian genius, Wittgenstein, one of the most enduringly popular philosophers of the 20th century.... (read more)

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Small Things Considered: Why There Is No Perfect Design
by Henry Petroski


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Henry Petroski, "America's poet laureate of technology" (Kirkus Reviews) author of The Pencil and The Evolution of Useful Things — now gives us an entertaining and perceptive study of design in everyday life, while revealing the checkered pasts, and... (read more)

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The Meaning of the 21st Century: A Vital Blueprint for Ensuring Our Future
by James Martin


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According to James Martin-known as "the guru of the Information Age"-humanity is at a crucial turning point. If we succeed in finding ways to support massive gains in population combined with dizzying technological progress, we have a magnificent future... (read more)

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Success through Failure: The Paradox of Design
by Henry Petroski




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Fear not! Despite the sound of the title, Success through Failure is blissfully free of the latest corporate management philosophies. Instead of business jargon, engineering and design author Henry Petroski focuses on the fascinating cycle of mistakes... (read more)

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A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906 (P.S.)
by Simon Winchester




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"If you liked Krakatoa, The Professor and the Madman, or any of Winchester's other works, you'll like this one. He explains geological ideas well, and is well on his way to being the new ambassador of geology's influence on human history. He places... (read more)

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Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
by Dava Sobel




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Anyone alive in the eighteenth century would have known that “the longitude problem” was the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day—and had been for centuries. Lacking the ability to measure their longitude, sailors throughout the... (read more)

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The Boston Scientific Story
by Jeffrey L Rodengen


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Thirty years ago, a quiet revolution began in medicine when a pioneering radiologist named Charles Dotter demonstrated the ability to use a percutaneous catheter to dilate an obstructed vein. Since then, minimally invasive medicine has literally changed... (read more)

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The Wizard of Menlo Park: How Thomas Alva Edison Invented the Modern World
by Randall Stross


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Thomas Edison’s greatest invention? His own fame. Starting with the first public demonstrations of the phonograph in 1878 and extending through the development of incandescent light and the first motion-picture cameras, Thomas Edison’s name... (read more)

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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


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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)

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The Triumph of Ethernet: Technological Communities and the Battle for the LAN Standard (Stanford Business Books)
by Urs Von Burg


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A study of technologies competing in the 1970s and 1980s to become the compatibility standard.... (read more)

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Under a Flaming Sky: The Great Hinckley Firestorm of 1894 (P.S.)
by Daniel James Brown


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On September 1, 1894, two forest fires converged on the town of Hinckley, Minnesota, trapping more than two thousand people. The fire created its own weather, including hurricane-strength winds, bubbles of plasma-like glowing gas, and 200-foot-tall... (read more)

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