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The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe Publisher Comments From "Americas nerviest journalist" (Newsweek)--a breath-taking epic, a magnificent adventure story, and an investigation into the true heroism and courage of the first Americans to conquer space. "Tom Wolfe at his very best" (The New York Times Book... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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Engineers by Dk Publishing Publisher Comments From the earliest engineers such as Archimedes and Hero of Alexandria, heroes of the Industrial Revolution like Eli Whitney and Alessandro Volta, and pioneers of the Modern Age with Henry Ford and Wernher von Braun, Engineers looks at more than eighty of... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $27.50 Used - Hardcover
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A Brief History of the Age of Steam: The Power That Drove the Industrial Revolution by Thomas Crump Publisher Comments In 1710 an obscure Devon ironmonger Thomas Newcomen invented a machine with a pump driven by coal, used to extract water from mines. Over the next two hundred years the steam engine would be at the heart of the industrial revolution that changed the... (read more) Your price: $15.95 New - Trade Paper
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Bread, Beer and the Seeds of Change: Agriculture's Imprint on World History by Thomas R. Sinclair Publisher Comments The history of humankind is intimately tied to the history of agriculture: powerful societies rose, persisted and waned in parallel with their food supply systems. Describing what crops were grown, the constraints on their production, and the foods that... (read more) Your price: $30.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Most Powerful Idea in the World: A Story of Steam, Industry, and Invention by William Rosen Publisher Comments If all measures of human advancement in the last hundred centuries were plotted on a graph, they would show an almost perfectly flat line—until the eighteenth century, when the Industrial Revolution would cause the line to shoot straight up... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price: $12.50 Used - Hardcover
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Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond by Gene Kranz Publisher Comments Gene Kranz was present at the creation of America's manned space program and was a key player in it for three decades. As a flight director in NASA's Mission Control, Kranz witnessed firsthand the making of history. He participated in the space program... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price: $8.50 Used - Hardcover
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Concrete Planet: The Strange and Fascinating Story of the World's Most Common Man-Made Material by Robert Courland Book News Annotation Courland, author of The Old North Waterfront offers an entertaining history of concrete for general readers. Arranged chronologically, chapters move from the origins of concrete with the discovery of lime, through its suggested use in the Egyptian... (read more) Your price: $26.00 New - Hardcover
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Technology: A World History: A World History by Daniel R. Headrick Publisher Comments Today technology has created a world of dazzling progress, growing disparities of wealth and poverty, and looming threats to the environment. Technology: A World History offers an illuminating backdrop to our present moment--a brilliant history of... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Trade Paper
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Flushed: How the Plumber Saved Civilization by W. Hodding Carter Publisher Comments '\"The unsung hero of human history was, of course, the Brain of Drains, the Hub of Tubs, the Power of Showers, the Brewer of Sewers...the humble plumber.\" -- W. Hodding Carter When we consider the amenities that really make a difference in our well... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Brilliant: The Evolution of Artificial Light by Jane Brox Publisher Comments Brilliant, reminiscent of Lewis Hydes The Gift in its reach and of Timothy Egans The Worst Hard Time in its haunting evocation of human lives, offers a sweeping view of a surprisingly revealing aspect of human history—from the stone lamps of the... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Iron Whim: A Fragmented History of Typewriting by Darren Wershler-Henry Publisher Comments The Iron Whim is an intelligent, irreverent, and humorous history of writing culture and technology. It covers the early history and evolution of the typewriter as well as the various attempts over the years to change the keyboard configuration, but it... (read more) List Price $31.50 Your price: $16.00 Used - Hardcover
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Mapping the World: Stories of Geography by Caroline Laffon Publisher Comments An illustrated history of explorers' maps and the questions they answer. More than the detailed representation of the geographical areas that their makers explored, maps reveal their makers' worldview as well as the myths, beliefs and legends of their... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Trade Paper
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Tungsten in Peace and War, 1918-1946 by Ronald H. Limbaugh Book News Annotation Limbaugh (emeritus, history, U. of the Pacific) provides a comprehensive study of tungsten, a rare heavy metal used to harden steel alloys, particularly those used in tool production, aerospace and electronics, and in military applications. The author... (read more) Your price: $53.50 New - Hardcover
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The Victorian Internet by Tom Standage Publisher Comments A new paperback edition of the first book by the bestselling author of A History of the World in 6 Glasses-the fascinating story of the telegraph, the world's first Internet, which revolutionized the nineteenth century even more than the Internet has the... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $11.09 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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The Perpetual Motion Machine: The Story of an Invention by Paul Scheerbart Publisher Comments In the last days of 1907, the German novelist and exponent of glass architecture Paul Scheerbart embarked upon an attempt to invent a perpetual motion machine. For the next two and a half years he would document his ongoing efforts (and failures) from... (read more) Your price: $12.95 New - Trade Paper
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Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground by Kevin Poulsen Publisher Comments Former hacker Kevin Poulsen has, over the past decade, built a reputation as one of the top investigative reporters on the cybercrime beat. In Kingpin, he pours his unmatched access and expertise into book form for the first time, delivering a gripping... (read more) Your price: $15.00 New - Trade Paper
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Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond by Gene Kranz Publisher Comments Gene Kranz was present at the creation of America's manned space program and was a key player in it for three decades. As a flight director in NASA's Mission Control, Kranz witnessed firsthand the making of history. He participated in the space program... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Internet Alley: High Technology in Tysons Corner, 1945-2005 (Lemelson Center Studies in Invention and Innovation) by Paul E. Ceruzzi Publisher Comments How government military contractors and high-tech firms transformed an unincorporated suburban crossroads into the center of the world's Internet management and governance.... (read more) Your price: $14.95 New - Trade Paper
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Challenger Launch Decision (96 Edition) by Diane Vaughan Publisher Comments When the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded on January 28, 1986, millions of Americans became bound together in a single, historic moment. Many still vividly remember exactly where they were and what they were doing when they heard about the tragedy. In... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $13.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Wonderful Future That Never Was: Flying Cars, Mail Delivery by Parachute, and Other Predictions from the Past (Popular Mechanics) by Gregory Benford Publisher Comments Between 1903 and 1969, scientists and other experts made hundreds of predictions in Popular Mechanics about what the future would hold. Here are the very best of them, complete with the original, visually stunning retro art plus chapter introductions by... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $17.50 Sale - Hardcover
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