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To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design by Henry Petroski Synopsis How did a simple design error cause one of the great disasters of the 1980s — the collapse of the walkways at the Kansas City Hyatt Regency Hotel? What made the graceful and innovative Tacoma Narrows Bridge twist apart in a mild wind in 1940? How... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story by Michael Lewis Publisher Comments As American capitalism undergoes a seismic shift, Michael Lewis, author of the bestselling Liar's Poker, sets out on a Silicon Valley safari to find the true representative of the coming economic age. All roads lead to Jim Clark, the man who rewrote the... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Big Ideas: 100 Modern Inventions That Have Transformed Our World by Alex Hutchinson Publisher Comments From the polio vaccine to the Post-It, the personal computer to Prozac, these are the scientific and technological innovations that have transformed our world. Award-winning author Alex Hutchinson unveils the 100 greatest inventions of the modern era... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $6.65 Sale - Hardcover
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The Evolution of Useful Things: How Everyday Artifacts-From Forks and Pins to Paper Clips and Zippers-Came to Be as They Are. by Henry Petroski Publisher Comments How did the table fork acquire a fourth tine? What advantage does the Phillips-head screw have over its single-grooved predecessor? Why does the paper clip look the way it does? What makes Scotch tape Scotch? In... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Patterns of Discovery: An Enquiry into the Conceptual Foundations of Science by Norwood Hanson Publisher Comments Philosophers of science have given considerable attention to the logic of completed scientific systems. In this 1958 book, Professor Hanson turns to an equally important but comparatively neglected subject, the philosophical aspects of research and... (read more) List Price $45.50 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology by Neil Postman Publisher Comments In this witty, often terrifying work of cultural criticism, the author of Amusing Ourselves to Death chronicles our transformation into a Technopoly: a society that no longer merely uses technology as a support system but instead is shaped by it--with... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson Publisher Comments One of the world's most beloved and bestselling writers takes his ultimate journey into the most intriguing and intractable questions that science seeks to answer. In A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson trekked the Appalachian Trail well... (read more) Your price: $6.95 Used - Mass Market
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The Edge of Objectivity: An Essay in the History of Scientific Ideas by Charles C Gillispie Publisher Comments From Galileo's analysis of motion to the theories of evolution and relativity, Charles Gillispie takes us on a masterly tour of the world of scientific ideas. The history of modern science is portrayed here as the development of objectivity through the... (read more) List Price $65.50 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Measure for Measure: A Musical History of Science by Thomas Levenson Publisher Comments In this imaginative investigation of the links between science and art, Levenson explores how we have come to understand and experience the natural world through instruments both scientific and musical. As he traces the development of the organ, the... (read more) List Price $21.50 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Totally Useless History of Science: Cranks, Curiosities, Crazy Experiments and Wild Speculations by Ian Crofton Publisher Comments Forget Boyle’s law, polymer chains, cellular respiration and fields of force – here’s all the really interesting stuff you never learnt during science lessons at school. But this isn’t fantasy, this is hard fact: Fact: The... (read more) List Price $9.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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Our Own Devices: The Past and Future of Body Technology by Edward Tenner Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-304) and index.... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Hardcover
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Calendar:: Humanity's Epic Struggle to Determine a True and Accurate Year by David Ewing Duncan Publisher Comments Prelude: A Net Cast Over Time The . . . silent, never-resting thing called time, rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing ocean tide . . . this is forever very literally a miracle; a thing to strike us dumb. --THOMAS CARLYLE, 1840 Not... (read more) List Price $13.50 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Best of Technology Writing by Brendan Koerner Publisher Comments < div> < div> & #8220; The essays collected in this book are sparkling, imaginative pieces of journalism that just happen to be about technology. People steeped in the world of AJAX or Massively Mulitplayer Online Games will find a lot to... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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A Brief History of Science by Thomas Crump Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [359]-386) and index.... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Sky in a Bottle by Peter Pesic Publisher Comments andlt;Pandgt;Children ask, "Why is the sky blue?" but the question also puzzled Plato, Leonardo, and even Newton, who unlocked so many other secrets. The search for an answer continued for centuries; in 1862 Sir John Herschel listed the color and... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Why Things Bite Back: Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences by Edward Tenner Publisher Comments If computers really eliminate paperwork, why is the office recycling bin always overflowing? Why are the lines before the bank's ATMs often longer than the ones at the tellers' windows? Anyone who has ever pondered those questions will delight in Why... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Anatomy of a Scientific Discovery by Jeff Goldberg Publisher Comments A true scientific page-turner that traces a remarkable scientific breakthrough (the isolation of endorphins in the brain) as dedicated scientists race--not only with their fellow scientists--but against time and the profit hungry giant pharmaceutical... (read more) List Price $14.50 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Don't Know Much about the Universe: Everything You Need to Know about Outer Space But Never Learned (Don't Know Much About...) by Kenneth C Davis Publisher Comments Who dug those canals on Mars? What was the biblical Star of Bethlehem? Were the pyramids built by extraterrestrials? From the ancients who charted the heavens to Star Trek, The X-Files, and Apollo 13, outer space has intrigued people through the ages... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Welcome to Biotech Nation: My Unexpected Odyssey Into the Land of Small Molecules, Lean Genes, and Big Ideas by Moira A. Gunn Publisher Comments A fun and fascinating tour through the world of biotechnology. As host of public radio’s Tech Nation, Dr. Moira Gunn has long been known for making all aspects of science and technology meaningful to the general listening public. But when she... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $1.95 Used - Hardcover
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Throwing Fire: Projectile Technology Through History by Alfred W Crosby Publisher Comments In Throwing Fire, historian Alfred W. Crosby looks at hard, accurate throwing and the manipulation of fire as unique human capabilities. Humans began throwing rocks in prehistory and then progressed to javelins, atlatls, bows and arrows. We learned to... (read more) List Price $75.50 Your price: $2.50 Used - Hardcover
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